The six senior rhetoric majors pose with professors David Timmerman (far left) and Todd McDorman (far right). Front row: Grant Gussman, Dan Masterson, and Pat Long. Back row: Josh Gangloff, Matt Dodaro, and Derek Hickerson.

Todd McDorman congratulates Grant Gussman, who received the Joseph O'Rourke, Jr. Prize as the outstanding senior rhetoric major.

David Timmerman congratulates senior rhetoric major Josh Gangloff.

Todd McDorman congratulates senior rhetoric major Pat Long.

David Timmerman congratulates senior rhetoric major Dan Masterson.

Todd McDorman congratulates senior rhetoric major Matt Dodaro.

David Timmerman congratulates senior rhetoric major Derek Hickerson.

Senior rhetoric major Grant Gussman poses with Bev and Joe O'Rourke at the conclusion of the Rhetoric Department's annual banquet. Gussman won the Joseph O'Rourke, Jr. Prize as the outstanding senior rhetoric major.

Jack Oest (right) poses with the two men who presented the 2009 Brigance Forum Lecture, John Louis Lucaites and Robert Hariman. Oest is the grandson of William Norwood Brigance, the legendary Wabash speech professor who taught for 38 years. Lucaites and Hariman collaborated on the book, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy, about which they spoke in the Brigance Forum Lecture.

Emeritus Speech Professor Vic Powell.