Boone Callahan

Off the Court

Indiana State alumni, as Boone Callahan tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• Willa Brownfirst Black woman licensed pilot

  Willa Brown graduated here in 1927. By 1939 she held private and commercial pilot's licenses, the first African American woman in the country to earn either. Then she trained hundreds of pilots, some of them future Tuskegee Airmen.

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• Margaret Hill McCarterfirst woman to address Republican convention

  Margaret Hill McCarter, class of 1884, was a schoolteacher and a writer, and the first woman ever to address a Republican National Convention. A Sycamore had the microphone first, folks.

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• Jamal KhashoggiSaudi dissident and Washington Post columnist

  Jamal Khashoggi earned his business degree in Terre Haute in 1982, then became a writer, an editor, a Saudi dissident, and a Washington Post columnist. We say his name with respect.

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• Bubba the Love Sponge Clemradio host

  He dropped out of Indiana State in year two and legally became Bubba the Love Sponge Clem. In January 2004 the F C C fined Clear Channel seven hundred fifty-five thousand dollars, and he was fired that February. We will claim the first three semesters.

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• Birch Bayhsenator who authored two amendments

  Birch Bayh, a Sycamore, sat in the United States Senate for Indiana from 1963 to 1981 and authored two Constitutional amendments. Most of us never get one encore. He got two.

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