Where were you for the Polar Bear Plunge?

For fifteen years the NIC History department has been represented at the annual Polar Bear Plunge. Now they want you to join in and show some NIC spirit.

James Jewell, chair of the NIC history program tries each year to get students and faculty to join the Plunge, but he has had little success. This year he and his son Jacob, who is an NIC student, both took the Plunge, but he does not think this enough. Professor Jewell would like to urge NIC students to attend the Polar Bear Plunge next year, and show some school pride.

He said, “If my son Cullen, who participated for the first time when he was six, can do it, one would think we could drum up more brave NIC souls to join in.”

For Professor Jewell this is his 13th time attending the Plunge. As for his sons, it was Jacob’s tenth plunge and Cullen’s sixth.