{"id":1098,"date":"2010-05-04T08:40:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T08:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2010\/05\/04\/bill-cook-66-and-the-1832-society-dinner\/"},"modified":"2010-05-04T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T08:40:22","slug":"bill-cook-66-and-the-1832-society-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2010\/05\/04\/bill-cook-66-and-the-1832-society-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cook &#039;66 And The 1832 Society Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"232\" height=\"254\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/bill-cook(3).jpg\" \/><strong>Bill Cook &#8217;66<\/strong> was the featured speaker at the 1832 Society Dinner this past Sunday. &nbsp;I probably don&#8217;t even need to tell you he was GREAT &#8211; entertaining and making us think. His title was: &quot;Dear Wabash: Old and New&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Bill&#8217;s comments seamlessly tied together our recollections of the giants of Wabash College &#8211; people like Byron Trippet, Willis Johnson (God), &nbsp;Wendell Calkins &#8211; with the faculty and students of today. &nbsp;Sure Wabash is different, Bill told us, but those legends of yesteryear have been replaced with the legends of today&#8230;and tomorrow. &nbsp;Just wait and see. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And the young men who study here? &nbsp;Guys like Luke Robbins and Seth Einterz? &nbsp;They are young men of great promise who will make a difference&#8230;just like those who have gone before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Different? &nbsp;Yes. &nbsp;The same? Yes, as well.<\/p>\n<p>As I drove home, I thought of the phrase from another favorite of mine: &quot;Wake Up The Echoes&quot;. &nbsp;Bill did&#8230;and he reminded us again about the good in &quot;this good place&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>And then I am left wondering&#8230;what will we ever do when he leaves? &nbsp;And I am pretty sure the answer is that a part of Bill Cook has been here since 1962 and will never leave.<\/p>\n<p>And that is good in &quot;this good place&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Cook &#8217;66 was the featured speaker at the 1832 Society Dinner this past Sunday. &nbsp;I probably don&#8217;t even need to tell you he was GREAT &#8211; entertaining and making us think. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}