{"id":142,"date":"2006-04-26T14:11:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T14:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2006\/04\/26\/thats-1876\/"},"modified":"2006-04-26T14:11:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T14:11:43","slug":"thats-1876","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2006\/04\/26\/thats-1876\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#039;s 1876&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/Hovey-rock.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">It&#8217;s called the <b>Hovey Rock<\/b>. The reason is simple. &nbsp;The Class of &#8217;76 presented it to Dr. Hovey. &nbsp;That was the last year of Dr. Edmund Hovey&#8217;s 42 years of service to the College..<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">For several years it sat, partially buried, on the East side of campus. &nbsp;At some point, it was &quot;rediscovered&quot; and unearthed. &nbsp;Today you&#8217;ll find it proudly sitting near the East entrance of Center Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">And, yes, that was the Class of <b>1876<\/b> that did the presenting. &nbsp;We&#8217;ll celebrate the 130th Anniversary of their Commencement at the Bash this year. &nbsp;Imagine what they would say as they walked the campus&#8230;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/Hovey-Rock-6798.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s called the Hovey Rock. The reason is simple. &nbsp;The Class of &#8217;76 presented it to Dr. Hovey. &nbsp;That was the last year of Dr. Edmund Hovey&#8217;s 42 years of service to [&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-142","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\/142","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=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}