{"id":2020,"date":"2011-03-01T07:43:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T12:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2011-03-01T07:43:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T12:43:34","slug":"i-learned-what-was-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2011\/03\/01\/i-learned-what-was-important\/","title":{"rendered":"I Learned What Was Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2021\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/02\/himsel-8726.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2021\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/02\/himsel-8726.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/02\/himsel-8726.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/02\/himsel-8726-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Himsel &#039;85<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For this past February, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Steve Klein was responsible for scheduling guest speakers for the local Kiwanis Club.<\/p>\n<p>Steve asked Scott Himsel, Class of 1985, to bat cleanup for the month and Scott was simply <strong><em>great<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0Scott, a first generation college student, talked of the trip from Jasper, Indiana to Wabash College and to the Phi Delt house. \u00a0Scott also discussed his journey after Wabash, a journey that has him back at the college as a professor of Political Science.<\/p>\n<p>Scott captured many phrases that outlined his experiences. \u00a0&#8220;I learned what was important&#8221;, &#8220;I found Wabash a place that was small enough you couldn&#8217;t hide&#8221;, and, of course &#8220;I owe this place so much&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Scott also touched upon the relationships he formed along the way with the town and its people.<\/p>\n<p>Home run&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/02\/kiwanis-8717.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2022\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/02\/kiwanis-8717.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/02\/kiwanis-8717.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/02\/kiwanis-8717-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this past February, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Steve Klein was responsible for scheduling guest speakers for the local Kiwanis Club. Steve asked Scott Himsel, Class of 1985, to bat [&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-2020","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\/2020","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=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}