{"id":266,"date":"2006-11-17T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T15:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2006\/11\/17\/these-little-giants-make-me-proud\/"},"modified":"2006-11-17T15:40:18","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T15:40:18","slug":"these-little-giants-make-me-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2006\/11\/17\/these-little-giants-make-me-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"These Little Giants Make Me Proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">Henry Tucker<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">, <b>son of Mike Tucker &#8217;93<\/b>, is almost a normal, growing 5 year old. Except for one thing &#8211; he has cancer. Henry needs a bone marrow transplant. Thanks to the generosity of the Sphinx Club and Student Senate, any Wabash community member could be &quot;typed&quot; this afternoon at no personal cost. The normal cost is $52.00 a sample.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">The fact that the students are funding it is enough for me to sit back and be very proud. But there&#8217;s more. I just returned from the Church where the testing is being conducted. It&#8217;s full. Even better, half of those present are Wabash students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">On a day when many could have headed home for Thanksgiving vacation just after that last class, many stuck around. They don&#8217;t need to know Henry or Mike or Henry&#8217;s mom. They just know a Wabash family needs their help. I&#8217;m awfully proud&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">Regardless of how far from campus you may be this Thanskgiving, you can help Henry and every other family in need. For more information, call 1-800marrow2 or see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marrow.org\">www.marrow.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Tucker, son of Mike Tucker &#8217;93, is almost a normal, growing 5 year old. Except for one thing &#8211; he has cancer. Henry needs a bone marrow transplant. Thanks to the [&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-266","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\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}