{"id":3156,"date":"2011-07-26T07:02:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T11:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2011-07-26T07:02:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T11:02:29","slug":"all-roads-in-poland-lead-to-wabash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2011\/07\/26\/all-roads-in-poland-lead-to-wabash\/","title":{"rendered":"All Roads in Poland Lead Through . . . Wabash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The event in June:\u00a0 A beautiful traditional\u00a0wedding in southern Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Who would guess that three of the guests and the groom all had ties to Wabash College in Indiana, USA?\u00a0 Amidst the celebration, Michael, Bastian, Almut, and Pawel recalled memories of their days on campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Opieczonek &#8217;09, <\/strong>who is completing an\u00a0international leadership development program in England with Valspar Paint, sent us the story and photo. His cousin, <strong>Bastian Wonschik &#8217;00<\/strong>, attended the wedding, too.\u00a0 Bastian is business development director for Schott AG, a specialty glass manufacturer in Germany.\u00a0 The third guest was <strong>Ms. Almut Vogel<\/strong>, who worked at Wabash as a German language intern in 2008-2009; Almut is now finishing her teaching diploma to teach foreign languages in Germany.\u00a0 And, the last\u00a0Wabash connection in\u00a0the mix\u00a0was the groom,\u00a0<strong>Pawel Opieczonek<\/strong>.\u00a0 Several years ago, Pawel\u00a0traveled from Poland to Wabash to attend\u00a0the summer Opportunities to Learn About Business (OLAB) program for high school students!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3157\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/07\/Michael-Opieczonek-2009-grad-3.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3157\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/07\/Michael-Opieczonek-2009-grad-3-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/07\/Michael-Opieczonek-2009-grad-3-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/07\/Michael-Opieczonek-2009-grad-3.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bastian Wonschik &#039;00, Almut Vogel, Michael Opieczonek &#039;09 in June.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0Thanks for the update and photo, Michael!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event in June:\u00a0 A beautiful traditional\u00a0wedding in southern Poland. Who would guess that three of the guests and the groom all had ties to Wabash College in Indiana, USA?\u00a0 Amidst the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3156","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\/3156","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\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}