{"id":339,"date":"2007-04-16T09:33:37","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T09:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2007\/04\/16\/its-a-small-wabash-world-again\/"},"modified":"2007-04-16T09:33:37","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T09:33:37","slug":"its-a-small-wabash-world-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2007\/04\/16\/its-a-small-wabash-world-again\/","title":{"rendered":"It's a Small Wabash World – Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This report comes from Greg Castanias ’87<\/b> out in Washington, DC. Greg serves on the NAWM board of directors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Last Wednesday, I had to run out of the office in the afternoon to get to an appointment in Northern Virginia. While I was in the car, I called Scott Medsker ’03<\/b>, who is currently clerking for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Arlen Beam on the Eighth Circuit in Lincoln, Nebraska, to catch up on a few things. As I was talking to him (safely, of course, on my Bluetooth cell-phone earpiece), I exited the Capital Beltway onto the Little River Turnpike, where I found myself right behind another car with a "Wabash College Little Giants" license-plate frame. At the next stoplight, I pulled beside the car, motioned for the driver to roll down his window, and introduced myself to — Scott’s classmate, Aurpon Bhattacharya ’03<\/b>, who is a management consultant with Grant Thornton. The classmates got to shout a quick hello to one another via me and my earpiece, and off we went.<\/span><\/p>\n

Later that evening, I had the privilege of attending the Washington Wizards-Charlotte Bobcats game at Verizon Center back in downtown Washington, DC. Our guests for the game were former Attorney General John Ashcroft and his former deputy Kyle Sampson<\/b> (who has been in the news himself a bit recently). The two could not have been more gracious or pleasant, and Attorney General Ashcroft spoke glowingly of his recent visit to speak at Wabash.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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