{"id":4888,"date":"2012-08-14T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2012-08-14T08:00:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T12:00:52","slug":"st-louis-sendoff-a-great-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2012\/08\/14\/st-louis-sendoff-a-great-model\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Sendoff &#8211; A Great Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4889\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2012\/08\/St.-Louis.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4889\" title=\"St. Louis\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2012\/08\/St.-Louis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/08\/St.-Louis.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/08\/St.-Louis-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Crowd &#8211; Inside and Out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the fourth year the St. Louis alumni group has held their summer sendoff. \u00a0Each year it&#8217;s grown. \u00a0This year over 60 folks &#8211; alumni, family, current students, new students &#8211; gathered to talk about Wabash College and answer questions.<\/p>\n<p>We had alumni from the 1950s through a 2012 graduate and current students from seniors to sophomores. \u00a0Some discussions centered on the new student experience, some on Wabash sports, and some on networking in the St. Louis area. \u00a0Kind of a win-win-win scenario.<\/p>\n<p>The formula is a simple one. \u00a0Anne and Tom Walsh &#8217;73 have been super generous in hosting these events. \u00a0They open up their home and they provide all the food and beverages. \u00a0Susan and Jim Dyer &#8217;83 are the &#8220;spark plugs&#8221; that get the St. Louis engine running, getting the word out to all in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks go out to Anne and Tom and Susan and Jim and all the folks in the St. Louis area. See you at the Wash U. game, if not before!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fourth year the St. Louis alumni group has held their summer sendoff. \u00a0Each year it&#8217;s grown. \u00a0This year over 60 folks &#8211; alumni, family, current students, new students &#8211; [&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-4888","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\/4888","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=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}