{"id":559,"date":"2008-03-11T10:28:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T10:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2008\/03\/11\/move-over-mick-jagger-meet-rick-fobes-72\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T10:28:44","slug":"move-over-mick-jagger-meet-rick-fobes-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2008\/03\/11\/move-over-mick-jagger-meet-rick-fobes-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Move Over Mick Jagger -Meet Rick Fobes &#039;72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/rick.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In concert, it&#8217;s the <strong><em>Rabble Rousers<\/em><\/strong>, a band from the Chicago area. They&#8217;re playing at Frankies Blue Room, a night spot in Napervile, Illinois, to a packed house. The guy playing the keyboard? <strong>That&#8217;s Wabash&#8217;s own Rick Fobes &#8217;72<\/strong>. Rick&#8217;s now retired from his &#8220;day job&#8221; and obviously enjoying retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Many know that Rick serves as the Class Agent for the Class of 1972 and served for many years, rising to president, on the alumni board of the College.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>But wait, there&#8217;s more.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite the packed house, Rick reported that there were some very special people in the crowd &#8211; none other than Wabash&#8217;s 14th president <strong>Andy Ford H&#8217;03 and his lovely wife Anne H&#8217;06<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/andy-and-anne.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In concert, it&#8217;s the Rabble Rousers, a band from the Chicago area. They&#8217;re playing at Frankies Blue Room, a night spot in Napervile, Illinois, to a packed house. The guy playing 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-559","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\/559","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=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}