{"id":5591,"date":"2013-02-05T09:08:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=5591"},"modified":"2013-02-05T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:08:10","slug":"mike-reidy-h04-selected-to-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/02\/05\/mike-reidy-h04-selected-to-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Reidy H&#039;04 selected to city council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mike Reidy, Honorary Alumnus 2004<\/strong>, retired from Wabash<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/02\/Reidy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5592\" title=\"Reidy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/02\/Reidy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a> in 2010 after 32 years as Associate Director of Admissions.\u00a0 Last week, the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee selected Mike to replace a Crawfordsville city council seat which was vacated by a recent resignation.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalreview.com\/news\/article_1d230f70-6d58-11e2-9b80-001a4bcf887a.html\"><em>Journal Review<\/em> <\/a>article announcing his selection, Mike commented that his experience recruiting prospective students is one which has probably prepared him for his work on the city council:\u00a0 \u201cHe has also been a recruiter at Wabash College for 32 years, a position he believes has prepared him for anything.\u00a0 \u201cMy job consists of convincing a bunch of 17 and 18-year-old guys that they wanted to go to a school without any girls,\u201d Reidy said. \u201cAnd I think I was pretty convincing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Mike!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Reidy, Honorary Alumnus 2004, retired from Wabash in 2010 after 32 years as Associate Director of Admissions.\u00a0 Last week, the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee selected Mike to replace a Crawfordsville [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5591","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\/5591","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=5591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}