{"id":597,"date":"2008-05-05T08:07:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T08:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2008\/05\/05\/i-did-not-come-here-to-lose-and-she-didnt\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T08:07:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T08:07:20","slug":"i-did-not-come-here-to-lose-and-she-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2008\/05\/05\/i-did-not-come-here-to-lose-and-she-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"I Did Not Come Here To Lose – and She Didn't!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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That’s Carol and Ron Browning at Family Day a few years back. Carol and Ron, prototype Wabash parents, helped with Family Days while their son Beau ’05 was a student. They continued their close ties to Wabash after Beau graduated.<\/p>\n

I attended a Celebration of Life for Carol this past Saturday. She fought a valiant fight against lung cancer…and passed away this past April. Every time she went for treatments, she wore a t-shirt that proclaimed: “I did not come here to lose”. Ron and the family have framed that t-shirt and will present it to the Oncology Center where Carol received her treatments.<\/p>\n

Carol and I talked and emailed about cancer many times. I religiously followed her posts on CarePages. She showed me what the meanings of true courage and true faith are.<\/p>\n

Carol Browning loved Wabash, just like Beau. It’s not perfect she would tell me, but it’s pretty darn good. Wabash, she liked to say, made a big difference in Beau’s life.<\/p>\n

Carol Browning may be gone before her time, but her positive influence on everyone around her continues – she’s a winner in every sense of the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s Carol and Ron Browning at Family Day a few years back. Carol and Ron, prototype Wabash parents, helped with Family Days while their son Beau ’05 was a student. They continued […]<\/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-597","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\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}