{"id":626,"date":"2008-06-12T09:09:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T09:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2008\/06\/12\/the-glee-chums-american-idol-here-they-come\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T09:09:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T09:09:58","slug":"the-glee-chums-american-idol-here-they-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2008\/06\/12\/the-glee-chums-american-idol-here-they-come\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glee Chums &#8211; American Idol Here They Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/glee%20chums.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They called themselves the &#8220;Glee Chums.&#8221; They sang 1960s music after the Big Bash reception and dinner last Friday night. Alums from the Class of 1968 (from l to r) were Bruce Gras, Bill Vander Haar, Van Butler, Buzz Madsen, and Jim Roper. Obviously, a couple of lovely wives also played in the group. The Class of 1968 knows how to have a good time, for sure!<\/p>\n<p>Beatles, Beach Boys&#8230;it was a great evening. By this time the branches had all blown down, the thunderstorms had stopped (for the evening) and we were sorta back to normal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Many thanks to Bruce Gras<\/strong> who lugged all the equipment to the campus and back home.<\/p>\n<p>1968 might just have been the beginning of the Golden Years here&#8230;&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They called themselves the &#8220;Glee Chums.&#8221; They sang 1960s music after the Big Bash reception and dinner last Friday night. Alums from the Class of 1968 (from l to r) were Bruce [&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-626","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\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}