{"id":689,"date":"2008-09-18T16:22:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T16:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2008\/09\/18\/our-wabash-family-and-bill-melvin\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T16:22:22","slug":"our-wabash-family-and-bill-melvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2008\/09\/18\/our-wabash-family-and-bill-melvin\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Wabash Family and Bill Melvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"318\" align=\"top\" width=\"428\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/for%20bill.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mall earlier today. Beautiful day&#8230;not a cloud in the sky. Temperature perfect. Faculty, staff, students, friends, and families plus free lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Perfect? Not quite.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been on campus sometime within the last 30 years, you probably met <strong>Bill Melvin<\/strong>. Don&#8217;t worry if you don&#8217;t remember him &#8211; he&#8217;s a behind the scenes guy &#8211; someone who delivers more than you expect and doesn&#8217;t hang around to make sure you knew he was there. Not his style.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today was for Bill&#8230;he has esophageal cancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bon Appetit,<\/strong> his family on campus, threw a giant spread of food. No cost. All they ask is that the Wabash community make a gift to help defray the enormous expenses Bill and his family have. I won&#8217;t spoil the story I know will be posted shortly and reveal the size of our community&#8217;s generosity. Safe to say, though, that the Wabash community showed Bill and his family they matter&#8230;really matter.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, after you&#8217;ve read about the stock market, checked the weather, and before your head bounces onto that pillow, send a message up to the Big Guy for Bill and his family.<\/p>\n<p>They are in a real fight &#8211; a fight for life &#8211; and they are giving it their all. Let&#8217;s be there with them.<\/p>\n<p>Wabash Always Fights!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mall earlier today. Beautiful day&#8230;not a cloud in the sky. Temperature perfect. Faculty, staff, students, friends, and families plus free lunch. Perfect? Not quite. If you have been on campus sometime [&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-689","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\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}