{"id":694,"date":"2008-09-29T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T07:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2008\/09\/29\/wabash-lost-a-great-lady\/"},"modified":"2008-09-29T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T07:49:11","slug":"wabash-lost-a-great-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2008\/09\/29\/wabash-lost-a-great-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Wabash Lost A Great Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"2\" hspace=\"2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/ginny.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>I was pretty sure this day would never come. After all, something told me that Ginny Hays just might live forever. It&#8217;s that way with all lovely young women who are timeless wonders&#8230;and Ginny certainly was.<\/p>\n<p>Ginny continued the commitment to and love for our Alma Mater that has been in the Hays family for decades. I know that will continue &#8211; the entire family loves this College. In turn, we stand beside them mourning this loss as one big family.<\/p>\n<p>I was at Kenyon when they announced on Saturday that their alumnus Paul Newman had passed away. It&#8217;s almost fitting that Ginny, with her fond memories of Hollywood, finally decided it was time to make the journey up North.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sad day&#8230;very sad&#8230;but there&#8217;s also just a wee bit of happiness as well. I always felt that Ginny, without her ever saying it, was looking forward to the day when she could be reunited with &#8220;her Bill&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She is now&#8230;and forever.<\/p>\n<p>Ginny Hays &#8211; truly Some Little Giant.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Ginny Hays at a Monon Bell game a couple of years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pretty sure this day would never come. After all, something told me that Ginny Hays just might live forever. It&#8217;s that way with all lovely young women who are timeless [&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-694","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\/694","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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}