{"id":705,"date":"2008-10-14T07:34:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T07:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2008\/10\/14\/we-lost-tom-topper-70\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T07:34:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T07:34:42","slug":"we-lost-tom-topper-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2008\/10\/14\/we-lost-tom-topper-70\/","title":{"rendered":"We Lost Tom Topper &#039;70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/tomtopper.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" \/>That&#8217;s Dr. Tom Topper &#8217;70 at last year&#8217;s alumni dinner in Evansville, IN. Tom passed away this past Sunday after a courageous battle with cancer. Our hearts go out to his wife Gina and his entire family.<\/p>\n<p>Tom served the college in many ways &#8211; as a regional association leader, alumni board member, and ultimately as the president of the board of directors of the National Association of Wabash Men. Despite a busy medical practice, he always had time for our students, alumni and the college in general.<\/p>\n<p>Just a year ago I chatted with Tom about Wabash. He credits the college with offering him a place to explore &#8211; medicine, music, and many other interests.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll miss you TTOP. Save us a place up there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s Dr. Tom Topper &#8217;70 at last year&#8217;s alumni dinner in Evansville, IN. Tom passed away this past Sunday after a courageous battle with cancer. Our hearts go out to his wife [&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-705","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\/705","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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}