{"id":828,"date":"2009-04-14T12:20:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T12:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/04\/14\/alumni-relations-ghosts\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T12:20:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T12:20:12","slug":"alumni-relations-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/04\/14\/alumni-relations-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Relations Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first returned to the college in 1999, one of my visits was to the Dean of Students office &#8211; in those days the Dean was&nbsp;<strong>Tom Bambrey &#8217;68<\/strong>. &nbsp;One of the interesting things about the Dean&#8217;s office is a large painting of <strong>Dean Norm Moore<\/strong> hanging on the wall. &nbsp;It seems that wherever you are in the office, Dean Moore is watching you! &nbsp;Of course that is no different than my college days, when someone needed to be looking after me, for sure!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"285\" height=\"428\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/mitchum.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;We don&#8217;t have any Center Hall offices in alumni relations nor do we have cool paintings of Wabash legends&#8230;but we do have two ghosts that keep pretty close tabs on us (especially me) these days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;R. Robert (Mitch) Mitchum<\/strong> is one of them. &nbsp;Mitch led the alumni effort from the years 1974-1982. &nbsp;Mitch is also warmly remembered as the Wabash Glee Club director.<\/p>\n<p>Many a Wabash man has mentioned the impact Mitch had. &nbsp;Most of the stories start like this: &nbsp;&quot;Back in (fill in the year) Bob Mitchum volunteered me for (fill in the position). &nbsp;The stories always go on with &quot;I wanted to do my absolute best because I just didn&#8217;t want to let Mitch down&quot;. &nbsp;That&#8217;s the true measure of impact&#8230;that it has lasted the almost 30 years since Mitch worked in alumni relations.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Mitch doesn&#8217;t see some of the reunion numbers for a couple of the classes for this year&#8217;s Big Bash &#8211; I&#8217;ll be getting a visit from him and a message that I have let him down.<\/p>\n<p>The other ghost tomorrow&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first returned to the college in 1999, one of my visits was to the Dean of Students office &#8211; in those days the Dean was&nbsp;Tom Bambrey &#8217;68. &nbsp;One of the [&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-828","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\/828","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=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}