{"id":8617,"date":"2015-05-13T10:18:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T14:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=8617"},"modified":"2015-05-13T10:18:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T14:18:51","slug":"ferguson-63-keynote-at-cvl-commerce-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2015\/05\/13\/ferguson-63-keynote-at-cvl-commerce-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson \u201963 keynote at CVL commerce dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/Steve-FErguson-commerce-speaker-2015.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8618\" alt=\"Steve FErguson commerce speaker 2015\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/Steve-FErguson-commerce-speaker-2015-191x300.jpg\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/Steve-FErguson-commerce-speaker-2015-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/Steve-FErguson-commerce-speaker-2015.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>Steve Ferguson \u201963<\/strong> left Wabash and Crawfordsville for a career as attorney, Bloomington, IN area businessman, and chairman of Cook Group, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Steve returned to Crawfordsville last week as the keynote speaker at the Crawfordsville\/Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce Annual Celebration Dinner.\u00a0 Steve used what he learned at Wabash \u2013 quoting the Gentleman\u2019s Rule \u2013 to kick off his speech which highlighted what a business can do for its own community.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaper24-7.com\/Content\/News\/Local-News\/Article\/In-honor-of-commerce\/23\/22\/51594\">Click here<\/a> to read the news story (written by reporter Scotty Cameron \u201914).<\/p>\n<p>Another highlight was when Wabash College was honored as the Large Business of the Year for its impact on the Crawfordsville\/Montgomery County community, including the Will &amp; Ginny Hays Center for Leadership and Community Development that opened recently in downtown Crawfordsville.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Photo courtesy of<br \/>\nScotty Cameron\/The Paper.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Ferguson \u201963 left Wabash and Crawfordsville for a career as attorney, Bloomington, IN area businessman, and chairman of Cook Group, Inc. Steve returned to Crawfordsville last week as the keynote speaker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/Steve-FErguson-commerce-speaker-2015.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617","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\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8621,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions\/8621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}