{"id":872,"date":"2009-06-10T15:31:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/06\/10\/alma-mater\/"},"modified":"2009-06-10T15:31:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:31:01","slug":"alma-mater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/06\/10\/alma-mater\/","title":{"rendered":"Alma Mater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/alma mater.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Took this Sunday morning at the conclusion of the Big Bash Awards ceremony. &nbsp;The Glee Club members of the Class of 1959 wanted to sing <em><strong>Alma Mater<\/strong><\/em> and invited all other Glee Clubbers in the room to join them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a rising junior standing next to Sherm Franz &#8217;59 and a member of the Class of 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Separated by age and hairline &#8211; bonded together by everything that is Wabash.<\/p>\n<p>The post-bash days are always tough. &nbsp;We realize what we could have done better and, believe me, we get plenty of constructive criticism. &nbsp;The nature of the Alumni Relations beast. &nbsp;Especially here.<\/p>\n<p>But the smiles from the participants are what makes the Bash special. &nbsp;One lady came up to me at the end and said, with tears on her cheeks and Wabash-red eyes, &quot;the <em><strong>Alma Mater<\/strong><\/em> got me&quot;. &nbsp;That&#8217;s when we know it was successful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took this Sunday morning at the conclusion of the Big Bash Awards ceremony. &nbsp;The Glee Club members of the Class of 1959 wanted to sing Alma Mater and invited all other Glee [&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-872","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\/872","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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}