{"id":900,"date":"2009-08-03T08:25:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T08:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/08\/03\/it-wont-be-long-now-3\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T08:25:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T08:25:34","slug":"it-wont-be-long-now-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/08\/03\/it-wont-be-long-now-3\/","title":{"rendered":"It Won&#039;t Be Long Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"288\" align=\"top\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/center hall(2).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a little <strong>under <\/strong>three weeks it will be Freshman Saturday &#8211; August 22, 2009. &nbsp;We&#8217;ll welcome a new class of Wabash men (the Class of 2013!) and their families into the Wabash community. &nbsp;Seems like Commencement was just last week.<\/p>\n<p>The summer of 2009 will melt into the football season of 2009 and Homecoming, with Chapel Sing and our first-ever Wabash Law Reunion, is just around the corner. &nbsp;Of course, we&#8217;ll also dedicate the new Kappa Sig House. &nbsp;Odds are we&#8217;ll see the Senior Bench painted in a similar fashion that weekend.<\/p>\n<p>We wonder sometimes, how we&#8217;ll ever replace the Wabash faculty legends &#8211; the Ben Rogges, Vic Powells, Bill Plachers, Eric Deans, and Jack Charles. &nbsp;But we find a way to do so.<\/p>\n<p>We also wonder about replacing the young men who just graduated &#8211; the stellar campus leaders who are now alumni &#8211; guys on their way to grad school, med school, law school, and the business world. &nbsp;Who will fill those leadership voids?<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;ll find a way to do so. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the neat thing about the memories of the golden years at Wabash &#8211; we all have our own gold set!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a little under three weeks it will be Freshman Saturday &#8211; August 22, 2009. &nbsp;We&#8217;ll welcome a new class of Wabash men (the Class of 2013!) and their families into 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-900","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\/900","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=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}