{"id":914,"date":"2009-08-24T07:34:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T07:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/08\/24\/wabash-alumni-help-make-freshman-saturday-special\/"},"modified":"2009-08-24T07:34:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T07:34:19","slug":"wabash-alumni-help-make-freshman-saturday-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/08\/24\/wabash-alumni-help-make-freshman-saturday-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Wabash Alumni Help Make Freshman Saturday Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now you&#8217;ve seen the coverage on the web site of Freshman Saturday and know that <strong>Greg Castanias &#8217;87<\/strong>, vice president and president-elect of the alumni board, served as part of the official welcoming ceremony for our Class of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Many other alumni were also on campus.<\/p>\n<p>As you might imagine, my good friend <strong>Jon Pactor &#8217;71<\/strong> was everywhere. &nbsp;Welcoming freshman of all kinds especially those pledging the TKE house. (I think he actually lives over there!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig Green &#8217;59<\/strong> and <strong>Greg Miller &#8217;83<\/strong>, as representatives of the Sugar Creek Association of Wabash Men, passed out t-shirts to all the new freshmen.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/sugar creek.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the Beta House, several alumni kept the tradition of Beta alumni cooking burgers for the new pledges and their families. &nbsp;From the looks of it, there was also some pretty deep philosophical discussions as well. &nbsp;Pictured: <strong>Jim Engledow &#8217;78, Jack Wyatt &#8217;58, Mel Machuka &#8217;66, Ron Nichols &#8217;64, and Sam Hildebrand &#8217;61.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/betas.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Does it matter? &nbsp;You bet. &nbsp;One lady, who was sending her fifth grandchild off to college, remarked that she had made every trip. <em><strong>&nbsp;&quot;No one is more welcoming than Wabash&quot;<\/strong><\/em> she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you&#8217;ve seen the coverage on the web site of Freshman Saturday and know that Greg Castanias &#8217;87, vice president and president-elect of the alumni board, served as part 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-914","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\/914","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=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}