{"id":9446,"date":"2016-06-30T14:12:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T18:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=9446"},"modified":"2016-06-30T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T18:14:10","slug":"wabash-to-take-part-in-bicentennial-torch-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2016\/06\/30\/wabash-to-take-part-in-bicentennial-torch-relay\/","title":{"rendered":"Wabash to take part in Bicentennial Torch Relay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Wabash College community will participate as part of the Montgomery County torchbearers in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalreview.com\/news\/article_1c812cae-3e4d-11e6-b8fd-ef98a030e5e3.html\">Indiana Bicentennial Torch Relay <\/a><\/strong>coming through Montgomery County this fall.\u00a0 Alumni and faculty torchbearers are:\u00a0 Todd Barton \u201900, Professor Emeritus Bill Doemel, Professor Emeritus David Hadley, Dale Petrie \u201970, and Professor William Placher \u201970 (posthumous).\u00a0 General Lew Wallace, who received an honorary Wabash degree in 1881, will be represented posthumously.\u00a0 The torch bearers were selected to represent various areas of the community, as well as historical figures who laid the groundwork for Montgomery County.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2016\/06\/30\/wabash-to-take-part-in-bicentennial-torch-relay\/indiana-200-years-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9447\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9447\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Indiana-200-years-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Indiana 200 years logo\" width=\"294\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Indiana-200-years-logo.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Indiana-200-years-logo-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Indiana-200-years-logo-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Indiana-200-years-logo-1024x631.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The torch relay route will come through Crawfordsville, with a swing through the campus, on October 13 between 9am and noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Wabash College community will participate as part of the Montgomery County torchbearers in the Indiana Bicentennial Torch Relay coming through Montgomery County this fall.\u00a0 Alumni and faculty torchbearers are:\u00a0 [&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-9446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/06\/Indiana-200-years-logo-1024x631.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446","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=9446"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9454,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions\/9454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}