{"id":1005,"date":"2014-03-31T21:26:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T01:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:27:12","slug":"glee-club-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/2014\/03\/31\/glee-club-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Alma Mater for the Late Dr. Baird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/Alejandroblog832.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-574\" alt=\"Alejandroblog83\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/Alejandroblog832.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a>Yesterday was the\u00a0Glee Club Campus Concert and in my opinion, we did great.\u00a0More than my opinion, it matters what the audience thought of the performance.\u00a0We received such rapturous <em><\/em>applause and compliments\u00a0 from professors, family, friends and others from the community. I am truly grateful to have that much support from and I thank all those who came out and enjoyed our concert.<\/p>\n<p>On a not so positive note, it was not easy\u00a0singing the Alma Mater\u00a0as we dedicated it\u00a0to the late\u00a0Dr. Keith Baird &#8217;56. I did not personally know Dr. Baird, but I have had the pleasure to meet his son who lived with his family in Dr. Baird&#8217;s home here on campus. When someone with great significance to an organization\u00a0dies, it is easy to overlook and forget that they also had a family.\u00a0Dr. Baird&#8217;s passing is a loss to Wabash\u00a0but an even\u00a0greater loss to his children and\u00a0grandchildren.\u00a0That is what made\u00a0dedicating the Alma Mater to Dr. Baird hard.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Baird was a physician for all\u00a0of the Apollo missions except the first and last ones.\u00a0This Little Giant was there when the Apollo 13 Capsule was recovered in the South Pacific and he gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=81PbaEGf5V8\">chapel talk <\/a>about it.\u00a0Dr. Baird was also the campus doctor for nearly three decades and always lived on campus. As a student, Dr. Baird was a four year member of the Glee Club and enjoyed attending the\u00a0concerts.<\/p>\n<p>This Saturday the Glee Club is suppose to sing the Alma Mater and Ave Maria at a memorial service here on campus. It will\u00a0be even harder to sing in that environment and for the sole purpose of expressing his love and life-long commitment to Wabash. Wabash lost a true Little Giant this weekend. The Baird family lost a great Father and Grandfather. May he rest in peace and may God be with him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the\u00a0Glee Club Campus Concert and in my opinion, we did great.\u00a0More than my opinion, it matters what the audience thought of the performance.\u00a0We received such rapturous applause and compliments\u00a0 from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alejandro-reyna-17"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}