{"id":1551,"date":"2012-08-03T10:39:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T14:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2012-08-03T10:39:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T14:39:05","slug":"student-listeners-celebrate-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2012\/08\/03\/student-listeners-celebrate-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Listeners Celebrate Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ian Grant talks with Thomas Burns \u201967 after the former History Channel contributor told his Wabash stories for the Scarlet Yarns project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ian Grant \u201913<\/em>\u2014During the Scarlet Yarns recording sessions at this year\u2019s Big Bash it was not uncommon for four or five of us\u2014including Josh Mitchell \u201913 (taping), Jimmy Kervan \u201913, Ian MacDougall \u201912, James Blaich \u201914 (interviewing), and Steve Charles and myself (photographing) to all be listening to the same alumnus\u2019s stories.<\/p>\n

We gathered because we were intrigued. Cross-country hitchhikes with convicts and riding a horse while dressed as Lady Godiva for Homecoming are not commonly told tales.<\/p>\n

During one of these sessions I was poised to snap a picture of an alumnus when he turned to me in surprise and said, \u201cI feel like a celebrity.\u201d<\/p>\n

If a celebrity is a celebrated person, I suppose he was right.<\/p>\n

Here are some of my favorite \u201ccelebrity\u201d stories, a couple outrageous, another sort of amazing in its own right.<\/p>\n

The first was told to me by Tom Reams \u201962:<\/p>\n

When I was here we had a tradition of streaking to Dean [Ben] Rogge\u2019s house. Once there you had to ring the bell\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0wait for someone to answer the door. You always hoped it wouldn\u2019t be Mrs. Rogge. I had a friend who decided that he wanted to do this.\u00a0 So he stripped down, ran across campus, across town, and onto the Dean\u2019s porch where, after hesitantly ringing the bell, Dean Rogge answered the door.\u00a0 Naturally, after ringing the bell, he ran like hell, but it wasn\u2019t enough to quite get away.\u00a0 Mrs. Rogge asked the Dean who was at the door and all the Dean said was, \u201cI\u2019m not entirely certain, but I think I recognize his ass.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This from Fred Obenchain \u201962:<\/p>\n

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Fred Obenchain \u201962 recalls his Homecoming queen experience for interviewer Ian Grant during this year's Scarlet Yarns video project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the very first Homecoming queen contest that we had, my fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, was talking about assigning the task of Homecoming queen candidate to a freshman pledge and I stupidly spoke up in chapter and said I didn\u2019t think it was a good idea to force a pledge to do that.\u00a0 So the chapter unanimously decided that I got to be the candidate for Homecoming queen. I was Lady Godiva and I rode a white horse. My only regret in all that is that I only got second place. So that was a tremendous disappointment to me.<\/p>\n

Finally, Dennis Harrell \u201967 tried to hitchhike to Washington, D.C. over spring break but was dropped off, and subsequently stranded, in Washington, Pennsylvania:<\/p>\n

We went out and hitched a ride again and we were dumped off at the entrance to the Pennsylvania Turnpike.\u00a0 So you have to remember this is a Sunday morning, over spring break, two guys from Wabash not wearing Wabash clothing and thumbing a ride on the entrance to the Pennsylvania Turnpike. \u00a0A car comes along and stops and picks us up.\u00a0 It happened to be [Professor] Jack Charles. He recognized us. Just two guys standing along the road in Pennsylvania on a Sunday morning, yet he knew who we were. I had taken only one class from him.<\/p>\n

Ian Grant is an intern this summer with\u00a0<\/em>Wabash Magazine\u00a0and the College\u2019s Office of Communications and Marketing.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/w5yD2xfPqp4<\/p>\n

See more of this year’s Scarlet Yarns\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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