{"id":208,"date":"2008-01-17T16:51:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T16:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2008\/01\/17\/schroeder-99-carrying-on-family-tradition\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T16:51:18","slug":"schroeder-99-carrying-on-family-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2008\/01\/17\/schroeder-99-carrying-on-family-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Schroeder &#8217;99 Carrying on Family Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Evansville, In. &#8211; Howard W. Hewitt<\/em> &#8211; Carrying on tradition can be a burden or a great joy in &#160;upholding family traditions. Scott Schroeder &#8217;99 certainly has found it challenging, rewarding, and the life he always wanted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/schroeder-4-blog.jpg\" \/>Scott&#8217;s great-grandfather started the business, then his grandfather, John H. Schroeder &#8217;42, started Cresline, Cresline West, Cresline Northwest, as well as Wabash Plastics. He remains chairman of the family businesses. John C. Schroeder &#8217;69, Scott&#8217;s father, is president of Wabash Plastics.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Scott becomes the fourth generation in the family business.<\/p>\n<p>After working for Deloitte and then Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati, Scott got his MBA at IU and returned to the family business about six months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Scott is one of 39 young alums we&#8217;ll be profiling in 2008. They are recent grads who are making their way in the world as Wabash men. You&#8217;ll &#160;read more about it in coming weeks. It will be a joint project between our web team and <em>Wabash Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So you&#8217;ll meet lots of interesting young Wabash grads &#8212; including Scott. Look for the first series of profiles to be online in late February!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evansville, In. &#8211; Howard W. Hewitt &#8211; Carrying on tradition can be a burden or a great joy in &#160;upholding family traditions. Scott Schroeder &#8217;99 certainly has found it challenging, rewarding, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}