{"id":337,"date":"2009-08-27T10:06:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T10:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2009\/08\/27\/president-welcomes-freshmen-to-elston-homestead\/"},"modified":"2009-08-27T10:06:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T10:06:53","slug":"president-welcomes-freshmen-to-elston-homestead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2009\/08\/27\/president-welcomes-freshmen-to-elston-homestead\/","title":{"rendered":"President Welcomes Freshmen to Elston Homestead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" width=\"300\" height=\"324\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/chriswite-story.jpg\" \/>Howard W.&nbsp;Hewitt<\/em> &#8211; Wabash&#8217;s Class of 2013 ended its five days of orientation Wednesday night by having ice cream with President and Mrs. White.<\/p>\n<p>See a photo album <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/photo_album\/home.cfm?photo_album_id=2092\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The tradition is a fun one. The President clearly enjoys the chance to shake hands, share a story about a hometown, or ask the young men how they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p>Chris White is ever the gracious hostess encouraging the young men to walk through Elston Homestead, the Presidential home. Or she&#8217;s pointing out the restrooms, available water, and ever welcoming to the new students.<\/p>\n<p>For the freshmen you get the sense that it&#8217;s a relief to get down to business. The long days of orientation, registration, fraternity rush, moving in, buying books and all of the other tasks are now over.<\/p>\n<p>The students have their first Wabash classroom experience Thursday (Aug. 27). You get the feeling they&#8217;re more than ready for it all to begin!<\/p>\n<p>And if you just can&#8217;t ever get enough of &quot;Old Wabash,&quot; the evening ends with the President and freshman singing Old Wabash.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard W.&nbsp;Hewitt &#8211; Wabash&#8217;s Class of 2013 ended its five days of orientation Wednesday night by having ice cream with President and Mrs. White. See a photo album here. The tradition is [&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-337","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\/337","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=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}