{"id":398,"date":"2010-06-21T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2010\/06\/21\/alums-marina-is-top-family-business-in-wisconsin\/"},"modified":"2010-06-21T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T09:30:21","slug":"alums-marina-is-top-family-business-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2010\/06\/21\/alums-marina-is-top-family-business-in-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum&#8217;s Marina is Top Family Business in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"287\" height=\"375\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/tomgoodnoglasses72crop.jpg\" \/><\/em><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><em>Steve Charles<\/em>&mdash;Just finished fact-checking a story I wrote for the upcoming issue of <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/magazine\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Wabash Magazine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"> about Tom Whowell &rsquo;62, who, with his family, owns and operates Gordy&rsquo;s Lakefront Marine, the largest full-service marina on Wisconsin&rsquo;s Geneva Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Tom gave me a tour of the place and a generous and fascinating interview last summer, at which time Gordy&rsquo;s had earned special recognition as one of the top family businesses in the state. But that was old news: Gordy&rsquo;s was just named the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gordysboats.com\/\">t<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gordysboats.com\/\">op medium-sized family-owned business<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">&nbsp;in Wisconsin for 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Another example of why we always check&mdash;and re-check&mdash;our facts!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Tom and his family.<\/p>\n<p>Our story about Tom &mdash; &quot;The Classic Entrepreneurial Attitude&quot;&mdash;is being published in the Spring 2010 edition of <em>WM, <\/em>in mailboxes late July.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Charles&mdash;Just finished fact-checking a story I wrote for the upcoming issue of Wabash Magazine about Tom Whowell &rsquo;62, who, with his family, owns and operates Gordy&rsquo;s Lakefront Marine, the largest full-service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","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\/398","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}