{"id":493,"date":"2010-08-26T10:16:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T14:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/?p=493"},"modified":"2010-08-26T10:16:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T14:16:51","slug":"freshmen-visit-president-for-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2010\/08\/26\/freshmen-visit-president-for-ice-cream\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshmen Visit President for Ice Cream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Howard W. Hewitt<\/em> &#8211; Wabash freshmen go through a pretty intense five days of orientation upon arrival but they get to cap it off with a fun event at the President&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>President Patrick White and his wife Chris hosted the 255 men of the Class of 2014 Wednesday evening for ice cream dessert and a look at the Elston Homestead.<\/p>\n<p>For the freshmen it caps several hectic days the evening before classes begin. It&#8217;s also a chance to\u00a0shake the President&#8217;s hand, make more new friends, and have a little fun.<\/p>\n<p>See photo albums <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/photo_album\/home.cfm?photo_album_id=2498\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong> <\/a>and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/photo_album\/home.cfm?photo_album_id=2499\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the short gathering, everyone sings &#8220;Old Wabash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Class of 2014 Ice Cream with the President ... Singing &#039;Old\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hBJoGVyLs_Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard W. Hewitt &#8211; Wabash freshmen go through a pretty intense five days of orientation upon arrival but they get to cap it off with a fun event at the President&#8217;s home. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","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\/493","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}