{"id":1795,"date":"2016-02-12T19:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T19:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:48","slug":"been-81-farmwork-ethic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2016\/02\/12\/been-81-farmwork-ethic\/","title":{"rendered":"Been \u201981: Farmwork Ethic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGrowing up as a farm boy, raising animals, nurturing the soil, so much was imprinted on me,\u201d says Jeff Been \u201981, recently retired as executive director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laslou.org\">Legal Aid Society of Louisville<\/a>. In a feature story in <em>WM Winter 2016<\/em>, Been cites numerous inspirations for his life of service, including his cousins, Courtney \u201963 and David \u201965 Justice and his Wabash mentor, Professor John Fischer H\u201970.<\/p>\n<p>But growing up on a farm outside of Delphi, IN, put the foundation in place.<\/p>\n<p>Been\u2019s father, Herbert, inherited the family farm at 18 when his father died. After serving in World War II, he met Mildred Allen at the Cass County Library where she worked, and the two went together to a dance at the Izaak Walton League. A city girl from Logansport, Mildred took quickly to the rural life and came to love gardening, raising animals, and everything about the outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>It was the family\u2019s life together that planted the seed of Been\u2019s ethical lodestar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father was a carpenter by trade, and he took jobs out to make money while we helped maintain the farm. Mother was there hauling corn and baling hay; we would feed livestock and do our chores. We could play, but you worked first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a community\u2014you could go up and down the road and find the same thing. There were tasks to be done, and others were depending on you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Been reflects on his career in a <a href=\"http:\/\/directory.libsyn.com\/episode\/index\/id\/4054485\">Wabash On My Mind podcast here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Read the complete story in the print edition of <\/em>WM<em>, arriving in mailboxes beginning Friday, February 19. And check out the photos above by Kim Johnson from her visit to the place Been is retiring to\u2014just down the road from the farm he grew up on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Steve Charles<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014photos by Kim Johnson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGrowing up as a farm boy, raising animals, nurturing the soil, so much was imprinted on me,\u201d says Jeff Been \u201981, recently retired as executive director of the Legal Aid Society of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-notes","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/02\/look-at-wabash-1-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}