{"id":1891,"date":"2016-02-26T21:52:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T21:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:48","slug":"bob-and-betty-allen-57-mud-hollow-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2016\/02\/26\/bob-and-betty-allen-57-mud-hollow-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob and Betty Allen \u201957: Mud Hollow Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this <em>Wabash On My Mind<\/em> podcast, Betty and Bob Allen \u201957 recall their first year of marriage in Mud Hollow, the leftover Quonset hut-style structures built during World War II that served as married student and faculty housing in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>The Allens\u2019 first son, Jay \u201979,\u00a0was born in Mud Hollow, and the residential community forged there left a lasting impression on the Allens.<\/p>\n<p>During the podcast, Betty H\u201957 and Bob \u201957 take\u00a0turns reflecting on DePauw (Betty\u2019s alma mater), Wabash (Bob\u2019s), their first year as a married couple in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/2008\/11\/11\/mud-hollow\/\">Mud Hollow<\/a> (ask them about \u201crocking the roof\u201d), their life together as Bob rose through the ranks at AT&amp;T, and their children.<\/p>\n<p>Betty recalls an essay she\u2019d been assigned when she was a girl; she had been asked to write down her life goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve saved it, and I re-read it just recently,\u201d she says. \u201cI wrote, \u2018I want to be a well-educated mother and wife.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s been a perfect mother,\u201d Bob says, describing\u00a0with gratitude the loving home she had created for him and for their children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Wabash On My Mind podcast, Betty and Bob Allen \u201957 recall their first year of marriage in Mud Hollow, the leftover Quonset hut-style structures built during World War II that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-notes","category-featured-videos","post_format-post-format-audio"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/02\/03-bob-and-betty-laugh-copy-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","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=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}