{"id":1126,"date":"2012-09-27T07:23:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T07:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2012-09-27T07:23:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T07:23:47","slug":"tkes-in-1962-a-profile-in-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2012\/09\/27\/tkes-in-1962-a-profile-in-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"TKEs in 1962 &#8211; A Profile in Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1127\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/09\/TKE-5366.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1127\" title=\"TKE-5366\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/09\/TKE-5366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/09\/TKE-5366.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/09\/TKE-5366-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Schild &#8217;66, David Ong &#8217;65, and David Johnson &#8217;63<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Several TKE alumni were back on campus last weekend to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wabash Chapter reappearing on campus. \u00a0The three men above took part in a panel that talk about the &#8220;early&#8221; days. \u00a0Professor Eric Dean&#8217;s name came up in every paragraph as a guiding hand and mentor.<\/p>\n<p>The story begins with a strong friendship &#8211; one man, a member of a fraternity, wants his friend to have the same opportunity. \u00a0But the fraternities were not integrated back then. \u00a0A classic situation &#8211; wait for things to change or make a difference and change them. \u00a0&#8220;A&#8221; was the easiest answer &#8211; &#8220;B&#8221; was the choice!<\/p>\n<p>And so a group of Wabash men brought TKE back to life. \u00a0Fully integrated and full of opportunity. \u00a0It took guts, vision, and determination&#8230;a Wabash profile in courage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several TKE alumni were back on campus last weekend to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wabash Chapter reappearing on campus. \u00a0The three men above took part in a panel that talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/09\/TKE-5366.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}