{"id":2781,"date":"2014-01-29T07:30:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T07:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2014-01-29T07:30:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T07:30:54","slug":"alumni-boards-welcome-students-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2014\/01\/29\/alumni-boards-welcome-students-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Boards Welcome Students Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2782\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2782\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/01\/NAWM-3995.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2782\" title=\"NAWM-3995\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/01\/NAWM-3995.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/01\/NAWM-3995.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/01\/NAWM-3995-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IAWM board member Hugh Vandivier &#8217;91, second from left, and NAWM board member Ross Dillard &#8217;07, center, talk to students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Members of the National Association of Wabash Men (our alumni board) and the Indianapolis Association of Wabash Men (our largest regional group) gathered on a cold and windy Saturday at the Great Hall to welcome all of our young men back to campus. \u00a0An easy-going meal of steak sandwiches, Chicago style hot dogs, and &#8220;Maco-cheese&#8221; matched an informal chance to catch up with our students.<\/p>\n<p>NAWM president Greg Estell &#8217;85 summed it up best: &#8220;The guys have just started back to class and this opportunity gave our boards a chance to meet, greet, and provide any assistance we could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2784\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2784\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/01\/NAWM-3997.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2784\" title=\"NAWM-3997\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/01\/NAWM-3997.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/01\/NAWM-3997.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/01\/NAWM-3997-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NAWM board member Joe Trebley &#8217;01<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The NAWM and IAWM boards have been very good at modeling engaged alumni behavior &#8211; well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the National Association of Wabash Men (our alumni board) and the Indianapolis Association of Wabash Men (our largest regional group) gathered on a cold and windy Saturday at the Great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/01\/NAWM-3995.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","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=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}