{"id":3458,"date":"2014-10-09T11:52:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T11:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2014-10-09T11:52:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T11:52:25","slug":"burt-carlson-59-phil-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2014\/10\/09\/burt-carlson-59-phil-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Burt Carlson &#8217;59 &#8211; Phil Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3459\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/Burt-Carlson-3731.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3459\" alt=\"Burt Carlson '59\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/Burt-Carlson-3731.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/Burt-Carlson-3731.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/Burt-Carlson-3731-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burt Carlson &#8217;59<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The College has been offering a program titled &#8220;Callings&#8221;. \u00a0A more practical title is &#8220;What do I do with that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Burt came back to campus to talk about his Philosophy major. \u00a0Now, Burt didn&#8217;t have a Grunge-type educational experience here. \u00a0He belonged to two fraternities &#8211; Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude &#8211; that I didn&#8217;t even know existed. \u00a0Grad school? \u00a0Yale.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t know Burt majored in Philosophy, listening to his talk you might have guessed Economics or Political Science. \u00a0Didn&#8217;t take either one. \u00a0But his Philosophy degree, coupled with that good, old liberal arts background, gave him the credentials he needed for a multifaceted, difference-making career.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s now sort of retired. \u00a0Not working but up every morning at 5:30 AM&#8230;writing poetry. \u00a0Goal? \u00a0Get published.<\/p>\n<p>Burt credits his success back to his Wabash experience &#8211; loves learning, loves exploring new things, doesn&#8217;t like to be bored, likes new challenges.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at the twilight of a mediocre career&#8230;but Burt inspired me&#8230;and he did the same for a lot of our current Philosophy majors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College has been offering a program titled &#8220;Callings&#8221;. \u00a0A more practical title is &#8220;What do I do with that?&#8221; Burt came back to campus to talk about his Philosophy major. \u00a0Now, [&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-3458","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\/10\/Burt-Carlson-3731.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","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=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3461,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}