{"id":4035,"date":"2015-06-15T13:20:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T13:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2015-06-15T13:20:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T13:20:30","slug":"class-of-2005-setting-the-new-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2015\/06\/15\/class-of-2005-setting-the-new-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2005 &#8211; Setting the NEW Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4036\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-15-at-9.07.21-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4036\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-15 at 9.07.21 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-15-at-9.07.21-AM-1024x539.png\" width=\"614\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-15-at-9.07.21-AM-1024x539.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-15-at-9.07.21-AM-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-15-at-9.07.21-AM.png 1611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Class of 2005<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The old Big Bash record for a 10th reunion was set way back in 2006&#8230;by the Class of 1996. \u00a0They returned 40 alumni &#8211; an unheard of number in those days.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the Class of 2004 &#8211; led by Mark Shreve and Jacob Pactor&#8230;returned 36. \u00a0That&#8217;s as close as anyone had come to 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Until this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Class of 2005 &#8211; led by Jason Cantu and Michael Ruffing &#8211; blew right past the 40 number&#8230;they ended up at 55 alumni signing in at the reunion. \u00a0That&#8217;s a 37% increase over the previous record. \u00a0They won the Class of 2007 Trophy in a landslide, they won Chapel Sing by the slimmest of margins, and Jason and Michael walked off with the Dorman Hughes Award of the best performance by reunion leaders.<\/p>\n<p>They brought the only limo&#8230;and a class member for Hong Kong!!!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the secret? \u00a0Personal communication and letting the class know who is planning to return. \u00a0So simple&#8230;yet&#8230;well, never mind.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Jason, Michael, and all the leaders in the class of 2005!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old Big Bash record for a 10th reunion was set way back in 2006&#8230;by the Class of 1996. \u00a0They returned 40 alumni &#8211; an unheard of number in those days. Last [&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-4035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-15-at-9.07.21-AM-1024x539.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035","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=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions\/4039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}