{"id":23,"date":"2014-11-07T15:44:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T21:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/?p=23"},"modified":"2015-12-07T15:46:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T21:46:40","slug":"jim-ridenour-54-homecoming-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/2014\/11\/07\/jim-ridenour-54-homecoming-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Ridenour &#8217;54 &#8211; Homecoming 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful weekend in Bloomington\u2014the weather and the campus!\u00a0 The 150<sup>th<\/sup> Gala Anniversary for the Music School was spectacular, and I am hoping that IWU puts some of it up on the website, or makes a CD of it available for those who did not make it.\u00a0 Everything was very well laid out for us, including golf carts to take us around the campus.\u00a0 Kyle Pfortmiller, a frequent performer at the Metropolitan Opera sang at the Gala and gave a wonderful Class lecture in Ames Library.\u00a0 He was one of three alumni receiving awards at the luncheon.<\/p>\n<p>We had about 100 for the Golden Titan dinner on Saturday night.\u00a0 Mickey Drexler came as a special guest, but Lee Short fell on Thursday night and was not able to make it.\u00a0 Roger Coventry led the group in songs for our era and Provost Green had some good words about the great advances being made by IWU.\u00a0 We certainly can be proud of our alma mater.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry that several of you were not able to make it back\u2014extra sorry to miss the Gettys at the last minute.\u00a0 I am now on the Alumni Board, probably the oldest board member ever!\u00a0 I will be going back for the Spring board meeting on April 10<sup>th<\/sup>, so we could try another reunion gathering then if you would like to do so!<\/p>\n<p>Peace,<\/p>\n<p>Jim Ridenour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful weekend in Bloomington\u2014the weather and the campus!\u00a0 The 150th Gala Anniversary for the Music School was spectacular, and I am hoping that IWU puts some of it up on the website, or makes a CD of it available for those who did not make it.\u00a0 Everything was very well laid out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homecoming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}