{"id":846,"date":"2008-02-10T05:24:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T05:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/?p=846"},"modified":"2013-03-21T05:11:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T05:11:08","slug":"tribute-to-don-wedge-paul-kisseberth-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/tribute-to-don-wedge-paul-kisseberth-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to Don Wedge Paul Kisseberth \u201954"},"content":{"rendered":"

I pledged BETA because of the early persuasion from Bix Newhard and Don Wedge. They visited me in my hometown, McCutchenville, Ohio, a few days after I had spent the weekend at the OWU BETA house as a high school Junior. My high school Principal had arranged for me to visit OWU. He convinced my parents it would be the place for me, and he was right.<\/p>\n

Bix and Don planted the Beta Pledge pin on me before I even knew what a fraternity was. Our 1951 Pledge class had 24 pledges and each of them was much more prepared for college than me.<\/p>\n

Don Wedge was my Big Brother. He was my idol and I would attend OWU football practices just to see Don play. My goal was to coach and teach math at the High School level. I did well with my math courses my first semester. Second semester I took Analytic Geometry. I thought I was cruising until I got my first test score in that course. I was devastated. My College experience was over, I thought. I decided to leave school and go home. Before I was to leave, I thought it would be the right thing to do to tell Don Wedge. He and his wife, Janice, lived in a campus apartment.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Don was home when I knocked on his door. I explained to him what I was planning to do and why. He said, \u201cYOU PLAN TO\u00a0WHAT?\u201d He reminded me that I had the reputation of being a good athlete at \u201cScutch\u201d High. \u201cNow you are going home to be a quitter?\u201d That was one of the key turning points in my life. I immediately returned to my campus room, took a book and began to study harder than ever. I will be indebted to my BIG BROTHER forever. I am proud to be a BETA and a 1954 graduate from OWU. Congratulations to Don for receiving the BOB STRIMER AWARD. Bob Strimer was another personal idol of mine.<\/p>\n

Kissy<\/p>\n

\"Paul<\/a>

Paul Kisseberth \u201954<\/p><\/div>\n

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I pledged BETA because of the early persuasion from Bix Newhard and Don Wedge. They visited me in my hometown, McCutchenville, Ohio, a few days after I had spent the weekend at the OWU BETA house as a high school Junior. My high school Principal had arranged for me to visit OWU. He convinced my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-news","category-theta-data","tag-february-2008-theta-data","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9907,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/9907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}