{"id":727,"date":"2009-06-24T16:25:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T00:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/interview-with-bro-charles-e-wood\/"},"modified":"2011-08-25T08:37:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T16:37:45","slug":"interview-with-bro-charles-e-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/interview-with-bro-charles-e-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Bro. Charles E. Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VCU has recently posted both <a href=\"http:\/\/dig.library.vcu.edu\/cdm4\/document.php?CISOROOT=\/car&amp;CISOPTR=32&amp;REC=10\" target=\"_blank\">audio and text of an interview conducted with Bro. Charles E. Wood<\/a> (Lambda Chapter initiate &#8217;28 &amp; Iota Sigma Chapter stalwart) and his wife in January of 2000. This interview is a part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dig.library.vcu.edu\/cdm4\/index_car.php?CISOROOT=\/car\" target=\"_blank\">Carver-VCU Partnership Oral History Collection<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>At almost 93 years of age, Bro. Wood was incredibly sharp with a quick wit and incredible memory. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Bro. Charles E. Wood passed away in July of 2007 and was financial with Phi Beta Sigma EACH YEAR from 1928 to 2007. To the best of my knowledge, he holds this record amongst the Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Bro. Wood was a childhood friend of and was pledged by the current oldest living Sigma Brother, Bro. Wesley T. Carter (Lambda Chapter initiate &#8217;27, he turns 102 years of age on August 22nd). Bro. Carter still has a copy of the receipt he issued Bro. Wood for his initiation dues ($14.50) back in 1928.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VCU has recently posted both audio and text of an interview conducted with Bro. Charles E. Wood (Lambda Chapter initiate &#8217;28 &amp; Iota Sigma Chapter stalwart) and his wife in January of 2000. This interview is a part of the Carver-VCU Partnership Oral History Collection: At almost 93 years of age, Bro. Wood was incredibly &#8230; <a title=\"Interview with Bro. Charles E. Wood\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/interview-with-bro-charles-e-wood\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interview with Bro. Charles E. Wood<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}