{"id":518872,"date":"2010-04-07T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-5523207787073256939"},"modified":"2010-04-07T06:44:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:44:55","slug":"its-always-tough-parting-with-mummy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518872","title":{"rendered":"It’s always tough parting with Mummy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suburban Chicago News<\/a> (Denise Crosby)<\/p>\n

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High School Mummy — not the musical — has moved from Naperville Central to North.<\/p>\n

And history teacher Jim Galanis admits — with a chuckle of course — he’s wound a little tight over this temporary transfer of “Butch,” Central’s beloved 2,000-year-old Egyptian artifact.<\/p>\n

“We just hope the crate doesn’t come back empty,” as part of some prank … “or that she doesn’t come back dressed in orange and blue,” says Galanis of Friday’s move that was necessary because of renovations that won’t be completed until fall.<\/p>\n

Describing this teacher’s relationship with Butch — donated to the school by a doctor in the ’40s, then rediscovered in a storage area in 1975 — as close would be an understatement. He and colleague Tom Henneberry have been her protector, advocate, lab partners, even chauffeur for more than two decades.<\/p>\n

In addition to turning her into a legendary part of the curriculum in Central’s history department, these two teachers helped Butch morph into a television star when National Geographic Channel featured her in a segment called “High School Mummy” in its “Mummy Road Show” series that aired in 2002.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suburban Chicago News (Denise Crosby) High School Mummy — not the musical — has moved from Naperville Central to North. And history teacher Jim Galanis admits — with a chuckle of course — he’s wound a little tight over this temporary transfer of “Butch,” Central’s beloved 2,000-year-old Egyptian artifact. “We just hope the crate doesn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}