{"id":238,"date":"2015-03-11T11:25:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/?p=238"},"modified":"2015-03-11T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:26:01","slug":"check-it-out-alumni-spotlight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/2015\/03\/11\/check-it-out-alumni-spotlight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Check It Out: Alumni Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/0d70c987be\/1befe14a-bc2c-4201-828f-429773bf679e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"168\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>Aaron Lukken, a 1993 Morningside College graduate, has a role on the Planning Committee for the Kansas City Alumni Chapter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t been up and running for very long, so I just helped out with the logistics for the first gathering of the chapter last fall,\u201d said Aaron.<\/p>\n<p>The Chapters Program is the most recent addition to helping alumni stay in touch and connected with Morningside College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe college\u2019s social media presence is great, other electronic communication is pretty darn good, and the Morningsider is a favorite,\u201d said Aaron. \u201cBut none of them replace the face-to-face interaction that chapters are starting to provide for those of us who aren\u2019t close to Sioux City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chapter Program is helping keep graduates of Morningside College connected with other graduates, along with keeping them connected with what is happening back on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still home,\u201d says Aaron.<\/p>\n<p>The campus may be growing and changing, but the memories are still present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Lukken, a 1993 Morningside College graduate, has a role on the Planning Committee for the Kansas City Alumni Chapter. \u201cWe haven\u2019t been up and running for very long, so I just helped out with the logistics for the first gathering of the chapter last fall,\u201d said Aaron. The Chapters Program is the most recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52909],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}