{"id":331,"date":"2015-05-10T19:44:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T00:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/?p=331"},"modified":"2015-05-14T20:34:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T01:34:17","slug":"message-from-the-director-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/2015\/05\/10\/message-from-the-director-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Message From the Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sitting in my office in Lewis Hall, gazing out the window \u2013 reminiscing in my mind about all the fun and laughs I\u2019ve had with the 2015 graduating class of Morningside College. I have been often asked \u2013 what advice would you give the class as they venture out into the workaday world?<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded of the graduation speech that Alan Alda, star of the CBS Television series M*A*S*H, gave at Connecticut College a number of years ago. Rather than me paraphrase it I offer this link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graduationwisdom.com\/speeches\/0020-alda1.htm\">http:\/\/www.graduationwisdom.com\/speeches\/0020-alda1.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please take time to read it. It is one of the most powerful graduation addresses ever given. He speaks to all of us about what this day has come to mean. I urge you to read it and give me some feedback once you have completed it. What do you think?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2014\/10\/0077197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-image-67 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2014\/10\/0077197.jpg\" alt=\"0077197\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Ambroson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sitting in my office in Lewis Hall, gazing out the window \u2013 reminiscing in my mind about all the fun and laughs I\u2019ve had with the 2015 graduating class of Morningside College. I have been often asked \u2013 what advice would you give the class as they venture out into the workaday world? I [&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-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","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=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}