{"id":9228,"date":"2021-05-03T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/?p=9228"},"modified":"2021-04-26T09:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T14:28:55","slug":"letter-from-alumni-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/2021\/05\/03\/letter-from-alumni-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Alumni Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear Families of Winter 2020 and Spring 2021 Graduates,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commencement is my favorite time of the year. It is a time to celebrate your students\u2019 achievements with family and friends, to take their photos in their caps and gowns, and a time for them to turn their tassel and be officially pronounced an alum of Missouri Western. I love watching graduates march down the hill and file into the stadium to the pomp and circumstance music played by the Griffon band. But above all, I love watching the pride and joy on the faces of the parents, relatives and friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although this year COVID protocols will not allow for a procession, and the seats will be distanced, we celebrate these graduates. They are the resilient ones who persisted towards their goal, in the midst of a global pandemic!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your student\u2019s time at Missouri Western is not over. Your student will always remember this time in their life. None of us will forget these unique times we are experiencing. What stories they will have to tell their children and grandchildren! But please know that your student will always have a home at Missouri Western.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warmest wishes and congratulations,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kim Weddle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Executive Director of Alumni Relations<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Families of Winter 2020 and Spring 2021 Graduates, Commencement is my favorite time of the year. It is a time to celebrate your students\u2019 achievements with family and friends, to take their photos in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9229,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions\/9229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}