{"id":9143,"date":"2019-07-20T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T20:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2019-08-16T15:23:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T20:23:44","slug":"newspress-now-professor-retires-after-more-than-50-years-at-mwsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/20\/newspress-now-professor-retires-after-more-than-50-years-at-mwsu\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsPress NOW: Professor retires after more than 50 years at MWSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"author-popup-0f2b7d6c-38ca-11e6-9433-b76253964178-asset-b4808f90-aa1f-11e9-8715-0b5c82ff3416\" class=\"tnt-byline asset-byline\" title=\"\" data-original-title=\"\" aria-describedby=\"popover98866\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/66\/d666d4da-aa6e-11e9-9dc0-3b95977dceca\/5d323ac4d2dec.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C900\" alt=\"Professor Tom Rachow in his office\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/>By Daniel Cobb News-Press NOW|<\/span>Jul 19, 2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>After 52 years at Missouri Western, Dr. Thomas Rachow of the university\u2019s biology department is retiring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>Growing up in Streator, Illinois, Rachow was the first in his family to graduate from college. He had no idea just how long he\u2019d spend on a college campus over the course of his life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>And since then, he\u2019s seen the campus change from having three buildings and a double-wide student center, to the university that it is today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can remember how much the technology has changed. When I got here, we had a chalkboard and one overhead projector that you had to arrange to have in your class in case someone else wanted to use it,\u201d he said, laughing. \u201cBut at this point, I think I\u2019ve taught almost everything in our department over the years, except for microbiology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/professor-retires-after-more-than-years-at-mwsu\/article_b4808f90-aa1f-11e9-8715-0b5c82ff3416.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Cobb News-Press NOW|Jul 19, 2019 After 52 years at Missouri Western, Dr. Thomas Rachow of the university\u2019s biology department is retiring. Growing up in Streator, Illinois, Rachow was the first in his family to graduate from college. He had no idea just how long he\u2019d spend on a college campus over the course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9144,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions\/9144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}