{"id":9750,"date":"2020-06-11T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9750"},"modified":"2020-08-11T10:44:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T15:44:23","slug":"news-press-now-in-second-retirement-professor-looks-back-on-his-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/11\/news-press-now-in-second-retirement-professor-looks-back-on-his-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: In second retirement, professor looks back on his calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/0\/1d\/01d601ea-ab63-11ea-bce0-67fd5ce9f066\/5ee153840dec2.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C813\" alt=\"Dr. Frank Kessler\" width=\"1200\" height=\"813\" \/>Dr. Frank Kessler laughs when recalling the reasons for his retirement. No, not the recent retirement. The one that came before this last job, which lasted another two decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>A professor of political science, Kessler arrived at Missouri Western State College during its early years as a four-year institution. Everything on the Downs Drive campus felt new.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Thirty years later, he looked around to see the maturation of the place.<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cAll the sticks in the ground turned into beautiful trees that became a canopy over the campus,\u201d he remembered. \u201cThey were throwing out furniture that they bought when I came in. &#8230; I was there a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>He brought credit to the institution, publishing books and writing hundreds of scholarly articles, gaining a reputation within his field and earning a Distinguished Faculty Award. Emeritus status came at the end of this impressive tenure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/life_story\/in-second-retirement-professor-looks-back-on-his-calling\/article_3e9212ec-ab25-11ea-bb91-bbc20cadf2c6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Frank Kessler laughs when recalling the reasons for his retirement. No, not the recent retirement. The one that came before this last job, which lasted another two decades. A professor of political science, Kessler arrived at Missouri Western State College during its early years as a four-year institution. Everything on the Downs Drive campus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750"}],"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=9750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9751,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750\/revisions\/9751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}