{"id":1882,"date":"2008-11-25T08:22:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T16:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keeneweb.org\/newsline\/?p=4"},"modified":"2011-05-20T20:09:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T20:09:15","slug":"pumpkins-owls-and-an-alumni-center-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2008\/11\/25\/pumpkins-owls-and-an-alumni-center-dedication\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkins, Owls, and an Alumni Center dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5\" style=\"margin: 2px;float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2008\/11\/pf08.jpg\" alt=\"Annie Card\" width=\"250\" height=\"229\" \/>Homecoming celebrations brought Owls, alums, and 2,000 pumpkins from Gardiner, Maine, to campus for the weekend of October 24\u201326. Forty student organizations converged on Fiske Quad for the great Pumpkin Lobotomy on Friday, and Director of Student Life Paul Striffolino reported that 2,000 students carved pumpkins: \u201cAt the height of the event there wasn\u2019t a square inch of Quad grass to be seen!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides the usual fun and reconnection, two other important events took place on Saturday. Artist <a title=\"Michael Dooling\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeldooling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Dooling<\/a>, the creator of the 100th Owl, was at the Children\u2019s Literature Gallery for the unveiling of his illustration. And President Helen Giles-Gee, along with alumni, faculty, and staff, gathered at the corner of Main and Winchester streets for the dedication of the Alumni Center that will be built there, beginning next spring.<\/p>\n<p>(Above photo by Annie Card.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"More info\" href=\"http:\/\/keeneweb.org\/campusnews\/2008\/10\/30\/pumpkins-owls-and-alumni-center-dedication\/\">Click here for more photos and information.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homecoming celebrations brought Owls, alums, and 2,000 pumpkins from Gardiner, Maine, to campus for the weekend of October 24\u201326. Forty student organizations converged on Fiske Quad for the great Pumpkin Lobotomy on Friday, and Director of Student Life Paul Striffolino reported that 2,000 students carved pumpkins: \u201cAt the height of the event there wasn\u2019t a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2008\/11\/25\/pumpkins-owls-and-an-alumni-center-dedication\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pumpkins, Owls, and an Alumni Center dedication<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}