{"id":3522,"date":"2011-12-06T20:41:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T20:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2011-12-06T21:12:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T21:12:05","slug":"the-ksc-iowa-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2011\/12\/06\/the-ksc-iowa-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"The KSC-Iowa Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This note from <strong>Joe Bannon \u201987<\/strong>, who lives now in Davenport, Iowa, is another great illustration of the connections KSC folks feel towards their alma mater and their fellow alums:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The other morning I got up and started my daily routine, which includes reading the paper before coming to work. On the front page of the <a href=\"http:\/\/qctimes.com\/news\/local\/americorps-volunteers-help-clean-up-nahant\/article_45464650-09bf-11e1-979e-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Quad City Times<\/em><\/a> was an article about an AmeriCorps group helping with a local nature preserve. I know the fellow who runs the preserve, Brian Ritter, because he sits on the advisory board for a preserve my company owns and that I oversee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I read the article, I nearly jumped out of my chair when it noted that one volunteer, <strong>Kristina Hawes \u201910<\/strong>, is a KSC grad! I called Brian and heard him call out, &#8216;Hey Kristina, wanna talk to another KSC grad?&#8217; I offered to meet her and \/or the group over lunch, but\u00a0 yesterday was their last day and they were heading home. Ms. Hawes and I talked for a bit and shared how much KSC meant to us. Living in Iowa it can be hard to feel connected as an alum, but this brief conversation re-energized my feelings about KSC.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This note from Joe Bannon \u201987, who lives now in Davenport, Iowa, is another great illustration of the connections KSC folks feel towards their alma mater and their fellow alums: &#8220;The other morning I got up and started my daily routine, which includes reading the paper before coming to work. On the front page of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2011\/12\/06\/the-ksc-iowa-connection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The KSC-Iowa Connection<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","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=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3525,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions\/3525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}