{"id":6680,"date":"2013-12-10T16:30:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=6680"},"modified":"2013-12-10T16:30:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T16:30:41","slug":"nelson-megna-59-receives-aarps-most-prestigious-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2013\/12\/10\/nelson-megna-59-receives-aarps-most-prestigious-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Megna \u201959 Receives AARP&#8217;s Most Prestigious Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6681\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6681\" alt=\"Nelson Megna\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2013\/12\/Nelson-Megna.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"250\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nelson Megna \u201959, winner of AARP&#8217;s 2013 Andrus Award<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Nelson Megna \u201959<\/strong> recently won <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aarp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">AARP&#8217;s<\/a> 2013 Andrus Award, named in honor of the organization\u2019s founder Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus. The Andrus Award celebrates and honors people who make a difference in the lives of others, and is the most prestigious and visible award AARP can present to an individual. The organization claimed that Mr. Megna\u2019s &#8220;extraordinary public service actively embodies Dr. Andrus\u2019 motto &#8216;To Serve, Not To be Served.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/states.aarp.org\/aarp-announces-andrus-award-winner-nelson-megna\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read all about it in AARP&#8217;s announcement. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Megna and his wife, <strong>Dorothy Reed Megna \u201958<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2013\/10\/09\/recent-and-important-gifts-to-ksc\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently established the Megna Family Endowed Scholarship here at KSC. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Megna \u201959 recently won AARP&#8217;s 2013 Andrus Award, named in honor of the organization\u2019s founder Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus. The Andrus Award celebrates and honors people who make a difference in the lives of others, and is the most prestigious and visible award AARP can present to an individual. The organization claimed that Mr. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2013\/12\/10\/nelson-megna-59-receives-aarps-most-prestigious-award\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nelson Megna \u201959 Receives AARP&#8217;s Most Prestigious Award<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":6681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[431,449],"class_list":["post-6680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-award","tag-giving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680","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=6680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6683,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions\/6683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}