{"id":17491,"date":"2015-01-16T08:51:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17491"},"modified":"2020-04-14T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:10:16","slug":"campus-to-celebrate-turning-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17491","title":{"rendered":"Campus to celebrate turning 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/UCCS-50th-Anniversary-Mark.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16090 size-small-size\" src=\"\" alt=\"UCCS-50th-Anniversary-Mark\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Several long-serving members of the UCCS community will be honored Jan. 22 as part of 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Festivities are scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Jan. 22 on El Pomar Plaza with a photograph of faculty and staff that mimics one taken in 1990 as part of 25<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary celebrations. From 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Berger Hall, the celebration will continue with food, music and dancing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17493\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/UCCS-25th-photo.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17493\" src=\"\" alt=\"Faculty and staff gathered in 1990 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of UCCS.\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty and staff gathered in 1990 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of UCCS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As part of the formal festivities, Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak will recognize nine faculty members for their more than 40 years of service to the campus. Known as the legacy builders, Shockley-Zalabak hopes to make such recognitions an annual event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollectively and individually, these members of our campus community have done so much,\u201d Shockley-Zalabak said. \u201cAs we prepare to celebrate the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the founding of the campus, it is important that we recognize those whose efforts give us reason to celebrate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those who will be recognized are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allen Schoffstall, professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 48 years.<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Pellow, professor, Department of English , 46 years.<\/li>\n<li>James Null, professor, Department of Political Science, 45 years.<\/li>\n<li>Donald Warrick, professor, College of Business, 44 years.<\/li>\n<li>Kirkland Wilcox, professor, College of Business, 43 years.<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Napierkowski, professor, Department of English, 42 years.<\/li>\n<li>Robert Durham, associate professor, Department of Psychology, 42 years.<\/li>\n<li>Richard Dukes, professor, Department of Sociology, 42 years.<\/li>\n<li>Murray Ross, manager, Theatreworks, 40 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To attend the event, please respond to <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.www.alumniconnections.com\/olc\/pub\/UCOC\/event\/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=185042\">https:\/\/secure.www.alumniconnections.com\/olc\/pub\/UCOC\/event\/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=185042<\/a> by Jan. 16.<\/p>\n<p>Questions? Contact Sterlynn Clendenin, event specialist, University Center, 255-4201, <a href=\"mailto:sclenden@uccs.edu\">sclenden@uccs.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Several long-serving members of the UCCS community will be honored Jan. 22 as part of 50th anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Festivities are scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Jan. 22 on El Pomar Plaza with a photograph of faculty and staff that mimics one taken in 1990 as part of 25th anniversary celebrations.  <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17491\" title=\"Campus to celebrate turning 50\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,12,14],"tags":[343],"class_list":["post-17491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-events","category-upcoming-events","tag-50th-anniversary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/UCCS-25th-photo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-4y7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17491"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121065,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17491\/revisions\/121065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}