{"id":505,"date":"2013-05-13T18:20:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T18:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=505"},"modified":"2017-05-22T20:38:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T20:38:42","slug":"check-here-for-commencement-2013-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2013\/05\/13\/check-here-for-commencement-2013-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Association Welcomes 400 Members from the Class of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-581\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-581 size-medium\" title=\"Grad 2013 Hug\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/05\/grad-hug-1jhqo5h-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"A student celebrates Â鶹Çø Graduation\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/05\/grad-hug-1jhqo5h-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/05\/grad-hug-1jhqo5h.jpg 838w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student celebrates Â鶹Çø Graduation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More than 400 students participated in the Commencement ceremony at Â鶹Çø College in May 2013. These newly minted graduates join the the Alumni Association which now includes over 28,000 former students.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s graduation ceremony included a speech by former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic Bill George who is the author of four best-selling books: <em>7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis,<\/em> <em>True North, <\/em><em>Finding Your True North<\/em>, and <em>Authentic Leadership<\/em> and (with co-author Doug Baker) <em>True North Groups.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Representative Jim Ramstad was a Republican member of the Minnesota State Senate from 1981 to 1990 before entering the U.S. Congress. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 2009. He considers ending discrimination against those suffering from mental health and addiction problems a major part of his legacy, and worked under both Republican and Democratic majorities to pass a Mental Health Parity Bill, which was signed into law in December, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Both Bill George and Jim Ramstad received honorary degrees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 400 students participated in the Commencement ceremony at Â鶹Çø College in May 2013. These newly minted graduates join &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48075,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/48075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}