{"id":139,"date":"2012-09-18T11:40:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T16:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/Insights\/?p=139"},"modified":"2016-09-13T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T19:13:00","slug":"kirkland-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/kirkland-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkland Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/Insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/Kirkland-hall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-140\" title=\"Kirkland Hall on the WSU Campus\" src=\"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/Insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/Kirkland-hall-300x147.jpg\" alt=\"Kirkland Hall on the WSU Campus\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/Kirkland-hall-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/Kirkland-hall.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We do such a great job fulfilling our mission because of all those who came before us.\u00a0 Our reach extends so far because we stand on the shoulders of giants.\u00a0 On September 14 we had the opportunity to recognize two such giants.\u00a0 Melvin and Lois Kirkland graduated more than fifty years ago.\u00a0 They spent most of their lives as educators in the Seattle public schools before retiring to Hawai\u2019i.\u00a0 Through their $1.25 million estate they established the Melvin L. and Lois M. Kirkland Scholarship Fund for aspiring teachers, a gracious gift that goes to our heart as a normal school.\u00a0 In recognition of their generous support, we have named one of the newest student residences Kirkland Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Though we each contribute differently to Winona State University, each of us can be a giant in our own way.\u00a0 You are important to this university because \u2013 like the Kirklands \u2013 you are a part of helping others achieve <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">their<\/span> hopes and dreams.\u00a0 Our mission of improving our world is possible because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you<\/span> are part of our community of learners.\u00a0 I look forward to getting to know each of you better and collaborating with you to provide the best education possible for our students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do such a great job fulfilling our mission because of all those who came before us.\u00a0 Our reach extends so far because we stand on the shoulders of giants.\u00a0 On September 14 we had the opportunity to recognize two such giants.\u00a0 Melvin and Lois Kirkland graduated more than fifty years ago.\u00a0 They spent most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/Kirkland-hall.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}