{"id":602,"date":"2012-02-10T12:39:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/?p=602"},"modified":"2014-08-04T18:18:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T22:18:25","slug":"butler-mentrs-win-jefferson-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/butler-mentrs-win-jefferson-award\/","title":{"rendered":"BUTLER MENTORS WIN JEFFERSON AWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/files\/2012\/02\/2003NationalJeffersonAwards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-605\" title=\"2003NationalJeffersonAwards\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/files\/2012\/02\/2003NationalJeffersonAwards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>The Jefferson Awards are a prestigious national recognition system honoring community and public service in America. The Jefferson Awards are presented on two levels: national and local. They began in 1972 to create a Nobel Prize for public service. Today, their primary purpose is to serve as a &#8220;Call to Action for Volunteers&#8221; in local communities.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, February 9, 2012, the students and faculty of Shortridge High School recognized Butler\u2019s Writing in the Schools program with this award.<\/p>\n<p><em>Yesterday started out as a cloudy Thursday. By noon, Doug Manuel, one of our graduate student assistants, and I were power shopping for bologna and cheese, the after-school program snack, at the Safeway. Next, the ultimate surprise. An hour and a half later, we were on the auditorium stage at Shortridge in front of a crowd of more than 900 students and faculty members to accept the Jefferson Award for Public Service on behalf of Butler Writers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We are so grateful for this validation that we are making a difference, so grateful for each of our students and volunteers sharing their talents and energy to forge such strong relationships with these amazing kids in such a short time. I am in awe of each of you. Bravo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em>&#8212;<\/em>Susan Sutherlin, faculty, Writing in the Schools<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jefferson Awards are a prestigious national recognition system honoring community and public service in America. The Jefferson Awards are presented on two levels: national and local. They began in 1972 to create a Nobel Prize for public service. Today, their primary purpose is to serve as a &#8220;Call to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37039],"tags":[],"coauthors":[265091],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}