{"id":10072,"date":"2020-07-09T14:19:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T18:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/?p=10072"},"modified":"2020-07-09T14:19:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T18:19:37","slug":"first-graduate-recalls-first-commencement-career-ghc-prepares-celebrate-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/2020\/07\/09\/first-graduate-recalls-first-commencement-career-ghc-prepares-celebrate-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"First graduate recalls first commencement and career as GHC prepares to celebrate 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1971, Claudia Williams Taxel is the lone graduate of a small college in Rome, Georgia, in its infancy. She stands with the college president, David McCorkle, and the dean, Wesley Walraven, in a newly constructed building, as a photo is snapped for the local newspaper. Her two-year diploma in education is conferred, and she and her father, Floyd County Commission Chairman Charles Williams, pose together for another photo Claudia still has to this day.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/50years.highlands.edu\/article.php\">Read the full story on GHC&#8217;s 50th Celebration page at 50years.highlands.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1971, Claudia Williams Taxel is the lone graduate of a small college in Rome, Georgia, in its infancy. She stands with the college president, David McCorkle, and the dean, Wesley Walraven, in a newly constructed building, as a photo is snapped for the local newspaper. Her two-year diploma in education is conferred, and she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10074,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions\/10074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}