{"id":4967,"date":"2019-12-06T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bracketyackrc.wpengine.com\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2020-01-10T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T14:11:15","slug":"rc-students-thank-faculty-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4967","title":{"rendered":"RC Students Thank Faculty &#038; Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Bradley Bommarito<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a new and creative w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ay of expressing gratitude during the Thanksgiving season, Rooney\u2019s Brews in Fintel Library unveiled \u201cThe Giving Tree\u201d in the week prior to break. From Monday. Nov. 18 through Monday, Nov. 25, students had the opportunity to show appreciation for faculty and staff by writing their name and nomination on a paper leaf and placing it on a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tree.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One leaf was randomly pulled from the tree on Tuesday, Nov. 26, and both the winning student and the staff or faculty member they nominated were rewarded with gift cards. Sophomore Elaine Presley was selected as the winner. She received a 25 dollar AllSports Caf<\/span><b>\u00e9<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gift card. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teresa Hancock-Parmer<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of RC\u2019s Modern Languages Department was the lucky faculty winner, and she received a 50 dollar Awful Arthur\u2019s gift card.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though only one leaf was chosen as a winner, there are several nominations worth mentioning. Shannon Anderson of the Sociology Department received the greatest number of leaves, totaling eight nominations. David Scaer of the Modern Languages Department received the second highest number of leaves, totaling 5 nominations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the holiday season approaches, it is worthwhile to reflect on the people, places, and things in life that make us feel grateful for being alive. Consider taking the time to thank the faculty and staff who work hard to give you a fulfilling and enjoyable college experience. Rooney\u2019s Tree of Thanks will return next November, but you don\u2019t have to wait to give thanks to the people who make us smile!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Bradley Bommarito In a new and creative way of expressing gratitude during the Thanksgiving season, Rooney\u2019s Brews in Fintel Library unveiled \u201cThe Giving Tree\u201d in the week prior to break. From Monday. Nov. 18 through Monday, Nov. 25, students had the opportunity to show appreciation for faculty and staff by writing their name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":4963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/givingtree.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}