{"id":5913,"date":"2021-03-12T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2021-03-12T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T17:00:56","slug":"morehead-award-essay-nears-submission-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=5913","title":{"rendered":"Morehead Award Essay Nears Submission Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Jack Miller<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roanoke College\u2019s Morehead Award submission deadline is coming up! The essay contest is due March 15 by noon. The Morehead award is an award (including a 200 dollar cash prize) given to a currently enrolled Roanoke College student who composes a 600-800 word essay about how they live John Alfred Morehead\u2019s legacy. Morehead was a former president of the college who left to commit his life to serving others in post-war Europe. He was constantly committed to ideas of service, conviction, and open-mindedness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Up to three students can win this award, and winners will get a chance to then present their essay at next year\u2019s Convocation ceremony for incoming freshmen in the fall. The essay should be written in the first person and be as specific as possible to the prompt. Each year the prompt is: how have students experienced any of the three aspects of Morehead\u2019s legacy during their time here at Roanoke College. Essays can be serious, funny, lighthearted, or abstract\u2013 they just have to reflect the essay\u2019s prompt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More information on the Morehead award can be found on the school\u2019s website under \u201cThe Morehead Award.\u201d Good luck, Maroons! Hopefully we will see you at the Fall 2021 Convocation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Jack Miller Roanoke College\u2019s Morehead Award submission deadline is coming up! The essay contest is due March 15 by noon. The Morehead award is an award (including a 200 dollar cash prize) given to a currently enrolled Roanoke College student who composes a 600-800 word essay about how they live John Alfred Morehead\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-5913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}