{"id":2430,"date":"2021-05-21T09:40:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2021-05-21T09:40:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:40:24","slug":"james-proctor-brown-iii-62-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2021\/05\/21\/james-proctor-brown-iii-62-4\/","title":{"rendered":"James Proctor Brown III \u201962"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Proctor Brown III \u201962 passed away on Monday, January 4, 2021 at the age of 80 in Norfolk, Virginia. Born in Reedsburg, WI, Jim was a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University and Indiana University. He served in the Peace Corps, teaching in Nigeria (1962-1964) and was a History Professor at Norfolk State University for 40 years (1968-2008) where he taught African and world history. Everything was an educational opportunity in Jim&#8217;s eyes, and he spent his life sharing his experiences. He believed that we are all connected, and that we should support and respect each other. Jim will be dearly missed, but his life and legacy continues with his family, friends, and all the students he met along the way. See full obituary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/pilotonline\/obituary.aspx?n=james-proctor-brown&amp;pid=197621021\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Proctor Brown III \u201962 passed away on Monday, January 4, 2021 at the age of 80 in Norfolk, Virginia. Born in Reedsburg, WI, Jim was a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University and Indiana University. He served in the Peace &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2021\/05\/21\/james-proctor-brown-iii-62-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}