{"id":629,"date":"2014-08-01T15:51:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T20:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/?p=629"},"modified":"2014-08-01T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T21:13:54","slug":"john-thorne-69-receives-award-at-north-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2014\/08\/01\/john-thorne-69-receives-award-at-north-central\/","title":{"rendered":"John Thorne &#8217;69 Receives Award at North Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Central College President Troy Hammond recognized John Thorne &#8217;69 with the Harold and Eva White First Citizen of the College Award at the 2014 Commencement ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The Harold and Eva White First Citizen of the College Award honors a North Central faculty, staff or student who exemplifies the best of North Central College. \u00a0Thorne has served as head football coach since 2002 and is North Central&#8217;s all-time leader in football coaching victories and winning percentage with a 110-28 overall and 70-14 conference record, and has tied the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin record of consecutive conference football championships with eight.<\/p>\n<p>Hammond said, &#8220;[John] leads&#8230;he inspires&#8230;he encourages&#8230;he builds loyalty and character, and encourages Christian service. \u00a0He sets priorities that place academic achievement and life success above athletic success. \u00a0And every fall, he shapes a collection of young men of all abilities and backgrounds into a continuing success story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, John.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please access this link: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/northcentralcollege.edu\/news\/distinguished-members-north-central-community-are-honored-commencement\">http:\/\/northcentralcollege.edu\/news\/distinguished-members-north-central-community-are-honored-commencement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Central College President Troy Hammond recognized John Thorne &#8217;69 with the Harold and Eva White First Citizen of the College Award at the 2014 Commencement ceremony. The Harold and Eva White First Citizen of the College Award honors a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2014\/08\/01\/john-thorne-69-receives-award-at-north-central\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":487,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","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\/487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}