{"id":269,"date":"2013-06-12T15:56:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T20:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1976classnews\/?p=5"},"modified":"2014-05-30T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T19:12:34","slug":"marianne-wolf-astrauskas-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2013\/06\/12\/marianne-wolf-astrauskas-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne Wolf-Astrauskas &#8217;76 &#8211; Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/06\/marianne-wolf-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/06\/marianne-wolf-2013-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"marianne wolf 2013\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Woman&#8217;s Press Association presents the Communicator of Achievement award each year to a member who has exhibited outstanding communication skills. This year&#8217;s Communicator of Achievement is Marianne Wolf-Astrauskas, IWPA&#8217;s immediate past-president. She will be Illinois&#8217; nominee for the National Communicator of Achievement Award presented by NFPW at its Salt Lake City confab.<\/p>\n<p>During the awards ceremony of the Mate E. Palmer Professional Communications Contest, Wolf-Astrauskas\u00a0 took two 1<sup>st<\/sup> place honors, two 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place awards and two Honorable mentions for her writing.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf-Astrauskas, who also serves as executive board secretary of the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW), has been a historian, storyteller, author, editor, administrator, recruiter, collaborator, mentor, listener, and volunteer for and to IWPA members over the years. Her 30+ years of award-winning professional experience include working for an Illinois U.S. Senator and the City of Chicago in administrative capacities. Wolf-Astrauskas is also a long-time alumni regional board member for her alma mater, Illinois Wesleyan University, where she was a member of Epsilon Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma, in which she develops networking and support programs for IWU&#8217;s students and alums.<\/p>\n<p>Following her two terms as IWPA president, Wolf-Astrauskas plans to continue her research on the history of the IWPA and NFPW and publish her findings in book form sometime in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Woman&#8217;s Press Association presents the Communicator of Achievement award each year to a member who has exhibited outstanding communication skills. This year&#8217;s Communicator of Achievement is Marianne Wolf-Astrauskas, IWPA&#8217;s immediate past-president. She will be Illinois&#8217; nominee for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2013\/06\/12\/marianne-wolf-astrauskas-award-winner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"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-269","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\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}