{"id":877,"date":"2015-07-30T14:03:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T19:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/?p=877"},"modified":"2015-07-30T14:03:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T19:03:21","slug":"edward-rust-jr-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2015\/07\/30\/edward-rust-jr-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Rust Jr. &#8217;72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/article\/20150604\/NEWS01\/150609890\/state-farm-ceo-exits-after-30-years-at-the-top\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Rust Jr. &#8217;72<\/a> is stepping down as CEO of State Farm Insurance after 30 years, to be succeeded by another alum of Illinois Wesleyan University, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pantagraph.com\/business\/state-farm-names-tipsord-ceo-rust-remains-board-chairman\/article_1ffd4c88-a044-5ee0-bec9-2d78d9535320.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Tipsord &#8217;81<\/a>. Under the leadership of Rust, State Farm Insurance has been a generous supporter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pantagraph.com\/business\/local\/ed-and-ed-state-farm-ceo-has-invested-in-education\/article_69f0a03c-75a0-5746-ba02-3a3e1f589332.html\" target=\"_blank\">education<\/a> &#8211; including his alma mater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Rust Jr. &#8217;72 is stepping down as CEO of State Farm Insurance after 30 years, to be succeeded by another alum of Illinois Wesleyan University, Michael Tipsord &#8217;81. Under the leadership of Rust, State Farm Insurance has been a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2015\/07\/30\/edward-rust-jr-72\/\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","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\/877","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\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}