{"id":2777,"date":"2021-08-12T11:31:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2021-08-12T11:31:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:31:04","slug":"cynthia-reynolds-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2021\/08\/12\/cynthia-reynolds-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Reynolds \u201980"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cynthia Ann Reynolds \u201980 passed away on August 10, 2021. She attended Illinois Wesleyan University and then moved to NYC to sing. And sing she did, with Amato Opera, Vineyard Opera, NY Gilbert &amp; Sullivan Players and other companies. She married a tenor she often sang with, Richard Slade, and they had two children: Merlin and Julian. Cynthia made a bold career change, becoming a school teacher, and found her happiest place in Peekskill, teaching elementary music and strings, and directing the middle school musicals. Even when stricken with Glioblastoma she maintained her high standard of achievement, impressing all the therapists with her progress and her determination. She leaves behind grieving family and an immense array of friends and colleagues \u2014 and so, so many children whose lives she changed. You can read the full obituary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zionchapel.com\/obituaries\/Cynthia-Ann-Reynolds?obId=21989109#\/obituaryInfo\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.zionchapel.com\/obituaries\/Cynthia-Ann-Reynolds?obId=21989109#\/obituaryInfo\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Ann Reynolds \u201980 passed away on August 10, 2021. She attended Illinois Wesleyan University and then moved to NYC to sing. And sing she did, with Amato Opera, Vineyard Opera, NY Gilbert &amp; Sullivan Players and other companies. She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2021\/08\/12\/cynthia-reynolds-80\/\">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-2777","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\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}