{"id":2830,"date":"2022-02-08T15:08:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2022-02-08T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:21:48","slug":"professor-robert-donalson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2022\/02\/08\/professor-robert-donalson\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Robert Donalson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Robert Donalson <\/strong>died Dec. 22, 2021. He was 87. Bob was a professor in Illinois Wesleyan\u2019s School of Music for 30 years; he retired in 1994 with emeritus status. Bob felt the call to become an educator while serving in the U.S. Army in a mobile army surgical hospital during the Korean War. He obtained a master\u2019s degree at San Jose State University and a doctorate at the University of Colorado Boulder. He began his teaching career at Pepperdine University before landing at IWU. Bob loved beauty in all its forms \u2014\u00a0nature, art and poetry among them \u2014\u00a0but music was his emotional home. He was active in religious life and often shared his gift of music in the church. Bob was always learning and educated himself on subjects ranging from theology and philosophy, to computer science and financial investing, to home repair and carpentry. He enjoyed traveling, sports, his cats and, most of all, his family. He is survived by his wife, five children, eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bob&#8217;s Celebration of Life will be held on February 12 at 1 p.m. CST and will be live-streamed at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/christlutheranchurchffg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">christlutheranchurchffg.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Donalson died Dec. 22, 2021. He was 87. Bob was a professor in Illinois Wesleyan\u2019s School of Music for 30 years; he retired in 1994 with emeritus status. Bob felt the call to become an educator while serving in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2022\/02\/08\/professor-robert-donalson\/\">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-2830","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\/2830","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=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}