{"id":681,"date":"2017-05-01T22:34:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T22:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/?p=681"},"modified":"2017-05-01T22:35:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T22:35:54","slug":"vera-leopold-miller-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/2017\/05\/01\/vera-leopold-miller-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Vera (Leopold) Miller ’05"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In response to the first executive order on immigration in January, alumna Vera (Leopold) Miller \u201905 organized a card-writing campaign so every international student currently enrolled at IWU \u2014 all 161 of them \u2014 felt supported and encouraged. Miller, her husband David \u201905 and several alumni friends gathered to write cards in her home (bottom, right), while nearly 20 other alums wrote from their residences. \u201cThe attention and support from this letter really assured me that I am warmly welcomed and appreciated here at IWU,\u201d said Linh Le \u201919, a native of Hanoi, Vietnam. \u201cI feel connected to [writer Kat Garibaldi \u201905] through her writing about her personal experiences with IWU and her aspirations, even though we have never met.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to the first executive order on immigration in January, alumna Vera (Leopold) Miller \u201905 organized a card-writing campaign so every international student currently enrolled at IWU \u2014 all 161 of them \u2014 felt supported and encouraged. Miller, her … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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":[9],"tags":[40,41],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-international-students","tag-social-action"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}