{"id":905,"date":"2019-01-07T17:14:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/?p=905"},"modified":"2019-01-07T17:14:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:14:30","slug":"emeritus-associate-professor-of-economics-robert-bob-leekley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/2019\/01\/07\/emeritus-associate-professor-of-economics-robert-bob-leekley\/","title":{"rendered":"Emeritus Associate Professor of Economics Robert (Bob) Leekley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Emeritus Associate Professor of Economics Robert (Bob) Leekley passed away on Tuesday, Jan.1. Prof. Leekley started teaching at Illinois Wesleyan in 1974, and from his first year to his 44th, his commitment to IWU and our students remained unchanged. His positive impact on generations of students and colleagues will not be forgotten.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/emclick.imodules.com\/wf\/click?upn=BdYiO-2Be-2BQWzyfpaNK3udBeVBP8rHKEOPWEOUffheg3QWnY6GH3P5QNRK7cKUDLRJf7zJTMNZEcyqxuv9qqPadbOV2NsZdlnzJepJuiIe-2B78-3D_3z13klT434cMOUZUY1-2F18yLrEBN5JXcryWKmoqXa9Pi9tsZeuoAStxtPt7jIKMCS9sDwte61WUqCv4LKQnZe3d590NN1C67MmAgBIw-2FkNS8CozVqd-2FaWqpNp1h1F-2FPYhYFfJ3yjkRKTaqe5Dmc71HcY2XQXwzR-2Bya6Feke43jZ5ntOs-2F4PMpinxsELHP3-2BKaiixBg1Bnv0ZAwtcFoHhVSsXMNPSVv6BMNWnWc59OlvSdteYbaiRrcUJICL3MDij5VS7ENlLB-2F-2BZ5lFBZzSfOTEcI9UCdcV0zryFQpwGrA63nnWrNGu2k-2BRy95PeQsoeoLyQQ4LwrXT3DmjL33NSawK2oaoTecfkRW1q7LBs6mu8XgzLvJ94dPVjdAvnKN5ftwZ5fLNJiaTz0V9z8JxDeQw55Qc68mzWi5mDSOlVxZuCRo-2ByYN9hwItFGe93Uu-2BYdkIHVYFDfjKLlqQPRRrRwwQ-3D-3D\">Read an obituary.<\/a>\u00a0A service will be held in the IWU Evelyn Chapel from 11-12 on Wednesday, January 9th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/files\/2019\/01\/Emeritus-Associate-Professor-of-Economics-Robert-Bob-Leekley.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/files\/2019\/01\/Emeritus-Associate-Professor-of-Economics-Robert-Bob-Leekley.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/files\/2019\/01\/Emeritus-Associate-Professor-of-Economics-Robert-Bob-Leekley-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/files\/2019\/01\/Emeritus-Associate-Professor-of-Economics-Robert-Bob-Leekley-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/files\/2019\/01\/Emeritus-Associate-Professor-of-Economics-Robert-Bob-Leekley-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/files\/2019\/01\/Emeritus-Associate-Professor-of-Economics-Robert-Bob-Leekley-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/files\/2019\/01\/Emeritus-Associate-Professor-of-Economics-Robert-Bob-Leekley-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/files\/2019\/01\/Emeritus-Associate-Professor-of-Economics-Robert-Bob-Leekley-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emeritus Associate Professor of Economics Robert (Bob) Leekley passed away on Tuesday, Jan.1. Prof. Leekley started teaching at Illinois Wesleyan in 1974, and from his first year to his 44th, his commitment to IWU and our students remained unchanged. His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/2019\/01\/07\/emeritus-associate-professor-of-economics-robert-bob-leekley\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","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\/2008classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2008classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}