{"id":2267,"date":"2012-06-01T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2020-01-17T10:49:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T16:49:09","slug":"ames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2012\/06\/01\/ames\/","title":{"rendered":"Named places: The Ames Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ames Library opened on January 9, 2002 and is named for lead donors B. Charles Ames (Class of 1950) and Joyce Eichhorn Ames (Class of 1949). They challenged their fellow alumni that if others contributed $1 million each for three years they would match it. Literally hundreds of alumni responded to that call. The Ames family has also made major gifts in Joyce Ames\u2019 name for the School of Art and for a scholarship to support students in the fine arts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2268\" style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2020\/01\/2012-05-23_JoyceChuckAmes_DSC_6873.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2268\" class=\" wp-image-2268\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2020\/01\/2012-05-23_JoyceChuckAmes_DSC_6873-776x1024.jpg\" alt=\"JoyceChuckAmes\" width=\"134\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2020\/01\/2012-05-23_JoyceChuckAmes_DSC_6873-776x1024.jpg 776w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2020\/01\/2012-05-23_JoyceChuckAmes_DSC_6873-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2020\/01\/2012-05-23_JoyceChuckAmes_DSC_6873-768x1013.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2020\/01\/2012-05-23_JoyceChuckAmes_DSC_6873.jpg 1364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyce and Chuck Ames on the day of the School of Art&#8217;s new entrance, May 23, 2012<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ames Library opened on January 9, 2002 and is named for lead donors B. Charles Ames (Class of 1950) and Joyce Eichhorn Ames (Class of 1949). They challenged their fellow alumni that if others contributed $1 million each for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2012\/06\/01\/ames\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,86],"tags":[164,131],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-campus-units","category-departmental-histories","tag-benefactors","tag-buildings-and-grounds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}