{"id":1429,"date":"2013-03-11T16:11:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2013-03-11T16:23:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:23:34","slug":"member-donations-start-to-come-in-dont-forget-to-renew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/03\/11\/member-donations-start-to-come-in-dont-forget-to-renew\/","title":{"rendered":"Member donations start to come in; don&#8217;t forget to renew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/03\/updikeoffice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1430\" alt=\"updikeoffice\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/03\/updikeoffice.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a>If you haven&#8217;t renewed your membership in The John Updike Society by paying your 2013 dues\u2014and only a fifth of current members have done so\u2014please send a check made payable to The John Updike Society to James Plath, 1504 Paddington Dr., Bloomington, IL 61704. Dues are $25\/year, $20 for grad students and retirees.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when money is needed to move forward with the renovation of The John Updike Childhood Home at 117 Philadelphia Ave. in Shillington, member donations are now approaching $1000. Thanks to Bruce Moyer, Kathleen Olson, Gerald Connors, Livia Lloyd-Hawkins, Alan and Maureen Phipps, Steve Malcolm, Don Greiner, Jay Althouse, Kevin Schehr, Janice Fodor, Ward Briggs, Richard L. Chafey, and Mark Roosevelt for their generosity and for helping us get a nice start on raising the money ($10,000) needed to scrape, repair, and paint the outside of the brick building.<\/p>\n<p>The John Updike Society is a 501 c 3 organization, and everyone who makes a donation will receive a letter of thanks and acknowledgment that can be used for tax purposes.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s new at the house? The single-story annex has just been remodeled, so now the Society can find a tenant to lease the three rooms formerly used as patient examination rooms by Dr. Hunter, who bought the house from the Updikes. Pictured is the doctor&#8217;s former office just off the front entrance to the original part of the house, which will be used as a gift shop for The John Updike Childhood Home. A still-operational x-ray viewing screen was left on the wall of one exam room as a reminder of the contributions that the Hunter family made to the house where Updike said his &#8220;artistic eggs were hatched.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t renewed your membership in The John Updike Society by paying your 2013 dues\u2014and only a fifth of current members have done so\u2014please send a check made payable to The John Updike Society to James Plath, 1504 Paddington &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/03\/11\/member-donations-start-to-come-in-dont-forget-to-renew\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-john-updike-childhood-home","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}