{"id":701,"date":"2010-10-13T12:35:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T17:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=701"},"modified":"2010-10-13T12:35:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T17:35:40","slug":"david-updike-speaks-at-alvernia-joan-youngerman-to-give-updike-letters-to-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/10\/13\/david-updike-speaks-at-alvernia-joan-youngerman-to-give-updike-letters-to-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"David Updike speaks at Alvernia; more donations announced for Society Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greta Cuyler of the <em>Reading Eagle<\/em> wrote a nice article about David Updike&#8217;s talk at Alvernia University on Tuesday, October 12. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/readingeagle.com\/article.aspx?id=256347\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/10\/updikeweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-704\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/10\/updikeweb-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Meanwhile, Society member Joan Youngerman, who was one of Updike&#8217;s Class of 1950 Shillington H.S. classmates, announced Tuesday that she was donating her personal correspondence from John Updike to The John Updike Society Archive at Alvernia. That&#8217;s a real treasure trove, and the Society and Alvernia are grateful for the donation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, Peter Brown, who lives in Washington, D.C. and teaches fiction writing at The Writer&#8217;s Center, contacted the Society to say he will donate two Updike artifacts to the archive, framed magazines featuring Updike on the cover: a 1968 <em>Time<\/em> and a 1970 <em>Esquire. <\/em>They will make great additions to the room in which the archives will be housed, and we thank Peter as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greta Cuyler of the Reading Eagle wrote a nice article about David Updike&#8217;s talk at Alvernia University on Tuesday, October 12. Here&#8217;s the link. Meanwhile, Society member Joan Youngerman, who was one of Updike&#8217;s Class of 1950 Shillington H.S. classmates, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/10\/13\/david-updike-speaks-at-alvernia-joan-youngerman-to-give-updike-letters-to-archive\/\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}