{"id":22593,"date":"2013-05-10T15:26:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=22593"},"modified":"2013-05-14T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T20:16:09","slug":"brock-mourns-the-death-of-retired-geography-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/05\/brock-mourns-the-death-of-retired-geography-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock mourns the death of retired Geography professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22594\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/alun-hughes.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22594\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22594\" title=\"alun-hughes\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/alun-hughes-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alun Hughes\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alun Hughes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brock University is saddened by the death of Alun Hughes, a retired associate professor of Geography.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes started at Brock in 1969, teaching cartography, surveying, remote sensing and GIS. He also coached Brock&#8217;s rugby team. Hughes retired in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He died Thursday, following a lengthy illness. Hughes was 71.<\/p>\n<p>We extend our deepest sympathies to Hughes&#8217;s family and friends at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The family will receive visitors at the Haine Funeral Home and Chapel, 26 Ormond St. South in Thorold on Tuesday, May 14 from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A funeral service to celebrate Hughes&#8217;s life will be held at Silver Spire United Church, 366 St. Paul St., St. Catharines, on Wednesday, May 15 at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, Hughes&#8217;s family would appreciate contributions to a fund established in his honour with Brock&#8217;s special collections and archives for the acquisition of materials relating to the history of the Niagara Peninsula. Donations can be directed to Brock&#8217;s library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University is saddened by the death of Alun Hughes, an associate professor of Geography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":22594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[1036,68,169,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22593"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22597,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593\/revisions\/22597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}