{"id":32931,"date":"2015-03-12T12:57:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=32931"},"modified":"2015-03-12T12:57:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:57:48","slug":"former-brock-dean-and-prof-arthur-houston-remembered-fondly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/03\/former-brock-dean-and-prof-arthur-houston-remembered-fondly\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Brock Dean and prof Arthur Houston remembered fondly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/houston001-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32934\" title=\"houston001-5\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/houston001-5-833x1024.jpg\" alt=\"houston001-5\" width=\"503\" height=\"619\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very well dressed. Fairly dapper. A true gentleman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how Doug Bruce remembers former Brock Dean Arthur Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Houston passed away in <a href=\"http:\/\/yourlifemoments.ca\/sitepages\/obituary.asp?oId=843764\">2014<\/a>, but Bruce still remembers the day Houston hired him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was 1986, and he was a Dean back then,&#8221; said Bruce, who is the current Brock University Chair of Biology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His striking, very, silver hair. He was an old school prof, and a good Dean.<\/p>\n<p>He was very interested in military history, which tied in nicely being here at Brock. Just walking into his office, the military uniforms&#8230;he was an accomplished artist as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bruce, who was born Douglas Haig Bruce, also credits Houston with learning the meaning of his middle name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Douglas Haig Bruce was also my father&#8217;s name. Arthur knew instantly &#8211; Haig the Butcher, he said. \u00a0Haig was a general in World War 1, and died just before my dad was born. \u00a0Arthur was all over it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Very well dressed.  Fairly dapper.  A true gentleman.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":32934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[2805,221,2692,2806],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32931"}],"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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32931"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32945,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32931\/revisions\/32945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}