{"id":45804,"date":"2017-07-14T11:54:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T15:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=45804"},"modified":"2017-07-14T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T15:57:27","slug":"cheechoo-pens-farewell-to-traves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/07\/cheechoo-pens-farewell-to-traves\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheechoo pens farewell to Traves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University Chancellor Shirley Cheechoo penned an open letter to outgoing Interim President and Vice-Chancellor Tom Traves, thanking him for his time with the University.<\/p>\n<p>Cheechoo writes:<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear Mr. President,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wanted to take a moment to thank you on behalf of the University for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with us. \u00a0The moments I had with you I will always remember with great pride.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is hard to find the words to express how very meaningful the events of the year were to me personally, and I hope that you enjoyed your time with Brock as thoroughly as we did.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s an honour for us\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to have had the opportunity to work and get to know a person with many milestones\u00a0and a vision for the achievements of our students, our faculty, our staff and our international identity.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have been a gift to Brock University\u2019s history and to its\u00a0brighter future.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am very honoured to have met you and I was deeply touched to share the stage with you. Thank you for all your support and inspiration, and for leaving a message of a promising future for Brock University.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miigwetch,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chancellor Cheechoo<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University Chancellor Shirley Cheechoo penned an open letter to outgoing Interim President and Vice-Chancellor Tom Traves, thanking him for his time with the University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[2141,3662,3262,4526],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45804"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}