{"id":95541,"date":"2024-09-11T14:14:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T18:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=95541"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:21:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T19:21:40","slug":"then-and-now-a-sky-high-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/09\/then-and-now-a-sky-high-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"THEN AND NOW: A sky-high celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To mark <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/60\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brock&#8217;s 60th anniversary<\/a>, The Brock News is launching a <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/tag\/then-and-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">monthly series<\/a> looking back at the University&#8217;s history through photos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From Brock&#8217;s inception in 1964 to today, the University community has long been known for its school spirit. Throughout Brock&#8217;s history, students, faculty and staff have come together to create special aerial images to mark milestone moments, including the University&#8217;s 25th anniversary in 1989 (pictured above).<\/p>\n<p>This tradition continued last week when hundreds of Brock community members again gathered in the green space in front of Schmon Tower, this time to commemorate the University&#8217;s 60th year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_95544\" style=\"width: 1060px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/60thBU.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95544\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-95544 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/60thBU-1050x607.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of people wearing red shirts form a large 60 on the green lawn of a university. They are pictured from the sky.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"607\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 300 people gathered in front of the Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock statue on Wednesday, Sept. 4 to take an aerial photo in celebration of Brock University&#8217;s 60th anniversary.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Brock&#8217;s inception in 1964 to today, the University community has long been known for its school spirit. Throughout Brock&#8217;s history, students, faculty and staff have come together to create special aerial images to mark milestone moments, including the University&#8217;s 25th anniversary in 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13423,13818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95541"}],"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=95541"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97102,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95541\/revisions\/97102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}