{"id":249917,"date":"2022-06-21T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=249917"},"modified":"2022-06-24T09:20:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:20:15","slug":"former-uj-president-dr-james-walker-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=249917","title":{"rendered":"Former UJ President Dr. James Walker, Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uj.edu\/university-news?cat=campus-clips&amp;id=58184&amp;uju=subemail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Announcement from University of Jamestown <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. James S. Walker, the tenth president of the University of Jamestown, died last month. He was 88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walker and his wife, Nadine, came to then Jamestown College in 1983. He began work during at a time when the college was facing serious financial challenges. His work paid off, and the college\u2019s enrollment doubled before his retirement in 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1065\/2022\/06\/20171931\/WalkerFeature_300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1065\/2022\/06\/20171931\/WalkerFeature_300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-294801\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will forever be indebted to Dr. Walker for taking a chance on me when he hired me to be the University\u2019s first Controller,\u201d current University President Polly Peterson stated. \u201cI admired his confidence, his humor, his incredible ability to recall every useful, and often useless, fact ever written. Most importantly, I admired his ability to lead with both kindness and accountability. He was the right person for the right time in our school\u2019s history and his legacy will live on as one of the University\u2019s greats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcement from University of Jamestown Dr. James S. Walker, the tenth president of the University of Jamestown, died last month. He was 88. Walker and his wife, Nadine, came to then Jamestown College in 1983. He began work during at a time when the college was facing serious financial challenges. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":249936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249958,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249917\/revisions\/249958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/249936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}