{"id":218,"date":"2015-06-05T07:59:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T11:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business\/?p=218"},"modified":"2024-01-30T13:47:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T18:47:25","slug":"spc-professor-memorial-day-observances-for-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business-educational-information\/spc-professor-memorial-day-observances-for-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC professor part of Memorial Day observances for veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the American Legion Riders Chapter 24, including St. Petersburg College of Business Professor Wende Huehn-Brown, participated in Memorial Day observances this year, placing 465 American flags on graves at two area cemeteries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238\" style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/100_1304_Custom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-238\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/100_1304_Custom.jpg\" alt=\"SPC Professor Wende Huehn-Brown\" width=\"154\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SPC Professor Wende Huehn-Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last year members of the American Legion Post began placing American flags on all veterans&#8217; graves at Fogartyville Cemetery, the Bradenton Herald reported. They also decided to adopt Adams and Rogers Cemetery. There are\u00a0several graves of veterans in the historically black cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Work by the American Legion Riders included cutting back overgrowth and caring for tombstones that needed maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, members placed a total of 198 flags. This year they placed\u00a0465, the newspaper reported.\u00a0Seventy\u00a0gravesites were reclaimed and 52 veterans graves uncovered through their work.<br \/>\nRead more about this event in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradenton.com\/2015\/05\/21\/5809018_american-legion-riders-to-place.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bradenton Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"American Legion honors those who served - Bradenton Herald - Bradenton.com\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IVvpzcnPwLo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>More about Professor Huehn-Brown<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.spcollege.edu\/instructors\/id\/998\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Huehn-Brown<\/a>\u00a0has more than 17 years of professional engineering and management experience for a variety of organizations. \u00a0Her background includes automotive, defense, government (legislative, universities, workforce and economic development agencies), consulting, non-profit organizations, and other manufacturing and service industries.<\/p>\n<h5>Veterans Services at SPC<\/h5>\n<p>SPC has an active<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Veterans Services<\/a> office, with specialists who provide veterans with help starting, continuing or resuming their education. The college was named as a <a href=\"https:\/\/newsspc.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/10\/spc-named-as-a-top-military-friendly-school-by-mae-magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top military friendly school<\/a> in 2014 by Military Advanced Education magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the American Legion Riders Chapter 24, including St. Petersburg College of Business Professor Wende Huehn-Brown, participated in Memorial Day observances this year, placing 465 American flags on graves at two area cemeteries. Last year members of the American Legion Post began placing American flags on all veterans&#8217; graves at Fogartyville Cemetery, the Bradenton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business-educational-information\/spc-professor-memorial-day-observances-for-veterans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SPC professor part of Memorial Day observances for veterans<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/business-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}