{"id":5001,"date":"2019-06-24T17:11:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T22:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2019-06-24T17:13:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T22:13:23","slug":"griffon-hall-renamed-vartabedian-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/2019\/06\/24\/griffon-hall-renamed-vartabedian-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffon Hall Renamed Vartabedian Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5003\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5003\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-5003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2019\/06\/Griffon-Hall-Evenson-300x169.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2019\/06\/Griffon-Hall-Evenson-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2019\/06\/Griffon-Hall-Evenson.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27169%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20300%20169%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%273169%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2019\/06\/Griffon-Hall-Evenson-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2019\/06\/Griffon-Hall-Evenson-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2019\/06\/Griffon-Hall-Evenson-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2019\/06\/Griffon-Hall-Evenson-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2019\/06\/Griffon-Hall-Evenson-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2019\/06\/Griffon-Hall-Evenson-800x451.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2019\/06\/Griffon-Hall-Evenson-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2019\/06\/Griffon-Hall-Evenson-1200x676.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2019\/06\/Griffon-Hall-Evenson-1320x744.jpg 1320w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Griffon Hall is now Vartabedian Hall<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Griffon Hall, 大象传媒 Western&#8217;s newest residence hall, will be renamed Vartabedian Hall. 大象传媒 Western\u2019s Board of Governors approved naming the residence hall in honor of Drs. Robert and Laurel Vartabedian last week. Dr. Robert Vartabedian will retire this month after 11 years as president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting to know Dr. Vartabedian in the five years I\u2019ve been on the board has been a real blessing for me,\u201d said David Liechti, chair of the Board of Governors. \u201cHe and Laurel have been very engaged in the community, and I think they\u2019ve made a great team. I know all of the board members join me in thanking them both, and I\u2019m pleased we could honor them in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vartabedian Hall was one of the significant construction projects on campus during Dr. Vartabedian\u2019s tenure as president, opening to students in 2011. It is 大象传媒 Western\u2019s only apartment-style residence hall, housing 240 students. Each suite houses four students in four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a shared living area.<\/p>\n<p>Vartabedian Hall will be the fourth campus building named for a former 大象传媒 Western president:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Looney Complex, home of athletic and recreational facilities including the arena and the Thomas Eagleton Indoor Pool, is named for Dr. Marvin Looney (1967-1983)<\/li>\n<li>Murphy Hall, home of the School of Nursing and Health Professions and several other academic departments, is named for Dr. Janet Gorman Murphy (1983-2000)<\/li>\n<li>Scanlon Hall, a 400-bed residence hall that serves as the lodgings for the Kansas City Chiefs when they hold summer training camp at 大象传媒 Western each July and August, is named for Dr. James and Lauren Scanlon (2000-2008)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The board also honored Dr. Vartabedian with the title of \u201cPresident Emeritus\u201d and presented him with a wooden office chair engraved with his name, years of service and the University Seal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griffon Hall, 大象传媒 Western&#8217;s newest residence hall, will be renamed Vartabedian Hall. 大象传媒 Western\u2019s Board of Governors approved naming the residence hall in honor of Drs. Robert and Laurel Vartabedian last week. Dr. Robert Vartabedian will retire this month after 11 years as president. \u201cGetting to know Dr. Vartabedian in the five years I\u2019ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5004,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions\/5004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}