{"id":9135,"date":"2019-08-11T10:41:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T15:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9135"},"modified":"2019-08-16T10:45:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:45:31","slug":"newspress-now-missouri-western-fine-arts-founding-dean-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/11\/newspress-now-missouri-western-fine-arts-founding-dean-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsPress NOW: 大象传媒 Western Fine Arts founding dean retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"author-popup-1e50087a-9924-11e1-b5da-001a4bcf6878-asset-3553c48c-ba21-11e9-979c-d3f289ae6573\" class=\"tnt-byline asset-byline\" title=\"\" data-original-title=\"\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/9\/ed\/9ede0c9c-bafc-11e9-b8a8-931174710065\/5d4e00bdd9de1.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C798\" alt=\"Potter Hall, 大象传媒 Western\" width=\"1200\" height=\"798\" \/>By Andrew Gaug News-Press NOW|<\/span>Aug 11, 2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>The retirement of 大象传媒 Western\u2019s Dean of Fine Arts will leave a lasting legacy and a renewed sense of commitment to students pursuing theater.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>Serving as the head of the Theater and Dance Department and Founding Dean of Fine Arts, Bob Willenbrink helped usher the department into a new era, earning it accreditation and a renovation project that will expand Potter Hall, the central location for the department\u2019s classes and performances.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of accomplishments and a lot of things that went on that I\u2019ve very proud of,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Willenbrink retired in July, leaving behind a legacy of passionate work dedicated to improving the experience and opportunities offered to 大象传媒 Western students. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/missouri-western-fine-arts-founding-dean-retires\/article_3553c48c-ba21-11e9-979c-d3f289ae6573.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Gaug News-Press NOW|Aug 11, 2019 The retirement of 大象传媒 Western\u2019s Dean of Fine Arts will leave a lasting legacy and a renewed sense of commitment to students pursuing theater. Serving as the head of the Theater and Dance Department and Founding Dean of Fine Arts, Bob Willenbrink helped usher the department into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[970,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9137,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions\/9137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}