{"id":5204,"date":"2016-05-23T07:37:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T11:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2016-06-03T12:31:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T16:31:59","slug":"president-keens-farewell-fiesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2016\/05\/23\/president-keens-farewell-fiesta\/","title":{"rendered":"President Keen&#8217;s Farewell Fiesta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A standing ovation greeted a visibly surprised President Hubert Keen who entered the Little Theater\u00a0with the understanding that he was providing remarks for Cinco de Mayo\u00a0celebration &#8211; but in reality, it was a Farewell Fiesta planned by campus staff.<\/p>\n<p>With thanks to Rambassadors Aiden Reilly, Lauren Liegmann, Preethi Gaayathri and Kirshani Gunaratnam, everyone was seated and (somewhat) quiet so that Pat Calabria could bring him into chants of &#8220;surprise!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to all of the good wishes from Lloyd Makarowitz on behalf of the faculty and staff, President Keen received the following gifts from a grateful \u00a0campus community:<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Hill Williams (representing the College Council): \u00a0Key to the Campus<br \/>\nGeorge P. LaRosa (representing Administration): Track Suit Embroidered with &#8220;President Emeritus&#8221; and a piece of Nold Hall&#8217;s bleachers titled &#8220;Sally&#8217;s Seat&#8221;<br \/>\nTom Corti (representing students and Student Government): Binoculars<br \/>\nAdrian Sinnott (with thanks to Phil Simone for arranging): Humorous Sketch of President Keen\u00a0Driving<br \/>\nBrian Maher: MC and Farewell Fiesta Song<br \/>\nJonathan Goldstein: Farewell Fiesta Video<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5240 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/05\/FF_collage-image3.jpg\" alt=\"FF_collage image3\" width=\"595\" height=\"612\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, if you want to relive the Fiesta from a different point of view (including Jon Goldstein&#8217;s video), or if you couldn&#8217;t attend, check out this videotape of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ensemble.itec.suny.edu\/Watch\/DrKeen_Fiesta\" target=\"_blank\">President Keen&#8217;s Farewell Fiesta<\/a><\/strong>, courtesy of<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Alan Hlavenka,Information Technology Department<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A standing ovation greeted a visibly surprised President Hubert Keen who entered the Little Theater\u00a0with the understanding that he was providing remarks for Cinco de Mayo\u00a0celebration &#8211; but in reality, it was a Farewell Fiesta planned by campus staff. With thanks to Rambassadors Aiden Reilly, Lauren Liegmann, Preethi Gaayathri and Kirshani Gunaratnam, everyone was seated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":5234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5370,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions\/5370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}