{"id":460,"date":"2010-04-21T16:02:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=460"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:38:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:38:41","slug":"in-praise-of-perry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2008\/spring08\/postcards-from-bates\/in-praise-of-perry\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 6px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/2008-spring\/perry%2051%20papaioanou49_0320_76.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"6\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ralph Perry \u201951 (right) received the 2007 Distinguished Alumni Service Award, named for Helen A. Papaioanou \u201949 (left). Perry received the award\u00a0in Pettengill\u2019s Joan Holmes Perry \u201951 Atrium \u2014 a space that honors Perry\u2019s late wife \u2014 during Homecoming\u2019s Volunteer Recognition Dinner. Perry was saluted for his philanthropy, for his \u201cprofound and passionate service to Bates,\u201d and for helping \u201cothers understand that Bates is a very special place that needs strong support to preserve its future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perry partnered his extensive philanthropy initially with Joan Perry, who died in 1994, and now with his second wife, Mary Louise Seldenfleur. It was Perry and Seldenfleur, in fact, who proposed using Perry Atrium to showcase high academic achievement, and in 2008 that showcase, the Mount David Summit, celebrates its seventh edition.<\/p>\n<p>Citation for Ralph Perry\u2019s Distinguished Service Award www.bates.edu\/x172169.xml<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Perry \u201951 (right) received the 2007 Distinguished Alumni Service Award, named&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":456,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-460","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11441,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460\/revisions\/11441"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}