{"id":14842,"date":"2009-12-16T16:42:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T21:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=14842"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:23:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:23:24","slug":"wcsh-reports-garrand-best-place-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/12\/16\/wcsh-reports-garrand-best-place-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Press Herald reports on &#039;Woman of Distinction&#039; honor to Brenda Garrand &#039;79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Portland Press Herald<\/em> reports that Brenda Garrand &#8217;79, founder, president and strategic director of the Maine-based Garrand communications  agency, is the Girl Scouts of Maine&#8217;s Woman of  Distinction for 2009. &#8220;We selected Brenda&#8230;because we think she  is an awe-inspiring leader and role model,&#8221; said Girl Scouts of Maine director of communications France Shea. &#8220;She&#8217;s a successful marketing expert  and entrepreneur \u2014 a woman who takes the lead, values strength and keeps proving  that she can do anything.&#8221; Earlier in the fall, Garrand&#8217;s firm was named Maine&#8217;s best place to work, in the small business category, at the Society for Human Resource Management\u2019s Maine State Council\u2019s  awards dinner. <a href=\"http:\/\/pressherald.mainetoday.com\/story.php?id=302819&amp;ac=PHnws\">View story from the <em>Portland Press Herald<\/em>, Dec. 16, 2009.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Press Herald reports that Brenda Garrand &#8217;79, founder, president and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":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":""},"categories":[7,32,11009],"tags":[11051,10777],"class_list":["post-14842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-maine-and-new-england","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93251,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14842\/revisions\/93251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}