{"id":330,"date":"2017-01-12T15:34:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=330"},"modified":"2017-01-12T15:34:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:34:51","slug":"honored-for-50-years-at-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2017\/01\/12\/honored-for-50-years-at-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Honored for 50 years at university"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-331\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-331\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/01\/raleigh.jpeg?resize=300%2C214&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"St. Thomas University President Rev. Msgr. \" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/01\/raleigh.jpeg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/01\/raleigh.jpeg?resize=280%2C200&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/01\/raleigh.jpeg?resize=768%2C548&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/01\/raleigh.jpeg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Thomas University President Rev. Msgr.Franklyn Casale honors Detroit Mercy alum J. Richard Raleigh for a career at the University that has lasted 50 years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alumni and friends of St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Fla., celebrated the career of the \u00a0longest-serving faculty member of the university, J. Richard Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh &#8217;62, &#8217;64 is a graduate of Detroit Mercy and has taught English and humanities at the private Catholic school since 1966 when it was called Biscayne College. During those 50 years he was named Professor of the Year nine times.\u00a0At the December event, Raleigh was awarded\u00a0the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service by the university\u2019s president, Rev. Msgr. Franklyn Casale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has this attachment with his students and they trust him,\u201d one of his former students told a reporter for the Miami Herald. Raleigh has no plans to retire.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this remarkable career <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/education\/article121957577.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.: Thanks to Raleigh&#8217;s friend John P. Hussey &#8217;63, &#8217;65 for letting us know about this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumni and friends of St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Fla., celebrated the career of the \u00a0longest-serving faculty member of the university, J. Richard Raleigh. Raleigh &#8217;62, &#8217;64 is a graduate of Detroit Mercy and has taught English and humanities at the private Catholic school since 1966 when it was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-5k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}