{"id":17150,"date":"2009-10-06T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T22:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=17150"},"modified":"2015-08-17T14:55:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:55:02","slug":"regents-receive-rosettes-symbolizing-higher-education-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/regents-receive-rosettes-symbolizing-higher-education-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Regents receive rosettes symbolizing higher education commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ernest Calder\u03ccn<\/strong>, president of the Arizona Board of Regents, presented current and former regents with a lapel rosette, honoring the members\u2019 commitment to higher education, during the Sept. 24 meeting held at Northern Arizona University.<\/p>\n

During an evening dinner program following Thursday\u2019s meeting, Calder\u03ccn presented the rosettes to his fellow regents as well as three former regents in attendance, including Kurt Davis (1996-98), Wes McCalley (2003-05) and Kay McKay (1998-2004).\u00a0 All former regents will be invited to a future event and will receive a rosette.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rosette \u2014 a symbol of dedicated service and commitment to higher education,\u201d Calder\u00f3n said, \u201cstates with subtle dignity current and past affiliation with the Arizona Board of Regents.\u201d<\/p>\n

The copper and azurite ribbon \u2014 hand crafted to resemble a rose \u2014 represent minerals native to Arizona.<\/p>\n

“Just as copper was one of the essential ingredients to Arizona\u2019s economic success in the 1900s,\u201d Calder\u03ccn related, \u201chigher education is essential to Arizona\u2019s success in the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1877, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States became the first organization in the United States to use a lapel rosette to identify its members. Since then, rosettes have been presented to and worn by members of various types of organizations in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n

The rosettes were a gift from Ernest and Karen Calder\u03ccn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ernest Calder\u03ccn, president of the Arizona Board of Regents, presented current and former regents with a lapel rosette, honoring the members\u2019 commitment to higher education, during the Sept. 24 meeting held at Northern Arizona University. During an evening dinner program following Thursday\u2019s meeting, Calder\u03ccn presented the rosettes to his fellow regents as well as three…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":17151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}