{"id":36104,"date":"2015-04-10T14:12:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T21:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=36104"},"modified":"2015-04-10T17:39:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T00:39:31","slug":"raul-hector-castro-governor-ambassador-and-education-proponent-dies-at-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/raul-hector-castro-governor-ambassador-and-education-proponent-dies-at-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Ra\u00fal H\u00e9ctor Castro, governor, ambassador and education proponent, dies at 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ra\u00fal H\u00e9ctor\u00a0Castro<\/strong>, a steadfast\u00a0education proponent, alumnus and supporter of Northern Arizona University, died April 10, 2015,\u00a0at the age of 98. He\u00a0was Arizona\u2019s 14th governor and a United States Ambassador to several countries in South America. Gov. Castro also was the namesake for the\u00a0university\u2019s Social and Behavioral Sciences building, named\u00a0in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRa\u00fal<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Castro was a very kind individual who dedicated his life to public service and I was so impressed with his contributions to Arizona and our country,&#8221; said NAU President <strong>Rita Cheng<\/strong>. &#8220;I was honored to meet Mr. Castro and his wife in San Diego last fall shortly after I arrived at NAU. His belief in egalitarianism and civic contributions will live on, and we are proud to be part of this story of an extraordinary man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even in his 90s, Gov. Castro continued to work with underrepresented and impoverished high school students, encouraging them to pursue a college degree and overcome obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>An official obituary and announcement of public services are expected to be released soon.\u00a0In lieu of flowers, Gov. Castro&#8217;s family has requested donations to the Ra\u00fal\u00a0Castro Scholarship in Politics and International Affairs (<a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.nau.edu\/giving.aspx?SKIPINTRO=Y\">#1680<\/a>) and the Honorable Ra\u00fal\u00a0H. Castro College of Education Fund (<a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.nau.edu\/giving.aspx?SKIPINTRO=Y\">#5349<\/a>), P.O. Box 4094, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011. For information, contact the NAU Foundation at\u00a0(928) 523-2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/raul-hector-castro-governor-ambassador-and-education-proponent-dies-at-98\/\">Ra\u00fal H\u00e9ctor\u00a0Castro, a steadfast\u00a0education proponent, alumnus and supporter of Northern Arizona University, died April 10, 2015,\u00a0at the age of 98. He\u00a0was Arizona\u2019s 14th governor and a United States Ambassador to several countries in South America. Gov. Castro also was the namesake for the\u00a0university\u2019s Social and Behavioral Sciences building, named\u00a0in 2008. \u201cRa\u00fal\u00a0Castro was a very kind&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":36105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36104","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\/36104","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=36104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}