{"id":51662,"date":"2018-06-21T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T16:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=51662"},"modified":"2018-06-21T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T16:23:12","slug":"alumni-spotlight-june-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/alumni-spotlight-june-22-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Alumni Spotlight: June 22, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kudos to these alumni<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you have a spotlight to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\n<p>E-mail your announcements to <a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a> or use our <a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/news-tip\/\">online submission form.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jonathan Yellowhair<\/strong> was selected for the Pat Tillman scholarship. Yellowhair graduated from NAU with a degree in Applied Indigenous Studies and\u00a0 International Affairs. The Pat Tillman Foundation funds military veterans in furthering their education.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Archie Amerson<\/strong>, former Northern Arizona University football player, has been selected as one of the 100 divisional candidates for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame. Amerson won the Walter Payton Award in the 1996 season for being the top rusher in Lumberjack history with 3,196 yards. He scored 25 touchdowns within his rushing record.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peggy Kennedy<\/strong> was inducted into the Women\u2019s Basketball Hall of Fame for her time in the Women\u2019s Professional Basketball League. In 1984, Kennedy was inducted into the Northern Arizona University Hall of Fame. She finished her Lumberjack career in 1979.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jordan Steele<\/strong> won the North West Emmy in \u201cWeather Anchor,\u201d for his work as a meteorologist for King 5 in Seattle. He also has won the 2011 award for \u201cBest Weathercast\u201d presented by the Associated Press. Steele graduated from NAU in 2008 with a degree in communications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/alumni-spotlight-june-22-2018\/\">Kudos to these alumni Do you have a spotlight to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to Inside@nau.edu or use our online submission form. Jonathan Yellowhair was selected for the Pat Tillman scholarship. Yellowhair graduated from NAU with a degree in Applied Indigenous Studies and\u00a0 International Affairs. The Pat Tillman Foundation funds military&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51662","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}