{"id":981,"date":"2018-10-16T13:42:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T18:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=981"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:57:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T13:57:36","slug":"facul-honors-friend-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2018\/10\/16\/facul-honors-friend-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"FACUL honors Friend of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1010 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/10\/2018_FACUL_Lunch-21-1-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/10\/2018_FACUL_Lunch-21-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/10\/2018_FACUL_Lunch-21-1-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/10\/2018_FACUL_Lunch-21-1-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/10\/2018_FACUL_Lunch-21-1-490x350.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/10\/2018_FACUL_Lunch-21-1-400x284.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/10\/2018_FACUL_Lunch-21-1-1080x771.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Retired librarian and ACU alumna <\/span><b>Karen (Nelson &#8217;65) Hendrick<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was honored at a luncheon on September 18 as 2018 Friend of the Year by<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/facul\/about\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Friends of ACU Library<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in recognition of her 32 years of service and dedication in mentoring students, faculty and staff &#8211; \u00a0providing many hours of instruction and research on the use of the Library\u2019s electronic databases and print collections. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hendrick was introduced by Mark McCallon, Associate Dean for Library Information Services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Library dean Dr. John Weaver presented the award and announced that the reference collection in the Reading Commons would be named after her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hendrick\u2019s speech at the luncheon, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legacies and Treasures<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, reflected on her family\u2019s history of giving at ACU and how a servant\u2019s heart can make an impact on the lives of people around them. She spoke fondly of her aunt, <b>Elizabeth (Allred \u201856) Nelson<\/b>, who was a Mathematics professor at ACC Academy, and who earned a Library Science degree from Columbia before retiring in 1942. The Nelson Dorm is named after Elizabeth Nelson.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired librarian and ACU alumna Karen (Nelson &#8217;65) Hendrick was honored at a luncheon on September 18 as 2018 Friend of the Year by Friends of ACU Library in recognition of her 32 years of service and dedication in mentoring students, faculty and staff &#8211; \u00a0providing many hours of instruction and research on the use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}