{"id":19044,"date":"2014-09-02T23:50:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T04:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/?p=19044"},"modified":"2017-07-31T06:12:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T10:12:12","slug":"eugene-dawson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/eugene-dawson\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSSSW Alumni Eugene Dawson (SSW \u201966) Awarded Presidential Leadership Award for Distinguished Service by the Colorado Gerontological Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Gerontological Society awarded <strong>Eugene \u201cGene\u201d Dawson<\/strong> (SSW \u201966) the first Presidential Leadership Award for Distinguished Service at its annual \u201cSalute to Seniors\u201d Ceremony in May.<\/p>\n<p>The award is now titled the Eugene Dawson Presidential Leadership Award, honoring Dawson\u2019s years of service. It will be awarded annually to esteemed recipients making extraordinary contributions to older Colorado citizens and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Dawson credits Lewis Lowy for inspiring him to pursue a career in gerontological services. During the past 47 years, Dawson has served as an educator, administrator and practitioner in the field of aging services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Gerontological Society awarded Eugene \u201cGene\u201d Dawson (SSW \u201966) the first Presidential Leadership Award for Distinguished Service at its annual \u201cSalute to Seniors\u201d Ceremony in May. The award is now titled the Eugene Dawson Presidential Leadership Award, honoring Dawson\u2019s years of service. It will be awarded annually to esteemed recipients making extraordinary contributions to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7514,7428,4057],"tags":[7283,7314,7375,5035,7338,2137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19044"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34406,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19044\/revisions\/34406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}