{"id":21176,"date":"2015-05-19T15:18:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T20:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=21176"},"modified":"2015-05-19T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T20:18:50","slug":"john-s-glas-honorary-letter-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/19\/john-s-glas-honorary-letter-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"John S. Glas Honorary Letter winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_21177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21177\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/v31n01-Athletics-mug-Joe-Dunn-150x188.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21177 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/v31n01-Athletics-mug-Joe-Dunn-150x188.jpg\" alt=\"Dunn\" width=\"150\" height=\"188\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/v31n01-Athletics-mug-Joe-Dunn-150x188.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dunn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Joe Dunn<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"> &rsquo;09 (Honorary Alumnus) has demonstrated passionate support for quality student-athletes and elite athletic programs at Bemidji State since his employment at State Farm Insurance brought him to Bemidji in 1996. Hand picked by then-new Head Football Coach Jeff Tesch to spearhead fundraising for the program, Dunn&rsquo;s involvement expanded from a one-year assignment as BSU&rsquo;s Athletic Development Director to a term as president of the BSU Foundation Board of Directors. An active member of Beaver Pride, he served on the organization&rsquo;s board for 10 years, including three years as president. During that time, Dunn not only played a pivotal role in the creation of the Beaver Pride coordinator position that exists today, he also helped lead the organization&rsquo;s growth from $20,000 in donations to over $250,000 annually 10 years later, establishing a solid foundation for funding student-athlete scholarships. Joe and his wife, Karen, have three adult children, Connie, Steve and Tom.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Dunn &rsquo;09 (Honorary Alumnus) has demonstrated passionate support for quality student-athletes and elite athletic programs at Bemidji State since his employment at State Farm Insurance brought him to Bemidji in 1996. Hand picked by then-new Head Football Coach Jeff Tesch to spearhead fundraising for the program, Dunn&rsquo;s involvement expanded from a one-year assignment as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[958],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21178,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176\/revisions\/21178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}