{"id":35042,"date":"2019-02-04T11:29:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=35042"},"modified":"2019-02-04T11:29:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:29:45","slug":"john-b-emkovik-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/04\/john-b-emkovik-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"John B. Emkovik Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_35043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35043\" style=\"width: 1314px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Cay-Emkovik-and-Cait-Griffin-with-Miller-and-Somoza5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35043 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Cay-Emkovik-and-Cait-Griffin-with-Miller-and-Somoza5.jpg\" alt=\"L to R: Cay Emkovik, sophomore men&rsquo;s hockey forward Ethan Somoza, Cait Griffen, sophomore men&rsquo;s hockey forward Aaron Miller\" width=\"1314\" height=\"986\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Cay-Emkovik-and-Cait-Griffin-with-Miller-and-Somoza5.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Cay-Emkovik-and-Cait-Griffin-with-Miller-and-Somoza5.jpg 1314w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Cay-Emkovik-and-Cait-Griffin-with-Miller-and-Somoza5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Cay-Emkovik-and-Cait-Griffin-with-Miller-and-Somoza5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Cay-Emkovik-and-Cait-Griffin-with-Miller-and-Somoza5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Cay-Emkovik-and-Cait-Griffin-with-Miller-and-Somoza5-226x170.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1314px) 100vw, 1314px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: Cay Emkovik, sophomore men&rsquo;s hockey forward Ethan Somoza, Cait Griffen, sophomore men&rsquo;s hockey forward Aaron Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">A founding member of Bemidji State hockey, John Emkovik &rsquo;49 laid the groundwork for the program as a student-athlete by helping rebuild Bemidji&rsquo;s curling arena for hockey use. A passionate educator, Emkovik taught Russian to three generations of students before retiring from South St. Paul High School in 1987. Although Emkovik passed away in 2015, his legacy remains through an annual scholarship that supports two BSU men&rsquo;s hockey players.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2017, Emkovik&rsquo;s wife, Cay, and daughter, Cait Griffin, endowed a scholarship in John&rsquo;s name to remember the man who held hockey, education and BSU so close to his heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Two awards are given each year with preference to those majoring in education. Griffin and Emkovik visit Bemidji each winter to watch the Beavers play and meet the scholarship recipients after the game. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">&ldquo;We get a lot of joy knowing that what we are doing for Dad would make him happy,&rdquo; Griffin said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s1\">A founding member of Bemidji State hockey, John Emkovik \u201949 laid the groundwork for the program as a student-athlete by helping rebuild Bemidji\u2019s curling arena for hockey use. His wife and daughter\u00a0wife endowed a scholarship in his memory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042","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=35042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35044,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042\/revisions\/35044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}