{"id":12807,"date":"2012-10-15T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=12807"},"modified":"2012-10-15T00:47:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T05:47:59","slug":"apsu-to-hold-fundraiser-dinner-october-26th-for-new-history-scholarship-endowment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2012\/10\/15\/apsu-to-hold-fundraiser-dinner-october-26th-for-new-history-scholarship-endowment\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU to hold fundraiser Dinner October 26th for new History Scholarship Endowment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – To celebrate the accomplishments and service of World War II veteran and faculty emeritus Preston John Hubbard, Austin Peay State University will hold a dinner to raise money for a scholarship endowment in his honor.<\/p>\n

The Preston Hubbard Scholarship Dinner will be held at 7:00pm, Friday, October 26th in the Morgan University Center Ballroom. Cost is $25.00 per person, with the proceeds benefiting the scholarship fund to help deserving history students.The deadline to make reservations is Friday, October 19th.<\/p>\n

The event will recognize Dr. Preston Hubbard, who taught history at APSU for 33 years.<\/p>\n

Hubbard suffered and survived the Bataan Death March and the brutality of more than three years as a prisoner of war, in the hands of the Japanese during World War II. After the war, he came to APSU as a student and later as a professor.<\/p>\n

After retiring from APSU, he penned his story in the book \u201cApocalypse Undone,\u201d (Vanderbilt University Press, 1990).<\/p>\n

The goal of the scholarship endowment is $25,000. APSU will name the Morgan University Center colonnade in honor of Hubbard upon reaching the goal.<\/p>\n

The evening also will include recognition of the new APSU Military Alumni Chapter.<\/p>\n

For more information or to make reservations for the scholarship dinner, call 931.221.7127. If interested in becoming a member of the APSU Military Alumni Chapter, email Alumni Director Nikki Loos Peterson at petersonn@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – To celebrate the accomplishments and service of World War II veteran and faculty emeritus Preston John Hubbard, Austin Peay State University will hold a dinner to raise money for a scholarship endowment in his honor. The Preston Hubbard Scholarship Dinner will be held at 7:00pm, Friday, October 26th in the Morgan University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[16571,23,16497,5594,262,16570,825,7379,4982,16498,16569,2225,16572,521,1239],"class_list":["post-12807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-apocalypse-undone","tag-apsu","tag-apsu-military-alumni-chapter","tag-apsu-morgan-university-center-ballroom","tag-austin-peay-state-university","tag-bataan-death-march","tag-clarksville-tn","tag-japanese","tag-nikki-loos-peterson","tag-preston-hubbard-scholarship-endowment","tag-preston-john-hubbard","tag-scholarship","tag-vanderbilt-university-press","tag-veteran","tag-world-war-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-3kz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12809,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12807\/revisions\/12809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}