{"id":999,"date":"2010-05-18T07:46:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T11:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=999"},"modified":"2010-05-18T07:46:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T11:46:27","slug":"we-remember-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/05\/18\/we-remember-homer\/","title":{"rendered":"We Remember Homer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1000\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/hdb_bluebike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1000\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1000\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/hdb_bluebike.jpg?w=130\" alt=\"Homer D. Babbidge and students in front of the Student Union, 1967\" width=\"130\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2010\/04\/hdb_bluebike.jpg 595w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2010\/04\/hdb_bluebike-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homer D. Babbidge and students in front of the Student Union, 1967<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Homer Daniels Babbidge, Jr. was born today in\u00a01925, in West Newton, MA.\u00a0 Educated at Yale University, Dr. Babbidge became the eighth President of the University of Connecticut on October 20, 1962 at the age of 37.\u00a0 A charismatic, respected\u00a0and much beloved member of the University community, Babbidge resigned from the University\u00a0in the summer of 1972\u00a0after ten years of service.\u00a0 Several years after Dr. Babbidge left the University the new library, which replaced the Wilbur Cross Library in 1978, was named after him.\u00a0 Today, Homer Babbidge would have been 85 years old.\u00a0 Unfortunately, he died on March 24, 1984, but his legacy and name live on at the University.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homer Daniels Babbidge, Jr. was born today in\u00a01925, in West Newton, MA.\u00a0 Educated at Yale University, Dr. Babbidge became the eighth President of the University of Connecticut on October 20, 1962 at the age of 37.\u00a0 A charismatic, respected\u00a0and much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/05\/18\/we-remember-homer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-g7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}