{"id":22335,"date":"2020-02-27T10:16:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T16:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=22335"},"modified":"2020-02-27T10:17:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T16:17:32","slug":"baylor175-gene-kircus-ba-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2020\/02\/baylor175-gene-kircus-ba-59\/","title":{"rendered":"#Baylor175: Gene Kircus, BA &#8217;59"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>What does your Baylor experience mean to you?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was in the ROTC program, and I enjoy coming back every year and seeing these young people that are in the ROTC program, who are going to be our future leaders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of life\u2019s lessons is that your integrity is very important in all the areas of life that you do. And I found that true in the military. If you&#8217;re going to establish any leadership abilities, then you&#8217;ve got to show some integrity and ability, and I think Baylor was a big help with that. I do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Gene Kircus, BA &#8217;59<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22336\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gene_Kircus_Horiz-SQ.jpg\" alt=\"Gene Kircus\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gene_Kircus_Horiz-SQ.jpg 2486w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gene_Kircus_Horiz-SQ-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gene_Kircus_Horiz-SQ-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gene_Kircus_Horiz-SQ-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gene_Kircus_Horiz-SQ-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gene_Kircus_Horiz-SQ-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gene_Kircus_Horiz-SQ-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>[Baylor University was chartered by the Republic of Texas on Feb. 1, 1845, which makes this year our 175th anniversary. As part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2020\/01\/happy-175th-birthday-baylor-university\/\">our celebration<\/a>, we\u2019re sharing stories from Baylor alumni about their BU experience all semester long.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does your Baylor experience mean to you? &#8220;I was in the ROTC program, and I enjoy coming back every year and seeing these young people that are in the ROTC program, who are going to be our future leaders. &#8220;One of life\u2019s lessons is that your integrity is very important in all the areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-bearsofbaylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}