{"id":466,"date":"2008-05-20T09:42:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T15:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/05\/20\/record-number-of-graduates-walk-baylors-stage\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T09:42:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T15:42:01","slug":"record-number-of-graduates-walk-baylors-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/05\/record-number-of-graduates-walk-baylors-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Record number of graduates walk Baylor&#8217;s stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/grad-may08-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Graduation 2008\" align=\"right\" \/>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=50991\" target=\"_blank\">school-record number of graduates<\/a> &#8212; more than 1,900 &#8212; walked the stage at the Ferrell Center on Saturday during Baylor&#8217;s spring Commencement ceremonies, joining the approximately 135,000 others who have graduated from Baylor over the past 160-plus years. (<a href=\"http:\/\/bearspace.baylor.edu\/Group_BaylorProud\/www\/galleries\/graduationMay08\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for a photo gallery<\/a> from Saturday&#8217;s event.)<\/p>\n<p>As a fellow alum, let me encourage you graduates not to lose touch with your alma mater. Join the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayloralumni.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alumni Association<\/a>, sign up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/network\/index.php?id=3875\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor Network<\/a> to meet fellow Bears in your new home, and make sure your information is up to date in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.baylor.edu\/network\/alumni_directory\/\" target=\"_blank\">online directory<\/a>. Baylor&#8217;s not just a school; it&#8217;s a family, one I can personally vouch for, and one with which I think you&#8217;ll want to stay connected.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Class of 2008!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A school-record number of graduates &#8212; more than 1,900 &#8212; walked the stage at the Ferrell Center on Saturday during Baylor&#8217;s spring Commencement ceremonies, joining the approximately 135,000 others who have graduated from Baylor over the past 160-plus years. (Click here for a photo gallery from Saturday&#8217;s event.) As a fellow alum, let me encourage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-photo-galleries","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}