{"id":5582,"date":"2013-02-02T11:19:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T16:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=5582"},"modified":"2013-02-02T11:19:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T16:19:42","slug":"for-bob-wedgeworth-59-it-is-never-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/02\/02\/for-bob-wedgeworth-59-it-is-never-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"For Bob Wedgeworth \u201959 \u2013 it is never too late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob left a doctoral program in library science at Rutgers<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/02\/bobwedgeworth2vert.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5583\" title=\"bobwedgeworth2vert\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/02\/bobwedgeworth2vert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a> University in 1972 to pursue a what became a renowned career in library science &#8212; without completing his dissertation.\u00a0 This past December, he successfully defended\u00a0that dissertation, and in May will graduate as Dr. Robert Wedgeworth, Jr.\u00a0PhD.<\/p>\n<p>His career progressed as executive director of American Library Association,\u00a0Columbia University\u2019s dean of\u00a0School of Library Service, university librarian and professor of library administration at the University of Illinois, president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, president of Laubach Literacy International, and president and CEO of the merged organization, Proliteracy Worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.rutgers.edu\/focus\/issue.2012-12-20.2609038638\/article.2013-01-11.6369588550\">Click here <\/a>for the Rutgers University press to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Bob!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob left a doctoral program in library science at Rutgers University in 1972 to pursue a what became a renowned career in library science &#8212; without completing his dissertation.\u00a0 This past December, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}