{"id":8341,"date":"2015-01-09T10:38:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T15:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=8341"},"modified":"2015-01-09T10:38:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T15:38:03","slug":"boomhower-81-on-education-vs-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2015\/01\/09\/boomhower-81-on-education-vs-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Boomhower &#8217;81 on Education vs. Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/01\/Joseph-boonhower.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8342\" alt=\"Joseph boonhower\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/01\/Joseph-boonhower.jpg\" width=\"179\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>Rev. Joseph J. Boomhower &#8217;81<\/strong> recently sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1APODg7V6xQ\">this link<\/a> to his thoughts expressed about &#8220;education instead of training&#8221; during his Chaplaincy at Indiana University of Pennsylvania a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Joe was a Religion major at Wabash, and studied at Aberdeen University in Scotland and then at the Agean Institute in Greece.\u00a0 After Wabash, he attended the Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia and the Goethe Institute in Gottingen, Germany.\u00a0 In 1986, he was ordained into St. Mark\u2019s Lutheran Church, Springdale, PA; began as a Chaplain at the V.A. Highland Dr., Pittsburgh; and started the Doctoral Program at Duquesne University.\u00a0 From Springdale, he moved to downtown Pittsburgh and accepted the Chaplaincy at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.\u00a0 While at IUP, he accepted a call from the Northwest Pennsylvania Synod to be Assistant to the Bishop, in addition to his duties at IUP.\u00a0 In 2010, he accepted the call to be the pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chicora, PA.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the thoughts and update, Joe!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of<\/em> <em>IUP.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Joseph J. Boomhower &#8217;81 recently sent this link to his thoughts expressed about &#8220;education instead of training&#8221; during his Chaplaincy at Indiana University of Pennsylvania a few years ago. Joe was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/01\/Joseph-boonhower.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341","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=8341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8347,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions\/8347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}