{"id":891,"date":"2009-07-17T08:44:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T08:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/07\/17\/j-d-phillips-safe-travels-and-good-light\/"},"modified":"2009-07-17T08:44:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T08:44:54","slug":"j-d-phillips-safe-travels-and-good-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/07\/17\/j-d-phillips-safe-travels-and-good-light\/","title":{"rendered":"J.D. Phillips &#8211; Safe Travels and Good Light!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"119\" height=\"148\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/jdphillips.jpg\" \/>The college said &quot;Goodbye&quot; to Professor of Math and Computer Science J.D. Phillips earlier this week. &nbsp;The gift was a stocking cap &#8211; fitting in that JD leaves us to become the department chair at Northern Michigan University in Marquette Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>JD has the touch with students &#8211; he loves teaching and students love taking his classes. &nbsp;I got to know JD for other reasons (remember, I was a math major for an entire semester!) &nbsp;JD is an outdoorsman and avid photographer &#8211; birds are his specialty. &nbsp;He also has more than a passing interest in military aviation &#8211; that is my chosen specialty. &nbsp;We&#8217;ve had some good discussions over the years about flying, photos, and similar things &#8211; NEVER about calculus!<\/p>\n<p>I hate to see those end.<\/p>\n<p>JD looks forward to the outdoor opportunities Northern Michigan will bring and the challenges the new position holds. &nbsp;And of course, the opportunity to meet and impact many more students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;We wish the Phillips clan safe travels and all the best! &nbsp;Oh&#8230;the Grunge wishes him good light and fast focus for each shot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The college said &quot;Goodbye&quot; to Professor of Math and Computer Science J.D. Phillips earlier this week. &nbsp;The gift was a stocking cap &#8211; fitting in that JD leaves us to become the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","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\/891","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}