  {"id":1534,"date":"2013-10-30T15:24:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2018-06-26T19:51:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T19:51:42","slug":"then-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2013\/10\/30\/then-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg Alumni: Then, Then, and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This fall thousands of Augsburg alumni participated in the Auggie Maroon Pages survey to share updated contact information and details on what they have been up to since graduating. Below are a few highlights from the notes we received.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Then<\/strong><br \/>\nEbba (Johnson) Brooks &#8217;42 was recently presented the Swedish Council of America\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/10\/Ebba-Brooks-Swedish-Cultural-Society-Duluth-News-Tribune1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1655 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Ebba Brooks - Swedish Cultural Society (Duluth News Tribune)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/10\/Ebba-Brooks-Swedish-Cultural-Society-Duluth-News-Tribune1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ebba Brooks holding her award\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/10\/Ebba-Brooks-Swedish-Cultural-Society-Duluth-News-Tribune1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/10\/Ebba-Brooks-Swedish-Cultural-Society-Duluth-News-Tribune1-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Award of Merit. She was featured in an article in the Duluth News Tribune on June 16.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Then\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nJacqueline E. Forrester &#8217;88 is working on establishing a nonprofit in Jamaica (her home country) that will provide food, clothing and other services to children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/10\/Allison-Rapp-1xmci1m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1561 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Allison Rapp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/10\/Allison-Rapp-1xmci1m-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Allison Rapp\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/10\/Allison-Rapp-1xmci1m-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/10\/Allison-Rapp-1xmci1m-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/10\/Allison-Rapp-1xmci1m-115x115.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/10\/Allison-Rapp-1xmci1m.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Ali Rapp &#8217;11 finished her MA in communication studies at the University of Minnesota in May, and in August started her position as\u00a0 Product Marketing Specialist at\u00a0Nintendo\u00a0of America in Redmond, Washington.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall thousands of Augsburg alumni participated in the Auggie Maroon Pages survey to share updated contact information and details &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49502,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/49502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}