{"id":46913,"date":"2016-10-17T22:04:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T22:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/?p=46913"},"modified":"2021-09-13T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T16:54:11","slug":"46913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/2016\/10\/17\/46913\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Back to a Transformative Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shelby Andress &#8217;56 has believed in the transformative power of an Augsburg education since she was a student. She has stayed\u00a0engaged with the College by continuing to connect with students, and she hoped to support them in the future. Augsburg was life-changing for her husband, Jim Andress &#8217;51, as a student who came to campus after service in the World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Early in their lives, Shelby \u201856 and Jim \u201851 Andress made a commitment to give back. At age 12, Shelby began to tithe as a young member of the Luther League, and she and Jim continued to give away 10% of their earnings during their lives.\u00a0After Jim passed away, Shelby established a scholarship in his memory.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ioadwNcXaUY\" title=\"Giving Back to a Transformative Education\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelby Andress &#8217;56 has believed in the transformative power of an Augsburg education since she was a student. She has stayed\u00a0engaged with the College by continuing to connect with students, and she hoped to support them in the future. Augsburg was life-changing for her husband, Jim Andress &#8217;51, as a student who came to campus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[67,69,19,66,68,70],"class_list":["post-46913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift-announcements","category-giving-to-augsburg","tag-jim-andress","tag-luther-league","tag-scholarship","tag-shelby-andress","tag-student-support","tag-video-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48148,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46913\/revisions\/48148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}