{"id":476,"date":"2019-06-18T15:20:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T15:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/?p=476"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:31:35","slug":"letter-from-the-president-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/2019\/letters-from-the-president\/letter-from-the-president-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers,<\/p>\n<p>It has been a year of amazing progress! The Celt community came together in 2018 and dreamed big around five priorities; culture, academics, enrollment, infrastructure and awareness. The months that followed have shown the world that UST is determined to turn those dreams into reality. Lenny The Lion, our mascot, asked me if he could take you on a quick tour of the highlights of the Call Toward Tomorrow so far, many of which you will read more about in this issue of Encounter. It is an honor to be a part of this community, together we are doing extraordinary things!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">With Hope and Joy,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Richard Ludwick<\/p>\n<div class=\"removeImgDropShadow\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"477\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/2019\/letters-from-the-president\/letter-from-the-president-3\/attachment\/presidents_letter1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter1.png\" data-orig-size=\"1106,1286\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Presidents_letter1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter1-258x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter1-881x1024.png\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-477 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter1.png\" alt=\"Presidents_Letter_Spread(600x300px)\" width=\"1106\" height=\"1286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter1.png 1106w, https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter1-258x300.png 258w, https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter1-768x893.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter1-881x1024.png 881w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1106px) 100vw, 1106px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"478\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/2019\/letters-from-the-president\/letter-from-the-president-3\/attachment\/presidents_letter2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter2.png\" data-orig-size=\"1442,1600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Presidents_letter2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter2-270x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter2-923x1024.png\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-478\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter2.png\" alt=\"Presidents_letter2\" width=\"1106\" height=\"1227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter2.png 1442w, https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter2-270x300.png 270w, https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter2-768x852.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/Presidents_letter2-923x1024.png 923w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1106px) 100vw, 1106px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a year of amazing progress! The Celt community came together in 2019 and dreamed big around five priorities: culture, academics, enrollment, infrastructure and awareness. Take a quick tour of the Call Toward Tomorrow highlights with Lenny the Lion, our mascot, and read about our achievements in this issue of Encounter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[155,49,50,156,11],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-from-the-president","tag-155","tag-letters-from-the-president","tag-richard-ludwick","tag-summer-2019-issue","tag-summer-issue"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Letter from the President - Encounter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.stthom.edu\/encounter\/2019\/letters-from-the-president\/letter-from-the-president-3\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Letter from the President - Encounter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It has been a year of amazing progress! 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