{"id":2100,"date":"2011-10-03T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2011-10-03T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T12:00:24","slug":"grace-comes-back-to-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/10\/03\/grace-comes-back-to-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace comes back to college"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2101\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/grace_blakeman_portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2101\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2101\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/grace_blakeman_portrait.jpg?w=254\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/09\/grace_blakeman_portrait.jpg 2106w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/09\/grace_blakeman_portrait-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/09\/grace_blakeman_portrait-869x1024.jpg 869w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Blakeman, circa 1899<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0Grace Blakeman graduated from\u00a0the Storrs Agricultural\u00a0 College, now the University of Connecticut, in 1896.\u00a0 After college, Miss Blakeman\u00a0married fellow classmate Sherman W. Eddy in 1899.\u00a0 Active in\u00a0the Congregational Church, a \u00a0correspondent for the <em>Hartford Courant, <\/em>and a farm census taker, Grace died on March 26, 1919, of influenza.\u00a0 The portrait of Grace Blakeman (above) was painted by her cousin Fannie C. Burr of Monroe, Connecticut, and is presumed to have been painted in honor of Ms. Blakeman&#8217;s engagement to Mr. Eddy.\u00a0 The portrait was recently donated to the University Archives in recognition of Ms. Blakeman&#8217;s status as one of the first women to graduate from UConn.<\/p>\n<p>Although UConn alums are always welcome to visit the University Archives, it is always a special treat \u00a0when some of them (or their memorabilia) come to &#8220;stay&#8221; in the Archives\u00a0and share their story with others interested in the history of the institution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Betsy Pittman, University Archivist<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Grace Blakeman graduated from\u00a0the Storrs Agricultural\u00a0 College, now the University of Connecticut, in 1896.\u00a0 After college, Miss Blakeman\u00a0married fellow classmate Sherman W. Eddy in 1899.\u00a0 Active in\u00a0the Congregational Church, a \u00a0correspondent for the Hartford Courant, and a farm census taker, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/10\/03\/grace-comes-back-to-college\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}