{"id":4344,"date":"2014-03-10T10:30:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T10:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2014-03-10T12:54:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:54:46","slug":"an-exciting-spring-62-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/an-exciting-spring-62-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"An exciting Spring&#8230;62 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early Spring in northeastern Connecticut can be a\u00a0time of the unexpected.\u00a0 Ice, snow, fog, rain, warm breezes and sunshine mark the changing\u00a0weather patterns; students are preparing for midterm examinations and anticipating spring\u00a0break, and sixty-two years ago a new organization began.\u00a0 \u00a0On March 25, 1952, the Archons were established as the Senior Honorary Society for Men on the UConn campus.\u00a0 The creation of the organization is described in the 1952 <i>Nutmeg<\/i> as \u201chasty and sensational due to the excitement which witnessed the exile of the Druids as a campus organization\u201d. \u00a0The members were active leaders on campus until 1970 when the organization dissolved.\u00a0 More about the Archons and their predecessors can be found in Mark Roy&#8217;s 2005 <em>Piece of UConn History<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advance.uconn.edu\/2005\/050321\/050321hs.htm\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4345\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/03\/Archons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4345\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4345\" alt=\"The Archons, 1952\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/03\/Archons-300x219.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/03\/Archons-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/03\/Archons-1024x750.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/03\/Archons-409x300.jpg 409w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/03\/Archons.jpg 1417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Archons, 1952<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pictured above are the inaugural members of the Archons.<\/p>\n<p><em>First row: <\/em>Robert McLeod, Peter Brodigan, Don Ruck (President).<\/p>\n<p><em>Second row<\/em>: Robert Miller, Joseph Tooher and Paul Veillette (Secretary)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Spring in northeastern Connecticut can be a\u00a0time of the unexpected.\u00a0 Ice, snow, fog, rain, warm breezes and sunshine mark the changing\u00a0weather patterns; students are preparing for midterm examinations and anticipating spring\u00a0break, and sixty-two years ago a new organization began.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/an-exciting-spring-62-years-ago\/\">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":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344"}],"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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4349,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions\/4349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}