{"id":7222,"date":"2020-04-24T19:54:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T23:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2020-04-24T19:54:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T23:54:45","slug":"florida-southern-college-prepares-to-say-goodbye-to-the-class-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/04\/24\/florida-southern-college-prepares-to-say-goodbye-to-the-class-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Southern College prepares to say goodbye to the class of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As Florida Southern College prepares to say goodbye (remotely and virtually) to graduates from the Class of 2020, we will be sharing a web post early next week that looks back at the College\u2019s first official graduates in 1890.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The former Florida Conference College in the city of Leesburg \u2014 a direct historical precursor to today\u2019s Florida Southern College \u2014 saw its first-class graduate in 1890. Members of that class, pictured from left in this archival portrait, were Henrietta Abney, Linnie Sessions, Hannah Hopson, Beulah Milam, Addie Abney, Sarah \u201cSallie\u201d Fussell, and Stella Norton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These seven women, above, made up the first graduating class of Florida Conference College in Leesburg, Fla., 130 years ago. www.bitly.com\/FSCfirstgraduates<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through a series of relocations and name changes, that school eventually became known as Lakeland\u2019s Florida Southern College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With so much school-related news being focused currently on remote instruction and Zoom sessions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Florida Southern College prepares to say goodbye (remotely and virtually) to graduates from the Class of 2020, we will be sharing a web post early next week that looks… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fsc-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}