{"id":173,"date":"2016-05-11T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/?p=173"},"modified":"2016-05-11T12:33:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:33:58","slug":"in-memory-of-jeffrey-featherstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/2016\/05\/11\/in-memory-of-jeffrey-featherstone\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of Jeffrey Featherstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I learned of the sudden and untimely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/local\/20160510_Jeff_Featherstone__Temple_professor.html\">passing of Jeff Featherstone<\/a>. To say that I am still shocked is an understatement. Jeff was the first chair of our department, and was the person who first hired me as an adjunct at Temple. I am proud to call him both colleague and friend. His leadership, knowledge, and infectious laugh will be missed.<\/p>\n<p>When I was hired full-time back in 2012, it was Jeff who helped me teach my first studio course, resulting in the award-winning\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/2013-planning-studio\/\">Aging with our Communities<\/a>\u00a0master plan for Montgomery County, PA. He showed me how to nudge graduate students, who were just on the verge of entering professional practice, in a direct but kind way, towards excellence. And so as I&#8217;ve pulled together the work from <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/2016-graduate-planning-studio\/\">this year&#8217;s course<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been thinking about him, and the example he gave all of us.<\/p>\n<p>May his memory be for a blessing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I learned of the sudden and untimely passing of Jeff Featherstone. To say that I am still shocked is an understatement. Jeff was the first chair of our department, and was the person who first hired me as an adjunct at Temple. I am proud to call him both colleague and friend. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/2016\/05\/11\/in-memory-of-jeffrey-featherstone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Memory of Jeffrey Featherstone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/doshna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}