{"id":664,"date":"2015-04-01T18:12:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/?p=664"},"modified":"2018-02-08T13:35:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:35:22","slug":"more-than-50-years-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/more-than-50-years-of-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 50 years of friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/files\/2015\/04\/Visions-website-Friendship.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-727\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/files\/2015\/04\/Visions-website-Friendship.png\" alt=\"Visions-website-Friendship\" width=\"510\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through letters and visits, eight women have maintained strong friendships begun in 1961 during their freshman year at Tech.<\/p>\n<p>The eight members of the Class of 1965 are Linda Wooten Clevenger, secondary education; Jo Ann Perry Everett, home economics education; Maxine Mullins Hopper, medical technology; Jackie Hendrixson Slaton, home economics education; Helen Smalley Smith, English; Lois Jones Smith, marketing; Patti Judd Wilson, home economics education and Frances \u201cCissy\u201d Perry Chambers, elementary education, who passed away last year.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the eight married Tech alumni. Cissy married Jim Chambers, \u201965 industrial technology, who retired from the army as a lieutenant colonel. Linda married Jerry Clevenger, \u201965 mechanical engineering. Jo Ann married Jon Everett, \u201964 business management; Maxine married David Hopper, \u201966 mechanical engineering; and Helen married Charles Smith, \u201965 civil engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1990, the group has gotten together to share old memories and create new ones every year.<\/p>\n<p>Caption:<br \/>\nBottom row, left to right: Patti Wilson, Jo Ann Everett, Cissy Chambers, Linda Clevenger. Top row, left to right: Lois Smith, Maxine Hopper, Helen Smith, Jackie Slaten<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through letters and visits, eight women have maintained strong friendships begun in 1961 during their freshman year at Tech. The eight members of the Class of 1965 are Linda Wooten Clevenger, secondary education; Jo Ann Perry Everett, home economics education; Maxine Mullins Hopper, medical technology; Jackie Hendrixson Slaton, home economics education; Helen Smalley Smith, English; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spring15"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}