{"id":204804,"date":"2023-09-18T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T16:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=204804"},"modified":"2023-09-20T10:33:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T14:33:16","slug":"uconn-people-september-20-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/09\/uconn-people-september-20-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn People &#8211; September 20, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Honors<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kenneth Fuchs<\/strong>, professor of music composition, has earned a spot on the Editor\u2019s Choice list in the current issue of Gramophone magazine for his latest album, \u201cCloud Slant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Mauldin<\/strong>, associate professor in human development and family studies, has been selected as a New America National Fellow. For nearly 25 years, the Fellows Program has contributed to a deeper understanding of trends around timely topics.<\/p>\n<p><em>In Memoriam<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Allison<\/strong>, 78, of Northampton, Mass., a retired university library collection specialist, on Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Merrill Cummings, <\/strong><em>(pictured on front page)<\/em>, 104, of Mansfield, Conn., the first paid fire chief in university history, taking the position in 1946 and retiring in 1978 after 32 years of service, on Sept. 16.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frances Fryer<\/strong>, 91, of South Bridgton, Maine, the chair of the Department of Education from 1951-53, on Aug. 14.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moira Veiga<\/strong>, 79, of Coventry, Conn., a former undergraduate academic advisor in the School of Business, on April 9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marvern Moss<\/strong>, 87, of Monroe, Conn., a former writing instructor, on Aug. 22.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maryanne Preli<\/strong>, 73, of Windsor Locks, Conn., a former labor and delivery nurse at UConn Health, on Sept. 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph Racicot<\/strong>, 89, of Tolland, Conn., a retired pharmacist at Student Health and Wellness, on June 12.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbara Thayer<\/strong>, 93, of Coventry, Conn., a retired administrative assistant, on Aug. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like to submit a passing, retirement, notable birthday, achievement or a family event of a UConn employee or retiree for consideration, please email to work@uconn.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2113],"class_list":["post-204804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 08:50:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204804"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204882,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204804\/revisions\/204882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204804"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=204804"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=204804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}