{"id":17852,"date":"2014-01-21T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T10:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lern.org\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:22:10","slug":"lern-leader-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/lern-leader-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"LERN Leader Celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1042\" style=\"width: 406px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/doug-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1042\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1042\" alt=\"LERN Leader Celebrated\" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/doug-copy.jpg\" width=\"396\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Soo<\/p><\/div>\nThe life of Doug Soo is being celebrated this month in his hometown of Vancouver, BC.\u00a0 Soo grew his lifelong learning program to be one of the biggest and best programs in North America. He was a long-time leader in LERN, serving as Chair of the Board of Directors in 2004-2005.<br \/>\nDoug served in the LERN leadership for more than a decade. He shared his secrets of success with others in the field, frequently cited LERN for being a key to the success of his program, gave sessions at the LERN conference and at LERN\u2019s Executive Leadership Institute. His program won several International Awards from LERN.<br \/>\nDoug retired last year as Dean of Continuing Studies at Langara College. His last LERN conference was the Washington, D.C. conference.\u00a0 An avid hiker, he died on Grouse Mountain in British Columbia last month of a heart attack while hiking with friends.\u00a0 Representatives of LERN will be at the celebration of his life on February 22.\u00a0 We extend our greatest sympathies to his wife Penny, who often accompanied him to LERN events and supported his involvement in our association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The life of Doug Soo is being celebrated this month in his hometown of Vancouver, BC.\u00a0 Soo grew his lifelong learning program to be one of the biggest and best programs in North America. He was a long-time leader in LERN, serving as Chair of the Board of Directors in 2004-2005. Doug served in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18997,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852\/revisions\/18997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}