{"id":40802192861,"date":"2014-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-unsung-hero-awards-presented-at-monmouth-university\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T21:53:10","slug":"dr-martin-luther-king-jr-unsung-hero-awards-presented-at-monmouth-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-unsung-hero-awards-presented-at-monmouth-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Unsung Hero Awards Presented at Monmouth University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monmouth University held its annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Unsung Hero Award Ceremony on January 28 in Anacon Hall.<\/p>\n<p>2014 year&#8217;s award recipients are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laura Kelly is associate professor of nursing at Monmouth University. She is a passionate mental health advocate who is committed to addressing mental health issues in the community.<\/li>\n<li>Tsanangurayi Tongesayi is an associate professor of chemistry at Monmouth University. His research work is focused on eliminating toxins in drinking water and the global food supply. He also led a campaign to collect textbooks and school supplies for schools in Zimbabwe.<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Beaufort is a student at Monmouth University. He is community service chair of Phi Kappa.<\/li>\n<li>Adam Lowy is founder and executive director of Move for Hunger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Unsung Hero Award recognizes people from Monmouth University and the surrounding community who represent the ideals of Dr. King&#8217;s words, and who are sometimes not recognized for their effort in keeping &#8220;the dream alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s keynote speaker was Theodora Smiley Lacey. Mrs. Lacey was involved in civil rights since her childhood. Her mother was a childhood friend of Rosa Parks, and her father helped to recruit Dr. King to become a pastor in Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Heather Kelly at 732-571-3586.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014 year&#8217;s award recipients are Thomas Beaufort, Laura Kelly, Tsanangurayi Tongesayi, and Adam Lowy <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"person":[],"audience":[14,17,11,8],"school":[122,143,140,68],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802192861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-service","mediacontact-petra-ludwig","mediacontact-val-manzo","audience-alumni","audience-community-member","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","school-chemistry-and-physics","school-nursing","school-school-of-nursing-and-health-studies","school-school-of-science"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802192861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802192861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802192861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802228705,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802192861\/revisions\/40802228705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802192861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802192861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802192861"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802192861"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802192861"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802192861"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802192861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}