{"id":253,"date":"2013-03-03T08:08:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T08:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/?p=253"},"modified":"2013-03-11T19:45:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T19:45:06","slug":"easthamp-to-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2013\/03\/03\/easthamp-to-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Easthampton to Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong, and four more stops before returning to Williston.\u00a0 It has been a fast paced trip to Asia\u2014too fast to see all of the alumni who constitute Williston’s\u00a0extended global family.\u00a0 But as with our last trip, I (and all the Williston folks traveling with me) have been overwhelmed by the hospitality of our hosts and the eagerness\u00a0for news. I’ve been talking to many people about the good initiatives underway at Williston, as well as those still to come.<\/p>\n

Moving from country to country, I can’t help but juxtapose various meetings. Here’s an example of what I mean: At one point, we met the distinguished citizen of Seoul (and Williston’s first Korean alumnus), Mr. Yun, son of a former South Korean president. He graciously showed us his traditional home. In Hong Kong, we met Ronald Chan, from the Class of 2001. Mr. Chan represents the younger generation of civic-minded Willistonians in his role as political assistant to the Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs.\u00a0 Two men, two different eras, both committed to civic engagement and the public good.<\/p>\n

Robert Ward liked to quote the poet Robert Frost in saying that Williston instills in its students “doing good well. ” On this trip, we have witnessed that such values have a truly global reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong, and four more stops before returning to Williston.\u00a0 It has been a fast paced trip to Asia\u2014too fast to see all of the alumni who constitute Williston’s\u00a0extended global family.\u00a0 But as with our last trip, I (and all the Williston folks traveling with me) have been overwhelmed by the hospitality of … Continue reading Easthampton to Asia<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics-at-work","category-global-view"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}