{"id":396,"date":"2015-12-07T19:50:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/?p=396"},"modified":"2015-12-07T22:07:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T22:07:48","slug":"remembering-sherrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2015\/12\/07\/remembering-sherrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Sherrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/files\/2015\/12\/Sherrie.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-401\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/files\/2015\/12\/Sherrie.jpeg\" alt=\"Sherrie\" width=\"129\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>The news of Sherrie Gordon, Class of 2000, having passed away this week has left me with a feeling of loss and absence\u2014and there&#8217;s too much of that in this world right now.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, it is hard not to smile when thinking of Sherrie and all that she stood for, accomplished, and inspired in her short life. I first met Sherrie while interviewing for the head&#8217;s job some six years ago and have remained email friends with her since. When she told me\u00a0that she was sick last year and would not be able to accept the\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Whitaker-Bement Award (<\/span><span class=\"s1\">bestowed for loyalty, service and devotion to the school)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">in person, she was typical in her &#8220;no worries&#8221; response and gratitude.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What an example of a life well lived in the service of others.<\/p>\n<p>I know that her family and friends will miss her terribly, and Williston has sustained the loss of such a talented, young, and vibrant spirit who had unbounded horizons of achievement ahead. We are deeply appreciative of all she gave back to Williston and to all of those who were lucky to have been touched by her.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Fellow alumnus and friend Pierce Freelon &#8217;02 is crowd-sourcing a music video to the music &#8220;Doin&#8217; What I Love&#8221; in honor of Sherrie.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=49upArI0_h0\">Find more details here<\/a> or\u00a0use the hashtag #DoinWhatILove and mention @thebeastmusic to participate.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news of Sherrie Gordon, Class of 2000, having passed away this week has left me with a feeling of loss and absence\u2014and there&#8217;s too much of that in this world right now. At the same time, it is hard not to smile when thinking of Sherrie and all that she stood for, accomplished, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2015\/12\/07\/remembering-sherrie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remembering Sherrie<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"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=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}