{"id":753,"date":"2014-06-18T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/?p=753"},"modified":"2014-06-18T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T15:30:10","slug":"yearbook-dedication-acceptance-by-peter-gunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/2014\/06\/18\/yearbook-dedication-acceptance-by-peter-gunn\/","title":{"rendered":"Yearbook Dedication Acceptance by Peter Gunn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note: At the end of the year, The Log staff dedicated the yearbook to former faculty member Brian Crockett and History and Global Studies teacher Peter Gunn. The following was Mr. Gunn’s response at assembly. <\/em><\/p>\n

This is incredible.\u00a0 This has been a year of incredible challenges for our community and I think we\u2019ve been brought through it because of the leadership of the Class of 2014, an incredible, exceptional, and dynamic group.<\/p>\n

Let me first say that it is a humbling to be recognized and share recognition in this book with Brian Crockett, an outstanding teacher, who I think we all know had he not been taken from us so soon, would be recognized in this way again and again in the future. When Mr. McKillop spoke of his affection for Brian<\/a>, and what it felt like in losing him, he said it was like losing a brother, and I think that\u2019s something that I know many of us understand and I certainly understand it deeply. And I want to say to you that the compassion and the generosity the Class of 2014 has manifest for me, for my family, for Mr. Crockett\u2019s family and for all the people in this community this year stands above all the other extraordinary accomplishments\u2014artistic, athletic, personal\u2014it\u2019s just extraordinary what you have done and I guess I would like to leave you with a thought.<\/p>\n

My brother would stay to me, when I\u2019d be frustrated that I wasn\u2019t teaching well enough or coaching well enough or I wasn\u2019t doing something the way I wanted to do it here, he would say to me, \u201cJust be good at who you are.\u201d And I think I would say to the Class of 2014, that your success has come from being good at who you are.<\/p>\n

You are good. And you are special to me. And I thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note: At the end of the year, The Log staff dedicated the yearbook to former faculty member Brian Crockett and History and Global Studies teacher Peter Gunn. The following was Mr. Gunn’s response at assembly. This is incredible.\u00a0 This has been a year of incredible challenges for our community and I think we\u2019ve been … Continue reading Yearbook Dedication Acceptance by Peter Gunn<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[194,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-14-assemblies","category-faculty-speaker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}