{"id":1483,"date":"2012-05-23T16:37:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T20:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2017-09-12T15:22:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T19:22:56","slug":"call-her-tar-heel-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/call-her-tar-heel-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Her Tar Heel of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?attachment_id=1485\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1485\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?attachment_id=1485\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1485\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1485 size-full\" title=\"TARHEELOFYEAR01.NE.120211.ASR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bennett_2401.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth &quot;Betsy&quot; McSpadden Bennett\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Call her Tar Heel of the Year. That\u2019s what the <em>News &amp; Observer<\/em> (Raleigh) named <strong>Elizabeth \u201cBetsy\u201d McSpadden Bennett \u201965<\/strong>, director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, in January. In a long and lively feature article (1\/1\/12), the newspaper chronicled Bennett\u2019s twenty years as director, during which time she \u201chas managed to bag dinosaurs, lure scientists, sell lawmakers, and inspire captains of industry to build a museum that captures the imagination of 700,000 visitors each year.\u201d The annual award is given to \u201ca strong leader who has had wide and lasting impact in North Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo credit: <\/strong>Shawn Rocco, <em>News &amp; Observer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s what the <em>News &#038; Observer<\/em> (Raleigh) named <strong>Elizabeth \u201cBetsy\u201d McSpadden Bennett<\/strong> \u201965, director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumnae_connections","tag-spring-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7717,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/7717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}