{"id":246,"date":"2011-07-25T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?p=246"},"modified":"2013-05-15T09:27:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T13:27:19","slug":"jane-parke-batten-awarded-the-cosmopolitan-distinguished-service-award-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/jane-parke-batten-awarded-the-cosmopolitan-distinguished-service-award-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Parke Batten awarded the Cosmopolitan Distinguished Service Award Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March, the Norfolk (Va.) Cosmopolitan Club declared <strong>Jane Parke Batten &#8217;58<\/strong> Norfolk&#8217;s First Citizen and gave her the Cosmopolitan Distinguished Service Award Medal. According to <em>The Virginian-Pilot<\/em> (3\/6\/11), the word among community leaders about Batten is that &#8220;it&#8217;s her personal interest and involvement that define her as a woman of both wealth and warmth.&#8221; Batten told the newspaper that, like her husband, the late Frank Batten, former chair of Landmark Communications and former Hollins trustee, she is most drawn to educational causes. &#8220;If you want a better society or to improve your community, it seems to me you have to educate and advocate for whatever you want. And let&#8217;s face it, children are our future.&#8221; Jane Batten serves on the boards of Wesleyan College, the YMCA of South Hampton Roads, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and Smart Beginnings South Hampton Roads, a nonprofit group that provides daycare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March, the Norfolk (Va.) Cosmopolitan Club declared Jane Parke Batten &#8217;58 Norfolk&#8217;s First Citizen and gave her the Cosmopolitan Distinguished Service Award Medal. According to The Virginian-Pilot (3\/6\/11), the word among community leaders about Batten is that &#8220;it&#8217;s her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumnae_connections","tag-spring-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3728,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}