{"id":159,"date":"2012-05-25T13:26:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T17:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2012-05-25T13:26:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T17:26:47","slug":"ive-graduated-from-nec-with-the-chadwick-medal-in-tow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/ive-graduated-from-nec-with-the-chadwick-medal-in-tow\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Graduated from NEC&#8230; with the Chadwick Medal in Tow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Nell-Graduates_hat_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-160 \" title=\"Nell Receives NEC's Chadwick Medal\" src=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Nell-Graduates_hat_small.jpg\" alt=\"Nell Receives NEC's Chadwick Medal\" width=\"507\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Nell-Graduates_hat_small.jpg 507w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Nell-Graduates_hat_small-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nell Receives NEC&#39;s Chadwick Medal. Photo by Jeff Thiebauth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Nell-Graduates_02_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-161 \" title=\"President Tony Woodcock Presents Nell with Her Diploma.\" src=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Nell-Graduates_02_small-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"President Tony Woodcock Presents Nell with Her Diploma.\" width=\"180\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Nell-Graduates_02_small-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Nell-Graduates_02_small.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEC&#39;s President Tony Woodcock Presents Nell with Her Diploma. Photo by Jeff Thiebauth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At Commencement, I was thrilled to be presented with the <strong>George Whitefield Chadwick Medal<\/strong>:\u00a0the highest honor bestowed upon an undergraduate at NEC. The Chadwick Medal recipient is selected by members of NEC&#8217;s faculty and administration and is presented &#8220;to a graduating senior whose entire record of achievement has been most distinguished in the candidates major field, supplementary studies, extracurricular activities, and good citizenship&#8221; (according to the Commencement program).<\/p>\n<p>The Chadwick medal is one of several honors that the Conservatory has presented me with&#8211;including the\u00a0<strong>Presser Scholar Award<\/strong>, which was announced at the Convocation ceremony last fall and was accompanied by a $4,800 prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Commencement, I was thrilled to be presented with the George Whitefield Chadwick Medal:\u00a0the highest honor bestowed upon an undergraduate at NEC. The Chadwick Medal recipient is selected by members of NEC&#8217;s faculty and administration and is presented &#8220;to a graduating senior whose entire record of achievement has been most distinguished in the candidates major &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/ive-graduated-from-nec-with-the-chadwick-medal-in-tow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;ve Graduated from NEC&#8230; with the Chadwick Medal in Tow!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}