{"id":2342,"date":"2015-07-27T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2015-07-27T10:30:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:30:35","slug":"bradford-wilson-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/2015\/07\/bradford-wilson-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford Wilson \u201971"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><h2><a name=\"BradfordWilson71_N\"><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Bradford writes: \u201cHello 1971 Classmates:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never submitted a class note in 43 years. I&#8217;m retired and live in San Francisco. I am doing what many of you may be doing &#8230; estate planning. I have a bit saved and may not run through everything by the time I die. So what to do with what remains?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided I want to include St. Olaf. However, since I am not Norwegian-American, I do not want to endow a chair for lefse and lutefisk, or a fund in the music department for composing settings of &#8220;Um Yah Yah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What I have decided is I&#8217;d like to leave St. Olaf something for the endowment that will promote academic excellence. I don&#8217;t see any other reason for the college to exist other than to send graduates out into the world with the best possible intellectual and moral (and spiritual) equipment. You and I know what the world is like out here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure how to do that. How would a St. Olaf endowment promote academic excellence?<\/p>\n<p>If any of you have been considering the same issues while planning your estate, I&#8217;d enjoy hearing from you. My email is: <a href=\"mailto:bradfordlwilson@yahoo.com\">bradfordlwilson@yahoo.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fram Fram!<\/p>\n<p>Brad Wilson \u201971\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bradford writes: \u201cHello 1971 Classmates: I&#8217;ve never submitted a class note in 43 years. I&#8217;m retired and live in San Francisco. I am doing what many of you may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-38","tag-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}