{"id":215,"date":"2014-09-04T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfredarchives.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/04\/samuel-ray-scholes-sr\/"},"modified":"2014-09-04T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:51:00","slug":"samuel-ray-scholes-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2014\/09\/04\/samuel-ray-scholes-sr\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Ray Scholes, Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/09\/scholes-steuben-glass-piece.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-213 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/09\/scholes-steuben-glass-piece.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Scholes Steuben Glass piece\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/09\/scholes-samuel-sr-1936.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-214\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/09\/scholes-samuel-sr-1936.jpg?w=186\" alt=\"Scholes, Samuel Sr 1936\" width=\"118\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Samuel R. Scholes, Jr. (1884-1974) was a world authority in the field of glass science and established the department of glass technology at Alfred University in 1932, where he remained a professor (and later Dean of the College of Ceramics) until his retirement in 1952.<\/p>\n<p>In 1961 the Alfred chapter of the Society of SigmaXi established a lectureship honoring Dr. Scholes, acknowledging his outstanding contributions to science, particularly in the field of glass technology. A gift to him on the inaugural lecture was a piece of Steuben glass.<\/p>\n<p>A fitting gift, Steuben glass, an American art glass manufacturer, was known for its exceptional quality.Virtually flawless, it has been given as gifts to many high-ranking individuals around the world and is now a collector&#8217;s item (the company operated from 1903 &#8211; 2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel R. Scholes, Jr. (1884-1974) was a world authority in the field of glass science and established the department of glass technology at Alfred University in 1932, where he remained a professor (and later Dean of the College of Ceramics) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2014\/09\/04\/samuel-ray-scholes-sr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7],"tags":[84,117,125,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}