{"id":76,"date":"2023-10-20T14:47:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/?p=76"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:47:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:47:05","slug":"senior-spotlight-tyler-armak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/2023\/10\/20\/senior-spotlight-tyler-armak\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Spotlight &#8211; Tyler Armak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Name &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Tyler William Armak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hometown &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Long Beach, NY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Major(s)\/Minor(s) &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Major in Ceramic Engineering, with a minor in Religious Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other Alfred clubs\/sports\/interests\/etc &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Comissioning class of the Seneca ROTC Battalion, Master Smith of the Alfred University Ironworkers Club, Member of the Newman Club, Grand Master of the Knights of King Alfred, local poet and future governor of West Virginia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Favorite Alfred memory &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Organizing Michaelmas dinner in St. Jude&#8217;s chapel &amp; meeting my friends<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Advice to parents of current students &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0The modern world is a harsh and cruel place, especially for young people. We all fight our own demons, but some of us are more eager to talk about this than others. I found more hope at Alfred University than I could elsewhere. This university has done more for me than I ever could&#8217;ve asked for; but that was only because I was surrounded by good, kindhearted people.\u00a0Listen to your sons and daughters. Listen to their struggles, to their stories and to their ideals. Help them in their moments of isolation, and our fragmented generation will forever have your thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1522\" height=\"1100\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/10\/thumbnail_Screenshot-2023-10-19-at-10.10.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name &#8211;\u00a0Tyler William Armak Hometown &#8211;\u00a0Long Beach, NY Major(s)\/Minor(s) &#8211;\u00a0Major in Ceramic Engineering, with a minor in Religious Studies Other Alfred clubs\/sports\/interests\/etc &#8211;\u00a0Comissioning class of the Seneca ROTC Battalion, Master Smith of the Alfred University Ironworkers Club, Member of the Newman Club, Grand Master of the Knights of King Alfred, local poet and future governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}