{"id":10668,"date":"2021-10-08T12:38:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T16:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=10668"},"modified":"2021-10-13T12:48:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T16:48:38","slug":"elizabethtown-college-alumnus-awarded-local-public-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2021\/10\/08\/elizabethtown-college-alumnus-awarded-local-public-service-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Alumnus Awarded Local Public Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College alumnus Howard \u201cHob\u201d Kroesen \u201971 was recently awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etownonline.com\/council-mayor\/pages\/vincent-w-oconnor-public-service-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vincent W. O\u2019Connor Public Service Award<\/a> by the Elizabethtown Borough Council President, Marc Hershey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/10\/34445900004_2634aa05f6_k-1-e1633710958129.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10669 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/10\/34445900004_2634aa05f6_k-1-e1633710958129-300x272.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/10\/34445900004_2634aa05f6_k-1-e1633710958129-300x272.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/10\/34445900004_2634aa05f6_k-1-e1633710958129-1024x930.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/10\/34445900004_2634aa05f6_k-1-e1633710958129-768x698.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/10\/34445900004_2634aa05f6_k-1-e1633710958129-1080x981.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/10\/34445900004_2634aa05f6_k-1-e1633710958129.jpeg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a>This award is presented annually to a deserving individual in the Elizabethtown community, and it honors Kroesen\u2019s gifts of time, talent, and unwavering dedication to the betterment of the Elizabethtown community.<\/p>\n<p>Kroesen has dedicated over 40 years to the Elizabethtown area through active participation in a variety of organizations. One of his greatest accomplishments is the development of the property and facilities at Poplar Street Park in the Borough, which is currently home to the Greater Elizabethtown Area Recreation &amp; Community Services (GEARS).<\/p>\n<p>He has also served in multiple leadership positions in areas including community recreation planning, the development of facilities and programming for recreation, athletics, and community services, and the development of the Athletics program at Elizabethtown College.<\/p>\n<p>Kroesen previously won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etownalumni.com\/s\/154\/bp\/interior.aspx?sid=154&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=3560\">College&#8217;s Educate for Service award in 2019<\/a>, which recognized his loyalty and commitment to supporting student-athletes at Etown and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>When presenting Kroesen with the award, President Marc Hershey remarked that Kroesen\u2019s dedication to the Elizabethtown community over the last four decades truly embodied the spirit of the annual award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College alumnus Howard \u201cHob\u201d Kroesen \u201971 was recently awarded the Vincent W. O\u2019Connor Public Service Award by the Elizabethtown Borough Council President, Marc Hershey. This award is presented annually to a deserving individual in the Elizabethtown community, and it honors Kroesen\u2019s gifts of time, talent, and unwavering dedication to the betterment of the Elizabethtown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":10670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1339],"tags":[1456,1457,197,1350],"class_list":["post-10668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-elizabethtown-area","tag-elizabethtown-borough","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10668"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10675,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10668\/revisions\/10675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}