{"id":19599,"date":"2025-04-17T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T17:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=19599"},"modified":"2025-04-17T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T17:22:07","slug":"elizabethtown-college-senior-spotlight-emma-sager-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/elizabethtown-college-senior-spotlight-emma-sager-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Senior Spotlight: Emma Sager &#8217;25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 10, more than 500 Blue Jays will cross the stage at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/commencement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elizabethtown College&#8217;s 122nd Commencement ceremony<\/a>, joining a network of more than 24,000 living Etown alumni. The graduating class includes students who lived out the College&#8217;s Educate for Service mission, taking on leadership roles across campus, and leaving their mark on the Etown community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:\u00a0<\/strong>Emma Sager<br \/>\n<strong>Major<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/schools\/school-of-public-service\/social-work\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Work<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Hometown:<\/strong> York, Pa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campus Involvement:\u00a0<\/strong>Class of 2025 President, Emotion Dance Club, Traditions Committee, Phi Alpha Honor Society, Blue Jay Ambassador<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose Etown?<\/strong><br \/>\nI chose Etown because every time I visited, I was greeted with kind people and it always felt like home. I actually only applied to Etown!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you love most about Etown?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I love the sense of community at Etown. Everyone knows everyone, and the whole campus feels like a big family gathering all the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your plans for after graduation?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I plan to obtain my Master of Social Work (MSW) online from Simmons University. And I hope to travel!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What advice do you have for future Blue Jays?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would tell future Blue Jays to try not to worry about plans or expectations for your time here. Try new things, be present, and enjoy every moment of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Emma Sager &#8217;25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 10, more than 500 Blue Jays will cross the stage at Elizabethtown College&#8217;s 122nd Commencement ceremony, joining a network of more than 24,000 living Etown alumni. The graduating class includes students who lived out the College&#8217;s Educate for Service mission, taking on leadership roles across campus, and leaving their mark on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":19765,"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":[1338,775],"tags":[1334,197,1350,2498,103],"class_list":["post-19599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-class-of-2025","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-senior-spotlights","tag-social-work","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\/19599","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\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19715,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19599\/revisions\/19715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}