{"id":19,"date":"2013-02-07T01:39:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T01:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/07\/in-memoriam-orig\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T01:39:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T01:39:21","slug":"in-memoriam-orig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/07\/in-memoriam-orig\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam &#8211; Glen Jostad and Bernice Bleedorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: none;\" src=\"joomla\/images\/General\/FPS_logo.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">February 25, 2011<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 15px; font-weight: bold;\">In Loving Memory of Glen Jostad<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;\">Throughout the years, Glen Jostad supported the Minnesota Future Problem Solving Program through encouraging words.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;\">He saw the need for teaching students critical and creative thinking skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;\">Most recently, Glen chose to support the program financially as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">When he handed me his last check, his words were, \u201cYou are doing an important work and I\u2019d like to see it grow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">In loving memory of Glen\u2019s support and constant encouragement, we are donating $100.00 towards this work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">With love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Allen and Cheryl Whitesitt<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">February 26, 2011<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-center;\">In Loving Memory of Dr. Bernice Bleedorn<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">Throughout the years, my dear friend Dr. Berenice Bleedorn \u201cBee,\u201d supported the Minnesota Future Problem Solving Program. She saw the need for teaching students creative and critical thinking skills.\u00a0 I lost track of how many times Bee would tell me, \u201cYou are doing the most important work there is. The creative force is present in all humans. Dr. Torrance\u2019s FPSP is one of the most important vehicles for the development of creativity among our young people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">In loving memory of Bee\u2019s support and constant encouragement, we are donating $100.00 towards this work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">With love,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">Allen and Cheryl Whitesitt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 February 25, 2011 In Loving Memory of Glen Jostad \u00a0 Throughout the years, Glen Jostad supported the Minnesota Future &#8230; <a title=\"In Memoriam &#8211; Glen Jostad and Bernice Bleedorn\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/07\/in-memoriam-orig\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about In Memoriam &#8211; Glen Jostad and Bernice Bleedorn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memorium-category"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}