{"id":56678,"date":"2020-09-28T17:24:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T21:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=56678"},"modified":"2020-09-28T17:24:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T21:24:37","slug":"sad-news-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=56678","title":{"rendered":"Sad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-56679\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/john-pahl-nexus.jpg\" alt=\"John Pahl\" width=\"152\" height=\"200\" \/>Longtime NMC instructor John Pahl passed away on September 20, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Pahl was hired to teach in NMC&#8217;s Communications department in 1966 and remained an instructor at the college for 48 years, while also coaching NMC&#8217;s cross country and tennis teams and taking part in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program, where he spent a year Germany and had sabbaticals at Cambridge University and Oxford University. He also wrote stories, articles and poems and served on the board of Michigan Writers.<\/p>\n<p>One former NMC student, regional historian and author Kathleen Firestone, established the John Pahl Literary Prize at NMC in honor of her teacher and mentor, and to inspire and reward NMC students for good writing.<\/p>\n<p>Visitation and a Celebration of Live will be held Oct. 3.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reynolds-jonkhoff.com\/obituaries\/John-Pahl\/\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime NMC instructor John Pahl passed away on September 20, 2020. Pahl was hired to teach in NMC&#8217;s Communications department in 1966 and remained an instructor at the college for 48 years, while also coaching NMC&#8217;s cross country and tennis teams and taking part in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program, where he spent a year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3618,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-news","category-intercom"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sad News - NMC Communiqu\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=56678\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sad News - NMC Communiqu\u00e9\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Longtime NMC instructor John Pahl passed away on September 20, 2020. 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