{"id":1783,"date":"2019-10-16T13:41:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T18:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2019-10-16T13:48:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T18:48:49","slug":"homecoming-and-football-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming and Football, 1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1784\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Nevlin_Lessard_booklets.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1784\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1784 \" src=\"http:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Nevlin_Lessard_booklets-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Nevlin_Lessard_booklets-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Nevlin_Lessard_booklets-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Nevlin_Lessard_booklets-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1938 Souvenir Booklets for St. Viator College<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Viatorian Community Archives just received a donation of two St. Viator College souvenir booklets dated 1938.\u00a0 The gift comes from Mary Newlin, whose father, Adrian Lessard, attended St. Viator College in Bourbonnais and was on the football team.<\/p>\n<p>The Homecoming Program is of particular interest because it is something new for the college collection.\u00a0 Homecoming was held on Oct. 30 and the football game was\u00a0 Viator vs. McKendree, a college in Lebanon, IL.\u00a0 The program cover is signed by numerous students, friends of Lessard.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/viatorians\/docs\/svc_1938_souvenir\">here<\/a> to read the full-text souvenir booklet and <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/viatorians\/docs\/svc_hc_1938\">here<\/a> to read the Homecoming program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Viatorian Community Archives just received a donation of two St. Viator College souvenir booklets dated 1938.\u00a0 The gift comes from Mary Newlin, whose father, Adrian Lessard, attended St. Viator College in Bourbonnais and was on the football team. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/?p=1783\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}