{"id":3992,"date":"2012-12-12T14:40:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T22:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:43","slug":"pat-mcdougal-celebrates-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2012\/12\/pat-mcdougal-celebrates-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat McDougal Celebrates #60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prof. Pat McDougal<\/strong> may have hoped that his 60th birthday would slip by quietly, but if that was his wish, he hadn&#8217;t reckoned with the alert staff in the Dean of the Faculty office. Mid-day Monday rolled around, and with it, a rousing chorus of Happy Birthday and an enormous plate of assorted cupcakes ranging from thick chocolate frosting to gluten-free.<\/p>\n<p>Pat is retiring from the College at the end of the spring semester, but now he&#8217;s given us another basis for working &#8220;Advanced Pat&#8221;* into our conversations.<\/p>\n<p>[*Students have referred to the Adv. Organic Synthesis\/Chem 343 as Advanced Pat for some years. I don&#8217;t know how the name got started, but it makes sense: you take Beginning Pat\/Chem 202 in the spring of your sophomore year and then follow that with Advanced Pat in the fall of your junior year. -AJS] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Pat McDougal may have hoped that his 60th birthday would slip by quietly, but if that was his wish, he hadn&#8217;t reckoned with the alert staff in the Dean of the Faculty office. Mid-day Monday rolled around, and with&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2012\/12\/pat-mcdougal-celebrates-60\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Pat McDougal Celebrates #60<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4268,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions\/4268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}