{"id":57,"date":"2014-01-05T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2018-05-09T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T13:02:55","slug":"jamaica-alumni-chapter-holiday-soiree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/2014\/01\/05\/jamaica-alumni-chapter-holiday-soiree\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica Alumni Chapter Holiday Soir\u00e9e"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 9th, alumni and current students gathered at the CRU Bar in Kingston, Jamaica to celebrate the holiday season. About 50 Panthers attended to meet with peers and hear from university representatives. The soir\u00e9e was organized by the FIU Alumni Association Jamaica Chapter and co-sponsored by the Alumni Association, College of Business and College of Education.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter President Gerry Wight \u201989, MBA 92 spoke to the group about building an alumni tradition in Jamaica and making the Holiday Soir\u00e9e an annual signature event. The chapter welcomed alumni who have never been on the main campus in Miami and are alumni of the College of Business, College of Education or College of Engineering graduate programs taught in Jamaica. Executive MBA alumna, Belinda Williams \u201892 and Manager of Group Corporate Communications, Brand and Philanthropy at National Commercial Bank Jamaica\u00a0urged alumni to do business with fellow Panthers and network!<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about our Jamaica Alumni Chapter, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/jamaica\">FIUalumni.com\/jamaica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fiualumni\/sets\/72157638583461315\/\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to see more photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 9th, alumni and current students gathered at the CRU Bar in Kingston, Jamaica to celebrate the holiday season. About 50 Panthers attended to meet with peers and hear from university representatives. The soir\u00e9e was organized by the FIU Alumni Association Jamaica Chapter and co-sponsored by the Alumni Association, College of Business and College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[38,381,307],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-network-news","tag-jamaica","tag-newsletter","tag-panther-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15123,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/15123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}