bwilliams@tfff.org<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, in case you missed the email in February, the Foundation Scholarship Office and the FSAA announced the long overdue expansion of the alumni association to include alumni of the Ford Opportunity and Ford ReStart Programs. All alumni of these programs are now automatic members of FSAA. We have now grown to more than 3,000 alumni, and FSAA is looking forward to working together as one alumni association.<\/p>\n
We can\u2019t wait to see many of you at the\u00a0July 16\u00a0Salishan Alumni Summer Get-Together for a fun family-friendly beach cleanup and potluck, followed by a social event with current Ford Scholars. It is one of my most favorite events, and I can\u2019t wait to see even more alumni attend this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Kirsten Yamada FSAA President It is a great honor to have recently accepted the Ford Scholar Alumni Association President role to take the place of previous President, Mary Chuinard, who stepped down in January due to a new job opportunity and personal reasons. This will be my second year on the Board, where I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.fordscholaralumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kirsten-Yamada.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8g73C-6D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fordscholaralumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fordscholaralumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fordscholaralumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fordscholaralumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fordscholaralumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fordscholaralumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fordscholaralumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fordscholaralumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fordscholaralumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fordscholaralumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}