{"id":921,"date":"2022-04-21T16:35:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T21:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/?p=921"},"modified":"2022-04-21T16:35:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T21:35:55","slug":"elana-sanders-braxton-was-elected-as-2022-2023-megale-prytanis-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/2022\/04\/21\/elana-sanders-braxton-was-elected-as-2022-2023-megale-prytanis-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Elana Sanders-Braxton was elected as 2022-2023 Megale Prytanis (President)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 9 April 2022 Truman Classics students and their advisors (Norgard and Thomas) attended the 94<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Convention of Eta Sigma Phi, the national collegiate honor society for the study of Classics.<\/p>\n<p>Truman students competed in Classics trivia games, participated in business meetings, listened to student papers, enjoyed a singer-songwriter&#8217;s original rendition of the <em>Iliad<\/em>, and competed in elections for national offices. Here is a list of highlights:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elana Sanders-Braxton was elected as 2022-2023 Megale Prytanis\u00a0(President) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/files\/2022\/04\/Elana-Braxton-Sanders-Megale-Prytanis-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-922\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/files\/2022\/04\/Elana-Braxton-Sanders-Megale-Prytanis-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/files\/2022\/04\/Elana-Braxton-Sanders-Megale-Prytanis-2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/files\/2022\/04\/Elana-Braxton-Sanders-Megale-Prytanis-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/files\/2022\/04\/Elana-Braxton-Sanders-Megale-Prytanis-2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/files\/2022\/04\/Elana-Braxton-Sanders-Megale-Prytanis-2-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/files\/2022\/04\/Elana-Braxton-Sanders-Megale-Prytanis-2.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Debeaux Bowman presided over the meeting as 2021-2022 Megale Prytanis\u00a0(President)<\/p>\n<p>Sophia Picard presented the organization&#8217;s budget as 2021-2022 Megale Chrysophylax (Treasurer)<\/p>\n<p>John Jones won second place in the Intermediate Latin translation contest<\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of the convention, Dr. Bridget Thomas was chosen to become a trustee of this national organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 9 April 2022 Truman Classics students and their advisors (Norgard and Thomas) attended the 94th Annual Convention of Eta Sigma Phi, the national collegiate honor society for the study of Classics. Truman students competed in Classics trivia games, participated in business meetings, listened to student papers, enjoyed a singer-songwriter&#8217;s original rendition of the Iliad, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}