{"id":18113,"date":"2020-08-07T19:12:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T00:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=18113"},"modified":"2020-08-11T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T19:34:26","slug":"honor-roll-member-widener-spudds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=18113","title":{"rendered":"Honor Roll Member &#8211; Widener, Spudds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>PHS Alumni Honor Roll Member<\/h1>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Widener_Spudds_Honor_Roll.jpg\" alt=\"Spudds Widener\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Spudds Widener<\/h1>\n<h2>Teacher 1946 &#8211; 1954<\/h2>\n<p>Spudds Widener began teaching vocational agriculture at PHS in 1946 and later worked for the Farmers Home Administration, becoming the state executive director.<br \/>\nPrior to coming to Perry, he taught at Carnegie, OK, and served in World War II as an infantry sergeant in the European theater.<\/p>\n<p>Spudds was a graduate of Oklahoma A &#038; M College (now OSU), majoring in agriculture.  While at A &#038; M, he was a member of the wrestling team.<\/p>\n<p>Spudds was born in Grant County, OK, in the small town of Jefferson. He was the youngest of several brothers.<\/p>\n<p>He was the designer of the Perry Rural Fire Department and created the first FFA mothers&#8217; club in the state of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>When he left teaching, he went to work in 1955 for the Farmers Home Administration and retired as state executive director after serving in the post from 1968 to 1972. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHS Alumni Honor Roll Member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-FullWidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18427,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18113\/revisions\/18427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}