{"id":2721,"date":"2013-10-03T20:52:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T00:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/03\/furmans-best-and-brightest-young-graduates-2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:36:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:36:08","slug":"furmans-best-and-brightest-young-graduates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furmans-best-and-brightest-young-graduates-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman&#8217;s &#8220;Best and Brightest&#8221; young graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Furman University graduates have been named to Greenville Business Magazine\u2019s 2013 list of the \u201cBest and Brightest 35 and Under.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Furman graduates selected for this year\u2019s list are Lauren Bries \u201902, John Gabbard \u201909, Melanie Gearheart \u201902, Nalisha Henry \u201906, Erika Grace Powell \u201907, Amy Schiera \u201903, Joe Waters \u201905 and Kimberly Witherspoon \u201906.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine identified a total of 37 young leaders in the Greenville community who \u201cnot only have impressive careers, but humanitarian spirits that propel them into volunteer service.\u201d\u00a0 According to the magazine, the Best and Brightest have \u201chelped revitalize Greenville\u2019s downtown, recruit new industry, build businesses, educate our children, entertain us in a variety of venues\u2014in short, they have helped make Greenville what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvillebusinessmag.com\/People\/Best-and-Brightest-35-and-Under.aspx\"><strong>Read more about \u201cBest and Brightest\u201d young leaders in Greenville<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Furman University graduates have been named to Greenville Business Magazine\u2019s 2013 list of the \u201cBest and Brightest 35 and Under.\u201d The Furman graduates selected for this year\u2019s list are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":2722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}