{"id":14496,"date":"2020-07-20T12:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/obituary-of-thomas-blandy-architect-of-dwight-marvin-library\/"},"modified":"2020-07-20T12:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:02:45","slug":"obituary-of-thomas-blandy-architect-of-dwight-marvin-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/obituary-of-thomas-blandy-architect-of-dwight-marvin-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary of Thomas Blandy, architect of Dwight Marvin Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Blandy, whose design of the Dwight Marvin Library in 1970 received national recognition, passed away. His obituary is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brycefuneralhome.com\/obituary\/ThomasTom-Blandy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a>. The building was the first pre-stressed concrete building in the Capital District.<\/p>\n<p>Tom is survived by his children and his wife, Susan Griswold Blandy, who received the Chancellor&#8217;s Award for Excellence in Librarianship before she retired as a Hudson Valley librarian and adjunct faculty in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Social Sciences. Tom and Susan are well known for their civic leadership in Troy and Rensselaer County.<\/p>\n<p>2020 is the 50th anniversary of the Dwight Marvin Library. Celebratory events scheduled for earlier in the year were postponed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 20 Jul 2020 12:02:45 +0000 by\u00a0b.hazard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Thomas Blandy, whose design of the Dwight Marvin Library in 1970 received national recognition, passed away. His obituary is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personnel-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}