{"id":6684,"date":"2015-05-05T18:10:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T22:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/student-melanie-hecker-earns-honorable-mention-in-state-wide-essay-competition\/"},"modified":"2015-05-05T18:10:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T22:10:45","slug":"student-melanie-hecker-earns-honorable-mention-in-state-wide-essay-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/student-melanie-hecker-earns-honorable-mention-in-state-wide-essay-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Melanie Hecker earns honorable mention in state-wide essay competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-56980\" src=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/MelanieGarfinkelAward-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"MelanieGarfinkelAward\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Melanie Hecker<\/strong>\u00a0has received an honorable mention for her 2015 Garfinkel Essay submission. This year&#8217;s topic was <em>LGBT: The Road to Equality &#8212; H<\/em><em>ow have the New York Courts addressed equal human rights for the LGBT Community in the Workplace?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Melanie worked independently on her essay throughout the spring semester in the Marvin Library and is very deserving of this distinction! Honorable mention designates Melanie&#8217;s essay as one of the 14 best submissions to this year&#8217;s contest, which is a significant accomplishment considering the number of essays submitted from across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie&#8217;s achievement is recognized on the New York Courts&#8217;\u00a0website at <a title=\"http:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/history\/academic-center\/garfinkel-essay-scholarship.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/history\/academic-center\/garfinkel-essay-scholarship.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/history\/academic-center\/garfinkel-essay-scholarship.html<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Congratulations Melanie!<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>We admire your determination and persistence.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 05 May 2015 18:10:45 +0000 by\u00a0v.waldin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Melanie Hecker\u00a0has received an honorable mention for her 2015 Garfinkel Essay submission. This year&#8217;s topic was LGBT: The Road&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684","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=6684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}