{"id":455,"date":"2022-12-21T13:24:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2022\/?p=455"},"modified":"2022-12-21T17:38:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T17:38:26","slug":"paying-it-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2022\/class-notes\/paying-it-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying it Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feature\">\n<p>Clarence Snyder \u201971 took time out from Homecoming festivities to talk about the class of \u201971\u2019s scholarship it offers to support students wanting to attend MMA. Snyder is one of three brothers who graduated from MMA: Ron \u201973 became a ship\u2019s captain, Lew \u201975 is a chief engineer, and Clarence retired as a product manager.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe succeeded beyond our parents\u2019 wildest dreams because of both the financial support and guidance of others,\u201d said Snyder. \u201cTime to pay it back.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Class of \u201971 scholarship is one of 25 class scholarship funds and has been in existence for almost 20 years. Their current scholarship recipient is Avia Hathorn. Hathorn grew up in Clinton, Miss. \u201cI chose MMA because of its reputation with the maritime industry,\u201d she said. \u201cComing here, I knew my education would be top tier and provide me with a successful career. This past summer, I had the opportunity to work in a shipyard with the engineer and project manager. I absolutely loved it and can see myself working there or in a similar place. I definitely enjoy the shipyard more than the office!\u201d<span class=\"articleEnd\">\u2588<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarence Snyder \u201971 took time out from Homecoming festivities to talk about the class of \u201971\u2019s scholarship it offers to support students wanting to attend MMA. Snyder is one of three brothers who graduated from MMA: Ron \u201973 became a ship\u2019s captain, Lew \u201975 is a chief engineer, and Clarence retired as a product manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe succeeded beyond our parents\u2019 wildest dreams because of both the financial support and guidance of others,\u201d said Snyder. \u201cTime to pay it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2022\/class-notes\/paying-it-forward\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}