{"id":1851,"date":"2019-08-24T20:49:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T00:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/?page_id=1851"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:11:53","slug":"charles-charlie-connor-jr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/hof\/charles-charlie-connor-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles \u201cCharlie\u201d Connor, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\">\n<h3 class=\"lead\">Class of 1948<\/h3>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\"><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-4\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\"><div class=\"\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/HOF-Conner-300x415.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot image of Charles \u201cCharlie\u201d Connor, Jr.\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-8\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\"><div class=\"\">\n<p>Charlie Connor, over a 34-year span, was a reporter, a columnist and executive editor of the\u00a0<em>Charleston Daily Mail.<\/em>\u00a0He left Charleston in 1981 to become president and publisher of the Beckley Newspapers where he continued until when the publication was sold. Connor is among the founders of the Beckley Area Foundation, and he was named executive director in 1987. He is a 1990 recipient of the Spirit of Beckley Tribute, a two-time recipient of the Distinguished West Virginian Award, a National Highway Award recipient, a Community Service (in recreation) Award recipient and he received numerous West Virginia Press Association Awards.\u00a0 He served in World War II with the Army signal corps.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of 1948<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"parent":1654,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-legacy.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1851","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1851\/revisions\/3137"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}