{"id":1967,"date":"2019-09-12T13:20:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/?page_id=1967"},"modified":"2025-01-16T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:23:14","slug":"ruby-a-dyer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/hof\/ruby-a-dyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby A. Dyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\">\n<h3 class=\"lead\">Class of 1974<\/h2>\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 size-full wp-image-1968\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/Ruby_Dyer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/Ruby_Dyer.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/Ruby_Dyer-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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>Ruby Dyer was named a School of Journalism and Mass Communications\u2019 Distinguished Alumnus in recognition of her accomplishments in the field of journalism education. A desire to combine her love of journalism and English led her to the classroom. A journalism and English teacher, as well as a faculty adviser to the student newspaper and yearbook at Wayne High School since 1975, she has helped her students and their publications garner a remarkable record of honors in journalism competition, both locally and nationally. \u00a0Dyer was named Wayne County Teacher of the Year in 1983 and again in 2008 when she also was a finalist for West Virginia Teacher of the Year. She was among Wayne County\u2019s Senior Quest Support Personnel after retirement. She was a reviewer for Lorrie Lynch\u2019s Cengage text, <em>Exploring Journalism and the Media,<\/em> and she taught many workshop sessions for high school journalists at Marshall University events.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of 1974<\/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-1967","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1967","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=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1967\/revisions\/2923"}],"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=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}