{"id":2008,"date":"2020-07-17T17:23:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T21:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/?page_id=2008"},"modified":"2025-01-16T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:38:08","slug":"roger-dyer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/hof\/roger-dyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Dyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\">\n<h3 class=\"lead\">Class of 1971<\/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-2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/Dyer.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Roger Dyer\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/Dyer.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/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>Roger Dyer earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in 1971 with an emphasis in advertising, and joined American Electric Power in 1976. A long-time Corporate Communications Manager at American Electric Power, Dyer has been highly successful in virtually every facet of the public relations business. Dyer led AEP\u2019s charitable contributions program, managed an award-winning newsletter and rose to become the corporate communications manager. He did public relations work for the Red Cross and he is a recipient of the American Advertising Federation\u2019s Silver Medal. While a member of the Alumni Advisory Board, he organized the School of Journalism and Mass Communications golf scramble, which raised thousands of dollars for the school\u2019s faculty and students.\u00a0 After retiring from AEP in 2005, Dyer started his own energy policy consultancy. He is one of two AEP retirees who spearheaded restoration of PA-36-7, a World War II landing craft, and\u00a0 placement of the craft at Mott\u2019s Military Museum in Groveport, Ohio. He is a founder of and volunteer with Honor Flight Columbus.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of 1971<\/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-2008","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2008","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=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2008\/revisions\/2930"}],"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=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}