{"id":2279,"date":"2021-05-05T17:22:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T21:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/?page_id=2279"},"modified":"2025-01-16T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:02:50","slug":"chris-stadelman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/hof\/chris-stadelman\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Stadelman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\">\n<h3 class=\"lead\">Class of 1992<\/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-2268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/Stadelman-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Chris Stadelman\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/Stadelman-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/Stadelman-cropped-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>Reporter, editor, publisher, newspaper owner, communicator and mentor.\u00a0 All of these words \u2014 and more \u2014 sum up Stadelman\u2019s career. Stadelman was one of Marshall\u2019s Yeager scholars who launched his career working at the Charleston Gazette where he rose to Managing Editor. He left the Charleston Newspapers to become editor and publisher of the Parsons Advocate in Tucker County. He left the Advocate to take on communications director of Earl Ray Tomblin\u2019s gubernatorial campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Stadelman moved to vice president public relations of the Manahan Group following the successful campaign when the small public relations firm he and his wife had purchased in Elkins merged with the Manahan Group. He launched Stadelman Consulting shortly after leaving the Manahan Group and hired on as Governor Tomblin\u2019s communications director in 2014. He assumed the chief of staff role in 2016. When Tomblin\u2019s term expired in 2017, Stadelman focused on his research and public affairs agency.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Tomblin named Stadelman a Distinguished West Virginian and Brigadier Major General James Hoyer recognized him as an Honorary Mountaineer. A former board member\u00a0of West Virginia Press Association, Stadelman was a key contributor the WVPA Newspaper Ownership\u00a0Initiative and the West Virginia Press Insight video\u00a0program.<\/p>\n<p>Stadelman passed away at age 48 following a battle with cancer, his second bout having survived Hodgkin Disease as a young man. The Stadelman Family Scholarship for the Society of Yeager Scholars was endowed in his honor.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of 1992<\/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-2279","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2279","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=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2279\/revisions\/2942"}],"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=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}