{"id":2281,"date":"2021-05-05T17:25:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T21:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/?page_id=2281"},"modified":"2025-01-16T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:03:07","slug":"dave-wellman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/hof\/dave-wellman\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Wellman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\">\n<h3 class=\"lead\">Class of 1975<\/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-2269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/Wellman-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Dave Wellman\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/Wellman-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/Wellman-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>Known as \u201cDude,\u201d Wellman has been described as \u201cthat rare gentleman reporter with the remarkable ability to encourage people to open up and share their emotions.\u201d Wellman spent 25 years as a reporter and editor for the Herald-Dispatch. He was known as a sports reporter, but he was equally at home interviewing election candidates, striking pickets or hopefuls in line for lottery tickets. He produced news stories, in-depth projects and special reports. Wellman finished his career at Marshall University as the Director of Communications. He wrote and contributed to several books about Marshall\u2019s football program: The Marshall Story: College Football\u2019s Greatest Comeback, Won for All and Rolling Thunder.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of 1975<\/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-2281","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2281","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=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2281\/revisions\/2943"}],"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=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}