{"id":42648,"date":"2016-10-07T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=42648"},"modified":"2022-10-25T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T14:24:48","slug":"ann-weisgarber-named-wright-state-alumna-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/10\/07\/ann-weisgarber-named-wright-state-alumna-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Weisgarber named Wright State Alumna of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ann Weisgarber, an award-winning author who graduated from Wright State in 1976, received the 2016 Alumna of the Year Award.<\/p><\/div>\n

Award-winning author Ann Weisgarber, a 1976 Wright State University graduate, received the 2016 Alumna of the Year Award.<\/p>\n

The award was announced at the Alumni Achievement Awards Ceremony hosted by the Wright State Alumni Association.<\/p>\n

Weisgarber, who lives in Houston with her husband, Rob, also a Wright State graduate, is author of \u201cThe Personal History of Rachel DuPree,\u201d a novel set in the South Dakota Badlands that won The Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction and the Stephen Turner Prize for Best Work of First Fiction.<\/p>\n

Her second novel, \u201cThe Promise,\u201d a story revolving around the deadly 1900 hurricane that devastated Galveston, Texas, has been nominated for national and international awards.<\/p>\n

Weisgarber grew up in Kettering, graduating from Fairmont West High School. Following her graduation from Wright State’s College of Liberal Arts<\/a> with a bachelor’s degree in social work<\/a>, she worked in a psychiatric hospital and a rehab facility. After earning her master\u2019s degree in sociology from the University of Houston, she taught sociology at a junior college.<\/p>\n

Inspired by a visit to Badlands National Park and remembering that a Wright State English composition instructor told her she was a good writer, Weisgarber wrote \u201cThe Personal History of Rachel DuPree.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weisgarber credits her Wright State education with helping her excel as a novelist.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat liberal arts background taught me very early on that there are many different points of view,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Weisgarber joined Wright State President David R. Hopkins and his wife, Angelia\u2019s, campaign cabinet to help raise funds for Rise. Shine. The Campaign for Wright State University<\/a>, which has raised more than $160 million to expand scholarships, attract more top-flight faculty and support construction of state-of-the-art facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ann Weisgarber, who graduated from Wright State in 1976, is the author of \u201cThe Personal History of Rachel DuPree” and \u201cThe Promise.\u201d Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":42649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,733,4309,4299,725,747,715,4889,2089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-alumni-association","category-alumni-profile","category-home-news-sidebar","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-social-work-social-work-human-services","category-social-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42651,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42648\/revisions\/42651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}