{"id":1124,"date":"2019-03-08T07:48:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2019-03-11T07:50:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T13:50:17","slug":"ssc-creative-symposium-receives-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/ssc-creative-symposium-receives-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC Creative Symposium Receives Donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seminole State College Language Arts and Humanities Division recently received a donation of $500 to aid in the continuation of its annual Howlers and Yawpers Creativity Symposium. The donors, Bill and Dorothy Boudreau, were so moved by the campus event last November that they wanted to help.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"584\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/billdot-1024x584.jpg\" alt=\"Dorothy and Bill Boudreau\" class=\"wp-image-1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/billdot-1024x584.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/billdot-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/billdot-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/billdot-50x29.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/billdot-788x449.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/billdot-500x285.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/billdot-1000x570.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/billdot-800x456.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/billdot.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nBoudreaus are French-Acadians, born and raised in a small fishing village on\nthe southwest coast of Nova Scotia. Married 61 years, they have five children,\nfour grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Bill and Dorothy have lived\nin Montreal, Ottawa, Canada, Massachusetts, and now reside in Oklahoma City\nsince 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill\nis a graduate from the Montreal Technical Institute and earned an MBA at\nOklahoma City University. He retired in 2000 following a long career in\ncomputer system software engineering and management that stared in the 1960s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since\nhis retirement, he has become a writer (fiction, non-fiction, and poetry), book\npublisher, website designer, and a singer, with guitar accompaniment. He writes\nFrench and English songs. He has performed at the Oklahoma City Festival of the\nArts, Art Moves, Oklahoma State Fair, Global Oklahoma, nursing and retirement\nhomes, and coffee shops. He also served as a performer at last November\u2019s\nHowlers and Yawpers Symposium. He maintains an active supportive role in the\nOklahoma poetry community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dorothy\nis a graduate of commerce and has worked in the retail business for many\ndecades. Before leaving the retail market, she delved into antiques. Since the\n1990s, Dorothy has developed and maintainedher own eBay business, in addition\nto having a presence at an antique mall in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seminole State College Language Arts and Humanities Division recently received a donation of $500 to aid in the continuation of its annual Howlers and Yawpers Creativity Symposium. 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