{"id":2494,"date":"2019-11-07T12:06:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/2019\/11\/07\/wsu-in-the-news-alumni-donates-campus-letters\/"},"modified":"2019-11-07T12:06:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:06:42","slug":"wsu-in-the-news-alumni-donates-campus-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/2019\/11\/07\/wsu-in-the-news-alumni-donates-campus-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU In The News: Alumnus Donates Campus Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/48824181958_ca238af319_k.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2495 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/48824181958_ca238af319_k-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Alumnus Bill Koutsky \u201875 has generously donated the large \u201cWSU\u201d letters now located on campus near the gazebo, as a gift to Winona State University. Koutsky wanted Winona State to have a photo-op destination where people could take pictures and share across social media.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Koutsky also worked in the WSU facilities department for 12 years before retiring in 2013. Koutsky continues to serve the WSU community through his involvement with various clubs and organizations, as well as being an honorary member of the WSU Dance Society for his on-going support through scholarships for the WSU theater, music and dance programs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Debra Block, WSU director of development said, \u201cHe bleeds purple. If you have a conversation with Bill, you will end up talking about how wonderful WSU is\u2026 he is a Warrior through and through.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2015 Koutsky was honored with Winona State\u2019s Distinguished Service Award as part of the Homecoming celebration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To learn more about Koutsky\u2019s contribution to WSU, read more here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/winonan.org\/9542\/news\/alumni-donates-new-campus-letters\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alumni Donates New Campus Letters\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumnus Bill Koutsky \u201875 has generously donated the large \u201cWSU\u201d letters now located on campus near the gazebo, as a gift to Winona State University. Koutsky wanted Winona State to have a photo-op destination where people could take pictures and share across social media.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; Koutsky also worked in the WSU facilities department for 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PQMT-Ee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}