{"id":234,"date":"2019-07-18T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T22:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/?p=234"},"modified":"2023-11-13T08:06:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T14:06:14","slug":"thomas-gavin-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/thomas-gavin-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Gavin 67"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/t-gavin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/t-gavin.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/t-gavin-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mendel&nbsp; Class Vice President, National Honor Society 3-4; Student Senate 1-4<br>Football, 4 letters, All Catholic, All City Selection, Senior Year. Selected MVP in 1996 by South End Messenger Newspaper. <br>Hockey, Captain Junior and Senior Years, All Catholic Selection. <br>Baseball Team, 3 letters<br>Key Club \u2013 4, Science Club-3, Young Christian Students -3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown University, BA 1972; Scholarship, Football, 4 years,\nBaseball 2 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teacher of English\u2013 Hales Franciscan High School, 1972-75,\nHead Varsity Coach, Baseball and Cross Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Editor \/ Columnist Southwest Messenger Newspaper for 30\nyears<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Executive Vice-President Southwest Messenger Newspaper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Editor of All Points Southwest, a weekly political\/editorial\ncolumn for Southwest Messenger Newspapers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant Purchasing Agent, County of Cook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Board Member and Officer of Men of Tolentine. Board Member\nof Mercy Housing at Tolentine Center for 15 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President and Director, Oak Lawn Chamber of Commerce <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Active in Mendel Alumni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mendel&nbsp; Class Vice President, National Honor Society 3-4; Student Senate 1-4Football, 4 letters, All Catholic, All City Selection, Senior Year. Selected MVP in 1996 by South End Messenger Newspaper. Hockey, Captain Junior and Senior Years, All Catholic Selection. Baseball Team, 3 lettersKey Club \u2013 4, Science Club-3, Young Christian Students -3 Brown University, BA 1972; Scholarship, Football, 4 years, Baseball &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/thomas-gavin-67\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hall-of-fame","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}