{"id":63249,"date":"2010-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/all-in-uri-family\/"},"modified":"2010-06-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T00:00:00","slug":"all-in-uri-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/06\/all-in-uri-family\/","title":{"rendered":"All in URI Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/Durfee-NL-014.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" align=\"right\"\/>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013June 16, 2010\u2014The University of Rhode Island runs in the Durfee family bloodline. William \u201cWill\u201d Durfee of West Greenwich, vice president of operations at Hexagon Metrology, received his second degree\u2014an MBA&#8211; from URI last month. He earned his first degree in industrial engineering in 1988. His daughter, Heather Durfee, also received a degree last month- her bachelor of biological sciences, summa cum laude. His other daughter, Alexis, just completed her freshman year in nursing. Will\u2019s father, Wayne Durfee of Saunderstown, a URI professor emeritus of fisheries, animal and veterinary science, celebrated his 60th class reunion this year. Will\u2019s mother, Bernice graduated in 1949 with a degree in botany. Will\u2019s sister, Bonita Durfee of Foster, earned a nutrition degree in 1984 and teaches science at Warwick Veterans Memorial High School.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nURI Department of Communications &amp; Marketing photo by Nora Lewis<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013June 16, 2010\u2014The University of Rhode Island runs in the Durfee family bloodline. William \u201cWill\u201d Durfee of West Greenwich, vice president of operations at Hexagon Metrology, received his second degree\u2014an MBA&#8211; from URI last month. He earned his first degree in industrial engineering in 1988. His daughter, Heather Durfee, also received a degree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}