{"id":1504,"date":"2009-03-23T13:12:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T18:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2018-11-03T02:19:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T21:19:38","slug":"doctor-of-humane-letters-for-chaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/doctor-of-humane-letters-for-chaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor of Humane Letters&#8230; for Chaz."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/chaz_maviyane_davies.jpg\" alt=\"chaz_maviyane_davies.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Boston, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees will be awarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiga.org\/content.cfm\/design-journeys-chaz-maviyane-davies\" target=\"_blank\">Chaz Maviyane-Davies<\/a> an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Commencement Ceremony, to be held on Saturday, May 30, 2009. In their words (to Chaz): <em>\u201cThe Board of Trustees is proud to bestow upon you their highest honor in recognition of your achievements as an international graphic designer who highlights vital social issues. Your commitment to combatting rights abuses in Africa as well as striving to eliminate racial, gender, religious and political discrimination around the world make you a leader in your profession, as well as a role model for countless others. Your courage, character and dedication to these important issues show us the way to succeed as both professionals and citizens.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t agree more\u2026 congratulations, and well deserved my friend!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Above, a 2005 photo of Chaz in Breda, NL by Guy Schockaert (via <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssahn.com\/archives\/000544.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ahn Sang-Soo<\/a>\u2019s blog); a sampling of Chaz\u2019s posters below.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/chaz_non_suicide.gif\" alt=\"chaz_non_suicide.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/chaz_no_vision.jpg\" alt=\"chaz_no_vision.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/chaz_nuclear-dead-end.gif\" alt=\"chaz_nuclear-dead-end.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/chaz_warning.jpg\" alt=\"chaz_warning.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, Massachusetts The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees will be awarding Chaz Maviyane-Davies an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Commencement Ceremony, to be held on Saturday, May 30, 2009. In their words (to Chaz): \u201cThe Board of Trustees is proud to bestow upon you their highest honor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,7,12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16513,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/16513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}