{"id":6402,"date":"2017-05-26T23:08:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/2017\/05\/26\/johnny-receives-honorary-doctorate-of-fine-arts\/"},"modified":"2017-05-26T23:08:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T23:08:18","slug":"johnny-receives-honorary-doctorate-of-fine-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/2017\/05\/26\/johnny-receives-honorary-doctorate-of-fine-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Receives Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from San Francisco State University"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before he was Johnny Mathis – world famous singer, he was John Mathis – San Francisco State College student.\u00a0 He only studied there for 3 semesters, doing extremely well in Track & Field when a record breaking high jump at a track meet in Reno, NV qualified him to compete in the US Olympic Trials.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Almost the same week a letter from Columbia Records arrives inviting him to go to New
\nYork.\u00a0 They liked his demos and wanted him to come record his 1st album. John had to make a very big
\ndecision. \u00a0So at the age of 19 he left his academic & athletic career behind to be
\ncome a singer.\u00a0 A choice that truly paid off.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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So it was a tremendous honor yesterday on May 25th when Johnny\u2019s Alma Mater, SFSU, presented him with an Honorary Degree of Doctorate of Fine Arts at their 2017 Commencement Ceremony in AT&T Park.\u00a0 it was an event 63 years in the making!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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On behalf of Johnny\u2019s staff and his fans around the world: \u00a0Congratulations Dr. John Mathis!<\/b><\/h2>\n


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Click on the video below to hear Johnny\u2019s advice for the graduates which was played yesterday at the SFSU ceremony.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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And click here to see more about yesterday\u2019s events at the San Francisco State University Commencement<\/a>, AND an upcoming interview with Johnny and Pam Moore of KRON 4 TV<\/a> on 5\/26 or 5\/27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before he was Johnny Mathis – world famous singer, he was John Mathis – San Francisco State College student.\u00a0 He only studied there for 3 semesters, doing extremely well in Track & Field when a record breaking high jump at a track meet in Reno, NV qualified him to compete in the US Olympic Trials. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,53,97,95],"class_list":["post-6402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2017-graduation","tag-johnny-mathis","tag-music-legend","tag-san-franciso-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}