{"id":221,"date":"2011-04-11T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/2011\/04\/11\/spring-gala\/"},"modified":"2011-04-11T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:45:00","slug":"spring-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/2011\/04\/11\/spring-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ocF-hWDUD-8\/TaND9slVsPI\/AAAAAAAAAPU\/BFtWVJRJDGQ\/s1600\/view%2Bfrom%2Btop%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bhub.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594389889343140082\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ocF-hWDUD-8\/TaND9slVsPI\/AAAAAAAAAPU\/BFtWVJRJDGQ\/s320\/view%2Bfrom%2Btop%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bhub.jpg\" style=\"height: 240px;margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;width: 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Anya Thomas<br \/>Public and Nonprofit MBA, &#8217;12<\/div>\n<div>This year\u2019s Spring Gala was at \u201cTop of the Hub\u201d located on the 50<sup>th<\/sup> floor of the Prudential Center.  The 360<sup>o<\/sup> views of Boston were spectacular and BU MBAs celebrated the end of the semester in stunning dresses and classy suits.  <\/div>\n<div>The evening started with appetizers and dinner.  After a little bit of mingling the <a href=\"http:\/\/smgworld.bu.edu\/smgmba\/gsm-council\/2010-2011-gs-council-members\/\">MBA Council<\/a> held a short ceremony. First the 5 professors chosen by their respective cohorts were given their awards (this year\u2019s winners: <a href=\"http:\/\/smgapps.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/RimerEdward.html\">Professor Rimer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/smgapps.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/WeilDavid.html\">Professor Weil<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/smgapps.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/WilsonRaymond.html\">Professor Wilson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/smgapps.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/HeinekeJanelle.html\">Professor Heineke<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/smgapps.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/KardarasKonstantinos.html\">Professor Kadaras<\/a>), then next year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/smgworld.bu.edu\/smgmba\/gsm-council\/2011-2012-council-elections\/\">MBA Council members<\/a> were introduced.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dessert was served a short time later, and after everyone had relaxed people started moving towards the dance floor.  For 90 minutes the dance floor was packed as the DJ played a wide variety of songs and everyone showed their dance moves.  It was exhilarating to dance while looking out over the whole city and there was a general groan when the DJ announced the last song.  The Spring Gala was a wonderful time to celebrate the year and to say goodbye to the Class of 2011.<\/div>\n<div><span><i>Photo Credits: Tim Hall<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" height=\"16\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" style=\"border: 0\" width=\"125\" \/><\/a><!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anya ThomasPublic and Nonprofit MBA, &#8217;12 This year\u2019s Spring Gala was at \u201cTop of the Hub\u201d located on the 50th floor of the Prudential Center. The 360o views of Boston were spectacular and BU MBAs celebrated the end of the semester in stunning dresses and classy suits. The evening started with appetizers and dinner. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}