{"id":35136,"date":"2025-07-08T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T20:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/?p=35136"},"modified":"2025-08-05T18:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:36:37","slug":"renewed-spirit-alumni-transform-faculty-room-at-westfield-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/?p=35136","title":{"rendered":"Renewed Spirit: Alumni Transform Faculty Room at Westfield High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Photo Credit: Westfield Public Schools<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35139\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35139\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WHS-Staff-Room-Reno-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WHS-Staff-Room-Reno-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WHS-Staff-Room-Reno-1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) WHS alum Callie Cambell, Michael Mroz, Ellie Mroz, and WHS health educator Susan Kolesar in the newly renovated faculty room at WHS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A tired faculty room at Westfield High School has been revitalized, thanks to the generosity of three dedicated WHS alumni.<\/p>\n<p>Ellie and Michael Mroz &#8211; high school sweethearts, now married and running an interior design firm and construction company respectively &#8211; volunteered their time, expertise, and resources to lead the renovation project. Artist Callie Campbell, also an alum and former WHS math teacher, donated one of her stunning artworks to adorn a newly refreshed wall. .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was so much more than a redesign. This was a full-circle, beautiful story,\u201d says WHS health educator Susan Kolesar who spearheaded the five-month project. \u201cIt\u2019s a story of staying connected, giving back, having passion for your work, and forging your own path, as all three of our alumni did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: Westfield Public Schools A tired faculty room at Westfield High School has been revitalized, thanks to the generosity of three dedicated WHS alumni. Ellie and Michael Mroz &#8211; high school sweethearts, now married and running an interior design firm and construction company respectively &#8211; volunteered their time, expertise, and resources to lead the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":35143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,151],"tags":[],"post_flags":[],"class_list":["post-35136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-feature","category-westfield-local"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35136"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35352,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35136\/revisions\/35352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35136"},{"taxonomy":"post_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_flags&post=35136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}