{"id":239,"date":"2013-07-03T13:28:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T17:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/soca\/?page_id=239"},"modified":"2013-08-15T10:39:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T14:39:55","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/soca\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon its inception, SoCA was the first Williams College campus group to educate and address the prevalent issues in the Caribbean. \u00a0The group was charged, by founder Frank Rosad0 &#8217;97, to bring Caribbean culture to a community that was recluse from the Caribbean in both location and education. \u00a0This vanguard group stirred great excitement and enthusiasm about Caribbean culture through their public forums, their attendance at conferences, and their well-organized parties. \u00a0During this period (1995 to early 2000s), SoCA enjoyed great leadership and steady membership. \u00a0Unfortunately, as the torch was passed on to subsequent generations of SoCA leaders, the group&#8217;s membership began to wane. \u00a0 It is the goal of this generation of SoCA to further connect with the Williams College community and solidify its place with an unfaltering foundation and steadfast membership.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a collection of historic SoCA events and articles: Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SoCA NERCSC '97\" href=\"http:\/\/wso.williams.edu\/orgs\/soca\/1stArticle.html\" target=\"_blank\">SoCA Attendance at\u00a0Northeast Region Caribbean Students Conference-April 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NERCSC Photos '98\" href=\"http:\/\/wso.williams.edu\/orgs\/soca\/picts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Photos from NERCSC-199<\/a>8<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SoCA Membership '97\" href=\"http:\/\/wso.williams.edu\/orgs\/soca\/members.html\" target=\"_blank\">SoCA Membership-1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SoCA Heritage Week 97-98\" href=\"http:\/\/wso.williams.edu\/orgs\/soca\/week98.html\" target=\"_blank\">SoCA Heritage Week-1998<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Please visit the <a title=\"Former SoCA Page\" href=\"http:\/\/wso.williams.edu\/orgs\/soca\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">former SoCA page<\/a> for more information . Thank you!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon its inception, SoCA was the first Williams College campus group to educate and address the prevalent issues in the Caribbean. \u00a0The group was charged, by founder Frank Rosad0 &#8217;97, to bring Caribbean culture to a community that was recluse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/soca\/our-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-239","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/soca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/soca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/soca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/soca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/soca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/soca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/soca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/soca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}