{"id":1960,"date":"2025-07-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:15:06","slug":"retirement-of-jerry-bales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/2025\/07\/24\/retirement-of-jerry-bales\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement of Jerry Bales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jerry Bales, a Heat and Power lead materials expediter with Energy and Utilities, is retiring from Purdue University on Aug. 1 after 18 years of service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jerry joined Purdue in a maintenance position in 2007 and several months later became a materials expediter. In 2016, he was promoted to lead materials expediter, where he will close out his career next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please send Jerry well wishes prior to Aug. 1 at <a href=\"mailto:jnbales@purdue.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jnbales@purdue.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joseph Herman<br>Assistant Director, Utilities Generation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Bales, a Heat and Power lead materials expediter with Energy and Utilities, is retiring from Purdue University on Aug. 1 after 18 years of service. Jerry joined Purdue in a maintenance position in 2007 and several months later became<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative-operations-staff","category-people-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}