{"id":81,"date":"2008-01-31T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.odbms.org\/odbmsblog\/2008\/01\/31\/in-memory-of-brian-blaha\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T05:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T05:52:00","slug":"in-memory-of-brian-blaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/in-memory-of-brian-blaha\/","title":{"rendered":"In memory of Brian Blaha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tragedy occured to Michael Blaha`s family,<br \/>Michael is a database colleague and contributor to ODBMS.ORG.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00b4d  thought to share this with the community.<\/p>\n<p>Roberto V. Zicari<\/p>\n<p>Brian Blaha, the son of Michael Blaha, died on July 10, 2007 after a long and brave struggle with leukemia. He was halfway through his doctoral work in Computer Engineering when stricken with the disease. Brian was a brilliant student having received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Engineering in 4 years while compiling a nearly 4.0 GPA.<\/p>\n<p>We have established a scholarship fund in Computer Engineering in his honor. Those who are interested can directly contact the University of Missouri-Rolla, 212 Parker Hall, Rolla, MO 65409, USA. If there are any questions Connie Eggert (eggertc AT umr.edu) can answer them. <br \/>For tax purposes, contributions are charitable donations and the university will acknowledge them.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tragedy occured to Michael Blaha`s family,Michael is a database colleague and contributor to ODBMS.ORG. I\u00b4d thought to share this with the community. Roberto V. Zicari Brian Blaha, the son of Michael Blaha, died on July 10, 2007 after a long and brave struggle with leukemia. He was halfway through his doctoral work in Computer [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}