{"id":3155,"date":"2026-05-04T12:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:38:26","slug":"remembering-cheryl-simrell%e2%80%91king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/remembering-cheryl-simrell%e2%80%91king\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Cheryl Simrell\u2011King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Dr. Cheryl Simrell King was a living example of one of her favorite poems by Marge Piercy:<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\u201cThe people I love the best<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">jump into work head first<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">without dallying in the shallows<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">She worked hard, fought strong, and laughed loud. Cheryl&#8217;s exemplary career in public administration spanned multiple decades. We were blessed to benefit from this brilliant theorist, leader, and teacher.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Her principles and ethics of design thinking helped build our MPA program at The Evergreen State College. Just as she drove her rig across this country many times, Cheryl was the driver who compelled our program and the field of public administration to be transformational. She drove us to see \u201cus\u201d in governing. Cheryl, thank you for a job well done.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">May long walks, good chats, and happy dogs always make us smile as we remember you.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>-Amy Gould, MPA Faculty<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Cheryl Simrell King was a living example of one of her favorite poems by Marge Piercy: \u00a0 \u201cThe people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/remembering-cheryl-simrell%e2%80%91king\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}