{"id":26254,"date":"2020-05-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarletons-gordon-center-hosts-kessler-thomas-exhibition\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:33:30","slug":"tarletons-gordon-center-hosts-kessler-thomas-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarletons-gordon-center-hosts-kessler-thomas-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton&#8217;s Gordon Center hosts Kessler Thomas exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-412.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-412-300x235.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Thomas\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-412-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-412-1024x801.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-412-511x400.jpg 511w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-412-768x601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-412.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" style=\"width:100%;height:78.25%;max-width:1200px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thomas<\/p>\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, May 28, 2020<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas &mdash;&nbsp;The W.K. Gordon Center for Texas Industrial History has added a summer outdoor exhibit on a local boy who served with honor in World War II.<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with covid-19 regulations regarding gallery capacity, visitors may enjoy &ldquo;Kessler O. Thomas: Thurber Boy to Fighter Pilot&rdquo; in the center&rsquo;s outdoor space as they cycle through the main gallery.<\/p>\n<p>This is an encore performance of an installation that details a remarkable young man who was born in Thurber and became a pilot, then put his flying skills to use during the war.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition runs through June.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&amp;M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today&#8217;s scholars into tomorrow&#8217;s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Phil Riddle<br \/>817-484-4415<br \/><a href=\"mailto:priddle@tarleton.edu\">priddle@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The W.K. Gordon Center for Texas Industrial History has added a summer outdoor exhibit on a local boy who served with honor in World War II.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-events"],"acf":{"image":null},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-413-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/arts-events\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Arts &amp; Events<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Arts &amp; Events<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on May 28, 2020","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on May 28, 2020 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 9:33 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Pilot in uniform standing in front of a vintage aircraft.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54096,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26254\/revisions\/54096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}