{"id":3255,"date":"2012-02-24T07:50:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T11:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2021-09-27T07:51:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T11:51:28","slug":"jaclyn-smith-unable-to-attend-umes-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/jaclyn-smith-unable-to-attend-umes-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaclyn Smith unable to attend UMES Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"115\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/09\/image001135.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3256\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, February 24, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PRINCESS ANNE, MD-(Feb. 24, 2012)-Jaclyn Smith, one of the celebrity guests scheduled to appear at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore 2012 Gala, March 3, is unable to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith&#8217;s mother-in-law, Maxine Allen, 81, died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.&nbsp; Funeral services will be in Rochester, N.Y., the weekend of the UMES Gala, her publicist said.&nbsp; Smith is married to Bradley Allen, a Houston cardiothoracic surgeon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Jaclyn and her family are going through a difficult time dealing with the loss of a loved one,&#8221; her publicist said.&nbsp; &#8220;She truly regrets having to cancel her appearance and hopes that gala guests&nbsp;are understanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are sympathetic of Ms. Smith&#8217;s loss,&#8221; Dr. Veronique Diriker, director of development at UMES and event coordinator, said.&nbsp; &#8220;It is hoped she will be able to visit our campus at a later date.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>###<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gail Stephens, assistant director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-651-7580,&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:gcstephens@umes.edu\">gcstephens@umes.edu<\/a>.<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Robinson, director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-621-2355,&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:wrobinson3@umes.edu\"><em>wrobinson3@umes.edu<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, February 24, 2012 PRINCESS ANNE, MD-(Feb. 24, 2012)-Jaclyn Smith, one of the celebrity guests scheduled to appear at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore 2012 Gala, March 3, is unable to attend. Smith&#8217;s mother-in-law, Maxine Allen, 81, died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.&nbsp; Funeral services will be in Rochester, N.Y., the weekend&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/jaclyn-smith-unable-to-attend-umes-gala\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Jaclyn Smith unable to attend UMES Gala<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}