{"id":4993,"date":"2016-04-20T13:50:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/?p=4993"},"modified":"2016-04-20T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:50:20","slug":"university-celebrates-peacock-pride-day-debuts-new-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/20\/university-celebrates-peacock-pride-day-debuts-new-mascot\/","title":{"rendered":"University Celebrates Peacock Pride Day; Debuts New Mascot"},"content":{"rendered":"

猫咪社区 Peter\u2019s University hosted its first Peacock Pride Day to celebrate the legacy and the birthday of the late Rev. Robert Ignatius Gannon, S.J., former 猫咪社区 Peter\u2019s dean and the \u201cFounding Father\u201d of the peacock being implemented as a symbol of 猫咪社区 Peter\u2019s, on Wednesday, April 20.<\/p>\n

Peacock Pride Day celebrates the past, present and future of 猫咪社区 Peter\u2019s University. It will become an annual event and will be hosted on a date close to Fr. Gannon\u2019s birthday [April 20] in the future.<\/p>\n

During the celebration, students, faculty, staff and administrators, decked out in Peacock gear, enjoyed food, giveaways and music by a DJ. In addition, the University\u2019s new \u2013 and fiercer \u2013 peacock\u00a0mascot named Peter made his debut!<\/p>\n

Fr. Gannon, who was born on April 20, 1893, was the dean at 猫咪社区 Peter\u2019s when it reopened after being closed during World War I. It was his vision that 猫咪社区 Peter\u2019s adopt the peacock, symbolic of the resurrection in the Catholic tradition, as the school\u2019s official mascot. Fr. Gannon passed away in 1978.<\/p>\n\n\t\t