{"id":22783,"date":"2023-10-22T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/?p=22783"},"modified":"2023-10-22T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T14:49:36","slug":"transylvania-community-celebrates-rafs-240th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2023\/10\/transylvania-community-celebrates-rafs-240th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Transylvania community celebrates Rafinesque&#8217;s 240th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/10\/transylvania_raf_5-730x545.jpg\" alt=\"painting of Raf\" class=\"wp-image-22792\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3394495412844036;width:960px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/10\/transylvania_raf_5-730x545.jpg 730w, 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href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2019\/09\/honor-to-whom-honor-is-overdue-transylvania-remembers-noted-professor-constantine-rafinesque\/\">Constantine Samuel Rafinesque<\/a> gets plenty of love today for his 240th birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/giving\/bulletin\/rafs-birthday\/\">Help us celebrate Raf<\/a> (or at least appease his ghost) with a gift supporting Transylvania students \u2014 and join in on fun activities for prizes. <a href=\"https:\/\/securelb.imodules.com\/s\/871\/bp19\/interior.aspx?sid=871&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=287&amp;cid=764&amp;Appealcode=rafbirthday\">Make a $24, $240 or $2,400 donation<\/a> in his name to Transylvania, and you may even get a follow-up thank you from Raf himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our students came up with a few ideas about what to give him for his birthday \u2014 and to keep him from cursing the school:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube 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