{"id":303,"date":"2010-02-03T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/2010\/02\/18\/athena-cronk-waitt\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T13:56:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:56:47","slug":"athena-cronk-waitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/2010\/02\/03\/athena-cronk-waitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Athena Scalise Waitt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Athena Scalise Cronk (now Waitt) was the first person to become\u00a0the first full time\u00a0staff member at Reef Relief beyond Craig and DeeVon.\u00a0 Board member Eric McCarthy, a local Key West lawyer, said he had just the person and he was so right!\u00a0 She entered the scene just as we began the effort in early 1990 to establish an environmental center on the boardwalk at the foot of William Street in Key West.\u00a0 Athena was the one who\u00a0organized our surroundings to become a functioning learning\u00a0center; creating educational displays, establishing land-based programs, supporting Craig’s efforts on the reef for the mooring buoy program and coral surveys, as well as the myriad \u00a0membership and administrative activities involved in running a small nonprofit organization.\u00a0 She was a god send.\u00a0 Such a brilliant, open-minded, eager sea fan<\/em>.\u00a0 We were so fortunate!\u00a0\u00a0 I’ll never forget the time we were filming a television special when she interrupted\u00a0the shoot\u00a0to say, “The White House is on the phone.”\u00a0 ‘Turns out we received a Point of Light Award.\u00a0 The camera’s kept rolling as I took the call.\u00a0 \u00a0Athena remains a dear friend to both Craig and I today.\u00a0 She is married to Colin Waitt, has two beautiful children, and lives in Virginia not far from D.C.<\/p>\n

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Athena and I\u00a0 got together in Washington DC the last time I was there in the summer of \u00a02009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Athena Scalise Cronk (now Waitt) was the first person to become\u00a0the first full time\u00a0staff member at Reef Relief beyond Craig and DeeVon.\u00a0 Board member Eric McCarthy, a local Key West lawyer, said he had just the person and he was so right!\u00a0 She entered the scene just as we began the effort in early 1990 … Continue reading Athena Scalise Waitt<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}