{"id":1373,"date":"2017-05-12T17:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T22:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/?page_id=1373"},"modified":"2023-04-20T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T20:40:32","slug":"spirit-maryville-2015-al-hammerman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/spirit-maryville-2015-al-hammerman\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of Maryville 2015: Al Hammerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2017\/05\/2015-hammerman-253x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Al Hammerman receiving a Maryville Spirit award\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2017\/05\/2015-hammerman-253x300.jpeg 253w, https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2017\/05\/2015-hammerman.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/>\n<p>Singer and composer Al Hammerman, MD, was honored as Volunteer of the Year. Hammerman, a versatile composer and on-stage talent, is also a practicing physician. He helped launch Kids Rock Cancer, Maryville\u2019s unique music therapy program for children with cancer and other blood disorders. As a charter member and valuable leader of the advisory council, he continues to help shape Maryville\u2019s vision for the program. In 2014, Hammerman generously staged a Kids Rock Cancer benefit concert at The Sheldon, \u201cI Got A Song,\u201d featuring many of his original compositions.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharing-default-minimal post-bottom\"><div class=\"nectar-social default\" data-position=\"\" data-rm-love=\"0\" data-color-override=\"override\"><div class=\"nectar-social-inner\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"nectar-love\" id=\"nectar-love-1373\" title=\"Love this\"> <i class=\"icon-salient-heart-2\"><\/i><span class=\"love-text\">Love<\/span><span class=\"total_loves\"><span class=\"nectar-love-count\">0<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class='facebook-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Share this'> <i class='fa fa-facebook'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='twitter-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Share this'> <i class='fa icon-salient-x-twitter'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='linkedin-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Share this'> <i class='fa fa-linkedin'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='pinterest-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Pin this'> <i class='fa fa-pinterest'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Pin<\/span> <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer and composer Al Hammerman, MD, was honored as Volunteer of the Year. Hammerman, a versatile composer and on-stage talent, is also a practicing physician. He helped launch Kids Rock Cancer, Maryville\u2019s unique music therapy program for children with cancer and other blood disorders. As a charter member and valuable leader of the advisory council,<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/spirit-maryville-2015-al-hammerman\/\">&#8230; read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1373","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.1 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spirit of Maryville 2015: Al Hammerman - Alumni<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/spirit-maryville-2015-al-hammerman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spirit of Maryville 2015: Al Hammerman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Singer and composer Al Hammerman, MD, was honored as Volunteer of the Year. 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