{"id":97721,"date":"2026-01-27T05:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97721\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T05:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:50:10","slug":"the-secret-sauce-is-our-people-with-david-ruth-and-larry-corcoran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97721\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Secret Sauce Is Our People&#8221; with David Ruth and Larry Corcoran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this episode, Laurie Hackett sits down with David Ruth, President of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northampton.edu\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Northampton Community College<\/a>, to explore the vision he wants people to have of the school. He shares his love for interacting with students and the value of the NCC Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Laurie is joined by Larry Corcoran, Volunteer Leader for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleychamber.org\/veteransandmilitarycouncil.html\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LV Chamber&#8217;s Veterans and Military Affairs Council<\/a>. They discuss how his sense of purpose in the community evolved and the lessons he&#8217;s learned about leadership.<\/p>\n<p>A Closer Look\u00a0explores the many nonprofit organizations throughout the Lehigh Valley. New episodes air the fourth Monday of every month from 6:30 to 7:00 PM following Lehigh Valley Arts Salon.<\/p>\n<p>(Original air-date: 1\/26\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this episode, Laurie Hackett sits down with David Ruth, President of Northampton Community College, to explore the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-97721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}