Edward Rutschman / en Bellingham Festival of Music starts July 1 /inthemedia/bellingham-festival-of-music-starts-july-1 <span>Ralph Vernacchia talks track and field, Olympics, retirement</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field-item"><p> Ralph Vernacchia, a professor in Western Washington University's department of physical education, health and recreation, discusses the sport of track and field, the Olympic Games and his coming retirement from the university.</p> <p> Vernacchia, director of Western's Center for Performance Excellence, is the namesake of the Ralph Vernacchia Invitational team track and field meet, which takes place every year at ²ÝÁñÉçÇø.</p> <p> He has been a professor at Western for 38 years.</p> <p> Video by Daniel Berman | University Communications intern</p> </div> <span><span>admin</span></span> <span><time datetime="2011-04-29T11:26:31-07:00" title="Friday, April 29, 2011">Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:26am</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-video field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field-items"> <div class="field-item"><div> <div class="field field--name-field-media-oembed-video field--type-string field--label-visually_hidden"> <h2 class="field-label visually-hidden">Video URL</h2> <div class="field-item"><iframe src="/media/oembed?url=https%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DActOMCOb3p8&amp;max_width=0&amp;max_height=0&amp;hash=h-G5oTCIReoQsngWGz5pxYFb5VT1S5JB8OHwvjyIzAA" width="200" height="113" class="media-oembed-content" loading="eager" title="²ÝÁñÉçÇø's Ralph Vernacchia talks track and field, Olympic games, retirement"></iframe> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:56:48 +0000 admin 101074 at