{"id":1146,"date":"2009-03-26T09:58:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T09:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/03\/26\/school-of-nursing-gets-new-name\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:55:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:55:11","slug":"school-of-nursing-gets-new-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/03\/school-of-nursing-gets-new-name\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Nursing Gets New Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" width=\"40%\" align=\"center\" summary=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"288\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/SmithRE.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><font face=\"Arial\">Robert E. Smith <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The Delta State School of Nursing will be named in honor of Robert E. Smith in recognition of his generous financial support during a dedication ceremony Wednesday, April 1, at 2 p.m., in front the School of Nursing.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>A retired farmer, Smith has endowed seven scholarships to the School of Nursing. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>&nbsp;&ldquo;The Cleveland community has played a very important part in my life. This country, the community, and above all, God, have blessed me in many ways,&rdquo; said Smith.&nbsp; &ldquo;I hope the Robert E. Smith Nursing Scholarships give encouragement and opportunities to worthy young people in preparing them for a career in healthcare.&rdquo;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>The Robert E. Smith School of Nursing will be the first academic unit named for an individual at Delta State.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>&ldquo;Mr. Smith&rsquo;s gift and pledge of $2.1 million is the largest ever from an individual to the University,&rdquo; said Keith Fulcher, executive director, Delta State University Foundation, Inc. &ldquo;His thorough and diligent planning of his estate will one day transform the School of Nursing and enable them to provide hundreds of scholarships to aspiring nursing students.&rdquo; <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert E. Smith &nbsp; The Delta State School of Nursing will be named in honor of Robert E. Smith in recognition of his generous financial support during a dedication ceremony&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41736,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/41736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}