{"id":1680,"date":"2009-11-20T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T13:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/11\/20\/delta-state-announces-the-establishment-of-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:08:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:08:28","slug":"delta-state-announces-the-establishment-of-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/11\/delta-state-announces-the-establishment-of-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State announces the establishment of scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<table cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" width=\"250\" align=\"center\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"216\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/SledgeTommy.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"2\">Thomas N. Sledge <\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><font size=\"2\">The College of Business at Delta State University will announce the establishment of the Thomas N. Sledge Commercial Aviation Endowed scholarship in memory of Sledge during a ceremony to be held Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 3 p.m. in the Baioni Conference Center inside Broom Hall on the campus.<\/font><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">A native of Cleveland, Sledge joined the Delta State staff as an aviation instructor in 1990, following a distinguished career in the U.S. Air Force and the Mississippi Air Guard.&nbsp; He became chair of the department in 1997. Sledge held a Master&rsquo;s Degree in Commercial Aviation from the University of Louisiana in Monroe, and a Doctorate of Education from Delta State University. His wife, Alinda, has worked at Delta State for twenty years, five of those serving as Chair of the Social Work department.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">He was the son of former Senator, Nevin Sledge, and son-in-law of former Representative, <span style=\"color: black\">Charles W. (Charlie) Capps, Jr.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">A reception will immediately follow the ceremony. The event is open to all his friends and colleagues<span style=\"color: red\">.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas N. Sledge &nbsp; &nbsp; The College of Business at Delta State University will announce the establishment of the Thomas N. Sledge Commercial Aviation Endowed scholarship in memory of Sledge&#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-1680","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\/1680","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=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41559,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/41559"}],"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=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}