{"id":1962,"date":"2010-04-21T15:48:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T15:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/04\/21\/delta-state-to-honor-retirees-recognize-others-for-service-2\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:59","slug":"delta-state-to-honor-retirees-recognize-others-for-service-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/04\/delta-state-to-honor-retirees-recognize-others-for-service-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State to honor retirees; recognize others for service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Delta State University will honor employees who are retiring and award service pins to others at a Retirement Service Award Ceremony at 2 p.m. April 30, in the State Room of the H.L. Nowell Union on the campus.<\/font><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Brenda Bassie, laundry worker; Ray Bridges, assistant athletic director; Jess Brookhart, associate professor of accounting; Jessie Eatmon, grounds man; Mary Jane Ervin, senior secretary; Sharon Ford,&nbsp; associate professor of accounting; Rebecca Foster, director of university accounting; Peggy Gladden, administrative secretary, president emeritus; Amy Gore, laundry worker; Hazel Hilley, transcript clerk; Loretta Holmes, library assistant II; Bonnie Horton, instructor in English; Lavorne Jones, laundry worker; Houston Longino, purchasing supervisor; Malcolm McEwen, professor of science education; Charles Murrah, police officer; Collier Parker, dean of Arts and Sciences; Frieda Quon, IRC librarian; Sondra Rakes-Pedersen, professor of elementary education; Mary Robbins, senior secretary; Sally&nbsp; Rogers, administrative secretary; Linda Ross, director of H.L. Nowell Union; Frances Scarborough, library assistant II; Billy Silas, painter; Paul Starkey, chair and professor of Management, Marketing, and Business Administration; James&nbsp; Strawbridge, director of distance learning, will retire at the close of the 2009-2010 academic year.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Gloria&nbsp; Enriquez, senior secretary; Rebecca Finley, assistant registrar; Jill Harper, instructor in chemistry; Bert Herbison, senior secretary; Frankie Jones, laundry worker; Carlysle Meek, professor of physics;&nbsp; Rosie Pippins, custodian, and&nbsp; Sally Rogers, administrative secretary, will receive their 20-year service pins.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Rene&#8217;e Foster, instructor in marketing, and Gerald Myles, custodian, will receive their 25-year service pins.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Gloria Brister, chair of Speech and Hearing Sciences, and Elizabeth Sarcone, professor of English, will receive their 30-year service pins.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Wayne Blansett, vice president for Student Affairs, and Joe Garrison, professor of teacher education, will receive his 35-year service pins.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Family and friends of those being honored are invited to attend the ceremony and reception. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State University will honor employees who are retiring and award service pins to others at a Retirement Service Award Ceremony at 2 p.m. April 30, in the State Room&#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-1962","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\/1962","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=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38637,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/38637"}],"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=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}