{"id":2014,"date":"2010-05-08T12:59:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T12:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/05\/08\/delta-state-awards-first-diplomas-4\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:55","slug":"delta-state-awards-first-diplomas-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/05\/delta-state-awards-first-diplomas-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State awards First Diplomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"288\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/firstdip10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\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\">From left, Justin Lamar Smith,<span style=\"color: black\"> a Delta State graduate with a <\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: -0.15pt\">Bachelor of Science degree<\/span><span style=\"color: black\">, with concentration in biology, from Scott; Stephan C. Roberts, a Delta State graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree, of Lake Village, Ark.; <\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: -0.15pt\">Lauren Brittany Eikner, <\/span><span style=\"color: black\">a Delta State graduate with a <\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: -0.15pt\">Bachelor of Science degree<\/span><span style=\"color: black\">, with concentration in mathematics, of Grenada; and &nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: -0.15pt\">Margo Lynn Baker,<\/span><span style=\"color: black\"> a Delta State graduate with a <\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: -0.15pt\">Bachelor of&nbsp; Arts degree in English, of Perryville, Ark., <\/span><span style=\"color: black\">were awarded the First Diplomas during Delta State University&rsquo;s 83<\/span><b><sup><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">rd<\/span><\/sup><\/b><\/font><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">Spring<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">Commencement ceremony held Saturday, May 8, inside Walter Sillers Coliseum on campus.<\/p>\n<p>The First Diploma is presented to the four-year graduating senior with the highest grade point average on a minimum of 112 hours of academic credit at Delta State. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">The First Diploma is a Delta State tradition started at the first commencement in 1928. The conferring of this degree began the tradition of awarding the first diploma to the student with the highest academic average.<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; From left, Justin Lamar Smith, a Delta State graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree, with concentration in biology, from Scott; Stephan C. Roberts, a Delta State graduate&#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-2014","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\/2014","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=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41431,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/41431"}],"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=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}