{"id":2042,"date":"2010-05-24T15:58:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T15:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/05\/24\/delta-state-host-high-school-group-from-st-louis\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:53","slug":"delta-state-host-high-school-group-from-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/05\/delta-state-host-high-school-group-from-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State host high school group from St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"216\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/S5030718.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\"><font face=\"Arial\">Seventeen students, three faculty, and two children from historic Sumner High School in St. Louis, Missouri, visited Delta State University last week.&nbsp;The group was hosted by the Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State and was introduced to the Delta by Lee Aylward, program associate for education and community outreach, at the Delta Center.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #1f497d\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Sumner High School was the first public school established for African American students west of the Mississippi River.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The group stayed in Cleveland and visited the campuses of Delta State University, the University of Mississippi, and Jackson State University.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">This tour was supported by Gear-Up a federal program that encourages high school students to attend college. <span style=\"color: #1f497d\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #1f497d\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The tour was led by Claude Weathersby, an official with the Gear-Up program in the St. Louis schools.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Weathersby first visited the Delta in March with a student group led by Susan Lampros who was a teacher participant in a workshop presented by the Delta Center in 2009. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Seventeen students, three faculty, and two children from historic Sumner High School in St. Louis, Missouri, visited Delta State University last week.&nbsp;The group was hosted by the Delta&#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-2042","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\/2042","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=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41422,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/41422"}],"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=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}