{"id":2346,"date":"2010-12-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/12\/14\/delta-state-awards-first-and-second-diplomas-3\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:26","slug":"delta-state-awards-first-and-second-diplomas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/12\/delta-state-awards-first-and-second-diplomas-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State awards First and Second Diplomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"268\" align=\"left\" width=\"201\" class=\"caption\" alt=\"Janet Uchi Jira\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2010Releases\/Uchi Jira.jpg\" \/>Janet Uchi Jira, a Delta State University graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology with a concentration in pre-medicine from Cleveland, was awarded the First Diploma during Delta State University&rsquo;s Fall Commencement ceremony held Saturday, Dec. 11, inside Walter Sillers Coliseum on campus. &nbsp;<\/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.<\/p>\n<p>Sonya L.&nbsp; Reginelli, a Delta State University graduate with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Greenville, and Micah Glenn Davis (both not pictured), a Delta State University graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Wesson, were awarded the Second Diploma presented to the two-year graduating senior with the highest grade point average on a minimum of 62 hours of academic credit at Delta State University. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jira, Reginelli, and Davis graduated with 4.0 grade point averages.<\/p>\n<p>The awarding of the First and Second Diploma is a Delta State tradition started at the first commencement in 1928. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Uchi Jira, a Delta State University graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","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\/2346","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=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41324,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/41324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}