{"id":2814,"date":"2011-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/10\/26\/delta-centers-brown-honored\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:06:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:06:42","slug":"delta-centers-brown-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/10\/delta-centers-brown-honored\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Center\u2019s Brown honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"544\" height=\"362\" class=\"caption\" alt=\"Chris Masingill, Federal Co-Chair of the Delta Regional Authority, Dr. Luther Brown, and Robert Clark, Chair of the Mississippi Delta Strategic Compact.\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2011Releases\/DeltaStrategic 469.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Luther Brown, director of the Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University, recently received an award from the Mississippi Delta Strategic Compact for his work promoting tourism. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Delta Strategic Compact was formed in 2010&nbsp; &rdquo;&hellip;to galvanize regional unity, teamwork and collaboration on issues that will revitalize the Delta and improve the quality of life for all citizens.&rdquo;&nbsp; Dr. Brown received the award at the first annual meeting of the Compact, held in the Washington County Convention Center in Greenville. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other award recipients were Sister Maureen Delany of the Tutwiler Community Education Center (Education); Dr. Arnold Smith of Greenwood (Healthcare); Greenwood Public Schools (Education Entity); River Region Health System Women&rsquo;s Health Expo of Vicksburg (Healthcare Entity); Double Quick, Inc. (Economic Development).&nbsp; The special Chairman&rsquo;s Award went to Bill McPherson for his role in developing the B. B. King Museum. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The event was sponsored by the Delta Regional Authority.&nbsp; Leland Speed of the Mississippi Development Authority and Dr. Darrin Webb, Mississippi State Economist, gave keynote speeches and Congressman Bennie Thompson addressed the meeting via video-conference.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Luther Brown, director of the Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University, recently received an award from the Mississippi Delta Strategic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","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\/2814","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=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41132,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/41132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}