{"id":3570,"date":"2013-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/03\/14\/madison-foundation-makes-contribution-in-memory-of-cleveland-native-allen-burrell\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:05:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:05:31","slug":"madison-foundation-makes-contribution-in-memory-of-cleveland-native-allen-burrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/03\/madison-foundation-makes-contribution-in-memory-of-cleveland-native-allen-burrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Foundation Makes Contribution in Memory of Cleveland Native Allen Burrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/Images\/Burrell Scholarship.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: The Madison Foundation recently made a $25,000 grant to Delta State University in memory of Cleveland native, Allen Burrell (right). Corley Luckett Mullins, a 2010 graduate of Delta State, received the Allen and Rose Drake Burrell Scholarship in 2003 and visited with Allen at a scholarship reception in 2003. \" class=\"caption\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the fourth consecutive year the Madison Foundation, of Port Gibson, has made a contribution to Delta State University&rsquo;s Annual Fund in memory of Cleveland native and 1973 Delta State alumnus Allen Burrell. Burrell died on&nbsp; March 17, 2006 while serving as city attorney for Port Gibson.&nbsp; Established in 2007, the Madison Foundation was founded by Wiley Hatcher, a resident of Port Gibson.&nbsp; &ldquo;Wiley said he wanted to help people in need and instructed us to give the money away,&rdquo; said Madison Foundation board member J. O. &ldquo;Joc&rdquo; Carpenter. &ldquo;We believe this tribute to Allen on the seven year anniversary of his death is a worthwhile way to memorialize his life. We hope that the grant provides the stimulus for others to make gifts to Delta State in memory of loved ones.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Madison Foundation $25,000 Statesman Challenge is unique in that it is a challenge grant and one that the Madison Foundation hopes inspires our alumni and supporters to make a gift to Delta State. We invite everyone to help us match the grant by April 30th whether it&rsquo;s a gift of $2 or $50,000,&rdquo;&nbsp; said Keith Fulcher, Executive Director of the Alumni\/Foundation. &ldquo;Gifts can easily be made in memory of a loved one using our new online website.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Gifts towards the Annual Fund match may be made via the DSU Foundation&rsquo;s secure online giving website http:\/\/www.deltastategiving.org\/Giving or by mailing to Box 3141, Cleveland, MS 38733. For more information on making gifts to the University contact the Foundation at foundation@deltastate.edu or call 662.846.4704 or send a text message to 662.719.1732. All gifts are tax-deducible to the fullest extent of the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the fourth consecutive year the Madison Foundation, of Port Gibson, has made a contribution to Delta State University\u2019s Annual Fund in memory of Cleveland native and 1973 Delta State alumnus Allen Burrell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3570","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\/3570","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=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40805,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/40805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}