{"id":3592,"date":"2013-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/03\/26\/humanities-council-honors-teachers\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:05:29","slug":"humanities-council-honors-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/03\/humanities-council-honors-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanities Council Honors Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" class=\"caption\" alt=\"Photo: L-R, Front row-Luther Brown, Jenna Westmoreland, Chairman James Leach (National Endowment for the Humanities,) Lee Aylward, Heather Miller.  Back row-Chuck Westmoreland (Delta State honoree), Jimmy Mumford (Jackson State University honoree and Delta State graduate in graphic arts), Former US Representative David Bowen.\" src=\"\/Images\/photo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;   Normal  0          false  false  false    EN-US  X-NONE  X-NONE                                 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4                                     &lt;![endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">The Mississippi Humanities Council wrapped up its 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary celebration last Friday, March 22, with an awards luncheon in Jackson.&nbsp; One teacher from every college and university in the state was honored as a Humanities Teachers of the Year.&nbsp; Delta State&#8217;s recipient this year was historian Charles Westmorland.&nbsp; James Leach, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and former US Congressman presented the keynote address.&nbsp; Other honorees included Dr. Marie Danforth (Humanities Scholar), Carla Falkner (Humanities Educator), Dr. Rick deShazo (Humanities Partner), Peggy Jeanes and Dr. Judy Dalgo (Preservers of Mississippi Culture), and Mississippi Public Broadcasting and Tito Lanier (Special Recognition Awards).&nbsp; Luther Brown, Director of the Delta Center for Culture and Learning, is currently the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Humanities Council.<\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    &lt;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; \/* Style Definitions *\/ table.MsoNormalTable\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\tmso-style-priority:99;\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\tmso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\tmso-para-margin:0in;\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\tfont-size:10.0pt;\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";}&lt;![endif]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mississippi Humanities Council wrapped up its 40th anniversary celebration last Friday, March 22, with an awards luncheon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3592","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\/3592","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=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40796,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions\/40796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}