{"id":3704,"date":"2013-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/05\/06\/delta-state-alumni-association-sets-gulf-coast-meeting\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:05:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:05:20","slug":"delta-state-alumni-association-sets-gulf-coast-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/05\/delta-state-alumni-association-sets-gulf-coast-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State Alumni Association Sets Gulf Coast Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"649\" height=\"341\" alt=\"PHOTO:  From left,  Todd Hairston, Lacey Hairston, Shelley Williams, Keith Williams, Al Tapper, and Libby Williams Tapper at a past Gulf Coast event at the home of Dr. Johnny Mallett.\" src=\"\/Images\/DSCN1195.jpg\" class=\"caption\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Delta State University Alumni Association recently announced the date for the Gulf Coast Alumni Chapter Meeting. This year&rsquo;s event is Thursday, May 23 at the home of Keith Williams. The event begins at 6 p.m. with a social hour. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m. followed by updates from Delta State. This year&rsquo;s featured speaker is Delta State President William &ldquo;Bill&rdquo; N. LaForge.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Gulf Coast Alumni Chapter looks forward to featuring our new President William N. LaForge as our speaker for the Delta State University Alumni meeting,&rdquo; said Brett Walker, president of the Gulf Coast chapter. &ldquo;I encourage all alumni and friends to come out and fellowship on what we expect to be a beautiful day on the coast.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The event will be catered by Murky Waters BBQ, and the cost is $15 person, $25 per couple. There will also be a silent auction, and proceeds will benefit the Delta State Gulf Coast Scholarship.&nbsp; &ldquo;We are very excited about traveling to the Gulf Coast for this meeting,&rdquo; said Jordan Thomas, assistant alumni director. &ldquo;We have a great alumni base on the Gulf Coast, and we are looking forward to introducing them to our new President.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Alumni Association, contact 662-846-4660 or visit the website www.deltastate.edu\/alumni. Follow the Alumni Association &ndash; Facebook: Statesmen Graduates; Twitter: @DSU_Alumni; Tumblr: www.dsualumni.tumblr.com; You Tube: dsualumni1; LinkedIn: DSU alumni.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Alumni Association recently announced the date for the Gulf Coast Alumni Chapter Meeting&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3704","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\/3704","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=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40743,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions\/40743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}