{"id":57922,"date":"2013-11-21T23:02:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T05:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=57922"},"modified":"2013-11-21T23:02:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T05:02:54","slug":"sturgis-crowned-miss-dsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/11\/sturgis-crowned-miss-dsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sturgis crowned Miss DSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Delta Statement<\/strong><br \/>Article Author: Erin Jackson<br \/>Statement Editor: Elisabetta Zengaro<br \/>Photo: Katelyn Cheatham, photographer for the yearbook, The Broom<\/p>\n<p>Brianna Sturgis was crowned Miss DSU on Thursday, Nov. 15.<\/p>\n<p>The contestants of the pageant had four categories to participate in: gown, swimsuit, talent and on-stage questions.<\/p>\n<p>For her talent, Sturgis sang \u201cSummertime\u201d from the Broadway musical \u201cPorgy and Bess\u201d by George Gershwin. She said she chose to sing that song because she loves the song, and \u201cit is a song that most people know.\u201d She gave it a modern jazz twist.<\/p>\n<p>Her question on stage was, \u201cHow would you like to be remembered?\u201d She said she would like to be remembered as kind and giving.&#8221;This means I would have made a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sturgis says she is elated about being crowned Miss DSU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank God for the opportunity to represent Delta State University in the Miss Mississippi Pageant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said she has already accepted one engagement to represent DSU at a pageant in Grenada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will continue to work hard on my platform, which is Gateway Rescue Mission, and prepare for the Miss Mississippi Pageant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because of her need to focus on her Aviation courses, Sturgis said she would not be running again next year.<\/p>\n<p>______<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The Delta Statement is a student run and student edited paper at Delta State University. It serves the student readership by reporting on news involving the campus and surrounding community. The Statement is published every Thursday during the fall and spring academic year.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta StatementArticle Author: Erin JacksonStatement Editor: Elisabetta ZengaroPhoto: Katelyn Cheatham, photographer for the yearbook, The Broom Brianna Sturgis was crowned Miss DSU on Thursday, Nov. 15. The contestants of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":57925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[166,248,247],"class_list":["post-57922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-students","tag-miss-dsu","tag-the-delta-statement","tag-union-program"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57922","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57926,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57922\/revisions\/57926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}