{"id":636,"date":"2007-12-08T13:35:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T13:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2007\/12\/08\/delta-state-student-finishes-degree-started-in-1950\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:55:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:55:54","slug":"delta-state-student-finishes-degree-started-in-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2007\/12\/delta-state-student-finishes-degree-started-in-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State student finishes degree started in 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" width=\"35%\" align=\"center\" summary=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;            <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"216\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/01Sunderland.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;Marguerite Pease Sunderland <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Marguerite Pease Sunderland of Greenville, graduated from Delta State University during the 81<sup>st<\/sup> <span>Commencement ceremony<\/span> held<span> Saturday, Dec<\/span>.<span> 8, inside Walter Sillers Coliseum on the Delta State campus. Sunderland was awarded a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in management.<\/span><\/font> <\/p>\n<div><span>Sunderland entered Delta State Teachers College in the fall of 1950, leaving after her first year. She has finally finished her college education, 57 years later. Commenting on her comp<\/span><span>l<span>eti<\/span>on<span> of a college degree, Sunderland said<\/span>,<span> &ldquo;It feels great.<\/span> <span>I did<\/span> <span>n<\/span>o<span>t know I was so close, I&rsquo;d been taking a class now and then.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Marguerite Pease Sunderland Marguerite Pease Sunderland of Greenville, graduated from Delta State University during the 81st Commencement ceremony held Saturday, Dec. 8, inside Walter Sillers Coliseum on the Delta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","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\/636","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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41914,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/41914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}