The Delta State University Alumni Association is busy preparing to travel to Southaven for the annual DeSoto County Alumni Event this Saturday, Aug. 8. This year\u2019s event will be held at the BankPlus Training Center and will begin at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
President William N. LaForge will treat guests to an update on campus, and Emily Havens, executive director of GRAMMY Museum Mississippi will speak to the crowd about the museum. Alumni-Foundation staff, as well as other Delta State faculty and staff, will also be in attendance.<\/p>\n
Each year, the event has a silent auction with proceeds benefiting the DeSoto County Scholarships, which are awarded to incoming Delta State freshmen from the area. This year\u2019s recipients are Natalie Howarth and Kayla Savage.<\/p>\n
The chapter is also recognizing Milton Kuykendall, superintendent of DeSoto County Schools and a Delta State alumnus, for his dedication to Delta State and DeSoto County.<\/p>\n
Sponsors for the event include: Ryan T. England and Stephanie Morrison Strohm \u2013 State Farm Agents; BankPlus; BancorpSouth; Renasant Bank; Northcentral Electric Power Association; Sycamore Bank; Delta Law Firm, PLLC; First Security Bank; Cory Uselton; Grapevine Liquor & Wine; Williams, Pitts & Beard, PLLC; and A&B Distributors.<\/p>\n
For more information, contact the Alumni Association at 662-846-4660 or visit www.deltastategiving.org\/alumniassociation\/desotocountyevent<\/a>. To stay up to date on the Alumni Association\u2019s activities, follow these social media sites: Facebook (Statesmen Graduates<\/strong><\/a>), Twitter (@DSU_Alumni<\/strong><\/a>), Tumblr (www.dsualumni.tumblr.com<\/strong><\/a>), LinkedIn (DSU alumni<\/strong><\/a>), Instagram (dsualumni<\/strong><\/a>) and You Tube (dsualumni1<\/strong><\/a>). Save the dates for Pig Pickin\u2019 (Sept.\u00a019) and Homecoming (Nov. 7). Thank you to our National Alumni Association Corporate Sponsors: Air Evac Lifeteam, Bolivar Medical Center, Patrick Davis State Farm, and Polk\u2019s Meats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Delta State University Alumni Association is busy preparing to travel to Southaven for the annual DeSoto County Alumni Event this Saturday, Aug. 8. This year\u2019s event will be held…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":66622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,418,296,108],"tags":[1408,81,715,1342],"class_list":["post-66621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","category-community-3","category-facultystaff","category-president","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-associaton","tag-desoto-county-alumni-chapter","tag-sponsors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66621","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\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66623,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66621\/revisions\/66623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}