With over 200 alumni and friends in attendance, the Delta State University National Alumni Association hosted another successful event in Jackson last week.<\/p>\n
The annual Greater Jackson Area Alumni Event was held at the Jackson Yacht Club and featured President William N. LaForge; Matt Jones, senior associate athletics director for external relations; and Jeffrey Farrism director of Alumni Affairs.<\/p>\n
Other faculty and staff members in attendance included first lady Nancy LaForge, admissions recruiters Harrison Wood and John Mauney, head women\u2019s basketball coach Craig Roden, executive director of Alumni-Foundation Keith Fulcher, director of Donor Relations Ann Giger, director of the Child Development Center Stephanie Farris, and assistant alumni director Jordan Thomas.<\/p>\n
Each year, the chapter has a silent auction with proceeds benefiting the Jackson Area Scholarship, which is awarded annually to incoming Delta State students from the area. This year\u2019s recipients are: Hampton Strickland of Madison, Geoffrey Arnold of Brandon and John Kaiser of Madison.<\/p>\n
A new aspect to this year\u2019s meeting was the live auction. The chapter auctioned off a tailgating package which included a Yeti cooler with a custom DSU logo, a picnic table in The Levee for Pig Pickin\u2019 Weekend, which includes 10 football passes, four parking passes and a catering package. The auction raised over $1,600 this year.<\/p>\n
The event would not have been possible without the support of sponsors: Polles Properties, BKD CPAs & Advisors, BankPlus, AvantGarde Strategies, IRR, Celia Manley Real Estate, MTM, Capitol Resources, Casey Myrick-Edward Jones, Magnolia Health and Sleeplinks-CPAP Works.<\/p>\n
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":" With over 200 alumni and friends in attendance, the Delta State University National Alumni Association hosted another successful event in Jackson last week. The annual Greater Jackson Area Alumni Event…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":66678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,296,93,108],"tags":[463,713],"class_list":["post-66676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","category-facultystaff","category-foundation","category-president","tag-alumni-and-foundation","tag-greater-jackson-area-alumni-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66676","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=66676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66677,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66676\/revisions\/66677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}