{"id":66775,"date":"2015-08-19T16:10:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=66775"},"modified":"2015-08-19T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:12:05","slug":"alumna-featured-on-food-network-to-headline-gulf-coast-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2015\/08\/alumna-featured-on-food-network-to-headline-gulf-coast-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna featured on Food Network to headline Gulf Coast meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Alumni Association will host\u00a0its\u00a0annual Gulf Coast Alumni Event Aug.\u00a027 at the home of Dr. Johnny Mallett in D&#8217;Iberville. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. with a social featuring the BBQ princess, Leslie Roark Scott \u201995.<\/p>\n<p>Scott was featured on the Food Network\u2019s Chopped Grill Masters and made it to the finals where contestants prepared rattlesnake. In honor of her run on the show, Scott will do a reenactment of the competition and prepare rattlesnake for the crowd. Scott\u2019s BBQ restaurant, Ubon\u2019s, will cater the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be sharing my Chopped experience with our DSU family on the coast,\u201d said Scott. \u201cWe\u2019ll be tasting some Ubon\u2019s prize winning pork, and I\u2019m giving my nemesis rattlesnake another shot on the grill. Our hearts may be in Cleveland, but the spirit of DSU will hit the coast soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delta State President William N.\u00a0LaForge is the featured speaker for\u00a0the program, which will begin after the social hour. Tickets for the event are $15 and can be purchased online or at the door. There will also be a silent auction and proceeds will benefit the Delta State Gulf Coast Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Alumni Association at 662-846-4660 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deltastategiving.org\/alumniassociation\/gulfcoastevent\">www.deltastategiving.org\/alumniassociation\/gulfcoastevent<\/a>.\u00a0To stay up to date on the Alumni Association\u2019s activities, follow these social media sites: Facebook (Statesmen Graduates), Twitter (@DSU_Alumni), Tumblr (www.dsualumni.tumblr.com), LinkedIn (DSU alumni), Instagram (dsualumni) and You Tube (dsualumni1). Save the dates for Pig Pickin\u2019 (Sept. 19) 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":"<p>The Delta State University Alumni Association will host\u00a0its\u00a0annual Gulf Coast Alumni Event Aug.\u00a027 at the home of Dr. Johnny Mallett in D&#8217;Iberville. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":66777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1408],"class_list":["post-66775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","tag-alumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66775","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=66775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66778,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66775\/revisions\/66778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}