The Delta State University National Alumni Association recently announced dates for 2016 Pig Pickin\u2019 and Homecoming \u2014\u00a0two of the largest events held on campus.<\/p>\n
The 31st<\/sup> annual Pig Pickin\u2019 will be held\u00a0Sept. 23-24, 2016, when the Statesmen football team hosts Shorter University. The full schedule of events will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n Homecoming has been set for Oct.\u00a014-15, 2016, and the Statesmen will face off against the University of West Florida. Throughout the weekend, the Alumni Association has a variety of activities planned. The event’s featured class\u00a0is the Class of 1966, which will be celebrating 50 years since graduating from Delta State. They will also be inducted into the prestigious Golden Circle, which is a constituency group of the Alumni Association that honors alumni who graduated at least 50 years ago.<\/p>\n \u201cI encourage all Delta State faithful to make plans now to attend Delta State University\u2019s signature events in the fall of 2016,\u201d said Jeffrey Farris, alumni director. \u201cThe Alumni Office wants to help you book your ticket back to campus to enjoy Cleveland and your alma mater.\u201d<\/p>\n The Alumni Association will also host the annual Alumni Awards Gala during Homecoming to honor outstanding alumni and friends of Delta State.<\/p>\n More details on both events will be released at a later date. The official hashtag for Pig Pickin\u2019 is #DSUPigPickin and for Homecoming is #DSUHC.<\/p>\n For more information, contact the Alumni Association at (662) 846-4660. To 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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Delta State University National Alumni Association recently announced dates for 2016 Pig Pickin\u2019 and Homecoming \u2014\u00a0two of the largest events held on campus. The 31st annual Pig Pickin\u2019 will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":68586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[104,10],"class_list":["post-68584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","tag-homecoming","tag-pig-pickin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68584","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=68584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68693,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68584\/revisions\/68693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}