{"id":69116,"date":"2016-02-11T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=69116"},"modified":"2016-02-11T08:45:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T14:45:35","slug":"smith-named-employee-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/02\/smith-named-employee-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith named Employee of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<p class=\"entry-title\">The Delta State University Staff Council recently honored Don Smith as the January\u00a02016 Employee of the Month. Smith\u00a0works as the university&#8217;s locksmith<span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Smith, a Delta State graduate in 1985, began working as a locksmith for the university 13 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As a student, he studied music and would later play in bands, and work in recording studios and churches in the music field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prior to Delta State, Smith worked at the\u00a0Bolivar Medical Center as a locksmith for seven\u00a0years. He has\u00a0received specialized training as a Certified Institutional Locksmith and Certified Master Key Consultant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Smith and his wife are the parents of five wonderful children.<\/p>\n<p>Each winner receives a plaque, monetary award, WalMart gift card from the Student Government Association, an engraved insulated coffee mug, a free parking decal courtesy of the Campus Police Department, a box of treats from The Sweetery, a parking spot of their choice, marquee announcement and website recognition.<\/p>\n<p>For an archived list of previous Employee of the Month winners, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/about-dsu\/administration\/staff-council\/staff-council-employee-of-the-month\/employee-of-the-month-archives\/\">https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/about-dsu\/administration\/staff-council\/staff-council-employee-of-the-month\/employee-of-the-month-archives\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Delta State\u2019s Staff Council serves as a liaison between the administration and the staff to provide a formal process for staff to discuss issues involving university policies and procedures and to forward ideas, recommendations and opinions to the president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Staff Council recently honored Don Smith as the January\u00a02016 Employee of the Month. Smith\u00a0works as the university&#8217;s locksmith. Smith, a Delta State graduate in 1985, began&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":69118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-69116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-facultystaff","tag-employee-of-the-month"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69116","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=69116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69122,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69116\/revisions\/69122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}