{"id":77358,"date":"2017-10-23T13:39:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T18:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=77358"},"modified":"2017-10-26T08:10:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:10:37","slug":"mississippi-moments-highlight-wyatt-radio-oct-23-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2017\/10\/mississippi-moments-highlight-wyatt-radio-oct-23-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Moments to highlight Wyatt on radio Oct. 23-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi Moments, a program featured on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, is highlighting the tenure of Delta State University President Emeritus Dr. Kent Wyatt daily from Oct. 23-27 on MPB stations across the state.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s discussion Wyatt will discuss highlights of his Delta State presidency between 1975-1999. He will also reflect on how the school has grown since he first moved to Cleveland in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>To hear the interview, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mississippimoments.libsyn.com\">http:\/\/mississippimoments.libsyn.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Bill Ellison, Mississippi Moments is produced by the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Southern Mississippi and supported by the Mississippi Humanities Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited that Bill Ellison and Mississippi Moments have chosen to feature Dr. Kent Wyatt on this week\u2019s program,\u201d said Emily Jones, Delta State archivist. \u201cDr. Wyatt\u2019s story is so special to Cleveland, Delta State and the Mississippi Delta, and Mississippi Moments will feature four shorts from his oral history recorded here at DSU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi Moments will share Wyatt\u2019s journey to Cleveland as the son of Forest Wyatt, who became Delta State\u2019s football coach in 1945, his eventual enrollment at Delta State, to Wyatt becoming the university&#8217;s longest serving President from 1975-1999.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRarely does a person experience such a profound opportunity to serve a city, institution and region in the way Dr. Wyatt was able to here at Delta State,\u201d Jones added. \u201cMississippi Moments will offer a small glimpse into the life of a man who means so much to us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Mississippi Moments, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/mississippimoments.org\/\">MississippiMoments.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi Moments, a program featured on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, is highlighting the tenure of Delta State University President Emeritus Dr. Kent Wyatt daily from Oct. 23-27 on MPB stations across&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":77360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1414,991,875,1811],"class_list":["post-77358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-archives","tag-archives","tag-dr-kent-wyatt","tag-mississippi-humanities-council","tag-mississippi-moments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77358","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=77358"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77423,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77358\/revisions\/77423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}