{"id":82218,"date":"2018-12-10T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=82218"},"modified":"2018-12-10T07:58:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:58:07","slug":"fireside-chat-december-10-2018-fall-2018-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2018\/12\/fireside-chat-december-10-2018-fall-2018-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Chat &#8211; December 10, 2018 &#8211; Fall 2018 Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge are two proud graduates, Porsche Chambers of Morehead, Mississippi and Benji Galbraith of Olive Branch, Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/reME1hHodlk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Commencement is one of President LaForge\u2019s favorite events on campus, as it represents the culmination of our students\u2019 dedication and hard work during their time at Delta State. This fall, we awarded degrees to 332 students. Dr. Clifton Wingard, long-time professor in the math department at Delta State and the 2018 Kossman Award winner, presented the keynote address.<\/p>\n<p>In other news on campus, offices will be closed from Friday, December 21 through Tuesday, January 1 for winter break. In athletic news, men\u2019s basketball will host Bethel University tonight at 7 p.m., and women\u2019s basketball will host LeMoyne-Owen College on Wednesday at 6 p.m. And, the swim and dive team\u2019s annual Christmas Invitational will take place at the DSU Aquatics Center from Saturday, December 15 through Tuesday, December 18. Check out Gostatesmen.com for more information on all of those events.<\/p>\n<p>To keep up with all of our news, events and activities, please visit our website at deltastate.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge are two proud graduates, Porsche Chambers of Morehead, Mississippi and Benji Galbraith of Olive Branch, Mississippi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":79477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-president"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82218","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\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82220,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82218\/revisions\/82220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}