{"id":83431,"date":"2019-04-15T17:31:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T22:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=83431"},"modified":"2019-04-15T17:31:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T22:31:15","slug":"kassidy-gillis-crowned-miss-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2019\/04\/kassidy-gillis-crowned-miss-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Kassidy Gillis Crowned Miss Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kassidy Gillis, a first-year speech and hearing sciences major from Olive Branch, Miss., was crowned Miss Beautiful 2019 at Delta State University\u2019s annual Most Beautiful Pageant and Top 10. <!--more-->The event, which featured two dozen contestants, took place on April 9 in the Bologna Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n<p>Four other beauties earned recognition: Taylor Weeks (Grenada), Denicia Dew (Yazoo City), Haley Hill (Isola), and Eva Grace McCrory (Clinton).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u00a0had another great pageant this year,\u201d said Bevin Lamb, executive director of pageants. \u201cWe had 24 contestants, and we appreciate everyone from the campus and community who came to\u00a0support them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pageant was sponsored by the Delta State University Student Government Association and produced by the Pageant Board, a Delta State student organization. Contestants are judged on beauty, confidence, and stage presence. There is also a Most Photogenic Award.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_83420\" style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83420\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/miss-beautiful_two-645x430.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/miss-beautiful_two-645x430.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/miss-beautiful_two-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/miss-beautiful_two-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/miss-beautiful_two-180x120.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-83420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Denicia Dew, Eva Grace McCrory, Gillis, Hailey Hill, and Taylor Weeks.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kassidy Gillis, a first-year speech and hearing sciences major from Olive Branch, Miss., was crowned Miss Beautiful 2019 at Delta State University\u2019s annual Most Beautiful Pageant and Top 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":583,"featured_media":83419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83431","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\/583"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83432,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83431\/revisions\/83432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}