{"id":884,"date":"2008-11-10T08:42:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T08:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2008\/11\/10\/delta-state-to-honor-area-leaders-at-5th-annual-community-recognition-luncheon\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:55:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:55:32","slug":"delta-state-to-honor-area-leaders-at-5th-annual-community-recognition-luncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2008\/11\/delta-state-to-honor-area-leaders-at-5th-annual-community-recognition-luncheon\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State to honor area leaders at 5th Annual Community Recognition Luncheon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State University will recognize area leaders this coming Thursday, Nov. 13, as part of its annual Community Recognition Awards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>T<\/span><span>he luncheon is part of the University&rsquo;s year-long celebration of &ldquo;The Year of Partnerships,&rdquo; and will give recognition to <\/span>some of the important partnerships that support the University.&nbsp; This year, the &ldquo;<span>Cleveland Partners&rdquo; &nbsp;include <span>the DSU Foundation, <\/span>which supports the University through outreach and fundraising, <span>Billy Joe McCain Jr., <\/span>who has directed the Bolivar County Community Action Agency for several decades, <span>and Willard Samuels, <\/span>who has served as an Alderman in Cleveland since 1972.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>Also recognized will be the <\/span>&ldquo;D<span>elta Regional Champions:&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span>The<\/span> Bolivar County Legislative Delegation comprised of Sen<span>ators<\/span> Buck Clark, Willie Simmons, Johnnie Walls <span>and <\/span>Rep<span>resentatives <\/span>Linda Coleman and David Norquist <\/li>\n<li><span>The <\/span>Coahoma County Higher Education Center represented by Clarksdale Mayor Henry Espy, Jon Levingston, Dr. Vivian Presley, and Paul Pearson <\/li>\n<li>Bryce Griffis of Starkville <\/li>\n<li>Neal Holcomb of Rolling Fork <\/li>\n<li><span>The<\/span> Kellogg Foundation\/ Mid South Delta Initiative represented by Gloria Dickerson of Jackson <\/li>\n<li>Malcolm Kuykendall, Superintendent of Education, Tishomingo County <\/li>\n<li>Milton Kuykendall, Superintendent of Education, Desoto County <\/li>\n<li><span>The <\/span>Mississippi Commission for Volunteer Service represented by Marsha Meek-Kelly, of Jackson <\/li>\n<li>Carol Puckett of Viking Hospitality Group <span>of <\/span>Greenwood <\/li>\n<li>Dr. and Mrs. Bob Ferguson of the Tri State Educational Foundation in Iuka <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>The Delta State University College of Business will also recognize the Business Person of the Year, Jimmy L. Williams of Cleveland.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>For more information about the Year of <\/span>Partnerships,<span> please contact the Delta Center for Culture and Learning at (662) 846-4311. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State University will recognize area leaders this coming Thursday, Nov. 13, as part of its annual Community Recognition Awards.&nbsp; &nbsp; The luncheon is part of the University&rsquo;s year-long celebration&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39719,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/39719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}