{"id":928,"date":"2009-01-05T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T09:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/01\/05\/delta-state-mourns-the-death-of-esteemed-professor\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:55:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:55:29","slug":"delta-state-mourns-the-death-of-esteemed-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/01\/delta-state-mourns-the-death-of-esteemed-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State mourns the death of esteemed professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"216\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/SledgeTommy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font size=\"2\">Dr. Thomas Nevin Sledge, Chair of the Commercial Aviation Department at Delta State University, died Thursday, December 25, at Baptist East Hospital in Jackson following a battle with pancreatic cancer.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><span>A native of Cleveland, Sledge joined the Delta State staff as an aviation instructor in 1990 following a distinguished career in the U.S. Air Force and the Mississippi Air Guard.&nbsp; He became chair of the department in 1997. Sledge held a Master&rsquo;s Degree in Commercial Aviation from the University of Louisiana in Monroe, and a Doctorate of Education from Delta State University.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span>&ldquo;Tommy was the consummate professional and a man of honor and integrity,&rdquo; said Dr. Billy C. Moore, Dean of the College of Business.&nbsp; &ldquo;He was focused on providing quality education in aviation and was committed to Delta State and its students.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve never known anyone who enjoyed his profession more.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span>The son of former Senator, Nevin Sledge, and son-in-law of former Representative, Charlie Capps, Sledge is survived by his wife, Alinda Capps Sledge, Chair of the Social Work Department at Delta State; son Allen Thomas Sledge, of Memphis, TN; brother, Wilson H. Sledge, of Cleveland; and sisters Melissa Sledge Osborne of St. Louis, MO, and Luanne Sledge of Knoxville, TN.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dr. Thomas Nevin Sledge, Chair of the Commercial Aviation Department at Delta State University, died Thursday, December 25, at Baptist East Hospital in Jackson following a battle with pancreatic&#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-928","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\/928","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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41804,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/41804"}],"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=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}