{"id":350,"date":"2007-09-13T15:04:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T20:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.southernarkansasuniversity.info\/academics\/science_and_tech\/agriculture\/2007\/09\/six-southern-arkansas-university-students-receive-scholarships-from-allied-poultry\/350\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T20:04:25","slug":"six-southern-arkansas-university-students-receive-scholarships-from-allied-poultry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2007\/six-southern-arkansas-university-students-receive-scholarships-from-allied-poultry\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Southern Arkansas University students receive scholarships from Allied Poultry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/09\/poultry-scholarship-group.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[pics350]\" title=\"poultry scholarship recipients\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/09\/poultry-scholarship-group-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"poultry scholarship recipients\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" height=\"66\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>MAGNOLIA\u2014A couple days of cooking and serving chicken at the Arkansas State Fair in Little Rock will equal a year\u2019s tuition for six Southern Arkansas University students.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from Allied  Poultry, a part of the Arkansas Poultry Federation, select the students during an interview process, said Dr. James Tollett, chair of the SAU\u2019s agriculture department. Tollett said about 18 students applied for the scholarships this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllied Poultry pays for one semester and we pay for the other,\u201d Tollett said. \u201cMost of these students will be in the poultry industry when the graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for the scholarship money, students agree to devote two days during the state fair to working in \u201cThe Chicken Cooking Kitchen\u201d at the fairgrounds. The proceeds from the booth help keep the scholarship program alive each year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis beats student loans hands down &#8211; those are tricky; they tend to want it back,\u201d said Japheth May, one of the six recipients of the scholarships. \u201c(Allied Poultry) pays us pretty good wages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students who received the scholarship are Teresa Gaus, an agricultural sciences major from Beaumont, Tx.; Brant Henry, an agricultural education major of Dekalb, Tx.; Megan Lee, an agricultural business major from DeQueen, Ark.; Japheth May, an agricultural business major from Springhill, Ark.; Kyle Risley, an agricultural business major from Mena, Ark.; and Ashley Shelby, an agricultural business major from Maud, Tx.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has helped me out a whole bunch, I don\u2019t know if I could do it without the help,\u201d said Henry.<\/p>\n<p>With six scholarship recipients, SAU is the second largest recipient of the Allied Poultry scholarships in the state, falling only behind the University of Arkansas, Tollett said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.southernarkansasuniversity.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/poultry-scholarship-group.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[pics350]\" title=\"poultry scholarship recipients\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.southernarkansasuniversity.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/poultry-scholarship-group.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"poultry scholarship recipients\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" height=\"66\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>MAGNOLIA\u2014A couple days of cooking and serving chicken at the Arkansas State Fair in Little Rock will equal a year\u2019s tuition for six Southern Arkansas University students.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from Allied  Poultry, a part of the Arkansas Poultry Federation, select the students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65,310],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agriculture","8":"category-scholarship-news","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}