{"id":4483,"date":"2015-04-20T07:08:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T12:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2015-05-07T17:01:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:01:55","slug":"dinner-will-honor-retiring-president-dr-rankin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2015\/dinner-will-honor-retiring-president-dr-rankin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner will honor retiring President Dr. Rankin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/04\/SAU-Lifetime-Achievement-Dr-David-Ranking1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4484\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/04\/SAU-Lifetime-Achievement-Dr-David-Ranking1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"SAU Lifetime Achievement Dr David Ranking\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/04\/SAU-Lifetime-Achievement-Dr-David-Ranking1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/04\/SAU-Lifetime-Achievement-Dr-David-Ranking1-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/04\/SAU-Lifetime-Achievement-Dr-David-Ranking1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span>Southern Arkansas University and the SAU Board of Trustees are hosting a dinner event to honor Dr. David and Mrs. Toni Rankin at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 2, 2015, in the Reynolds Center Grand Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $25 each, and can be purchased by contacting Josh Kee at (870) 235-4321 or <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.saumag.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=b7b94b5353cf4d008eae38b823d05865&amp;URL=mailto%3aJoshKee%40SAUmag.edu\" target=\"_blank\">JoshKee@SAUmag.edu<\/a>. Seating is limited, so reserve your tickets soon.<\/p>\n<p>The evening will feature many distinguished guests from Rankin\u2019s past and present.<\/p>\n<p>Rankin will retire at the end of this academic year on June 30. He has served SAU for 45 years, and the past 13 as president. In 2002, he set forth with his ambitious \u201cBlue and Gold Vision,\u201d SAU\u2019s first capital campaign. He has almost completed that vision with numerous campus capital projects completed, totaling more than $100 million. The most recent project, the $4.4 million SAU Story Arena and Farmers Bank Reception Center, opened this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Arkansas University and the SAU Board of Trustees are hosting a dinner event to honor Dr. David and Mrs. Toni Rankin at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 2, 2015, in the Reynolds Center Grand Hall. Tickets are $25 each, and can be purchased by contacting Josh Kee at (870) 235-4321 or JoshKee@SAUmag.edu. Seating is&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2015\/dinner-will-honor-retiring-president-dr-rankin\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":791,"featured_media":4484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[7753],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-homepage","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483","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\/791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}