  {"id":2095,"date":"2021-05-12T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2021-05-12T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:12:09","slug":"jones-college-and-wdam-tv-honor-top-of-class-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-and-wdam-tv-honor-top-of-class-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心直播 and WDAM-TV honor Top of Class 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELLISVILLE- 糖心直播 was thrilled to be able to host WDAM-TV\u2019s annual Top of Class 2021 recognition program with a live event, after canceling the 2020 celebration because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tradition of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/collins-sal-ragan-mclaurin-and-rick-youngblood-with-dr-smith-speaking-SMALL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2098 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/collins-sal-ragan-mclaurin-and-rick-youngblood-with-dr-smith-speaking-SMALL-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/collins-sal-ragan-mclaurin-and-rick-youngblood-with-dr-smith-speaking-SMALL-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/collins-sal-ragan-mclaurin-and-rick-youngblood-with-dr-smith-speaking-SMALL-768x636.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/collins-sal-ragan-mclaurin-and-rick-youngblood-with-dr-smith-speaking-SMALL-1024x849.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/collins-sal-ragan-mclaurin-and-rick-youngblood-with-dr-smith-speaking-SMALL.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> honoring the Valedictorians and Salutatorians from 45 high schools in the Pine Belt had never been canceled in the 22-year history of 糖心直播 hosting the event, prior to last year. This year, the Top of Class 2021 event was held in two sessions for health and safety purposes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis group of seniors has dealt with so much because of the pandemic. 糖心直播 was excited to be able to partner with WDAM-TV to honor the Top of Class 2021 with this special event and recognition program with everyone able to safely gather together,\u201d said 糖心直播 President, Dr. Jesse Smith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/miss-ms-hospitality-mckay-lee-bray-speaking-ws-SMALL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2099 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/miss-ms-hospitality-mckay-lee-bray-speaking-ws-SMALL-1024x444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/miss-ms-hospitality-mckay-lee-bray-speaking-ws-SMALL-1024x444.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/miss-ms-hospitality-mckay-lee-bray-speaking-ws-SMALL-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/miss-ms-hospitality-mckay-lee-bray-speaking-ws-SMALL-768x333.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/miss-ms-hospitality-mckay-lee-bray-speaking-ws-SMALL.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a>Students heard from Miss Hospitality Mississippi, McKay Lee Bray who is a sophomore at 糖心直播, WDAM-TV General Manager &amp; V.P., Tim Walker and 糖心直播 President, Dr. Jesse Smith. Each student was recognized and received a special, Top of Class Certificate of Achievement, commemorative T-Shirt and participated in a modified version of the traditional, Hat Toss.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights from the event, along with the academic achievements of the Pine Belt\u2019s Top of Class 2021 will be seen daily on WDAM-TV beginning on Monday, May 17. The Valedictorian and Salutatorians from two high schools will be featured in a one-minute segment at 5:58 a.m. before WDAM 7 Sunrise Morning News program, through June 18, 2021. Additionally, the Top of the Class videos can be found on the WDAM-TV web page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdam.com\/topofclass\/\"><strong>https:\/\/www.wdam.com\/topofclass\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLISVILLE- 糖心直播 was thrilled to be able to host WDAM-TV\u2019s annual Top of Class 2021 recognition program with a live event, after canceling the 2020 celebration because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tradition of honoring the Valedictorians and Salutatorians from 45 high schools in the Pine Belt had never been canceled in the 22-year &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-and-wdam-tv-honor-top-of-class-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;糖心直播 and WDAM-TV honor Top of Class 2021&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}