{"id":36093,"date":"2025-02-03T13:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=36093"},"modified":"2025-02-03T13:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T18:54:19","slug":"joseph-vaughn-day-gains-media-coverage-on-wyff-fox-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/joseph-vaughn-day-gains-media-coverage-on-wyff-fox-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Vaughn Day gains media coverage on WYFF, FOX Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Jan. 31, Furman University held its annual celebration of Joseph Vaughn Day, which honors the first African American to enroll at the university. <a href=\"https:\/\/insight.tveyes.com\/public\/media-center\/4991e0cd-5f52-4bd1-9a6c-16cf6945b050\/1a8ef56d-d013-4e1d-b26b-5ebf1ed1ab87\">WYFF News 4<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/insight.tveyes.com\/public\/media-center\/4991e0cd-5f52-4bd1-9a6c-16cf6945b050\/889f2c8a-0869-4943-8464-3db305cd3b75\">FOX Carolina<\/a> brought crews to campus to cover the event that included remarks from Beth Pontari, vice president for Academic Affairs and provost; Lillian Brock Flemming \u201971 M\u201975 H\u201914; Jocelyn Boulware Bruce \u201917; assistant director of the Center for Interpersonal Connections; President Elizabeth Davis; Black Alumni Council President Rev. Reggie Garrett \u201998; and the presentation of the Idella Goodson Glenn Outstanding Black Alumni Award to Jackie Carson &#8217;00. A call to action was delivered by Hearst Fellow Soukeyna Pitroipa &#8217;25. See more in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/joseph-vaughns-courage-a-model-for-all-at-furman-to-embrace\/\">Furman News story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local TV news stations brought crews to cover the annual Joseph Vaughn Day celebration that honors the first African American to enroll at Furman University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":36077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3,24,70,1569,6,3230,90,61,120],"tags":[347,229],"class_list":["post-36093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-jvd","category-president","category-the-furman-advantage","category-wyff-tv","tag-diversity-and-inclusion","tag-joseph-vaughn-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36093"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36105,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36093\/revisions\/36105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}