{"id":42861,"date":"2026-08-10T18:50:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42861"},"modified":"2026-08-10T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:50:37","slug":"elizabeth-davis-featured-in-greenville-drives-green-day-photo-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/elizabeth-davis-featured-in-greenville-drives-green-day-photo-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Davis featured in Greenville Drive&#8217;s Green Day photo gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Furman University President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/elizabeth-davis\/\">Elizabeth Davis<\/a> was honored Aug. 5 at the Greenville Drive&#8217;s Green Day celebration at Fluor Field, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reutersconnect.com\/item\/elizabeth-davis-right-president-of-furman-university-holds-a-ceremonial-first-pitch-ball-while-greeting-reedy-ripit-mascot\/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX01UMVVTQVRPREFZMjk1MjUwMDY?lastViewed=dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX01UMVVTQVRPREFZMjk1MjUwMjI&amp;position=18\">USA Today Network<\/a> (via Reuters Connect) was there to capture the action. See a photo gallery of Davis with mascot Reedy Rip&#8217;It and Davis&#8217; ceremonial first pitch, among other Green Day scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Greenville leaders have been honored at the event annually since 2006. Davis was recognized for leading the university in top rankings including U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s \u201cMost Innovative Schools\u201d list, in addition to many other achievements during her 12-year career with Furman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USA Today Network via Reuters Connect captures all the Green Day festivities including Davis&#8217; ceremonial first pitch and deep conversations with mascot Reedy Rip&#8217;It.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":42419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,90,2960],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-president","category-usa-today"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42861","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=42861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42865,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42861\/revisions\/42865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}