{"id":41179,"date":"2016-05-16T08:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T12:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=41179"},"modified":"2021-07-09T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T20:21:21","slug":"wright-state-to-offer-scholarship-in-memory-of-shooting-victim-parris-hummons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/16\/wright-state-to-offer-scholarship-in-memory-of-shooting-victim-parris-hummons\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State to offer scholarship in memory of shooting victim Parris Hummons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?attachment_id=41184\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41184\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41184\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2016\/05\/parris-hummons-1.jpg\" alt=\"parris-hummons-1\" width=\"186\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a>Wright State University is establishing a scholarship fund to honor the memory of Parris Hummons, a 19-year-old Wright State student who was tragically shot and killed in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wright.edu\/give\/hummons\">Parris Hummons Memorial Scholarship<\/a> is being created thanks to the generosity of David and Theresa Gasper.<\/p>\n<p>Hummons was shot and killed April 16 while riding in a car with a friend in the Bond Hill area of Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Hummons was a graduate of the Dayton Early College Academy class of 2014 and a second-year student at Wright State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/university-college\">University College<\/a>, where she was majoring in rehabilitation services.<\/p>\n<p>The Dayton Early College Academy, or DECA, is a nontraditional charter high school focused primarily on preparing first-generation urban students to go to college. David Gasper, a Wright State alumnus, is on the DECA Governing Board.<\/p>\n<p>DECA graduates will be the preferred recipients of the scholarship money. To be eligible, students must have a minimum 2.5 GPA and demonstrate financial need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this will not undo the terrible tragedy for Ms. Hummons and her family, it will create a legacy and opportunity for DECA and Wright State students,\u2019\u2019 Gasper said.<\/p>\n<p>To\u00a0make a donation to the Parris Hummons Memorial Scholarship visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wright.edu\/give\/hummons\">wright.edu\/give\/hummons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dayton Early College Academy graduates will be the preferred recipients of the Parris Hummons Memorial Scholarship. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/16\/wright-state-to-offer-scholarship-in-memory-of-shooting-victim-parris-hummons\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":41182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,2040,725,715,2089,2119,2061],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-giving","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-social-work","category-university-college","category-undergraduate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41179"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41187,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41179\/revisions\/41187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}