{"id":22993,"date":"2021-11-15T11:23:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T16:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=22993"},"modified":"2021-11-15T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T16:25:11","slug":"mid-ohio-valley-alumni-chapter-donates-75-tickets-to-local-students-in-honor-of-those-lost-in-1970-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/mid-ohio-valley-alumni-chapter-donates-75-tickets-to-local-students-in-honor-of-those-lost-in-1970-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Ohio Valley alumni chapter donates 75 tickets to local students in honor of those lost in 1970 plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Marshall University Alumni and Big Green chapter of the Mid-Ohio Valley, based out of Parkersburg, West Virginia, is always on a mission to make a difference. From raising scholarship funds for local students to supporting the athletic department, their wide-reaching impact just got larger.<\/p>\n<p>This week the chapter purchased 75 tickets to the Marshall-UAB football game scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 13, at 3:30 p.m. at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in honor of the 75 victims of the 1970 plane crash.<\/p>\n<p>The tickets were distributed to students in the Huntington area by Cabell County school principals and Huntington Mayor Steve Williams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are incredibly proud of the success of the Mid-Ohio Valley chapter as well as their generosity with this gift to the students in the Huntington community,&#8221; said Matt Hayes, executive director of alumni relations at Marshall. &#8220;To be able to honor the lives of the 75 in this way is a true testament to the Marshall spirit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since 2009, the chapter has provided over 100 scholarships to incoming Marshall freshmen from the Mid-Ohio Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Contributions to the Marshall University Foundation, the Marshall University Big Green Scholarship Foundation and other donations total over $260,000 and include an endowed scholarship fund of \u00a0$33,000.<\/p>\n<p>Persons who would like to donate to the chapter&#8217;s scholarship fund may visit \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.give.marshall.edu\">www.give.marshall.edu<\/a> and add &#8220;Mid-Ohio Valley Scholarship Fund&#8221; in the comments section to designate their gift.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <\/em>Recipients of Marshall University scholarships at Parkersburg South High School from May of 2021.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marshall University Alumni and Big Green chapter of the Mid-Ohio Valley, based out of Parkersburg, West Virginia, is always on a mission to make a difference. From raising scholarship funds for local students to supporting the athletic department, their wide-reaching impact just got larger. This week the chapter purchased 75 tickets to the Marshall-UAB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":22994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22995,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22993\/revisions\/22995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}