{"id":11460,"date":"2021-09-14T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=11460"},"modified":"2021-09-14T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:55:10","slug":"familys-ties-to-area-belief-in-farming-inspire-gift-to-school-of-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2021\/people\/familys-ties-to-area-belief-in-farming-inspire-gift-to-school-of-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Family’s ties to area, belief in farming inspire gift to School of Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joyce Glasscock Reece says her family\u2019s history with the Upper Cumberland area dates back several hundred years. When she and her son, Edward, decided to sell their Cookeville home and use the proceeds to help others, Tech was the first place that came to mind.<\/p>\n

The John Martin Reece Endowed Scholarship is named for Joyce\u2019s father and is awarded to students majoring in agriculture at Tech, and the Nova Glasscock Endowed Scholarship is named for Joyce\u2019s grandmother and is also awarded to agriculture majors.<\/p>\n

The Reeces also established the College of Agriculture and Human Ecology Endowment which is used at the discretion of Dean Darron Smith. The CAHE used a portion of the funds to purchase a side-by-side four-person off-road work vehicle equipped with GPS technology for geomapping and grid soil sampling.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here:\u00a0 Edward and Joyce Reece (tntech.edu)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joyce Glasscock Reece says her family\u2019s history with the Upper Cumberland area dates back several hundred years. When she and her son, Edward, decided to sell their Cookeville home and use the proceeds to help others, Tech was the first place that came to mind. The John Martin Reece Endowed Scholarship is named for Joyce\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-11460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-people","8":"tag-facstaff","9":"tag-rs","10":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/09\/2021-09-14_6140bb3ab654f_Agriculturesidebysidevehicle.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11480,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions\/11480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}