  {"id":5837,"date":"2025-05-05T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=5837"},"modified":"2025-05-05T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:28:15","slug":"jones-college-and-wdam-tv-honor-top-of-class-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-and-wdam-tv-honor-top-of-class-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ and WDAM-TV honor Top of Class 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ELLISVILLE- Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ was thrilled to be able to host WDAM-TV\u2019s annual Top of Class 2025 recognition program with a live, \u201cred-carpet\u201d event. WDAM-TV news\/weather personalities Elle Davis, Trey Howard and Riley Bridges, along with Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ executive vice presidents, Dr. Tessa Flowers and Dr. Finee\u2019 Ruffin were photographed with the area\u2019s valedictorians and salutatorians to commemorate the special event held at Âé¶¹Ö±²¥. The group of nearly 100 high school students were celebrated with a day of recognition including breakfast, entertainment and inspiring comments from WDAM-TV News Director, Emily Forrester, Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ President, Dr. Jesse Smith, and Mississippi Senator District 42, and Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ alumnae, Robin Robinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each student was recognized and received a special, Top of Class Certificate of Achievement, commemorative T-Shirt and participated in the traditional Hat Toss while the WDAM-TV production crew documented the event to be featured during WDAM-Sunrise at 6:58 a.m., on May 12, through June 13, and on the WDAM-TV webpage.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lamar-christian-receiving-certificate-ws-sa-carson-keener-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lamar-christian-receiving-certificate-ws-sa-carson-keener-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lamar-christian-receiving-certificate-ws-sa-carson-keener-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lamar-christian-receiving-certificate-ws-sa-carson-keener-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lamar-christian-receiving-certificate-ws-sa-carson-keener-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lamar-christian-receiving-certificate-ws-sa-carson-keener-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe always look forward to hosting Top of the Class with WDAM-TV because we get to see these bright students reach the pinnacle of their high school academic careers. Plus, we get to learn about how they have already impacted their communities and hear about their future plans which include continuing to do some great things,\u201d said Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ President, Dr. Jesse Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check on the WDAM-TV Top of Class website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdam.com\/topofclass\/%20\">https:\/\/www.wdam.com\/topofclass\/<\/a> for a schedule of when each high school\u2019s Top of Class video will air on WDAM-TV Sunrise News.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/hat-toss-group-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/hat-toss-group-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/hat-toss-group-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/hat-toss-group-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/hat-toss-group-1536x1015.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/hat-toss-group-2048x1354.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLISVILLE- Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ was thrilled to be able to host WDAM-TV\u2019s annual Top of Class 2025 recognition program with a live, \u201cred-carpet\u201d event. WDAM-TV news\/weather personalities Elle Davis, Trey Howard and Riley Bridges, along with Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ executive vice presidents, Dr. Tessa Flowers and Dr. Finee\u2019 Ruffin were photographed with the area\u2019s valedictorians and salutatorians &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-and-wdam-tv-honor-top-of-class-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ and WDAM-TV honor Top of Class 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5842,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions\/5842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}