... Academic Supporters

Applications are mailed to scholarship candidates in late spring and the winner is announced at our annual picnic.  Funds will be made available to the recipient prior to the start of classes in August.

Please consider donating to our scholarship fund by using the link at the left of the page.  Your contributions are tax deductible and help our fund grow so we can provide larger/more scholarship awards to deserving students.  Please help us spread Penn State pride throughout middle TN!

Lora is our first adult student and veteran to earn a chapter scholarship.  She served in the U.S. Army for eight years, including two tours in Iraq.  Lora says that military service changed her life in many ways.  In her scholarship application she says the military "gave me the opportunity to travel and experience cultures in several countries.  The need to work with others was a matter of life and death.  I learned to respond instantly to orders as well [as] the responsibility of giving orders to others.  Military life taught me many organizational skills and always supplied something new to learn.  My two tours of duty in Iraq taught me that I can survive in conditions that I would never have dreamed of encountering and without the conveniences that I once again appreciate."

Lora and her husband (a law student at Penn State's Dickinson School of Law) are the proud parents of a little daughter.  Lora says that as "the mother of a little girl, earning a college degree will set the example of the importance of education and completing goals."