1 August 2020
Again, this year, I extend a special thank you to the members of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of MOAA, for your continued selfless donations in support of military families and veterans.
This year we will continue our focus of funding the Middle Tennessee Chapter of MOAA Veteran's Scholarship (two S1,000 grants) at both Belmont and Lipscomb Universities. Administered with our written direction, these scholarships give preference to permanently disabled and other combat wounded veterans. Since the GI Bill and the Yellow Ribbon Programs do not provide 1OO% of the funding that students need, our scholarships can be the difference that allows a veteran to obtain a degree. It is our intent to continue working with these two schools to further address veteran's scholarship needs.
Further good news is that through our chapter's relationship with Lipscomb University, a previous scholarship donor agreed to transfer over $4,000 to begin funding an endowed MOAA Veteran Scholarship at the university. So, beyond our contributions to the annual Belmont and Lipscomb Veteran Scholarships, we are now contributing to a permanent endowed veteran scholarship at Lipscomb University.
Our Chapter also continues to provide funding beyond the three endowed MOAA scholarships which we have completely funded, to the national scholarship initiative. Students (under the age of 24) who are children of former, active, or retired officers or active or retired enlisted military personnel are eligible to apply for the MOAA Scholarship program.
These programs are not possible without your generous contributions.
Your board is once again asking that every chapter member make as a minimum a S2S.OO tax-deductible contribution to support this very worthwhile initiative. Should you choose to make a direct contribution to MOAA in response to their National solicitation, we would sincerely appreciate your annotating your check to have the funds credited to the Middle Tennessee Chapter contribution.
We have enclosed a self-addressed envelope which can be used to send your check made payable to the MTC MOAA Scholarship Fund to P.O. Box 50252. Nashville. TN 37205-0252.
We ask that you make every effort to do so by October 30. 2020. Thank you again for your support of this highly worthwhile endeavor!
/S/
Michael G. Patenaude
LTC, USA (RET)
President
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