chaptersinaction Helping Out
Learn how MOAA’s councils and chapters help deserving students from military families obtain a college education by establishing designated scholarships through the MOAA Scholarship Fund.
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bout half of MOAA’s 416 chapters run a chapter-level scholarship program. These
programs often help members of local high school Junior ROTC programs. Others help youth in the community who might be headed to colleges with ROTC programs. These local programs comple- ment the MOAA Scholarship Fund, which helped more than 1,600 chil- dren of military officers and enlisted servicemembers in 2009. More and more chapters and several state councils now choose to support the
tasks required to run a scholarship program. For an investment by a chap- ter of $25,000 for each designated scholarship or $50,000 for an Ameri- can Patriot Grant, the scholarships and grants are funded in perpetuity. For designated scholarships, a chapter or council can name the scholarship and designate selection criteria. The Ark-La-Tex (La.) Chapter leads the nation in designated schol- arships with four. Two are in the chapter’s name, and two bear the name of longtime member Col. Steve dePyssler, USAF-Ret. The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Chapter
funded its first designated scholarship early and now is funding a second. Many chapters are surprised to find it’s easier than they thought to fund a designated scholarship. The Heart of Texas Chapter cur-
rently is MOAA’s only chapter to es- tablish an American Patriot Grant, which provides grants to students whose military parent — officer or enlisted — died on active duty. With college costs continuing to
MOAA Scholarship Fund directly by establishing a designated scholarship or an American Patriot Grant. The advantage is that MOAA han- dles the considerable administrative
rise, it’s becoming harder for families to afford sending their children to col- lege. And college-age children are fac- ing increasing competition for limited scholarship dollars. MOAA’s chapter system helps the association meet
ON THE ROAD: This month, Col. Lee Lange II, USMC-Ret., director of MOAA’s Council and Chapter Affairs, will visit chapter members in Texas. Go to MOAA Calendar, page 83, for dates.
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its mission by supporting the MOAA Scholarship Fund. Read more in this department’s main story, “Education for Today’s Youth.” Helping youth go to college is one more way MOAA chapters support their members and communities across America. Be part of it and join a local chapter today. — Col. Lee Lange II, USMC-Ret. Director, Council and Chapter Affairs
Education for Today’s Youth
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hen members of MOAA’s Portland (Ore.) Chapter started
a scholarship program, they de- cided the best way to help service- members’ college-bound children was to establish a designated schol- arship through the MOAA Scholar- ship Fund. Chapter members were inspired to establish a designated scholarship, which bears the chap- ter’s name, after guest speaker Sis- ter Catherine Mary Trtek outlined the benefits provided by the MOAA Scholarship Fund at one of the chapter’s regular meetings. Several years ago, Trtek and her mother, Josephine, established a designated scholarship to honor the memory of Trtek’s late father, Capt. Joseph Trtek, USAF.
PHOTO: STEVE BARRETT
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