A/101 Aviation Memorial Scholarship

The A/101 Aviation Association Inc. Memorial College Scholarship Fund is one that provides an annual scholarship to a son, daughter, grandson, and granddaughter (to include adopted and step-children) of current and former members of the A/101 Aviation Association. Though specific criteria is established for the awarding of this annual scholarship to include documentation supporting the need for financial assistance, special consideration will be afforded those students applying whose parents, grandparents, or guardians lost their lives while performing the mission of A/101 Aviation, its antecedents, or future unit designations.

It is the association’s intent to amass a sizable amount in the fund so that future scholarships can be awarded from the interest earned without touching the principal. This practice will ensure the scholarship fund remains in a perpetual state of being. It is also the intent of the association to increase the number of scholarships awarded annually as well as the dollar amount of each individual scholarship. The scholarship(s) will be apportioned over a 4-year period; therefore, and as an example, a $2000.00 scholarship award would be apportioned at the rate of $500.00 annually.

A/101 Aviation Memorial College Scholarship Fund Donors

Platinum Wings Donor ($10,000.00 - more)

Moose Lodge #1469

Gold Wings Donors ($1000.00 - $9999.00)

◊ MAJ (Ret) James E. Tate, Jr. ◊ Tom and Linda Halligan ◊ Paul and Valerie Cauley

◊ Anonymous Donor (name withheld by request) ◊ LTC (Ret) Robert Clewell

Silver Wings Donors ($303.00 - $999.00)

◊ Richard and Victoria Bittle ◊ Harold J and Jeannette Smith ◊ Ronald & Mitzy Carl ◊ Karen, Ron and Mary Crotty ◊ Chuck Slezak ◊Peter N & Maryann Federovich ◊ Ed and Kathy Schmelzer ◊ Jerry and Nancy Wofford ◊John and Anita Gianvittorio ◊ John D. Kennedy - ◊ Arthur and Jane Amato ◊ Michael Gouch - ◊Cindy and Shane McWhorter - ◊ Kenneth and Sharon Tromp ◊ Ritchie E. (Poker Chip) & C.C. Rider ◊ Gerald and Andrea Crews - CW4 Michael and Jacqueline White - CPT John Wilson - Paul W. "Coyote" and Karen Wiley

Bronze Wings Donors

Stephen and Dixie Cipot - Stanley and Carol Rosinski - John Collier - Curtis Bodin JR - Richard Anderson III - E. G. "Jerry" and Lucile Turner - LTC Tony and Judy Fish - LTC Ronnie and Carla Miller - CW4 (RET) Michael and Bernadette Alford - Charlie Phil and Barbara Seawright - Ron Burchfield - Carlee Bittle - Vincent Vicari - LTC John Harris - Jerry Wofford gift donation 6/16/08 - Jim Thompson - Sid Levin - LTC Robert S. LaMonte (Ret) - Tony R. Lowe - Lawrence Payne in Memory of Andy Hyman

In addition to the above named generous Wings Donors we wish to thank the dozens of anonymous cash donors who have generously donated to help educate the children and grandchildren of our veterans.

◊ A/101 Avn Association members who are "Founding Sponsors" to the scholarship fund ◊

The association has set a contribution annual goal of $101.00 per association member per year. Association members setting aside just $8.45 per month would amass $101.40 in a 12-month period. Association Members who pledge a $101.00 annual donation will be called " ◊ Founding Sponsors" of the scholarship fund. All association members are asked to mail their annual donations to the association no later than April of each year. The A/101 Avn Association, Inc is a tax-free** IRC 501 (c) (19) organization.

If you wish to pledge to become a ◊ Founding Sponsor please notify Richard Bittle.

SCHOLARSHIP FUND RAISING EVENTS WERE HELD MAY 10 2008 IN NORTHERN KY.

THE MOOSE LODGE #1469 DONATED $16,002.39 TO THE A/101 SCHOLARSHIP FUND REPRESENTING THE FUNDS RAISED FROM THIS BENEFIT!!

Update 6/26/08 Moose Lodge #1469 donated an additional $130.00

Update 6/25/2009 Moose Lodge #1469 donated an additional $2000.00

A Huge Thank You to the NKY people for their generosity and support for our kids. Thank You the Moose Riders Club #1469 for organizing these events and for their hard work to make sure they were enormously successful. NKY is a great community with great Americans!

THANK YOU ALL

Corporate Sponsors

Anheuser-Busch was our first corporate sponsor in 2005. The generous Bud Store donations from Anheuser-Busch that were auctioned in 2007 raised the donations to initially fund our A/101 Avn Scholarship fund. We are honored by their continued support in 2006-2007-2008.

2008 2008

Attention all A/101 Aviation members!! We need your stories!!

An A/101 Aviation Legacy book is being produced with "all" of the proceeds helping fund the A/101 Aviation Memorial Scholarship Fund. We are soliciting war stories from ALL members and ALL eras/call signs of the Unit. If you wish to contribute to this request, please include your full name, rank and dates of service in RVN/Iraq/Afghanistan. We are putting together a book of our unit's combat history, which will be formatted in chapters, each dedicated to the era in which you served and in the participants own words, hopefully we will have it done by the next Week of The Eagles gathering.

Please send any such contributions to me at; egtwarrior25@sbcglobal.net and Kenny Tromp at; ktromp@aol.com .

This is your opportunity to tell your story of combat in your own words, thanks guys. Jerry Turner

The A/101 Aviation Association welcomes any and all individuals and organizations to raise funds for the purpose of enhancing the ability of the association to award scholarships to deserving students who meet the qualifications for application.

In order for the association to remain informed about fund raising events and to further officially sanction and support these wonderful events, the association Board of Trustees (BOT) desires that individuals responsible for such events contact the BOT, in care of, Mr. Richard A. Bittle, President, A/101 Aviation Association, Memorial College Scholarship Fund, PO Box 67, Ephrata, WA 98823-0067 with pertinent details regarding the proposed event. It is the association’s intent to support all fund raising events by organizations that comply with and support the aims and purposes of the A/101 Aviation Association and the association’s Memorial College Scholarship Program.

In compliance with the Association’s IRC 501 (c) (19) status, fund raising events by individuals or organizations in the name of the A/101 Aviation Association Memorial College Scholarship Program that have not been fully coordinated with the A/101 Aviation Association can not be officially approved nor sanctioned by the association.

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