Family creates Dr. Arthur J. Eaves Memorial Diversity Endowed Scholarship to honor late APSU professor
June 21, 2019
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University (APSU) Foundation recently received a gift from Charles Eaves and Elaine Eaves McCormick to create the Dr. Arthur J. Eaves Memorial Diversity Endowed Scholarship in memory of their late brother. The scholarship program is intended to aid a wide variety of APSU students.
Late Austin Peay State University professor Dr. Arthur J. Eaves. (APSU)
APSU alumnus creates Patsy Trotter Education Award Endowment to honor late wife
June 13, 2019
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Foundation recently got a contribution from APSU alumnus and former Clarksville mayor Don Trotter to endow the scholarship he and his sons previously created in memory of his late wife.
Patsy Trotter
Edelweiss Club of Clarksville establishes endowed scholarship for APSU students
June 6, 2019
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University (APSU) recently received a donation of $123,000 from the Clarksville Edelweiss Club to create the Edelweiss Club of Clarksville German Endowment. Edelweiss Club President Mary Ann Miner and Carl Eisemann presented the gift to APSU President Dr. Alisa White and retired Lt. Gen. Ronald Bailey, APSU vice president for external affairs, at a signing ceremony on May 10th, 2019.
Edelweiss Club President Mary Ann Miner presents a gift to Austin Peay State University President Dr. Alisa White to create the Edelweiss Club of Clarksville German Endowment. (APSU)
Irwin family establishes the APSU Hazel S. Irwin Emerging Leaders Endowment
May 16, 2019
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University (APSU) Business Office members established the Hazel S. Irwin Emerging Leaders Scholarship to honor their fellow employee and to benefit APSU students back in 1992.
Hazel S. Irwin
Parents of late APSU student establish the Tyler Head Agriculture Memorial Endowment
May 14, 2019
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University (APSU) agriculture student Tyler Head passed away on February 3rd, 2012. He was only 20 years old. In May of that year, his parents, Chuck Head and Gina Head Hieber, made a gift to the APSU Foundation, establishing a pass-through scholarship to honor his memory.
Tyler Head “had a genuine love of agriculture,” according to his father.
Dr. Susan J. Kupisch Psychology Endowment established to benefit Austin Peay State University students
May 1, 2019
Clarksville, TN – A generous gift to the Austin Peay State University Foundation has been made by retired faculty member Dr. Susan J. Kupisch to establish an endowed scholarship program for APSU students.
Dr. Susan J. Kupisch
Retired APSU professor Dr. Camille Holt establishes Jo and Isaac Buck Endowment
April 27, 2019
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University (APSU) retired professor of education Dr. Camille Holt recently donated $25,000 to the Austin Peay Foundation to honor the memory of her late parents by creating the Jo and Isaac Buck Endowment, an endowed scholarship program to benefit APSU students.
Dr. Camille Holt’s parents Jo and Isaac Buck.
Miss Austin Peay pageant wins best pageant in the state
April 6, 2019
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – Under the director of Victor Felts, Austin Peay State University (APSU)associate dean of students, and the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, the Miss Austin Peay pageant was recently named “Most Outstanding Local Pageant” by the Miss Tennessee Volunteer Scholarship Pageant.
Miss Austin Peay pageant. (APSU)
This February, APSU looks back at how Sidney Brown’s life intersects with history
February 20, 2019
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – On a mild November evening, Sidney Brown, 87, stood along the sidelines at Austin Peay State University’s Fortera Stadium. He wore a blue blazer, which sagged from all the medals pinned above the left pocket, and a ball cap for the 555th Parachute Infantry, the U.S. Army’s famed all-black airborne unit.
Austin Peay State University alumnus and Command Sgt. Maj. Retired Sidney Brown is honored with an endowed military and ROTC scholarship on Wednesday, August 31st, 2016. (Beth Lowary, APSU)
Austin Peay State University’s PELP juniors perform service work in Trinidad and Tobago
February 14, 2019
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – Earlier this winter, when Parth Patel visited the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago for the first time, he wasn’t expecting to find a Hindu temple tucked amid the island’s palm trees. “I’m Hindu,” Patel, an Austin Peay State University (APSU) junior, said.
“It was cool seeing the influence there because India is so far away. The temples were very traditional; one had scriptures on it, and I could understand the scriptures because they were in the same dialect,” stated Patel.
Emily Moore, a PELP junior and Austin Peay State University softball player, works with the construction supervisor at a Habitat site. (APSU)
