{"id":20658,"date":"2015-06-12T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=20658"},"modified":"2015-06-12T00:25:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T05:25:13","slug":"apsu-supporter-don-jenkins-receives-tennessee-board-of-regents-chancellors-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2015\/06\/12\/apsu-supporter-don-jenkins-receives-tennessee-board-of-regents-chancellors-award\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU supporter Don Jenkins receives Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor’s Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Don Jenkins, president and CEO of Jenkins & Wynne Ford-Lincoln-Honda, was presented with the Tennessee Board of Regents 2015 Chancellor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Philanthropy earlier this month in recognition of his years of service to Austin Peay State University.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Jenkins is a true friend and supporter of this University,\u201d John Morgan, TBR Chancellor, said during the annual APSU Foundation Dinner on June 2nd.<\/p>\n

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Austin Peay President Alisa White, Sandy Jenkins, Don Jenkins and TBR Chancellor John Morgan celebrate Don Jenkins receiving the 2015 Chancellor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Philanthropy. (Beth Liggett\/APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWhat strikes me most about his generosity is that he didn\u2019t attend Austin Peay. Mr. Jenkins graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, but as a business leader in this community, he sees the value Austin Peay State University brings, and he isn\u2019t shy about championing this institution,\u201d said Morgan.<\/p>\n

In 2001, when Jenkins served as the chairman of the APSU Foundation Board of Trustees, he pledged a major financial gift to \u201cgo toward the University\u2019s most critical need.\u201d At that time, the Morgan University Center was under construction, and it looked as if the University would not have enough money to complete that project.<\/p>\n

Jenkins\u2019 gift allowed APSU to furnish the gallery and reception area in the center, providing APSU students with a place to gather and display their artwork. That area is named in his honor.<\/p>\n

Jenkins also established two endowed scholarships at APSU, donated funds to renovate the locker rooms for APSU\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team and helped finance the newly renovated Governors Stadium. The basketball locker room is named in his honor, and a plaza in the new stadium is named in honor of his late son, Blake Jenkins.<\/p>\n

His support, however, extends beyond financial contributions to Austin Peay. Jenkins regularly attends APSU athletic events, and he has served as co-chair of the APSU \u201cChanging Minds, Changing Lives\u201d Capital Campaign. Jenkins is a member of the APSU Presidential Circle of Advisors, and he currently serves as president of the Austin Peay Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – Don Jenkins, president and CEO of Jenkins & Wynne Ford-Lincoln-Honda, was presented with the Tennessee Board of Regents 2015 Chancellor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Philanthropy earlier this month in recognition of his years of service to Austin Peay State University. \u201cMr. Jenkins is a true friend and supporter of this University,\u201d John […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[22711,23,11737,6332,6333,1355,11642,12848,7207,21151,262,26075,825,12839,7563,4876,9269,6884,26076,19952,2138],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-5nc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20659,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658\/revisions\/20659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}