{"id":25377,"date":"2018-01-26T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=25377"},"modified":"2018-01-25T22:56:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T04:56:47","slug":"fraternity-alumni-endow-new-scholarship-at-apsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/01\/26\/fraternity-alumni-endow-new-scholarship-at-apsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraternity alumni endow new scholarship at APSU"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Forty years before Leonard Hamilton became Florida State University\u2019s winningest head basketball coach, he was a young graduate assistant on the coaching staff at Austin Peay State University.<\/p>\n

Prior to his arrival, he\u2019d been initiated into the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, and while on campus, Hamilton encouraged a group of motivated young men to establish a chapter at Austin Peay.<\/p>\n

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Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity\/Theta Beta Endowed Scholarship at APSU.<\/p><\/div>\n

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On May 5th, 1975, the Theta Beta Chapter was chartered at APSU, with the national Kappa Alpha Psi organization mandating the new members to inspire \u201cservice in the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe set out to provide support to Austin Peay and the communities that surrounded it,\u201d James Greenlee (\u201993) said. \u201cOur undergraduates planned and executed numerous community service projects, served as leaders in student government and joined with alumni members to provide scholarships to new students. These efforts proved very important in our ability to attract men of good character for the fraternity and good ambassadors for the University.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once they graduated, those \u201cmen of good character\u201d continued to support their alma mater through gifts and informal scholarships. About five years ago, Greenlee decided it was time to formalize their efforts through Austin Peay\u2019s Endowed Scholarship program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Brothers, they were initially a little hesitant,\u201d he said. \u201cMany of them were already annual givers to the University, but a $25,000 minimum investment seemed a daunting task. I enlisted the help of fellow former chapter president James Dukes, and with the help of the University\u2019s advancement team, we were able to convince a \u2018faithful few\u2019 that the money would fund a scholarship at our alma mater, while also honoring our fraternity\u2019s legacy of service.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last fall, alumni members of Theta Beta Chapter partnered with the Austin Peay State University Foundation to establish the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity\/Theta Beta Endowed Scholarship for the benefit of students attending Austin Peay.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the halftime festivities at Homecoming 2017, we presented APSU President Alisa White with a $25,000 check to begin the process,\u201d Greenlee said. \u201cWe are continuing to raise funds in an effort to expand the scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recipients must have a minimum 2.5 GPA, submit a 500-word essay on why they should receive the award and complete 40 hours of volunteer work. For information on the scholarship, contact the Office of University Advancement at advancement@apsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – Forty years before Leonard Hamilton became Florida State University\u2019s winningest head basketball coach, he was a young graduate assistant on the coaching staff at Austin Peay State University. Prior to his arrival, he\u2019d been initiated into the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, and while on campus, Hamilton encouraged a group of motivated young […]<\/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":[22711,23,6684,11642,262,12312,825,31450,7858,31452,31451,221,31453,31449,2225],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6Bj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25377"}],"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=25377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25378,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25377\/revisions\/25378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}