{"id":8238,"date":"2011-09-27T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=8238"},"modified":"2011-09-26T22:55:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T03:55:20","slug":"new-scholarship-at-apsu-honors-longtime-educator-patricia-hancock-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/09\/27\/new-scholarship-at-apsu-honors-longtime-educator-patricia-hancock-richardson\/","title":{"rendered":"New Scholarship at APSU Honors Longtime Educator Patricia Hancock Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – In the spring of 2010, two years into her battle with cancer, Patricia Hancock Richardson reminded her husband, James, of an errand he needed to run.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said, \u2018make sure you get our basketball and football season tickets,\u2019\u201d James Richardson remembered. \u201c She told me, \u2018We\u2019re going to every game.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Patricia, known by her friends as Patty, had rooted for the Austin Peay State University Governors since the early 1950s, when she was a varsity cheerleader at the school. In the years that followed, she became a fixture at most home games, cheering on the Governors during good seasons and bad. So that spring, James listened to his wife and bought the tickets. They went unused.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe passed away that fall, in October 2010,\u201d he said recently. \u201cAustin Peay was a great love for her. She was very supportive of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

James plans to continue his late wife\u2019s long legacy of supporting APSU. He recently established the Patricia Hancock Richardson Memorial Scholarship, which when fully endowed will be awarded annually to students from Tennessee or Kentucky who plan to become teachers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to endow this scholarship in her name so that people will always remember who she was,\u201d James said. \u201cI\u2019m in the process now of writing her biography, and I hope when the first student receives this scholarship, I will be able to hand them the biography so they\u2019ll know the person who helped them with their education.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"James<\/a>

James Richardson holding a picture of his wife Patricia Hancock Richardson.<\/p><\/div>\n

Patty first came to Austin Peay in the early 1950s, after she graduated from Hopkinsville (KY) High School. She pursued a degree in education, but most of her spare time was spent in a varsity cheerleading uniform, which she wore while shouting her support for the Governors. After earning her degree in 1955, she remained on campus and went to work as a secretary for then-Austin Peay President Halbert Harvill.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring that time, she got her master\u2019s degree and graduated in 1966,\u201d James said. \u201cFrom there, she started working in the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System as a teacher out at Ringgold Elementary School.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her teaching career took her to Northwest High School and later to Clarksville High School, where she worked as a school counselor until she retired. But the cheerleader spirit inside of her never disappeared. Her students knew her as a woman proud to wear the color red, and always eager for the next APSU home game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI often said if she could have stopped and gone back in time, she would have gone back to 1955 when she was going to school here because she loved Austin Peay,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n

Anyone wishing to support this legacy and contribute to the Patricia Hancock Richardson Memorial Scholarship can contact the APSU Advancement Office at 931.221.7127, or send donations to the APSU Foundation, PO Box 4417, Clarksville, TN, 37044.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – In the spring of 2010, two years into her battle with cancer, Patricia Hancock Richardson reminded her husband, James, of an errand he needed to run. \u201cShe said, \u2018make sure you get our basketball and football season tickets,\u2019\u201d James Richardson remembered. \u201c She told me, \u2018We\u2019re going to every game.\u2019\u201d Patricia, known […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,2160,6332,262,2110,825,103,3345,10822,3374,10819,2114,10820,10821,2252],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-28S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238"}],"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=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8240,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions\/8240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}