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V E T E R A N S U P W A R D B O U N D
THE TOPPER
Summer 2016 Volume 24 Issue 1
Scholarship Winners……………………………………………….2 Scholarship Cont’d and Special Guests………………………..3 News and Notes……………………………………………………..4 Important Phone Numbers and Dates………………………..…5
Veterans Upward Bound held their 24th annual awards banquet on
Friday, August 19, 2016 at the Holiday Inn University Plaza. We here
at VUB wish to extend our gratitude to all our guests who attended this
year’s banquet and made it a success. We owe all our success to your
participation in our program.
We were honored to have as our guest speaker, United States Army
Veteran Shawn Stovall from South Central Kentucky Community and
Technical College.
We were also honored to have Jenean Hampton, a United States Air-
force Veteran and the current Lt. Governor of Kentucky in attendance
and to participate in our missing man ceremony.
This year’s alumnus of the year recipient is Teresa Jameson.
Teresa is a United States Air Force Veteran and currently works for the
Testing and Counseling Center at Western Kentucky University.
The VUB Student of the Year recipient is Nichole Hudgens. Nichole
is a United States Army Veteran and is currently pursuing her nursing
degree at Western Kentucky University.
Teresa Jameson, VUB Alumnus of the Year,
and Krystol Stinson, VUB Staff Member
Shawn Stovall, Guest Speaker,
USArmy Veteran, and Director of Career and
Academic Planning at SKYCTC
Nichole Hudgens, VUB Student of the Year,
and Joseph Hunter, VUB Tutor
2 Bertha Hunter Office Associate (270) 745 5310 [email protected]
Davy Stone Director (270) 745 6876 [email protected]
David W. Angle Adult Education Specialist (270) 745 6570 [email protected]
Rick Wright Counselor/Coordinator (270) 745 5008 [email protected]
Krystol Stinson Outreach Coordinator (270) 745 6570 [email protected]
Beth England Adult Education Specialist (270) 745 5024 [email protected]
Teresa Jameson was presented the WKU Bookstore
Scholarship of $100 by Davy Stone. Teresa is attend-
ing WKU.
Nichole Hudgens was presented the Col. and Mrs.
Robert E. Spiller Scholarship of $300 by Davy Stone.
Nichole is attending WKU pursuing her nursing
degree.
Amy Parker was presented the American Legion Post
23 Scholarship of $500 by Mike Kenney.
Amy is attending WKU pursuing her business de-
gree. She has also been selected to be this year’s nomi-
nee for the NAVUB scholarship.
Gerald Nichols was presented the VFW Post 1298
Scholarship of $500 by Commander Dean Fraizer.
Gerald is attending WKU.
3 Pictured left: Steven Price was presented the Col. Joe
Wright Memorial Scholarship of $600 by MOAA Past
President Dwight Pounds. Steven attends WKU. Steven
was unable to attend the banquet.
Tim Rowe was presented the Col. Joe Wright Memorial
Scholarship of $600 by MOAA Past President Dwight
Pounds. Tim attends WKU.
Joseph Hunter was presented the Col. Joe Wright
Memorial Scholarship of $600 by MOAA Past President
Dwight Pounds. Joe attends WKU and is pursuing his
engineering degree.
TRIO Director, Martha Sales, offered opening
remarks and university greetings to those in
attendance.
Lt. Governor, Jenean Hampton, offered greetings to
those in attendance.
Shawn O’Keefe, President of the US Military Vets Mo-
torcycle Club, along with members of the club, with the
assistance of David Angle & Jenean Hampton present-
ed the Missing Man Ceremony.
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The staff of Veterans Upward Bound congratulates the following students
for completing their degree program:
Donna Bernardini Grantham University Spring 2015 Ryan McKenzie SKYCTC Spring 2015 Derek Brauer WKU Fall 2015 Michael Mills SKYCTC Fall 2015 Brandon Coffey WKU Fall 2015 James Montgomery SKYCTC Fall 2015 Teresa Druen WKU Spring 2016 Christopher Neal Park University Fall 2015 Bonnie Dykeman WKU Fall 2015 Anna Orndorff WKU Spring 2016 Alan Eubank WKU Spring 2015 Philip Parsons WKU Fall 2016 Sara Glover WKU Spring 2016 Sean Ray SKYCTC Spring 2015 Julian Heinze WKU Spring 2015 Fred Rowe WKU Fall 2015 Nathaniel Heltsley SKYCTC Spring 2015 Brandon Russell WKU Fall 2015 Billy Honeycutt WKU Spring 2016 Edmond Schwab WKU Spring 2016 Shaun Jones Daymar College Spring 2015 Casey Shenefield WKU May 2015 Richard Kittell WKU Spring 2015 Thomas Strode WKU Spring 2016 Jason Likens SKYCTC Fall 2015 Robert Tittle WKU Spring 2015 Thomas Moss WKU Spring 2016 Donovan Todd WKU Spring 2015 Dakota Reed SKYCTC Spring 2016 Johnathon Yates WKU Spring 2015 Ryan Maynard SKYCTC Spring 2015 Cody Zimmerman WKU Fall 2015
Those present at the banquet:
Top row left to right: Philip Parsons, Fred Rowe, Ed Schwab, James Montgomery
Bottom row left to right: Billy Honeycutt, Christopher Neal, Bonnie Dykeman, Shaun Jones
October 1 2017 FAFSA Available October 22 ACT Test Date November 4 ACT Registration Deadline for Dec. November 5 Bowling Green Veterans Day Parade November 23-25 VUB Offices Closed December 10 ACT Test Date
*Please call early for information on test dates. VUB may pay testing
fees, but to do so we must have your application at least six weeks prior to the registration postmark deadline.
Schella Smith, WKU VA Certifying Official (270) 745-3732
Stephanie Gabbard, VA Voc-Rehab, B.G. Office (270) 846-2092
Military Student Services, WKU (270) 745-5837
Carrie Orning, BGTC VA Certifying Official (270) 901-1003
Department of Employment Services, Bowling Green Don “Mac” McGlothlin (270) 746-7265
VA Regional Office, Louisville (502) 566-4482
VA Regional Office, Nashville, TN (615) 695-6384
VA Medical Center, Louisville (502) 287-4000
VA Medical Center, Nashville, TN (800) 228-4973
Military Records Branch, Frankfort (502) 607-6040
American Legion, Bowling Green (270) 781-3574 Veterans Service Officer
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Bowling Green (270) 781-1872
Important Numbers and Dates
5 The Director’s Desk gust 21st of next year (in fact, I’ve been plan-
ning to use this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
as a science lesson ever since I was hired as
Director in 2013).
I mentioned above that we are on the last year
of our current 5-year grant, so let me end by
sharing a bit about how VUB is able to pro-
vide the counselling and academic services
that we do. VUB receives its funding through
a 5-year grant from the U.S. Department of
Education in order to provide our services free
to qualified veterans. Our current grant was
written in 2012, which means we are funded
through September 2017. What happens after
that? Well, we are currently in the beginning
stages of writing our next grant, one which
will hopefully see us funded from October
2017 through September 2022. As part of our
grant, we are asked to show how the campus
community is involved and supports our pro-
gram. So if we contact you asking for a letter
of support, please respond quickly so that we
can strengthen our grant and ensure another 5
years of VUB at WKU.
Thanks!
Davy Stone
Greetings, friends of VUB! As our 15/16
year winds down, I wanted to take a moment
to look back at the successes our students have
had this year. We held our annual awards
banquet in August, and there we honored over
100 participants who had been admitted to
school since the last banquet, as well as 32
VUB alumni who have graduated with their
degrees since leaving our program. These
numbers are some of the best VUB at WKU
has seen, and we’re incredibly proud of our
participants for their educational successes
and honored to be able to help them on their
way.
Looking forward, on October 1st we will begin
the last year of our current 5-year grant. And
for VUB at WKU, this year will be very spe-
cial because it will be our 25th year serving the
southcentral Kentucky area. Last week we
had a staff meeting to plan activities for the
2016/17 school year, and I while I can’t give
you too many specifics yet, I can tell you
we’re planning to have an open house and a
special end-of-summer awards banquet. But
the one activity I’m most excited about per-
sonally is the total solar eclipse which will
pass through much of our service area on Au-
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