Southwest Tennessee Community College Scoop Newsletter
In This Issue...
- Message from President Tracy D. Hall
- Finance and Administration welcomes three new team members
- Southwest security focus of recent Pizza with the President
- Upward Bound students meet local professionals at Taking the Next Steps conference
- TSBDC hosts Lunch n’ Learn on new tax law
- Saluqi Basketball has banner year
- Southwest faculty and staff are a hit at national ATD conference
- African American History Month closes out with read-in
- Local engineers council honors Southwest student
- Welcome aboard, new team members
- Smash-Up fundraiser honors military hero April 7
- Southwest honor society earns 5-Star rating
- Dates to Remember
- Saluqi Athletics Corner
- Southwest Veteran’s Affairs presents training aimed at empowerment
- Help Wanted: Reconnect Ambassadors
Smash-up fundraiser honors
military hero April 7th
United States Army Staff Sergeant Daniel D. Merriweather made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty Jan. 13, 2010, in service to America. His parents Darryl and Pamela Finnie established the Smash-Up Fitness event to honor Merriweather’s service and sacrifice and to raise critical dollars to support the academic dreams of Southwest nursing students.
Everyone is invited to pay tribute to military service and support Southwest nursing students at the annual Smash-Up Fitness fundraiser Saturday, April 7, 10 a.m. – noon at Southwest Macon Cove Campus. Check-in is at 9 a.m. in the Nabors Gymnasium, warm-ups at 9:30. For a donation of $25 in advance or $30 at the door, participants will receive bottled water, refreshments and an event T-shirt. The event features two hours of fitness activities from various instructors specializing in country line dancing, yoga, kickboxing, Zumba and more.
All proceeds go to the Daniel D. Merriweather Memorial Scholarship Fund that awards scholarship dollars to Southwest Tennessee Community College nursing students. “The nursing program is intensive,” Pamela Finnie said. “I couldn’t work enough to help pay for all of it. The scholarship I received really made a difference,” she added.
“I wanted to make a difference and honor the fact that my son made a difference,” Finnie said. “I believe this scholarship does that. I hope it impacts someone’s life in a special way and gives them what they need to finish.”
Register online for the Smash-Up Fitness event to support the SSG Daniel D. Merriweather Scholarship Fund today. For more information, contact Shelia L. Bouie in the Nursing department.