17th Artillery Regiment Association’s Scholarship Program

Since 2004 - 17 scholarships have been awarded for a total funds granted of $18,000.

2010 Scholarship Grants

By: Jackie M. Stroud Chairman Scholarship Committee

During the association’s annual general membership meeting held at the 2009 reunion, three scholarship grants for 2010 were voted on and authorized; one grant for one thousand five hundred dollars ($1500) and two grants for one thousand dollars ($1000) each.  

There were fourteen requests for scholarship application packets received and eight applicants returned a completed packet.

Each returned application was reviewed independently by the voting members of the committee and awarded points based on their best judgment using the information contained in the packet..

Once each voting members scoring form was returned to me, I established an Order of Merit List (OML) based on totaling the points awarded by all voting members. The 2010 voting committee members consisted of volunteers from our last reunion:  

Gilbert A. Bernabe                332 Panorama Circle                         Pottsboro, Texas 75076-3391
Donald L. Brooks                  35 Brooks Lane                                  Lowell , Ohio 45744-7309
Larry W. Lovejoy                  19401 Chioe Layne Road                   Spiro , Oklahoma 74959-4271
John C. Melasecca Jr.           25 Denise Drive                                  Thorton , PA 19373-1008
Terry Wallace                        335 Short Leaf Drive                         Medina , Tennessee 38355-6920

 The 2010 winners of the association scholarship grants in order of merit:    

Cody O. Fouts Attending South Forsyth High School, Atlanta , Georgia . With a 4.0 GPA  $1,500.00   Cody is the grandson of: Neal P. Fouts who served with Service Battery and Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 17th Artillery Vietnam 1968 - 1969

Hunter F. Brunwald Currently attending Eisenhower Senior High School Lawton , Oklahoma. With a 4.0 GPA   $1,000.00  Hunter is the son of: CSM Philip J. Brunwald who is presently serving as Command Sergeant Major with the 1st Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment at Fort Sill , Oklahoma .

Hugh G. Lazenberry Jr. Currently attending Friendswood High School Friendswood , Texas. With a 4.0 GPA  $1,000.00 Hugh is the grandson of:  Daniel L. Lazenberry, who served with Battery B, 17th Field Artillery Battalion in Korea, 1951 - 1952

Congratulations to our Scholarship winners this year, and a big thank you to our committee who diligently went through all of the applications and scored each and every one of the applications presented to them.  The scoring was amazingly close and I was glad I did not have to vote to break any ties in the selection this year.  It's great to see we have such intelligent young ones who are aggressively seeking to get to the next level. 

 Again Congratulations,

 Jack Stroud
Scholarship Chairman
17th Artillery Regimental Association