Walker in 2020-2021 was the ninth BC3 student-veteran to receive the $500 award and Marshana Harris this fall will be the 10th, according to Lynn Ismail, interim assistant director of the BC3 Education Foundation and its financial manager. “It makes you feel very good.”Īdded Chelsea Walker: “It really is a military-friendly school.” “That definitely reinforces that we made the right decision that BC3 is out there willing to help our veterans as well,” Christie said. “It really is a military-friendly school”īC3 is the only institution of higher education to which the Riders contribute financial gifts, Denny said, and is one that has been honored six times as a Military Friendly School, most recently in March. The motorcycle group has donated another $10,000 to the BC3 Education Foundation to support BC3 student-veterans.Īmong requirements for Riders’ 80 members are that they drive a motorcycle powered by at least a 350-cubic-inch engine.įunds for the Riders’ second gift to the BC3 Education Foundation were raised through raffles, registration fees for annual rides and contributions from members since 2015, said Denny Christie, the Riders’ president and a former military police officer in the Army in the 1970s. Patches and pins are shown on the front of a leather vest worn by Denny Christie, president of the Butler American Legion Riders from Post 117 and a former military police officer in the Army in the 1970s, on Butler County Community College’s main campus in Butler Township on Tuesday, Aug. The social and fund-raising group based in Butler contributed another $10,000 in July. The scholarship reached a $10,000 endowment level in 2018. The Butler American Legion Riders from Post 117 established the Butler American Legion Riders Veterans Incentive Scholarship Post 117 with the BC3 Education Foundation in 2015. (Butler, PA) A motorcycle group from an American Legion post in Butler County has contributed another $10,000 to its Butler County Community College scholarship fund, one that without another penny since its endowment in 2018 would have continued to support student-veterans pursuing higher education as they transition to civilian life.
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