{"id":2174,"date":"2017-07-18T10:22:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T14:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2017-07-26T10:28:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T14:28:46","slug":"hometown-sportswear-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/hometown-sportswear-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Hometown Sportswear establishes scholarship for art and design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John and Jeff McKenna, brothers who are owners of Hometown Sportswear, have established the\u00a0<em>Hometown Sportswear Scholarship for CCCTC<\/em>\u00a0through the Marshall University Foundation Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The scholarship is a one-time award for full-time, incoming freshmen in the School of Art and Design in the College of Arts and Media who were in good academic standing at the Cabell County Career and Technical Center and have completed one or more graphic design courses.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarshall is a big part of our community and our business,\u201d Jeff McKenna said. \u201cProviding this scholarship is our way of giving back to the university while also helping students who have talent and initiative but may need a little financial boost. Personally, I have benefited from the generosity of others in my college days, so this is my opportunity to \u2018pay it forward\u2019 and help the next generation realize their dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLearn as much as you can,\u201d Jeff McKenna said when asked for advice for today\u2019s students. \u201cLife will throw a lot of challenges at you. The more knowledge you have, the better prepared you\u2019ll be to overcome those challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the second scholarship the brothers have established. The first was a renewable award that benefits undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Media majoring in graphic design.<\/p>\n<p>Hometown Sportswear was established in 1994 in Barboursville, West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>For questions about a student\u2019s eligibility for the\u00a0<em>Hometown Sportswear Scholarship for CCCTC\u00a0<\/em>or the\u00a0<em>Hometown Sportswear Scholarship<\/em>, please contact the dean\u2019s office of the College of Arts and Media. For questions about starting a scholarship at Marshall University, please contact Krystle Davis at the Marshall University Foundation by phone at 304-696-6781 or by e-mail at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:krystle.davis@marshall.edu\">krystle.davis@marshall.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John and Jeff McKenna, brothers who are owners of Hometown Sportswear, have established the\u00a0Hometown Sportswear Scholarship for CCCTC\u00a0through the Marshall University Foundation Inc. The scholarship is a one-time award for full-time, incoming freshmen in the School of Art and Design in the College of Arts and Media who were in good academic standing at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}