[179] MTSU Ag Student Bryan Earns TN Council of Cooperative Scholarship

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School of Agribusiness and Agriscience contact: Dr. Warren Gill, 615-898-2523 or Warren.Gill@mtsu.edu

MTSU ag student Bryan earns TN Council of Cooperatives scholarship

MURFREESBORO — MTSU sophomore Jimmy Joe Bryan of Morrison, Tenn., is the recipient of a $750 scholarship from the Tennessee Council of Cooperatives, the TCC announced recently.

Bryan, the son of Steve and Eleanor Bryan of Morrison, is working on bachelor’s in agribusiness.

Bryan has worked in the MTSU Farm Laboratories, where he has been involved in all aspects of crop production. He has worked for Warren County Livestock, Bryan Livestock Company and Randall Walker Farms. He is a member of the Warren and Coffee county Farmers Cooperative and also a member of the Collegiate Future Farmers of America at MTSU.

After graduation, Bryan said he hopes to have a career in agriculture and also plans to raise beef cattle.

The Tennessee Council of Cooperatives sponsors six scholarships for agricultural students from each of Tennessee’s four-year ag programs. The scholarship program, started in 1984, is an effort to acknowledge and aid the young people most likely to return to communities served by rural cooperatives, a TCC news release states.

To be considered for the $750 scholarship, the student must be a Tennessee citizen, enrolled in a college of agriculture, maintain an overall grade point average of 2.5 out of a possible 4.0 and, if possible, be in in his or her junior year of study.

The TCC is a nonprofit organization established to promote the cooperative form of business through education and promotion of all types of cooperatives.

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PHOTO CAPTION:

MTSU School of Agribusiness and Agriscience Chair Warren Gill, left, is shown as sophomore Jimmy Joe Bryan receives a Certificate of Recognition from Keith Harrison, a Tennessee Council of Cooperatives representative. Bryan earned a $750 scholarship from TCC.
Photo submitted by Tennessee Council of Cooperatives


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