Army Community Services Scholarship Program Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Army Community Services (ACS) has been sending students to camp at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center for 25 years. Evelyn Fox, wife of MG Eugene Fox (USA Ret), initiated the program when the couple lived in Huntsville in the early 1980s. Mrs. Cox (shown at right on the back row) and her husband were special guests at the Awards Ceremony held for the 2009 winners on June 4th in the 3D theater in the Davidson Center for Space Exploration at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Winners are selected through an essay contest and over 300 have benefited from the ACS program since the first group arrived in 1984. This year’s students earned the honor to attend camp June 7-12, 2009.
Sponsors who work with ACS to fund this scholarship program include Air Defense Artillery Association; American Legion Family, Post 237; Association of the United States Army; Officer and Civilian Women’s Club; The Redstone Thrift Shop; Systems Studies & Simulation, Inc. (S3,); and Redstone Federal Credit Union.