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Updated: May 16, 2025 @ 6:01 am
Fort Cavazos Family Scholarship Fund staff, volunteers and scholarship recipients mingle during the FCFSF award ceremony May 7 at the Main Post Chapel on Fort Cavazos.
Fort Cavazos Family Scholarship Fund staff, volunteers and scholarship recipients mingle during the FCFSF award ceremony May 7 at the Main Post Chapel on Fort Cavazos.
The Fort Cavazos Family Scholarship Fund awarded $83,500 in scholarships on May 7 at the Main Post Chapel to members of the Fort Cavazos community entering the 2025-2026 academic school year. The nonprofit provided 36 high school graduates, five undergraduate spouses and three graduate spouses scholarships valued between $1,000 to $5,000.
The scholarships were funded by donations from over 15 organizations, grants and individuals. The Fort Cavazos Spouses Club and the Fort Cavazos Thrift Store were the highest contributors this year, with donations totaling $20,000 and $46,547.45, respectively.
According to the president of the FCFSA, Jennie Campbell, the best part of the night is celebrating the recipients.
“We get lots of donations and we volunteer. Why we do it? It’s our passion to support our military families that want to continue their education,” she said. “To us, there’s no other single greater contribution you can really make for someone’s future that will impact them, their families and their future families.”
The recipients did not know what amount of scholarship funds they were receiving until their names were called. The fund awarded scholarships based on merit and the scores applicants received during the blind judging of applications, which included an essay, letters of recommendation, transcripts and a record of community involvement. Fiorella Lopez Ruiz, recipient of the $5,000 scholarship awarded to a military spouse, did not imagine she would be the one to receive the highest scholarship.
“I thought I was going to get the $3,000 scholarship because they told me to come here and there’s three more people,” she said. “But then they kept passing other girls and other people, and then I’m like ‘Wait, what’s happening?’ … I was nervous. I feel very grateful for them for the opportunity that they’ve given me and for everything.”
Ruiz is attending Texas A&M in Central Texas and studying for a master’s in business administration. Ruiz decided to write her essay on how COVID-19 affected her and small businesses. She saw a lot of the struggles small businesses went through trying to survive during that time.
“The reason why I’m choosing to do my master’s in business administration is because I want to help businesses, not just one, if not multiple businesses, in different forms,” she said. “For example, right now I’m getting an internship for business analyst so I can help the small businesses to improve.”
With the close of the scholarship season, the organization is looking to replace several members of their executive board.
“Each of the organizations and nonprofits that we have on the installation, if they don’t have the minimum board members, they cannot continue,” said Dr. Mitzy DeAguilera, advisor and next year’s president for FCFSF. “We partnered with all six counties that we serve, the school superintendents and then local organizations that help us donate for grants, and then those key board members are the ones that manage the organization. Then those are the ones that make it possible for those scholarships to arrive to the public that need them.”
To learn more on how to serve on the board or volunteer with the organization, visit fortcavazosscholarship.org/volunteer-with-us.
The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center earned its third consecutive “A” Hospital Safety Grade May 1 from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national organization focused on health care quality. Read moreCRDAMC earns ‘A’ Spring Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group
This year’s Safety Awareness Day on May 16 urges the Fort Cavazos community to take a pause for the safety cause. Read moreSafety First:Putting “safe” in Safety Awareness Day
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