AFA National Report

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Blame Thomas K. Keller for the pun. The Gen. Joseph W. Ralston Chapter's communications director wrote that Christine Stahl received "a lift" from the Ohio chapter: an Air Force Association Mike & Gail Donley Spouse Scholarship. Stahl will use the $2,500 award-one of 12 granted in 2015-to help fund studies for a master's degree in family nursing. Chapter President Robert L. Brewster made the presentation in August. The scholarship is open to Total Force spouses, including Department of the Air Force civilian spouses, to help pay their college education expenses. "This is an important recognition of the great sacrifices made not only by the men and women in our armed forces, but by their families," said Brewster. He pointed out that Sergeant Stahl has deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan with the 123rd Air Control Squadron, part of the Ohio Air National Guard's 178th Wing. AFA named the spouse scholarship in 2014 for the 22nd Secretary of the Air Force and his wife. The assocation, through what was then its Aerospace Education Foundation, granted its first spouse scholarships in 1995. That year, 500 spouses competed for 10 scholarships.