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Fresno State students Joseph Greene, Stephanie Rodriguez and Wendell J. King received a full of $1,500 successful scholarships from the Marine Corps League Fresno successful a ceremonial hosted astatine the Clovis Veterans Memorial District connected June 22.
“This assistance means the satellite to me. It shows that Marines look retired for each other, particularly successful their times of need,” said Joseph Greene, a Marine Corps seasoned studying concern medication with an accent successful machine accusation systems.
“As my woman and I are expecting our archetypal kid successful August, this assistance volition assistance with household essentials and question expenses to and from school.”
Originally from Fresno, Greene decided aboriginal successful his beingness that helium wanted to service his country. After enlisting, helium was stationed astatine Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii and aboriginal deployed to Afghanistan, wherever helium served successful an artillery unit. After deployment, Greene served connected a ceremonial item that covered Hawaii and the West seashore — wherever helium presented an American emblem to the families of fallen work members during their ceremonial services. For this, Greene earned a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.
Greene said, “I ne'er thought I would be immoderate assemblage aft my clip successful the Marine Corps, however, I knew Fresno State was a large spot to acceptable myself isolated from contention successful the workforce.”
At Fresno State, Greene was capable to find enactment and assemblage with different student-veterans done the university’s TRIO Student Support Services Veterans program.
Rodriguez and King are besides members of the program.
Rodriguez said, “Normally I would beryllium mislaid and effort to fig things retired myself, but with the assistance of the TRIO programme I person felt much comfy reaching retired to them for immoderate question. I consciousness similar there’s ever idiosyncratic disposable for guidance.”
Originally from San Diego, Rodriguez joined the Marine Corps successful 2007. She completed footwear campy successful Parris Island, South Carolina and was past stationed astatine Camp Hansen successful Okinawa, Japan, wherever she was meritoriously promoted little than a twelvemonth aft her arrival. She stayed successful Japan for 2 much years and past spent the past 2 years of her enlistment successful North Carolina. She settled successful Fresno successful 2011.
A viticulture and enology major, Rodriguez is the archetypal successful her household to be college.
In the TRIO program, veterans person individualized counseling, world enactment tailored for pupil veterans and a assortment of workshops connected topics specified arsenic wealth absorption and vocation development.
“TRIO has been fantabulous successful helping maine modulation to a university,” King said. “The workshops were beneficial successful maine knowing the process to get a job, however to decently hole for an interview. The University 8 programme seemed to grow connected the workshops to incorporated caller techniques to studying and ways to amended employment opportunities.”
A elder majoring successful psychology, King served arsenic a infirmary corpsman successful the military, caring for injured and wounded servicemen.
King is simply a third-generation seasoned — his begetter is simply a retired Army Sergeant First Class and his gramps retired from the Army aft serving successful 2 wars.
Being a Bulldog has besides go a household contented — King’s youngest son, Jabari King, is besides a pupil astatine Fresno State. A student-athlete connected the men’s way and tract team, Jabari King placed 4th successful the Mountain West championships past play and represented Fresno State successful the USA U20 way championship.
Wendell King plans to prosecute a master’s grade successful household therapy aft completing his bachelor’s grade this year. “That, combined with my enactment arsenic an diversion trainer, I anticipation to unfastened a grooming installation that has a holistic presumption connected intelligence wellness arsenic well,” King said.
The TRIO Student Services Veterans programme relies connected backstage support. To larn however to contribute, interaction Katie Bewarder astatine katieadamo@csufresno.edu.
