2. Donating to the VNCA
  3. Monetary Donations
  4. Lee Roy Herron Scholarship

Lee Roy Herron Scholarship Application Procedures

Moments of peace-Infantrymen of the Ninth Marines and artillerymen of Twelfth Marines take time to attend church services at Fire Support Base Razor. The Chaplain was Lieutenant S. Rubino, United States Navy Battation Chaplain. [Lee Roy Herron in bottom right corner]: Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons Collection [va020940]
Moments of peace-Infantrymen of the Ninth Marines and artillerymen of Twelfth Marines take time to attend church services at Fire Support Base Razor. The Chaplain was Lieutenant S. Rubino, United States Navy Battation Chaplain. [Lee Roy Herron in bottom right corner]
(Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons Collection [va020940])

Criteria

  • - Enrolled as a graduate or undergraduate student at Texas Tech University.
  • - Studying a topic the principal focus of which is the Vietnam War (e.g. history, anthropology, sociology, literature).
  • - Conducting fieldwork in Vietnam would substantially further the research.
  • - Qualified Lubbock High School graduates will be given first priority.

Restrictions

  • - The scholarship money is to be used exclusively to participate in a TTU-sponsored trip to Southeast Asia.
  • - Scholarships will normally pay only a portion of the trip expense; therefore, scholarship recipients will be required to fund the balance of expenses not covered.

Application Procedures

  • - Submit a research proposal, transcript, and letter of recommendation from your academic advisor to the Vietnam Center. The documents can be delivered to the Special Collections Library Room 108, mailed to The Vietnam Center, Texas Tech University, Box 41041, Lubbock, TX 79409-1041, or emailed to vnca@ttu.edu.
  • - A board will review the applications and make a recommendation to the Director of the Vietnam Center.
  • - Deadline: TBA