Published: August 21, 2018

MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE ANNOUNCED ON MONDAY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE RODNEY JOHNSON EAGLE SCOUT SCHOLARSHIP FUND.  ACCORDING TO A PRESS RELEASE, JOHNSON WAS A PULASKI NATIVE AND BECAME AN EAGLE SCOUT IN 1964 WHILE HE WAS WITH POST 462 IN PULASKI.  JOHNSON LATER GRADUATED FROM EMORY UNIVERSITY AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BEFORE BEFORE MOVING HIS WAY UP TO HIGHER LEGAL POSITIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY.  THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND IS BEING NAMED IN HIS MEMORY BY HIS SISTER JUDY JOHNSON AND IS ELIGIBLE FOR EAGLE SCOUTS FROM WITHIN THE MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA WHO ARE ENROLLING AT M-M-C AS FULL-TIME STUDENTS. THE SCHOLARSHIP WILL BE, AT THE MINIMUM, $1,000 PER YEAR AND IS RENEWABLE FOR FOUR YEARS BASED ON A MINIMUM 3.0 G-P-A.  EAGLE SCOUTS WHO WISH TO APPLY MAY CONTACT M-M-C’S FINANCIAL AID OFFICE.