Command Sergeant Major Kevin J. Griffin Scholarship Endowment

There are times in life when we see glimpses of ourselves in other people’s stories. When Northwest College alum and Army Command Sergeant Major Kevin J. Griffin died during an attack in Afghanistan in 2012, Army veteran and NWC faculty member Steve Walker had such a moment. “His death struck me because he and I went into the military at about the same time, and had I stayed in, I would have likely been a similar rank. I felt a closeness to the man, even though I never met him.”
Walker contacted Griffin’s former NWC wrestling coach, Floyd Young, and together they began an effort to set up a scholarship endowment to pay tribute to an NWC alum who made the ultimate sacrifice. Former classmates, faculty, family and friends all came together to make the scholarship grow. Walker concludes, “I hope that our military-students, veteran-students and wrestling-students will use this scholarship to advance their own education, and remember the man who is the inspiration behind it.”