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Angel
Turner accepts a scholarship from Piqua American Legion Post Commander
Steve Mullikins.
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Edison State Student
Awarded Accounting Scholarship
Piqua accountant Rex Wilson (1913-1984) was accepted as a student at
Miami University after graduating from high school, but the timing just
wasn’t right. He lost his college fund savings with the stock market
crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression. After high school
graduation he sold shoes and worked with his father at a bookkeeping
business. In 1943 he was off to World War II and did a
stint as a Sea Bee in the U.S. Navy where his unit monitored naval
contracts to build ships.
Encouraged by his commanding officer, he studied for the Certified
Public Accountant (C.P.A.) on his own and passed the examination in
1954. It was with those credentials that he taught at Miami University.
He also argued tax laws with the I.R.S. According to his daughter Anne
Butler, with the scholarship her father “wanted to provide an aspiring
future accountant the opportunity that eluded him.”
That day has come and Angel Turner, 49, a student at Edison State
Community College, is the beneficiary of a renewable scholarship in
accounting. The award was presented on August 27, 2018, at the American
Legion in Piqua by the Commander of the post, Steve Mullikins.
President of American Legion Unit 586 in Tipp City, Turner holds three
part-time jobs without benefits while raising funds for military
veterans via the poppy program, an annual dinner, garage sales, and
weekly cooking at the legion.
Now that Turner’s three sons are adults, employed, and on their own, it
is her turn for college, and she plans to become a tax accountant and
then a tax attorney.
Those interested in paying it forward by providing scholarship dollars
may contact American Legionnaire Chuck Morris at 937-214-4862 or Rick
Hanes, Vice President for Business and Community Partnerships at Edison
State Community College at 937-778-7806. A book scholarship to a worthy
student is $500, and a tuition scholarship is $1,500.
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