FCM Cares, First Community Mortgage’s nonprofit, has awarded the annual J.C. Gordon Scholarship to five Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT) students at a scholarship ceremony recently held on the TCAT-Shelbyville campus. The awarded funds will be used in part to purchase tools for each student recipient. ...
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FCM Cares, First Community Mortgage’s nonprofit, has awarded the annual J.C. Gordon Scholarship to five Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT) students at a scholarship ceremony recently held on the TCAT-Shelbyville campus.
The awarded funds will be used in part to purchase tools for each student recipient. FCM Cares provides TCAT with $7,500 annually for the J.C. Gordon Scholarship. The funds are then administered by TCAT leaders to different students each trimester based on instructor feedback.
The five students selected as recipients of this trimester’s J.C. Gordon Scholarship are: James J. Patton, Kevin Turner, William Dykes, Alex Gordon and Joshua Tate Alexander.
“Thank you to First Community Bank, FCM Cares, and especially the Gordon family for this generous donation that will benefit our Machine Tool Technology students,” said TCAT-Shelbyville President Laura Monk.
FCM Cares awards the J.C. Gordon Scholarship, on behalf of the family, to five students each trimester in memory of local tradesman, businessman and community leader, J.C. Gordon. Gordon was one of the founders of First Community Mortgage and sat on the company’s original board.
Gordon for years helped train TCAT students through an internship program at his company, WEGO Precision Machine. Since 2017, the J.C. Gordon Scholarship has been awarded to 60 TCAT students.
“Receiving this scholarship validates my decision to go to vocational school,” said recipient James Patton. “I would like to thank FCM Cares for helping me and my classmates with our education. It means a lot.”
For more information about FCM Cares, visit www.fcmcares.org.