Scholarship Fund Update

Lets Do This By CAPT Arne Nelson, USN (Ret.)

Announcing the NHA Scholarship Fund Community/Squadron/Aircraft Scholarship Challenge! • Do you think your community was/is the best of all communities? • Do you think your helicopter was/is the best of all helicopters? • Do you think your squadron was/is the best of all squadrons? Of all time?

Well, put your money where your mouth is!

Get your bubbas back together, pull out your checkbooks (or Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, etc), and sponsor a 2021 Scholarship!

The NHA Scholarship fund has awarded more than $400,000 in direct financial aid for tuition since its inception in 1993, including 16 scholarships worth $2,500 each for the 2020-2021 school year.

2021 Goal: Next year’s goal is $45,000 to increase each scholarship to $3000, and to do it, we need your help! XOs – get out there and stir up your ready rooms

Earn (or defend) your bragging rights. The “winners” of this challenge will be forever remembered for trouncing the competition; everyone who participates will be recognized for their support and will have helped a deserving student further his or her educational goals.

So, who will it be….HM, HC, HMLA, HMH, HSC, HSL, HSM, CG SAR?

NHA Scholarship Fund - Bringing the Big Iron!

As a veteran Navy AMCM and heavy lift HC guy, I am calling on my community to get the word out to the broadest group of our aviators, aircrew, maintainers and support personnel and our families about NHA’s annual scholarships – this year we are teeing up 15 scholarships at $3000 each.

Made up of Sea Dragons, the Vanguard, Sea Hawks and Black Hawks, Black Stallions and Hawlin’ Hawgs, our VC-5, VR-24, HC-1, and HC-2 crews and our reserve shipmates from the HM-18 Norsemen and HM19 Golden Bears, our community stretches back 50 years for HM and heavy lift HC.

Critically, we need your most generous donation – one that can support the current year scholarship winners and allow us to continue to build our investment portfolio to ensure growth and long-term sustainment.

Since 1993, this essential outreach allows us to continue to award our scholarships to the most highly qualified and deserving members of our community…While you are at it, consider becoming a Lifetime Member of NHA. Help us give back to our community!

Captain Arne Nelson Sea Dragon, Sea Hawk, Black Stallion, Hawlin’ Hawg, and Circuit Rider. NHA Lifetime Member #4, Rotary Wing Aviator # 13762

HSL-37 and HSM-37 EASYRIDERS.

For all you old and current Easy Riders and North Shore Shipmates, a memorial gift in the name of Emma Therese Jordan has been made for a $2,500 Scholarship in the 2021 Scholarship Rounds. The donor challenges his former HSL Shipmates to match his gift, and further, challenges the current squadron - HSM-37 – to match the donation.