Special to SW Rankin News
Over thirty-five years ago, the Mississippi Trucking Association Foundation Scholarship Program Foundation was founded. It has awarded forty scholarships for the 2026-27 school year, including Cayla Veazey of Florence, who received the H. Dean Cotton Endowment to help further her education at the University of Mississippi, where she will study Allied Health.
The primary objective of the Foundation, a 501(c) (3) charitable corporation designed to receive contributions, memorial gifts, and property, is to promote educational projects related to the trucking industry and provide scholarships to deserving students who have ties to the trucking industry and who are enrolled in scholastic endeavors in the state of Mississippi. This class joins about five hundred students who have received this scholarship…