Colonel Duncan Cooper Armed Forces Scholarship

The Colonel Duncan Cooper Armed Forces Scholarship was initiated by Charles W. Stockell and Lee M. Stockell as a Charitable Remainder Unitrust in 1993 and is named in honor of Colonel Duncan Cooper, who was Chief of Staff to General Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Stockells are the parents of Duncan Cooper Stockell, a 1994 graduate of The Citadel. The purpose of the endowment is to support an annual award to a student qualifying for the Armed Forces Scholarship Program at The Citadel. In keeping with the college’s founding mission to educate and train leaders for the armed services, the endowment will fund a portion of the difference between full tuition and the amount a cadet receives through an ROTC scholarship. Eligible candidates will have been accepted to The Citadel and will have been awarded an ROTC scholarship by one of the branches of the U.S. military. Scholarships are renewable provided recipients comply with the selection criteria.