Scholarship Recipients Give Back

Frank Maquire, Brian Sturdevant

It’s not every day that a student makes a donation to the scholarship fund that financed his education six months before graduation, but Brian Sturdevant did just that. Sturdevant, a senior management of information systems major in the Raj Soin College of Business, dropped by the WSU Development Office in January to make a contribution to the Captain Kevin Maquire Memorial Scholarship fund, which had provided his scholarship to attend Wright State. “I want to give back so other students who come after me will be able to succeed as I have,” he said.

"The Captain Kevin Maguire Memorial Scholarship was established to remember my son, Kevin, who was a member of the Wright State Detachment,” said CMSgt. Frank Maquire, who started the fund in 1993 with Kevin’s late mother, Frances Maquire. “Its purpose is to continue the work Kevin gave his life to pursue.”

Kevin was the WSU Air Force ROTC program’s first cadet corps commander and graduated from Wright State’s Raj Soin College of Business in 1986. Stationed at McChord Air Force Base as a pathfinder and instructor navigator, Captain Maquire was killed in an aerial mishap over Harlem, Montana, with 12 other aviators. He was just 32 years old.

First awarded in 1994, this scholarship is presented annually to a Wright State Air Force ROTC cadet and recognizes superior academic achievement, demonstrated leadership potential and commitment of service to the United States.

Since graduating in June, Sturdevant has been assigned to the 562nd Flight Training Squadron at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio. “This scholarship has set me up for a career,” the Greenville, Ohio, native said. “If it weren’t for this scholarship, I wouldn’t have been able to stay in school.”

Past recipients have given back as well—through their service to our country. The scholarship’s first recipient, Captain Cherrish Krutil, is serving today as a pilot flying a C-130 into Iraq. Another recipient, Captain Robert Speers is an F-16 pilot with the 63rd Fighter Squadron, and Captain Alma Guerrero, the 1995 scholarship recipient, is now serving at Headquarters Air Force Special Operations Command.

 “The scholarship remembers my son’s life,” said Frank Maquire. “But it also demonstrates the faith that many have placed in the Air Force Reserve cadet’s commitment to integrity first, service before self and excellence in all that you do.”

 

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