The Kool Club held a fundraiser fish fry in Tullahoma on July 22 to raise money for the Kenneth Lebron Toney Scholarship at Middle Tennessee State University.

The scholarship is awarded to minority students who have a need for additional financial assistance during their junior and senior years with an intent to help bridge the gap for academic-based emergencies. Recipients of the scholarship are also made honorary members of the Kool Club.

The Kool Club was founded in 1974 by a group of MTSU students, including Edd Hill, Andrew Simmons, Collier Woods, Ben Scruggs, Freeman Dukes, Joe Tucker and Stanley Murphy.

The scholarship for the club was created in 1981 with an idea from club member Reginald Edwards being turned into a reality through a collaboration between then-Kool Club President Edward Cooper and MTSU Provost Jack Edwards.

The club’s main focus is on exercising philanthropy through knowledge, opportunity, optimism and leadership with the initials of those four virtues forming the titular acronym for the club. The club’s motto is, “Being yourself is being Kool.”

The Kool Club expressed thanks to everyone who attended and donated to the fish fry for making the event a big success.