Media advisory: Cars4Heroes to honor K-State staffer, alumnus at March 18 ceremony
Friday, March 8, 2019
MANHATTAN — Terry Franz, founder and executive director of the Cars4Heroes Foundation of Kansas City, will present a car to Antonio Pipkin, a part-time veterans affairs consultant to the Kansas State University Military Affairs Innovation Center, at 10:45 a.m. Monday, March 18, in front of the east side of Anderson Hall. Richard Myers, university president, will participate in the ceremony.
Cars4Heroes is a nonprofit organization that gives used cars to military veterans in need of personal transportation as a way of re-entering the workforce after their service. Cars4Heroes has given more than 1,000 cars to veterans in 25 years. More information on the organization is available at cars4heroes.org/.
Pipkin is a May 2018 graduate of K-State with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He earned his degree after medically retiring from the Army as a sergeant due to injuries sustained in combat in Afghanistan. Pipkin spent two and a half years in the Wounded Warrior program before his discharge and was awarded a Vocational Education Rehabilitation Grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs to attend K-State and develop new skills. He will use the car to help develop and grow his photography business.
If attending, please RSVP by contacting K-State News and Communication Services at media@k-state.edu or calling 785-532-1544. The deadline to attend is noon Friday, March 15.
