August 14, 2003
PGA.com on Gill, Russell, Belmont
PGA.com mentions Belmont University and Bruins Club director Clyde Russell in a long profile of Vince Gill, recipient of the Professional Golfers' Association of America's highest honor, The PGA Distinguished Service Award.
Now a resident of Nashville, a city that Amy Grant calls "a generous community that is contagious," Gill has touched strangers' lives in the most innocent of circumstances. A waitress at a café serving him and friend Clyde Russell mentions that she was attending Belmont University, majoring in music. But, limited funds meant she can’t continue her college education."After she left, Vince suggested that there's a scholarship in his brother’s name for which she might be eligible," said Russell, who had first met Gill as tournament director for the former LGPA Sara Lee Classic "That girl returned to college."
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