On
Sept. 10, 2010 nursing students, their families,
friends, faculty and staff gathered in the auditorium
in Moore Hall, Auburn University Montgomery.
The purpose of the gathering was two-fold: To
recognize the accomplishments of the nursing
students at the university and to recognize the
contributions of the
donors who make the monetary awards possible. Lee Tinneny was among them.
Each year Lee travels from
her home in South Carolina to Montgomery, Alabama to
present the annual Christopher P. Tinneny
Scholarship Award at AUM School of Nursing. The
scholarship is awarded to a raising senior nursing student
at the university who portrays the personal
qualities which best exemplify her son Christopher’s
characteristics of Caring, Humor and Joy.
Christopher
P. Tinneny courtesy of Rich Tinneny
Christopher, who passed away in a
car accident at age 29 in 1994 while a raising
senior at the nursing school, was the son of Richard
“Rich” and Lee Tinneny of Columbia, South Carolina,
USA. He was the great-great grandson of
Patrick
“Yankee Pat” Tinneny of Goladuff, Newtownbutler,
Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland; Greenock, Scotland
and Philadelphia.
