Endowment established to honor author of Northwest’s Alma Mater

Northwest Mississippi Community College’s Foundation has announced the “Glenn Triplett Jr. Endowed Scholarship” in memory of the late Glenn Triplett Jr., who served faithfully as Northwest Director of Bands for many years. This scholarship is established by his family, friends and colleagues.

Author of the Northwest Alma Mater and the Northwest Fight, Glenn spent his life dedicated to music. Starting as a NWCC Student in 1955, he was a part of a musical group called, Moonlighters. After graduating from Southern Mississippi University, Glenn would not too long later become Director of Bands at Northwest which many could call this his life’s calling.

Alongside his career, Glenn was a fervent family man married to his wife, Rebecca Ramsey of Jackson. Together they had their son Jeff and his wife, Laura, which would later lead to four granddaughters Madison Grace, Aubrey Ann, Laura Elisabeth, and Margaret Elaine, the three eldest of which are also musicians.

Glenn’s son Jeff, who now serves as coordinator of Entertainment Industry Studies said that he will never forget his parents’ interactions with college students and how many people they helped. Jeff said he suspects there are many more people that Glenn helped than he or even his mother knows about.

“He liked to help people,” Jeff said. “That’s what he really liked to do.”

Being a Band Director may have been his calling, but helping people was his passion. Jeff said it showed in all he did, including his teaching style.

“He was really good at getting expectations across,” Jeff said. “He was good at making students understand by making them feel good about themselves.”

Jeff said that he feels like he always knew he wanted to help contribute to a scholarship like this, he just hadn’t exactly thought of that until his after his passing which is when the effort was made to start the process to establish this scholarship.

The requirements for this scholarship is that students must be a band student and on a music pathway while maintaining a 2.5 GPA.

If you’re interested in learning more about this scholarship or the Northwest Foundation, please visit https://www.northwestms.edu/about/foundation