MTSU pair share Veteran Leadership Award at summer 2025 Stole Ceremony
Ross List and Virgil Teter both began their military careers in the 1990s in different branches, and now the soon-to-be Middle Tennessee State University graduates have a new shared experience to go along with working for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Both received the Veteran Leadership Award during the summer 2025 Graduating Veteran Stole Ceremony Thursday, Aug. 7, in the Miller Education Center’s second-floor atrium on Bell Street. Hosted by the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Center, it marked the 31st stole ceremony where graduating veterans receive special red stoles – a symbol of their military service – to wear at commencement.
Nearly 50 student veterans will graduate with an estimated 722 of their peers at 9 a.m. Central in Hale Arena inside Murphy Center at 2650 Middle Tennessee Blvd. Thirty attended the stole ceremony.
