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Willie Nelson honored with Texas educational endowment

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The 89-year-old country music icon is the namesake of the new Willie Nelson Endowment for Uplifting Rural Communities at the University of Texas. The endowment will fund research and student fellowships benefiting rural and farm communities. The singer has raised more than $70 million for family farm owners through Farm Aid, according to the school.

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Willie Nelson honored with Texas educational endowment

Weeks after winning more Grammys, Willie Nelson's next honor is a university endowment in Texas. The 89-year-old country music icon is the namesake of the new Willie Nelson Endowment for

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Willie Nelson honored with Texas educational endowment

Weeks after winning more Grammys, Willie Nelson's next honor is a university endowment in Texas

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Willie Nelson honored with Texas educational endowment

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Weeks after winning more Grammys, Willie Nelson is getting a new kind of honor: a university endowment in Texas. The 89-year-old country music icon, who in the 1980s helped launch the Farm Aid benefit concerts, is the namesake of the new Willie Nelson Endowment for Uplifting Rural Communities at the University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs, the school announced Wednesday. The endo…

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Willie Nelson honored with Texas educational endowment

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Weeks after winning more Grammys, Willie Nelson is getting a new kind of honor: a university endowment in Texas. The 89-year-old country music icon, who in […]

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Willie Nelson honored with Texas educational endowment

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Weeks after winning more Grammys, Willie Nelson is getting a new kind of honor: a university endowment in Texas. The 89-year-old country music icon, who in the 1980s helped launch the Farm Aid benefit concerts, is the namesake of the new Willie Nelson Endowment for Uplifting Rural Communities at the University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs, the school announced Wednesday. The endowment will fund research and student…

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