McNeill Establishes Ticket A. Ricketts Memorial Scholarship

GERMANTOWN, Tennessee—McNeill Resort Company (MHC) and McNeill Investment Community (MIG) announced the establishment of the Ticket A. Ricketts Memorial Scholarship at The University of Memphis Kemmons Wilson College of Hospitality & Resort Administration. Born in Arkansas, nonetheless raised in Memphis from the age of two, Kemmons Wilson became as soon as the founder of the hotel chain Vacation Inn within the Fifties and various industry enterprises.

Devoted to the memory of Ticket Ricketts, who co-founded McNeill Resort Company in 2014 with Phillip H. McNeill, Jr., the scholarship could well help no decrease than one undergraduate scholar, starting up in 2025, committed to a profession in hospitality. Ricketts handed away on November 2, 2022, after a battle with ALS.

Working with the hospitality faculty, the scholarship became as soon as established throughout the efforts of Brent McDowell, MIG government vice chairman, industry trend; and Rick West, prolonged-time buddy of Ticket Ricketts and vice chairman, gross sales/accomplice at hospitality e-book Industrial Inexperienced Alternate choices.

“Ticket became as soon as a lifelong accomplice and buddy, as effectively as an unheard of, inspirational leader. He believed in empowering all folks in our industry and society. In his memory, we hope this scholarship contributes to the subsequent technology of hospitality leaders,” said Phillip H. McNeill, Jr., government chairman of McNeill Investment Community, LLC and of McNeill Resort Company, LLC.

“I never consider him now not being sort. Somebody with whom he ever came eager became as soon as better for having diagnosed him,” West said. “He would be humbled and thrilled by this scholarship in his memory. He beloved the hotel industry and never drained of searching for to greater it through a ordinary combine of excessive-level trip and openness to trade. An fabulous hotelier, nonetheless an even bigger man.”