(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation that continues a loan forgiveness program for students of large-animal veterinary medicine.
The loan forgiveness program expired at the end of June 2013. Nixon signed a higher education bill Thursday that includes a provision removing that expiration date.
The bill also renames the program as the “Dr. Merrill Townley Large Animal Veterinary Student Loan Program.”
Townley was a veterinarian from Chamois who practiced throughout mid-Missouri. He also served as a Republican in the Missouri House from 1983 through 1994 and again from 1997 through 2004.
He died in November 2012 at the age of 78.
The bill also renames the program as the “Dr. Merrill Townley Large Animal Veterinary Student Loan Program.”
Townley was a veterinarian from Chamois who practiced throughout mid-Missouri. He also served as a Republican in the Missouri House from 1983 through 1994 and again from 1997 through 2004.
He died in November 2012 at the age of 78.
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