1st Annual Great Futures Dinner

Ft. Guest Speaker: Miss Kentucky 2024 

Title Sponsor: Old National Bank

Chapel Tinius Bio

Our 1st Annual Great Futures Dinner guest speaker is Chapel Tinius. Chapel Tinius is the reigning Miss Kentucky 2024, a dynamic and inspiring figure known for her dedication to philanthropy and her exceptional talent as a violinist. She has used her platform to advocate for numerous charitable causes.

Chapel Tinius, 24, was born and raised in Bowling Green, KY and is the granddaughter of two World War II veterans, which ignites her Community Service initiative of Operation gratitude: For the Fallen, For the Fighting, For the Veterans. Since the inception of Operation Gratitude, Chapel has run over 25 half marathons and 3 full marathons to raise funds for the Honor Flight Network. She also started her own 10k series called “Run to Fly” where she runs ten 10ks, in 10 days in 10 different Kentucky counties to fundraise for Honor Flight Kentucky. Chapel has closely partnered with Honor Flight Kentucky to implement the inaugural Youth Ambassador Program. This program focuses on ensuring that the next generation of Kentuckians understand the importance of thanking our veterans and how we can take our simple words of “thank you” and turn them into an action. For the month of May in 2021, 2022, and 2023, Chapel served as a National Relay team member with Carry The Load, a non-profit organization that focuses on finding an active way to restore the meaning of Memorial Day. During these national relays, Chapel and the Carry The Load relay team walked over 20,000 miles across the US while raising 2 million dollars to be given to Carry The Load’s non-profit partners. Chapel’s favorite project though has been creating a violin/harp CD titled “Gratitude.” This is gifted to veterans as a music therapy tool.

Chapel is a proud Bowling Green High School Purple and went on to receive a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre and a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Corporate Communication from Belmont University. She was the first musical theater major to ever complete dual degrees. She plans to work with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture to spend time in all 120 counties to promote healthy and local foods as well as homemade “KENTUCKY PROUD” products. She is excited to put her own spin on this year of service by using her violin to make animal noises, etc. making education engaging and fun! Chapel also wants to bring a veteran into as many community events as possible.