Alexander “Al” Tinneny, the son of Matthew and
Jennifer Cloer Tinneny, is a cadet in the United
States Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps.
He is a freshman at Blythewood High School in
Blythewood, South Carolina and a cadet private in the
school's JROTC Bengal Battalion. The JROTC is
designed to teach high school students citizenship,
leadership, service to the community, personal
responsibility and a sense of accomplishment, while
instilling in them self-esteem, teamwork and
self-discipline.
Al is the grandson of Richard and Lee Tinneny of
Columbia, South Carolina; great-grandson of John and
Helen Diamond Tinneny of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
great-great-grandson of
James and Gertrude Spence Tinneny of
Philadelphia and great-great-great-grandson of
Patrick
“Yankee Pat” Tinneny of Goladuff, Newtownbutler,
County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland; Greenock,
Scotland and Philadelphia and his wife Margaret
Malloy.
