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Press Club Awards Student Scholarships

A Press Club funded $1,000 Journalism Foundation scholarship was given in 2005 to Robert Grant who will be receiving his Master’s degree in journalism in December of 2006.  Grant is a graduate student in the Science and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University. Before moving to New York, he taught biology, ecology, and human anatomy and physiology at Southwestern Illinois College in Belleville, Illinois and at Saint Louis University, where he continues to teach courses on-line. He attended high school at O’Fallon Township High School in O’Fallon, Illinois, obtained a Bachelor’s degree in biology from Montana State University, and a Master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston, South Carolina. He hopes to write in mainstream science magazines or newspapers, using his expertise in ecology and environmental science to communicate important scientific ideas to a wide audience.

Three 2006 Press Club Internship Scholarships winners were recently announced.  They are Sarah Mae Thiele (right) of Webster University, who will be interning in the coming academic year and is also interning with the Press Club this summer, Jerome Boettcher (not pictured) of  Northwest Missouri University, who is interning with the West End Word, and Shaunice Houston  (left) of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, who is interning with Channel 10, City of St. Louis.  Each of these communication students will receive $500 scholarships to assist with their expenses, while interning.

A $1,000 scholarship was awarded this spring through the Mathew-Dickey Boys’ and Girls’ Club “The Sky’s the Limit” program for graduating high school women, who show promise, aptitude, and need.  Patrice Cox of Pattonville High School received the scholarship funded by the Press Club.  She plans to attend the University of Missouri this fall.

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