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Four BWS Scholarships Awarded in 20th Year
Celebrating two decades of helping students achieve educational goals, the Bess Whitehead Scott Scholar-ship Fund issued $6,000 in
scholarships in 2011. The scholarship program was
founded in 1991 to honor Bess Whitehead Scott, a pioneering journalist who in 1915 was the first woman to land a news reporting job at the Houston Post. Her long career in reporting, teaching and public relations culminated in 1994 with her election to the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame at age 103.
In honor of the program’s 20th anniversary, four scholarships of $1,500 each were awarded in 2011.
Scott Scribes Scholarships for Ages 40 and Older Elizabeth Langton—University of North Texas, DentonAfter the Dallas Morning News ter-minated her reporter position, Langton, 41, of Plano returned to her alma mater, the University of North Texas, to pursue a master’s degree. She has studied
narrative non-fiction at the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism.
Kellie Salome— St. Edward’s University, AustinWhile managing and bartending at the Continental Club, Salome earned as-sociate degrees in human services and creative writing at Austin Community College. She wrote for and edited the student publication, The Rio Review. The 47-year-old is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and rhetoric.
BWS Journalism Scholarships Nick Dean—Baylor University, WacoThe Baylor senior, 21, has worked on the student news-paper, The Lariat, as a reporter, editor and editor in chief. Dean launched the paper’s blog, Twitter and Facebook accounts. The journalism and political science major from Taylor wants to work in Washington, D.C., as a reporter covering federal courts.
Caitlin Giddens—Baylor UniversityGiddens, 21, has been an editor of The Round Up year-book and a reporter for The Lariat. The junior journalism and creative writing major from Tyler has written for the Wacoan magazine and an East Texas newspaper. She plans to earn a master’s in journalism and work as an interna-tional reporter.
Volunteer Wrappers Collect $3,300 for Scholarships
Sixty-seven volunteers spent 350 hours wrapping books and gifts during the 2010 holiday
season. Their hard work and well-earned tips generated just over $3,300 for the Bess W. Scott Scholarship Fund.
Terri Schexnayder coordinated the project, scheduling wrappers to work at four Austin bookstores: BookPeople and Barnes & Noble at the Arboretum, Westlake and Sunset Valley. Every year, BWS volunteers wrap customers’ books and gifts for tips.
On behalf of the student writers who have won scholarships over the last two decades, the BWS Fund thanks all the volunteers for their time and interest in supporting these scholarships. Annual giftwrapping in bookstores has been the leading component of fundraising since 1994.
The special wrapping elves in 2010 were Ken Loveless and Camille Nerada for each handling five shifts.
Volunteers who wrapped three or four shifts were Sally Baker, Ann Cabot, Elaine
Davenport, Nancy Eskridge, Jorjanna Price, Beth Sample, Terri Schexnayder, Donna Snider and Susan Violante.
Other gift wrappers included Robin Allen, Susan Anderson, Joanna Athey,
Stephanie Barko, Cory Barnett, Dorothy Barnett, David Boyd, Ray Bronk, Nita Lou Bryant,
Emily Carter, Lana Castle, Audel Cayce, Kathy Rose Cen-
ter, Shelli Cornelison, Dyanne & Javier Cortez and Claudia Corum.Also Colleen D. Ellis, Nora Evans, Ann
Gallaway, Helen Ginger, John & Debbie Gonzales, Diane Hernandez, Angero Holt, Cyndi Hughes, Jackie Kelly, Janet Kilgore, Leila Levinson, Jim Bob McMillan, Fred & Nancy Meredith, Mark Mitchell, Peggy Murphy and Joann Odenwelder.
Finally Jeffee Palmer, Roberta Preston, Margaret Price, Lois Qualben, Carolyn Reding, Mindy Reed, Cheryl Rhodes, Betty Rogers, Doris Rogers, Kathy Sargent, Pat Saunders, Gihye Shin, Gina S. Shirley, Mary Gordon Spence, Anne Stol, Susan Tedter, Therese Trikilis, Jo Virgil, Katy Washburn, Brad Whit-tington and Blaine Williams.
Austin Community Foundation
4315 Guadalupe, Suite 300
Austin, Texas 78751
RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED
NONPROFIT ORG.
U.S. POSTAGE
PAIDAUSTIN, TEXAS
PERMIT NO. 0658
Donations WelcomeI n addition to holiday giftwrapping,
the only other income source for the BWS Scholarship Fund is private do-
nations. Please remember the scholarship program during these holidays.
Gifts are welcome by check or credit card. Checks should be made to the “BWS Scholarship Fund” and mailed to the following address. To charge a donation, visit www.austincf.org/bwsfund.
Thanks for your support!
Bess W. Scott Scholarship FundAustin Community Foundation
4315 Guadalupe, Suite 300Austin, Texas 78751
Email: [email protected]: www.austincf.org/bwsfund
BWS SCHOLARSHIP FUND NEWS 1
Scholarship Fund NewsAUSTIN, TEXAS DECEMBER 2011
B E S S W H I T E H E A D S C O T T
Application Deadline: Feb. 3, 2012
Guidelines and applications
for the Bess W. Scott
Scholarships are available.
Visit www.writersleague.org/
scholarships, email BWSfund@
gmail.com or call
512-444-4950.
just a monetary award, it really is the
knowledge that someone else is buying
into your dream.”
Elaine Davenport, co-founder and
current co-chair of the BWS Fund,
recalled the genesis of the scholarships:
“When Bess was 100, we threw a party
and raised enough money to kick off a
scholarship fund. The BWS Fund was
inspired by her career, which spanned
news reporting, screenwriting, teaching
and managing an ad agency.”
Davenport said the BWS program
started with one scholarship a year
for an upperclassman majoring in
journalism, then added a second
scholarship in 2001 to encourage
writers 40 and older.
While the program began under
the Writers’ League of Texas, the BWS
Fund is now affiliated with the Austin
Community Foundation.
Special thanks to the top donors
of the 20th anniversary year: Stanley
Seaton, Elaine Davenport, Angela
Smith, Mimi Boelter, Katherine
Travis, and Bruce Whitehead &
Kathy Myers (in memory of Elbert
Whitehead). Also Jo Virgil, Camille
Nerada, Sally Baker, Glenn Lewis and
Ray Bohrer. Proceeds will be used for
future scholarships.
Supporters and former
BWS winners gathered in
Austin on Oct. 1, 2011,
to celebrate 20 years of
scholarships awarded in memory of
Bess Whitehead Scott. Since 1991,
the BWS Fund has issued a total of
$44,000 to 41 aspiring journalists
and writers.
To mark the anniversary, the BWS
Fund held a fundraiser at St. Edward’s
University to toast current and past schol-
arship winners and the many volunteers
who have helped with fundraising.
Called “Celebrating Scholarships
for Scribes,” the party drew more than
70 attendees, including a dozen BWS
recipients from around the state. Enter-
tainment included a silent auction, music
by Esther’s Follies’ Shannon Sedwick and
a feat of magic. True crime writer Suzy
Spencer was the choice of BWS support-
ers to be “sawed in half”’ by magician and
MC Kent Cummins—all to raise money
for a good cause.
The highlight was keynote speaker
Karen Tumulty, a national correspondent
of the Washington Post who is covering
the 2012 presidential race. The San
Antonio native and University of Texas
graduate has also worked for the Los
Angeles Times and TIME.
Tumuty said she came to appreciate
Bess Scott by reading her memoir, You
Meet Such Interesting People, and learn-
ing that Bess struggled to understand the
changing technology of her day. “Despite
today’s scary digital age and shrinking
newsrooms,” she said, “I like to think Bess
would have seen its potential to meet and
engage with people.”
Tumulty also spoke of the strong
women who inspired Bess and how Bess
always knew that someone shared her
dreams: “And that is the extraordinary
thing about what we’re here for today
and why she would be so honored with
these scholarships—because this is not
2 BWS SCHOLARSHIP FUND NEWS BWS SCHOLARSHIP FUND NEWS 3
BWS Scott Scribes winners. From left: Elizabeth Langton (2011), Nereida Reyes (2006), Kellie Salome (2011), Margaret Anderegg (2008), Keynote Speaker Karen Tumulty, Marcella Taylor (2004), Mimi Boelter (2005) and Pennie Boyett (2010).
BWS party planners. First row, from left: Karen Trikilis, Diane J. Hernandez, Taylor Skaar and Angela Smith. Second row: Kent Cummins (magician and MC), Jorjanna Price, Sally Baker, Angero Holt, Karen Tumulty (speaker), Mark Mitchell, Beth Sample, Elaine Davenport, Blaine Williams and Jo Virgil. Not pictured, Fred Afflerbach.
BWS Journalism winners. From left: Caitlin Giddens (2011), Erika Pedroza (2009), Kristen Tribe (1997), Keynote Speaker Karen Tumulty, Drew Wasson (1993) and Fred Afflerbach (2005).
BWS Scholarship Committee, 2011Elaine Davenport, co-chair
Jorjanna Price, co-chair
Sally Baker
Betty Sue Beebe
Beth Sample
Taylor Skaar
Angela Smith
Jean West
Vera Preston-Jaeger, emeritus
Newsletter editor: Jorjanna Price
Designer: Michele Mason
Celebrating Two Decades of BWS Scholarships
Phot
os b
y Al
an P
ogue
just a monetary award, it really is the
knowledge that someone else is buying
into your dream.”
Elaine Davenport, co-founder and
current co-chair of the BWS Fund,
recalled the genesis of the scholarships:
“When Bess was 100, we threw a party
and raised enough money to kick off a
scholarship fund. The BWS Fund was
inspired by her career, which spanned
news reporting, screenwriting, teaching
and managing an ad agency.”
Davenport said the BWS program
started with one scholarship a year
for an upperclassman majoring in
journalism, then added a second
scholarship in 2001 to encourage
writers 40 and older.
While the program began under
the Writers’ League of Texas, the BWS
Fund is now affiliated with the Austin
Community Foundation.
Special thanks to the top donors
of the 20th anniversary year: Stanley
Seaton, Elaine Davenport, Angela
Smith, Mimi Boelter, Katherine
Travis, and Bruce Whitehead &
Kathy Myers (in memory of Elbert
Whitehead). Also Jo Virgil, Camille
Nerada, Sally Baker, Glenn Lewis and
Ray Bohrer. Proceeds will be used for
future scholarships.
Supporters and former
BWS winners gathered in
Austin on Oct. 1, 2011,
to celebrate 20 years of
scholarships awarded in memory of
Bess Whitehead Scott. Since 1991,
the BWS Fund has issued a total of
$44,000 to 41 aspiring journalists
and writers.
To mark the anniversary, the BWS
Fund held a fundraiser at St. Edward’s
University to toast current and past schol-
arship winners and the many volunteers
who have helped with fundraising.
Called “Celebrating Scholarships
for Scribes,” the party drew more than
70 attendees, including a dozen BWS
recipients from around the state. Enter-
tainment included a silent auction, music
by Esther’s Follies’ Shannon Sedwick and
a feat of magic. True crime writer Suzy
Spencer was the choice of BWS support-
ers to be “sawed in half”’ by magician and
MC Kent Cummins—all to raise money
for a good cause.
The highlight was keynote speaker
Karen Tumulty, a national correspondent
of the Washington Post who is covering
the 2012 presidential race. The San
Antonio native and University of Texas
graduate has also worked for the Los
Angeles Times and TIME.
Tumuty said she came to appreciate
Bess Scott by reading her memoir, You
Meet Such Interesting People, and learn-
ing that Bess struggled to understand the
changing technology of her day. “Despite
today’s scary digital age and shrinking
newsrooms,” she said, “I like to think Bess
would have seen its potential to meet and
engage with people.”
Tumulty also spoke of the strong
women who inspired Bess and how Bess
always knew that someone shared her
dreams: “And that is the extraordinary
thing about what we’re here for today
and why she would be so honored with
these scholarships—because this is not
2 BWS SCHOLARSHIP FUND NEWS BWS SCHOLARSHIP FUND NEWS 3
BWS Scott Scribes winners. From left: Elizabeth Langton (2011), Nereida Reyes (2006), Kellie Salome (2011), Margaret Anderegg (2008), Keynote Speaker Karen Tumulty, Marcella Taylor (2004), Mimi Boelter (2005) and Pennie Boyett (2010).
BWS party planners. First row, from left: Karen Trikilis, Diane J. Hernandez, Taylor Skaar and Angela Smith. Second row: Kent Cummins (magician and MC), Jorjanna Price, Sally Baker, Angero Holt, Karen Tumulty (speaker), Mark Mitchell, Beth Sample, Elaine Davenport, Blaine Williams and Jo Virgil. Not pictured, Fred Afflerbach.
BWS Journalism winners. From left: Caitlin Giddens (2011), Erika Pedroza (2009), Kristen Tribe (1997), Keynote Speaker Karen Tumulty, Drew Wasson (1993) and Fred Afflerbach (2005).
BWS Scholarship Committee, 2011Elaine Davenport, co-chair
Jorjanna Price, co-chair
Sally Baker
Betty Sue Beebe
Beth Sample
Taylor Skaar
Angela Smith
Jean West
Vera Preston-Jaeger, emeritus
Newsletter editor: Jorjanna Price
Designer: Michele Mason
Celebrating Two Decades of BWS Scholarships
Phot
os b
y Al
an P
ogue
Four BWS Scholarships Awarded in 20th Year
Celebrating two decades of helping students achieve educational goals, the Bess Whitehead Scott Scholar-ship Fund issued $6,000 in
scholarships in 2011. The scholarship program was
founded in 1991 to honor Bess Whitehead Scott, a pioneering journalist who in 1915 was the first woman to land a news reporting job at the Houston Post. Her long career in reporting, teaching and public relations culminated in 1994 with her election to the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame at age 103.
In honor of the program’s 20th anniversary, four scholarships of $1,500 each were awarded in 2011.
Scott Scribes Scholarships for Ages 40 and Older Elizabeth Langton—University of North Texas, DentonAfter the Dallas Morning News ter-minated her reporter position, Langton, 41, of Plano returned to her alma mater, the University of North Texas, to pursue a master’s degree. She has studied
narrative non-fiction at the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism.
Kellie Salome— St. Edward’s University, AustinWhile managing and bartending at the Continental Club, Salome earned as-sociate degrees in human services and creative writing at Austin Community College. She wrote for and edited the student publication, The Rio Review. The 47-year-old is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and rhetoric.
BWS Journalism Scholarships Nick Dean—Baylor University, WacoThe Baylor senior, 21, has worked on the student news-paper, The Lariat, as a reporter, editor and editor in chief. Dean launched the paper’s blog, Twitter and Facebook accounts. The journalism and political science major from Taylor wants to work in Washington, D.C., as a reporter covering federal courts.
Caitlin Giddens—Baylor UniversityGiddens, 21, has been an editor of The Round Up year-book and a reporter for The Lariat. The junior journalism and creative writing major from Tyler has written for the Wacoan magazine and an East Texas newspaper. She plans to earn a master’s in journalism and work as an interna-tional reporter.
Volunteer Wrappers Collect $3,300 for Scholarships
Sixty-seven volunteers spent 350 hours wrapping books and gifts during the 2010 holiday
season. Their hard work and well-earned tips generated just over $3,300 for the Bess W. Scott Scholarship Fund.
Terri Schexnayder coordinated the project, scheduling wrappers to work at four Austin bookstores: BookPeople and Barnes & Noble at the Arboretum, Westlake and Sunset Valley. Every year, BWS volunteers wrap customers’ books and gifts for tips.
On behalf of the student writers who have won scholarships over the last two decades, the BWS Fund thanks all the volunteers for their time and interest in supporting these scholarships. Annual giftwrapping in bookstores has been the leading component of fundraising since 1994.
The special wrapping elves in 2010 were Ken Loveless and Camille Nerada for each handling five shifts.
Volunteers who wrapped three or four shifts were Sally Baker, Ann Cabot, Elaine
Davenport, Nancy Eskridge, Jorjanna Price, Beth Sample, Terri Schexnayder, Donna Snider and Susan Violante.
Other gift wrappers included Robin Allen, Susan Anderson, Joanna Athey,
Stephanie Barko, Cory Barnett, Dorothy Barnett, David Boyd, Ray Bronk, Nita Lou Bryant,
Emily Carter, Lana Castle, Audel Cayce, Kathy Rose Cen-
ter, Shelli Cornelison, Dyanne & Javier Cortez and Claudia Corum.Also Colleen D. Ellis, Nora Evans, Ann
Gallaway, Helen Ginger, John & Debbie Gonzales, Diane Hernandez, Angero Holt, Cyndi Hughes, Jackie Kelly, Janet Kilgore, Leila Levinson, Jim Bob McMillan, Fred & Nancy Meredith, Mark Mitchell, Peggy Murphy and Joann Odenwelder.
Finally Jeffee Palmer, Roberta Preston, Margaret Price, Lois Qualben, Carolyn Reding, Mindy Reed, Cheryl Rhodes, Betty Rogers, Doris Rogers, Kathy Sargent, Pat Saunders, Gihye Shin, Gina S. Shirley, Mary Gordon Spence, Anne Stol, Susan Tedter, Therese Trikilis, Jo Virgil, Katy Washburn, Brad Whit-tington and Blaine Williams.
Austin Community Foundation
4315 Guadalupe, Suite 300
Austin, Texas 78751
RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED
NONPROFIT ORG.
U.S. POSTAGE
PAIDAUSTIN, TEXAS
PERMIT NO. 0658
Donations WelcomeI n addition to holiday giftwrapping,
the only other income source for the BWS Scholarship Fund is private do-
nations. Please remember the scholarship program during these holidays.
Gifts are welcome by check or credit card. Checks should be made to the “BWS Scholarship Fund” and mailed to the following address. To charge a donation, visit www.austincf.org/bwsfund.
Thanks for your support!
Bess W. Scott Scholarship FundAustin Community Foundation
4315 Guadalupe, Suite 300Austin, Texas 78751
Email: [email protected]: www.austincf.org/bwsfund
BWS SCHOLARSHIP FUND NEWS 1
Scholarship Fund NewsAUSTIN, TEXAS DECEMBER 2011
B E S S W H I T E H E A D S C O T T
Application Deadline: Feb. 3, 2012
Guidelines and applications
for the Bess W. Scott
Scholarships are available.
Visit www.writersleague.org/
scholarships, email BWSfund@
gmail.com or call
512-444-4950.