Johnson and Rivera win 2010 Memorial Scholarships
In 1981, our organization decided to help Alaskans pursue their education in the communications field. This year we are awarding two $1,000 scholarships in memory of Betzi Woodman, Kay Kennedy, Phyllis Carlson, Jimmy Bedford, Chris McClain, Jo Ann Wold, Natalie Gottstein, Elizabeth Plank, Mae Martin, Pat Oakes, Suzan Nightingale, Ruth Kilcher Marriott, John Killoran, Loretta Schooley, Nancy Cain Schmitt and others. Their spirits live on in our scholarship winners.
Winners of the 2010 scholarships:
Alicia Jo Johnson, editor of the student newspaper at Kodiak College. There was no student newspaper there when Johnson started as a freshman. She found supportive faculty members, recruited a team of enthusiastic writers, and developed Kodiak College’s first student-generated newspaper, The Emerald Looking Glass, which she edits. The college director, Barbara Bolson, wrote about Alicia’s “significant impact on Kodiak College, the student body and the larger community.”
Felix Rivera, a junior at Alaska Pacific University and a noteworthy student leader who, as his professor Mei Mei Evans said at the award luncheon, “Has really been on a roll, and became student body president.” He has been accepted for several programs including an internship at the Institute on Political Journalism in Washington, D.C.
