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2009 Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship
Awarded to Senior at Communications High School in Monmouth County
 Stefanie Dazio, a senior at Communications High School in
Wall Township, Monmouth County, was
named the 2009 New Jersey High School Journalist of the Year and recipient of
the Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship from the New Jersey
Press Foundation.
She will be awarded the $5,000 Kilgore scholarship for her freshman year
at American University, Washington, D.C.
The Garden State Scholastic Press Association, which
co-sponsors the award with NJPF, entered Dazio in the
Journalism Education Association's competition for the 2009
National High School Journalist of the Year.
She was honored by NJPF at the New Jersey Press Association's editorial awards
banquet on April 2, 2009, in Trenton.
The family of Bernard Kilgore, former chairman of the board of
Dow Jones and Company, Inc., and The Princeton Packet,
created this memorial scholarship fund with the New Jersey
Newspaper Foundation in 2000 when Kilgore was named Business
Journalist of the 20th Century.
Past Recipients:
Andrea Krushefski of Verona received the 2008 Kilgore scholarship and
was named the 2008 New Jersey High School Journalist of the Year. She enrolled
at Northwestern University as a communications major following her graduation
from Verona High School.
Emily Laermer, who graduated in 2007 from West Windsor Plainsboro High
School, received the 2007 Kilgore Scholarship. She is enrolled at the Medill
School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Megan DeMarco, who graduated in June 2006
from East Brunswick High School, received the 2006 Kilgore
scholarship. She is enrolled at The College of New Jersey.
Mark Milian, who graduated in June 2005 from Pascack
Hills High School in Montvale, Bergen County, received the 2005
Kilgore scholarship. He is a journalism major at the
University of Maryland.
Heather Collura of Landing received the 2004 Bernard Kilgore Memorial
Scholarship. She was a journalism
major at Syracuse University.
Miriam Bamberger of Scotch Plains received
the 2003 Kilgore scholarship. She was a journalism
major at George Washington University.
Erin Baer, who attended New York University
as a journalism major, received the 2002 Kilgore Scholarship. She
is a resident of Scotch Plains.
The recipient of the 2001 Kilgore scholarship was Alison
Jordan of Nutley. She studied journalism at Boston
University.
Foundation Announces 2010
Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship Competition
New Jersey high school student journalists are invited to apply for the 2010
Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship on or before February 15, 2010.
Click
here for an application form.
The scholarship recipient will be named the 2010 New Jersey
High School Journalist of the Year, a program operated by the
Garden State Scholastic Press Association. The student will
automatically be entered in a competition for the National High
School Journalist of the Year sponsored by the Journalism
Education Association.
Application forms for the 2010 Bernard Kilgore Memorial
Scholarship will be posted on this website in December 2009. An online application form also is available on the Web site
of the Garden State Scholastic Press Association. That
Web site also offers instructions on how to assemble an effective
application portfolio.
Selection criteria include the student's intent to major in
journalism in college.
Nominations may be made by high school journalism teachers
and school newspaper advisers or by New Jersey's professional newspaper editors.
Teachers must be members of GSSPA
in order for the selected student to be entered in the national
awards competition. Recommendations from professional newspaper
editors are encouraged. Nominees must include at least three
letters of recommendations with their applications.
Because applicants must have at least a 3.0 grade point
average out of a 4.0, a current high school transcript must be
enclosed with the application package.
The application must include a least three samples of writing
published in the high school or community newspaper. Applicants
must have at least two years of experience on their high school
newspaper.
The family of Bernard Kilgore, former chairman of the board of
Dow Jones and Company, Inc., and The Princeton Packet,
created this memorial scholarship fund with the New Jersey Press
Foundation in 2000 when Kilgore was named Business Journalist of
the 20th Century. For more information about Bernard Kilgore, click
here.
For more information about the Kilgore Memorial Scholarship Fund or to
establish similar scholarship funds, call the Foundation at (609) 406-0600, ext.
30.
Lloyd P. Burns Teachers at Newspapers
Program
Summer Internship
for High School Journalism Teachers
and School Newspaper Advisers
 The
2009 Lloyd P. Burns Teachers at Newspapers program is designed
to provide teachers with a fresh perspective on newspapers today
so they can transmit to their students the variety of
opportunities, the excitement they engender and the skills
students can bring to a newspaper and its readers.
The start of the internship will take into
account the teacher's planned vacation time. The teacher selected
will be paid a salary of $500 a week for four weeks of work at a
New Jersey daily or weekly newspaper.
For a PDF version of the application form and
details about the 2009 Teachers at Newspapers Program,
click here.
This internship program is possible because of grants to the Lloyd P. Burns
Memorial Scholarship Fund managed for more than 30 years by the New Jersey Press
Foundation.
Burns was
general manager of the New Jersey Press Association from 1950 to 1976.
His
daughter, Margaret Burns Velden of Bridgewater, N.J., made a generous donation in 2008
to sustain the continuance of NJPF’s Teachers at Newspapers journalism
internship award.
Lloyd P. Burns
Applicant Eligibility
Teachers must have at least three years of
experience as a journalism teacher or adviser to a high school
newspaper. The school administration must agree that the teacher
will return to journalism teaching / advising or will start or
resume a high school newspaper following the internship.
Teachers Design the Internship Experience
The internships involve a short orientation
program and overview of the management and operation of the
sponsoring newspaper. The orientation period is followed by work
with the newspaper's teen or youth page/section or with the
newspaper's Newspaper in Education program.
The teacher who is selected will be asked to
write a letter to describe the type of experience she or he feels
will best help the school's journalism program and school
newspaper.
This program was proposed by members of the
Editorial Committee of the New Jersey Press Association in an
effort to support high school newspapers and encourage young
people to consider careers in journalism.
Past Recipiants:
Charles Zimmerman, who teaches journalism and
advises The Voice at Pemberton Township High School in Burlington County, completed a summer internship
at the Burlington County Times, Willingboro, through the New
Jersey Press Foundation's 2008 Teachers at Newspapers
Program.
Tom McHale, who teaches journalism and
advises The Lamp at Hunterdon Central Regional High School, completed a summer internship
at the Hunterdon County Democrat, Flemington, through the New
Jersey Press Foundation's 2007 Teachers at Newspapers
Program.
Steve Merkel, the journalism
teacher and newspaper adviser at Holy Cross High School in
Delran, completed a summer internship at the Courier-Post, Cherry
Hill, in 2006.
John D'Agostino, journalism
teacher at Millville Senior High School, worked for The Press
of Atlantic City as a paid intern during the summer of 2005.
Gary Pankiewicz, journallism
teacher at Hasbrouck Heights Junior/Senior High School, was the
2004 intern through the Teachers at Newspapers Program. He worked
for The Record (Bergen County) as a paid intern during
the summer of 2004.
Venise Grossmann, journalism
teacher at West Deptford High School, was the 2003 intern. She
worked for the Courier Post, Cherry Hill, as a paid intern
during the summer of 2003.
Gregory Gagliardi, journalism
teacher at Cherry Hill East High School, worked for the Courier
Post, Cherry Hill, as a paid intern during the summer of
2002.
Three New Jersey high school journalism
teachers were selected through the first Teachers at Newspapers
Program in 2001. They are:
- Catherine Hoffman, Scotch
Plains-Fanwood High School, Scotch Plains; she interned at Suburban
Trends, Kinellon
- Sharyn Kreisler, Montgomery
High School, Skillman; she interned at The Times of
Trenton
- Stephen Porcello, West
Milford Township High School; he interned at The Record of
Bergen County.
The Richard Drukker Memorial Scholarship
This endowed scholarship, valued at $2,000, was
created by the family of Richard Drukker, former publisher of the
Passaic Herald News. Proceeds from the endowment are
reserved for scholarships for Montclair State University
journalism students.
The next application deadline is March 13, 2009.
Click here to retrieve a PDF version of the application
form and instructions about how to apply for the scholarship.
Students who are unable to retrieve the application from the NJPF Web site (
www.njpressfoundation.org ) are
invited to request a printed copy of the form well before the application deadline. Those
requests can be addressed to: NJPF Scholarship Programs, c/o Drukker Scholarship, Suite, 305, 840 Bear
Tavern Road, West Trenton, NJ 08628-1019. An E-mail may be sent to
foundationprograms@njpa.org .
Richard Drukker helped create the New Jersey Press
Foundation as a way of promoting journalism careers among
talented young people in the state. As a Trustee of the
foundation, he was instrumental in forging a relationship with
the New York Giants football club, which contributed to the
foundation a portion of its income from a pre-season game.
Kristie Cattafi
of Lodi was selected to receive
the 2008 Richard Drukker Memorial Scholarship and was presented a scholarship at a special ceremony at the college on April 30, 2008.
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