Scholarship Fund Upped to $137,500 Plus TILF Grants Exceed CBS Newsman Set to Speak 120 for Contestants Kleberg Foundation: 4 Awards of $500 Each
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VOL. LV AUSTIN, TEXAS, FEBRUARY, 1971 NO. 6 Scholarship Fund Upped To $137,500 Plus TILF Grants Exceed CBS Newsman Set To Speak 120 For Contestants Kleberg Foundation: 4 awards of $500 each. More than $137,500 will be a- For contestants in journalism, speech, warded in scholarships this year to science, number sense, slide rule or ready writing. Recipients may attend any accred participants in University Inter ited four-year college or university in Convention lit Texas. (No new grants for 1970-71.) ILPC League academic and At March scholastic CBS Newsman Bob Schieffer will TAJD Plans Luncheon erary competition. Clark Foundation Scholarships: 32 awards of $750 each, payable $375 each semester be featured speaker at the Inter The Texas Association of Journ The Texas Interscholastic League of first year. Foundation will award more than For contestants in journalism, speech, scholastic League Press Conference alism Directors are planning their science, number sense, slide rule, spelling, 120 scholarships to high school stu or ready writing. Applicants may attend Convention in Austin, March 19-20. annual luncheon and business meet any accredited four-year state college or ing for noon Saturday in the Fac dents selected from runners-up in university in Texas. The Washington-based television regional meets and competitors at ulty-Staff Dining Room of the Carl B, and Florence E. King Foundation: newsman will be speaking at the the State Meet. 10 awards, $500 each. Texas Union. Tickets must be pur For contestants in journalism, speech, sci annual Awards Banquet to be held ence, spelling, number sense, slide rule or chased in advance at $2.50 each. | TILF Keeps Growing ready writing. Applicants may attend any March 20 in the Villa Capri Motor All publications sponsors, both j accredited four-year state college or univer The continuing growth of funds sity in Texas. TAJD members and non-members, I Hotel. available through TILF for scholar are invited to attend the TAJD i Henry Beckman Slide Rule Proficiency ships is due to the records set by Awards: 2 awards of $200 each. meal. High school seniors in the upper 25 per Started Out in Texas previous grant winners, TILF Sec cent of their graduating classes who par Housing reservation blanks, ticipated in the State Meet slide rule con retary R. J. Kidd said. Schieffer is a graduate of Texas order blanks for TAJD luncheon test may apply. For additional information, "The foundations and individuals write to Mrs. Margaret Baker, 401-C Engi- Christian University and worked tickets and for tickets to the gineering Lab, University of Texas, Austin, who continue to support the TILF Texas 78712. Recipient must attend UT on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram awards banquet have been mailed UIL WINNERS ATTEND TCU Judy Sue Romer of Henderson and scholarship fund," Kidd said, "are Austin and major in engineering. and at WBAP-TV before going to to all schools. Department of Chemical Engineering: 5 Washington, D. C. He spent a year Raymond Danford Doss of Kemp, both 1970 recipients of the Brown convinced, as we are, that Texas' awards of $400 each. Memorial award for League competition in prose reading, meet with finest students deserve every oppor For contestants in journalism, speech, in Viet Nam. All Schools Invited science, number sense, slide rule or ready "I am delighted to have Bob Chancellor James Moudy of Texas Christian University where both are tunity to go on through college. writing. Recipients must enroll in chemical "Unfortunately, talent and finan engineering at The University of Texas at speak to us this year," ILPC Di Haddick stressed that schools freshmen. Miss Romer, a radio-TV-film major, placed second in state Austin. Subsequent awards will be made rector Max R. Haddick said. "He is sending delegates to the convention cial strength do not always go to depending on the student's performance at competition and lists Who's Who in Speech, editor of the yearbook and the University. A limited number of other a top newsman and a fine speaker. need not be ILPC members. "The gether," Kidd continued. "We are awards are also available to entering speeches and work sessions are de choir and band among her high school accomplishments. Doss was vale trying to make sure no Texas talent j freshmen. His experience will enable him to Applicants must have participated in the give us an insight into the com signed to give valuable information dictorian of his class, on the yearbook, member of the honorary Beta goes to waste through financial! League number sense contest at State Meet need. We want these talented and j and must attend The University of Texas at munications industry today, with to both students and teachers who Club and named alternate to state competition in prose reading. A Austin. For additional information, write all of its challenges and satisfac energetic young people to have Committee on Loans and Scholarships, The work on school publications," he third UIL scholarship holder, Loring Johnson of Henderson (not pic University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712. tions." every opportunity to get all the ed- I tured), is a sophomore studying chemistry at TCU on a four-year grant Meet literary and academic contestants in The banquet will climax two days said. ucation they need." j Keitha Morris Memorial Fund: $50 award. of work sessions and speeches for "We want to invite all interested from the Robert A. Welch Foundation. Johnson was alternate to the For girl named Best Actress in Region More Talent Each Year j 1A One-Act Play Contest held at Texas high school journalism students high school journalists to be with state science contest in 1969 and a National Merit Scholar. He is Tech University in Lubbock. Every year the competition for Henry Beckman Number Sense Scholarship : and sponsors. Other speakers al us this year." currently in the TCU Honors Program. care of their principals. ready confirmed for the convention grants becomes stiffer, Kidd said., Completed applications must be returned He pointed out that the winners j to the League office between May 10 and program include Col. Joseph M. May 30, 1971. Murphy, James F. Paschal, Miss represent a select group of deter-1 Texas Woman's University: $250 scholar Hazel Presson, Bill Seymour, Bill mined, talented young people. As i ships, for girls. Debate Topic Selection Meeting Scholarships are available for first place Holmes, Mrs. Elizabeth Burdette, League winners, they show they ] winners in any of the four journalism contests ; to first place winners in speech, Mrs. Shirley C. Bigbee, N. S. Pat- can concentrate on one objective and ; one-act play, ready writing; to winners or terson and Mrs. Lou Ann Ward. work hard to achieve it, he said. runners-up in debate, and to tennis singles Called 'Challenging Experience' or doubles winners. For additional informa Every year the support from Tex tion write to: President, Texas Woman's University. Denton. Texas. Rooms Still Available By PAT GARTMAN been involved with debate for a accomplishments, their concern with as foundations and citizens grows number of years, the interest, con methods tof improvement and the stronger, too, he added. "We are Blinn College: 5 awards, $100 each. Haddick said room reservations Blinn College will give tuition credit of MacArthur High School cern, hours and hard work necessary desire for better communication very grateful for the generosity of $100 to five applicants who participated in for convention delegates are pour the literary or academic contests at State WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT Bob Schieffer, CBS newsman, Speech is an exciting field and for selecting the debate topic each with all debate coaches were most these contributors," Kidd said. "The Meet. For additional information, write to will speak at the ILPC Awards Banquet, March 20. Before joining CBS, ing in. teaching high school students the year were foreign to me. I shall be significant to me. The committee is entire TILF program is due to their the Registrar, Blinn College, Brenham, "Attendance this year looks as if Texas. Schiffer was anchorman of news broadcasts at WBAP-TV, Dallas-Fort subject is rewarding. Although all hesitant to criticize the committee's eager to hear from all of us and moral and financial support." Tarleton State College: 14 awards of $50 it will be larger than ever," Had areas of Speech/Drama are fasci decision in the future! would welcome any topic sugges each. Worth, and a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He covered dick said. "There are still plenty of Tarleton State College will give 14 scholar nating, for me the ultimate is de Representatives from the major tions and research that will be of Requirements ships, valued at $50 each, to regional League the enrollment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi, rooms available in Austin, and winners in typewriting, science, short-hand, ity of the 50 states serve on the benefit. Applicants for the grants must housing requests will be filled bate. The opportunity to guide and one-act play (best actor or best actress), assassination of President John F. Kennedy and wa the first Texas news be a part of students' involvement committee that spends three days The three problem areas' for meet the following requirements: ready writing, journalism, speech, number promptly." sense or slide rule. For further information, paperman to report from Vietnam. He has won 13 statewide awards in this ping-pong of logic is some and nights in the final stages of dis 1971-72 have been decided. Now is (1) Graduate during the current write to the President, Tarleton State Col Haddick estimated an attendance lege, Stephenville, Texas.