Rebecca F. Gross Scholarship for the Outstanding Communication senior
A $250 honorarium is awarded to the outstanding journalism and
mass communication student. The Rebecca Gross Award for the outstanding
journalism and mass communication student is based on three criteria: grade
point average, service to the student media, and other campus activities.
Students must be seniors to be eligible for the award. The grade point average
must reach a minimum of 3.00. Service in other campus activities includes both
volunteer and paid work related to some form of journalism. Rebecca F. Gross is
one of Pennsylvania's most distinguished journalists and public servants. Miss
Gross was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1928 and was
appointed managing editor of the Lock Haven Express in 1931. She was one of the
founders of the Pennsylvania Women's Press Association in 1937, later serving as
its president and as president of the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors
and the Pennsylvania Associated Press. During World War II, she served in the
U.S. Navy and holds the rank of commander (retired). In 1948 Miss Gross was
appointed a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, one of the first four women to
receive such an appointment. Miss Gross served two terms as a member of the
Board [now Council] of Trustees of this institution and in 1969 was named to the
Board of State Colleges and Universities Directors. She was appointed a member
of the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
This annual journalism award and scholarship established in 1982 expresses in a
small way the gratitude of the University and the journalism and mass
communication discipline.
Three Professor Saundra K. Hybels, Ph.D., memorial scholarships
An approximately one-half of full-tuition scholarship is
awarded to three Journalism and Mass Communication majors each year. One is
given to a sophomore, one to a junior, and one to a senior. The awards are based
on grade point average and documented commitment to the journalism profession.
Preference is given to students graduating from a high school in Clinton County,
Pennsylvania. In 1977, Dr. Saundra Kay Hybels won approval for a Journalism
major at Lock Haven University. After she died at the beginning of the 1999 fall
semester, her husband, Joansin Sepety, established these three scholarships in
her name. A scholar par excellence, Dr. Hybels wrote two books, one of which,
Communicating Effectively, was a best-seller in its area and is now in its sixth
edition. The elevated level of Professor Hybel's scholarly activity was
reflected in her teaching. For example, her Fulbright Fellowship in the
Federated States of Micronesia and her exchange semester in Poland resulted not
only in a newspaper article published by the Christian Science Monitor, but also
in an LHU Liberal Arts Seminar on travel literature. She earned a B.A. from
Western Michigan University in 1961, an M.A.C. from the Annenberg School of
Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in 1962, and a Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan in 1971.
Three Professor Saundra K. Hybels, Ph.D., memorial scholarships
An approximately one-half of full-tuition scholarship is
awarded to three Journalism and Mass Communication majors each year. One is
given to a sophomore, one to a junior, and one to a senior. The awards are based
on grade point average and documented commitment to the journalism profession.
Preference is given to students graduating from a high school in Clinton County,
Pennsylvania. In 1977, Dr. Saundra Kay Hybels won approval for a Journalism
major at Lock Haven University. After she died at the beginning of the 1999 fall
semester, her husband, Joansin Sepety, established these three scholarships in
her name. A scholar par excellence, Dr. Hybels wrote two books, one of which,
Communicating Effectively, was a best-seller in its area and is now in its sixth
edition. The elevated level of Professor Hybel's scholarly activity was
reflected in her teaching. For example, her Fulbright Fellowship in the
Federated States of Micronesia and her exchange semester in Poland resulted not
only in a newspaper article published by the Christian Science Monitor, but also
in an LHU Liberal Arts Seminar on travel literature. She earned a B.A. from
Western Michigan University in 1961, an M.A.C. from the Annenberg School of
Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in 1962, and a Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan in 1971.
Margaret Ann Brown Memorial Scholarship for a J & MC Junior
A $250 tuition waiver is awarded to the junior Communication
major with the highest grade point average above 3.500.
Other Communication Scholarships
LHU Foundation: The Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
Foundation offers many other scholarships that J & MC students can apply
for. Among them are the presidential scholarships that offer a full tuition
waiver. Off-Campus Sources: LHU journalism and mass communication students also
have been successful in obtaining scholarships from other sources. Among these
outside sources are the following. Address or telephone numbers are not listed
for some of these sources because they change yearly. Usually this department
receives each year a letter from a different person announcing the scholarship.
This letter is copied and posted in the hall outside the J & MC offices on
the sixth floor of the Robinson Learning Center. Association for Women in Sports
Media gives a scholarship for women who plan to pursue a career in sports
writing, sport copy editing, sports broadcasting or sports public relations.
AWSM Scholarship, P.O. Box 4205, Mililani, HI 96789. Pennsylvania Women's Press
Association offers a $750 scholarship to a print journalism major in a four-year
program in a Pennsylvania college or university. College and University Public
Relations Association of Pennsylvania offers a $1,500 communication internship
award to a student of color. Write to CUPRAP, 800 North Third Street,
Harrisburg, PA, 17102 or call (717) 232-8639 Leonard M. Perryman Communications
Scholarship ($2,500) for Ethnic Minority Students for undergraduate study in
religious journalism or mass communication. Write to Scholarship Committee,
United Methodist Communications, Public Media Division, P.O. Box 320, Nashville,
TN 37202-0320. NCAA and The Freedom Forum offer eight $3,000 scholarships for
sports-journalism students. Write to NCAA, 6201 College Boulevard, Overland
Park, Kansas 66211-2422; telephone (913) 339-0036 The New Jersey Press
Foundation offer 10-week paid summer internships (up to $275 a week) plus grants
of up to $3,000 at NJPF newspapers. Students must be New Jersey residents, but
they can be enrolled in a Pennsylvania JMC program (ours qualifies). Write to
the New Jersey Press Association, 206 West State Street, Trenton, NJ 08608-1095
or telephone (609) 695-3366.
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