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:  BWSfund@gmail.comWeb:  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

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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:  BWSfund@gmail.comWeb:  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.