North and East Texas Press Association $1,500 Scholarship Application Instructions

The North and East Texas Press Association will award two $1,500 scholarships, one to a graduating high school senior and one to a currently enrolled college student. The scholarships are payable at $750 per semester to the registrar of the college of the recipient’s choice when the recipient is pursuing an education in print journalism.

Applicants must be from the area served by the NETPA and should:

1. Complete the attached application. (Download it here)

2. Provide a current official transcript stamped by the school.

3. High school applicants should submit three letters with their applications:

a. a letter of recommendation from a senior or junior level English teacher;

b. a letter from the student’s publications adviser;

c. a letter from a person of the applicant’s choice.
Collegiate applicants should submit (b) and (c) above.

4. Applicants should submit clips of work produced in the current school year.

Send the completed application to Randy Keck, The Community News, P.O. Box 1031, Aledo, TX 76008. DEADLINE: Applications must be postmarked by Saturday, March 1, 2008 to be considered.

Winners will be notified by March 28and will be invited to attend the NETPA covention in Tyler, April 3-5, 2008. Questions may be directed to Randy Keck (817-441-7661, rkeck@community-news.com). Additional copies of the scholarship application may be downloaded from www.netpa.us.

NETPA announces 2007 scholarship recipients

SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS - Meghan Clark, valedictorian of the Olney High School Class of 2007, was introduced by NETPA Scholarship Chairman Randy Keck at the 2007 NETPA Convention as one of two 2007 scholarship winners. Accompanying Meghan to the NETPA convention awards brunch were her sister, Autumn, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Scotte Clark.

The North and East Texas Press Association has announced that Tiffany Henry of White Oak and Meghan M. Clark of Olney are the recipients of two $1,500 college scholarships for the 2007-08 school year.

Clark won first place in district in UIL editorial writing in 2005. At Olney High School, she was the freshman class secretary, Spanish club historian, treasurer and president, band chaplain, and band section leader. She was a National Merit Scholarship finalist and is a member of the National Honor Society.

Henry has been a staff writer and photographer her junior and senior years at White Oak High School and was editor of the yearbook in 2007. She has received the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award, Elk’s Lodge Student of the Month, and was on the 2005 and 2006 National Scholastic Press Association Honor Roll of Student Journalists.

The scholarships for Clark and Henry are funded by the NETPA and the Texas Press Association.

The NETPA is one of five regional press associations in Texas that works to promote and strengthen community journalism in its coverage area. For more information, see the Web site at www.netpa.us.