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SCPA Foundation Scholarships and Internships Three or more interns are placed each summer at daily and weekly member newspapers, allowing students invaluable real-world training experience. The Foundation also awards up to three scholarships each year to rising college juniors interested in pursuing newspaper careers. The premier scholarship, for $3500, is named for the Foundation's first president, the late Frank R. Mundy of the Greenwood Index-Journal. Smoak Scholarship Fund for newspaper professionals This award is presented in remembrance of Joseph M. Smoak, longtime vice president and general manager of The Evening Post Co. in Charleston. Smoak was president of the Press Association in 1991 and is remembered for his sharp newspaper business acumen. He died in 1993. Rather than provide an annual scholarship to one or two individuals per year, the SCPA Foundation Board has created a plan that will allow for a larger number of people to receive educational assistance through the Smoak Scholarship Fund. This help can be for such things as tuition assistance, scholarships to business seminars or workshops, or other educational opportunities that may be available. This plan allows member newspapers, on behalf of current employees, to request one-time assistance for an employee who is pursuing additional education or training opportunities. Unlike the current scholarships awarded by the SCPA Foundation to aspiring journalists, and in keeping with Mr. Smoak’s background, all Smoak funds will be awarded only to students or professionals who are interested in the business aspects of the newspaper field. The Smoak fund now has sufficient assets to distribute up to $6,000 per year. Scholarship awards are not limited to a particular school or type of program, and the percentage of program costs covered will be dependent upon both the number of applicants requesting assistance and upon the perceived relevance of the program under consideration. Priority will be given to assist as many applicants as possible. All member newspapers are eligible to request educational assistance from the Smoak fund. To apply or for more information, contact Bill Rogers at brogers@scpress.org or call (803) 750-9561.SCPA Foundation Golf Tournament
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Applications Meet the2010 scholars and interns Kara Apel is the recipient of this year’s $2,750 S.C. Press Association Foundation Mundy Scholarship. She is a senior print journalism major at the University of South Carolina. She is from Cincinnati, Ohio, and will serve as Editor-in-Chief of USC’s student
newspaper, The Daily Gamecock. The Mundy Scholarship is given in memory of R. Frank Mundy, the late publisher of The Index-Journal in Greenwood and the first president of the SCPA Foundation. Josh Dawsey will spend 10 weeks interning at The Island Packet in Hilton Head this summer. A native of
Aynor, Dawsey is a rising Print Journalism senior at the University of South Carolina. He will serve as the news editor of The Daily Gamecock this
fall. Anna Douglas is a rising senior Winthrop student majoring in Mass Communication. She will spend her summer at the Greenville Journal. Anna will serve as Editor-in-Chief of her campus newspaper, The Johnsonian, for the 2010-2011 school year. Clemson University’s Teddy Kulmala has been chosen as an SCPA summer intern and will work at the Aiken Standard this summer. Teddy is
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