The CDAA’s Scholarship Committee is pleased to award the following scholarships:

Rachel Alberico, a third-year student and CD assistant managing editor, will receive the Cavalier Daily/Virginia Press Association’s Community Journalism Scholarship. She will work for 10 weeks at a Virginia daily newspaper and her salary paid for by the CDAA.

Second-year student and lifestyles editor Josie Roberts will receive the $1,000 Herring Scholarship. She plans to work at the Fairfax Journal this summer.

Brady Wolfe, a second-year student and photography editor, will receive the $1,000 Kris Pierson Memorial Photography scholarship. He plans to use the money to photograph National Parks in the Western United States.

— Greg Trevor
Scholarship Chairman
April 2001

I am very pleased to report that all four of this past summer’s recipients of financial support from the Scholarship Committee—beneficiaries of the highest level of monetary support in the program’s five-year history—successfully completed a wide range of internships.

Compared to previous summers, the most significant change was the awarding of the first Cavalier Daily Alumni Association/Virginia Press Association Internship for Community Journalism—a 10-week, $300-a-week internship that will continue to be fully funded by a CDAA endowment. Cavalier Daily News Editor Katie Dalton, the first recipient, performed so capably that her employer, The Daily Progress, has given her a standing offer to return there.

The summer’s recipients of two $1,000 Herring scholarships had very positive experiences with their internships in New York. Arts & Entertainment Editor Doug Strassler worked in the publishing industry, while Sports Editor James Reedy worked for the late Sport Magazine and its reincarnation, FHM Sport. Also, Photography Editor Daniel Lopez, recipient of the $1,000 Pierson photography scholarship, compiled an impressive portfolio while traveling through Texas this past summer.

Since the scholarship program began in 1995, the Cavalier Daily Alumni Association has awarded 15 scholarships worth more than $15,000 to highly qualified Cavalier Daily staff members pursuing journalism careers. The Cavalier Daily Alumni Association will continue to work with the Cavalier Daily staff, as well as the Virginia Press Association, to further improve the scholarship program, making it even more responsive to the needs of CD staffers.

— Greg Trevor
Scholarship Chairman
November  2000

The Scholarship Committee met April 7 at the Virginia Press Association’s offices to award the CDAA/VPA Internship for Community Journalism. The new 10-week, $300-a-week internship is funded by a CDAA endowment that has reached $68,000—thanks to overwhelming support from our alumni.

This summer’s scholarship was awarded to Katie Dalton, a second-year student and Cavalier Daily news editor, who will intern at Charlottesville’s Daily Progress, her first choice paper.

The committee also awarded two $1,000 Herring internship scholarships for this summer. James Reedy, a third-year student and CD sports editor, will intern at Sport Magazine in New York. Doug Strassler, a third-year student and CD arts and entertainment editor, is competing for internships at features and entertainment publications in New York.

Daniel Lopez, a third-year student and CD photography editor, received the $1,000 Pierson photography scholarship. He will work for the Smithsonian Institution’s Botany Department, producing photos of the department’s collection. He also will travel to Hidalgo County, Texas, to document living conditions among the poor.

— Greg Trevor
Scholarship Chairman
April 2000

The Scholarship Committee is excited to announce that, in conjunction with the Virginia Press Association, the Cavalier Daily Alumni Association will offer an annual, fully funded internship with a VPA member paper to a qualified Cavalier Daily staff member beginning in the summer of 2000. This project has been a goal of the CDAA for five years. (For details, see VPA/CDAA.) Application information is now available online. The deadline is January 3, 2000.

In addition, based on donations and pledges resulting from our ongoing fund-raising efforts, the committee is pleased to report that the CDAA has met its initial goal to raise at least $40,000 to fund a permanent endowment for internships and scholarships. Future donations earmarked for the endowment will be used to fund additional internships and scholarships.

Three Cavalier Daily staff members were the recipients of the most recent Herring, Pierson and CDAA scholarships. For information on how they spent their summers and what they learned, see Internships.

Since this program began in 1995, the CDAA has awarded nearly $10,000 in scholarships to highly qualified Cavalier Daily staff members pursuing journalism careers. These staff members have used this money to defray living costs and other expenses while working as summer interns and in other media-related jobs. As part of this program, the recipients are expected to return to The Cavalier Daily and pass along their newfound knowledge to their fellow staffers. This program is one of the most successful ways that the Cavalier Daily Alumni Association is fulfilling its core mission to provide journalistic educational opportunities to the Cavalier Daily staff.

—Greg Trevor
Scholarship Chairman
September 1999

Since it was founded in 1983, the Cavalier Daily Alumni Association has helped enhance the educational opportunities of Cavalier Daily staff members and other University students—by sponsoring guest speakers and workshops on all aspects of journalism.

For the past four years, the CDAA has expanded our educational mission with a more direct form of support—$1,000 and $500 scholarships awarded to CD writers, photographers and editors who have received unpaid or low-paid summer internships.

As of this summer, the CDAA will have awarded nearly $10,000 in scholarships to deserving students for internships in print journalism, broadcasting, photography and other communications positions.

This summer, in addition to the $1,000 Herring Scholarship and the $1,000 Pierson Scholarship, the CDAA plans to award a new scholarship—the "Cavalier Daily Alumni Association Award," a $1,000 stipend that will go to a qualified CD staff member working in Virginia. The CDAA plans to award all three scholarships at the board’s spring meeting; winners will be announced in the September edition of College Topics.

Also, the Cavalier Daily Alumni Association has begun looking into the creation of a permanent scholarship endowment. This would allow the organization to continue awarding its existing scholarships for the foreseeable future and to create additional awards. One option under serious discussion is the possible creation of a permanent internship slot at a Virginia newspaper, which would be guaranteed to a Cavalier Daily staff member each summer.

If you have any comments or suggestions, or if you would like to make a donation toward a scholarship endowment, please contact me at 732-843-6803 (home) or at gtrevor@earthlink.net.

At a meeting on Saturday, Apr. 18, the Scholarship Committee selected the recipients of this year’s Herring and Pierson scholarships. (See May 1998 issue of College Topics for more information.) Based on the number of highly qualified applicants for the awards, during the CDAA Board meeting the following day, the committee recommended the establishment of an additional $1,000 scholarship to begin in the spring of 1999. The Board unanimously approved the recommendation.

The committee plans to meet in the fall to determine terms of the award. If you have any input on this or any other scholarship-related issue, please feel free to contact me at 732-843-6803.