United Methodist agency doubles communications scholarships
9/4/1998 News media contact: Linda Green · (615) 742-5470 · Nashville, Tenn by United Methodist News Service The United Methodist Church's communications agency is offering additional scholarships in the 1999-2000 academic year in a move aimed at meeting the need for more trained communicators in the denomination.
United Methodist Communications (UMCom) in Nashville, Tenn., currently offers two scholarships annually to students entering the field of religious communications, regardless of denominational affiliation. However, the additional scholarships will be specifically for United Methodists.
UMCom's $6,000 Stoody-West Fellowship allows a graduate student pursuing a career in religious journalism to study at an accredited graduate school or department of journalism. The agency also awards a $2,500 Leonard M. Perryman Communications Scholarship for Ethnic Minority Students to a U.S. ethnic minority college student who will be a junior or senior and is planning a career in religious communications.
In the next academic year, UMCom will begin offering an additional scholarship for each of the annual awards. The new scholarships will be offered solely to United Methodist students pursuing careers in religious journalism or communications. The application process for each scholarship begins Oct. 1.
"The new scholarships offered by United Communications address the denomination's need to develop future qualified Christian communications professionals," said the Rev. Judy Weidman, chief agency executive.
The Stoody-West Fellowship honors the Rev. Arthur West and the late Rev. Ralph Stoody, who were staff executives of UMCom or one of its predecessor agencies.
The Perryman scholarship honors Leonard Perryman, a journalist for the United Methodist Church for more than 30 years. He died in 1983.
For more information on UMCom's annual awards, visit the agency's Web site at http://www.umc.org/umcom/scholarship/html, send an e-mail to Scholarships@umcom.umc.org, or write to Scholarship Committee, United Methodist Communications, P.O. Box 320, Nashville, TN 37202.
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