June 2,2000 UNT Inhouse publication: Twenty UNT students receive Frank W. Mayborn scholarships

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Twenty UNT students receive Frank W. Mayborn Scholarships

The Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism has awarded $200,000 in scholarships to students for the 2000-01 academic year.

Twenty students, all earning master's degrees in journalism, will each receive $10,000. Five of this year's recipients won the scholarships last year as well.

The institute is named for longtime newspaper publisher and civic leader Frank W. Mayborn, who owned the Temple Daily Telegram, Killeen Daily Herald and KCEN-TV/Channel 6, Temple's NBC affiliate, before his death in 1987.

The Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism was founded last year through a gift from the Frank W. & Anyse Sue Mayborn Foundation Advise and Consult Fund at Communities Foundation of Texas. Through this gift, the institute is able to offer $200,000 in scholarships every year. The scholarships are limited to students who majored in fields other than radio/television/film, journalism or mass communication for their undergraduate degrees.

Mitchell Land, associate professor of journalism and director of the institute, says he is excited about the opportunity to work with this year's scholarship recipients.

"The quality of this group really does represent the value of scholarship," he says. "I think it's incredible that we're able to give away almost a quarter of a million dollars every year thanks to the generosity of our benefactors. The fact that most of the money designated for the Mayborn institute goes to the students reflects the attitude this department has toward the students. They're our primary concern."

Following are this year's Mayborn Scholarship recipients: