UpDate - Vol. 11, No. 14, Page 4
December 12, 1991
Two student writers honored

     Wil Shamlin of Hockessin is one of 16 college juniors across
the country awarded a $1,000 scholarship through the Dow Jones
Newspaper Fund as part of its 1991 Minority Reporting Intern
Scholarship Competition.
     Shamlin worked as an intern last summer at the Utica. N.Y.,
Observer-Dispatch.
     He previously had held part-time and internship positions as
a clerk and graphic assistant and news reporter at the Wilmington
News Journal.
     Interns were selected on the basis of resumes, college grades,
clippings of newspaper articles and an essay explaining what they
learned during their internships.
     "The performances of these young people and the talent each of
them showed through their internships brought high praise from
their editors. It proves that college sophomores are able to rise
to the challenge of daily newspaper reporting," Thomas E. Engleman,
executive director of the fund, said.
     Shamlin, a staff member of The Review, said he started writing
in high school.
     The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund is a non-profit foundation
supported by the Dow Jones Foundation and other newspaper
companies.
     The goal of the scholarship program is to encourage younger
students to pursue newspaper internships so their talents will be
fully developed by the time they finish college.
     Robert Weston, another Review reporter and a University
senior, was chosen the 1991 U. College Journalist of the Year at a
ceremony in Denver in early November.
     Weston was recognized for a series of stories, entitled
"Desert Storm Notebook: A soldier's perspective of the war,"
published in The Review.