Newswomen's Club of New York presented last night the recipients of its Anne O'Hare McCormick Scholarships. Donna Lee, a reporter focusing on local news, and Erin Siegal, a photojournalist and investigative reporter, students at Columbia Journalism School, each received $6,000. The scholarships are named after the first woman member of the editorial board of the New York Times and the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in a major category (in 1937 for foreign correspondence).
Thomson Reuters Markets Division CEO Devin Wenig said "we believe in the future of journalism" and noted the company's support of the scholarships (including serving as host of the reception). He also pledged on the spot to support a new scholarship named after a longterm club president and officer who died last year, Joan O'Sullivan. Sullivan participated and usually led the Anne O'Hare McCormick Scholarship committee from the 1950s.
"She used to say that nothing would stop her from making the calls to the winners each year unless she were dead," current scholarship committee president, Lenore Skenazy, said. The young women honored last night were the last ones to get the call from O'Sullivan. OSullivan's husband Archie Vassiliadis (born in Alexandria Egypt) and daughter Demitra Vassiliadis (a professional astrologer) attended the event along with the club member who put up the money to start the scholarship, Roz Massow.
Also last night in New York: Brooklyn Academy of Music had a gala 90th birthday party for Merce Cunningham kicking off the company's engagement there; the Paley Center for Media celebrated its new Kissinger Global Conference Room, and Lenox Hill Neighborhood House held its annual gala at Sotheby's.
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