School News - College of Communication and Information

planned giving opportunities
contact the UK Office of
Development at 859-257-
3911 or 800-875-6272.
Graduate faculty members Alan
Desantis, Tom Lindlof, Nancy
G. Harrington and Jim Hertog.
Doug Boyd, former dean of the
College, presents Judy Clabes
(’67) with a Fellows plaque in
recognition of her support of
the College and JAT.
Bernie Vonderheide
Scholarship in Public
Relations
Julia Meador, JAT/ISC,
Shelbyville
Bruce Westley Memorial
Graduate Scholarship
Laura Beth Daws, GPC,
Athens, Ala.
Development
News
The college has received a
great deal of support from
our alumni and friends.
Your gifts support student
scholarships and fellowships,
professorships, and our three
Centers of Excellence: The
McConnell Center for Youth
Literature, the Scripps
Howard First Amendment
Center and the Institute for
Rural Journalism and
Community Issues. This
past year we had several
new scholarships and endowments
created as well as
upgrades to several existing
ones and conducted our
annual Phonathon and
Bids for Brains scholarship
fund raiser.
To learn more about our
programs or how to fund a
scholarship, endowment or
professorship contact Janice
Birdwhistell at 859-257-
4241, or by e-mail at
janice.bird@uky.edu. For
additional information on
• Phonathon a success—
thanks to you! The
Phonathon broke past
records for number of pledges
made and gifts received. We
received 934 pledges and
$41,865.27. This is a 7.15
percent increase over last
year and is the largest
amount in the college’s 16-
year phoning history. Again,
we thank you for your continued
support of our students
and programs. We hope
that you will continue to say
“yes” to the student callers
and help us to continue to
expand our scholarship
opportunities and activities.
• The Clabes Family First
Amendment Center Fund
was established in the
School of Journalism and
Telecommunications in
2007. In 2008, the Scripps
Howard Foundation made a
$50,000 gift to endow the
Judith G. Clabes Scholarship
in honor of her service to the
Scripps Howard Foundation.
The scholarship will be
awarded to declared upperdivision
majors, preferably
print who have demonstrated
through class work, internships,
part-time work, or
extra-curricular activities an
exceptional understanding of
and commitment to the
importance of First
Amendment advocacy and
principles in the professional
and civic life of a working
journalist and/or of the vital
relationship of these principles
to the preservation of
democracy. For additional
information on the Scripps
Howard First Amendment
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