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Greenlee School scholarship honoring Hugh Sidey announced at White House
- Hugh Sidey, a 1950 graduate of Iowa State and a long-time White House
correspondent for Time magazine, will be recognized with a scholarship
in his name in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication.
The scholarship will be formally announced at a special presentation at
the White House Friday, Jan. 26. First Lady Laura Bush and former President
George H.W. Bush are scheduled to host the event.
To keep alive Hugh Sidey's legacy, the annual Hugh S. Sidey Scholarship
supports aspiring print journalists who exhibit extraordinary understanding
of the responsibilities of covering the chief executive of the United States.
The scholarship was made possible through a generous gift from David M.
Rubenstein, founder of The Carlyle Group and former deputy assistant to
the President during the Carter Administration, and the White House Historical
Association (WHHA).
"Hugh Sidey is part of the Greenlee School's history and American history,"
said Michael Bugeja, professor and director of the Greenlee School. "Mr.
Sidey came back to serve as our keynote speaker for our 100th anniversary
celebration and he spoke eloquently, with wit and inspiration about the
world of journalism."
"Mr. Sidey was a great friend of the White House Historical Association,
serving on the board for many years," wrote Neil Horstman, president of
the WHHA. "As chairman, he oversaw a critical period as we celebrated the
bicentennial of the first occupancy of the White House and the centennial
of the West Wing.
"He dearly loved Iowa State and his time in the journalism school,
and the White House Historical Association wants to keep his remarkable
accomplishments alive in the minds of young journalists in the years to
come."
The first recipient of the scholarship is Fred Love, a junior from Quasqueton,
Iowa, majoring in both journalism and mass communication and political science.
Love was selected from a pool of applicants all of whom wrote essays on
the challenges, principles and importance of reporting on the modern presidency.
The essays focused on social responsibility of a print journalist covering
the executive branch.
"I've always been interested in political journalism, especially the
relationship between presidents and the press," Love said. "For
my essay I researched Mr. Sidey's columns and articles that appeared in
Time.
"After writing this paper I hope to become a White House reporter like Mr.
Sidey."
In addition to the $5,000 scholarship established by the WHHA, Love will
also receive a trip to Washington, D.C., to participate in the Jan. 26 ceremony
at the White House. During his stay in the nation's capital, Love will meet
with prominent members of the media and former and current White House press
secretaries. He and his family are also scheduled to receive a tour of the
White House Press Room.
Sidey wrote about the American Presidency for more than 30 years. He began
covering Dwight Eisenhower for the weekly Life magazine in 1957
and later became Time's political and White House correspondent.
He was the author of Time's column "The Presidency" and
the author of five books on the presidency.
Some of his career highlights included reporting on Eisenhower during the
U-2 crisis, traveling with Kennedy when he was assassinated in Dallas, chronicling
Nixon's fall from the presidency during the Watergate scandal, and Carter's
involvement with the Camp David accords.
Sidey was a fourth generation journalist and was raised on the family's
weekly paper in Greenfield, Iowa. He worked on newspapers in Council Bluffs
and Omaha before joining the staff of Life in 1955 and then Time two years
later. Sidey died in November 2005.
The WHHA was founded in 1961 through the interest of Jacqueline Kennedy
as a non-profit educational institution. The association produces historical
books and television documentaries, sponsors travel grants and fellowships
in cooperation with the Organization of American Historians, and has provided
more than $24 million to date for the preservation of the White House and
the acquisition and conservation of its fine and decorative arts collection.
Hugh Sidey
Fred Love
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