2013 News
Fourth Scholarship Plus Class
Welcomed at WNYC Ceremony
Clockwise from top left: Shaunpaul Jones with Twinkle Morgan; Philomina Kane with Mary Kate McCaughey; Jeffrey Ng listens to Diva M. Morillo; Jaimie Nino de Guzman with Marius Cosma, and Aixin Li with Samantha Schoeller. Missing from photo: Emony Robertson.
Soma Golden Behr, executive director of Scholarship Plus, welcomes the class and the audience.
Laura W. Walker, head of New York Public Radio, applauds as Soma Golden Behr and Melanie Rosen Brooks, director of Scholarship Plus, look on.
Howard S. Stein, Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of New York Public Radio, and Laura W. Walker.
Judith Watson of C.U.N.Y. Graduate School of Journalism, with Diane Exavier, a former New York Times Scholarship winner, at left, and Raquel Beckford, a Scholarship Plus winner last year.
Ariel Behr, at left, with Sheila Lambert, a scholarship donor.
Fran Lester of Scholarship Plus, with former New York Times scholars Vanessa Salazar and Erika Sue.
New York Times columnist Charles Blow at event.
Wayne Proudfoot and Judy Handlin, longtime backers.
Mary Willis and Merle Bogin, friends of the program.
Gloria Waldman, Ellen Marson, head of Pod initiative, in which small groups combine to give scholarships, with her husband, Bernard, and Linda Levine.
Jonathan Landman of Bloomberg, Janny Scott, a Pod director, and Terry Pristin, one of its members. All are former New York Times staff members.
Tom Blanchard and Kamicia Bass, two of the New York Public Radio staff members who have been so welcoming to our interns.
Barbara Pearson and Linda Futterman, both longtime Scholarship Plus benefactors.
Exploring the City's Cultural Riches
Visit to a Young Artist's Studio
At the Brooklyn studio of Anna Navasardian, center, from left: Diane Exavier, who arranged the visit, and scholars Itzel Delgado, Aixin Li and Seanpaul Jones.
Showing a work from a boxing series, the artist said that she enjoys drawing because of its immediacy.
Anna and Aixin Li discuss how an artist creates.
The artist holds a composite photograph that is the starting point for the large painting on wall at rear.
Paints and brushes on table in the light-filled studio.
'Love's Labour's Lost' in Central Park
Before a performance of "Love's Labour's Lost" at Shakespeare in the Park, from left, Elira Duro and Luna Lin, both Scholarship Plus winners, Kate Fenneman Stokes and Soma Golden Behr of the Scholarship Plus team, Stefani Jones, a former New York Times Scholarship winner, and Mike Leahy of Scholarship Plus.
Touring the Farm at the Foot of Manhattan
Battery Park's working farm was a highlight of the visit to the Battery Conservancy, hosted by its director, Warrie Price. Jaime Nino de Guzman, Itzel Delgado and Shaunpaul Jones are flanked by Camilla Hammer and Claire Wilkens of the Battery Conservancy Staff.
A First: Four Classes Represented
At the Summer Gathering
15 Scholarship Plus winners were joined by some special friends of ours: graduates of the New York Times Scholarship program, among them a doctor, a playwright, several graduate students, a research scientist and a disaster recovery specialist.
From the Class of 2010: Tevin Jackson, Mylasha Furlonge and Maimouna Dieye, seniors at Duke, Smith and Mount Holyoke.
From the Class of 2011, now juniors: Back row, Leticia Quezada, Harvard; Bryan Mera, Brown, and Jane Leung, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Front row: Gregory Scott, University of Rochester, who will be studying in Rio de Janiero this year, and Luna Lin, Barnard.
The Class of 2012, sophomores: Top, Elira Duro, N.Y.U.; Itzel Delgado, Haverford and Sino Esthappan, Vassar. Bottom: Eileen Duran, SUNY Binghamton, and Raquel Beckford, Trinity College, Hartford.
From the Class of 2012: Shaunpaul Jones, Amherst, and Aixin Lin, Smith College.
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