The Scholarship program has grown with more opportunities for our young winners to get involved with the club. Recipients now have the chance to mingle with members as they attend Professional Pursuits programs. In 1999, three scholarship winners provided hospitality support to the Larry King roast.

The American News Women's Club awards five academic scholarships for each year to one undergraduate or graduate student majoring in fields of journalism or communications at one of the following universities: American University, Gallaudet University, George Washington University, Howard University, and University of Maryland.

In 1997, the ANWC five scholarship students interviewed His Excellency the Ambassador of Mexico at the Mexican Embassy.

Scholarship Recipient Update
Elizabeth Boch came to the University of Maryland College Park in 2000 and secured her first daily internship the next summer at the "Frederick News-Post". She then worked on another mid-sized daily and became the defense and federal employees reporter for Capital News Service, a Maryland wire service operated by the School of Journalism in the fall of 2002. She also covered the Maryland second district election of the U.S. House of Representatives last fall for the service. She then wrote enterprise pieces out of D.C. for the "Hartford Courant", focusing heavily on the faith-based initiative and wrote over 40 stories for the "Boston Globe"'s metro desk this summer, including several enterprise pieces on community issues like immigration. She hopes to work for a mid-sized metro daily upon graduation in 2004 doing enterprise work and possibly move back to Washington to cover politics at a later date