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Terry Carpenter and Paul Lerner are awarded Woodrow Wilson Terry Carpenter and Paul Lerner are awarded Woodrow Wilson

fellowship awards for 1960-1961 fellowship awards for 1960-1961

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FOR RELEASE A. M. TUESDAY, MARCH 8

Two Montana State University seniors have been awarded Woodrow Wilson fellow­

ship awards for 1960-61, and six other MSU students have received honorable mention

in the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation's nationwide search for future

college teachers, according to Dr. Leslie A. Fiedler, professor of English at MSU

and member of the foundation's regional selection committee.

MSU recipients of Wilson fellowships are Terry Carpenter, Missoula, and Paul

Lerner, Brooklyn, N. Y. Each will receive a basic stipend of $1,500 plus family

allowances and full costs of a year's graduate study at a university of his choice

in the United States or Canada. Miss Carpenter's graduate work will be in English

and Lerner*s will be in anthropology.

Miss Carpenter has the distinction of being one of about 30 college juniors to

win a Wilson appointment last year, Dr. Fiedler noted. The advance award was made

for graduate work in I96O-61, he explained.

MSU students winning honorable mention are Konnie Feig, Conrad; James H. Melton,

Kalispell; David T. Kubach, Beloit, Wis.; Thomas M. Mc.ngar, Missoula; James W. Sheire,

Butte, and John S. Shrauger, Kalispell.

The names of Wilson fellowship recipients for I96O-61 were announced Monday by

Sir Hugh Taylor, president of the foundation and dean emeritus of the Princeton Uni­

versity Graduate School. The 1,259 winners came from 355 universities and colleges

and were selected from 8,800 applicants representing 86l institutions. They will

study at 83 different graduate schools.

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One unusual feature of the program is that students may not apply directly

but must be nominated by a faculty member, Dr. Fiedler said* For this reason,,

practically all candidates are superior students, and it is considered an honor

just to be nominatedo He pointed, out that, since only about 1,200 fellowships can

be given, a large number of deserving candidates do not receive fellowships.. How­

ever, 1,203 candidates were given honorable mention and their names have been sent

to deans of graduate schools in the United States and Canada. It is anticipated

that most of these will receive alternative awards, either directly from univer­

sities or from other organizations.

The Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program was established in 19^5 to recruit

promising students for the college teaching profession and to support them during

their first year of graduate study, Dr, Fiedler said. In 1957 the program received

a grant of $24,500,000 from the Ford Foundation to increase its scope and to

intensify its search for future college teachers. The winners announced Monday

bring to more than v,000 the number of students started on the road to careers in

coliege teaching.

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