Lincoln (Neb.) - Aug. 29, 2000 - Carol L. Bryant of Grand Island has been awarded the Gilbert M. and Martha H. Hitchcock Fellowship. Bryant will receive a cash reward of $5,000 to help complete her master's thesis and graduate studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications awards the fellowship to a graduate student with media experience after recommendation of the graduate faculty of the college and a review by the board of the Hitchcock Foundation in Omaha.
Bryant, city editor at the Grand Island Independent, worked for six years as a police reporter before assuming her current position. She graduated from Grand Island Senior High School in 1979, earned a bachelor's degree from Hastings College in 1983, and a master's degree in math from the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 1989.
Bryant's thesis is a manuscript on the life of Milan Bish, a former
Grand Island implement dealer who sold the family business to pursue
other ventures. Bish was chair of the State Central Committee of the
Republican Party, a regional political director for Ronald Reagan's
presidential campaign, and served as a U.S. ambassador.
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