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UAM Student Receives Society of
Professional Journalists Scholarship (8/19/09)
MONTICELLO, AR — The Society of Professional Journalists has awarded
Douglas Boultinghouse of the University of Arkansas at Monticello one of
five SPJ scholarships worth $1,000 for the 2009-2010 school year.
The Society of Professional Journalists, Arkansas Professional Chapter,
awards scholarships annually in the names of L.C. and Daisy Bates, J.N.
Heiskell, K.A. Engel and Jerol Garrison, plus the Winthrop Rockefeller FOI
Scholarship. Boultinghouse accepted his award at SPJ's annual awards dinner
August 17 along with Kimber Wenzelberger of the University of
Arkansas-Fayetteville and Katie Butler, Levi Gilbert and Aprille Hanson of
the University of Central Arkansas.
Boultinghouse is a junior journalism major from Rison. He is the second UAM
student to win the award in the journalism program’s seventh year. UAM
graduate Danielle Kloap, last year's winner, now works as an editorial page
supervisor's assistant at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
PHOTO CAPTION: Douglas Boultinghouse,
a junior at the University of Arkansas at Monticello (center), stands with
Kelly Kissel, the Arkansas news editor of the Associated Press (left), and
Andrew DeMillo, president of the Society of Professional Journalists'
Arkansas Professional Chapter. Boultinghouse received a $1,000 SPJ
scholarship for the 2009-2010 school year.
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