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January 2008

Volunteers Wrap Gifts for Scholarship Fund

FIFTY-SEVEN League volunteers spent over 300 hours wrapping gifts in December 2007, earning just under $3,400 for the Bess Whitehead Scott Scholarship Fund. MARTHA MILLER coordinated the project for the fourth year in a row, and scheduled wrappers who worked at the Arboretum and Westlake Barnes & Noble and at Book People bookstores in Austin.

The money goes to two scholarships given annually to an undergraduate communications major at a Texas university and the other to a Texas college student studying writing who is at least 40 years old. The amount of the scholarships in 2008 will rise from $1,000 to $1,500 each. The awards are given in honor of Bess W. Scott, a
pioneering Texas journalist and League member who died at age 107 in
1997. The application deadline for the 2008 awards is February 1, 2008.

For more information about the scholarships, go to the League's website: www.writersleague.org/scholarships/index.

A huge gold star for wrapping the most hours is shared this year by KEN LOVELESS and TAYLOR SKAAR, who each volunteered more than 20 hours!

A second tier of superstars worked more than 10 hours each: LIZ BURTON, ANN CABOT, CAMILLE NERADA, and BLAINE WILLIAMS. Volunteers with names in all capitals below (13 total) worked 6 hours or more.

On behalf of the 30 student writers who have won scholarships totaling $27,000 since the Fund's inception in 1990, the Bess W. Scott Scholarship Fund thanks you for your time and interest in supporting these scholarships.

2007 Volunteers