DWPC Philanthropy
Frances Belford Wayne Merit Award
Named for Frances Belford Wayne, this monetary award recognizes the outstanding journalistic abilities of a University of Colorado School of Journalism student.
Frances Belford Wayne, a Central City native, distinguished herself during a 40-year career with The Denver Post and won national recognition as an investigative reporter and feature writer.
She was the first Honorary Member named by the Denver Woman's Press Club.
The scholarship was initiated in 1940 by DWPC President Gladys Van Vranken Parce, and has been donated from DWPC general funds for more than half a century.
The 2009-20010 Frances Belford Wayne Award of $1,250 was given to Margaret Zawalski, a junior at the University of Colorado at Boulder, majoring in journalism.
The Scholastic Art & Writing Award
This is a national program sponsored by the Museum of Outdoor Arts
for high school students. The DWPC selects a college-bound high school
senior as the scholarship's recipient for the Writing Scholarship Award.
Winners from sponsoring programs go onward to the national level to be judged.
The program has been ongoing since 1923 and prior winners of note include
Richard Avedon, Truman Capote, Fannie Farmer, Bernard Malamud, Joyce
Maynard, Joyce Carol Oates and Sylvia Plath.
The 2009-20010 Writing Scholarship Award of $1,250 to apply toward college tuition, was given to Lauren YoungSmith, a student at Colorado Academy. She will be attending Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
Ruth Underhill Award
The Dr. Ruth Murray Underhill Award was established in 1985 to honor the memory of one of DWPC's most distinguished members. Dr. Underhill was a lifelong advocate of the English language, an anthropologist and an authority on North American Indians. She was a journalist and author in the fields of science, fiction and poetry. The monetary award is given to a University of Colorado student for outstanding merit in creative writing.
The 2009-2010 Ruth Underhill Award of $1,250 was given to Agnieszka Michalska, who is pursuing her MFA in cereative writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder.