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Agnes Cooke Scholarship Recipients
2008: Valerie Lambros and Sharon Tully
Valerie Lambros is a graduate student at George Mason University in the MFA Creative Writing Program. Her goal is to return to the long form of journalism. She has been financing her graduate studies by working in the GMU English Department as a teaching assistant and currently as an adviser.
Prior to returning to graduate school, Valerie was a journalist for South Carolina and Northern Virginia daily papers.
Sharon Tully is a senior at the University of Richmond expecting to graduate in May 2009 with a B.A. in journalism and a minor in business administration. Her home is near Philadelphia, and she has held internships at Philadelphia's NBC 10 and Richmond's WRIC-TV8. She studied abroad in Milan, Italy, during the first semester of her junior year and grew to love traveling. During the 2007–2008 school year, she was the recipient of the Joseph E. Nettles scholarship from UR, an award given to journalism majors on the basis of academic performance, dedication to journalism, merit and financial need. Tully is currently interning with Richmond Magazine.
2007: Tierney McAfee and Alyssa Walden
When the Foundation's mutual fund does well and/or when we receive donations to the fund, we are able to award two scholarships. This was the case in 2007.
Tierney McAfee, 22, a University of Mary Washington rising senior from Doylestown, Penn., completed a 2006 internship at the Free Lance-Star and a summer internship at the Philadelphia Weekly. She was a staff writer for UMW's weekly paper the Bullet and served as features editor this year. Her academic record keeps her on the Dean's List.
Alyssa Walden, a journalism major at Ferrum College, is 2007 editor-in-chief of the Iron Blade, the Ferrum College newspaper, and was the 2005-2006 sports editor. Her honors include Dean's List each semester, the Roy Stanley Miller Journalism Award from WDBJ News Channel 7 and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She and her sister are first-generation college students.
2006: Alexis A. Hatfield
Alexis Hatfield, 20, is a junior majoring in communications with a minor in Spanish at Virginia Tech. As with all the applicants, Hatfield is on the Dean's List. She has been building her resume by working with ESPN radio in Blacksburg, the NBA-TV as a sports reporter in Roanoke for the Dazzle Development League, a sports writer for the Virginia Tech newspaper the Collegiate Times, as well as hosting a student television show. Because of family budgetary strains, Hatfield is on her own financing her junior and senior years. This is the first time the Agnes Cooke Scholarship has been awarded to a broadcast student.
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