Post by WVUfanPHILLY on Aug 12, 2007 15:47:18 GMT -5
POSTED: August 4, 2007
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University senior Jamie D. Ziegler of Wheeling has been awarded the Adam R. Kelly Premier Journalist Memorial Scholarship by the West Virginia Press Association.
The $5,000 scholarship, named for the late Adam R. Kelly, former owner and editor of the Tyler Star News, Sistersville, is presented each year to a journalism student whose academic studies and contributions to the field of journalism most embrace Kelly’s ethics and love of West Virginia.
Ziegler, 21, is the son of Heather and David Ziegler of Wheeling.
His mother is a 28-year journalist with the Wheeling News-Register and The Intelligencer.
He is the grandson of Mary Hamm of Wheeling and the late Harry C. Hamm, who served as editor of the Wheeling News-Register for more than 40 years; and June Ziegler of Benwood and the late Francis Ziegler.
He is a 2004 graduate of Wheeling Park High School. Ziegler is a senior in the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at WVU. His major is news editorial with a minor in political science. He completed his junior year with a 3.45 GPA, making him eligible for the Dean’s List.
In 2005 and 2006, Ziegler completed summer internships at the Wheeling newspapers. During his internships, he covered stories ranging from a beauty pageant in Wheeling to a rodeo in Belmont County. He will serve his second year as news/copy editor and writer at the Daily Athenaeum newspaper at WVU during the 2007-08 school year.
He received the Adam R. Kelly scholarship during a dinner program held Friday at the annual Press Association Convention/Trade Show in Shepherdstown, W.Va.
His love of the outdoors has led Ziegler to focus much of his feature writing on hunting, fishing and other outdoor pursuits in his home state of West Virginia.
Also this month, he was one of three undergraduate students from across the country to win a 2007 Bodie McDowell Scholarship valued at $1,000 from the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He also has earned the West Virginia PROMISE Scholarship and a Mountaineer Scholarship for academics from WVU.
The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University senior Jamie D. Ziegler of Wheeling has been awarded the Adam R. Kelly Premier Journalist Memorial Scholarship by the West Virginia Press Association.
The $5,000 scholarship, named for the late Adam R. Kelly, former owner and editor of the Tyler Star News, Sistersville, is presented each year to a journalism student whose academic studies and contributions to the field of journalism most embrace Kelly’s ethics and love of West Virginia.
Ziegler, 21, is the son of Heather and David Ziegler of Wheeling.
His mother is a 28-year journalist with the Wheeling News-Register and The Intelligencer.
He is the grandson of Mary Hamm of Wheeling and the late Harry C. Hamm, who served as editor of the Wheeling News-Register for more than 40 years; and June Ziegler of Benwood and the late Francis Ziegler.
He is a 2004 graduate of Wheeling Park High School. Ziegler is a senior in the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at WVU. His major is news editorial with a minor in political science. He completed his junior year with a 3.45 GPA, making him eligible for the Dean’s List.
In 2005 and 2006, Ziegler completed summer internships at the Wheeling newspapers. During his internships, he covered stories ranging from a beauty pageant in Wheeling to a rodeo in Belmont County. He will serve his second year as news/copy editor and writer at the Daily Athenaeum newspaper at WVU during the 2007-08 school year.
He received the Adam R. Kelly scholarship during a dinner program held Friday at the annual Press Association Convention/Trade Show in Shepherdstown, W.Va.
His love of the outdoors has led Ziegler to focus much of his feature writing on hunting, fishing and other outdoor pursuits in his home state of West Virginia.
Also this month, he was one of three undergraduate students from across the country to win a 2007 Bodie McDowell Scholarship valued at $1,000 from the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He also has earned the West Virginia PROMISE Scholarship and a Mountaineer Scholarship for academics from WVU.
The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register
