{"id":5430,"date":"2010-09-07T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T16:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=5430"},"modified":"2010-09-08T12:18:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T17:18:16","slug":"first-ever-bruce-dawson-scholarship-handed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2010\/09\/07\/first-ever-bruce-dawson-scholarship-handed-out\/","title":{"rendered":"First ever Bruce Dawson scholarship handed out"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of former Clarion<\/em> adviser and journalism professor Bruce Dawson, Sinclair Community College has awarded its first ever Bruce Dawson scholarship.<\/p>\n

The scholarship is worth $300 and its first recipient was Clarion<\/em> editor Georgia Howard.<\/p>\n

Bruce passed away in 2005 of cancer.\u00a0After his passing the family requested donations at his funeral, but not for any expenses.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe asked donations to come right back to the college because we knew how much Bruce cared about the college and the<\/em> Clarion<\/em>,\u201d Terri Dawson, Bruce’s wife, said.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the idea of a scholarship formed and through donations and other means, the family accrued the required $10,000 to launch the Bruce Dawson scholarship.<\/p>\n

Harold Dawson, Bruce\u2019s father, passed away earlier this year and left $90,000 to the scholarship.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was so very proud of Bruce,\u201d Terri said.<\/p>\n

As of right now, the scholarship can go to any Communication major.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to see a Clarion<\/em> employee be the first choice.\u00a0That would not only include writers, but photographers, graphic design, web page construction, advertising, the whole gamut.\u00a0This was Bruce’s passion and it only seems fitting to award some one working on the paper,\u201d Terri said.<\/p>\n

Terri\u2019s second choice would be a Journalism major, something she says the whole family recently agreed on.<\/p>\n

According to Terri, his true passion was teaching and working with students, plus being outdoors and taking photographs.<\/p>\n

Bruce was adviser of the<\/em> Clarion<\/em> from 1995-2005 a longtime journalism professor and helped shift Sinclair\u2019s journalism department out of the English department.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe really related to students well,\u201d Tim Sweet, general manager of Aramark and friend of Bruce\u2019s, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe worked up until a week or two weeks prior [to his passing],\u201d Terri said.\u00a0 \u201cHe drug himself in here to teach and be with his students.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe made an impact here,\u201d Sweet said.\u00a0 \u201cHe was that guy that never grew up, still had that passion, \u2018let\u2019s go try it\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sweet said that at times during Bruce\u2019s tenure at Sinclair, the friends would hide in each other\u2019s offices.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a while I\u2019d go sit in his office when things got too hectic and he\u2019d come sit in mine and we\u2019d just talk about whatever,\u201d Sweet said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was just a good guy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of former Clarion adviser and journalism professor Bruce Dawson, Sinclair Community College has awarded its first ever Bruce Dawson scholarship. The scholarship is worth $300 and its first recipient was Clarion editor Georgia Howard. Bruce passed away in 2005 of cancer.\u00a0After his passing the family requested donations at his funeral, but not for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-1pA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5431,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions\/5431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}