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Scholarships for NJ Newspaper Carriers
NJPF Awards Two Students Isaac Roth Newspaper Carrier Scholarships in 2008Keith Obzut of East Brunswick and Kathryn Stoppiello of Brick were selected to receive college scholarships awarded by the New Jersey Press Foundation's 2008 Isaac Roth Newspaper Carrier Scholarship Program.
Each student will receive a $2,000 scholarship from NJPF. In addition to the two scholarship recipients, the foundation will present "Honor Student" certificates to two applicants who placed high in the 2008 competition. The honored students are: Courtney Amber Johnson of Willingboro (nominated by The Burlington County Times, Willingboro) and Andrew M. McGlynn of Cranford (nominated by The Star-Ledger, Newark). Johnson attends Rutgers University and McGlynn attends Towson (Md.) University. Both are children of adult carriers for the two newspapers. Judges for the competition were Frank Mastromarino, retired circulation director living in Fayetteville, N.C., and Norrell Nelson of the Los Angeles Daily News. The scholarships are awarded from a trust fund established in 1926 by the estate of Isaac Roth, who was a newspaper carrier for the Newark Daily News (no longer in print). The trust fund was transferred to the New Jersey Press Foundation in 1983. About the Isaac Roth Newspaper Carrier ScholarshipsScholarships valued at $2,000 each are awarded each year to New Jersey youth and adult newspaper carriers and the children of adult carriers who enter the annual competition. The next application deadline is April 30, 2009. The competition is announced through the circulation directors at New Jersey Press Association member newspapers. The newspaper's Circulation Director or a District Manager must complete a Route Performance Questionnaire for every carrier or child of a carrier the newspaper nominates. The entry forms for the next competition will be mailed to NJPA-member newspapers in March and April 2009. Also, application forms may be printed out from this Web site and mailed to the foundation along with supporting materials. Newspapers are invited to send the foundation Route Performance Questionnaires to nominate as many scholarship candidates as they wish. Only those applications that include a Route Performance Questionnaire will be considered complete. The scholarships are awarded from a trust fund established in 1926 by the estate of Isaac Roth, who was a newspaper carrier for the Newark Daily News (no longer in print). The trust fund was transferred to the New Jersey Press Foundation in 1983. Recent Winners of the Isaac Roth Newspaper Carrier Scholarships
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Obzut, a youth carrier for Greater Media
Newspapers, based in Freehold, is a senior at St. Joseph High School. Stoppiello is daughter of
Asbury Park Press
carrier Janet Stoppiello; she is a senior at Brick Memorial High School. 