$100,000 In Fellowships Awarded To 18 N. (Continued from page I) Mrs.. Gorham and the other 17 Fund Fellows were chosen from hundreds of candidates through out the United States by a Na tional Selection Committee, whose Chairman was Ralph E. McGill, editor of The Atlanta Constitu tion. Other members of the selec tion were: John Fisher, editor-in ch iet, Harpers Magazine; Rich ard B. Hill, director radio and TV, Ohio State University; Sig Mickelson', vice president, news and public affairs, Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., and Ferry Miller, professor of Ameri can Literature, Harvard Univer sity. The daughter of Mrs. Bertha Lee, 329 State Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas, and Mr. Frank Thurston, 3816 Park Avenue S , Minneapolis, Minn., Mrs. Gorham is a product of the Kansas City, Kansas schools, where she was graduated from Northeast Junior High School and Sumner High School. She also attended Ham- tramek High School, Hamtramck, Mich., and Northern High School, Detroit. She has the B.A. and M A. degrees with majors in Journalism from the University of Minnesota. She has done grad uate work in Higher Education and Journalism Research at Stan ford University and has done work in Secondary Education in the University of Oklahoma Ex tension division and at Central State College, Edmond, Okla homa. The Fellowship winner from Oklahoma is a member of Theta Sigma Phi, national honorary society for women in Journalism. Elected to membership in Nu chapter at the University of Min nesota, she was the first Negro student to be initiated into the organization. A member of Alpha Kappa Al pha sorority, Mrs. Gorham serv ed as editor-in-chief of The Ivy Leaf, the sorority's national pub lication from 1946 to 1949. Professionally, Mrs. Gorham has had a wide experience. Prior to accepting a position with the Oklahoma City Public Schools, she was executive editor of the militant Black Dispatch, Oklaho ma City Negro weekly. Before coming to Oklahoma City she was managing editor of The Ok lahoma Eagle, a Tulsa weekly. While working on the Tulsa pa per in 1954, she won a media ci tation from the National Confer ence of Christians and Jews for an editorial scries entitled. ‘‘How Ready Are We For Integration?” A former resident of St. Louis, Mo, Mrs. Gorham served as as sistant to the chairman of the St. Louis Committee on Great Books, Mr. Charles H. Compton, librarian emeritus of the St. Louis Public Library. She was also young adult program direc tor with the St. Louis County Branch YWCA in Clayton, and worked with groups in Kinioch, Kirkwood, Meacham Park and Webster Groves. As a free lance writer, she edited Building a Bet ter State, monthly organ of the Missouri Association of Social Welfare. Prior to going to Jefferson City, where she taught in the Lincoln University School of Journalism for four years, 1947- 1951. she was a free lance writer and publicist in the Northern Californio Bay Area, residing in Berkeley. With her husband, Richard G. Gorham, Jr., she op erated Gorham Enterprises, a photography, public relations and publicity agency in Oakland. She afeo represented a number of Ne gro weeklies on the West Coast and was an accredited corre spondent during the United Na tions Conference on Internation al Organization held in San Fran cisco in 1945. Mrs. Gorham did a brief stint as managing editor of The Crisis, official organ of the NAACP, at the national headquarters in the Wendell Willkie building, New York City, and served as part- time publicity director of the NAACP West Coast Regional Of fice in San Francisco. During World War II, Mrs. Gorham had the distinction of being the only woman editor of an official military publication. At Fort Huachuca, Arizona, she served 22 months os editor of The Special Services Bulletin and The Apache Sentinel, official pub lications of the Armed Forces Special Services Division Service Command Unit 1922 She also served as publicity assistant to the Post Public Relations Offi cer ai For! Huachuca. Prior to World War II, Mrs. Gorham was assistant director of public relations'and part-time in structor of Journalism at Hamp ton Institute, Hampton, Va. She went to Hampton from Kansas City, where she was a bureau news editor reporter and feature writer on The Call. During her fellowship year at Stanford, Mrs. Gorham will be accompanied by her ten-ycar-old son, Darryl Theodore, who will be enrolled as a pupil in the Stanford University Laboratory school. The Gorhams reside at 2049 NE 17th Street in Oklahoma City. A member of the. Baha’i World Faith, Mrs. Gorham is Secretary of the local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Oklahoma City. She is a teacher at F. D. Moon Junior High school and chair man of the F. D. Moon unit of the Oklahoma City classroom Teachers’ association. She is also president of the Oklahoma City Urban League Guild and serves as journalist of the local chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. The 1959*60 Fellows who come from 13 states will engage in study at nearly a dozen univer sities throughout the United States or in internships at net work broadcasting centers. All of the Fellows are expected to fol low individual study and practice programs designed by themselves for their own improvement and professional upgrading. The Di rector of the Fund’s mass media fellowships award program is Robert J. Blakely. Ronald Shilen is the Executive Secretary. In quiries and requests for applies* tions for the 1960-61 awards should be addressed to the lat ter at the Fund for Adult Edu cation. 200 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, N.Y.