What traditionally has been known as the Northern Star Alumni Scholarship
took on new prestige this year, thanks to a sizable donation.
Henry de Fiebre and his wife, Karen Rothe, donated enough money to permanently
endow the $3,000 scholarship. That is, the fund has reached a level where
the annual interest pays for the scholarship. Hank is a Northern Star alum
and a 1972 NIU graduate. The couple has funded the scholarship anonymously
for the past few years.
At Hank's and Karen's request, the scholarship also was renamed the Campbell-Thompson
Northern Star Alumni Scholarship, honoring longtime advisers Roy G. Campbell
and Jerry Thompson. Campbell, adviser from 1961 until his death in 1971,
was named the nation's outstanding college newspaper adviser in 1966. Thompson
replaced Campbell in 1971 and stayed until his retirement in 1995, helping
thousands of students find their ways into careers that led to outstanding
journalism across the country.
This year's scholarship winner is Kevin Wendt, who has served the Star as
a reporter, sports editor, editor in chief and nite news editor. Wendt is
one of 14 students in the world to have been chosen this summer for The
Poynter Institute's Fellowship in Visual Journalism.
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