NAME
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COUNTRY
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| Anthony S. Johnson |
Jamaica |
| Harold Y. Jones |
USA |
| Lola Yvonne Sherman |
USA |
| Ignacio Ezcurra |
Argentina |
| Lidia Baltra |
Chile |
| Pedro E. Zambrano |
Ecuador |
| John L. Day |
USA |
| Raúl Alberto Avila |
Argentina |
| Judith Blakely Morgan |
USA |
| Joseph E. Adcock |
USA |
| María Raquel Minetti |
Uruguay |
Testimony of Scholarship Winners
A native of Portoviejo, Manabi, Ecuador, Zambrano won an IAPA scholarship to study at Kent University, Ohio. He took advantage of the time spent there to gain the knowledge and experience he later applied in the management of El Diario Manabita, the leading newspaper in his province. “That year in the United States was fundamental to my work,” he said later. He dedicated his life to his media company, Ediasa, and to a travel agency he founded. In addition to the newspaper the company owned a TV channel and a radio station. Zambrano died on December 21, 1992 in a plane crash en route from Portoviejo to Quito where he was the Minister of Tourism and Information under the Sixto Durán Ballén administration.
She was a freelance writer for Saturday Review, National Geographic and other publications and does a weekly travel column, “Her World,” for the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun Times and the San Diego Union, as well as a monthly travel column for United Airlines’ MainlIner magazine. She says she concentrates on “essays about the people I meet in my travels and I try to write about the light and human side of moving through and living in other countries.” She spent her Tom Wallace Scholarship year in Argentina.
He was killed in Vietnam, May 8, 1968, while on assignment for La Nacion, Buenos Aires. He was 28 years old. Ezcurra spent his scholarship year at the University of Missouri in 1960. Back in Argentina, he embarked on a series of touching and compassionate feature stories and photos (he was a topnotch photographer) that after his death appeared in book form. His name was given to places he had made known through his Ezcurra stories a bridge, an island, a street, a school of journalism. A son he never knew was born November 8, 1968, six months after his death. A sister, Ana Ezcurra, wrote: “When Ignacio reassumed his work at La Nacion, after his year of study in the U.S., it was with real passion and professional eagerness that grew through each succeeding year, and led him to ask his employers to send him to cover what he described as the main story of that time, the Vietnam war. He felt the war should not be left to foreign news agencies, but should be reported with an Argentine eye.”
He is of Kingston, Jamaica. Johnson was IAPA scholarship winner and he studied at the University of California. He was Executive Director of the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica and he wrote a column for The Daily Gleaner.
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