NAME |
COUNTRY |
| Fernando Alberto Mata | USA |
| Shirley Christian | USA |
| Donald R. Weekes | Jamaica |
| Kim H. Mandell | USA |
| Zbigniew Koryzma | Austria |
| Juan Manuel Hoyos | Colombia |
| José Mario Vilches | Chile |
| Thomas D. Quinn | USA |
| Enrique Baccaro | Uruguay |
| Alba J. Belandria | Venezuela |
| María Isabel Browne | Chile |
| Ivonne Grace Mackern | Argentina |
An Argentine, in spite of the name, received an IAPA scholarship and studied at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan. On completion of her term she returned to Argentine journalism and she was editor of EI Heraldo, of Concordia. She said that guidance by Professor Thomas Riordan at Hillsdale College and practical experience at The Hillsdale Daily News “have been most valuable aids In my career.
She has been with the Associated Press since fi nishing her year of study in Santiago, and chief of bureau for Chile and Bolivia. Earlier she spent three years covering the United Nations and fi ve years on various international desks in New York. In mid-1979 Miss Christian joined the Latin American department of The Miami Herald.
From Kingston, Jamaica, he was a freelance writer for The Hawthorne News and Sportscaster for BBC in London and New York. He is also coach and advisor of the Recreation Department, University of California at Los Angeles. He spent his scholarship year at the University of Montana, Missoula. His comment: “I have always maintained that that year was too short”.
He attributed a great deal of the improvement at the provincial daily El Telegrafo, of Paysandu, Uruguay, to what he learned at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. He said “Both my brother, Fernando, editor of the paper, and myself as General Manager, have enjoyed IAPA scholarships. Without them we would not have had either the knowledge or personal motivation to make the changes we made.”
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