Scholarship for NJ Newspaper Carriers
About the Isaac Roth Newspaper Carrier Scholarship
The Roth scholarship is valued at $2,000. One will be awarded
in 2010 to a New Jersey youth or adult newspaper carrier or to
the child of an adult carrier.
The application deadline is May 14, 2010.
The competition is announced through the
circulation directors at New Jersey Press Association member newspapers.
Application
forms may be printed out from this website and mailed to the foundation along with supporting
materials.
Newspapers may nominate as many candidates as they wish.
However, only those applications that include a
Route Performance Questionnaire will be considered complete. The newspaper's circulation
director or a district
manager must complete a Route Performance Questionnaire for each
carrier or child of a carrier the newspaper nominates.
The scholarship is 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.
NJPF Awards Two
Students Isaac Roth Newspaper Carrier Scholarships in 2008
Keith Obzut of East Brunswick and
Kathryn Stoppiello of Brick were selected to receive college scholarships awarded by New Jersey Press Foundation's 2008 Isaac Roth Newspaper Carrier Scholarship Program.
 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.
Each student received a $2,000 scholarship from NJPF.
In addition to the two scholarship
recipients, the foundation presented "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.
Past
Recipients of the Isaac Roth Newspaper Carrier Scholarships
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2008 - Youth Carrier
Keith Obzut
Greater Media Newspapers2008 - Child of Adult
Carrier
Kathryn Stoppiello
Asbury Park Press
2007 - Child of Adult Carrier
Nicole Hartmann
The Star-Ledger
2007- Child of Adult Carrier
Melanie Richards
Greater Media Newspapers
2006 - Youth Carrier
Shyam Sheth
The Times of Trenton
2006 - Child of Adult Carrier
Daniel Vorsky
The Star-Ledger, Newark
2005 - Youth
Carrier
Frank Petersen, Jr.
The Times of Trenton
2005 - Child
of Adult Carrier
Alex Gorden
Asbury Park Press
2004 - Youth Carrier
Mary Ann Brown
The Burlington County Times, Willingboro
2004 - Youth Carrier
Patrick Fountain
Hunterdon County Democrat, Flemington
2003 - Child of Adult Carrier
Sherri Kingsdorf
The Press of Atlantic City
2003 - Youth Carrier
Erik Glebinski
Hunterdon County Democrat
2002 - Child of Adult Carrier
Erin Gorden
Asbury Park Press
2002 - Child of Adult Carrier
Julie Murphy
Today's Sunbeam, Salem County
2001 - Youth Carrier
Elizabeth Karnas
The Burlington County Times
2001 - Child of Adult Carrier
Dawn Belamarich
Asbury Park Press
2001 - Child of Adult Carrier
Hanna Karsevar
The Press of Atlantic City
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2000 - Youth
Carrier
Christopher Brouses
The Burlington County Times 2000 -
Youth Carrier
Daniel Spadora
Hunterdon County Democrat
2000 - Child of Adult Carrier
Gary J. Cocco
Asbury Park Press
1999 - Youth Carrier
Kevin Horbatt
Hunterdon County Democrat
1999 - Youth Carrier
Peter Karnas
The Burlington County Times
1999 - Child of Adult Carrier
Cynthia Allan
Asbury Park Press
1998 - Youth Carrier
Stephen Silvestro
The Times of Trenton
1998 - Child of Adult Carrier
John Blake
Asbury Park Press
1998 - Adult Carrier
Linda McConnell
(awarded to her son, John)
The Record of Bergen County
1997 - Youth Carrier
Amanda Thackray
The Times of Trenton
1997 - Child of Adult Carrier
Jeff Gordon
Courier-Post, Cherry Hill
1997 - Adult Carrier
Barbara Rheault
The Press of Atlantic City
1996 - Youth Carrier
Stephen Zarodnarsky
The Times of Trenton
1996 - Child of Adult Carrier
Christian Todd Herzog
The Times of Trenton
1996 - Adult Carrier
Maureen Little
Home News Tribune, East Brunswick
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