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” . ee . - -AwepF. TELEVISION AWARDS PPro ete dh {errr rrere ey . - + - 4 *““\_elvic AREAS COMMITTEE OF WAVERLY (IOWA) CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TOTAL AWARDED: $16,000 \ TOTAL AWARDED: $5,000 ! I A ~ . _ a _rtrmours MONTHLY MEETING omen ft 3 duction: an additional prize will he given for the best inde- pendeni-station production jn either category. Frizes will be shared by the director, writer and producer of the winning - programs, in additians plaques will be awarded to the net- work or station producing the winners. * After the death of Robert E. Sherwood (who was a F: und director) in November, 1955, the competition was named in __ his memory and thé prizes were set at $20,000 for each of ” the petwork categories and $15,000 for the independent- station prize. The jury for the awards consists of Kermit Bloomgarden, Dr. Buell G_Gallagher, Robert M. Purcell, Mrs. Eleanor . en Roosevelt, Gilbert ‘Seldes, Robert Taft, Ir. _ Harrison Tweed “and Philip H. Willkie. The awards wil! be presented ata ceremony in New York on June 22. aneo .L. 1 in May, ave, uit Directors approveu a Couluuaii ul the Awards for the 1956-57 television season. On March 30, 1955, the Fund presented an award of $10,000 to the citizens of Waverly for the “hand of neighborly friend- ship” they extended to Captain Virgil Daniels and his family. The local Chamber of Commerce had taken the lead in Ending decent housing for this Negro Air Force Captain who had encountered difficulty when he tried to move into an apartment project in Waverly. The Civic Areas Committee has established an annual scholarship with the yearly interest on the 310,000. A com- mittee consisting of the Chairman of the Civic Areas Com- mittee, the Superintendent of Schools and the President of the PTA will award the scholarship to’a Waverly High Schoo! senior interested in study which will “further the cause of civil liberties and human rights.” Qualifications will be “excellence in scholarship, character, need and sympathy toward the cause of civil liberties and human rights.” Plymouth Monthiv Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers) received an award of $5,000 from the Fund for , a- 0 00 - 39/69? - yp nny