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The Alicia Patterson Foundation announces with sadness the death of one of its current fellows, Philippe Wamba.
Philippe Wamba, Who Wrote of Life as African and American, Dies at 31 By RANDY KENNEDYNew York Times Philippe Wamba, the son of a Congolese rebel leader, who wrote about his family’s complex and often disorienting dual existence as both Africans and Americans, died Wednesday in a car accident in Kenya while doing research for a book. He was working in Africa under an Alicia Patterson grant in which he was researching Africa’s new generation. He was 31. Mr. Wamba, who had lived in Boston for the past three years and served as the editor in chief of the Web site Africana.com, moved to Africa in April to begin work on a book of essays about issues facing African young people. He had spent time in Johannesburg and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and was driving from Nairobi to Mombassa, in Kenya, when the accident occurred. Mr. Wamba’s life was peripatetic from the start. Born in California, he was raised in Boston and Dar es Salaam and was educated everywhere from New Mexico to New York to
37th Annual Competition Fellowships Winners for 2002
The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2002 Fellowship Winners Judges for the 37th annual competition were: Sandy Close, editor, Pacific News Service John Hyde, director, Fund for Investigative Journalism Dele Olojede, foreign editor, Newsday Steve Rubin, freelance photographer and APF Fellow ’94 Ellen Warren, senior correspondent, Chicago Tribune The Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship program for journalists was established in 1965 in memory of Alicia Patterson, who was editor and publisher of Newsday for nearly twenty-three years before her death in 1963. One-year grants of $35,000 are awarded to working print journalists to pursue independent projects of significant interest and to write articles based on their investigations for the APF Reporter, a quarterly magazine published by the Foundation. For program information and applications for the 38th annual competition, contact: Director Alicia Patterson Foundation 1730 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 850 Washington, DC 20006 Phone: (202) 393-5995 info@aliciapatterson.org Application materials and instructions may be downloaded from our website at: :www.aliciapatterson.org/APF_Application/APF_Application.html. Applications must be postmarked by October 1, 2003.
Diane Granat’s Patterson research was added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The schools built by Julius Rosenwald, who is the subject of DIANE GRANAT’s Patterson research, were added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 11 most endangered historic sites. Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., paid for 4,977 schools for black students in the American South.
36th Annual Competition Fellowships Winners for 2001
The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2001 Fellowship Winners Judges for the 36th annual competition were: Susan Bennett, Director of Asian and European Programs, The Freedom Forum Lee Bey, architecture critic, Chicago Sun-Times Ken Bode, dean, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University Walt Harrington, professor, College of Communications, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana Michael Millenson, author and APF Fellow ’86 Ellen Warren, columnist, Chicago Tribune Lois Wille, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer, Chicago Tribune The Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship program for journalists was established in 1965 in memory of Alicia Patterson, who was editor and publisher of Newsday for nearly twenty-three years before her death in 1963. One-year grants of $35,000 are awarded to working print journalists to pursue independent projects of significant interest and to write articles based on their investigations for the APF Reporter, a quarterly magazine published by the Foundation, which also is available on this web site’s index of back issues For program information and applications for the 37th annual competition, contact: Margaret Engel Executive Director Alicia Patterson Foundation 1730 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 850
Chris Bull is Now Senior Political Correspondent for Planetoutinc.com
Chris Bull is now senior political correspondent for PlanetOutInc.com, in San Francisco. He writes a column, Bull’s Eye, and continues his interest in baseball, with his office just a few blocks from SBC Park. He co-authored a 2003 book with Billy Bean, “Going the Other Way: Lessons from a Life In and Out of Major-League Baseball” (Avalon Publishing Group).