1978 Hellinger Award Winner- Carol Schumacher

Schumacher with legendary newsman Walter Cronkite. Photo courtesy of the Olean Times Herald.

 

Carol Schumacher of Demarest, New Jersey was named the Hellinger Award winner in 1978; like the previous two years, the luncheon was held at The Princeton Club in New York City. Schumacher served as editor in chief of The Bona Venture when the newspaper was rated All-American by the National Collegiate Press Association, was a newscaster for WSBU radio, was co-editor of the Press Day Flash and edited the Mini-Venture, a publication of the Admissions Office. She was a member of Sigma Delta Chi and Pi Delta Epsilon while an undergraduate and was named in "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities."

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