Wheaton names new public service award in honor of NJ governor
Friday, October 1999
Wheaton College is delighted to announce the creation of the Christine Todd Whitman ’68 Fellow in Public Service, a tribute to the governor's distinguished achievements in and commitments to public service. This award will allow a Wheaton College student interested in a career in public service to serve the governor over a 15-month extended placement with her staff. Applications for the award are due by Oct. 15, 1999.
The Whitman Fellow will work over two summers and during the intervening Wheaton January break on assignments that reflect the governor's wide range of commitments to state, national and international issues. The Fellow will receive a total of $5,000 plus a living allowance for this extended assignment, and will report on the significance of the experience as part of an annual Wheaton forum, Public Lives, Public Service, sponsored by the Wheaton College Filene Center for Work and Learning.
The first Whitman Fellow will be selected in autumn l999 and will be presented on Nov. l7, l999 at a celebration on behalf of Governor Whitman in Princeton, New Jersey, sponsored by the Wheaton College Princeton Alumnae/i Club.
A 1968 graduate of Wheaton, Christine Todd Whitman held a variety of appointed and elective positions in county, state and federal government before she was elected to serve as the Garden State’s first female governor in 1994. She has since won re-election in 1998, and recently dropped a potential U.S. Senate bid to serve out her current term. Her brand of Republicanism, a combination of fiscal conservatism and social liberalism, has helped to catapult her to national prominence. Gov. Whitman is often mentioned as a potential vice-presidential nominee and an eventual presidential candidate.
Applications for the Whitman Fellow will be accepted from sophomores and juniors whose academic work in relevant departmental areas or campus leadership indicate a potential strong match with the Governor and her staff. Given the configuration of the award, should a junior be selected, he or she will need to commit the summer immediately after graduation for the last two-month assignment with the governor. Applicants must have at least a 3.0 GPA and be in good academic and social standing in order to apply. For more information or an application, please contact Dan Golden, director of the Filene Center for Work and Learning.