John Sanford Memorial Endowed Scholarship

Established in 1990 in memory of John Sanford, a native of Reno. John was born in 1906 and received his education at the University of Nevada. His career began while he was still in his teens. He became a newspaperman to follow the business his grandfather and father had pursued before him. The Reno Evening Gazette, northern Nevada s leading newspaper, consumed much of Sanford s time and attention for more than 40. He worked as a reporter, city editor, editor, and editorial page editor with unsurpassed energy and attention from 1925 to 1968. Recipients will be full-time junior or senior level students pursuing a journalism major with a 3.0 GPA.