94-04-14 New Scholarship May Assist County Residents

NEW SCHOLARSHIP MAY ASSIST COUNTY RESIDENTS

     CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 14 -- A new scholarship honoring
John Thomas Walker has been created in the University of Virginia's
College of Arts and Sciences to assist African-American students
from Central Virginia.
     Special consideration for the need-based scholarship will be
given to residents who are graduates of Madison, Culpeper and
Orange County public high schools.
     The scholarship will first be available to students entering
U.Va. in the fall of 1995.  Information about applying for the
scholarship will be distributed to guidance counselors and
financial aid officials next spring.
     The scholarship is in memory of John Thomas Walker, the sixth
Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C., dean of the Washington
Cathedral and the first African-American student at Virginia
Theological Seminary.  When Bishop Walker was ordained as priest in
1955, there were no women and few African-Americans in the clergy. 
He used the traditions of the church to promote integration in the
community.
     Bishop Walker also led ministries in the United States, Africa
and Latin America that focused on peace and justice.  He was active
in leading protests against apartheid and established the first
full-time chaplaincy to minister to AIDS patients.
     Robert J. Kane of Brightwood, Va., established the scholarship
to honor Bishop Walker.  He is the father of two U.Va. graduates,
Deborah J. Kane and Robert J. Kane Jr.

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                                                   April 13, 1994

Karen A. Castle
University News Office
kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu
(804) 924-7116


[Submitted by: Karen A. Castle  (kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)
               Thu, 14 Apr 94 09:40:40 EDT]