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Just in the one year following Thomson's appointment, the Nieman program has changed to a degree that former Niemans find "dramatic." They give the new curator high marks for having restored the program to its hard-drinking vitality. Many of the changes were obvious and long-overdue, they say, but they also note that they could not have occurred without the financial shot in the arm which Thomson's predecessor, Dwight E. Sargent, administered to the program...
This year for the first time, the Nieman Foundation has offered a "two for the price of one" option so that Nieman spouses can make as full use of Harvard's facilities and the special Nieman activities as the Fellows themselves. Towards this end, Thomson gives each Nieman family a certain allowance to cover baby-sitting and day-care costs. The experiment has worked well, Thomson says, and will probably be continued in the future...
Although the terms of the Nieman will directed that journalism be interpreted in a broad sense, Nieman Fellowships have gone almost exclusively to reporters and editors of the print press. Within this category, certain newspapers and magazines have had a constant relationship with the Nieman program. For example, Pinkerton says, "the South, decade after decade, kicks up more interesting newspapermen than any part of the country," and they are amply represented in the ranks of Nieman alumni...
...addition to a dearth of radio and television journalists, the Nieman program has brought only eight women to Harvard. In order to correct some of these imbalances, Thomson sent out a mass mailing to newspapers last fall. Almost twice the usual number of applications came back, and of this group, 40 will be interviewed by the Nieman Selection Committee this weekend...
...process of "utilizing Harvard," Niemans pursue a variety of academic and extracurricular activities. For example, current Nieman Bob Stanton, an AP science writer from the West Coast, spent much of the year as a bench regular in the Biology labs to observe and experience a scientist's milieu first-hand. Niemans Wayne Greenhaw of The Alabama Journal and Ed Williams, capitol correspondent for The Greenville, Miss. Delta-Democrat Times, offered an Institute of Politics seminar on Southern Politics. Another Nieman-sponsored course this Spring was a Quincy House seminar on journalism led by Bob Wyrick, a former Newsday reporter...