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| Scholarship and Fellowship Profiles |
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Countless undergraduate and graduate students have benefited from the support of generous donors. Despite diverse backgrounds, donors and recipients are united by the University’s commitment to giving qualified students the ability to attend Princeton—and to flourish here.
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Raoul H. and Jo-Ann F. Nehr Scholarship |
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 In 1976, Jo-Ann F. Nehr and her husband, Raoul, established a scholarship at Princeton with a preference for international students. Now, over 30 years later, 55 students from 22 countries have benefited from their generosity.
Creating a scholarship has “been a wonderful, wonderful experience,” says Jo-Ann. And part of that experience has been keeping in touch with the Nehr Scholars after graduation. “It is a tribute to their warm and caring personalities that many of us stayed in close contact with Raoul and Jo-Ann following graduation,” says Annette G. Pein ’90, who spoke of her own gratitude for the Nehrs support. “Through numerous conversations with Raoul, I began to get a better understanding of his intense loyalty to the University, his abiding interest in its future, and, most significant of all, his heartfelt delight in the wonderful success of the scholarship program.”
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Caitlin E. McTague ’08 |
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 Caitlin E. McTague ’08, the Arthur Wellman Butler Jr. Memorial Scholar, came to Princeton with plans to continue on to law school. However, her summer internship at Eagle Rock School in Estes Park, Colorado, may have changed her mind. The Student Volunteers Council put her in touch with Robert J. Burkhardt Jr.’62, founder and head of Eagle Rock, an alternative, year-round high-school. Many of the students, says McTague, “have struggled in public schools. Many have had disciplinary problems.” She served as Eagle Rock’s assistant director of the theater program. Later, while helping to update the school’s Web site, she phoned many Eagle Rock alumni—“an illuminating experience. I learned how the school had changed their lives.” McTague says, “Alternative education caught my imagination because I think it is vital for us to look at our public school system, at how many children are slipping through the cracks.” Even as she works on her junior paper in the history department and runs distance events for Princeton women’s track and field, she is thinking ahead. “Whatever I end up doing,” she says, “I am sure I will always be invested in improving public education.” |
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Katie Camille C. Friedman ’10 |
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 Katie Camille C. Friedman ’10 is the recipient of the John Kennedy Ewing IV Memorial Scholarship. Though a first-year student, she knows she wants to major in chemical engineering in order to “apply my love for science to something hands-on and constructive, so that ultimately I can contribute to improving the lives of others.” She is a member of the Princeton chapter of Engineers Without Borders, a national organization that partners with developing communities to improve quality of life and implement sustainable development. Katie’s group is working with the town of Huamanzaña, Peru. She is also enthusiastic about the Global Development Network, a Princeton-based student group led by Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Winston Oluwole Soboyejo, and is looking forward to a summer that will include travel to a developing area in Africa or South America to work on a Global Development Network project. A member of the Society of Women Engineers, Friedman takes a break from the E-Quad by playing the tuba with the University Wind Ensemble. |
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Richard A. Lester *36 Fellowship for Industrial Relations |
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 The family of Richard A. Lester *36—the late professor of economics, prominent labor economist, and dean of the faculty—has established the Richard A. Lester *36 Fellowship for Industrial Relations, which will support its first fellow this coming academic year.
Professor Lester was noted for combining an academic career with participation in public affairs. Lester earned his PhD in economics from Princeton in 1936 and joined the Princeton faculty in 1945. His many other University appointments included serving as associate dean and director of the Woodrow Wilson School graduate program. During his tenure as dean of the faculty he developed a program to attract teacher-scholars to Princeton, especially women and minority candidates, and drafted Princeton’s first affirmative action program. Lester was influential on the national scene during World War II, serving in the Labor Division of the War Production Board, the War Manpower Commission, and the Office of the Secretary of War, and later was an adviser to President John F. Kennedy. Notes Alan B. Krueger, professor in economics and public policy, “It is fitting to have a graduate fellowship in labor economics in honor of Richard Lester, because he cared so deeply about the development of the economics profession and about Princeton.”
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Major Daniel E. Mouton, Krongard Fellow |
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 Major Daniel E. Mouton was the 2006-07 recipient of the A. B. Krongard Fellowship. After attending the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and serving in traditional army posts, Major Mouton was transferred to the foreign area officer (FAO) program in the U.S. Army in 2003. His knowledge of Arabic served him well in a variety of roles in the Middle East, but he sought an extensive academic background in national security, international relations, and the Middle East to round out his knowledge and inform his policy recommendations. And he found this at Princeton, in the Woodrow Wilson School and Near Eastern Studies Program. When he completes his MA, he expects to work at the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida, the headquarters with oversight of operations in the Middle East, parts of Africa and Central Asia, and responsibility for disrupting terrorism, denying access to weapons of mass destruction, strengthening regional stability, building allied nations’ government capacity, and protecting the vital interests of the United States. |
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