Fiske/De Jersey Awards Announced

Patrick J. La Riviere '94 will spend a year following in John Harvard's footsteps when he attends Cambridge University next fall.

So will Andrew J. Colville '94. La Riviere and Colville, both Quincy House residents, are the recipients of this year's De Jersey and Fiske scholarships respectively.

La Riviere will live in the suite of rooms which John Harvard himself reportedly occupied during his time at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

He hopes to study the History of Science at Emmanuel, Colville plans to study Social and Political Theory at Trinity College, also in Cambridge.

The Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Scholarship and the Lionel De Jersey Harvard Scholarship honor two men who were killed in World War I.

The scholarships provide placement at Trinity or Emmanuel Colleges and a stipend to cover all expenses for the year, including transportation, some travel, and housing.

There are no requirements of a particular GPA, concentration or extracurricular activity and there are no formal requirements to be met at Cambridge, La Riviere said.

"The fellowships are awarded to people who have been actively engaged in whatever they have done, who have learned and grown at Harvard, and who give promise of further learning and growth," according to the scholarships' own published guidelines.

Winners are encouraged to socialize and act as "ambassadors" of Harvard at Cambridge, according to La Riviere. In fact, they are given a stipend to do just that.

He said that the only thing expected of last year's De Jersey winner, Jennifer Light '93, was that she host a formal dinner party at the Harvard Club of London.

After returning from Cambridge, Colville, an English concentrator, would like to work in the Kentucky gubernatorial race of 1995. He said he thinks he will eventually enter politics "insome sense".

La Riviere, a physics major, intends to pursueeither a doctorate in physics or in the history ofscience. He said he also might "look into sciencejournalism which would combine science and writingwhich are my two greatest passions [at Harvard]."

Both Colville and La Riviere said they werepleasantly surprised when all 19 of the committeemembers who interviewed them stopped by theirrooms to tell them the gods news.

"I felt I was being welcomed into an a capellagroup!" La Riviere said

La Riviere, a physics major, intends to pursueeither a doctorate in physics or in the history ofscience. He said he also might "look into sciencejournalism which would combine science and writingwhich are my two greatest passions [at Harvard]."

Both Colville and La Riviere said they werepleasantly surprised when all 19 of the committeemembers who interviewed them stopped by theirrooms to tell them the gods news.

"I felt I was being welcomed into an a capellagroup!" La Riviere said