Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-27
AWARD IS OFFERED
TO NEWS WRITER'S
PugsIey $1,000 Prize to Be
Given Meritorious Capital
Correspondent.

Administration of the Chester D.
Pugsley $1,000 award for the most
meritorious work by a Washington cor
respondent in the calendar year 1929,
has been accepted by the National Press
Club here and requests have been MADE
to newspapers all over the country for
nominations for the award, 1t is an
nounced by Russell Kent, club presi-
dent. -.,
Nominations, which will be received
until January 81, 1880 may be al
dressed to the journalistic award COM
mittee, care of the club.
Award Jury Named.
An award Jury to decide the winner
has been chosen by the Press Club ana
the American Society Of Newspaper
Editors. with the following member
ship: Theodore P. Moves, associate eol-
tor The Washington Star; DR.. James
Melvin Lee. director department OF jour
naIisnn. New York University and book
critic of Editor and Publisher; Roy A.
Roberts. managing editor Kansas CITY
star: Grafton S. Wilcox, assistant man
aging editor New York Herald Irloune,
Dr Henry Grattan Doyle, dean OF the
lower division, Columbian College
George washington University.
The Press Club chose 1our OF Cne
members and Mr.. Moves was CHOSEN py
the American Society OF Newspaper
Editors. ....... a,,
Nominations for the competition may
he made by the editor or editors OF an
accredited newspaper or press assocla-
tion bv any two accredited washington
CORRESPONDENTS or by any accreolteu
CORRESPONDENT who wishes TO enter MS
own work. The competition is open TO
all newspaper correspondents accreolteo
to the press galleries OF Congress IN
1929 for the period covered by the Work
submitted. Both men and women en-
gagged in this capacity for daily papers
or press associations are eligible unoer
these terms, as are writers OF Washing
ton daily newspapers accredited to the
press galleries of Congress in the same
manner, in so far as concerns their
work on matters Of national interest.
Factors in Selection.
Public service, reportorial resource
fitness, clarity of presentation, literary
quality and the nature of conditions
under which the work was done may
be considered by the jury of award in
choosing the winner. If there is no
work of sufficient merit to justify the
award, the Jury may make none.
Mr.. Pugsley, donor of the award, Is
vice president of the Westchester Ma
tional Bank, Peekskill, N. Y. He was
graduated from Harvard University and
since that time has devoted himself
to many philanthropic pursuits. He
endowed so scholarships for foreign
students at Harvard, involving a prin-
cipal Of S5o0,000, gave $4,000
scholarship to Vassar has financed a
number Of scholarships at universities
for sons of United States consuls, has
backed the annual conference of public
affairs at Princeton University the
first of which will be held next Spring,
and has assisted conferences, colleges.
libraries and other institutions in many
ways.
He has shown considerable interest
In the plan of the Press Club to dis
tribute awards for outstanding news
paper work as soon as the common
stock Of the club is on dividend
basis, and 1t was his interest in this
plan which prompted his donation of
the $1,000 for the award.