Congratulations to Ji Hye (Eileen) Shim ’12, who won scholarship support last year from the William A. Henry III ’71 Scholarship Fund and has been named a Henry Scholar again this year. Carol Hobbs, Yale’s Recording Secretary, wrote recently to Gail Henry:
For 2010-2011, the Henry Fund is again helping to support Ji Hye Shim, a member of the Class of 2012. . . .
Ji Hye, better known by her nickname Eileen, is now a Yale junior and has declared a major in literature. She returned to campus this fall after studying French in Switzerland and interning as a news writer with the Associated Press in Belgium. Over the past two years, Eileen has been a staff reporter for the Yale Daily News. She is now the associate editor of its offshoot magazine and online publication, and is also the junior web assistant for Global21, a network of student-run international affairs publications at top universities around the world.
Eileen has applied her journalism skills to other activities, as well, including serving as chair of the press corps committee at Yale’s Model UN conference, and managing multimedia and online content for both the Security Council Simulation at Yale and our chapter of the international student organization AISEC.
Not surprisingly, she informs me that she expects her future to expand on her talents, stating, “I am considering the idea of pursuing a graduate degree in journalism or communications. If not, I also may consider internships or jobs in print or broadcast journalism and eventually making it my career choice.”