Congratulations to the winner of the William A. Henry III ’71 Scholarship for this academic year. Gail Henry recently received a letter from Carol Hobbs, Yale’s Recording Secretary, announcing the award. Carol’s letter includes this bio of Ji Hye (Eileen) Shim:
I am pleased today to introduce one of these exceptional students: Ji Hye Shim, of the Class of 2012, who is the Henry Scholar for 2009-2010.
Ji Hye, who likes to be called by her nickname, Eileen, was born in Seoul, Korea, and now lives in Edison, New Jersey, where she graduated from John P. Stevens High School. Inducted into the National English Honor Society, she spent most of her free time writing for and editing the school’s yearbook, literary magazine, and newspaper. In addition, she was one of only twenty-two high school students from across the nation to be selected for the Princeton Summer Journalism Program. “I had the chance to do workshops with professional journalists from the print and broadcast media,” she enthusiastically notes. The first member of her family to attend college, Eileen is currently a Yale sophomore living in Berkeley College and is planning to major in literature. Her other academic interests are in international studies and political science. Since matriculating here, her absorption in journalism has not waned. She is a staff reporter for the Yale Daily News magazine, and is a staff reporter and videographer for the Daily News online. Eileen has also freelanced for the New Jersey Home News Tribune and the Morris County Daily Record. She reports that she felt honored to be invited back to Princeton last summer as a counselor for the journalism program she had attended in secondary school. She had the unique opportunity to create her own curriculum and to teach a workshop on new media. Eileen intends to make a career in print or broadcast journalism.