Contact: Sammy McDavid
Public broadcasting advocate Zora Anderson Brown is being memorialized with a scholarship at Mississippi State.
The Dr. Zora Anderson Brown Endowed Scholarship recently was established at the university by her mother, Zora C. Anderson of Greenville. Administered through the MSU Foundation, the annual award provides assistance for history majors in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Brown was executive secretary of Friends of Mississippi Educational Television and Public Radio Mississippi from 1977 until her death last year. The Jackson resident represented the organization throughout the United States, including considerable time spent in Washington, D.C., securing and maintaining government and private support for the networks.
Brown received a doctorate in Russian history from MSU in 1977. She earlier had graduated from Good Counsel College in White Plains, N.Y., and completed a master's degree in ancient Chinese history from Delta State University.
Junior Steven C. Breland of Starkville, a 34-year-old Falls Church, Va., native, is the first Zora Brown Scholar. He is receiving $2,000 for the 2003-04 school year.
Breland, whose primary academic interest is medieval history, is an active participant in the local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism, an international non-profit organization dedicated to researching and recreating pre-17th century European history.