Stephen F. Austin State University

For the second year in a row, a Stephen F. Austin State University student has been selected to receive a scholarship associated with the Frank Mayborn Award for Community Leadership.

Jesse Williams, a Plano senior, is this year’s scholarship recipient.

Williams has been a valued member of The Pine Log staff for several semesters and has been selected entertainment editor for the fall semester, according to Pat Spence, director of student publications.

“She constantly works to improve her writi g and is dedicated to helping make the SFA student newspaper valuable to its readers,” Spence said. “I am delighted she has been chosen as the scholarship recipient.”

Williams said she has known she wanted to be a writer since she was in elementary school.

“I’m happy to have received this scholarship,” she said. “It boosts my confidence in my ability to be able to go out and make my mark on the world.”

The $3,000 award is presented annually to a university designated by the Mayborn Award recipient. This year’s Mayborn recipient was Nelson Clyde III, a 1966 graduate of SFA who is currently president and publisher of the Tyler Morning Telegraph.

Clyde told the Texas Daily Newspaper Association that he chose SFA because the university “has had some good young journ lists over the past 20 years.”

Clyde is extremely active in the Tyler community, having served in numerous leadership roles. His son, associate publisher Nelson Clyde IV, wrote in his letter of nomination for the award that his father’s service “has been typified by an attitude of humility, partnership and service to others. Tyler, Texas is a better place as a result of Nelson Clyde III’s citizenship.”

The Mayborn award was established in 1992 by Frank W. Mayborn’s widow, Anyse Sue Mayborn, to honor other newspaper men and women who are devoting the same zeal to community leadership and service that Mayborn did during his long newspaper career, according to the Texas Daily Newspaper Association. Mayborn, a newspaper publisher and philanthropist, owned newspapers in Temple and Killeen and a television station in Temple.

Last year, Donnis Baggett, publisher of the Bryan College Station Eagle, and a 1973 graduate of the SFA journalism program, received the Mayborn Award and designated his alma mater to receive the scholarship. Last year’s student recipient was journalism major and former Pine Log editor Lindsey Gail Standley.

Students are selected for the award by the SFA faculty.