ASU student gets first Aarons award.
Dennis Shane Mitchell, 20, was the recipient of the first-ever Leroy F. Aarons Leroy F. Aarons (8 December 1933 - 28 November, 2004) was an American journalist, editor, author, playwright, founder of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLJGA), and founding member of the Maynard Institute. He was inducted in the NLGJA Hall of Fame in 2005. Scholarship Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) is an American professional association dedicated to unbiased coverage of gay/lesbian issues in the media. It is based in Washington, D.C. on March 16. Named in memory of NLGJA's founder, the $5,000 award was established to support the education of gay youths who plan on careers in journalism. Mitchell, a second-year journalism major at Arizona State University Arizona State University, at Tempe; coeducational; opened 1886 as a normal school, became 1925 Tempe State Teachers College, renamed 1945 Arizona State College at Tempe. Its present name was adopted in 1958. , was named the Arizona Interscholastic Press Association Journalist of the Year in 2004.
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