Two Fulbright
scholarships to honor slain alumna Amy Biehl
Two Fulbright scholarships
will be awarded annually in memory of Amy Biehl, a
Stanford graduate who was killed in South Africa in 1993.
One scholarship will be
given to a South African graduate student to study in the
United States, and the other scholarship will be awarded
to an American to study in South Africa.
"It is especially
fitting that Amy Biehl, who worked passionately for
democracy for all South Africans and who so embodied the
ideals of the Fulbright Program, should be remembered in
this way," said Joseph Duffey, director of the
United States Information Agency, which sponsors the
Fulbright Program.
Biehl was helping to
develop voter education programs for a community law
center near Cape Town, prior to South Africa's first
multiracial election, when she was attacked in her car
and killed after driving friends to their homes in Cape
Town's Gugulethu township on Aug. 25, 1993.
Secretary of State
Madeline Albright, who worked with Biehl at the National
Democratic Institute, spoke about her at the dedication
of the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust youth center in South
Africa.
"Amy Biehl knew that
the struggle for justice has many faces, against poverty
and for opportunity, against exploitation and for
respect, against ignorance and for education,
understanding, knowledge and hope," Albright said.
The Fulbright Program was
initiated by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright after
World War II as a way to promote world peace through
educational exchange. SR
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