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RELEASE ON RECEIPT
October 16, 1998
Oberlin
College Announces Annual Scholarship for Select Japanese
Student
Media
Contact: Marci
Janas
OBERLIN--Oberlin College, one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the United States, is pleased to announce the establishment of a full-tuition, four year scholarship, to be awarded annually to a Japanese student of exceptional promise and ability. The scholarship is named in honor of former American Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer. Reischauer, who died in 1990, was a 1931 graduate of Oberlin College.
The Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer Scholarship is designed to foster Japanese-American understanding and cooperation and create, over time, an association of scholars educated in the liberal arts and committed to international understanding.
Edwin O. Reischauer was nominated as the American Ambassador to Japan in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. A scholar and teacher of Japanese and East Asian history, Reischauer saw his ambassadorship as an opportunity to mediate between what he called his "two homelands," and to build "an equal partnership" between two industrial nations across the barriers of language, culture race and history. Today, the partnership he built is a crucial source of stability in world affairs. The Washington Post described him as "the most successful Ambassador to Japan."
Any Japanese national who has been accepted for admission to Oberlin's College of Arts and Sciences is eligible for this award. The Reischauer Scholar will be selected by the Oberlin College Office of Admissions in consultation with appropriate committees. Criteria for selection is a strong academic record and the potential for profiting from an American liberal arts education.
For more information about the Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer Scholarship, please contact the Oberlin College Office of Admissions by mail at 101 North Professor Street, Oberlin, Ohio, 44074-1075 U.S.A.; by phone at 440-775-8411; or by e-mail at college.admissions@oberlin.edu.
