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For Immediate Release
May 22 , 2007
two students win new full-tuition huge scholarship to nebraska wesleyan
LINCOLN, Neb. — Two Nebraska students have been selected to receive full tuition scholarships to Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Jessica Danson of Lincoln and Alexandra Bartels of Columbus have each received full-tuition scholarships to attend Nebraska Wesleyan University for four years. The scholarship — which is in its inaugural year — was made possible through a gift from the Harry and Reba Huge Foundation.
Last spring, the couple donated $1 million to fund full-tuition scholarships for gifted students. Eligible students completed an application and submitted two essays and letters of recommendation. Finalists were interviewed by Harry and Reba Huge and a committee of Nebraska Wesleyan University administrators.
Danson will graduate in June from Lincoln Southwest High School where she is active in Student Council, Key Club, speech, and debate. She is the president and co-founder of the Lincoln Youth Chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. and is involved in numerous volunteer organizations including the Red Cross, UNICEF, Special Olympics, and the Clyde Malone Community Center. In 2006, she was selected as a delegate to Cornhusker Girls State, where she was elected governor. She also was selected as a keynote speaker for the 2006 Girls Nation in Maryland. She plans to study political science with an emphasis in international relations and Spanish.
Bartels graduated in May from Columbus High School where she was active in theatre and drama, choir, National Honor Society, and speech. She is also active with the Center for Survivors Speaker’s Bureau Group, Teens Teaching Against Drugs and Alcohol, and Improv Troupe. She has been on the honor roll all four years of her high school career and has been selected to sing in numerous honor choirs across the state. She is active in her church, participating in the handbell choir and adult sanctuary choir. Bartels plans to study communication.
Harry Huge, a graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan and of Georgetown University Law School, is a practicing attorney with offices in Georgetown, Wilmington, Delaware, and Charleston, South Carolina. Huge’s distinguished law career has included service as an arbitrator appointed by 26 states to the National Tobacco Arbitration Panel, under the nationwide Master Tobacco Settlement Agreement. He also was appointed as Special Master for the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia in a case involving the crash of a U.S. Air Force plane in Vietnam that was carrying Vietnamese orphans to the United States at the end of the Vietnam war. Huge was chairman of the United Mine Workers Health and Retirement Fund, which provided health and pension benefits to more than a million coal miners and their families.
Huge is currently co-counsel representing some 4,000 family members of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States District Court in the Southern District of New York. In other capacities, he served from 1977 – 1981 as a member of the President’s General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Strategic Weapons.
Three books have been written about his trial work. Last year, Huge was awarded the Fourth Class Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana from Estonia for his work on behalf of that nation’s drive toward independence. Huge and his wife, a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, reside in Charleston. Harry Huge is a native of Syracuse, Neb. |
