by george, she's done it again

Jessica has secured an additional scholarship toward her first year of college. She applied to the Royal Brougham Foundation and has been granted a $1,500 scholarship for her education expenses next year. Many sports fans know "Royal Brougham" today as the road that separates Seattle's baseball and football stadiums. However, Royal Brougham was actually a sport columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper for nearly 70 years. According to the P-I, "In 1962, Brougham inherited the estate of former P-I sports editor Portus Baxter, nearly $300,000, with his good fortune widely publicized. For more than four decades, Brougham had kept his former boss on a weekly $5 retainer, against the newspaper's wishes. He regularly cut Baxter's hair and drove him around on short trips. He preserved a lifeline to an otherwise lonely old man. Baxter put Brougham in his will. By '66, most of the money would be given away by Brougham, turned into a $250,000 charitable foundation that provided scholarships for underprivileged youth, creating more headlines. The fund still exists today, with Crista Ministries in Shoreline annually doling out funds in the journalist's name, drawing from resources that have grown in excess of $1 million." Crista Ministries was selected to manage the foundation because of Brougham's strong Christian beliefs.