The Anne O’Hare McCormick Memorial Fund

A 501(c)(3) tax-exempt foundation, set up by Newswomen’s Club members Emma Bugbee, Martha Coman, Loretta King, Mary Margaret McBride and Kathleen McLaughlin to honor Anne O’Hare McCormick (The New York Times) after her death in 1954, the fund grants scholarships to outstanding women students at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Anne O’Hare McCormick gained prominence while reporting from Europe in the 1930s. She chronicled Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and interviewed many of the power brokers and leaders of that era. In 1937, she became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence. She served as a vice president of the Newswomen’s Club for several years, and she was the first woman to serve on The New York Times editorial board.

The McCormick Fund’s Joan O’Sullivan Scholarship was created in 2008 through a gift from former Newswomen’s Club President Rosalind Massow. Joan O’Sullivan was a columnist and editor for King Features Syndicate and served for many years as president of the McCormick Fund as well as President of the Newswomen's Club of New York and chairperson of the Front Page Awards.

The McCormick Fund has given more than $300,000 in scholarships. It is generously supported by The Newswomen’s Club of New York,  Thomson Reuters, and for many years, the New York Times Company Foundation, as well as by individual donors. Tax-deductible contributions can be sent to: Anne O’Hare McCormick Memorial Fund, Inc., The Newswomen’s Club of New York, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, N.Y. 10003, Attention Jan Paschal.