By Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay '97

With two seniors named 2003-04 Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellows, Colby's Watson streak remains unbroken since entering the program in 1970-71. Dan Chiacos '03 of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Kelly Miller '03 of Old Town, Maine, each will receive $22,000 to combine international travel and independent study. Miller, a government and Latin American studies double major, will research "Persuasive Pentecostalism" in Brazil. Chiacos, a Latin American and international studies double major with a music minor, will visit Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, "Discovering the Soul of Charango in Latin American Folk Music." Chiacos and Miller bring to 55 the number of Colby graduates who have earned Watson fellowships over the past 33 years. More than 1,000 graduating college seniors applied this year, with only 48 fellowships granted.

Also, on his way overseas is Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb '03, of Port Chester, N.Y. Silberstein-Loeb accepted a Fulbright Scholarship for next year to study the status of American journalists in Japan. Editor-in-chief of the Echo and a Phi Beta Kappa history major with a minor in Japanese, Silberstein-Loeb proposed an examination of Americans' access to Japanese press clubs and recent reductions in the ranks of American correspondents covering Japan. Last year only one in five Fulbright candidates nationwide received a scholarship.