The Scholarship Committee of the Appleton Public Library Board of Trustees has announced the winners of the 2000 Frank P. Young Scholarships. They awarded $500 each to Mark Wendt and Pamela O'Donnell. Both are master degree students in Library Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies.

Mark Wendt is currently a Library Assistant in the library's Reference and Information Services section. He had been an accountant and undertook a career change in 1998, deciding to pursue library study. He served a Reference Practicum at Polk Library at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh during the Spring of 2000. He will complete his degree in May, 2001.

Pamela O'Donnell graduated from Lawrence University in 1985 and has worked at Lawrence as a Visual Resources Librarian in the Art Department and Gallery and Collection Assistant and Interim Curator in the Wriston Art Center Galleries. Currently she works as a Program Assistant in the Visual Materials Archive of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in Madison and as the Assistant to the Director of the Women's Studies Consortium of the UW System. She will complete her degree in May, 2002.

The Frank P. Young Scholarship Fund was established in 1969 to help students obtain a graduate degree in Library Science and to further library service in the Appleton community. The chair of the Scholarship Committee is Rev. Will Bloedow. Other members of the committee include Peter Ducklow and Terry Bergman.