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Chelcy Boyer receives John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Grant
March 6, 2006 - SILS master's student, Chelcy Boyer, has received the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Grant to study the politics of presidential libraries.
Boyer conducted her research at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Cambridge, MA in December. Her findings will be the basis of her masters thesis, which, when completed, will be housed at the JFK Library.
"Chelcy Boyer is intensely motivated and thoughtful," said Dr. David Carr, her professor at SILS, who wrote a letter of support for the grant application. "It is unusual and inspiring to see a student who has found and pursued this kind of opportunity. But it is what I would anticipate from Chelcy. Her intellect is uncompromising, and she will be a librarian informed by both scholarship and engagement."
Boyer is the second of her family to study at SILS. Her brother Josh graduated with an MSLS degree in 1999 and now assists learners at North Carolina State University. "One Boyer is a gift; two are a treasure," Carr said.
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation is a private non-profit educational organization that administers and funds programs on behalf of the Kennedy Library and Museum, a presidential library of the National Archives and Records Administration.