By Meena Thiruvengadam

Thank God people talk funny. Otherwise, the nearly 1,300-strong Chips Quinn Scholars network might not be here.

At the latest winter reunion in Cocoa Beach, Fla., last weekend, program founder John C. Quinn revealed why he stuck with newspapers.

The year was 1946. Quinn had just graduated from Columbia University’s journalism school and was faced [...]

One day in late January 2010, I sat talking with John C. Quinn in his office at the Freedom Forum’s Diversity Institute at the John Seigenthaler Center in Nashville. It was cold outside…

Leezel Tanglao (Summer 2003) wrote in an essay posted to the CQS website in September that despite all the upheavals in daily journalism, some joys endure. One is the network of professional and personal friends made through the CQS program, a network she seeks to nurture and build on wherever she goes.

So it’s no surprise [...]

Four Spring 2010 Chipsters in the Washington, D.C., area shared their St. Patrick’s Day evening with CQS program Co-founder John C. Quinn and Program Director Karen Catone. Here, the Scholars offer a few wee insights about what the dinner and gathering meant to them.

Photos by Karen Catone

Ashley Marchand:
I knew there would be no better [...]

By Paola Iuspa

The Chips Quinn Scholars reunion at John Quinn’s Florida beach house was bittersweet. The cold weather kept us inside, but there was nothing bitter about that. We enjoyed sitting around Quinn’s semi-circular editor’s desk in his living room at “The Folly.”

Rather, the bitterness had to do with the frustration aired by some [...]

By Colleen Fitzpatrick

On a beautiful late-summer day, CQS Program Co-founder John C. Quinn treated a couple of Rhode Island-based Scholars to Sunday brunch.

Talia Buford (Summer 2004) and Nandini Jayakrishna (Summer 2008), along with CQS Career Coach Colleen Fitzpatrick, relaxed over dishes of eggs, pasta and lobster at the Shelter Harbor Inn in Westerly, R.I.

John C. [...]