Words of welcome
from the founders

Greetings from the multiplet* world of Chips Quinn Scholars. Even the 1930 vintage Underwood No. 5 typewriter and its prehistoric – to the computer age – editor are excited about the expanded Chips Quinn Web site.

This Web site, its content and its dedicated proprietors combine to add yet another unique ingredient to the CQS program, its cause and its commitment. We invite all to join this stepped-up pace in the march to greater diversity in the world of journalism. So log on and come together, to wit:

• The Chips Quinn Scholars, more than 1000 alums, for whom the Web site can serve as the professional and personal link of our special bond which can carry our efforts far into the future.

• The journalism students of color for whom CQS opens doors and to whom the Web site offers information and inspiration.

• The committed editors whose newspapers are in the program and to whom we give great thanks and a plea to journey with us via the Web site.

• The editors who have staffing diversity on their minds, for whom the CQS program and its Web site will tell of the roots of the program, its progress, its opportunities for all who participate and the around-the-clock dedication of the CQS staff who make this work.

So welcome all; whatever your role or goal. "Go for it" via CQS to a diverse world of journalism.

For Loie and John Quinn, our hearts are warmed and souls comforted by all who make the world of Chips Quinn Scholars a treasured keepsake in our lives and a legacy of his brief but bountiful years.

Cheers.

*Multiplet, Webster’s says, is a set of particles whose single atomic energy can be split into many energy levels. That is CQS and its Web site.