Bonnie Selway
Bonnie Selway (COM’70) of Manhattan Beach, Calif., writes, “I got my master’s degree in 1970 and have been blessed! When I attended, a lot of the men of my generation were in Vietnam. That may be the reason journalism chair David Manning White gave me a full scholarship. Lucky me.” Bonnie worked at the Boston Herald for 11 years as a feature writer, covering “all the social issues of the day: Roe v. Wade, women suing Boston publishers for equal pay, Associated Industries of Massachusetts saying pregnancy is not a medical condition worthy of sick pay because pregnancy is voluntary,” she says. “When we moved to California, I worked as a copy editor at the Pulitzer Prize–winning daily Riverside Press-Enterprise.” She now volunteers for the charity the Sandpipers, which donates $1.2 million a year to the needy, and writes one story a month for the neighborhood magazine Hill Section Life, “which I am trying to drag into the 21st century.” Contact Bonnie at bonnie.selway@stanfordalumni.org.
From the Winter-Spring 2016 issue.