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Date: February 6, 1997


Justin Pope Named Winner of
Sachs Scholarship


Princeton, N.J. -- Justin Pope '97, a history major from Richmond, Va., has been named this year's winner of the University's Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Scholarship. He plans to study for a Master's of Literature in Modern History at Worcester College, Oxford.

Pope is writing his senior thesis on millennarian groups in 17th-century England, which taps his longstanding interest in British history with an interest in religious history that ripened at Princeton.

"I grew up in a household with an Anglophile father," Pope said. The family visited Oxford while he was in high school. "I've been hoping to get back ever since," he said. "This is a dream come true."

At Princeton, Pope served on the History Department's
undergraduate program committee. He also served as sports editor of The Daily Princetonian for 1996 and has worked for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

The Sachs Scholarship is one of Princeton's most prestigious awards for graduating seniors. It pays for two years of study and provides a stipend for expenses. The winner is selected by a seven-member committee that includes previous winners of the award and, for the first time this year, a member of the Class of 1960.

Class members of Daniel M. Sachs started a fund before his death in 1967 to support his wife and child; after Sachs' wife remarried, the fund was converted to endow a scholarship in Sachs' memory. The first Sachs Scholar was selected in 1970. At their 35th reunion, class members designated support of the Sachs Scholarship fund as one of their principal priorities.

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