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New York Times Company Foundation makes Soma Golden Behr to be responsible for the new scholarships program. These scholarships are for four years and they are presented to 20 best and promising students from the poor families which also will be supplied with temporary jobs during summer time.

This program has started in 1999 with a support of The New York Times. From that time the amount of funds grow thanks to the readers’ help.

Everybody is very excited that exactly Soma is going to lead this project, because being a student by herself and a journalist she as nobody else can understand the problems of students and help to solve them. Though she is 65 years old she is very enthusiastic and energetic person. As she has a diploma in economics her work is always concerned with the financial aspect of life.

It is also an advantage to the program that Arthur Gelb continues to be a consultant in students’ matters. Because he is a person who is not indifferent to the students needs and financial problems. He does everything what is in his power to solve students’ problems or to help them with summer work etc. Now he is 81 years old but he doesn’t look at that age. He stopped working in Times in 1990, he worked there as an editor. Then he became a president of The Times Company Foundation. He was an initiator of a great amount of public projects concerning educational and cultural part of society life. His wife Barbara is a great ally for him during all this years. She is famous for a biographical book about O’Neil. And she really helps in her husband’s work.

So, this project is of a great necessity to those students who want to study very much but don’t have such an opportunity because of financial lack in a family.