Nick Halter Wins Fellowship

There's great excitement and extreme pride at Padelford Riverboats today with announcement that Capt. Nicholas Halter, who also is a Journalism student at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, has won the Devroy Fellowship and will spend his next winter break in Washington, D.C. working at the Washington Post. The Fellowship includes a three-week residency at The Post, $1,400 to defray costs and an internship with the Milwaukee Sentinel in the summer of 2008.

Halter was recipient of the Padelford's 2005 Fallon Bowell Scholarship -- obviously, we picked the right man for the job. The only bad news is that Nick, although he plans to be on the riverboats this summer, will be off pursuing Mark Twain's passion next year.