NHRA
made a contribution of $2,500 to Pasadena
City College
today at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona
in honor of legendary Los Angeles Times sportswriter Shav Glick, who died Oct.
20 at age 87.
The presentation took
place in the Shav
Glick Media
Center, named in honor of
Glick in the early 1990s. Pasadena
City College
alumni relations director Irene Aguilera accepted the donation on behalf of the
college. The college foundation annually presents two $500 scholarships - The
Shav Glick Journalism Scholarship - to outstanding journalism students who are
active members of the college newspaper.
NHRA
made a contribution of $2,500 to Pasadena
City College
today at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona
in honor of legendary Los Angeles Times sportswriter Shav Glick, who died Oct.
20 at age 87.
The presentation took
place in the Shav
Glick Media
Center, named in honor of
Glick in the early 1990s. Pasadena
City College
alumni relations director Irene Aguilera accepted the donation on behalf of the
college. The college foundation annually presents two $500 scholarships - The
Shav Glick Journalism Scholarship - to outstanding journalism students who are
active members of the college newspaper.
The only two-time winner
of the NHRA Media Award (1977 and 1985), the personable Glick was more than
just a sports reporter from a major metro daily newspaper assigned to cover
drag races; he became close friends with many racers in the NHRA POWERade
Series, including Don Prudhomme, Kenny Bernstein, Joe Amato and John Force,
among others. His last story that appeared in the Times was an obituary
published on Sept. 29 in which he eloquently reported the passing of one of his
best friends, 94-year-old NHRA founder Wally Parks.
In February 2006, NHRA
hosted a retirement party for Glick at the Wally
Parks NHRA
Motorsports Museum
in Pomona,
where he was offered special thanks in moving tributes by Prudhomme, Force and
several others. NHRA President Tom Compton and Parks presented Glick with a
custom-made NHRA POWERade Series golf bag and commemorative plaque for his many
years of coverage of NHRA Drag Racing. More than 300 members of the NHRA
community, including racers, sponsors, public relations representatives, and
many of his peers in the journalism world, attended the event.