Otto J. Bos Memorial Scholarship

The San Francisco State Journalism Department announces the call for application to the Otto Bos Scholarship. Applications must be submitted by Fri. March 2nd. For more information about application requirements click on this link (PDF). Otto J. Bos was a 1970 graduate of the department, editor of its award-winning newspaper Phoenix and an All-American soccer star. Following graduation, he became a government and politics reporter at The San Diego Union. In 1977, Otto became press secretary for San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson. Otto continued to serve Wilson as he later was elected a U.S. senator and then California governor. At the time of his death of a heart attack in 1991, Otto was Gov. Wilson’s director of communications and public affairs.