Daniel Krauthammer Honors Winners of Father's Fox News Scholarship on Special Report

Daniel Krauthammer, son of the late Fox News contributor Dr. Charles Krauthammer, appeared on Special Report on Monday to honor the winners of the seventh annual Dr. Charles Krauthammer Memorial Scholarship and reflect on his father's legacy.

The scholarship goes each year to children of Fox News employees. This year's recipients are Amanda Parker from Walter Panas High School in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., and Tess Sonne from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, N.Y. Both are graduating seniors and class valedictorians.

Parker earned the Harvard Book Award and Advanced Placement Chemistry Award. She also received National Merit Scholarship Commended Student recognition. She plans to study environmental biology at Stony Brook University this fall. Her father works as a Fox News Media video editor.

Sonne leads in Model United Nations and won the George Eastman Young Leaders Award. She holds EMT certification and volunteers with the Chappaqua Volunteer Ambulance Corps. She will attend the University of Virginia this fall. Her mother is a senior executive at FOX Nation.

"The scholarship really celebrates so much of my father's memory, his love for learning, and we're really excited to congratulate Amanda and Tess," Krauthammer told Fox News' Bret Baier. "It's fun to see each year what these kids are interested in. And it looks like these two are into the sciences — Amanda in ecology and Tess in medicine. And as you know, my father spent a lot of his early life in those areas. And even though he found his way to writing in politics, I know he'd say that learning in any area enriches every other. So we're very happy for them."

"It just makes me think so much that he would love what this scholarship is doing, encouraging the love of learning among these kids, and we're so happy to congratulate them," he added.

Dr. Charles Krauthammer provided political analysis on Fox News Channel programs including Special Report and Fox News Sunday from 2002 until his death in 2018.

Fox News Media started the Dr. Charles Krauthammer Memorial Scholarship in 2018. Winners get a stipend for up to four college years. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation, an independent nonprofit, runs the program through the National Merit Scholarship Program. It selects winners and handles awards.