1962--when they paid you to go to graduate school--$3,990! Riches running wild!

I was blurry from looking up Cousin Milton W. Sims. 
$3.990 was as promised "complete financial independence" for a year.

This is 21 September 1962. You never know what's out there on the Internet, even from before 2000. 

The Woodrow Wilson Foundation did not announce they were giving the awards until the end of the semester then required that the applicants have completed their language requirements and their qualifying exams within 3 years of starting their Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1959. No working toward the goal of a Dissertation Fellowship! If you had scooted along, you were eligible to apply.