Five seniors from Shorecrest and Shorewood earned $4,000 scholarships from the Shoreline-based Gift of Giving Foundation for public service to the local community.
Ibrahim Ali and Max Cho from Shorecrest, and Seungbum Woo, Ryan Thomson and Peter Odell from Shorewood were honored.
Ali committed many hours to tutoring struggling students at the Homework Factory and spent last summer in the Dominican Republic volunteering on a project run by Amigos de las Americas.
Cho volunteered more than 500 hours to helping run Tattoo, the literary arts magazine and club.
Woo worked with seniors at CRISTA ministries and helped the front desk at Shorewood.
Thomson spent the summer of 2008 teaching at a school in a small community in Panama through Amigos de las Americas.
Odell put many hours into serving as a tutor and mentor at Meridian Park Elementary School and Zion Preparatory Academy.
Shorecrest grad gets peace scholarship
Jeremy Novack of Shorecrest High School was one of two recipients in this year’s Floyd Schmoe Peace Scholarship program.
Novack plans to attend Evergreen State College.
He received the $1,500 award July 5 at Seattle’s Peace Park, founded by the scholarship’s namesake.
Novack had been involved with a community peace vigil and helped to restart the Peace Club at Shorecrest High School. He also wrote a number of articles for the Shorecrest Piper and the Enterprise newspapers regarding peace-related issues, community and democracy.
The Floyd Schmoe Peace Scholarship was established in 1997 to honor graduating seniors who show exceptional humanitarian qualities toward others in the pursuit and interest of world peace. Graduating seniors in the Seattle and Shoreline school districts are eligible.
Schmoe was a sixth-generation Quaker and peace activist. During World War I, he carried wounded soldiers off French battlefields with the Red Cross. After the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, Schmoe took volunteers to rebuild homes in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Schmoe passed away April 20, 2001, at the age of 105, in Kirkland.
Student awarded WIGA scholarship
Tristen James of Shoreline was recently awarded a $1,200 scholarship for the 2009-2010 academic year by the Washington Indian Gaming Association (WIGA). James, a member of the Tlingit and Haida tribe, is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree at the University of Washington.
WIGA is a non-profit organization of tribal leaders in Washington state that runs a scholarship program for tribal members pursuing higher education degrees. The program is designed to promote tribal self-sufficiency by providing scholarships for Native American students in Washington seeking to advance their own self-sufficiency and broaden their potential through higher education.
Scholarships are awarded to students pursuing degrees at community and technical colleges, four-year colleges, and post-graduate and professional schools. Enrolled members of the WIGA tribes and Indian students in Washington state are eligible.
“This year, we had many qualified applicants to choose from, which made our selection process very difficult,” said WIGA chairman W. Ron Allen. “But it reflects the increasing depth of talent among young tribal members. The winners should be very proud of themselves for standing out among their peers.”
WIGA awarded a total of $30,000 in scholarship funds to 25 students.
For more information, call 360-352-3248 or visit www.washingtonindiangaming.org.
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