FLOYD SCHMOE Floyd Schmoe was 105 years old when he died on April 20, “...If we know people, we have some PEACE 2001. A sixth-generation Quaker and peace activist, Schmoe worked responsibility for them. I feel a SCHOLARSHIP as a forest ecologist, marine responsibility to help if I can.” biologist, college professor and - Floyd Schmoe leader of volunteer service groups. We are pleased to He had been shot at and held announce the availability of prisoner while doing relief work in six wars, but he never touched a gun. The Floyd Schmoe Peace the Floyd Schmoe Peace During World War I, he Scholarship is one of the first of its Scholarship. The selected drove an ambulance and carried kind in recognizing an outstanding student dedicated to humanitarian applicant will receive a one- wounded soldiers off French battlefields with the Red Cross. causes. This person could have time scholarship of $2,000 During World War II, he helped worked in food banks, tutored to apply to academically arrange evacuation of European homeless children, or any other work for the betterment of our world. related expenses. Jews and shipped seeds, cows and clothing to war victims in Asia and This award will be presented Europe. When Seattle’s Japanese- to someone who reminds us that Americans were relocated to barbed true leadership is more than being Eligibility Requirements: -wire camps in Idaho, he left his job the loudest of the group or the ability of he or she to control others. Applicant is a Class of 2022 High teaching forestry at the University of Washington to go to the internment Leadership is work and concern for School Senior in the Seattle Public others. Schools or Shoreline Public Schools camps to help them. After the with post–high school education atomic bombs were dropped, plans. Schmoe took volunteers to Japan to rebuild homes in the rubble of Applicant must be involved in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Later humanitarian endeavors. wars in Korea, the Middle East and Applicant may apply themselves or Africa called him to construct be nominated by others. orphanages, salvage hospitals, dig irrigation ditches and repair wells. He was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize. Floyd Applications available at Schmoe saw the establishment of www.peacescholarship.org this award in 1997 as a miniature Floyd Schmoe with Travis Jo Cufley, the or call (206) 365-7865 Nobel Peace Prize. scholarship’s first recipient in 1998. We encourage other schools to establish their own It’s easy to apply! humanitarian/peace scholarship in support of students showing humanitarian qualities toward Fill out application form, available others in the pursuit and interest of world peace. FLOYD SCHMOE at www.peacescholarship.org For more information and application please PEACE Complete a written statement of contact: 1,000 words or less describing Website: www.peacescholarship.org SCHOLARSHIP E-mail: [email protected] accomplishments and future plans or pertaining to humanitarian efforts Floyd Schmoe Peace Scholarship Mail the completed application c/o Milner form and written statement 3227 NE 198th Place Lake Forest Park, WA 98155 (206) 365-7865 Application must be received or postmarked Most of our funds come from individual donors. Donations may be made to the Floyd Schmoe by April 30, 2022 Peace Scholarship Fund by sending to: Floyd Schmoe Peace Scholarship c/o Milner 3227 NE 198th Place Lake Forest Park, WA 98155 Tax deductible donations may be made directly to The Floyd Schmoe Peace Scholarship our administrative sponsor: was established in 1997. For the first seven years, the scholarship was Floyd Schmoe Peace Scholarship offered only to Shorecrest High School c/o Ground Zero Community students. In 2004 it was expanded to 16159 Clear Creek Road NW all Seattle Public Schools and Shoreline Poulsbo, WA 98370 Public Schools. Floyd Schmoe met with the first three Cover photo is Floyd Schmoe sitting in Seattle recipients of the Floyd Schmoe Peace Peace Park, which he created from a weedy patch at Scholarship. These meetings were all the north end of Lake Union. The statue memorializes Sadako Sasaki, a 12 year old girl who 2021-2022 joyous times for the students and for died from cancer after the bomb was dropped on Floyd. Hiroshima. Courtesy of The Seattle Times/Harley Soltes .