Let Your Voice Be Heard!

Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) is pleased to announce the Greenfield Peace Essay Scholarship Contest. Oregon PSR strives to encourage and challenge our young adults to tackle making our nation a more peaceful one by sponsoring this contest.

 

Contestants may enter by submitting an original essay of a minimum of 500 words (not to exceed 600) describing their thoughts on the following statement by Wendell Berry, “If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently and bravely as we now prepare for war”. The purpose of this essay is to stimulate you to think about your role in the causes and outcomes of war and necessary steps to build a more peaceful world.

 

Deadline for essay submission is March 2, 2009. First place winner will receive a $2,000 scholarship; second place a $1,500 scholarship; and third place a $1,000 scholarship. The other seven finalists will each receive $500. Scholarship money may be applied toward any education-related expenses.

 

Contestants must be high school juniors and seniors attending school in Oregon and in good academic standing. Essays must be sent to Rachel Larson at Rachel@oregonpsr.org or by U.S. mail to Oregon PSR, 812 SW Washington Street, Suite 1050, Portland, OR 97205. Essays sent by email should be included either as an attachment in Microsoft Word format or in the text of the email. Essays sent by U.S. mail must be typewritten. Include a word count with the essay.

All essays must be accompanied by an entry form which is available on the Oregon PSR website (www.oregonpsr.org, on the Peace/Security page).

 

 

Guided by the values and expertise of medicine and public health, Physicians for Social Responsibility works to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival. Oregon PSR is the medical and public health voice working to prevent the use or spread of nuclear weapons and to slow, stop and reverse global warming and toxic degradation of the environment.