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PSR/Sacramento announces the Winners of the
2008 High School Scholarship Essay Contest
The Sacramento Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility congratulates the winners of the 2008 PSR/Sacramento Scholarship Essay Contest. These students were chosen from a field of 114 entries for their outstanding essays based on this year's prompt
“War is a racket…in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
--Marine Corps Medal of Honor Winner, Major General Smedley Butler
First Place - Dennis Zheng, Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay
Hear Dennis' interview on the May 5 Insight program
Second Place - Margaret Freiwald, Mira Loma High School, Sacramento
Third Place - Mateo Fabersunne, Dixon High School, Dixon
The other finalists are:
James Allen, Amador High School, Sutter Creek
Benjamin Drahmann, Union Mine High School, Diamond Springs
Jennifer Kocsis, Davis Senior High School, Davis
Jeanne Sabin, Elk Grove High School, Elk Grove
Bianca Taylor, C.K. McClatchy High School, Sacramento
Marshall Weintraub, Davis Senior High School, Davis
Kristine Yoshihara, Mira Loma High School, Sacramento
To read their essay, please click on the student's name.
The ten student finalists presented their essays orally at the Scholarship Essay Contest Finals Dinner held on Sunday, May 4, at the California State Univeristy, Sacramento Alumni Center. The first, second, and third place finalists were chosen by a panel of distinguished judges from the community: Dr. General Davie, Former Superintendent of Schools, San Juan Unified School District; Dr. Kathryn Jeffery, President of Sacramento City College; Lisa Kaplan, Board Member, Natomas Unified School District; Leon Lefson, Community Activist; and Michael G. Virga, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge. The first place winner is receiving a $2,500 scholarship, second place a $1,500 scholarship, third place a $1,000 scholarship. The other seven finalists will each receive $750 scholarships.
Special thanks to California State University, Sacramento for
sponsorship of the event and to Media Edge for videotaping.
Thanks to everyone who helped make the 2008 PSR/Sacramento Scholarship Essay Contest a success and, especially, to all the students who entered the contest. Please return to this website in early January 2009 for information about next year's contest.
PSR/Sacramento is a non-profit, educational organization of health
care professionals and other concerned citizens committed to the following goals:
- the elimination of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction
- the achievement of a sustainable environment
- the reduction of interpersonal violence and its causes
- universal access to necessary medical care for all residents of our state and our country, without regard to income level or ability to pay
PSR combines the credibility of the medical profession with the power of an active and concerned citizenry in working toward our goals through education, advocacy, and activism. Click on the links to the left to learn more about our organization and how you can join us in helping to make the world a healthier, safer place.
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Broken Laws, Broken Lives shows the human consequences of harsh and unlawful US interrogation practices. The Physicians for Human Right’s June 2008 report details medical evidence that confirms first-hand accounts of men who endured torture by US personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay.
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PSR Regular Monthly Meetings
Physicians for Social Responsibility holds meetings on the second Wednesday of most months at 6:30 pm in the Director's Conference Room of the Davis Tower of UC Davis Sacramento Medical Center Main Hospital, 2315 Stockton Boulevard. The Director's Conference Room is on the ground floor, just inside the main entrance of the Davis Tower. (The entrance to the conference room is opposite the small coffee shop.) All PSR Supporters are invited to attend. Light refreshments will be served.
Ms. Stella Levy will be the speaker at our July 9 6:30 pm meeting. She is a long-time anti-death penalty activist who will discuss the recently released report of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice. As reported in the July 1, 2008 Sacramento Bee, "capital punishment in California is too flawed to be effective and is crippled by an appeals backlog that delays punishment for crimes." Ms. Levy will focus on the economic costs of the death penalty, as detailed in the report. Please come and join us for an informative meeting.
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