2017 - 2018
Named Scholarship Application
(SCH)
Name (Last, First): __________________________________________________________
SUA ID#: ___________________________
Date: _________________________
Cell Phone #: ________________________
Address: __________________________________________________________________________________
Current Academic Level:
☐ Freshman
☐ Sophomore
☐ Junior
☐ Senior
Please review the Criteria page for each scholarship (pages 2-4), including any special instructions.
Check the box(es) next to the scholarship(s) you are interested in applying for. If the scholarship
requires additional documentation, such as an essay, transcript, etc., you must submit the additional
documentation along with this scholarship application.
The deadline to submit any of the Named Scholarship applications is: March 31, 2017; by 5pm.
Please submit all scholarship applications and additional required documents to the Development
Assistant, Dana Collins: [email protected]
☐ Evelyn Hodes Wilson Memorial Scholarship
In addition to this scholarship application, please submit the following documents:
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An unofficial copy of your transcript.
Financial Aid Award Letter from the Financial Aid Office, or printed from your Learn Account.
Essay describing:
o How your education has impacted your life.
o What you aspire to do with your education.
☐ Brian Daisaku McCloskey Memorial Scholarship
In addition to this scholarship application, please submit an essay:
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In two pages or less, discuss an obstacle you have overcome or are working to overcome. Describe what
impossible dream you would make possible with the support of this scholarship.
☐ Kevin, Bob & Jane Hodes Memorial Scholarship
In addition to this scholarship application, please submit an essay describing:
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High aptitude for academic pursuits in the arts or sciences.
Demonstration of your commitment to using their education to serve the needs of ordinary people.
How you will further the goals of world peace and social justice.
Name of Scholarship : Evelyn Hodes Wilson Scholarship
About the Scholarship: Evelyn Hodes Wilson devoted her life to scientific research and to
higher education. Born into a family of humble means early in the 20th century, through hard
work in applying her rare intellectual gifts, she went on to become the first woman at Harvard to
earn a Chemistry PhD, to synthesize the widely used drug Prednisone, and rose to VicePresidency at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Evelyn was, throughout her life, an active role
model for countless women academics in science, a champion of women’s rights, and a promoter
of education in the arts. Evelyn Wilson’s husband, Armin Wilson, and their son, Jonathan
Wilson, have established a scholarship fund in her memory for undergraduates at Soka
University.
Scholarship Amount: To be announced
Academic Term(s) for which scholarship will be applied: 2017-2018 Academic Year
When to Apply: Scholarship opens February 15, 2017
Application Deadline: Friday, 5pm on March 31, 2017
Eligibility: This scholarship is available to Soka students who are:
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Female;
Entering her senior year;
Have attained outstanding academic achievement and;
Can demonstrate a high level of financial need in pursuing her academic goals.
How to Apply: Students should submit the Scholarship Application and an essay (two pages
maximum, double spaced) describing:
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How their education has impacted her life
What she aspires to do with her education
Students must submit a copy of their unofficial transcript in addition to their essay.
Transcripts and Essays can be mailed interoffice, hand-delivered, or emailed to the Development
Assistant, Dana Collins [email protected] with the subject line of: Evelyn Hodes Wilson
Scholarship.
Please include your full name on the top right of each essay page, but not written in any part of
the essay.
Name of Scholarship : Brian Daisaku McCloskey Memorial Scholarship
About the Scholarship:
Brian always had a sense of adventure. Growing up, Brian and his friends would often find
themselves hiking through the woods, exploring unknown neighborhoods, or dreaming up
some kind of contraption that only children with limitless imaginations could design and build.
Along the way, they met many people. Brian was gregarious but also introspective and
empathetic, which gave him an innate ability to seek out and befriend a very diverse and
unique group of individuals.
Before his passing, Brian had been planning an adventure across China. It was to be an off-road
motorcycle trip that would take him and his friends along a journey of discovery,
determination, struggle, transformation, and beauty. The beauty of the journey was that it
represented the treasure which exists within all of us. It is the struggle to overcome personal
hardships, to discover the strength within, and to use that internal fortitude to transform one's
dreams into reality that makes the journey worthwhile. It was Brian's personal experience with
this that made him a beautiful person.
Brian overcame great challenges in his life in order to make the impossible, possible.
To honor Brian and keep his memory alive, Guy and Doris McCloskey, along with their family and
friends, have made a very generous scholarship available to admitted SUA students. To apply for the
scholarship, please read Brian’s experience at www.bdmsua.org/about-ba then follow the directions
below.
Scholarship Amount: To be announced.
Academic Term(s) for which scholarship will be applied: 2017-2018 Academic Year
When to Apply: Scholarship opens February 15, 2017
Application Deadline: Friday, 5pm on March 31, 2017
Eligibility: This scholarship is available to any undergraduate student currently enrolled at SUA
that will be returning for the 2017-2018 academic year.
How to Apply: Students should submit a Scholarship Application and an essay.
In two pages or less, discuss an obstacle you have overcome or are working to overcome.
Describe what impossible dream you would make possible with the support of this
scholarship.
Essays can be mailed interoffice, hand-delivered, or emailed to the Development Assistant, Dana
Collins [email protected] with the subject line of: Brian Daisaku Memorial Scholarship.
Please include your full name on the top right of each essay page, but not written in any part of
the essay.
Name of Scholarship : Kevin Hodes and Bob & Jane Hodes Memorial
Scholarship
About the Scholarship: Kevin Hodes was passionately pursuing a career in theater, film, and writing
when his life was cut short at the age of 28 by a previously undiagnosed heart ailment. Kevin greatly
admired the legacy of his grandfather, Bob Hodes, who had passed away a few years before Kevin’s
birth. Two of Bob Hodes’s admirable qualities, in his grandson’s view, were an earnest devotion to both
scientific research and the arts, as well as his courageous contributions to the causes of world peace and
social justice. Kevin also appreciated his “gran’ma,” Jane Hodes, for her lifelong commitment to these
same causes. Kevin’s mother, Nancy Hodes, who is also the daughter of Bob and Jane, has established a
scholarship fund in memory of these three loved ones.
Scholarship Amount: To be announced.
Academic Term(s) for which scholarship will be applied: 2017-2018 Academic Year
When to Apply: Scholarship opens February 15, 2017
Application Deadline: Friday, 5pm on March 31, 2017
Eligibility: Open to undergraduates at Soka University of America who:
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Are entering their senior year;
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Have demonstrated a willingness to work hard at, and have a high aptitude for, academic
pursuits; whether this be in the arts, the sciences, or some creative combination of the two;
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Have demonstrated a commitment to using education to serve the needs of ordinary people,
and to further the goals of world peace and social justice.
How to Apply: Students should submit a Scholarship Application and an essay (two pages
maximum, double spaced) describing:
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High aptitude for academic pursuits in the arts or sciences
Demonstration of their commitment to using their education to serve the needs of
ordinary people
How they will further the goals of world peace and social justice
Essays can be mailed interoffice, hand-delivered, or emailed to the Development Assistant, Dana
Collins [email protected] with the subject line of: Kevin Hodes and Bob & Jane Hodes
Memorial Scholarship.
Please include your full name on the top right of each essay page, but not written in any part of
the essay.