Link to Scholarship Application

A $1,000 scholarship will be awarded by Madison Veterans for Peace to a Madison high school senior who writes on one of four possible subjects or produces a video, two – three minutes in length (see application.)

The deadline (postmark) for submission is Saturday, June 1, 2024. 

The scholarship is open to any senior student at East High School who will graduate this year.  Applicants must enroll the fall semester 2024 in a public post-secondary education or training program to be eligible to receive the scholarship.

Madison Veterans for Peace is also known as the Clarence Kailin Chapter, named after the long-time Madison peace activist and social reformer, who was a founding member. Kailin, a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War in 1938, died in late 2009 at the age of 95. The peace scholarship was named after Korean war veteran Dr. James Allen, also a long-time peace activist, founding member and esteemed member of the University of Wisconsin medical faculty.  James Allen died in 2011.  More on James Allen. 

IN MEMORY OF JAMES C. ALLEN, MD FOR HIS DEDICATION, LEADERSHIP AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO CLINICAL TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON DEPARTMENT OF OPTHAMOLOGY AND VISUAL SCIENCE AT WILLIAM MIDDLETON VETERANS’ HOSPITAL