The Irving Stolberg Service Scholarship Fund

The Irv Stolberg Fund was established in memory of an exemplary friend of Service For Peace - Irv Stolberg. The fund provides a $200 scholarship to one deserving participant in one of our Global PeaceMaker programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. The successful applicant will be one who best reflects the spirit of public service embodied by Irving Stolberg throughout his life. That individual will already have demonstrated an enthusiastic commitment to his or her community and the ability and creativity to make a significant, positive impact in society.

About Irving Stolberg

Irv Stolberg was known to many in Service For Peace as the Honorary Chairman of SFP's Martin Luther King Day activities in 2008 and as one of the most dedicated participants in a Global Peace Maker program in the Dominican Republic in 2007.

Irv was the embodiment of the phrase "public servant." He was a former geography professor at Southern Connecticut State University and Quinnipiac University who traveled extensively overseas and oversaw numerous cultural exchange tours to Asia and Africa. He visited China 22 times and set up training programs for Chinese leaders, while also working for democratic changes in Eastern Europe. He most recently was president of the Connecticut Chapter of the United Nations Association.

Irv also had a distinguished career in Connecticut politics. He served for 22 years in the General Assembly as the representative from New Haven's 93rd District, and two terms as speaker of the House. Jonathan Pelto, a former legislator from Mansfield, and deputy to Stolberg when he was speaker, said Connecticut under Stolberg "laid a model that has been adopted by virtually every legislature in the country."

However, Irv's real passion was foreign affairs and his experience in the Dominican Republic with Service For Peace was one of his last foreign adventures before he passed away. "Our SFP community was touched by his model of servant leadership," said SFP President Charles Phillips. "In the poverty stricken villages of the Dominican Republic, Irv served in SFP's Global PeaceMaker programs, taking the most humble positions alongside volunteers many years his junior. Never an elitist, Irv always found positive things to learn and share with his fellow volunteers. His spirit will live on in our Global PeaceMaker programs as he was a peacemaker par excellence!"

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