{"id":1598,"date":"2011-03-08T09:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T14:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2011-03-08T09:17:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T14:17:56","slug":"vrgs-2500-eleanor-wolff-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/08\/vrgs-2500-eleanor-wolff-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"VRG&#8217;s $2,500 Eleanor Wolff Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Miltimore Wolff became a committed vegan late in life. Once she learned and understood that dietary choices affected not only one&#8217;s personal health, but also the health of the planet and the well being of the animals, there was no looking back. Leather shoes and purses, along with non-vegan food products went out the door. Her children and grandchildren were showered with vegan reading material.  When she exercised she would sport a T-shirt proclaiming: &#8220;I think, therefore I am &#8212; a vegetarian&#8221;.  Eleanor was a military censor during World War II, but there was no censoring her commitment to a plant based diet and lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>In her memory, the Eleanor Wolff Scholarship is a $2,500 paid internship at the VRG office in Baltimore (plus $1,000 toward housing) for a student who:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Wants to be an effective change agent on behalf of vegetarianism<\/li>\n<li>Is motivated to use knowledge gained from the internship to make a significant impact within his\/her world<\/li>\n<li>Could not participate in this development effort without a little financial assistance<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Currently, the Eleanor Wolff Scholarship funds one internship per year. VRG also has unpaid internships available.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to apply for a VRG internship, please send a resume, writing sample, and cover letter detailing your interests, skills, goals, and vegetarian knowledge to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Vegetarian Resource Group<br \/>\nP.O. Box 1463<br \/> Baltimore, MD 21203<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or e-mail to <a href=\"mailto:vrg@vrg.org\">vrg@vrg.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Eleanor Wolff Scholarship and to view what past recipients have said of their experiences, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/eleanor_wolff_scholarship.php\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Miltimore Wolff became a committed vegan late in life. Once she learned and understood that dietary choices affected not only one&#8217;s personal health, but also the health of the planet and the well being of the animals, there was no looking back. Leather shoes and purses, along with non-vegan food products went out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students","category-teens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}