Second Peace Award Ceremony

Scott and Hella McVay are longtime supporters of George Nakashima’s vision and the work of the Peace Foundation. Scott is a poet, naturalist and philanthropist who worked tirelessly to promote the arts, education, women’s issues, environmental stewardship and animal welfare. In this pursuit, he has directed or served on the boards of numerous institutions – the Geraldine R. Dodge, W. Alton Jones and Robert Sterling Clark foundations, the World Wildlife Fund, the Chautauqua Institution, the Earth Policy Institute, and Grounds for Sculpture. He was the creator of the Dodge Poetry Festival and he and Hella created the Poetry Trail at the D&R Greenway in Princeton.