Giraffe Heroes Database
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Entries beginning with "S"
Tammie Schnitzer of Billings MT braved threats from aryan supremacists and helped lead the community in resisting intimidation by aryan supremacists. After an aryan attack on a Jewish home, thousands of Billings residents, Jews and non-Jews alike, responded by placing menorahs in their windows, despite the fear that they might also become targets.(See also Sarah Anthony, Wayne Inman, Margaret Macdonald, Brian Schnitzer and Keith Torney.)
Home when commended: North America, US, Montana Home now: North America, US, Montana Gender: C (couple) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Clint Schultz is a quadriplegic whose persistent advocacy for the handicapped resulted in a change in Minnesota state laws, permitting the employed handicapped to keep a significantly larger portion of their disability benefits.
Home when commended: North America, US, Minnesota Home now: North America, US, Minnesota Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Suzie & Sylvan Schwab of Haiku HI, founded and run the nonprofit East Maui Animal Refuge, taking in domestic and wild animals that are injured or sick and doing round-the-clock duty caring for their patients.
Home when commended: North America, US, Hawaii Home now: North America, US, Hawaii Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Sylvan & Suzie Schwab of Haiku HI, founded and run the nonprofit East Maui Animal Refuge, taking in domestic and wild animals that are injured or sick and doing round-the-clock duty caring for their patients.
Home when commended: North America, US, Hawaii Home now: North America, US, Hawaii Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Sylvan & Suzie Schwab of Haiku HI, founded and run the nonprofit East Maui Animal Refuge, taking in domestic and wild animals that are injured or sick and doing round-the-clock duty caring for their patients.
Home when commended: North America, US, Hawaii Home now: North America, US, Hawaii Gender: C (couple) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Brianne Schwantes of Milwaukee WI created a network of kids who, like her, have a disease that makes their bones break at the slightest impact. A subject of research by the NIH, she informs her network of latest research and urges them to lead active lives which, for her, has included volunteering as a relief worker in the Iowa and Georgia floods.
Home when commended: North America, US, Wisconsin Home now: North America, US, Wisconsin Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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George and Kathleen Schwartz of Santa Fe NM have sacrificed their time, money, and his career as a physician to warn people about the health hazards of MSG. Food processing corporations have harassed and sued them, trying to stop them from publishing and speaking.
Home when commended: North America, US, New Mexico Home now: North America, US, New Mexico Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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George and Kathleen Schwartz of Santa Fe NM have sacrificed their time, money, and his career as a physician to warn people about the health hazards of MSG. Food processing corporations have harassed and sued them, trying to stop them from publishing and speaking.
Home when commended: North America, US, New Mexico Home now: North America, US, New Mexico Gender: C (couple) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Kathleen and George Schwartz of Santa Fe NM have sacrificed their time, money, and his career as a physician to warn people about the health hazards of MSG. Food processing corporations have harassed and sued them, trying to stop them from publishing and speaking.
Home when commended: North America, US, New Mexico Home now: North America, US, New Mexico Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Florence Scott, a rehabilitation specialist in Woodburn OR, started a center that helps people who have experienced brain dysfunction after car accidents, birth traumas or on-the-job accidents. No one is ever turned away from her clinic who cannot pay.
Home when commended: North America, US, Oregon Home now: North America, US, Oregon Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Stella Mae Seamans of Beverly Farms MA took into her home six refugees from Cambodia who had been terrorized by racist vandals in Beverly Farms. Seamans then forced town and school officials to face the issue of racism and to help break down the walls between immigrants and the community.
Home when commended: North America, US, Massachusetts Home now: North America, US, Massachusetts Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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John Seed of Lesmore, Australia, has been a full-time rainforest activist since 1979, blocking bulldozers, planting trees, running a global rainforest information center and travelling more than 100,000 miles to speak in defense of ecological treasures.
Home when commended: Australia Home now: Australia Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Ever since he was 12, Danny Seo of Shillington PA has been hard at work saving the Earth. The founder of Earth 2000, he and other young members saved forests and wetlands, organized anti-whaling demonstrations, lobbied for two major animal-rights initiatives in his home state and much, much more. Danny also travels widely to give speeches, even when it means dipping into his college fund to pay the costs.
Home when commended: North America, US, Pennsylvania Home now: North America, US, New York Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Ed Setchko of Kensington CA gave up his tenured professorship to found the Project for Peace and Reconciliation in the Middle East, which brings Arab and Jewish leaders, children and students together in cooperative ways.
Home when commended: North America, US, California Home now: North America, US, California Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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