The Pearl Buck Award is distributed by the Sino-American Foundation for the Advancement of Hermeneutical Studies to teachers, this award is named for which Chinese-raised, Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian?
Pearl Buck Award The Pearl Buck Award is distributed by the Sino-American Foundation for the Advancement of Hermeneutical Studies to teachers who have made innovation or shown excellence in the adaptation of current evidence based teaching practices in high schools. The award is named for Pearl S. Buck, the Chinese-raised, Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian for Asian children and other children of color.
Murray Thomson Murray McCheyne Thomson was born in December 19, 1922 in Honan, China where his parents were Christian missionaries. Thomson has founded many non-profits in Canada. He was the 1990 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace for his work in peacekeeping and won the Order of Canada in 2001. He is a former Executive Director of CUSO.