The Jack Boozer and Hermann and Janet Noether Internships in Social Ethics and Community Service
The Center for Ethics is committed to encouraging students to undertake internships in social ethics and community service. This commitment is heightened by the Center’s assumption of management and supervision of the Jack Boozer Fund and the Hermann and Janet Noether Fund.
The Jack Boozer Fund honors a beloved and distinguished Emory colleague, Jack Boozer (1918-1989). The Charles Howard Candler Professor of Religion, Boozer taught at Emory for 36 years and received numerous awards for his superlative teaching and commitment to students. In addition to his work as a scholar and teacher, Jack Boozer advocated aggressively for Emory’s emergence as an ethical and academic leader. His was a powerful voice in support of racial integration, the performing arts, holocaust studies, neighborhood justice, and women’s and minority rights. For these efforts, Professor Boozer received Emory University highest honor, the Jefferson Award in 1981.
The Hermann and Janet Noether Fund honors Mr. Hermann Noether (1908-1987) who led a life devoted to ethics and service. Mr. Noether came from a prominent family of German Jewish businessmen. Despite the family’s centuries of residence in Germany, Mr. Noether was forced to flee the Nazi regime. He found refuge in China where he met his wife, Wei Yien (Janet) Huang, the daughter of a distinguished Chinese family, working in Chinese intelligence during the Second World War. Following the Communist takeover of the mainland, Mr. Noether had to flee yet again, this time with his wife to Taiwan. Throughout his life, firmly supported by his elegant and wise wife, Janet, Mr. Noether manifested strong ethical commitments and firmly believed that service to others was an integral part of one’s deepest human identity. Upon his death, Mrs. Noether proudly set up the Fund in his memory.
Purpose
The purpose of the Jack Boozer and Hermann and Janet Noether Funds is to enable Emory University undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to pursue internships that combine study and an active working engagement with situations and problems that require a deepened understanding and practice of social ethics and community service.
The Jack Boozer funds support students undertaking service in the United States, with an emphasis on the Atlanta area.
The Noether funds support students who wish to undertake service-learning projects internationally. While students working in Israel will be given precedence, applications are invited for projects in any locale.
Students will be designated as "The Jack Boozer or Hermann and Janet Noether Interns in Social Ethics and Community Service."
Expectations
Students will be expected to present to the Committee a program of learning and active involvement in a situation that requires serious reflection upon, and application of, the principles of social ethics and community service.
Priority will be given to community-based, grass-roots, hands-on, activist projects. The Funds do not favor support of research.
Application Procedures
The application process for the next round of the Boozer and Noether internships will be available in autumn 2009.
To see previous Boozer-Noether recipients and their projects click here.
