Mount St. Scholastica College Graduate, Wangari Maathai, Wins 2004 Nobel Peace Prize

The Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica join the rest of the world in congratulating Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. She graduated from Mount St. Scholastica College (now Benedictine College) in 1964 with a degree in biological sciences and continues to communicate with the sisters and to praise her education.

Sister Thomasita's reflections of her trip to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony

A photo gallery from Sisters Mary Collins and Thomasita Homan's trip to Oslo to for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.

Pictures of Maathai from her days at Mount St. Scholastica College

Article about Maathai published in Threshold, the news magazine of the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison, Kansas, Spring, 2003.

Tribute to Wangari Maathai by Sister Thomasita Homan, OSB

Links from external sources:
Nobel Prize Official Website
Link to live streaming video of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony
NPR Weekend Edition Sunday interview with Maathai, November 7, 2004
BBC Nobel Peace Prize article
NPR audio report
Newsweek online
Atchison Daily Globe article (Atchison, Kansas)

Former instructors and friends in Atchison are available to the media for comment by contacting the communications department of the Benedictine sisters.

For more information contact:
Anne Shepard, OSB
Mount St. Scholastica
801 South 8th St.
Atchison, KS 66002
PHONE: (913) 360-6215
FAX: (913) 360-6190
anne@mountosb.org