The Peter L. Page Scholarship

The Peter L. Page Scholarship provides $40,000 in scholarship funds, $10,000 per year for four years. The funds will be applied to the student’s account at the Student Financial Aid Office. This merit scholarship is available for two incoming first-year undergraduate students who will attend the University of Virginia on a full-time basis. Decisions are based on the students’ academic achievements, essays, and extracurricular activities demonstrating exceptional commitment to their communities. Annual renewal of the scholarship is contingent on maintaining a 3.0 GPA.

Current Undergraduate and Graduate Students

In addition to the Peter Page Scholarship for incoming first-year students, current undergraduate or graduate students who attend the University of Virginia on a full-time basis can apply for a one-year Peter Page Grant. Decisions will be based on academic achievements, financial need, and extracurricular activities demonstrating exceptional commitment to bettering LGBTQ+ community at UVA and beyond. Recipients can apply for the grant again the following year. QVA will work with the UVA Financial Aid Office to determine the amount that each individual student shall receive, and grants will count against student loans.

In 2014, QVA received a bequest to endow a scholarship and grant fund from the late Dr. Peter L. Page, a 1967 graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences and a graduate of the School of Medicine who went on to have a long and distinguished career in transfusion medicine.

The next application period will begin in spring of 2024.

2023 Peter Page Winners

Finn

Danville, VA

While attending UVA, Finn intends to major in Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law, as well as obtain a minor in Drama. With this education, he plans to follow his passion for politics and social activism in hopes that it will lead him towards becoming an active leader and politician in his home state of Virginia. During a tumultuous time for those who don’t align with a white cisgendered heteronormative standard, Finn aims to utilize his identity to uplift and empower fellow gender-diverse people at UVA and beyond. He is also open to the idea of attending law school, but plans to use his first year to explore that option further before deciding on the path. Outside of politics, Finn has participated in theater productions all throughout highschool, and he plans to continue that theme throughout his time at UVA. Coming from a small high school, Finn is looking forward to experiencing and contributing to the expansive community that UVA has to offer.

Riley

Bozeman, MT

Riley is from Bozeman, MT, and he is thrilled to be heading east to Virginia and to its warmer weather. At UVA, he hopes to pursue a major in Public Policy & Leadership and a minor in Spanish. He is excited to immerse himself in UVA’s tradition of student self-governance and plans to write for the Cavalier Daily and volunteer in the Charlottesville community through Madison House. Riley’s academic interests lie in Constitutional law, specifically 1st and 4th Amendment jurisprudence, government ethics, and public policy solutions to wealth inequality. Beyond school, Riley is an avid guitar player and dog lover. After graduating from UVA, he plans to attend law school to pursue his goal of one day arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Obituary of Dr. Peter L. Page

Dr. Peter L. Page, 67, died on May 9, 2014 after a long and distinguished career in transfusion medicine. Devoting his career to the safety of blood transfusions, he served in many leadership positions throughout the American National Red Cross Blood Program for over 28 years.

Board certified in Internal Medicine, Oncology, Hematology, and Blood Banking, he worked at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and was an attending physician at the West Roxbury V.A. Medical Center before joining the American Red Cross in 1978. He became CEO of the Northeast Region Red Cross Blood Center in Dedham, MA in 1983. After participating in the clinical trial of the first test for HIV, he worked tirelessly on issues of testing methodology, confidentiality, anonymous testing, and counseling.

During implementation of the first HIV test in 1985, he provided leadership to Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the City of Boston Mayor’s Commission on AIDS, and the AIDS Action Committee. His efforts to inform the public and to ensure the safety of the blood supply during this unprecedented time were recognized by the Governor of Massachusetts, the Mayor of Boston, the American Association of Blood Banks, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The only child of Elden Laurence Page and Anna-Berta (Jakobson) Page, Peter was born in Stockholm, Sweden June 11, 1946. As a member of the US Foreign Service, his father traveled the world and Peter grew up in Athens, London, Budapest, Okinawa, and in the Washington, DC area. A graduate of the University of Virginia Medical School, Peter completed his medical training in Philadelphia at NIH and the Harvard Medical School.

Known for his high energy, logical problem solving, and persistence to solutions, Peter was often called on to lead the Red Cross blood program through organizational transitions. At the Red Cross National Headquarters in Washington, DC he served in leadership roles for regulatory activities, the medical office, and for the blood testing laboratories throughout the country. After serving as CEO of Southern California Red Cross Blood Center in Los Angeles for three years, he returned to the Red Cross national headquarters medical office until he retired in 2006.

In retirement he also served as a consultant to the World Health Organization. His many friends remember his boundless energy in all his varied interests, to just name a few – skiing all over the world, scuba diving, sailing, white water rafting, square dancing, and lately his interest in contract and duplicate bridge. He has been an ambassador member of Gamma Mu, a longtime member of Los Papagayos, and a host for 27 years of the popular end of summer White Party in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His longtime partner Robert L. Black died in 1989.

Published in The Boston Globe on June 1, 2014