He transferred to Long Island University's Friends World Program from Armand Hammer United World College where he formed a group of students to raise money for medical supplies and books for the Tarahumara indigenous people of northern New Mexico. He spent his first year in the Friends World Program in Costa Rica and Guatemala working with grassroots development organizations to bring medical and educational supplies to Indians living in abject poverty. For his senior year, he travelled to the Friends World Center in Bangalore, India and he is now completing his senior thesis in a remote village of Uttar Pradesh. This cannot be learned in a comfortable classroom. The Friends World Program offers an experiential program of global education for social change through its seven overseas centers.
Students typically spend three of their four years living and studying in different cultures.
I am happy that they looked past not having grades or traditional courses. They saw that alternative students can be and sometimes are more qualified than those in traditional education. Patmor is expected to return to the United States in mid-May to participate in the May 17th Commencement ceremonies at Southampton College and to attend a leadership development program and accept his Truman Scholarship award in a special ceremony May 31 at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. The Truman Scholarship Foundation was established by Congress in 1975 as the federal memorial to our thirty-third President. There have been 1,852 Truman Scholars elected since the first awards were made in 1977.