Harris Dunlap, the son of Kevin and Tracy Dunlap of Kirkland, has been awarded a full-tuition academic scholarship to Juniata College as part of the college’s Nomination Scholarship Program. He will receive full tuition at the college for the next four years.
Dunlap will receive the J. Omar Good Service and Peacemaking Nomination Scholarship.
Dunlap is a 2009 graduate of Redmond Senior High School. Juniata College is a small, undergraduate liberal arts college in Huntingdon, Pa. It has an enrollment of 1,450.
Dunlap has been extremely active as a service volunteer for the past three years he has been an active member of King County Search and Rescue, an emergency rescue organization serving the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in the Cascades Mountains. The team responds to situations such as missing persons, injured hikers, suicides and crime scenes.
He has been designated a team leader in the organization, one of the group’s youngest members to lead teams in the field. He also helps train new members of the rescue organization.
Dunlap also volunteered at Tent City, a homeless encampment in Seattle. He has served food to the homeless, organized supply drives and helped tear down and resettle the site. For his senior capstone project, Dunlap documented his work in Tent City using photographic images in the style of Dorothea Lange, a celebrated photojournalist.
He served as editor-in-chief of his high school newspaper and played the lead role in a musical adaptation of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” He also attended a summer Journalism Camp at a Washington university and placed second in the photojournalism competition. In addition, he earned Eagle Scout designation in the Boy Scouts of America.