March 2006

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Sam Mudd, Suse Greenstone to Receive Peacemaker Awards

Sam Mudd and Suse Greenstone will receive the ICPJ’s annual Peacemaker Awards for 2006. Sam will receive the Lifetime of Peacemaking Award, while Suse will receive the Peacemaker of the Year Award for 2006. The ceremony will be held on Monday, April 3, at 7 p.m., in the Eisenhower Room at the Adams County Library. All are invited.

Sam Mudd is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Gettysburg College. A resident of the Gettysburg area for approximately fifty years, he was a founding member of the Interfaith Center. Peace Campers will remember that for years he has volunteered every day of the camp, staffing the front desk/table, keeping track of registration and attendance. Seven years ago he founded From the Ground Up, a volunteer group that picks up litter in Gettysburg every Monday morning from April to November. Longer ago, he was a regular when the ICPJ picked up trash on Route 34. He also founded of the Hazel Alley Association about seven years ago. The organization was established to address problems of noise and debris generated in the neighborhood of Stratton and Carlisle Streets by the many college students living there. Together with Gareth Biser, he organized the residents of the neighborhood to work with the College administration to deal with the problem. The initiative led to the College’s building a new residential complex at the west end of Lincoln Avenue. The organization still meets at least once a year, in August, to anticipate the coming school year.

Suse Greenstone came to Gettysburg in 1998, when her husband, Jon (now Pastor of Elias Lutheran Church in Emmitsburg), enrolled in the Lutheran Seminary. Soon afterward, she founded Just Community Food Systems, focusing on food security and environmental stewardship. One of this program’s projects was the establishment of community gardens, supplying produce to needy families. In 2000, she expanded the community gardening program to include prisoners and their families, and the following year extended it to at-risk youth.

In 2002, the program developed into Seeds for Success, which focuses on offering gardening and other life-skills classes to the prison and probation population. Subsequently, she has added a horticulture program and counseling services. See elsewhere in this issue for a description of a new Salad Greens program.

The Peacemaker Awards are given annually to local residents who have made a distinguished contribution to the promotion of peace and justice. Each consists of a plaque and a donation of $150 worth of books in the recipient’s name to the Adams County Library. For a list of previous winners, see the ICPJ history article in this issue. Nominations are invited for next year’s awards.

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