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| March 2007 Karl Mattson, Susan Star Paddock to Receive Peacemaker Awards The Reverend Karl Mattson and Susan Star Paddock will receive the ICPJ’s annual Peacemaker Awards for 2007. Karl will receive the Lifetime of Peacemaking Award, while Susan will receive the Peacemaker of the Year Award for 2007. The ceremony will be held on Monday, April 23, at 7 p.m., in the Eisenhower Room at the Adams County Library. All are invited. Refreshments will be served. Karl Mattson served as Chaplain of Gettysburg College from 1977 until 1992, when he became the founding director of the College’s Center for Public Service, a position he held until retiring in 2001. Prior to coming to Gettysburg, he pastored Lutheran churches in Buffalo, in a Puerto Rican community in Brooklyn, and in an African-American community in Chicago. The Center for Public Service was his creation, a program for involving students in service and service-learning projects with local community agencies and throughout the world. It has been a model for other colleges in developing service‑learning programs. Karl was also a founding member of Project Gettysburg-León, a sister-city project with León, Nicaragua, which began in 1987. He did the programming for the Martin Luther King Celebration in its early years and was a primary organizer of the Latino Soccer League. He has also been involved in many lower‑profile, one-on-one assistance activities over the years. Susan Star Paddock is honored for her achievement in leading No Casino Gettysburg in its successful campaign against the establishment of a casino in Gettysburg, beginning in the spring of 2005 and culminating in a vote against the casino by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on December 20, 2006. The ICPJ took a stand against the casino, arguing that its presence would aggravate problems of economic justice in the area. In giving the award to Susan Paddock, the ICPJ wishes to recognize, not the sheer success of No Casino, but the manner in which she and her group conducted the campaign, seeking at every point to minimize conflict and to avoid personal attacks and provocation. A social worker and psychotherapist by training, Susan came to Gettysburg in 1993. She has also been active locally in land preservation efforts.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. Nominations are invited for next year’s awards.
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