April 2004

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Hammanns to Receive Peacemaker Award

The 2004 Peacemaker Award will be given to Lou and Patricia Hammann on Monday, April 26, at 7 p.m., in the Eisenhower Room at the Adams County Library in Gettysburg. All are invited to the ceremony. Refreshments will be served.

Lou and Pat have provided leadership at the local, regional, and national levels for issues relating to peace and justice for more than forty years.

Lou is retired from Gettysburg College, where he became a professor of Religion in 1956. He continues to teach there as an adjunct. Pat was a special-ed teacher in the Fairfield schools.

Pat and Lou have lately been active in work for campaign finance reform. Both were arrested with Granny D (Doris Haddock) for demonstrating at the Capitol building. Lou is past co-president of the Alliance for Democracy. Pat is currently one of the two Mid-Atlantic representatives to the National Council.

Locally, both have served on the board of the ICPJ and were active in the Adams County Nuclear Freeze, one of its predecessors. They belong to the Carlisle Peace College and have participated in the monthly peace vigils in Gettysburg in response to the Iraq War. Both have worked with Project Gettysburg-León, a sister city project with a Nicaraguan city. Lou was among the founders of CRAGI (Conflict Resolution and Global Interdependence) and Mediation Services of Adams County. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. He was a founder and long-time board member (and referee) of the Gettysburg Youth Soccer Organization. He has served on the boards of the Gettysburg Hospital and the Hoffman Home, a residential community for emotionally and behaviorally troubled children. Pat has also served as a teacher at Hoffman Homes.

Lou and Pat are helping to build Hundredfold Farm with their daughter Sandy and her husband Bill. The members of Hundredfold Farm, a co-housing community that will be the first in Pennsylvania, work by consensus and are committed to principles of environmental sustainability.

Janet Powers, a close friend of the Hammanns for more than forty years and a past winner of the Peacemaker Award, said of the Hammanns, “They have been so supportive of peace and democracy issues for so long; you always think of the Hammanns when you think of these issues. They are always in the background helping–one can almost take them for granted.”

The Peacemaker Award is given annually to a local resident or residents who have made a distinguished contribution to the promotion of peace and justice. It consists of a plaque and a donation of $200 worth of books in the recipient’s name to the Adams County Library.

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