January 2006

Editor's note: Our Twentieth Anniversary!

On November 7, 2005, the Interfaith Center for Peace and Justice celebrated its twentieth anniversary. This issue marks the first of two issues commemorating the event and celebrating our twenty years of service and witness to the Adams County community. In this issue, we present the address given at the ICPJ’s Twentieth Anniversary banquet, October 22, 2005, by Lou Hammann, Professor Emeritus of Religion at Gettysburg College and a local leader in peace and justice activism since long before the Center began. Following Lou’s address is a memoir by Elaine Jones, the founder of the ICPJ. Finally, we reprint a pair of congratulatory letters from influential members from the past, Judge John MacPhail and Dr. Ron Pagnucco. Current news begins on page 6. In the next issue, I will give an account of the Center’s twenty-year history. One sad note: Gene (Mac) Albright, a founding member mentioned twice in Lou’s talk, died on December 16, 2005. We mourn his passing. My apologies for the delay, largely my fault, in the production of this issue; we hope to be back on track with the next issue. And finally, you may be thinking: if it’s their 20th anniversary, why is this Volume 22? Well, the volumes are numbered by calendar year. The single two-page issue that appeared in 1985 was Volume 1, and 2006 is the 22nd calendar year in which we have published.

–Bill Collinge, Editor

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