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Interfaith Center
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Peace and Justice
P.O. Box 3134
Gettysburg, PA 17325
(717) 334-0752
| The Interfaith Center for Peace and Justice awards the Peacemaker Award to a local resident who has helped significantly in making us a more just and peaceful community. A ceremony celebrating the recipicient is held every year at the Adams County Public Library, Gettysburg Branch. The recipient receives a plaque, and books are given to the Adams County Public library in honor of the recipient. Lou and Patricia Hammann were given the 2004 Peacemaker Award by the Interfaith Center for Peace and Justice, on Monday, April 26, at 7 p.m., in the Eisenhower Room at the Adams County Library in Gettysburg. Click here for the list of books given to the library in honor of the Hammanns. Lou and Patricia 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. For several years he was director of the Area Studies program. He was among the founders of CRAGI (Conflict Resolution and Global Interdependence) and Mediation Services of Adams County. He was a founder and long-time board member (and referee) of the American Youth Soccer Organization in Gettysburg. He has served on the boards of the Gettysburg Hospital, the Hoffman Homes for Youth, and the South Central Community Action Program. In recent years, especially after September 11, 2001, he has lectured on Islam for many churches, schools, and other organizations. Patricia was a special-ed teacher in the Fairfield schools and also taught at the Hoffman Home. Since 1999, the Hammanns have been actively involved in the Alliance for Democracy. Lou is a past co-president, while Patricia is currently one of the two Mid-Atlantic representatives to the National Council. They were active in work for campaign finance reform, along with Doris “Granny D” Haddock. In connection with this work, both were arrested several times for demonstrating at the Capitol building. Locally, both have served on the board of the Interfaith Center. They have worked for fifteen years with Project Gettysburg-León, a sister city project with a Nicaraguan city. Lou and Patricia 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 an environmentally sustainable way of living on the land. 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.” Materials donated to the library in honor of the Hammanns Click on the titles for more information about the selections (e.g., reviews, excerpts, etc.) from amazon.com Books Greg Palast, The
Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth about Cons, Globalization
and High-Finance Fraudsters Books-on-Tape Timothy Ferris, The
Mind’s Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context,
read by the author Videos 13
Conversations about One Thing, written by Karen Sprecher
and Jill Sprecher, directed by Jill Sprecher (DVD) Previous recipients |
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July 13, 2005
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