2007 Peacemaker Awards

The 2007 Peacemaker Awards were presented at a ceremony on Monday, April 23, at 7:00 pm in the Eisenhower Room of the Adams County Public Library in Gettysburg.

Karl Mattson received the Lifetime of Peacemaking Award. Read his introduction by Julie Ramsey and his acceptance speech.

Susan Star Paddock received the Peacemaker of the Year Award. Read her introduction by Lou Hammann and her acceptance speech.

back to top

Materials donated to the library in honor of the award recipients

Click on the titles for more information about the selections (e.g., reviews, excerpts, etc.) from amazon.com

In honor of Karl Mattson, 2007 Lifetime of Peacemaking Award Winner

Wendell Berry, The Way of Ignorance
Wendell Berry and Wesley Bates, The Window Poems
Walter Brueggemann, A Mandate to Difference: An Invitation to the Contemporary Church
John Dominic Crossan, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography
Frederick John Dalton, The Moral Vision of Cesar Chavez
Charles W. Eagles, Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama
Library of America, Reporting Civil Rights, Part 1: American Journalism 1941 to 1963
Library of America, Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963 to 1973
Loren C. Eiseley, All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a Life
Loren C. Eiseley, The Night Country
Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
Daniel Rothenberg, With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today

In Honor of Susan Star Paddock, 2007 Peacemaker of the Year Award Winner

Don Edward Beck, and Christopher Cowan, Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change
Beatrice Bruteau, God’s Ecstasy: The Creation of a Self-Creating World
Judy Cannato, Radical Amazement: Contemplative Lessons from Black Holes, Supernovas, and Other Wonders of the Universe
Sue Annis Hammond, Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry
William B. Isaacs (introduction by Peter Senge), Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together
John Main, Moment of Christ: The Path of Meditation
James Martin, The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future
Barry Oshry, Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life
Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
Huston Smith, Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief
Jane Magruder Watkins and Bernard J. Mohr, Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination
Margaret J. Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

back to top

Previous recipients
2007 Karl Mattson and Susan Star Paddock
2006 Sam Mudd and Suse Greenstone
2005 Herman Stuempfle and Rajmohan Ramanathapillai
2004 Lou and Patricia Hammann
2003 Nancy Forgang
2002 Ernie Simpson
2001 Dick and Elizabeth Scott
2000 Jane and Marty Malone
1999 Nancy Whitman
1998 Father Joseph C. Hilbert
1997 Marjorie Smith
1996 Jean Odom
1995 Will Lane and Jan Powers

back to top

Interfaith Center for Peace and Justice
©2011 All Rights Reserved
Contact the webmaster.