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.

2005 Peacemaker Awards

Peacemaker Awards for 2005 were given to Herman Stuempfle and Rajmohan Ramanathapillai. The ceremony was held on Monday, April 18, at 7 p.m., in the Eisenhower Room at the Adams County Library in Gettysburg.

This year the Board of the Interfaith Center decided to bestow both a Lifetime Achievement Award and an award for an achievement during the past year. Herman Stuempfle, former President of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary and a founding member of the Gettysburg Martin Luther King Celebration Committee and the Adams County Human Relations Council, received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Raj Ramanathapillai received the Peacemaker Award for his work in organizing the “One Boat at a Time” tsunami relief effort.

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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 Raj Ramanathapillai, 2005 Peacemaker Award Winner

Denise Fleming, Where Once There Was a Wood
Mitch Frank, Understanding the Holy Land
J. Patrick Lewis, Heroes and She-Roes
Jon J. Muth, Stone Soup
Griffin Ondaatche, The Monkey King and Other Stories
Todd Parr, The Peace Book
Mariasabina Russo, Always Remember Me
Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy
Dr. Richard Steckel and Michele Steckel, The Milestones Project
Sam Swope, The Araboolies of Liberty Street

In honor of Herman Stuempfle, 2005 Lifetime of Peacemaking Award Winner

James P. Comer, M.D., Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s World
Harvey Cox, When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today
Timothy Garton Ash, The Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West
Suzanne Kirkbright, Karl Jaspers: Navigations in Truth
Wangari Maathai, The Greenbelt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience
Charles Marsh, The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today
J. Deotis Roberts, Bonhoeffer and King: Speaking Truth to Power
Rex Weyler, Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World

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Previous recipients
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

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