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| B o a r d M e m b e r B i o g r a p h i e s | ||||||||
Following are the biographies for our Board members.
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Michael Yarrow (Co-President) No biography is available at this time. Ruth Yarrow (Co-President) Ruth Yarrow is an environmental educator and peace and justice activist. She grew up across the Midwest, gained a masters degree in evolutionary biology from Cornell, and with Mike Yarrow raised their two children in Ithaca, NY. While in Ithaca, she founded and coordinated the successful Tompkins County Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, worked with racial justice organizations and wrote curricula and taught in the field of environmental education. Since moving to Seattle in 1997, she worked for Physicians for Social Responsibility educating the public on Hanford Nuclear Reservation clean-up issues, and as a co-organizer for Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation (WWFOR). Now retired, she volunteers with WWFOR, Justice Works!, a grassroots organization to undo racism in the criminal justice system, and other peace and justice efforts. She enjoys backpacking and painting watercolors. Maude Scott (Vice President) No biography is available at this time. Don Whitmore (Secretary) Seattle native Don Whitmore is married, with 6 children and 10 grandchildren. A University of Washington graduate in physics, he retired from Boeing after 32 years to concentrate on issues of peace and justice. Don was the initiator, organizer, and first President of the Abe Keller Peace Education Fund. He has sat at both ends of the grant-making table, as Trustee and Vice President of the Boeing Employees Good Neighbor Fund and as writer of successful proposals. Don has served in a wide variety of community leadership positions, and has worked to promote nuclear disarmament for over 30 years. He is a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Arms Control Association. He founded the Third Millennium Foundation in 1993, and is a frequent lobbyist in Washington, D.C. He has testified on environmental impacts of basing missile defense installations in Alaska and at Dept. of Energy hearings on installing the fast flux reactor at Hanford. He is also a real estate investor/developer. Wilda Luttermoser (Treasurer) Wilda and her husband, Carl Schwartz, share eight children, thirteen grandchildren, and two mothers. She lives in Sammamish, WA and is an active hiker, camper, birdwatcher, and traveler. Wilda earned the degree of Master of Public Administration from the UW, and served as Contract Supervisor for the US Corps of Engineers Chittenden Locks Visitation Program before retirement. She met Abe Keller in the early l980s when he chaired the Educators for Social Responsibility and she chaired the King County Nuclear Freeze Campaign. Wilda has served on the Peace Action Board and presently serves on the United Nations Association-Seattle Board. She also chairs the WA State Arms Trade Project and is an active member of the Northwest Disarmament Coalition. |
Sunil Aggarwal No biography is available at this time. Jerome Chroman A native of Chicago and a resident of Seattle since 1971, Jerome has a 29 year old son. After graduating in English literature, his early career included many different activities. Since 1976 he has worked as a professional massage therapist and operates, with his life partner Corinne Dee Kelly, the Abintra Wellness Center. He has been involved in anti-war, peace, and justice issues since the late 1960s. He is currently on 2 steering committees of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (Promise Washington's Children and Decency Principles Project) and serves on the Board of Coalition for a Jewish Voice. He is active in the African American/Jewish Coalition for Justice, Fellowship for Reconciliation, Children's Alliance of Washington, committees of the University Unitarian Church concerned with children and peace, and the Olum Committee (social action) of Congregation Eitz Or. He and Corinne jointly have received the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee National Social Action Leadership Award and the Human Rights Award of the Seattle chapter of the United Nations Association. Mike Gillespie Born and raised in Everett, Mike Gillespie taught philosophy for many years in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he is presently Professor Emeritus. Over the years he has developed an academic and practical interest in the connection of worldviews, values, and key issues facing citizens, especially issues relating to peace, social justice, and human impacts on the natural environment. While in Nebraska he was a long-time member of Nebraskans for Peace. In 1998, Mike returned to the Pacific Northwest with his wife, Professor Diane Gillespie, and his daughter, Gemma. Gemma now attends the University of British Columbia, while Mike and Diane's son, Gannon, works with TOSTAN, an NGO based in Senegal. Mike presently teaches in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Washington, Bothell, where his courses include Ethics and the Environment, Philosophy of Art, and Philosophy and Ideals of Peace, among others. George Guttmann George was born in Israel and at the age of 12 emigrated with his family to the U.S. and Seattle. After earning a UW degree in political science, he joined the Peace Corps and worked in Brazil on a low-income housing cooperative and established a manpower training center. George and his wife Lynn have two children. He has been involved in many enterprises relating to home design, construction, and inspection including newspaper, magazine, and radio discussions of home building. He is President of Soundhome Inspection, Inc. and has been active in low-income housing efforts including the Downtown Emergency Service Center and Council House. George has been involved with Abe Keller in a variety of activities including Americans for Peace Now and other groups working on peace in the Middle East, the ACLU, several political campaigns, and the anti-Vietnam War movement. Conway Leovy A University of Washington (UW) faculty member since 1968, Conway is married and has 4 children and 2 grandchildren. Largely stimulated by the example of Abe Keller and other members of the Seattle peace community, he has participated in peace education activities since the early 1980s when he helped to organize a symposium at the UW on the nuclear arms race. He has spoken on nuclear arms issues and on ballistic missile defense and has organized and led team-taught courses on nuclear arms and global environmental problems, which he sees as related to issues of peace. Currently he serves on the Board of the North Cascades Conservation Council. Although retired, he is co-Director of the UW Astrobiology Program and continues active research on planetary atmospheres and the earth's climate system. Charles A. Meconis A former Catholic priest who holds a Ph.D. in religion, Charlie is married and has a daughter who is a student at Wesleyan University. He has been a peace activist, researcher, and writer for over 30 years, and continues to write on defense and disarmament issues. During the Vietnam War he worked with the Berrigan brothers in opposing the war. Since arriving in Seattle in 1977 he served for 10 years as staff person for the Church Council of Greater Seattle's peace task force, then known as the Seattle Religious Peace Action Coalition. He facilitated and participated in many events protesting the nuclear arms race and the missile defense program. Subsequently, Charlie co-founded the Institute for Global Security Studies whose objective is preventing conflict in the Asia-Pacific region. That work produced several major conferences and 3 books and took Charlie to Indonesia, Thailand, China, South Korea, and Japan. Currently, he serves as Coordinator for the UW Institute for Global and Regional Studies in organizing a series of public lectures and a related course on global security. Joan O'Connor No biography is available at this time. Lois Price Spratlen A 27-year resident of Seattle, Lois is a professional nurse and urban planner, the wife of Thadeus Spratlen, and the mother of 5 children and grandmother of 7 grandchildren. She is the author of African American Registered Nurses in Seattle: The Struggle for Opportunity and Success, published in 2001. During 17 years at the University of Washington (UW), she directed her peacemaking efforts toward preventing, managing, and resolving conflicts. Currently she serves as the UW Ombudsman for Sexual Harassment. As a non-violent activist for peace and justice, Lois has served on national and local boards of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and on boards of Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound and the Seattle Urban League. She was a co-Convenor of a conference for the Washington State Rainbow Coalition and currently chairs the King County Ethics Board. Thaddeus H. Spratlen Thad is University of Washington Professor of Marketing, and Director, Business and Economic Development Program that provides technical assistance to inner-city businesses. He and his wife Lois Spratlen have 5 children and 7 grandchildren. Thad's involvement in anti-war and peace organizations extends from the 1960s and the Vietnam War to the present. He has long advocated reduced U.S. military budgets, helped to organize UW faculty in advocating divestment of investments in opposition to apartheid in South Africa, organized forum programs linking issues of peace and social justice as a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), and served as Editor of the FOR newsletter Pacific Call (following Abe Keller in that role). He has served three terms as a Board Member of the Washington Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and currently is Co-chair of the African-American Jewish Coalition for Justice. Harriett Walden A native of Florida, Harriett has lived in Seattle since 1975. She has 4 sons and a grandchild. As an optician for the past 14 years, Harriett has provided glasses for people in nursing homes throughout the Puget Sound region, driving up to 200 miles in a day to deliver them. She is also an emerging artist, doing water colors for relaxation and to raise money for the many organizations she supports. Harriett is best known as the founder of Mothers for Police Accountability, which works to improve relationships between the police and the people. Sara Weir No biography is available at this time. Bill Whitmore No biography is available at this time. |
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