Co-Presidents'
Message - September 2008
COME TO OUR
PTPDE EVENTS IN 2008!
 Welcome
to our website! We hope you’ll
visit often to check on
up-coming events, catch up on
news you may have missed, and
see if you can spot yourself in
photos and videos of past
events.
You can find photos of the
dinners that we hosted for
English Language teachers from
Jordon and Morocco and
government officials from Korea
who are studying at the
University of Delaware.
This summer we hosted visitors
from Italy and Germany and
welcomed back our Student
Ambassadors from their travels
with a picnic and fund-raising
walk at Lums’s Pond. Proceeds
from the walk will go to our
Student Ambassador Scholarship
Fund. This month members will
host PTPI members from Denmark.
If you wish to host in the
future please contact us; our
telephone numbers are below.
Please consider participating in
other events throughout the year
such as Circles of
Understanding, Books for
Overseas Youth, and Families of
the World.
We’re proud of our talented and
highly committed board of
directors, who work to organize
programs like these and who
enrich the Chapter’s efforts
with their unique backgrounds
and points of view…..Iranian,
Palestinian, Chinese, Nigerian,
Jewish, Argentine, and European.
We’re also proud of our
dedicated membership; almost a
third of you contribute more
than your membership dues,
enabling the Chapter to offer
free programs and activities to
a variety of community
audiences. Many members tell us
they support our efforts, but
can no longer come to events.
Many people come to our programs
even though they aren’t
members. We appreciate all of
you….anyone who wants to help,
to reach out, or to learn is
welcome.
As you know, People to People
was started by Dwight D.
Eisenhower when he was
President. The following is one
of his most powerful pleas for
peace:
"Every gun that is made,
every warship launched, every
rocket fired signifies, in the
final sense, a theft from those
who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not
clothed.This world in arms is
not spending money alone. It is
spending the sweat of its
laborers, the genius of its
scientists, the hopes of its
children...This is not a way of
life at all, in any true sense.
Under the cloud of threatening
war, it is humanity hanging from
a cross of iron."
From the Chance for Peace
address delivered before the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors, April 16, 1953.
We hope you’ll continue to help
further ‘Peace through
Understanding’ formally through
organizations like ours, and
informally through your own
interactions with people you
meet every day.
If you’re not already a member,
People to People Delaware
welcomes you to join us! Help us
develop exciting programs,
increase attendance at our
events and reach out to people
with our hosting opportunities.
Just click on the Membership
Campaign Letter above for more
information, or call Jean at
302-652-7716 or Georgi at
302-482-3263.
Jean Raleigh and Eleanor "Georgi"
Marquisee
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