August 27, 2005, Regional PAGS Reunion in Philadephia - Click here for more information

howardHoward Richards, founder of the PAGS programs, speaks to a group of alums at Pendle Hill.

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Caroline Higgins, Director of PAGS stands in the closing circle with several PAGS graduates.

group_on_hillThe group on the hill. Award winner Sheila Stumph and a few others are missing from the photo. Tony Bing, former Director of PAGS, is in the center of the back row. Next to him is current PAGS senior Andrew Adams.. Fifth and sixth in the front row are current PAGS seniors Rebecca White and Kozue Araki.

October 2004 PAGS Reunion

Remarks on The Ethical Construction of Peace on the Occasion of the Presentation of the First Howard Richards Ethical Construction Award at Earlham College, October 15, 2004 (click here).

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Click here to see a slide show of photos from the reunion.

Deborah "Misty" Gerner and Zachary Metz received the "Howard Richards Ethical Construction Award at the PAGS Reunion (see right).

Click here to visit the PACE (PAGS Alum Collective of Earlham) site

Reunion Schedule

FRIDAY

3:30--5:00 Registration [Note: Registration runs from 3 to 8, so folks can check in anytime] Location: Runyan Center.

5:00--5:30 Welcome, Introduction, Schedule, Aspirations. Location: West Richmond Friends (WRF).

5:30--8:00 Dinner Honoring both Tony Bing (Festschrift) and Howard Richards (Richards Ethical Construction Award)--Note: Food will not actually be served until sundown, in accordance with Ramadan, but event will start at 5:30. Location: WRF.

10:30 PAGS Breadbox: an Open Mic featuring peace activist David Rovics, alumnae/i, and other faculty. Location: WRF.

SATURDAY

7:00--9:30 Breakfast: "Building on the Past, Collaborating for the Future: Organizing the PAGS Alumnae/i Caucus of Earlham" (meeting starting at 8 a.m.). Location: WRF.

9:30--10:30 Sample Classes: Ferit Guven & Jonathan Diskin. Location: Landrum Bolling Center (LBC) 208.

12--1:30 Howard & Gypsy Show: "Peace: A Cause Worth Thinking For." Location: WRF.

1:30--3:00 OPEN: (Panel Presentations, Political Action, Hackeysack, etc. Note: The documentary "Hidden in Plain Sight," on the School of the Americas and U.S. policy toward Latin America, will be showing during this time, location TBA, followed by discussion with Co-Producer Andrés Thomas Conteris)

3:00--4:00 Sample Classes: Welling Hall & Carol Hunter. Location: LBC 124.

4:30--6:30 "Building on the Past, Collaborating for the Future: Developing a Mentoring Program and Setting the Agenda" (6:00 to 6:30 reserved for taking up additional items remaining from breakfast discussion). Location: WRF.

6:30-- OPEN, so that people may attend Class Dinners for Classes of 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, and 1999

SUNDAY

9:00 Breakfast – Richmond Room in LBC

11:00 College Meeting for Worship - Meetinghouse

Noon--1:00 Lunch (12-12:30): Talk by Caroline Higgins: "PAGS & the Peace System: Then, Now and Ahead"; (12:30- 1:00): Talk by Saoud El Mawla: "PAGS, Plowshares, and the Peace System to Be") – Richmond Room in LBC

1:00--4:00 Discussion: "Building on the Past, Collaborating for the Future of PAGS: Making the Path By Walking" – Richmond Room in LBC