Our next Potluck Supper Meeting - Mon. May 11th at 6:30 p.m.

            "Swords into Plowshares"

 

Hamline United Methodist Church

1514 Englewood Ave.; St. Paul, MN  55104

651-645-0667  -  http://www.hamlinechurch.org/home.asp

Enter parking lot from Minnehaha Ave.; use south side entrance.

 

Joint meeting with Minnesota Veterans for Peace (Chapter 27)

   http://www.twincitiesvfp.org     

 

Program:            Swords into Plowshares:  History and Future of Nuclear Weapons

Roger Hale - Chair of Ploughshares Fund  http://www.ploughshares.org

            (See below for Mr. Hale's CV)

There will be ample time for questions and comments.

 

This is a VERY timely topic right now, as the U.S. government is, for the first time in many years, having conversations with Iran and other nations on the topic of nuclear disarmament.  The program title was inspired by Isaiah 2:1-4.

 

You will find attached to this message MS-Word document file.  Please download and print some copies of this document.  It is only one page - a flyer/poster for this program. Post and distribute as widely as possible at your church and elsewhere as you see fit.

LOOK at the Hamline UMC web-site.   http://www.hamlinechurch.org/home.asp  Scroll down a short way watching the right side-bar. Click on the ECAPC link. YOUR church could do this, too.

Many thanks to Mary Lou Wolsey at Hamline Church!

 

 

Ploughshares Fund:

 

Our goals are ambitious and challenging. You wouldn't want anything less.

 

Ploughshares Fund is engaged in an aggressive strategy to seize the unprecedented opportunities before us to achieve a safe, secure, nuclear weapon-free world.  Combining high-level advocacy, an enhanced grantmaking capacity and our own expertise, we are helping to fundamentally change nuclear weapons policy.

 

Ploughshares Fund is the largest grantmaking foundation in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to security and peace funding.  For more than 25 years we have identified and supported the smartest people with the best ideas for preventing the spread and use of nuclear weapons and building stability in regions where nuclear weapons may be factors.

 

Ploughshares Fund is a public 501(c)(3) foundation that pools contributions from individuals, families and foundations.

These contributions fund policy initiatives that are:

 

Promoting the elimination of nuclear weapons

Reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism

Preventing the emergence of new nuclear states

Building regional peace and stability

Reducing the threats from ballistic missiles

Preventing the weaponization of space

 

Our grants enable individual experts and key institutions here and abroad to:

 

Produce pivotal independent analyses

Inform and influence decision makers

Build a bipartisan legislative consensus for eliminating nuclear weapons

Expand the public's knowledge and catalyze public support

 

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Mr. Roger L. Hale:

 

Roger L. Hale is retired Chairman of Tennant Company, Minneapolis-based manufacturer of industrial and commercial floor maintenance equipment and related products.  He joined Tennant Company in 1961, was named President in 1975, CEO in 1976 and Chairman in 1998.  He retired from the company in April of 1999.

 

His current community activities include: Chair of the Ploughshares Fund, whose purpose is to reduce the reliance on weapons of mass destruction, and non-executive Chairman of VisionShare Corporation, an internet encryption start-up company. In 2007, he chaired a Citizens’ Committee to recommend solutions to the financial crisis in the Minneapolis Public Library System. In 2008, he was named as one of three Minneapolis representatives to the expanded Hennepin County Library Board.

 

Former Activities and Recognition include:     

 

•  Chair of the Minnesota Business Partnership (CEO’s of 100 largest companies in Minnesota whose mission is to increase the climate for job growth in the state of Minnesota).

 

•  Named Minneapolis Special Recognition Award Winner of 1993 for long-term service to the community.

 

•  Named to Minnesota Volunteer Hall of Fame 2005 by Twin Cities Business magazine.

 

•  Chair of Walker Art Center Board of Directors 1975-1976, 2002-2005

 

•  Chair of Public Radio International (PRI) 1998-2003

 

•  Named one of Manufacturing’s top CEO’s in 1991 by Financial World magazine.

 

•  Founding Co-chairman of Minnesota Quality Council, established by the Governor and Legislature of the State of Minnesota, from 1987 – 1990. He is co-author of “Quest for Quality;” which has sold over 40,000 copies.

 

•  Named 1988 “Executive of the Year” by Corporate Report Minnesota magazine.

 

•  Past corporate boards:  Valspar Corporation, Donaldson Company, Travelers Insurance Co. (formerly St. Paul Companies,) Target Corporation (formerly Dayton-Hudson Corporation), U.S. Bancorp, Tennant Co

 

•  Named one of Minnesota’s five Outstanding Directors by Twin Cities Business Monthly, 1996.

 

•  Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award as a corporate and non-profit Director by Twin Cities Business Monthly.

 

•  Minneapolis Mayor’s representative on Metropolitan Airport Commission, 1999-2002

 

•  Chair, Governor’s Workforce Development Council,1999-2004

 

He is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Business School and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1956-1959. He was Secretary of the Minnesota DFL party from 1968-1970.
 

He is married, the father of four children and enjoys reading, cooking, regular exercise, improving his French, playing competitive chess, and keeping track of 12 grandchildren. 

Rod Olsen