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Monday, May 01, 2017Kananga in the DRC’s Kasaï-Central province.Michael Sharp was raised in the home of a pastor and historian, and grew up in Mennonite centers like Harleysville, Pennsylvania, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, Middlebury, Indiana and Goshen Indiana — locations where his father pastored and then served as Director of the Archives of the Mennonite Church-Goshen. His mother was a physician assistant. M. J. graduated from Bethany Christian Schools in Goshen, Indiana in 2001. He went on to Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) where in 2005 he earned a BA in history, with a minor in German. He later earned a MA in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany.After graduating from EMU, Sharp worked for three years with the Military Counseling Network in Germany, a project of the Deutsches Mennonitisches Friedenskomitee to serve U.S. soldiers based in Europe who sought discharge from military service for conscientious objection or other reasons. From August 2006 to early fall 2008 he was coordinator of the project.From 2012 to 2015, Michael Sharp served as Eastern Congo Coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee. This included working with other agencies, such as the Peace and Reconciliation program of the Congolese Protestant Council of Churches, a program that sent people into the forest to persuade rebels to come home. It is reported that Michael’s team persuaded 1,600 rebel soldiers to return to their homes.In 2015 M. J. began contract employment with the United Nations, serving as an Armed Groups Expert in the United Nations Group of Experts on the DRC. This group was appointed by the U.N.’s Security Council to investigate new violence in Kasaï-Central Province that began after government forces killed Kamwina Nsapu, a tribal chief and militia leader, who had resisted DRC President Jospeh Kabila. The UN Group of Experts on Congo, established in 2004, has consisted of six experts appointed by the UN secretary-general to monitor the Security Council’s sanctions regime for Congo and to propose individuals and entities to be added to the sanctions list. The experts collect and analyze information about armed group activities, their networks, arms trafficking, and those responsible for serious human rights violations.In March Sharp and his colleagues planned to document the militia’s alleged use of child soldiers, to investigate massacres of unarmed civilians by government forces, and to seek dialogue with stakeholders such as militia leaders, religious figures and civil society groups to promote peaceful solutions. M. J. was the coordinator of this group.At the time of his death, Michael Sharp’s North American base was in Albuquerque, New Mexico as part of a semi-intentional community of persons who valued peace and cherished community known as the Plex. He moved there in October 2016.An acquaintance from National Public Radio recalled that “Michael Sharp believed in the power of persuasion. The 34-year-old ... with a penchant for plaid shirts would walk, unarmed, deep into rebel-held territory in the Democratic Republic of Congo, sit in the shade of banana trees with rebels and exchange stories.... Of course...
Monday, December 12, 2016The women’s team was later reinstated. The men’s team was not, although the university does have a cross-country team.Stanley Houser Huntsman was born on March 20, 1932, in Scottdale, Pa. He was raised in Indiana and starred in football and track and field at Wabash College, where his father, Owen, was the track coach.As a fullback, Huntsman was named to the Little All-America football team for small colleges. In a game against Ball State, he rushed for 259 yards and five touchdowns. The Indianapolis Star once said, “He was built like a medicine ball, and he ran all doubled up through the line.”The Chicago Cardinals (the N.F.L. franchise now in Arizona) took him in the 20th round of the 1954 draft, but he turned to graduate study and coaching instead.He earned a bachelor’s degree from Wabash in 1954 and a master’s from Ohio in 1956. He was elected to the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2004.In addition to his wife, the former Sylvia Scalzi, Huntsman is survived by a son, Stanley Stephen; a daughter, Constance Huntsman Stogner; and three grandchildren.With colleges and universities cutting back on the sport, Huntsman came to believe that for American track and field to continue to flourish, it could no longer rely on the college system alone to produce high-caliber runners, hurdlers, jumpers, pole-vaulters and the rest. He argued that once they graduated, athletes needed further support through national programs to allow them to continue to compete.“The American college system can’t cut it anymore,” he told Track and Field News magazine. “You can’t win with college boys.”Daniel E. Slotnik contributed reporting. We're interested in your feedback on this page. Tell us what you think.
Monday, December 12, 2016Patch and that publication initially misspelled both Ambrosi's and Forsythe's name and misidentified Forsythe's occupation. The Ferguson Funeral Home in Scottdale, Pa., for Forsythe, and Evergreen Memorial Funeral Home in Middletown, N.J., for Ambrosi, provided the correct spellings.Both were with their wives and planned to stay in hotels in Puerto Rico, according to the nj.com and elnuevodia reports. The deaths happened aboard cruise Anthem of the Seas, one of several cruise ships that docked at a dock in Old San Juan.One of them died while the ship was at sea and the other once the ship reached port, according to the report.The ship left Bayonne and stopped in San Juan as part of its 12-day trip. The ship also was supposed to stop in St. Maarten; St. Johns, Antigua; Bridgetown, Barbados; Fort De France, Martinique and Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis, according to the cruse line.We'll have more information as it comes in.Forsythe was described in his obituary as a devoted husband, son, father, grandfather, brother and uncle. He was employed for 27 years at Donegal Construction Corp., where he worked as a highway construction foreman. He graduated from Frazier High School, Class of 1978, and enjoyed taking cruises with his wife to many various destinations, according to the obituary."Bill also enjoyed coaching youth sports, being involved with local athletic associations and was an avid Nascar fan...
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Monday, May 01, 2017Kananga in the DRC’s Kasaï-Central province.Michael Sharp was raised in the home of a pastor and historian, and grew up in Mennonite centers like Harleysville, Pennsylvania, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, Middlebury, Indiana and Goshen Indiana — locations where his father pastored and then served as Director of the Archives of the Mennonite Church-Goshen. His mother was a physician assistant. M. J. graduated from Bethany Christian Schools in Goshen, Indiana in 2001. He went on to Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) where in 2005 he earned a BA in history, with a minor in German. He later earned a MA in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany.After graduating from EMU, Sharp worked for three years with the Military Counseling Network in Germany, a project of the Deutsches Mennonitisches Friedenskomitee to serve U.S. soldiers based in Europe who sought discharge from military service for conscientious objection or other reasons. From August 2006 to early fall 2008 he was coordinator of the project.From 2012 to 2015, Michael Sharp served as Eastern Congo Coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee. This included working with other agencies, such as the Peace and Reconciliation program of the Congolese Protestant Council of Churches, a program that sent people into the forest to persuade rebels to come home. It is reported that Michael’s team persuaded 1,600 rebel soldiers to return to their homes.In 2015 M. J. began contract employment with the United Nations, serving as an Armed Groups Expert in the United Nations Group of Experts on the DRC. This group was appointed by the U.N.’s Security Council to investigate new violence in Kasaï-Central Province that began after government forces killed Kamwina Nsapu, a tribal chief and militia leader, who had resisted DRC President Jospeh Kabila. The UN Group of Experts on Congo, established in 2004, has consisted of six experts appointed by the UN secretary-general to monitor the Security Council’s sanctions regime for Congo and to propose individuals and entities to be added to the sanctions list. The experts collect and analyze information about armed group activities, their networks, arms trafficking, and those responsible for serious human rights violations.In March Sharp and his colleagues planned to document the militia’s alleged use of child soldiers, to investigate massacres of unarmed civilians by government forces, and to seek dialogue with stakeholders such as militia leaders, religious figures and civil society groups to promote peaceful solutions. M. J. was the coordinator of this group.At the time of his death, Michael Sharp’s North American base was in Albuquerque, New Mexico as part of a semi-intentional community of persons who valued peace and cherished community known as the Plex. He moved there in October 2016.An acquaintance from National Public Radio recalled that “Michael Sharp believed in the power of persuasion. The 34-year-old ... with a penchant for plaid shirts would walk, unarmed, deep into rebel-held territory in the Democratic Republic of Congo, sit in the shade of banana trees with rebels and exchange stories.... Of course...
Monday, December 12, 2016The women’s team was later reinstated. The men’s team was not, although the university does have a cross-country team.Stanley Houser Huntsman was born on March 20, 1932, in Scottdale, Pa. He was raised in Indiana and starred in football and track and field at Wabash College, where his father, Owen, was the track coach.As a fullback, Huntsman was named to the Little All-America football team for small colleges. In a game against Ball State, he rushed for 259 yards and five touchdowns. The Indianapolis Star once said, “He was built like a medicine ball, and he ran all doubled up through the line.”The Chicago Cardinals (the N.F.L. franchise now in Arizona) took him in the 20th round of the 1954 draft, but he turned to graduate study and coaching instead.He earned a bachelor’s degree from Wabash in 1954 and a master’s from Ohio in 1956. He was elected to the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2004.In addition to his wife, the former Sylvia Scalzi, Huntsman is survived by a son, Stanley Stephen; a daughter, Constance Huntsman Stogner; and three grandchildren.With colleges and universities cutting back on the sport, Huntsman came to believe that for American track and field to continue to flourish, it could no longer rely on the college system alone to produce high-caliber runners, hurdlers, jumpers, pole-vaulters and the rest. He argued that once they graduated, athletes needed further support through national programs to allow them to continue to compete.“The American college system can’t cut it anymore,” he told Track and Field News magazine. “You can’t win with college boys.”Daniel E. Slotnik contributed reporting. We're interested in your feedback on this page. Tell us what you think.
Monday, December 12, 2016Patch and that publication initially misspelled both Ambrosi's and Forsythe's name and misidentified Forsythe's occupation. The Ferguson Funeral Home in Scottdale, Pa., for Forsythe, and Evergreen Memorial Funeral Home in Middletown, N.J., for Ambrosi, provided the correct spellings.Both were with their wives and planned to stay in hotels in Puerto Rico, according to the nj.com and elnuevodia reports. The deaths happened aboard cruise Anthem of the Seas, one of several cruise ships that docked at a dock in Old San Juan.One of them died while the ship was at sea and the other once the ship reached port, according to the report.The ship left Bayonne and stopped in San Juan as part of its 12-day trip. The ship also was supposed to stop in St. Maarten; St. Johns, Antigua; Bridgetown, Barbados; Fort De France, Martinique and Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis, according to the cruse line.We'll have more information as it comes in.Forsythe was described in his obituary as a devoted husband, son, father, grandfather, brother and uncle. He was employed for 27 years at Donegal Construction Corp., where he worked as a highway construction foreman. He graduated from Frazier High School, Class of 1978, and enjoyed taking cruises with his wife to many various destinations, according to the obituary."Bill also enjoyed coaching youth sports, being involved with local athletic associations and was an avid Nascar fan...
