[Peace-discuss] Gene Gilmore, RIP

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Thanks for recalling our past, Midge. 

Our solidarity with with these people used to be called 'the communion of saints.’

They’re an encouragement in dark days.  —CGE


> On Feb 21, 2017, at 9:08 AM, Mildred O'brien via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Peace Discuss:
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> Those who were around these parts during the anti-Vietnam war/peace movement will remember Gene and Virginia Gilmore, members of the Friends Community and intrepid force in opposition to the war and nuclear weapons, for social justice and civil rights.  Gene was a Professor of Communications at the U. of I. and journalist at several national newspapers, an Urbana City Councilman, member of the American Friends Committee and ACLU.  After retirement he lived in California near their son, where Gene died January 15 of this year, a month shy of his 97th birthday (Obituary in News Gazette January 19).  Ginny survives. 
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> Many of our activities, planning and prayer meetings were conducted at the old Friends Meeting House near campus at the corner of Lincoln and Green in Urbana, where an apartment house now stands adjoining a Marathon or Mobil gas station.  A peace tree planting in the back yard marking 30 years after the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima has long since been surplanted.  It was at the Meeting House that I first met Herb Schiller, a professor of communications and sociology in California, a friend of Gene's, who used to spend summers visiting Urbana where Herb had family connections (his son Dan became a professor of Library Science and Information at U. of I.).  I recall Herb's discussion of corporate media takeover and the empirical direction of American foreign policy, and articles he used to write for the Nation magazine.  
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> Other sparks of activism after the Vietnam war were the Sanctuary Movement and opposition to nuclear weapons buildup, the Nuclear Freeze movement led  by Kay Bridgeford, who still lives in Champaign.  
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> Those were heady days of activism, thanks to Gene and Ginny.
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> Midge O'Brien
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