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My mother: Barbara Leonard Reynolds


Barbara Leonard Reynolds

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Barbara Leonard Reynolds (June 12, 1915 - February 11, 1990), was an author who became a Quaker, peace activist and educator. In 1951, Barbara and her family moved to Hiroshima with her husband, Dr. Earle L. Reynolds [1], who was assigned by the American government to conduct a three-year study on the effects of radiation on children who had survived the first atomic bomb (1951–54).

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[edit] Early life

She was born Barbara Dorrit Leonard in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the only child of Dr. Sterling Andrus Leonard,[2] a Professor of English and Education at the University of Wisconsin and prolific author of books on English composition and literature [3] and Minnetta Florence Sammis,[4][5] an educator who evaluated the safety of new toys for children. Barbara's paternal grandmother, Eva Leonard, was a syndicated daily columnist in over 200 newspapers during World War II and later wrote advice to the lovelorn under the name Elizabeth Thompson.[6]
Barbara was fifteen and one month from graduating when her father, 43, a popular English teacher at the University of Wisconsin, drowned in Lake Mendota. A colleague from Cambridge University, Dr. I.A. Richards[7][8], 38, had come to Madison to meet Dr. Leonard and learn more of Leonard's original perspectives on English usage. Dr. Richards had spoken at the University of Wisconsin the night before and the two were spending the afternoon canoeing together. The canoe capsized and after two hours in the cold water, Leonard lost his grip on the canoe and sank. Dr. Richards was later rescued exhausted and in shock. Dr. Leonard's death was the top story in both The (Madison, WI) Capital Times[9] and the Chicago Daily Tribune [10]. The failure of lifeguards on shore to see the overturned canoe and save the two professors became a local scandal, resulting in an investigation. (Dr. Leonard's body was never recovered.)
In 1935, Barbara married Earle L. Reynolds [11] and they had three children, Tim (1936), Ted (1938) and Jessica (1944.
In 1954, Barbara and her family sailed around the world in a yacht which Earle had designed[12]. In 1958, the family sailed into the American nuclear testing zone in the Pacific to protest. In 1961, to the USSR to protest nuclear testing, stopped by a Soviet vessel off of Nakhodka, they were unable to persuade the captain to receive the hundreds of written appeals for disarmament they carried with them from the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Upon their return to Hiroshima, Barbara determined to hand-carry the messages to government leaders and the United Nations. She organized a Peace Pilgrimage in 1962, accompanying two hibakusha, one a schoolgirl at the time of the bomb and another a baby boy orphaned by the bomb, around the world as they shared their personal experiences of atomic war, appealing to world leaders to ban nuclear weapons. Two years later Barbara organized the World Peace Study Mission, taking 25 survivors of both cities plus 15 interpreters to every nuclear nation, including the USSR. Dr. Tomin Harada, a physician who dedicated his life to the continuing medical needs of the hibakusha due to delayed radiation sickness, and who had named a species of rose he developed after Barbara, wrote in one of his two books about her, "Through Barbara's World Peace Study Mission the survivors of the atomic bomb were introduced to the world and the anti-nuclear movement gained strength." [13]

[edit] Later life


Barbara with adopted Vietnamese family: Dao Phuong Mai and children Ahn (Annie), Diep and Yen (Jenny) c. 1983
Barbara moved to Long Beach, California in 1978. Almost immediately she was caught up in the needs of Cambodian refugees fleeing the "killing fields" of Pol Pot.[14] She helped them get settled in what they hoped would be their temporary country, finding them housing, employment, education and giving them moral support.
During this time she was working to persuade senators to let a badly-wounded young Vietnamese woman, Mai Phuong Dao, out of Ho Chi Minh City. Dao worked in an orphanage in Saigon but when the American troops pulled out, the Viet Cong entered the city and took over the orphanage as a military barracks. Dao, fearing for the lives of the five half-American orphans, took two of them into her own home, with a baby of her own. When the family, including Dao's own child, were finally permitted to come to America, Barbara housed them in her own apartment.[15]
Indignant at having to pay taxes for war, Barbara deliberately lived below the poverty level so she wouldn't owe taxes.[16] She vowed she would never have an easier life than the survivors of the bomb had, nor than the Cambodian refugees around her from the war in South-East Asia.

[edit] Author

Coming from a family of writers, Barbara, her husband Earle, all three of their children and two of their nine grandchildren would become published authors[17]
Barbara's writing closely mirrored her family's adventures. After her first book, a murder mystery, Alias for Death, she wrote books for each of her children: Pepper, about Tim and his raccoon; Hamlet and Brownswiggle, about Ted and his hamsters; and Emily San, about an American girl living with her family in Japan. She wrote Cabin Boy and Extra Ballast about a brother and sister sailing with their family from Japan to Honolulu. After the family had sailed around the world in a yacht designed and built by her husband, Barbara switched back to adult non-fiction to co-author All in the Same Boat with him.
Earle and Barbara were at a writers' retreat when news came that the United States had dropped a uniquely devastating bomb on Hiroshima and another on Nagasaki. They remembered feeling only relief that the war was almost over. In 1951 Dr. Reynolds was sent by the Atomic Energy Commission to Hiroshima to study the effects of radiation on children exposed to the first atomic bomb. Barbara and the family went with him. They lived in Nijimura, an Army occupation base nearby. During their three years there, he designed and built a 50-foot yacht, Phoenix of Hiroshima [18]
In 1958, the family (minus their eldest son Tim) and one remaining crew member, Niichi (Nick) Mikami, (the other two had flown back to Japan from Panama) arrived back in Honolulu. Across the dock was a 35-foot yacht, the Golden Rule, in which four Quaker men had attempted to protest American nuclear testing in the Pacific. They were arrested under an injunction put into effect while they were at sea, forbidding American citizens to enter the 390,000 square mile area of the ocean where the weapons were being tested.[19]
In the end, the Reynolds family and Nick sailed the Phoenix into the test zone in their stead. They crossed the invisible line on July 2 and were stopped 65 miles inside the zone by the American Coast Guard ship Planetree. Dr. Earle Reynolds, as captain, was put under arrest. He was ordered to sail the Phoenix to Kwajalein, from which he, Barbara and Jessica were flown back to Honolulu by MATS plane for Earle's trial. Unable to find a third man to help Ted and Nick, who had stayed with the Phoenix, Barbara flew back to Kwajalein and the three sailed the 30-ton yacht against the wind back to Hawaii, a trip which took sixty days.

Barbara greets mother and daughter in Honolulu after 60-day sail from Marshall Islands.
After Reynolds' conviction and its reversal after a two-year appeal, the family were free to complete their circumnavigation, which made Mikami the first Japanese yachtsman to sail around the world.
On arriving in Hiroshima to an enthusiastic welcome from friends and strangers alike, the Reynolds family were surprised at the appreciation expressed by hibakusha (fire-exploded people) for their protest against nuclear weapons. Walking along a Hiroshima street one day, Barbara was stopped by a hesitant woman in full kimono. The woman pulled up her sleeve to show gnarled keloid scars typical of atomic bomb burns. With tears in her eyes she thanked Barbara for giving her a voice to share the cry of her heart, "No More Hiroshimas," with the world. Barbara often mentioned this in talks, saying, with tears in her own eyes, "it had never occurred to us to represent anyone but ourselves." This became a turning point for Barbara and she committed herself to speaking out against nuclear weapons and for disarmament.
Many who had openly reacted against their unpopular anti-nuke actions had told the family, "Go tell it to the Russians!" In 1961, when the USSR resumed their own nuclear testing program, they did. In October, they sailed to Nakhodka and were stopped within the 12-mile limit claimed by the USSR by a Soviet Coast Guard boat. The captain and several other officers jumped aboard the Phoenix. Although the Reynoldses were able to have a two-hour discussion about peace with him, Captain Ivanov would not accept the hundreds of letters from Hiroshima and Nagasaki citizens, begging for peace.
The family returned to Japan.
Barbara Leonard Reynolds and daughter Jessica in Hiroshima Peace Park, 1961.jpg
Barbara spent that cold Christmas Day in the Peace Park, at the foot of the monument to the () children killed by the A-bomb. She fasted and prayed for wisdom to know what to do with the hopes and entreaties of all those who looked to the Reynolds family for an end to war.
From that time of introspection, Barbara decided a survivor from Hiroshima ought to take the letters to leaders around the world. When asked why hibakusha, Barbara reportedly said, "Because they are the prophets of this present age." [20] A committee of Hiroshima leaders choose two survivors to represent the city, a 29-year old woman, Miyoko Matsubara, and 18-year old student, Hiromasa (Hiro) Hanabusa.
Barbara agreed to accompany them.

Peace Pilgrimage, 1962
Over five months, the three Peace Pilgrims traveled through 13 countries, including the Soviet Union, appealing for nuclear disarmament and receiving a warm and open reception from public leaders, churches, schools and the media. During their six weeks in the United States, they spoke to 187 groups and met with many leaders in Washington D.C. and at the United Nations. In Geneva the three attended the 1962 Disarmament Conference.
In 1964 Barbara organized an even more ambitious world tour, the World Peace Study Mission. Over three months, 25 survivors from both Hiroshima and Nagasaki with 15 interpreters, visited eight countries, including all the (then) nuclear nations. Teachers went to meet with teachers, doctors with doctors and at the UN they appealed to the U.S. government to return "Hiroshima--A Documentary of Atomic Bombing," to the Japanese, who had made it. (It had been impounded and classified by the U.S. military forces soon after the occupation of Japan.)
Upon their return, Earle and Barbara divorced. [21]

[edit] World Friendship Center

Barbara envisioned a place visiting foreigners could stay, where they could meet and hear the stories of survivors. Dedicated in 1965, the World Friendship Center has established lines of communication between hibakusha and the world through various peace efforts. Barbara was its first Director, Dr. Harada the first Chairman of a Board of ten non-political persons and an international board of honorary sponsors. Dr. Albert Schweitzer,[22] accepted a position as a sponsor in one of the last letters he wrote. Tens of thousands of people have stayed at WFC since its founding.
She spent the next 13 years getting to know the people who had experienced the bomb. They lived in shacks overhanging Hiroshima's seven rivers. They were self-conscious about their scars and never appeared in public during the day, ostracized by newcomers to the city who wanted to forget the past. Many had disfigurements or compromised immune systems which prevented them from getting or keeping jobs. Barbara developed "Hibakusha Handicrafts," finding people to teach them to make simple coin purses and other things which she would bring to the States to sell for them. She often visited the Hiroshima A-Bomb Hospital where the survivors were still succumbing to lethal radiation sickness years after the war had ended.
Upon the death of Hiro Hanabusa's grandmother, Barbara adopted him and put him through college in the States. An orphan and a survivor of Hiroshima, Hiro's prospects for marriage were slight. Barbara negotiated with the parents of Atsuko (), to arrange a marriage for Hiro with the woman he loved. Hiro, himself an orphan, fathered seven children.

[edit] Hiroshima Nagasaki Memorial collection

In August 1975, she found a home for the 3,000 books and documents she had gathered regarding Hiroshima, Nagasaki, nuclear weapons and peace in both Japanese and English. During an academic symposium, "Hiroshima and Nagasaki After Thirty Years" on the Wilmington (Ohio) College campus in August, 1975, the Hiroshima Nagasaki Memorial Collection was inaugurated. It is the largest collection of materials related to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki outside of Japan.

[edit] Humanitarian Awards

For her contributions to the welfare of survivors, including the founding of the World Friendship Center, Barbara was presented with a key to the city of Hiroshima in 1969 and in 1975 was made an honorary citizen by Mayor Araki, the first woman so honored and only the second American, the first being Norman Cousins [23] for raising the funds to bring 25 "Hiroshima Maidens"[24] to the States for surgery for their severe injuries from the atomic bomb.
Barbara received one of 15 Wonder Woman awards in 1984.[25] Fifteen women, all over 40, were chosen for trying to right wrongs "people don't want to talk about," according to Koryne Horbal, Executive Director of the Wonder Woman Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 1981. "They are role models for the next generation, they are living history." [26]

[edit] Death

In 1990 she died suddenly in Wilmington, Ohio. Memorial services were held in Wilmington, in Long Beach, in Philadelphia and in Hiroshima. Every Japanese TV network and major newspaper covered her life and passing. Dr. Tomin Harada, the doctor who performed surgery on Mai Phuong Dao, attended the service in California with his wife. He wrote afterward, "Her obituary in the Los Angeles Times was smaller than those carried in Japanese newspapers. Although the American people are known for their generosity, it seemed that they had not understood Barbara." [27] When he returned to Hiroshima, he organized a memorial service to her there.
Survivors erected a monument in Barbara's honor, featuring her statement, "I, too, am a hibakusha." It was unveiled in the Hiroshima Peace Park (Ground Zero) in 2011.


Design (by Hiromu Morishita) of proposed monument to Barbara Reynolds

[edit] Bibliography

  • Alias for Death (mystery). New York: Coward-McCann (1950)
  • Pepper. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1952)
  • Hamlet and Brownswiggle (1954)
  • Emily San (1955)
  • Cabin Boy and Extra Ballast (1958)
  • All in the Same Boat (with Earle Reynolds, 1962)
  • The Story of Leopons (with Hiroyuki Doi, 1967)
  • The Phoenix and the Dove. Japan (1986)
  • Cry to Your Heart's Content (unpublished)
  • Dear My Mother (unpublished)
  • Upwind (unpublished)
  • A Walk Through the Peace Park (unpublished)
  • Sailing into Test Waters in Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence (by Pam McAllister, 1982)
  • A Little Toad Shall Lead Them? (Reynolds, Barbara, with Shaver, Jessica Reynolds, 1991)

[edit] Articles regarding Barbara

[edit] English

  • Harada, Tomin, MD. Moments of Peace: Two Honorary Hiroshimans: Barbara Reynolds and Norman Cousins. Garvier Products Co., Ltd. Hiroshima, 1998. (Translated by Robert L. Ramseyer)
  • Linner, Rachelle Linner. "The Symbolic American: Barbara Reynolds," in City of Silence: Listening to Hiroshima. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1995.
  • Mehren, "Winners of Wonder Woman Awards: Profiles in Courage." Los Angeles Times, Nov. 15, 1984.
  • Parrish, Beth. "Barbara Reynolds: Friend of the Hibakusha," in Lives That Speak: Stories of Twentieth-Century Quakers. Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, 2004
  • Sherman, Kris. "Longtime pacifist: Spotlight has dimmed, but Barbara Reynolds still working for peace in her own quiet way," Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA) Dec. 12, 1979
  • Totten, Sam and Totten, Martha Wescoat. "Barbara Reynolds," in Facing the Danger: Interviews with Twenty Anti-Nuclear Activists. Trumansburg, New York: The Crossing Press, 1984.

[edit] By family

  • Reynolds, Earle. "We Crossed the Pacific the Hard Way," Saturday Evening Post, May 7, 14 and 21, 1955.
  • Reynolds, Jessica, Jessica's Journal. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1958. Eleven-year old's diary account of sailing from Hawaii to New Zealand in the Phoenix.
  • Reynolds, Earle, "The Forbidden Voyage," The Nation, 15 Nov. 1958.
  • Reynolds, Ted. "Voyage of Protest," Scribble, Winter, 1959.
  • Reynolds, Earle, The Forbidden Voyage. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1961. Non-fiction. The Reynolds family's protest voyage against American nuclear testing in the Pacific and aftermath, 1958-1960.
  • Reynolds, Jessica. To Russia with Love (Japanese translation). Tokyo: Chas. E. Tuttle Co., 1962. The Reynolds family's protest voyage against Soviet nuclear testing in the U.S.S.R.
  • Shaver, Jessica Reynolds. "After the flood, a mission to 'rescue' Dad," (Long Beach, CA) Press-Telegram, Jan. 14, 1982.
  • Shaver, Jessica Reynolds. "Healing Wounds and Playing Games," Moody Magazine, Feb. 1982.
  • Shaver, Jessica Reynolds. "Let us spare children our nuclear fears," (Long Beach, CA) Press-Telegram, Dec. 1, 1983.
  • Reynolds, Jessica Shaver (sic). "Amer-Asians: a call for compassion," Long Beach (CA) Press-Telegram, Oct. 21, 1984.
  • Shaver, Jessica Reynolds. "IRS quietly moves on a white-haired woman of peace," Long Beach (CA) Press-Telegram, Aug. 13, 1986.
  • Shaver, Jessica. "To the man who mugged my mother," The Orange County Register, Mar. 17, 1988.
  • Shaver, Jessica Reynolds. "An Education I Wouldn't Trade," Home Education Magazine, May-June, 1991.
  • Shaver, Jessica Reynolds (with Barbara Reynolds). "A Little Toad Shall Lead Them?" Quaker Life, June 1991.
  • Shaver, Jessica. "Breaking the Bitterness Barrier," Friends Journal, August 1991.
  • Shaver, Jessica Reynolds. "Hiroshima: August 6, 1990 in memory of my mother" (poem), Japan Times, May 2, 1995.
  • Shaver, Jessica. "Growing up in Hiroshima," The Orange County Register, Aug. 6, 1995.
  • Renshaw, Jessica Shaver, New Every Morning. Enumclaw, WA: Pleasant Word 2006.
  • Reynolds, Jessica. To Russia with Love (English original): Wilmington, OH: Peace Resource Center, Wilmington College, due out in 2010.

[edit] Japanese

  • Harada, Tomin, MD. Moments of Peace. Two Honorary Hiroshimans: Barbara Reynolds and Norman Cousins. Keiso-shobo Publishers, 1994.
  • Kotani, Mizuhoko. Pilgrimage to Hiroshima. Chikuma-shobo Publishers, 1995.
  • Harada, Tomin, MD. Haha-to-Kodemiru (A6): Hiroshima-ni-Ikite, Aru Geka i no Kaiso (Meditations of a Surgeon), (Publisher?),1999.
  • Yamakawa, Takeshi. Kibo-o-Katari, Kibo-o-Manabu: Korekara-no Heiwa Kyoiku (Talking Hope, Learning Hope). Kai-sho-sha Publishers, 2005.

[edit] References

  1. ^ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_L._Reynolds
  2. ^ 1888-1931; Ph.D. Philosophy, Columbia, 1928, taught English at the University of Michigan for 12 years
  3. ^ (1888-1931) English Composition as a Social Problem, (editor, 1917); Poems of the War and of the Peace, (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1921); Essential Principles of Teaching Reading and Literature (1922); The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays, (Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921); Leonard and Cox?, General Language (Rand McNally & Co. 1925); Leonard and Cox, An Answer Book for General Language (New York: Rand McNally and Company, 1926); The Doctrine of Correctness in English Usage, 1700-1800, (Madison, 1929); Leonard and McFadden, Juniors Own Composition Book (New York: Rand McNally & Co., 1928); Theisen and Leonard, Real Life Stories, 4 volumes (Real Life Stories: Real Adventures; Real Life Stories: Heroic Deeds; Real Life Stories and Literary Selections; Real Life Stories: Open Spaces, Macmillan Company, 1930-35); Leonard and Moffett, Junior Literature (3 volumes, The Macmillan Company, 1930); What Irritates Linguists, (1930); Current English Usage, The Inland Press, 1932
  4. ^ The Home Educator. Editor, Minnetta Sammis Leonard; associate editor, Patty Smith Hill. (The Foundation library) © 29Sep23, A760377. R81873, 9Aug51, Field Enterprises, inc. (PWH); Best Toys for Children and Their Selection, self-published, 1925
  5. ^ Barbara's beloved Uncle John Sammis, 1846-1919, who wrote the well-known hymn "Trust and Obey," died on her fourth birthday. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Sammis
  6. ^ Jessica Reynolds Shaver. "Joyful memories of a gentle, creative feminist," (Long Beach, CA) Press-Telegram, July 27, 1989.
  7. ^ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._A._Richards
  8. ^ From Grant Application for David Beard. Proposed paper: I. A. Richards: The Meaning of the New Rhetoric David Beard, Assistant Professor Department of Writing Studies, College of Liberal Arts, UM-Duluth: Chapter Two: American Influence on Richards and the New Rhetoric: A second chapter explores an influence on Richards that is ignored by other scholars: his relationship with American composition scholar Sterling Leonard. Most research effaces the impact of Americans on Richards’ work, focusing instead on the influence of British figures (Leavis, Empson, Eliot, Ogden, and Lewis). Americans are understood as having been influenced by Richards. In fact, Richards read Leonard’s monograph on usage in 18th century rhetorics shortly before delivering his lectures on The Philosophy of Rhetoric. Uncovering Leonard’s influence is an important first step in exploring the impact of American thinkers on the central figure of the New Rhetoric. This chapter was drafted in Summer 2007 under a McKnight summer research fellowship, will be presented at the November 2007 National Communication Association, and is presently being revised as an article for submission to the composition journal Rhetoric Review. davidbeard.v2efoliomn.mnscu.edu/Uploads/F2008gia_application.pdf
  9. ^ "Prof. S.A. Leonard is Drowned: Companion is Saved as Canoe Tips on Mendota"
  10. ^ "Boat Upsets; Educator Dies," May 16, 1931
  11. ^ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_L._Reynolds
  12. ^ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_of_Hiroshima
  13. ^ Harada, Tomin. Moments of Peace, p.31.
  14. ^ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields
  15. ^ Marshall, Catherine. Something More. NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974, pp. 216-7
  16. ^ Shaver, Jessica Reynolds. "IRS quietly moves on a white-haired woman of peace," Long Beach (CA) Press-Telegram, Aug. 13, 1986
  17. ^ Besides books by Reynolds family members listed here as "relevant to Barbara's life" her son Tim wrote seven books of poetry: Ryoanji (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. 1964; Halflife (Cambridge: Pym-Randall Press, 1964; Catfish Goodbye (San Francisco: Anubis, 1967); Slocum (Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1967); Que (Cambridge:Halty-Ferguson, 1971); The Women Poem (New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1973); Dawn Chorus (New York: Ithaca House, 1980 and had two plays produced: The Tightwad (translation of L'Avare by Moliere) and Peace (musical: translation of "Peace" by Aristophanes). Ted wrote a novella, Can These Bones Live? and a short story, Ker-Plop, both of which were nominated for Hugo awards in 1980 and a novel, Tides of God (New York: Ace Books, 1989). Jessica (under Shaver) wrote Gianna: Aborted and Lived to Tell About It and Compelling Interests and (under Renshaw) New Every Morning. Grandson Allan Roeder wrote Danske Talemader (G.E.C. Gads Forlag, 1998)and grandaughter Margot Gayle Backus has written to date The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999). All of the above, plus grandchildren Ben and Becky Shaver have had multiple articles, stories and/or poems published.
  18. ^ en.wikipedia/wiki/Phoenix_of_Hiroshima
  19. ^ Hardtack series of 35 atmospheric tests near the Marshall Islands, 1958)
  20. ^ Harada, Tomin. Moments of Peace.
  21. ^ Reynolds, Barbara, with Shaver, Jessica Reynolds. "A Little Toad Shall Lead Them?" Quaker Life, June, 1991.
  22. ^ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer
  23. ^ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cousins
  24. ^ www.nytimes.com/.../symbols-of-guilt-and-generosity.html
  25. ^ "Winners of Wonder Woman Awards: Profiles in Courage," by Elizabeth Mehren, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 15, 1984.
  26. ^ "Make Way for 1984 Wonder Women and a Special 'Woman of Courage,'" Schenectady Gazette, Nov. 10, 1984
  27. ^ Harada. Tomin. Moments of Peace, p. 42

[edit] Peace Activism Centres

[edit] External links

edit] External links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_L._Reynolds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_of_Hiroshima
Peace Monuments, Japan http://peace.maripo.com
World Friendship Center, (Hiroshima, Japan) was founded on August 6th, 1965 (exactly 20 years after the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima), by Barbara Reynolds, to provide a place ... http://wfchiroshima.net/

Peace Resource Center, Wilmington College, Wilmington, OH was founded by Barbara Reynolds in August 1975 to house the largest collection of materials related to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki outside of Japan and to teach peace skills to new generations. http://drcdev.ohiolink.edu/handle/123456789/8331
In Pursuit of Peace: An Exhibit from the Earle and Akie Reynolds Collection. "It is not only the story of Earle and Akie Reynolds, but also of Barbara. . . www.clrn.org/weblinks/details.cfm?id=2101
1954-1964 letters, newspaper clippings, brochures, postcards, from Earle & Barbara Reynolds & family including information on the Yacht Phoenix and the Hiroshima-Nagasaki World Peace Study Mission (Folder 47) (Folder 80) "The Growth and Development Program of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission: Analysis of Body Measurements and Observations Taken in 1952 on 4,200 Hiroshima Children" by Earle L. Reynolds, Ph.D., Nov. 15, 1953 (later published as NYO-4473 which can be found in the Tessmer Collection), TS. http://mcgovern.library.tmc.edu/data/www/html/collect/manuscript/Tessmer/Tess_series2.html
Swarthmore College Peace Collection: Committee for Non-Violent Actions Records, 1958-1968 http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG001-025/dg017/dg017cnvamain.htm

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