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I Peace Economy News 3 . . I I . . - - - - I , ~ ~ I New and returning board members and staff gathered at Executive Director Janet Groat's home recently for an orientation session. Standing, from left, are Kathy Clma, Janet Groat, Darrell Edwards, Maryellen Corbeil, Claudette Munson, Rachel Breen, Kay Welsch and Edward McDonald. Seated, from left, are Ted Lanpher, Mike . ~man, Clarence White, Maura Brown and Dan Valliere. Board members Richard Bolan, Karen Clark and Harry sby and part-time project staff member, Sacha Peterson, were not available for the photo. Photo by Sarb Kucera. Expanded Jobs with Peace board generates enthusiasm . Minnesota Jobs with Peace begins its 11th year with a He represents Minnesota Jobs with Peace on the National Jobs stronger, newly expanded Board of Directors. Fourteen Board with Peace board. Members were elected at the Jobs with Peace Annual Ted Lanpher (treasurer) is a community economic . Membership Meeting on February 4. development specialist working for Northern States Power Co. They bring a diverse mix of ski11s, experience and back- He was formerly a member of the State Task Force on ground to the Jobs with Peace Board. Here are brief sketches Economic Conversion and has been involved with several non- . of the dedicated men and women who make up the board: profit organizations, including Compatible Technologies and Rachel Breen (co-chair) is development director at the Global Education Associates. Hc is one of the board's most Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy and the mother of a long-time members. . two-year-old boy. She has been involved in a variety of orga- Richard Bolan is a long-time board member of Jobs with nizations working for social and economic justice, including Peace and a former member of the Minncsota Task Force on the Jewish Fund for Justice. Shc joined Jobs with Peace in Economic Conversion. He is a professor of Planning at the December 1993. She also chairs the Fund Raising and Finance Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, where he is engaged in a . Committee. project to assist several East European countries reduce their Edward McDonald (eo-chair) is the advocacy dircctor at economic dependence on weapons production. He represents Minneapolis Family and Children Services and coordinates the Minnesota Jobs with Peace on the National Jobs with Peace Minnesota Right to Housing Campaign. He has an extensive board. . background as a staff and board member of numerous commu. Maura Brown ~s a community organizer with the Central nity organizations in his home town of Milwaukee, including Community Housing Trust in Minneapolis. She first became Milwaukee Jobs with Peace. He has a special interest in help- involved in neighborhood and political work in the 1980s, . ing organizations to structure themselves to work more effec- when she was a student at Minneapolis' South High School. At tively. that time, she participated in a variety of organizations, includ- Mike Goldman (recorder) works for the Minnesota ing Friends for a Non-Violent World, Head Start, Housing _CIO as a specialist on programs and services for dislo- Reality Days and Ground Zero. She has also worked with com- . workcrs. Hc is a former brewery worker who playcd a munity improvement organizations in the Philadelphia area~ leading role in the successful effort to save the former Schmidt where she attended college. brewery in Saint Paul. He is an active member of the Kathy Cima is an attorncy with the Cooper Law Firm in I Machinists Lodge 459 and active in labor issues in Saint Paul. continued on page 4