Posted on 10/29/2006 5:53:01 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Sally Lilienthal, a staunch nuclear weapons opponent who founded the influential Ploughshares Fund to help shape the Cold War disarmament agenda, has died. She was 87.
Lilienthal, who was also known for her activism and ubiquitous presence in San Francisco high society, died at a hospital Tuesday of a bone infection that led to pneumonia, said Naila Bolus, executive director of the fund.
Lilienthal raised $100,000 in 1981 to give the Ploughshares Fund its start. Since then, the organization has made more than $40 million in grants to promote peace through arms control.
"She founded it with very little, but with vision and determination," Bolus said on Sunday.
Lilienthal was born Sally Ann Lowengart to a well-to-do conservative family in Portland, Ore., in 1919 and moved to San Francisco at age 12.
She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a bachelor's degree in English in 1940 and worked for the U.S. Office of War Information in Washington, D.C., before returning west.
She immersed herself in the city's arts and political life, working as a sculptor and advocating for minority employment rights. But she would find her passion in working to quell the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
"The possibility of a nuclear war was the very worst problem in the world, I thought, and I just felt I had to do something about it," Lilienthal told the San Francisco Chronicle in 1996.
In its 25 years, Ploughshares has focused on funding startup ventures devoted to peace, including the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.
Ploughshares now gives away about $4 million a year.
Lilienthal is survived by five children from her first marriage, two stepdaughters and 11 grandchildren.
Not one mention of the USSR and its vast array of nukes.
This person will not be missed. Her spawn, however, are still with us.
Grantee Profile
Center for Justice and Peacebuilding
As we enter the fifth year of the so-called War on Terror, and continue to face daunting security challenges in Iraq, there is little evidence of significant or tangible improvements in US security. Our standing among the international community has been diminished, and our spending on military hardware continues to trump other approaches to security such as solid diplomatic efforts, development programs, and post-conflict reconstruction. Lisa Schirch of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding is promoting so-called “3D security”, which calls for a more balanced allocation of resources among defense, diplomacy and development, in order to increase international and U.S.security through a djversified portfolio of efforts.
http://www.ploughshares.org/expert.php?action=show_results&by_char=S
One less communist. Good.
Regards.
She lived a long full life in American freedom, instead of dying in one of Stalin's gulags. Nuclear weapons helped guarantee that. RIP
Can I get a piece of that?
11 grandchildren? Heh. I have 17 and I am more than 30 years younger than she was.
Heh. God bless you. - And a great Flag on your page.
I've always has a great fondness for it. - is the translation the same?
don't tread on me.
Another meddling Sarah Lawrence wench assumes room temperature.
Bless you. Hope your grandchildren are on the good guys' side.
Lord knows we need them.
;^)
Prima facie evidence that she was a Soviet agent. Wonder what her Venona code name was?
The Office of War Information was a cover as I remember reading somewhere for the OSS.
The Office of War Information (OWI) was created in 1942 and served as an important U.S. government propaganda agency during World War II. During 1942 and 1943, the OWI contained two photographic units: (1) a section headed by Roy Emerson Stryker and (2) the News Bureau (the units were merged during 1943). The photographers in both units documented America's mobilization during the early years of World War II, concentrating on such topics as aircraft factories and women in the workforce.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/owiinfo.html
The OWI was a communist infested cesspool and Ploughshares funded many causes headed by communists (Cora Weiss comes to mind).
Ploughshares also helped fund William Goodfellow's "Center for International Policy"
See this thread for good info on Goodfellow:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660323/posts
Goodfellow’s Bedfellows: Who’s in Bed with the Washington Post
Anybody know if Sally Lilienthal was related to David Lilienthal?
I can't believe the posts here. A woman dies and there is no compassion for her family?
I myself will pray for comfort for her family in their loss. Sure would be nice if there were others at FR that would join me.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/26/AR2006102601603.html
October 27, 2006
Sally Lilienthal, 87; Created Peace Fund
Ms. Lilienthal, a sculptor who had long been involved with human rights activism, founded the organization [Ploughshares Fund] in her living room in 1981 at the height of the Cold War . . .
The Ploughshares Fund paid $3,000 to send scientists from the Natural Resources Defense Council to Moscow for what resulted in a breakthrough agreement allowing the installation of seismic monitoring equipment, which proved that a nuclear testing ban could be verified. And its $5,000 grant to Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Theodore Postol allowed him to finish a technical paper that exposed the Pentagon's exaggerated claims of the effectiveness of Patriot missiles during the Persian Gulf War.
. . .
Ms. Lilienthal introduced herself to controversy early in life. Born in Portland, Ore., as Sally Ann Lowengart, she was 12 when her family moved to San Francisco. . . . She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and returned to San Francisco in 1940.
. . .
Her first husband, Arthur J. Cohen Jr., died in 1953. Two years later, she married George Hellyer. That marriage ended in divorce in 1963. In 1970, she married Philip Lilienthal and with him founded the northern California chapter of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. She served on the regional ACLU board and also was national vice chairwoman of Amnesty International when the group won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.
The Council on Foundations recognized Ms. Lilienthal with the Robert Scrivner Award for Creative Philanthropy in 1987, and the United Nations Association gave her its Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award in 1990. Philip Lilienthal died in 1984.
Survivors include five children from her first marriage, Laurie Cohen, Liza Pike and Thomas Cohen, all of Mill Valley, Calif., Matthew Royce of San Francisco and Steven Cohen of Berkeley, Calif.; two stepdaughters, Sukey Lilienthal of Oakland, Calif., and Andrea Lilienthal of New York City; and 11 grandchildren.
She was what 20ish in the 60's?
The sixties gen is going...buh bye!!!
Ooops. No she was 40ish...duh.
Made a math mistake!
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