Your qoute is NOT from the “School of the Americas” website – but rather the “School of Americas Watch” website. The latter group is a critic of the School of the Americas.

The School of the Americas has been criticized by leftist activists in the U.S. – Chuck Warpehoski’s ICPJ has studied them.

The School of the Americas, headquartered at Ft. Benning in Georgia, has trained Latin American military and paramilitary forces to help them to fight anti-government forces. Roberto D’Aubuission, an El Salvadoran military intelligence officer who later became a prominent anti-communist politician in that nation, received training at the School of the Americas. Critics have contended that the school instructed trainees that became torturers and death squad members. Proponents have credited the school with teaching effective counter-insurgency tactics against Communist guerillas.

Or it wouldn’t, depending on what’s going on between the ears that hear it and behind the eyes that see it.

Don Coleman is a co-pastor with his wife, Ann Marie, at University Church in Chicago. University Church is a member of two denominations: the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ. Don and Ann Marie came to University Church and Chicago in September 1, 1991. University Church played a pivotal role in the Sanctuary Movement in the early 80s. Virgilio Vicente and Isabel Canu and their family came to University Church from Guatemala as part of the movement. Virgilio’s parents were killed when their village Saq Ja was razed by the Guatemalan military trained by the School of the Americas.

His decision to cross the line at Ft Benning is not unrelated to this congregational history.

Don has been part of several delegations to Central America including trips to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and southern Mexico (Chiapas). These trips outside the country have helped provide Don with a critical perspective on US foreign policies. He is a member of the Illinois Mayan Ministries of the Illinois Conference of the United Church of Christ.

Ann Marie and Don were co-directors of the Guild House Campus Ministry at the University of Michigan for sixteen years. He was a campus minister at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas (1968-75) and began his ministry serving two rural churches in Springville and Payson, Utah (1963-68).

Don was born in Provo, Utah June 1, 1937, attended Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, and graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1963.

On Monday, January 29 – 2007, Don Coleman was sentenced to 2 months in federal prison, he reported toChicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center on April 17, 2007. He was released on June 14, 2007

It was nice to see Ann Marie Coleman again in those pictures. She had married me not long before. Does anyone know what happened to her?

That’s an opportunity to highlight the Ann Arbor District Library’s Old News digitization effort. Here’s one of several articles that a search on “Paul Jensen” turned up: [link] He’s described in the article as a “chronic candidate.” Also fun: photo of Ed Surovell from that era. And for the inside-baseball tie-in: Surovell now serves on the AADL board.