THE SILO PRUNING HOOKS- BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES

Fr. Carl Kabat, O.M.I., 51, Madison, Wisconsin:  Fr. Kabat grew up on a farm in Scheller, Illinois. After ordination, he ministered in a Minnesota parish and taught in major and minor seminary. From 1965-68, he worked as a missionary in the Philippines and from 1969-73, worked among the poorest of the poor in Recife, Brazil. He returned to the U.S., recog­nizing the connections between world poverty and the military-industrial complex and be­lieving that since we are each responsible for injustice, we must each become personally responsible for confronting the evil. Fr. Kabat has been involved in numerous peace wit­nesses and has served almost 4 years in prison for actions at the Pentagon, White House, SAC Base, Qmaha, and the Plowshares 8 and Pershing Plowshares action in West Germany. Fr. Kabat is on the Board of Directors of the Gaudete Peace and Justice Center, Madison, and has recently been involved in developing a drop-in center for the poor in Chicago. He is celebrating his 25th. anniversary of the priesthood with this witness.

Larry Cloud Morgan, 46, Minneapolis, Minnesota:  Larry Cloud, a member of the Ojibway Nation, grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation. For 18 years, he worked in Chicago at the Native American Outpost, a mental health clinic. He served as secretary to the Native American CoinTiittee and was president of the Ojibway Nation Club, as well as being active in the area of animal rights. In Minneapolis, he is a member of Clergy and Laity Concerned and vice-president of the Indian Neighborhood Club. Cloud is active in the Minneapolis Catho­lic Worker and, in 1983, was appointed to the Diaconate Formation Board by Archbishop John Roach. He. has been arrested at Honeywell actions and acts today in the name of the Native American people to protest the desecration of the sacred earth with nuclear weapons.

Helen Dery Woodson, 41, Madison, Wisconsin:  Helen Woodson is the mother of 11 children, 7 adopted, 3 foster, 1 natural. Of the 7 children still at home (ages 4 to 25), 6 have mental and physical handicaps. For 18 years, Woodson ran a daycare center, treatment home and private school and was active in her parish in addition to caring for her family. Realizing that the nurturing of children is meaningless if we cannot give them a world safe from the threat of nuclear war, she founded the Gaudete Peace and Justice Center in 1981 and began publishing HARVEST OF JUSTICE, a newsletter of reflection on civil dis­obedience/Divine Obedience. Since September 1982, she has been arrested 5 tunes for peace witnesses at the White House, Air and Space Museum and St. Raphael Cathedral, and has served almost 9 months in prison. She dedicates today's witness to her father and children.

Fr. Paul Kabat, O.M.I., 52, Minneapolis,MN.: In lieu of biographical details, Fr. Kabat prefers to have his action today speak of his life, his work and his values.