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Presented by
Fr. Ben Urmston, SJ Ph.D.
Director Emeritus of Peace & Justice
Xavier University
Cincinnati, Ohio

Fr. Ben Urmston is Director Emeritus of Peace and Justice at Xavier University. He has been at Xavier for forty years. Over that time, he has been active in neighborhood community councils, especially Evanston Community Council, was a member of the Cincinnati Archdiocesan Commission of Social Action and World Peace, a member of the Metropolitan Area Religious Coalition of Cincinnati, the Rural Life Conference of the Cincinnati Archdiocese, the St. Francis-St. Joseph Catholic Worker House shelter for homeless men, the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Rural Resources, St. Robert Bellarmine Chapel, Christian Life Community USA, and Cincinnati NAACP. Fr. Ben also was active with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and the Justice Across Campus Committee at Xavier. For twenty-eight years he hosted a weekly community radio show on WVXU-FM. He also taught at University of Detroit Jesuit High School and St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati. A veteran of World War II, he was in General Patton’s Third Army in Europe and participated in three major battles, The Rhine, the Ruhr, and Bavaria. He also served in the Philippine Islands.

He has received the Dorothy Day Medal for his initiatives at Xavier, the Xavier Muslim Student Association Award of Recognition, the Orchid Award from the Tri-State Environmental Committee, awards for his work with the Archdiocese from Archbishops Joseph L. Bernardin and Daniel E. Pilarczyk, the Manhattan College Peace Studies Medal "to recognize his outstanding and significant contribution to peacemaking and Peace Studies through his personal life and institutional witness." In 2002, Urmston received the Rev. Maurice McCrackin Award, given to those who demonstrate support for the basic human rights of all, integrity and commitment in the struggle for social justice, leadership and inspiration, teaching with wisdom and compassion through words and actions. In 2003, he was given the "Religious Leader of the Year Award for his commitment to the Contact Center, the Cincinnati Welfare Rights Coalition, and the Ohio Empowerment Coalition.


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