{"id":3129510,"date":"2016-06-01T00:50:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T04:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/frank-edson-cummings\/"},"modified":"2016-06-01T00:50:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T04:50:43","slug":"frank-edson-cummings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/frank-edson-cummings\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Edson cummings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Cummings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frank Edson Cummings<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, en su 76 cumplea\u00f1os, en Eugene, Oreg\u00f3n, a causa de leucemia mieloide aguda, rodeado de su familia. Naci\u00f3 el 19 de febrero de 1940 en Berkeley, California, hijo de Beryl Snell y Roger Cummings, y vivi\u00f3 de ni\u00f1o en Ottawa, Kansas, donde su padre ense\u00f1aba en la Ottawa University. Sus padres y abuelos eran miembros de la Iglesia Bautista Americana y sirvieron como misioneros en Birmania. Cuando Frank ten\u00eda 12 a\u00f1os, su familia se mud\u00f3 a Indonesia y, despu\u00e9s, a San Salvador por el trabajo de su padre con USAID. El servicio de sus padres y abuelos le convenci\u00f3 de seguir su ejemplo.    <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Se licenci\u00f3 en qu\u00edmica en 1962 en el Harvey Mudd College y se doctor\u00f3 en qu\u00edmica f\u00edsica en Harvard en 1972. En Cambridge asisti\u00f3 a la Old Cambridge Baptist Church, donde conoci\u00f3 a Carol Riemer. Se casaron en 1967 y se mudaron a Atlanta, Georgia, donde estudi\u00f3 los problemas de la segregaci\u00f3n en el Sur y, de 1967 a 1988, ense\u00f1\u00f3 en el departamento de qu\u00edmica de la Atlanta University, una instituci\u00f3n de posgrado hist\u00f3ricamente negra. Durante siete de estos a\u00f1os, fue jefe de departamento. Despu\u00e9s, gestion\u00f3 un contrato de asistencia t\u00e9cnica para la universidad durante diez a\u00f1os. Con USAID, coordin\u00f3 programas en Egipto para erradicar la polio y controlar las infecciones respiratorias agudas. Tambi\u00e9n desarroll\u00f3 el primer m\u00e9todo para medir la mortalidad materna y puso en marcha 22 unidades neonatales para beb\u00e9s de bajo peso al nacer en hospitales de todo Estados Unidos. Frank y Carol participaron activamente en la comunidad de Atlanta, incluido el Atlanta Meeting. Frank fue consejero de reclutamiento para j\u00f3venes que se planteaban la objeci\u00f3n de conciencia. Cuando Frank habl\u00f3 sobre el viaje espiritual de su vida al Atlanta Meeting, dijo: \u201cTuve una conciencia temprana de haber sido tocado por Dios, y siempre he visto mi vida como no enteramente m\u00eda\u00bb.          <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00c9l y Carol fueron fundamentales en la aprobaci\u00f3n del Meeting como lugar de asilo y refugio para refugiados centroamericanos. Durante m\u00e1s de una d\u00e9cada acogieron a personas de El Salvador, Guatemala y Nicaragua, sirviendo de enlace de comunicaci\u00f3n con familiares en Centroam\u00e9rica y gestionando asesoramiento jur\u00eddico, atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica, ayuda con el abuso de sustancias y otras ayudas. Frank comparti\u00f3 con Carol el premio anual del Grupo 75 de Amnist\u00eda Internacional en 1995 por su trabajo con los refugiados. Entre 1985 y 2001 visitaron Centroam\u00e9rica centr\u00e1ndose en El Salvador y Guatemala. Desde 2000 hasta enero de 2001, Frank fue director regional interino de la Oficina Regional del Sureste del American Friends Service Committee.    <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frank y Carol se mudaron a El Salvador en 2001, instal\u00e1ndose en la ciudad de Suchitoto, donde crearon oportunidades para los j\u00f3venes en educaci\u00f3n, artes y desarrollo de peque\u00f1as empresas; dieron clases particulares de ingl\u00e9s y matem\u00e1ticas a estudiantes; trabajaron con educadores, el Padre local y el ministro federal de educaci\u00f3n; y volvieron a aprender mec\u00e1nica cu\u00e1ntica para que Frank pudiera ense\u00f1arla a los instructores de la universidad de San Salvador. Con la ayuda de otros grupos, incluido el Atlanta Meeting, Frank gestion\u00f3 cinco programas de becas, estimando que durante 12 a\u00f1os ayud\u00f3 a unos 160 estudiantes a graduarse en universidades de El Salvador. Su testamento permite que estas becas contin\u00faen y crear\u00e1 un nuevo fondo para proporcionar reconocimiento y apoyo continuo a las iniciativas de desarrollo juvenil en Suchitoto.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Frank le sobreviven sus hijos, Mark Cummings (Amo) y Andrew Cummings (Aracely); tres nietos; y un hermano, Roger Cummings (Barbara).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cummings\u2014 Frank Edson Cummings , en su 76 cumplea\u00f1os, en Eugene, Oreg\u00f3n, a causa de leucemia mieloide aguda, rodeado de&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9829],"tags":[20693,20695,12806,9849,15977,15166,16490,12496,20697,20692,10763],"fpb_issue_category":[],"class_list":["post-3129510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hitos","tag-carol-amnistia-internacional","tag-carol-riemer","tag-centroamerica","tag-educacion","tag-egipto","tag-el-salvador","tag-indonesia","tag-meeting-de-atlanta","tag-ottawa-university","tag-san-salvador","tag-trabajo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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