{"id":3130663,"date":"2018-05-01T00:05:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T04:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/benjamin-harrison-thomas\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T00:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T04:05:01","slug":"benjamin-harrison-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/benjamin-harrison-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Harrison Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Thomas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Benjamin Harrison Thomas<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 76 a\u00f1os, falleci\u00f3 el 14 de noviembre de 2017 en su casa de Ukiah, California. Benj naci\u00f3 el 15 de marzo de 1941 en Boston, Mass. Se mud\u00f3 a Washington, D.C., en la d\u00e9cada de 1970 despu\u00e9s de servir en Etiop\u00eda en el primer contingente de voluntarios del Cuerpo de Paz. Fue un maestro inspirador en la Sidwell Friends Middle School. Su tiempo all\u00ed lo llev\u00f3 a asistir y luego unirse al Meeting de Bethesda (Md.), donde con frecuencia tra\u00eda mensajes sobre la tolerancia y la vida sencilla. Dijo que su servicio como secretario del Meeting en la d\u00e9cada de 1980 fue uno de los m\u00e1s importantes de su vida. Tambi\u00e9n fue maestro fundador en la Thornton Friends Middle School y un entusiasta cocinero voluntario en el Catoctin Quaker Camp. En California, aport\u00f3 su experiencia en la educaci\u00f3n y los campamentos de los Amigos a la junta de Woolman en el Sierra Friends Center.       <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">En el Meeting de Bethesda conoci\u00f3 y se cas\u00f3 con Susan Baird Kanaan en 1997. En 2002, \u00e9l y Susan se mudaron al norte de California, donde lider\u00f3 los esfuerzos para proteger y expandir la biblioteca p\u00fablica, form\u00f3 parte de la junta de Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, fue mentor de un joven estudiante y ense\u00f1\u00f3 poes\u00eda. Compartir m\u00fasica de su legendaria colecci\u00f3n de discos compactos en programas de radio jazz comunitaria siempre fue una alegr\u00eda para \u00e9l. Tambi\u00e9n form\u00f3 parte del jurado civil del condado durante dos a\u00f1os y del Ayuntamiento de Ukiah durante ocho a\u00f1os, incluido un a\u00f1o como alcalde. Se uni\u00f3 a otros para ayudar a Ukiah Friends a convertirse en un grupo de adoraci\u00f3n bajo el cuidado del Redwood Forest Meeting en Santa Rosa, California, donde \u00e9l y Susan transfirieron sus membres\u00edas en 2013. Un compa\u00f1ero cu\u00e1quero de Ukiah observ\u00f3 que \u201cla forma en que experimentaba la Luz de alguna manera le permiti\u00f3 llegar a c\u00edrculos cada vez m\u00e1s grandes\u201d.     <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Familiares y amigos lo rodearon en sus \u00faltimos meses, y sus \u00faltimas semanas trajeron una avalancha de recuerdos de antiguos alumnos. \u201cSu vida contin\u00faa en las vidas de sus alumnos y en las vidas que ellos influyen a su vez\u201d, escribi\u00f3 uno. \u201cLo conoc\u00ed en una escuela secundaria llena de ni\u00f1os con problemas. Ten\u00eda total confianza en todos nosotros, lo que gradualmente nos ense\u00f1\u00f3 a apropiarnos de esa confianza nosotros mismos. En la tradici\u00f3n cu\u00e1quera, vio la Luz en todos y esper\u00f3 con perfecta paciencia (\u00a1a veces d\u00e9cadas!) a que la dej\u00e1ramos brillar\u201d.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Una concurrida reuni\u00f3n conmemorativa en Ukiah celebr\u00f3 su capacidad para unir a las personas, su compromiso de fomentar la comunidad, la forma en que model\u00f3 la civilidad en el discurso p\u00fablico y su ingenio. Un Amigo de Bethesda record\u00f3 su cualidad de estar presente e interesado, pero dejando que otros se abrieran a su propio ritmo, deleit\u00e1ndose con lo que se desarrollaba en la relaci\u00f3n. Otro Amigo lo describi\u00f3 en sus \u00faltimos d\u00edas como un modelo a seguir sobre c\u00f3mo morir con gracia y dignidad.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Benj era el esposo de Susan Baird Kanaan; padre de Sam Thomas, Stephen Thomas y Matthew Thomas; y padrastro de Laurie Gaines, Becky Gaines, Jubran Kanaan y Usama Kanaan. Tambi\u00e9n deja atr\u00e1s cuatro nietos y dos hijastros. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas\u2014 Benjamin Harrison Thomas , 76 a\u00f1os, falleci\u00f3 el 14 de noviembre de 2017 en su casa de Ukiah, California.&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":[20180,10915,21925,22632,22636,22635,22631,22637,22633,22634],"fpb_issue_category":[10648],"class_list":["post-3130663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hitos","tag-campamento-cuaquero-catoctin","tag-comunidad","tag-etiopia","tag-matthew-thomas","tag-mendocino-county-public-broadcasting","tag-sam-thomas","tag-susan-baird-kanaan","tag-thornton-friends-middle-school","tag-ukiah-friends","tag-ukiah-quaker","fpb_issue_category-cuales-son-los-valores-cuaqueros-de-todos-modos"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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