 Each day we learn more about the extensive humanitarian impact of the Sharps! Here is Waitstill Sharp (center) with a mobile truck x-ray unit in Prague c.1946.
The text accompanying the photo: When this mobile truck x-ray unit arrived in Prague last winter, the gift of American Relief for Czechoslovakia, it was presented to the government in an official ceremony attended by (left to right) Dr. Kruta of the ministry of health, Dr. Jos. Krakes of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Mr. Waitstill Sharp and Miss Vlasta Vraz, in charge of overseas activities of American Relief, and Dr. A. Prochazka, the Minister of Health. Since then, it has travelled throughout Silesia, examining every child, and found 60 per cent, including infants, tubercular. Now just completing the examination of Silesian miners, it will soon cover other parts of the country. Five similar trucks, equipped as clinics-on-wheel, furnishing maternal and child care to rural areas, will be purchased and sent to Czechoslovakia in 1947, from funds collected during the present campaign by American Relief for Czechoslovakia, Inc. https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/node/752103  We recently discovered this photo of Martha Sharp in the company of Albert Einstein and Zvi Gezari in Einstein's Princeton garden 62 years ago. Gezari, who worked with Martha as co- vice chairperson of the organization Children to Palestine, presented his hand-made telescope to Einstein prior to shipping it to the Elsa and Albert Einstein school. The telescope was recently refurbished and is now on display at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. To read more about the telescope: "Einstein's Telescope Finally Sees Stars."
 Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns delivered the 2016 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, on the importance of the humanities, and the ongoing significance of race in America, on May 9 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
In April 2016, the Joukowsky Family Foundation announced its second annual Sharp Rescuer Prize Award to Team Woodhouse. The Woodhouse's left families and work and to travel to Lesvos, Greece to support over 1000 refugees. In 35 days the Woodhouse family raised in excess of $25,000 for direct aid for refugees fleeing civil war in Syria.  It is heartbreaking... The thought of hundreds of thousands of Syrian and Iraqi refugees, so many of them children, sick and injured, without homes, or those who have been killed or injured by wanton violence — in Syria, in Beirut, in Paris, here in the United States, and elsewhere. It breaks my heart as we watch our fellow U.S. residents, responding in fear to the Paris attacks, calling for new restrictions on Syrian refugee arrivals on our shores. These are insulting and racist and counter-productive. Because I feel heartbroken, I am even more determined to transform these bleakest moments can bring out the best in humanity. Where can we find our common humanity, that we are one race of humans learning to live together on a delicate home?
I think this is a defining moment for us as humans. We will look back at this moment and reflect — did we clearly invite others to see the reality of one people and one planet, no matter the diversity and difference? I believe in our work in telling the Sharp story shows and teaches us that we are responding with compassion and no matter how much our heart breaks we will not succumb to fear! Warmly, Artemis |
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