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Another STAR ALLIANCE Citizen Supports
"Universal Peace Ethics & Ideals!"

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PLEASE SIGN HERE & CLEARLY PRINT YOUR NAME, E-MAIL, PHONE &
MAILING ADDRESS AS DESIRED, PLUS ANY COMMENTS. (Use back too.)
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Please mark your donation "People's Lasting Peace Fund" or "Unlimited."
Make your check out to STAR ALLIANCE Foundation and return!

STAR ALLIANCE FOUNDATION
"ALL STAR PEACE ALLIANCE CAMPAIGN"
o PROMOTING UNIVERSAL PEACE ETHICS, IDEALS & ACHIEVEMENTS SINCE 1985 o
2322 Shattuck Avenue #416
Berkeley, California 94704 USA
Peter B. DuMont, Integrative Author / Tel: 510-848-1818 / US Tax ID # 94-2975770 www.staralliance.org
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Gratitude!
"We couldn't have done it without you!"
Uncounted thanks are due from peace-loving people everywhere to:
("T" next to a name indicates a STAR ALLIANCE Foundation Trustee.)

The late, great Babu Chiri Sherpa of Nepal for taking the STAR ALLIANCE flag to the summit of Mt. Everest on three different occasions - the first and unprecedented overnight stay on top! To Babu's trusted partner from Tibet, Lhawang Dhondup, for facilitating and supporting these feats! To Barbara Addleman, the "Betsy Ross" of STAR ALLIANCE, for hand sewing flags for both Mt. Everest and The Amazon! To Cecilia Franklin of Sew Images, Oakland, for sewing additional flags for Everest! To "Yalie" George Wooley for helping the '80s co-founders develop and express in 1987 the lasting STAR ALLIANCE theme of "Radiating Unity - The Happy Integration of Diversity!"
To Phil Hill, team leader for designing our wonderful STAR ALLIANCE foundation logo, also in 1987!
To Ernest D. Siravo (T, ret.): 1980s loyal Co-Founder, pioneering 1990's "Global Goodwill Tours" Founder, and current exemplary monthly donor!
To Mamade Kadreebux (T) and his team including Judy Olson (T), Dawn Bravo and Albert Louis Bravo for their assistance! (Please enjoy Mamade's new book: Journey into Ancient Arabia! See: www.mamade.net.).
To Everest Properties of Berkeley for longtime donation of vital storage space!
To Peter Schoewe (T) for key multiple volunteering stints and leading refreshing local STAR ALLIANCE vacation tours!
To James G. "Gil" Chandler, who first developed our website in 1997-98, and is an ongoing fountain of creative ideas.
To Eric Leimseider, for sponsoring Peter to the Sterling Men's Weekend experience!
To Catherine "Cat" Lee for excellent editing suggestions and assistance toward "organizing the office!" To Jeffrey M. Robbert for repeated volunteering and financial support! To Henry C. Winston (T) for important celebrity liaison achievements and longtime personal support to the early co-founders! To Captain Jerry Tsai (T), record-holding pilot on solo flights from California to Taiwan - especially for his exemplary longstanding commitment to Taiwan/Mainland-China friendship! To Harry Costyk (T, ret.) for consistent event reminders and other support. To David Seaborg, for his commitment to peace and the environment and many occasions of sharing and caring.
To the late Marilyn S. Sengler for her generous bequest. To the late Peaslee and Virginia DuMont and their surviving children (especially Jayne D. Mack and Peaslee "Lee" DuMont, MD) for important ongoing support to STAR ALLIANCE prime founder Peter DuMont!
To Ian and Matthew at Canterbury Press of Berkeley for many vital free color prints during the 1990's!
To Andrey Mikhaelov and Ludmilla Malofeeva, Director and Deputy of the Russian Federation Parliamentary Center, for traveling all the way from Moscow for the Human Rights Conference sponsored by Boalt Hall School of Law (February 29, "Leap Day" 2008), and for "Communicating, Cooperating and Celebrating" so beautifully with STAR ALLIANCE for more peaceful Russian-American relations!
To the Zykov Family of Russia and the United States (T, ret.) and to Nancy Tankersley Taylor for heroic volunteering for the 1993 Goodwill & Peace, Russian-American friendship concert! To Margaret "Mimi" McNabb (T., ret.) and Albert Gwinn, Gordon Wright, Frank Bowles, Jean du Lac, Mariella Thaning Jessica, R. Ghosh, Estelle Ogus, Yo-Yo Mike, "Trey" Hewitt, Helton deCarvello (T), Diane Hira Rose, Mike Nelson, and Helene Knox, Ph.D. (T, ret.) for various forms of vital and encouraging support over the years! To F.M. for important personal support to Peter since 2006 October!
To HD "Dave" Moe (T) for persistent encouragement to "Write the book(s)!" To George (T) and Susan Troy! To various schools, clubs and organizations for the opportunity to speak out on "peace education for all!" To KQED's "Forum" with Michael Krasny and NPR's "Talk of the Nation" with Neil Conan for repeated opportunities to speak out to large radio audiences!
To Rajen Thapa and "Taste of the Himalayas" restaurant for hosting out 20th anniversary celebration in 2005! To Robert Downing (T, ret.) for vital early and transitional support from 1989-1993. To Lia Belli.
To attorneys Jefferson Scher, Larry Townsend and Tom Cook for generous pro-bono support over the years since 1997!
To Richard Kunin, MD, for referring us to our FIRST "Star of Peace" Award recipient and VIP Declaration-Pledge signer: Double Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, Ph.D.! To ALL our V.I.P. and everyday citizen signers on STAR ALLIANCE Declaration and Pledge editions since 1985! (Please see partial V.I.P. listings at www.STARALLIANCE.org). Special recognition to elected official-signers: Hon. Ron Dellums, Hon. Barbara Lee, Hon. Kriss Worthington; for their frequent expressions of STAR ALLIANCE principles in public service.
To J.N., Susan -, Andrew Hayes, Colby Cogswell, Nat and Marilyn Goldhaber; John and Linda Gage; Jefferson Scher and all our other donors, large and small, since 1985!
To musician Michael Bates for his wonderful, inspirational song - a fitting theme for the STAR ALLIANCE Foundation: "Timeless...We Are Timeless...!"
To the late, great Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his ongoing institutions and supporters for gifting the STAR ALLIANCE 1980's Co- founders and the world with the Transcendental Meditation ("T.M.") and TM-Sidhis techniques & programs for deep relaxation, stress reduction and mental development!
To the "STAR ALLIANCE" global airline alliance for making our name (established by the foundation in 1986) world famous since 1997!
And to all those who should be mentioned here and were inadvertently omitted! You are much appreciated! Please make yourselves known! Finally, to the great Immanuel Kant (18th century German philosopher) who emphasized the importance of a good will, and encouraged each of us to act as if our choices were to become universal laws. On his tombstone is the following quotation:

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me!"

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