Presented to: Helen Cardland Stark
For:
Helen Candland Stark, teacher, mother, feminist, activist, environmentalist, poet, essayist, and self-proclaimed "rebellious spirit," is still growing and contributing in her nineties -- recently raising her head above the battle to report that through it all she has developed a "sense of awe at the goodness God, and . . . the power of redemption at the heart of the universe" (Dialogue 23, Fall 1990: 33).