Maryanne Wolfman-Dawn was an anti-nuclear activist in Arkansas in the 1970s and early 1980s. As an undergraduate, she studied Anthrology at the University of the Americas after transferring from the University of Colorado, and was selected for inclusion in the 1967-68 edition of Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges. In 1978 she was awarded a grant from the Arkansas Endowment for the Humanities to sponsor a forum focusing on issues relating to nuclear power at which Dr. Benjamin Spock spoke, among others. In 1981, she co-authored an earth pledge with Carol Gaddy while marching against nuclear weapons following the Titan Ⅱ missile explosion in Damascus, Arkansas in 1980. We know very little else about Maryanne Wolfman-Dawn. If you know more, please add to this bio of her life and career by contacting us.
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Contributed by:
Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Marianne Wolfman-Dawn, Carol Talbot Gaddy Graywing
This earth pledge by Carol T. Gaddy and Marianne Wolfman-Dawn is included in a short essay by Gaddy entitled “Our New Pledge of Allegiance.” The essay can be found in What Will It Take to Prevent Nuclear War: Grassroots Responses to Our Most Challenging Question (ed. Pat Farren 1983), p. 149. Carol Gaddy writes that the pledge “was composed spontaneously by me and Marianne Wolfman-Dawn as we marched on the road to Damascus, Arkansas, April 25, 1981, protesting the nuclear missile site where a Titan missile had exploded the previous November, endangering the people it was meant to protect.”
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