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History of the PeaceClinic
In
1974 PeaceClinic began as a book project by Arthur Joquel and Chloe Joquel. Art
died that Spring and Chloe seached for ways of making their dreams come true. In 2001 she created the first website and began
to collect ideas for a peace teaching organization. She searched old records and data bases, talked to other peace educators,
and finally launched the PeaceClinic from her home office in Oceanside, California.
Chloe gives
special thanks to all of her volunteers who serve as chapter directors, peace teachers, and vice presidents in charge
of peace education. (Kerry Museus, Wendy Watters, Susan Moore, Fani Das, Cindy Davis, and Linda Muslin). Please
visit our chapter sites especially if you live in their areas. We are coast to coast and international now with the India
Chapter headed by Prof. Fani Bhusan Das of Orissa, India. ~ Peace
Arthur Louis Joquel II, 1919-1974
Anthropologist, Historian, Futurist, Educator, Author, and World Citizen.
Dr. Joquel
was an author and educator in the fields of anthropology, world history and
United Nations studies. He taught in public high schools in California and Arizona. He wrote nearly fifty science fiction
short stories, published a scifi magazine, and was known to some of the most famous scifi authors. He organized two future
studies groups and had supportive friends who shared his desire for world peace. His closest friend, Robert Formhals, was
an author and an attorney. Their ideals and literary contributions to
world peace and freedom movements have been an inspiration to all of us
at the PeaceClinic. His first book, The
Challenge of Space, was published in 1954.
Arthur was
fond of cats, books, his students, Tibetan & Southwest Native American culture and arts, classical and ancient music,
Sherlock Holmes, Science Fiction, and most things Victorian and Oriental.
If you are from NYC (Mensa, NYU, New School, Grolier), Arizona (friends
of Frank & Poko Petek, Heard Museum, ASU), Los Angeles, (SciFi, Philosophical Research Soc.), or Fresno (City College
Dept. of Anthropology, Society for Creative Anachronism), you're home.
'The Evolution of Peace'
Quotations from The Challenge of Space about the
evolution of world peace that will be included in the PeaceClinic's first major publishing project, the PeaceBook.
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Sir Robert W. Y. Formhals, 1919-1994,
Author, Educator, Attorney
Robert Formhals achieved the position of Grand Master of the
Order of St. John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitalers, one of the Orders of the White Cross. His book, White
Cross: Story of the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, with particular emphasis on the Hospitaller Order of St. John
of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller since 1964 under Royal Charter of Peter II, King of Yugoslavia. Sanghals Publishers, Camarillo,
California, USA, 1978. Dr. Joquel and Sir Formhals received a charter from the State of California (1974) for the establishment
of a College of Humanitarian Studies. Both men promoted peace and cultural diversity.
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Poko Petek, 1919-1972, Artist/Painter
Beverly Petek, became
a respected painter of Southwestern Native American sacred tribal ceremonies. Her work has appeard in Arizona Highways
Magazine (1972) and on the cover of a Grolier publication, the Science Yearbook (1969) and other art
publications. Invited to ceremonial dances, she could not photograph them. She sketched the "snake dances" and "rain dances"
from memory. Poko lived in Phoenix, Arizona and traveled to Hopi and Navajo reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. Her love
and tolerance for all spiritual beliefs inspired the Founder of the PeaceClinic.
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Chloe Joquel Freeland, Founder and Director of the PeaceClinic,
believes that world peace begins at home with the individual. She plans to dedicate the rest of her life to the peace movement
because she wants to make a difference in lives of victims of violence, abuse, and neglect. She wants to encourage public
consciousness about the three fold aspect of peace.
Her first recruit for volunteers for the PeaceClinic was
her late husband, Rich Freeland (1939-2005) who she refered to as the First Volunteer. Rich encouraged her to develope
the ideology for the group and he often wrote press releases and too photographs of the PeaceClinic's local activities. He
was a fantastic entertainer, guitarist and vocalist. He made us all happy and we miss him very much.
Chloe is a personal life empowerment coach and offers free counceling sessions through her
own company, Creative Coaching Institute to victims of domestic violence and other violent crimes.
In 2004 she founded the Cultural Creatives Society, an
organization dedicated to the exploration of innovative and creative ideas for the betterment of people everywhere. Contact:
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