Includes "That Great Company," a 1960 Lenten meditation written in the Merrimack County Jail (Boscawen, New Hampshire), as well as "Why I Said 'No' Again" (Zions Herald: New England Methodist Monthly, January 1960), and "Trekking On Bedrock: A Grandfather's Heritage" (Sojourners, August 1980).
Includes remarks given by Willard in front of 750 friends gathered at the Hotel Roosevelt's ballroom in New York City for the celebration. The World Fellowship published a tribute to Willard and Ola and Promoting Enduring Peace, Inc., awarded Willard the Gandhi Peace Prize. Majors sponsors and organizers of the event included Anne and Carl Braden, Henry Commager, Chandler Davis, Jerome Davis, Virginia and Clifford Durr, Edna Ruth Johnson, Irving Kellman, Charles and Ruth MacLennan, Helen and Scott Nearing, Linus Pauling, and Howard Zinn, to name just a few.