Don’t Ever Whisper

“This book is a story of a personal transformation of a young lady who once knew little English to an advocate for her people, the victims of the weapons of war. Then the further transformation to educational innovator, whose program had far-reaching effects throughout her island nation. As she lived and worked, Darlene didn’t just touch lives, she molded them…

—Francis X. Hezel, SJ, founder of Micronesian Seminar

“Darlenes speech at the General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Vancouver in 1983 opened many peoples eyes, particularly in the churches, to the suffering of the people of the Marshall Islands and other parts of the Pacific in the wake of nuclear testing. The consciousness of people in Europe concerning the Pacific only really began to awaken after that speech.”

—Rev. Ekkehard Zipser, Germany