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Rev. Dr. Sidney Lewis Gulick (April 10, 1860-December 20, 1945) was an educator, author, and missionary who spent much of his life working to promote greater understanding and friendship between Japanese and American cultures.He was born in Ebon, Marshall Islands, the son of Luther Halsey Gulick, a missionary, and Louisa Lewis Gulick. He received an A.B. degree from Dartmouth College in 1883, an A.M. degree in 1886 and a D.D. degree in 1903. He also held D.D. degrees from Yale and Oberlin College.
He was ordained a Congregational minister in 1886, and then was a supply minister at the Willoughby Avenue Mission, Brooklyn.
In 1888 Gulick traveled to Japan, where he would work as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for the following twenty-five years. He mastered the Japanese language, fluently giving sermons and writing books in it. He taught English, science, and religion at several schools and universities in Japan. In his last seven years there, he served as Professor of Theology at Doshisha University in Kyoto and as lecturer at the Kyoto Imperial University.
After returning to the United States in 1913, Gulick was dismayed to find growing discrimination and resentment against Japanese Americans. He campaigned against California's anti-Asian legislation and urged equality of treatment for all nations. An ardent worker in the cause of world peace, he was a vigorous proponent of the entry of the United States into the World Court.
After passage of the Immigration Act of 1924, which virtually halted immigration to the U.S. from countries seen as "undesirable", Gulick decided that the most productive way to encourage international understanding was through children.
Gulick was instrumental in forming a group called the "Committee on World Friendship Among Children". In 1927, its first project was to organize the sending of American dolls to Japan for Hinamatsuri, an annual doll festival. This project had an overwhelming response from the American public, and altogether, 12,739 of these "Friendship Dolls" were sent to Japanese schools, each with an accompanying letter professing friendship.
Gulick was the author of many books about Japanese-American relations.
He died in Boise, Idaho, at eighty-five years of age.
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"We who desire peace must write it in the hearts of children."--Sidney L. GulickSelected bibliography
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