Phillyist.com:New Friend in Town

The American Friends Service Committee today officially welcomed its new leader.

Shan Cretin assumed her post as secretary general of the Philadelphia-based Quaker humanitarian organization, after serving for seven years as director of the AFSC's Pacific Southwest region.

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