Quaker Thought AMONG FRIENDS FRIENDS The Gift of a Hearing Heart

JOURNAL larence Pickett was born in Illinois. "Even at birth," writes Walter Kahoe, " he combined Quaker thrift and October 15, 1984 Vol 30, No. 15 C enterprise by managing to get born before the doctor arrived, thus reducing the obstetric fee to five dollars. It would Contents have been the regular ten dollars had he not arrived before Cover photo by Doug Hostetter shows a defoliated tree in the physician" (Clarence Pickett: A Memoir, 1966). Vietnam. Cover quote from page 3. The Pickett family soon moved to a farm near Glen Elder, Among Friends: The Gift of a Hearing Kansas, where Clarence grew up in a community settled by Heart Vinton Deming ...... •.•...... 2 other Quaker families. He studied at Penn College and Hart­ Eclipse Myron Bietz • • ••.•..•...... •...... 3 ford Seminary, and he taught biblical literature at Earlham An Ability to Raise the Human Spirit College for seven years. In 1929 he left Richmond, Indiana, Roger Wilson . .. •.•• .. .•...... 4 to become secretary of the American Friends Service Com­ Clarence Pickett and the Early Years mittee in Philadelphia, a position he would hold for the next of the AFSC Elmore Jackson ...•.•...... 5 21 years. The World Br-ightened When He Talked At the time of Clarence Pickett's death in 1965, messages About It Stephen G. Cary . . • . •.• . ...•..... 8 were received from friends around the world. He had been My Brother Martin Philip W. Bennett ..•...... 10 loved and respected by people everywhere. The Harp at Nature's Advent Strung Douglas Steere once said: "Clarence Pickett seemed to have Esther Greenleaf Murer ..••••...... 12 been given by God the gift of a hearing heart-a heart obe­ Children in Meeting for Worship dient to what he heard .... [He was] willing to involve Susan L. Phillips •...... •...... •...... 14 himself and his fellows in the discipline of those who knew Poetry Annette Larson Benert how to help." At one time during the early life of the AFSC, and C. A. Lofton ...... •.•.• • • . •. 15 some people thought that the organization should be laid Junior Journal ...... 16 down, that the need for its work had ended. Douglas Steere Simple Living Kathy Epling ...... • ..•• •. 18 said, ''There were wiser counsels that prevailed and Clarence Reports ...... 18 Books ...... 26 was called to take it and continue its work; and he built it World of Friends ...... 21 Milestones ...... 28 into a stethoscope to lay against the heart of the world to hear Forum ...... 22 Classified ...... 30 the heart beat-to hear the needs that were there, to be obe­ Friendly Words ...... 25 dient to the needs, and to be given the wisdom to meet them. We thank God for this person." Famms JovaNAl. (ISSN 0016-1322) was established in 19SS as the sucx: 1984 by Friends Publishing COrporation. Reprints of articles available at nominal cost. Permission should be received before reprinting excerpu longer than 200 words. Available in microfilm from University Microfilms International. ~~=~-:-: ..... adclraa cll-.a to FRIENDS JOURNAL, 1501 Cllefry St., Plllladolplllo,

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,/ by Myron Bietz

late spring solar eclipse­ ~-·'"""'''·""' -· ~n,:Pn•riP Of the light SeemS "the last one until the ral. Our cares and con- mid-1990s"-brought a "-"r"'l•tn4-:"r•·nu.'tt in and obscure the measure of excitement to students glow. Anxiously we hold and teachers enduring the re­ ..."'-~~ ·h ...... to the light, but they only maining days of a rapidly waning block its passage. school year. Students gathered at Perhaps, as with the external my window, unable to see the "What did you think?'' I asked. light, we need techniques and sun but aware of the softly fil­ "I dunno. It's kinda weird ...." precautions to avoid the extremes tered light from the cloudless sky. We take light-external light- of too much or too little light. A few with passes from their for granted, unaware until it dims Becoming preoccupied with science teachers asked to leave or disappears of how much we light-looking at it rather than class to observe the eclipse out­ depend on it. History and myth seeing by it-may limit vision. We doors. Cautioned not to look both record the panic that primi­ need to relax, accepting light directly at the sun, they flashed tive peoples felt and the extreme instead of darkness as the natural their "how-dumb-does-he-think­ means they sometimes took to order. Rather than following it we-are" smiles and showed me assuage the gods who were rob­ blindly, we ought to follow the their opaque x-ray film and their bing them of light, consuming the way it reveals. cards with pinholes and white sun. Even now, informed by the When the light is dim or ob­ viewing surfaces. A few students media of the exact time and scured, looking too hard can limit without passes wanted to go too, extent of an eclipse, we find the vision also. A technique, bor­ so I provided cards, straight pins, experience "kinda weird." rowed, ironically, from military instructions, and renewed How do we react to the pres­ surveillance training, may be warnings. ence or the seeming absence of helpful. Instead of looking "Looking at the sun couldn't the Light Within? directly at an object, the observer really blind us," a few scoffed. I Often it is the presence of the is instructed to look past it. assured them it could. Warned Inner Light that we find upsetting Peripheral vision is more sensitive but still skeptical, they departed. or disquieting. Its absence, or at to light and to movement. Instead In a few minutes they were least our lack of awareness of its of looking directly at a concern, back. "Did you see ill" I asked. presence, seems the natural we may do better by looking past "Yeah, the card and the pin­ order. When, in the midst of busy it, waiting quietly, allowing the hole really worked!" one replied, schedules, we sense its presence, light to surround it, modeling its his voice expressing amazement we seek ways of denying it, of features and showing a way. that an English teacher could avoiding it, of subverting it. The sun is back to full bright­ know about such things. Often we succeed. We seek it in ness now, and we walk in its periods of meditation; but when light. It can burn us or leave us it appears, we shift uneasily in cold, but mostly it warms us and Myron Bietz teaches English at Mayo High School our places. Sometimes like our shows us the way. When it leaves in Rochester, Minn., where he attends Rochester forebears, we quake before its for a time, we trust that it will M«ting. He WIU IUI1PIN 1984 Fellow, Nlllionlll En­ dowment for the Humanities Seminar, ReUgious intensity and its leadings. Blinded return. Eclipses are, after all, only Studies and Philosophy. by the light, we stumble. ~m~~~ 0

FRIENDS JOURNAL October 15, 1984 3 Remembering Clarence Pickett

t was at the Friends World Confer­ things to be done to raise the human ence at Swarthmore in 1937 that, as spirit, given imagination, effective I one of the youngest members from administration, operational compe­ London Yearly Meeting, I first made the tence, and confidence in the inner re­ acquaintance of Clarence Pickett. At sources of men and women. An Ability that time I was a member of the British Six years later, in the middle of the Broadcasting Corporation staff, parti­ war years, I was back in Philadelphia. cularly concerned with radio programs I had been fired by the BBC for being that would awaken the British public to a C.O. and had become executive secre­ to. Raise the social misery of economic depres­ tary of the Friends Relief Service, the sion-especially unemployment-and emergency committee London Yearly that would arouse an active feeling that Meeting formed to relieve civilian the Human things could and should be done. distress in the blitzed cities of the United My BBC work had nothing to do with Kingdom. Throughout the early days, Quaker service as such, but faced with the AFSC had been very sympathetic the problem of how to produce pro­ and helpful in strengthening our finan­ Spirit grams that combined misery with hope, cial resources, but in 1943 it was time it was refreshing to talk with Clarence to plan the tasks of relief and recon­ and to enter into his lively working struction that would be needed on the by Roger Wilson conviction that there were significant European continent when the war in the West eventually drew to a close. So I Roger Wilson, a member of Yea/and Meeting in England, was clerk ofLondon Yearly Meeting and was invited to Philadelphia for some a member ofthe Quaker United Nations team. He months to talk and work with Clarence is now active on the 1652 Country Committee. and his colleagues and with men in the Civilian Public Service camps on some of the issues that would face British, American, and continental Friends in Clarence Pickett, 1963. liberated Europe. Alongside Clarence I was a raw ama­ teur in the world of organized voluntary service in communities under stress, but he never treated me so. He drew me in as a partner, calling on my front-line ex­ perience when relevant and making it very easy for me to see some of the vi­ sions, problems, and experience that the AFSC would bring to joint operations. In a gloomy world it was exhilarating to work closely with Clarence in all sorts of settings-S. 12th Street, Washington, New York, and as a resident guest in the home of Clarence and Lilly on the Pen­ die Hill campus. He was extraordinarily good at establishing rapport with other people in all sorts of different situations: Quaker committees, government of­ fices, foundation boards, and business meetings. Without in any way compro­ mising his integrity he could listen sym­ pathetically even to nonsense, draw people out, raise levels of awareness, and, on difficult issues, either get nearer to agreement or leave a more penetrat­ ing challenge than I, at any rate, had thought possible. The AFSC arranged for me to visit training units in Quaker colleges and CPS camps across the United States

4 O ctober 15, 1984 FRIENDS JOURNAL from New Hampshire to California. And I had many conversations with Clarence and his colleagues on the relationship between the temperament of C.O.s, effective administration, and training for work in the field. I was impressed by the caliber of the men and women who worked with Clarence and asked how he managed to gather them together. "Well," he said, "you don't get able men and women to run a peanut stall." What stood out a mile in working with Clarence was that to him Quaker service was not a matter of filling gaps on the fringes of national or internation­ al life. He was as convinced as any 17th­ century Friend that the Christian expe­ rience of Quakers leads to deep, authen­ tic, searching responses to the ethical shortcomings of conventional social practices and that the responses ought to be weighty enough to initiate changes in the public perceptions of social re­ sponsibility. He had a statesman's gift Clarence and Lilly Pickett with the AFSC staff on the steps of 12th Street Meetinghouse in for thinking broadly, for perceiving or Philadelphia, /937. Individuals are identified on page 28. making openings and turning them into growing points for the nurture of "sanc­ tified common sense." Yet there was nothing pompous or self-important about Clarence. He was excellent com­ Clarence Pickett pany and enjoyed a bit of foolery. I have a vivid recollection of going with him to meet somebody off a train at a suburban station outside of Philadelphia. We had and the Early Years 15 minutes to wait and enjoyed our­ selves on the seesaw, swings, and round­ abouts of the neighboring children's of the AFSC playground. Almost the last occasion on which I had a substantial visit with Clarence was by Elmore Jackson ployer. He was a person of unusual in falll963. My wife and I were visiting gifts, and he set an incredibly high members of the Quaker United Nations very other organizational leader standard of leadership. team in New York that year. We were with whom I have worked since I do not know from what part of his in the U.N. dining room when we heard Eleaving graduate school has had to family or Quaker background, or by of the assassination of President run, unbeknownst to them, a formi­ what other route, he acquired his Kennedy. That afternoon we traveled to dable gauntlet stemming from the fact extraordinary personal qualities. His Philadelphia to spend the evening and that Clarence Pickett was my first em- earthy sense of the practical may have night with the Picketts in their home. come from his middle western farm Clarence was more aware than most Elmore Jackson is a former assistant executive background. His lively interest in people people of the world's "ocean of dark­ secretary of the American Friends Service Com­ from other cultures may have stemmed mittee. He has since served as a member offour ness and death," but his faith in the United Nations mediation missions. During the in part from the number of traveling "infinite ocean of light and love, which Kennedy-Johnson administration he was in charge Friends from other countries (perhaps flowed over the ocean of darkness" was of the Department of State's planning for U.S. especially Henry Newman, the editor of unfailing. As I look back to his reflective participation in international organizations. the Friend in London) who stayed with wisdom on that sad, desolating evening Recently he assisted in developing a new inter­ national relations program at the Rockefeller the Pickett family in Kansas while on I remember that when talking with Clar­ Foundation. He is a member of Wrightstown (Pa.) visits to the United States. Clarence's ence one never felt hopeless. 0 Meeting and is the author of Middle East Mission. sense of the spiritual potential in the

FRIENDS JOURNAL October 15, 1984 5 Clarence Pickett many complex and poignant areas of West Virginia. Under the direction of need he was to face after becoming in Bill and Ruth Simkin, Friends then liv­ 1929 the executive secretary of the ing in Brooklyn, the project expanded American Friends Service Committee, to become the Mountaineer Craftmen's was certainly grounded in his years of Cooperative Association. An AFSC­ religious leadership and teaching in sponsored health service in Logan, West Richmond, Indiana, and in the creative Virginia, was eventually to be taken over partnership with Rufus Jones after the by the county, the miners' union, and latter became chairman of the AFSC. the coal operators. · These qualities were all much in The AFSC's child feeding and self­ evidence in the work of the AFSC when help activities were to make two very I joined the staff in the summer of 1936. important contributions to Clarence's Shortly after Clarence became the and to the AFSC's future. executive secretary, the AFSC was Following the presidential election in But the coal field experience brought approached by Grace Abbott, chief of 1932, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt a second dimension to those early years the U.S. Children's Bureau, at President became interested in an extension of of the AFSC. Hoover's request, to see if it would be self-help activities in the coal areas-in When Clarence returned full time to willing to undertake a child feeding particular in the development of sub­ the AFSC, the board decided that, if program in the Appalachian coal mining sistence homestead communities. Con­ funds could be found, the AFSC would areas that were suffering from very high gress moved to create a Subsistence develop its own subsistence ·homestead unemployment. The president offered to Homestead Administration in the De­ community in the western Pennsylvania make available $225,000 remaining partment of Interior, and M. L. Wilson, coal fields. The new project was called from the Children's Fund of the Ameri­ a highly qualified agriculturalist who Penncraft. The first approach to get can Relief Administration. Within a few was later to become the director of the start-up funding was a request to the months the AFSC was engaged in a very effective U.S. Agricultural Exten­ U.S. Steel Corporation for $75,000. $400,000 program, feeding over 40,000 sion Service, was put in charge of the The approach brought Clarence to­ children in poverty-stricken communi­ program. Clarence was invited to be­ gether with the corporation's leade~­ ties stretching from northwestern Penn­ come M. L. Wilson's assistant for the ship: Myron Tdylor, Edward Stettinius, sylvania to eastern Kentucky. coal mining areas. The AFSC board Thomas W. Lamont, and Walter Gif­ Friends had learned from earlier work took the unusual step of giving Clarence ford. Taken together with the new ac­ in situations of acute distress that in three or four days' leave a week for the cess in Washington, D.C., it brought such settings concerns soon arise about Washington, D.C., assignment. Clarence and the AFSC a new confi­ the possibility of long-range solutions. The experience of working with dence in their ability to carry their In the Appalachian coal area the major "M. L." and the personal interest of the concerns into high places. It was a con­ problem was that of alternative employ­ Roosevelts-perhaps especially that of fidence that, despite many rebuffs and ment. The AFSC started a pilot handi­ Eleanor-gave Clarence, and through public policy differences · since, has craft project at the severely stricken him the AFSC, a new and wider frame proved remarkably enduring. Crown Mine community in northern of reference. The coal field experience was also to

Top of page: Two men learn the cobbler's trade at Crown Mine, W. Va. Right: A view of the Penncraft homestead

6 of 1946 and 1947 its budget reached $8,300,000. The fact that the annual budget has now grown to $16,000,000 is evidence that in its early years the Left: Refugees AFSC built solidly and well. attend an English What was it like to work with class at Powell Clarence? We obviously worked long hours, and there was nothing sacred about Satur­ work-ca,pers days. They were a favorite time for staff construct a meetings, and spouse grumbling was spillway wall, late 1930s. sometimes justifiably heard in the land. Quaker meetings frequently requested a have its effect on AFSC relationships speaker for Sunday. Clarence was nor­ with the younger generation. mally harder on himself than on the In an effort to acquaint students and staff. After one morning staff meeting other young people with pressing long­ to which four members were late, he was term economic and social problems in heard to comment, pointedly, that "if the United States, the AFSC had begun you missed the train you should take the experimenting with summer work camps earlier one." He frequently did. ' ~ in distressed areas. One was held at ~ His methods kept the organization on Penncraft. The project was so successful ~ its toes. It was not unusual to find that a complex and difficult problem, ~ne ~~:~:r~~~~a;:o:~~~~i~~~a~i;=~~~ ·I that had defied resolution in staff dis­ were held in conjunction with the 8 cussion during the day, had overnight T.V.A., in connection with sharecrop- j responded to some imaginative, new ap­ ping in ·Mississippi, in the automobile {3 proach generated in discussion betw'een manufacturing center of Flint, Michi- .§ Clarence and some able arid experienced .t gan, and later in rural public health § person with. whom he had eaten dinner projects in Mexico. These work camps ·§ that evening, or whom he had met on brought hundreds of able students into .:;: the train. He had an uncanny way of close touch with governmental and pri­ knowing where expert talent could be vate efforts to cope with some of the many. The program continued through found. The frequency of these occur­ most troubled regions. Former work World War II, and, like many Quaker rences kept us all on the qui vive. · campers became an excellent constitu­ efforts, set the stage for other projects Clarence got great satisfaction from ency from which to recruit future AFSC to come-in this case, aid to Arabs in matching able and concerned persons to project leadership. Israel and the administration of the situations that required fresh thinking Two other programs initiated by the United Nations relief program for Pales­ and fresh approaches. This was an in­ AFSC in the late 1930s and early 1940s tine refugees in the Gaza Strip. valuable asset in situations in which also had a major impact on the AFSC's The second major new development whole programs were dependent upon future activities. was the AFSC's agreement, along with the AFSC's ability to provide the special Faced with an escalating persecution the Mennonites and the Church of the talent that a new undertaking required. of Jews in Germany, American Jewish Brethren, to administer Civilian Public Clarence frequently liked to emphasize leaders approached the AFSC in 1938, Service camps in which conscientious that Quakers, both organizationally and seeking assistance in the migration and objectors could perform alternative personally, must " earn the right" to resettlement of Jews who wished to service by working on projects of na­ have a hand, especially if it is to be a come to the United States. Quaker re­ tional importance jointly approved by leadership hand, in efforts to resolve lief work in Germany following World the government and the administering difficult conflicts. · War I meant a type of previous involve­ agencies. It was a major undertaking, In the preface to his autobiography, ment not permitting the AFSC to sit on bringing hundreds of committed and For More Than Bread, he says, "In the sidelines. The AFSC's resources in deeply concerned young men into touch perspective I should say in all humility Germany and Austria were soon provid­ with the three service agencies. A that my life has been characterized by ing help with travel and emigration pa­ substantial number of young men volun­ an inadequate, persistent effort to try to pers, and the Quaker community in the tarily put in an additional period in find a workable harmony between re­ United States was soon helping to re­ overseas relief projects following their ligious profession and daily practice." settle refugees ·in the United States. . CPS service in the United States. ' · It is a·characteristically modest com­ Attempts were made, largely without ef­ The AFSC's programs tripled during ment from one of our most ·gifted fect, to ameliorate the situation in Ger-. World War II, an.d ~n the postwar years Quaker leaders. 0

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( . Clarence Pickett touch and redeem was beyond question or limit. Clarence deeply believed that even the most alienated and depraved were redeemable. He lived as if this were true, and for him it became true. This The World Brightened faith was so evident that I always had a sense that Clarence's life was a con­ tinual meeting for worship. When He Talked· A second quality was warmth. He loved people, young and old, rich and poor, powerful and powerless. He met Only the AFSC's foreign service enter­ them all with charm and grace, never About It prises were closely identified with pompous, never 'self-righteous, eager Clarence-and largely unrelated to the to listen, always at ease. No one· felt by Stephen G. Cary other sections. excluded in Clarence's presence. · He ·· .This state of affairs encouraged cre­ took in everyone and made ·each feel ·rt was .not until I returned from my ativity, but it also led to considerable important. . relief assignment in Europe late. in internal chaos and increasing public em­ Finally, there was his humor, gentle December 1947 to .assume staff re­ barrassment as the AFSC became better and ever present. He never took himself . sponsibiiities in the American Friends known, partly through the quality of its too seriously; he was too ·humble for. · Service Committee's national office that collective work, and partly through that, too aware of his own frailty, and I came to know Clarence Pickett. Before · Clarence's national prominence as a he had a gift for throwing in a touch of that, during my four-year Civilian Pub- member of major commissions and· a humor when the going got heavy. His . lie Servic~ career as a World War II friend of the mighty. Indeed, by the time . humor wasn't the' sharp kind; it never . C.O., Clarence had been a legendary but· I arrived on the scene it was painfully hurt, but it lightened many a dull · rather remote leader of our sponsoring evident that the right hand needed to meeting and often ~escued us from the agency, the' AFSC. . know more about what the left hand temptatjon of anger l!nd confrontation. • • ' •• J • l • ' ~ As Elmore Jackson has noted in his ' was doing, and I was asked 'to bec6~e · i ' ~ • , ~ '' • I .I 1 ' reminiscence, Clarence's administrative Clarence's assistant, charged with estab­ On the night of April 29, 1962, style was to identify fresh and creative lishing internal coherence within the the White House was the scene of individuals and give them a high degree vibrant but unruly beast. a glittering gathering, described by of independence in developing their pro­ Whatever may be said about the out­ the press as possibly establishing grams. On my return from Paris, how­ come of this effort- and I would liken a new high in concentrated Ameri­ ever, other results of his administrative it to trying to take 30 kangaroos for a can brainpower. The President style were creating problems. In one walk-the experience was priceless for and Mrs. Kennedy received all sense, Clarence Pickett was the AFSC. me because it brought me close to Clar­ He was the name and the personality ence Pickett. He did indeed have admin­ past Nobel Prize-winners from the that the public knew and admired. istrative shortcomings that not even his United States and Canada. That morning a group of Quakers had Rufus Jones and Henry Cadbury shared gifted secretary, Blanche Tache, could walked silently before the White his prominence, but their standing rested entirely rectify, but as a human being he House to draw the President's in part on a broader, scholarly base, was a giant. His capacity to lift up and while Clarence was almost wholly identi­ encourage was, in my experience, un­ attention to the urgency of ending the nuclear arms race. Among the fied with the AFSC. He, more than matched. A room brightened when he anyone else, brought the AFSC national entered. The world brightened when he marchers was a frail seventy­ recognition. :aut if Clarence was one talked about it. He was too gentle a seven-year-old man, Clarence E. embodiment of the AFSC, there were spirit to censor, but he always managed Pickett. The same evening, in others. The Peace Section was semi­ to stir concern in ways that encouraged white tie and tails, he and his wife, detached and, with its own fund raiser, Lilly, appeared at the White the best in the rest of us. Perhaps that House gate as invited guests rep­ close to being a law unto itself. So were is why so many in high places, ihclud­ the emergency regional offices. The ing at least one secretary of defense, resenting the American Friends Social Industrial Section also played a used to periodically invite him to lunch Service Committee. The President enjoyed both the humor and the major role in setting its own priorities. to unburden their consciences and share an hour of his company. wider significance of having the White House "Picketted" from What were the personal qualities that the outside and from within on the Stephen G. Cary is chairperson of the National gave Clarence Pickett this sort of influ­ Board ofDir ectors ofthe A merican Friends Serv­ same day. ice Committee. A member of Germantown (Pa .) ence? First and most important, I think, Meeting, he is a retired vice president of Haver­ was his transparent faith in the immi­ -Harold E. Snyder ford College. nence of a loving God whose power to

8 October 15, 1984 FRIENDS JOURNAL The German child feeding program in the early 1920s first made the AFSC known, but it was Clarence Pickett who There are three little couplets from Clarence's soul was high. And illumined its spiritual foundations and the words of Edna St. Vincent Millay height means light. He said, "Where built on them a unique organization that apply to our dear Clarence there is a little light I will bring in with an enduring vision of love's power Pickett, and I can't get them out of more," and that is what he did, and to challenge the world's evil. my mind and I want to share them. with his delightful humor. Through In some ways, I think, those of us They are so suitable, I think. it all he was never depressed or who have followed have gone beyond downed. Th~ world stands out.on either side his understanding of the institution­ No wider than the heart is wide The soul can split the sky in two, alized nature of evil and the depth of And let the face of God shine alienation that divides the human fam­ How wide was his heart? It took through. ily, and have led the AFSC into deeper in the world. And though be could The face of God shined through. involvement in programs of social not visit all the Quaker centers, he felt change. I believe personally that this is It shined on him, it was in his heart, the closeness of caring and be gave because God is love, and be repre­ as it should be, but we should remem­ · good advice to those who are going sented love and he will never be for­ ber that what made Clarence Pickett and to those centers. the AFSC great, and enabled it to speak gotten. His spirit will go on, and on, to his moment of history, was not Above the world is stretched the and on as long, you can almost say, knowledge but spirit. Our greatest chal­ sky,- as the world will be. lenge and our greatest tribute to the No higher than the soul is high. -Lydia B. Stokes witness of a great Friend is to cultivate that same spirit within ourselves. To the extent that we succeed, the American The boxed material above and on page 8 is Friends Service Committee will be the Below, Left: Clarence and Lilly Pickett at excerpted from Clarence Pickett: A Memoir, home in Wallingford, Pa., with Hannibal and compiled and edited by Walter Kahoe (1966). sort of influence that Clarence labored Hobie. Right: Eleanor Roosevelt (second from so faithfully to build. D ~ight) visits the Pickett family. In my original letter I asked whether I thank you for your prayers. Know a person who was unable to serve as a that you have mine too. contact might "simply provide good Martin's reply arrived within a week. old hospitality for a road-weary peace­ Again there was a Jewish star next to his maker." Martin replied to this part of name and a "Praise the Lord" sticker my letter in the following manner: on the envelope. He assured me that Concerning hospitality. Of course, a there was no discomfort on his part in prison is not the ideal place a road-weary receiving my initial letter; to the peacemaker would care to visit after such contrary, he was glad: "I guess if you hectic travels. Please smile with me. For knew I was in prison you would not indeed, I myself am weary and wish to be have written (smile). It is okay that you on the road where you are at. knew or didn't know. I'm happy you wrote (weary traveler)!" Martin's answer to my question as to how he ended up in prison was less than forthcoming: You're naturally curious as to how I ended up in prison-if I care to share it with you. Of course I don't mind sharing it with you: I was accused of murder. The court "Pray for us, please, found me guilty of same and sentenced me to the electric chair. I was on death row Martin, as I pray for you." from '77 to ' 81 (four years and four days). On appeal I won a new trial and on retrial was sentenced to a life sentence with a 25 by Philip W. Bennett take consolation in his assurance that year mandatory before parole. The case ''there will never be a nuclear holo­ is boring so I' ll not go into the details if n April of 1983 I sent a letter to caust.'' "God will destroy the world, you don't mind. However, I will mention nearly 150 people in ten states, an­ not man." His letter was signed: that I am originally from and I nouncing my intention to take time "Heaven declares God's creation. here only six weeks prior to my arrest and from my teaching profession to work Shalom, Omar.'' conviction. However, my release is certain full time for peace. I revealed my plan What did "Omar" mean? I didn't and, of course, before too much longer! to travel for five months, taking my know. Nor did I understand the_mean­ I am as certain of this as I was that I'd speaking and workshop offerings to ing of the Star of David drawn next to win a new trial from death row! places where I felt I could be of service. Martin's name on his return address. At the time, this reply bothered me­ Most of the people who received this I answered Martin's letter a little over his lack of candor put me off.....:and it letter did not know me. I had gotten a month later. I don't know why, but was part of the reason I didn't answer their names from friends and a variety I then thought to make a copy of my this letter. Now, in retrospect, his reply of peace organizations. Martin Galwin answer. Here it is: seems quite reasonable, especially given (not his real name) from Starke, his confidence that his conviction would Florida, was one of those I did not Dear Martin, I wrote to you about my peace tour be overturneo. I think my response then know; he was also one of the 50 or so back in April, not knowing that you and my subsequent behavior reflected people who replied to my letter. But his were/ are in prison. I hope responding to my incredible naivete, partly born of the reply was most unusual: I had unwit­ my letter was not a source of discomfort fact that I had never had contact with tingly asked , a person serving a life to you. anyone in prison prior to this time. sentence in the Florida State Prison to I would have answered your letter of Martin was not responsive to my call act as a contact for my peace tour! April 20th sooner, but I've been busy set- · for direct action to save the planet. He Martin began his letter by saying that ting up the tour. ' wrote: while he admired my decision to work I'm naturally curious as to how you for peace, he would not be able to serve ended up in prison. Is it something you Whether we do or not the earth will never as a contact for my tour: "Actually I am wish to share? be destroyed by man regardless of our Concerning the fate of our earth, its reactions one way or another. In other in prison serving a life term and cannot future, who will destroy it, God or man: words, we have no real independence con­ be considered for parole for at least 25 While I feel personally safe I do not feel cerning the earth-1 should say, "the years. · Prior td that sentence I was on that the future of this planet is independ­ world." God governs the very core of it death row." ent of our actions, that there are any all and man is completely helpless! Sure, Having been a college professor for 17 years, guarantees. I feel called to spread the much talk goes out concerning the subject Philip Bennett left teaching to work full time for word, that we must act now. That of of nuclear war. And yet, I know it can be peace. A member ofIthac a (N. Y.) Meeting, Philip course is not incompatible with God's no more than rhetoric, my friend. is currently working on his third speaking and acting on our behalf. I'm thinking of the I guess perhaps I live in a heavenly workshop tour, which will take him to Missouri light within and its manifestation in con­ world and view life differently. and Ohio. crete loving action. No matter, for I am trusting with you

10 October 15, 1984 FRIENDS JOURNAL and praying for you that all will work Yesterday I tried to visit you. As you had been rejected, shattering the con­ together for the glory of God. know, I couldn't. I had no idea about fidence he voiced in his certain release, · visitor lists, etc. I asked if I could bring undermining his faith in God. Or per- 1 • • I did not answer this letter. At the a book up to the gate to give to you. Of haps his "certain release" was an a1lu­ beginning of September I left on my course not. Could I mail you the book? ~ion, albeit unconscious, to his leaving tour, which took me to 37 cities in ten Only if I was on the package list. Forgive his prison through suicide, the one act states. I was in Charleston, South me, Martin, but I had no idea things were of power and integrity remaining to one Carolina, when Robert Sullivan was exe­ so incredibly restrictive. led to consider all of us "helpless" in• cuted in Starke, Florida, and I naturally Trying to see you and driving to the a world governed by an unknown God thought of Martin. I realized I would be prison was the occasion for some thinking or other forces outside our control. · passing through Starke on my way to about the law and who is on what side. I think of Martin often. I can't help Gainesville and so I wrote Martin: It's legal to make nuclear weapons and threaten to destroy the world. That's legal. but wonder if things might have gpne · Thought of you today following the In the name of defense. I was arrested at differently for him had I c'

FRIENDS JOURNAL October 15, 1984 11 Michigan, a fragment that had somehow escaped the flames-four bars of music The Harp for a psalm text: "Give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good; his mercy endur­ eth forever." I remember wrestling with at Nature's Advent that setting when I was 16 and giving it up, knowing that it was beyond me. Al­ ready at that age I knew that I wanted Strung to write religious music; but I had to spend 25 years wrestling with the by What follows is an example of this shadow, journeying through hell, before "dialogue." I was ready. Esther Greenleaf Miirer My starting point is a single sentence According to Solomon Eccles, the by Thomas Hodgkin, speaking to the 17th-century musician who destroyed all Manchester Conference of 1895 about his music books and instruments on be­ n his article "Quakerism and the the fin de siecle currents that marked the corning a Quaker, "There is a difference Arts" (FJ 11 / 1/ 83), Kenneth beginning of modern art: "For human between the Harps of God and the IBoulding ponders some of the impli- conduct and human happiness, it is far Harps of Men" (Greenwood, p. 14). My cations of relaxing the historic Quaker safer to ignore Art altogether, than it is experience says that Friend Eccles was taboos on the arts. Citing Ned Rorem's to accept her as the sole guide and right about that, although I can't agree journals as evidence that "the worldly arbiter of human life" (John Ormerod with his blanket conclusion that "mu­ culture of the arts . . . is one in which Greenwood, Signs of Life: Art and sick pleases well that which is for de­ there is little place for the heavenly Religious Experience, Swarthmore Lec­ struction, and grieves that which God kingdom, where the price of glory is ture, 1978). doth highly esteem and honour." Art, earthly restraint," Friend Boulding My first, intellectual reaction to this like other leadings of the Spirit, may be­ poses the question: " How do we break sentence is that one shouldn't have to come an idol: To have pursued my stud­ out from what was perhaps a cultural choose between "ignoring Art alto­ ies at the conservatory, with its faddish­ prison without falling into the hands of gether" and "accepting her as the sole ness, competitiveness, snobbery, sexism, the world, the flesh, and the devil, the guide and arbiter"; that's like saying and disdain for authenticity, would have hell on earth that seems to follow so that celibacy is the only alternative to meant opting for the "Harps of Men." many liberations-political, economic, debauchery. Surely there is a healthy I would doubtless have acquired some sexual, cultural?" middle way that can honor art as God­ degree of technical proficiency, but at As a relatively new Friend I initially given without making an idol of it? what a cost! Even now I shudder to found the question bizarre; but at a So says my reason. And immediately recall what a claustrophobic, soul­ distance of nearly a year, I feel that both my guts protest: Would it were so destroying world it was. In such an of the letters that appeared in response simple! Ah yes, it's just a little matter atmosphere, art becomes rapacious, to his article (one of them mine) failed of finding the proper balance, that's all. totalitarian, with no referent or stan­ to treat it with the seriousness it de­ Nothing to it. dard outside itself-in short, "the sole serves. As I explore the available litera­ The trouble is, art is total. For 25 guide and arbiter of human life." Yes, ture on art's relation to Quakerism, years I did my best to ignore it, to cut Friend Hodgkin, the danger is real. I am religion, and the modern world, a it out of my life. I sought refuge in athe­ eternally grateful to my Guide for de­ conviction grows that the traditional ism, tobacco, alcohol, schism, anomie, livering me from it. Quaker unfriendliness toward the arts self-hatred, and obsessive thoughts of So I set out instead to "prove all has a kernel of validity-to which we suicide. Those were not life-affirming things, and hold fast to that which is must be open if we are ever to arrive at years. It is not willfulness but experience good." From the next decade one inci­ a right understanding of the value of art that impels me to insist that, for me, life dent stands out in the present context as to our community of faith. without art is not worth living. Pace paradoxical: The time I resigned from Since a cool, reasoned, scholarly de­ Friend Hodgkin, to ignore art altogether fense of this hypothesis is beyond me, is not safe in the least, either for happi­ I'm glad for the Quaker habit of begin­ ness or for conduct-for mine anyhow. Surely there is a ning with the experiential and concrete, And yet . . . and yet . . . which is also where the best art begins. Those 25 years of exile.were laid upon healthy middle way Lately I've found myself entering into me. I remember the calm resolution with a sort of dialogue with Friends of the which, at 18, I burned a 14-inch stack which can honor past, scrutinizing their pronouncements of my collected works-a holocaust I through the lens of my own experience. have never once regretted: I know now, art as God--given as instinctively I knew then, that I was Esther GreenleafMiirer is a composer, and she is currently working on a children's musical on the obeying a leading. without making an tower ofBabel . She is a member ofCentral Phila­ After I started composing again, I delphia (Pa.) Meeting. found in my family's summer cottage in idol of it?

12 O ctober 15, 1984 FRIENDS JOURNAL a peace organization over a matter of something I didn't write under my newsletter staff in far-off Philadelphia aesthetic principle. name. It happened like this: I had been thought that they were doing me a kind­ I had become a regular contributor to asked to take notes on a speech by a ness in crediting me with the authorship the organization's newsletter. My con­ prominent figure and to hand them in of a piece so admirable in content; but tributions were mostly "humorous," unedited. I had done so. The write-up if so, they failed to reckon with the and I'm hard put to think of anything subsequently appeared, my notes trans­ Artistic Temperament. The content else I've ever written that rang so false. lated into an awful, cutesy journalese, wasn't mine, and no end, however Clever, designed to please the in­ under my by-line. It's probable that the worthy, could have justified the wanton group-and violent: seething with anger coupling of my name with such an beneath a veneer of "pacifism," they execrable style-as if I were capable of contained neither peace nor truth. In a When art speaks writing like that! sense they were written by someone else, The dear people in my local chapter not that of God in me reaching out to with urgency, I (many of them Quakers) seemed utterly that of God in my readers, but an alien at a loss to comprehend my sense of posing for aliens. have learned to shock, betrayal, and outrage. And So perhaps it was poetic justice when indeed I was doing my best to forgive the newsletter actually did publish listen. and forget the whole incident-~ntil one day the mailman brought two copies of a little magazine published in California that contained a reprint of the scurvy thing, with my name on the cover! Beset by visions of having to sue the Nobel Prize Committee for defamation of character, I resigned from the organiza­ tion and gave pacifists a wide berth for the next 20 years. I have thought about this incident often, puzzled both by the intensity of my reaction and by what it appears to say about my priorities. (It is not an isolated episode; in my decision three years ago to break with my former church and cast my lot with Friends, the primary impetus was again artistic.) Is art "the sole guide and arbiter" for me? Certainly my most profound experiences of losing myself have always been con­ nected with music. When I think back on all the crises of my life at which art came to my rescue, it seems that far from being a seducer, art in some way recalls me to my truest self. Art for me is a guide, or at any rate a mouthpiece for that Guide; and when it speaks with urgency, I have learned to listen. That trust evolved slowly, through many renunciations. Perhaps I do, in Kenneth Boulding's phrase, practice "a kind of Franciscan voluntary poverty in the arts." These days I use art sparingly; I rarely go to concerts or art galleries or read belles-lettres. And no sooner had I received my Guide's permission to write church music, and achieved some technical competence at it, than that same Guide informed me that I was to join the Quakers. I felt like Abra­ ham being commanded to sacrifice Isaac; but I too have been richly blessed as a result. 0

13 Children in Meeting for Worship

by Susan L. Phillips The implication is that Quaker wor­ kept up public worship. ship is too sophisticated for children; Children do have a sense of the spiri­ learned much of what I know of the they should go to First-day school tual. Quakers who have written auto­ personal aspects of Quakerism from instead. Yet for 250 years children have biographies usually record their first my husband. He has described to me gone to meeting. When all the adults of memory of hearing the divine voice his traditional upbringing in a close-knit Reading Meeting in England were sent between the ages of seven and ten. meeting. First-days began with opening to jail in 1664, the children themselves Rufus Jones, for example, described exercises' involving all ages, with age groups breaking up for First-day school. Then all came together again for meet­ ing for worship, sitting as a family in silent waiting. My husband and I have shared a concern about being unable to find another meeting in which events for children are not scheduled in conflict with meeting for worship. The first time I took my son, Ian, to meeting he was four years old. It was summer; there was no First-day school. Ian sat contentedly through an hour of siJence by cuddling with me and a favor­ ite piece of an old blanket. After First­ day school began in the fall, Ian had more and more trouble sitting for the 20 minutes of meeting that children at­ tended. When Ian was six, we went to visit a meeting where there were no children. Ian, not expecting to leave early, calmed right down in meeting for worship. I was stunned by the realiza­ tion that the First-day school schedule was actually working against his ability to sit through meeting. Of those meetings listed in FRIENDS JouRNAL that specify times for meeting and First-day school, fully two-thirds schedule First-day school in a time that conflicts with meeting for worship. This developed in the Society within the last 40 years or so. There are many jus­ tifications, ranging from the distur­ bance children cause to parents and others, through children's inability to sit in silence longer than 20 minutes, to children's being unable to glean from meeting for worship what should be experienced.

Having previously taught Montessori for eight years, Susan L . Phillips now works as a personal financial planner. She is a member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md.

14 O ctober 15, 1984 FRIENDS JOURNAL family meeting at home before he was In meeting, one is no longer treated old enough to attend school: like a child. Children are made to feel Et in Spiritus as fully able as their elders to listen to The silences, during which all the children the Divine Voice, learning that the truth of our family were hushed with a kind of Sanctus awe, were very important features of my of a person's witness is not dependent spiritual development. There was work upon age or authority. We sit in the meetingtlouse inside and outside the house waiting to be Meeting for worship provides many Where the wind blows through done, and yet we sat there hushed and things for children: a time to learn how i And all the bodies are on benches, quiet, doing nothing. I very quickly dis­ to enjoy daydreaming and how to form · Separate, each covered that something real was taking inner pictures (almost unheard of in our Feeling its own pulse, place. culture of constant entertainment). - Breathing its own air, If our children fail to grasp the spiritual, These daydreams become hopes and Looking out eyes to others. perhaps it is a lack in the meeting and goals for the future. Children can learn not in the children. how to turn off the unending noise of Yet we believe in the Wind God Worship is an experience for which the world. Learning to listen requires the Whose unseen force we feel skills can and must be learned. In the opportunity to be silent with oneself. Perhaps only as a current, silence, which is created by the ordering Daydreaming can gradually grow into Our bodies not solid but porous, of movements, the inner sensitivity that reflection on beliefs, into separating the For the spirit to blow through, we call the spiritual sense can be devel- · important from the unimportant, and Uniting us when the wind is high, oped. During the younger years, the finally into living in the freedom of the Separating when the current ebbs, impressions received from the environ­ truth. Meeting can help children learn When we see differences of ment are painted indelibly into the how to follow divine guidance, to go color child's soul. The child brought up in beyond dependence on the secular forces size meeting learns to enter into the silence around them. shape as a natural thing. Adults can think The adult experience of God is quite shades of brown about their environment and remember different from the child's. But the_ only degrees of age it, but the child absorbs it. The child's difference between them in the search is bumps and hollows and planes soul is being formed by events that can that the child depends upon the adult for · and angles therefore transform him or her. The guidance. Most of this initial guidance Differences which seem so important. child who 'attends meeting for worship is in modeling. When those adults in the But to the wind are they even a filter, prepares a religious sense that could meeting with whom our children have Or just decoration to make us greatest contact, the First-day school never be awakened by teaching. see each other better? First-day school is an important place teachers, do not sit through meeting for Even through a fence does the wind worship, what is the unspoken message? to receive food for thought, but it blow free. should not be the focus of Quakerism. We expect more of children than of adults, that they experience meeting for If we make meeting for worship an in­ -Annette Larson Benert significant part of the program for chil­ worship in 20 minutes or less. Many dren, it will naturally become insignifi­ adults need that long just to center. cant for them. Familiarity with Quaker "It is not too much to say that the two history and Bible stories is different most important duties of our Society are from an awareness of religious truth. to publish the truth as we understand it We cannot afford to neglect these stud­ and to educate our children in our faith First Day ies, but facts become more valuable if and life." Though written in 1949, that time is set aside for their contemplation. quote from Up to Eighteen is still Couched in expectations Without this time, we have aroused the timely. Note that these are ·said to be the silent circle is joined; needs in the children without giving duties of our Society as a whole, not or' without holy rood, them the means to satisfy them. parents or committees alone. On that I I board an ancient vessel: It seems that one of the primary func­ subject John Woolman said: a dinghy, a dhow, a spiraling snail's shell tions of religious education is to make That Divine Light which enlightens all Friends of our children. When First-day Men, I believe, does often shine in the and float from shoal school is the only religious education, we Minds of Children very early; and to to sea find that it has little religious effect, be­ humbly wait for Wisdom that our Con­ I to shore ing so much like one more school ses­ duct toward them may forward their where stringed gourds are plucked sion in the week. Quakers seek the di­ Acquaintance with it and strengthen them and in Obedience thereto, appears to me to be vine light in meeting for worship. It is where braced against a baobab a Duty on all of us. the meeting for worship that distin­ I am surrounded by Light. guishes us a religious group; it is the To emphasize religious education is to center of what makes us Quakers. It shift the focus from the effect of our -C. A. Lofton therefore needs to be the central part of children upon the meeting to the effect our children's religious education. of the meeting upon our children. 0

FRIENDS JOURNAL October 15, 1984 15 Family Reunion UN lOR A while ago I went to a Bohan fam­ ily reunion. There were 280 people! There were my mother's parents, many aunts and uncles, and hundreds of cousins. We had the reunion on a beach near tens. The first one was a tabby cat and a lake and before the party·started we she was dancing on her hind legs, and raised the Bohan family flag. It was The Star Madame announced her as Nina. The blue and white and depicted a hawk second was Siamese and her name.was holding some ivy on a shield. After of the Show Bootsy, and the third was, OH MY that we swam, ate, got indigestion, The most talented cat I ever had was GOODNESS, NO IT COULDN'T rested, swam, and attacked our grand­ Pippen. She could sing and dance to BE! SHE HAD THE SAME MARK­ father with Chinese yo-yos. any song that happened to be on the INGS, BUT, NO, PIPPEN WAS IN I was very glad to go to this reunion radio. But my story really begins when THE CAR. Sure enough, Madame an­ and meet so many new relatives. the circus came to town last February. nounced her as Pippen and my eyes My parents and I had planned to go almost popped out of my head. But Steve Bowers because I was very fond of the clowns. there was Pippen in the ring dancing West Chester Friends School I love the way they played tricks on as though it was the most natural thing each other. On the way we noticed that in the whole world. At the end, she did Pippen was in the back seat with me. a little song and bowed and walked out Now I was really surprised because I of the spotlight. Everyone was clap­ was sure I had left her in my room. But ping so loud that I was sure my ears Antiques it was too late to turn back because the were going to pop. show was about to start and we were After the show, I ran out to the car musty attics . only part way there. So we decided to and peeked in-there was Pippen sit­ filled with treasures leave her in the car while we went to ting in the back seat as though nothing worthless in money see the show. had happened. I got in wondering if it but filled with memories The clowns came out first and my had been another cat who had been the patched teddy bears sides almost split with laughing so star of Madame's Dancing Kittens. But bisque china dolls much. But then the elephants came out wait a minute-what is that under her paint chipped forever with all the pretty ladies doing tricks neck? A red ribbon. So it was her! I on their rosy lips on.their backs and everyone was clap­ looked at Pippen; she tilted her head dust covering everything ping, smiling, and talking to each to one side and gave me a crooked in a transparent layer other. Then the lights were dimmed smile, and got up on her hind legs and until a little girl comes and a spotlight was centered in the did a little dance for me. to examine the treasures· ring, and a man in a black suit with a that are now antiques top hat came into the circle of light and Claudia Kent announced Madame's Dancing Kit- Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting Rachel Maurer . Brooklyn Friends School Football Puzzle by Kirk Lindstrom, West Chester Friends School Find: quarterback, yard, center, pass, offs ides, tackle, saf

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Living Iowa Yearly Meeting: Support for Diversity in Meetings by Kathy Epling 1 ~l~JW!.'.I/I.'~- 1'1-TT-- Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) met e live with skunks. Little ones, ago, Garth and I sat talking downstairs for the 107th annual session at Paullina sleek, black-and-white pat­ when she came in, went under his chair, Meetinghouse in Iowa, August 1-5. Mem­ W terned ones with white dia­ nuzzled his bare foot, and stared up at bers gathered from meetings in Iowa, Ne­ monds on their foreheads and tails that him, then at me. We sat very quietly as braska, Missouri, and California. In addi­ fluff to immense size when the creatures she went to eat her oatmeal and pea­ tion, there were visitors from Monteverde are upset, and are carried flat and low Monthly Meeting in Costa Rica and North­ nuts and to take some to her family. ern, Philadelphia, and Nebraska yearly when they are relaxed and curious. And as she ate I found myself saying to meetings. Franklin and Mary Clark of West Neighbors call them civets or civet her, "Yes, pretty Sylvie, this is Garth, Branch (Iowa, FUM) Meeting were present cats, distinguishing them from the my child .. ·. , " feeling a gladness, a as field secretaries for the Friends Commit­ larger, slower, striped skunks. My trusty jlessing. tee on National Legislation. guide to mammals calls them western Friends and neighbors, of course, Each day started with informal Bible read­ spotted skunks. often stare amazed or concerned when ing, worship, and discussion. These helped I call one of them, the brave matri­ I mention the skunks. "Have you got rid set the tone for the day. arch, Sylvie; one of her tamer children of them yet?" asked one acquaintance. Marian Solomon reported on her experi­ is Starbright. The rest of the littlest Others warn of rabies, or ask how we ences in Nicaragua with the Iowa Witness for skunks go unnamed around the cabin can stand the smell. They rarely spray, Peace. George Willoughby, of Central Phila­ delphia (Pa.) Meeting, reported on the work steps and tool shed, except for my soft I say. We don't frighten them. Which of the Peace Brigades International in Cen­ "oh, hello pretty ones, little ones, lit­ is maybe part of what this is all about­ tral America. tle skunks." learning to live gently, in harmony, in Roy and Martha Hampton reported on the Sylvie has come in and out of the respect. Mexican work camp for Scattergood stu­ cabin for many months, eating cat food The generations of skunks were here dents. The project was arranged in cooper­ and leftovers, fond of peanut butter and long before we were. The deer who graze ation with the Mexican Friends Service eggs; making one set of visits around these hills have lived here long. The trees Committee. Projects have included digging nine or ten at night and another at three from which I find myself drawing ditches for a water main, digging latrines, or four in the morning. strength, the green ferns, the columbines painting a schoolhouse, and, this year, working on a road. When the little skunks walk they and wood roses, the rattlesnakes, the One monthly meeting is struggling for dance tap-tap-tap over the floor, out the lizards, the ants (I have noticed under clearness and unity in how to assimilate a window, in the window. On nights when Garth's observant direction five varieties diverse group of people who are better at the moon is bright they sing-or chirp­ of ants), we live together. Our territories talking than at listening and who are in­ sounding like a cross between mice and interpenetrated; our minds/souls touch. experienced in and impatient with Quaker birds: a warble; a trill; a sharp, high No one owns the other. business procedures. The meeting requested peep. They harmonize. They dance Meanwhile the daily paper rattles the yearly meeting Ministry and Oversight around the cabin, under the cabin, in news of how many missiles here, there; Committee to appoint a clearness committee darting semicircles quick and delicate. how much death. Politics of threat. to meet with members of this meeting. The When I go outside Sylvie and Star­ Meanwhile my youngest brother writes clearness committee met for about four bright eye me curiously; if I have food of his new air force assignment- hours with members of the meeting who were present at yearly meeting. The members felt for them I show them and place it in 24-hour silo duty, his hand ·ready to supported and encouraged in their efforts to their bowl. Quickly they come to check push buttons sending ten or more min­ make use of the strong points of their diverse and pause to stare at me. uteman missiles to their targets, and I membership. Some feel the meeting should Inside, too, they gaze at us. One wonder how to write to him, he who emphasize only spiritual matters, while night I woke to find Sylvie gazing at teaches Sunday school, he with his two others feel it is most important to encourage Garth, who slept beside me. She had put little children. He writes me asking that activists for various causes. It will be a chal­ a dead mouse on his pillow; a gift, I I pray he makes it through training lenge and an opportunity to develop the supposed. "No, Sylvie," I said sleepily, okay. I pray, though not that. loving support that will enable these diverse "we don't eat mice." She darted up and And I sit quietly in the presence of people to work together in love and mutual understanding. took the mouse away. A couple weeks gentle skunks. We look at each other a We expressed our appreciation for Robert long time tonight, Sylvie and I, before Kathy Epling lives in a handmade cabin in the Berquist's leadership as clerk for the past five woods of northern California. She and her family she runs out to the moonlight and her years. These responsibilities will now be are the current production and mailing crew ofthe little ones. May I be persistent and gentle taken over by John Griffith. Peacemaker newsletter; her article is reprinted and daring as she, I think. May we all from its July 16, 1984, issue. hold the world in balance. Clarence R. Perisho

18 October 15, 1984 FRIENDS JOURNAL Two New Yearly Meetings Are the theme of " They are blessed, those which Illinois Y~arly Meeting: Making have been chosen.'' Filemona Indire of East Welcomed at the FUM Triennial Africa Yearly Meeting of Friends (South) Decisions From a Spiritual Base spoke, indicating the three African yearly Friends from around the globe gathered meetings were communicating together, Illinois Yearly Meeting gathered for its at Chapman College in California, July reconciling, and expecting to be self-reliant. 110th annual session at Clear Creek Meet­ 12- 18, for Friends United Meeting's triennial Friends stood as one body and applauded in inghouse, near McNabb, Illinois, August sessions. More than 437 Friends came from recognition of the significance of this event 1-5. More than 250 Friends from Illinois and all of FUM's yearly meetings, including East as one representative of each yearly meeting parts of Wisconsin, Missouri, and Indiana Africa, Jamaica, and Cuba. In addition, went forward to extend the right hand of joined together to explore the theme "Mak­ representatives were present from Australia, fellowship to representatives of the two new ing Life's Decisions From a Spiritual Base" Ireland, and London yearly meetings. yearly meetings. and to share in worship and fellowship. Some impressions of the 1984 triennial ses­ In addressing the problems of war, hun­ The opening panel consisted of Richard sions were: the breathtaking beauty of the ger, peace, human welfare, and the need to Catlett, Carolyn and Roy Treadway, and bouquet of more than 50 roses that greeted spread the Gospel worldwide, Young Friends Peter Burkholder, who shared experiences us as we gathered for our opening session; urged us to begin at the grassroots with on the theme. Elise Boulding presented the for friends who dine alone at home, the joy individual communication to our U.S. rep­ keynote address, " Inward Leadings and of food and fellowship; the mobile, outdoor resentatives and senators expressing our Outer Pressures." She encouraged us to be sculpture that attracted children like a mag­ desire to use our resources to help people present fully in both time and space, to net; the Whittier String Quartet beginning and meet their needs rather than to destroy pursue holy obedience, and to meditate the evening with Mozart; the grandeur of them. Their statement was enthusiastically deeply and regularly. On Sunday, before sound when 400 voices sang praise to the received by the representatives. meeting for worship, James Garretson gave Lord in the acoustically delightful Memorial Clifford Winslow and Mariam McDonald the annual Jonathan Plummer Lecture, titled Hall; and the gentle humor and talent for joined in closing the triennial sessions, giving "First, the Kingdom." He wove together the recording minutes shared by Walter Haines. thanks for the opportunity to work together biblical, Christian, and Quaker basis for In 1902, Willis Hotchkiss, Arthur Chilson, in the service of Friends United Meeting our ethical and sprituallife, and encouraged and Edgar Hole were sent from New York during the last triennium. "Let us continue us to seek more diligently " the Kingdom." to Mombasa, Kenya, to find a location for to search for truth and to walk together as In between, in small but significant ways, missionary service of U.S. Friends. The seeds we should. Let us close this triennium with such as in worship-sharing groups, informal they planted have resulted in more than the knowledge that God has most surely been discussions, and workshops-from com­ 80,000 members in East Africa. Thrill and with us in our midst." Clifford then led in puters, parenting, sanctuary, and despair excitement coursed through the body of the dedication of presiding clerk Richard and empowerment, to presentations from Friends as East Africa Yearly Meeting of Whitehead and of Kara Cole, Jack Kirk, Quaker organizations-we explored more Friends (South) and Elgon Religious Society Robert Williams, and Virginia Esch, who fully our theme. of Friends were received into full member­ will serve as FUM executive staff in the next A strong, focused program for our youth ship in FUM. The representatives of these triennium. and children set the tone of smooth inter­ meetings responded by singing a song with Frances Martin generational relationships throughout our time together. The teen program, led by Peter Theodore, who had been released by the yearly meeting for the last year to develop special teen activities, centered on the teens getting to know one another better, making decisions, and becoming more involved with adult concerns. Our meetings for worship with a concern for business were clerked by Allie Walton. After much searching, we agreed to continue our youth services program on a part-time basis for next year. In addition, we gave support to Lucy Tally as she clarifies her concern to travel in the ministry throughout the yearly meeting, and we encouraged her to visit among Friends. We also agreed to facilitate research on violence and conflict resolution among families in our yearly meeting, but felt monthly meetings needed to help us find the most constructive way to assist the research. The yearly meeting seems to be reaching out for ongoing activities, despite problems of planning and logistics that those activities sometimes require. We were united in many ways during yearly meeting and look forward A proud artist at Illinois Yearly Meeting to sharing together in the coming year.

Roy C. Treadway and Marjorie J. Powell

FRIENDS JOURNAL October 15, 1984 19 China; a report by Anne Welsh and Eliza­ Of special concern at this session of yearly North Carolina (Cons.) . Yearly beth Enloe on the work of the American meeting was the funding of Quaker House, Meeting Supports Quaker House Friends Service Committee in the Southeast; the military counseling center in Fayetteville an exploration of "The Peace Within" by near Fort Bragg, the largest army base in the "Let there be peace, and let it begin with Janet Hampton of Friendship Meeting; a United States. Funding cuts by Frien

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FRIENDS JOURNAL October 15, 1984 21 complex issue is that since it is now a know how to do so well. Such actions as volunteer army, individuals seeking "Witness for Peace" offer the challenge conscientious objector status are breaking of self-sacrifice and a concrete FORUM a contract. The men involved feel they opportunity to get involved on basic have a right to change their minds. levels. Working with the poor and Our meeting feels warm support for underprivileged has always touched the men who have come into our circle American hearts. A Visitor From Brussels and has received inspiration from thc;ir The Soviets offer us no such courage as they face many problems opportunity, and we have 'S·o little Aiming to find out something of the resulting from the stand they have taken. personal contact with them (unlike the views and concerns of American If other meetings have had this Latin Americans who now compose a Quakers, to Jearn from your long experience, I will appreciate hearing near majority in southern California). experience of work in your social and about it. Please withhold my name until I This question is tremendously political context, and to make known the am sure the position of the persons challenging. I believe we must reach a work of the Quaker Council for involved will not be jeopardized by my very personal level to answer it. How can European Affairs, I made a month-long statement. we make real the fact that Soviet lives ' trip to the United States. Name withheld need saving just as much .as Latin The QCEA was founded in 1979 and is c/o FluENDS JOURNAL American lives, that these people who currently represented in Brussels by have been officially designated "the Belgian-born Angele Kneale. It seeks to ~ enemy" need to be saved from us, and provide a Quaker witness in the decision- ~ that our destinies are intertwined with making processes of Europe in three theirs? main areas: peace and disarmament, What is your insight? I am researching human rights, and the right sharing of this for an article. I shall be so grateful if the world's resources. you respond. A tour that took me from the leafy Gene Knudsen-Hoffman tranquility of New Hampshire to the US-USSR Reconciliation noise, excitement, and aggressiveness of Fellowship of Reconciliation New York City also took me to Friends · 312 E. Sola St. General Conference, Pendle Hill, the Santa Barbara, CA 93101 American Friends Service Committee, and Friends World Committee for Con­ sultation in Philadelphia; the Quaker United Nations Office; and the Friends Leonard Kenworthy's "The Crucial Committee on National Legislation and Role of Spoken Ministry" (FJ 8/1-15) is William Penn House in Washington, D.C. a thoughtful and thought-provoking , The connections between our work and A Query Inviting Your Response: contribution. My reaction to his message, international witness on different sides of however, is that there are some "on-the­ the Atlantic came alive when I met Why is there so little emotional support other-hand" observations that seem to Friends who had used our publications, for U.S./USSR reconciliation? How do me important to express. Matters of who had never heard of QCEA but who you think we might evoke it? relative emphasis are subtle and difficult came to discussion groups to find out, There is broad intellectual support for to evaluate, and I am very uncomfortable who taught me about the U.S. dimension U.S./USSR disarmament in the United with some possible interpretations of his of issues we work on in Brussels. We States and many church people have message. . have different perspectives on common become deeply involved with people from No one could quarrel with the idea themes. To seek to identify the threads the churches in the Soviet Union. There that Quakers should nourish their that link us can only benefit and are many important conferences being spiritual resources by reading and strengthen our international witness. held, bringing together Americans and reflection, or that they should endeavor I thank Friends for the warm welcome Soviets. But-perhaps it is because I live to be articulate in their thinking and they gave me and hope to have the in California- ! have not found the need speaking, or that they should witness to chance to meet some of you in Brussels has reached the hearts of many citizens. their convictions and share their insights at: QCEA, 50 Square Ambiorix, B-1040 I will cite some examples. (This is not with others. But I am uneasy if it is Brussels (tel. 230 49 35). a criticism; it is simply an observation.) implied that Friends have it laid upon Sally Sadler On the West Coast I have found most them to be generally more vocal in Brussels, Belgium people involved with the suffering in meeting or that their spiritual searching Central America. The Resource Center and meditating should be with the C.O.s in the Circle of Friends for Nonviolence focuses on the Middle specific purpose of increasing the East and Central America. My Friends quantity of something like "preaching." Recently our small Friends meeting has meeting is deeply involved with Central Such an ideal is certainly not what been discovered by two young men who America, as are many, many Santa brought a great many of us to the are in the armed forces and assigned to a Barbarans. There is a Latin America Society of Friends. nearby installation. Both of them, as a "desk" at our local peace resource Perhaps there are meetings where week result of their military experience, have center. The only group pursuing U.S./ after week nothing or almost nothing is come to the position of conscientious USSR reconciliation is our local said in meeting for worship,. I have, objection. Each has initiated the process Fellowship of Reconciliation group, and · however, never experienced such a available to him to achieve that status. we find it hard going. . meeting. I have attended meetings,. Each, in addition, finds in the meeting I wonder if the reason for this is that particularly large and intellectually vital for worship confirmation of his personal there's little or nothing we can do to ones, where the excess of speaking search for spiritual guidance. "help" the Soviet people. Traditionally destroyed the essence of Quaker worship, I would like to know if other meetings we Americans have been superb at even when most of the messages have had attendees who bring with them clothing, feeding, and sheltering people in individually were beyond criticism, or similar experiences. As I understand it, other countries. Our affluence gave us were even inspiring. And I have attended one part of the military opinion on this these opportunities and that's what we an occasional meeting for worship when

22 October 15, 1984 FRIENDS JOURNAL an hour of silence, either unbroken or inevitably reflect the quality of the silence, and less frequently on the broken only by one or two brief cultivation of the inner life. The second importance of the vocal ministry. messages, proved deeply moving. We is that each of us should constantly re­ I trust J . Richard Reid, and other should not undervalue the ministry of examine our reasons for either speaking readers, will obtain copies of the entire silence. or remaining silent, and continue to do talk and reflect on its various points. Leonard Kenworthy speaks of the so as we are led by the inner guide. (The full tape of Leonard's address is "thousands of people today who are It is quite possible that Leonard available for $5 plus $2 postage from probably ready for the messages of Kenworthy agrees with all I have said. If FGC, 1520-B Race St., Philadelphia, PA Friends," and he feels that "we do have so, I hope I have helped by pointing out 19102. A pamphlet is also being a message for many of these modem-day possible misinterpretation. If he disagrees prepared. -Ed.) seekers." All that is surely true. But our substantially, then that suggests that there concerns, much as we may sometimes is a difference of opinion that the Society August 6: Beyond Thought think otherwise, are not 'peculiar to needs to address carefully; and I hope I Friends; nor is our comparatively non­ have helped by pointing it out. I believe On August 6, the 39th anniversary of theological basis for the concerns there are a large number of us for whom the atomic disaster that leveled peculiarly Quaker. What is distinctive of the views I express are central to the Hiroshima, I again visited the Memorial Friends is our manner of worship and the meaning of Quakerism. Museum in Peace Park. The place was way of carrying worship over into all J. Richard Reid hot and humid, but the spirit of sadness aspects of life, including the transaction Rochdale, Mass. of business. There are many fme preachers in a great variety of Leonard Kenworthy's response denominational churches preaching in to J. Richard Reid: Thank you very Quaker Volunteer Witness favor of our concerns; and we need not much for publishing in the FRIENDS feel in competition with them. That there JouRNAL the two excerpts from my talk QVW volunteers live collectively. should be an occasional Friend genuinely at the FGC gathering in July, and for They share emotional, spiritual moved by the divine spirit, and unusually forwarding to me the letter from and financial resources as they well endowed with a clear-thinking mind J. Richard Reid. able to articulate and communicate his or One of the difficulties in printing work with local communitles. her insights, .and who feels called upon to excerpts from any address is the fact that Currently we have two openings: visit Friends meetings (or any other sort) readers do not realize what was omitted. ( 1) Elderly advocate in Indiana- far and wide is something we can all be Let me, therefore, reassure J . Richard grateful for and hope to see. But I feel it Reid-and possibly other readers-that polis, Indiana. is dangerous for the individual to hold the part of my talk that was omitted (2) Advocate for the home!ess that up as a personal goal to strive for. referred at length to the "diversity of A distinctively Quaker vocal ministry, I ministries" in a meeting and to the in Des Moines, Iowa. believe, is one that forces itself upon the fundamental importance of an expectant individual as a result of inner spiritual silence out of which messages should Quaker Volunteer Witness searching, rather than being a goal that frequently arise. Friends United Meeting one adopts and then prepares and strives One of the emphases in that talk, and 101 Quaker Hill Drive to reach. presumably the reason why the JOURNAL For me, there are two basic principles printed the section on the spoken ichmond, IN 47374 in this matter. The first is that the ministry, was because Friends frequently 317/ 962-7573 quality of the spoken ministry will speak and write on the importance of

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"A reappraisal of why prof­ social contact with anyone outside the by • awa}ZOs ·msc~tpctons • its have slumped must be at the very center then minority group of Philadephia Quakers. • et~ct2 announcemencs • of any attempt at fresh policy formation." • ~~OOCltXj C3.£b 0051GUS • A switch in tax policy to unburden em­ Laurence Cushmore • mV1cactons • sc~otts • ployment and investment and give an incen­ tive to production is the practical way to .91anz~:l!THresr implement the development of new capital My China Years. By Helen Foster Snow. 609-790-JSZ+ and avoid the repetition of boom-bust cycles William Morrow and Co., New York, 1984. according to Harrison. 352 pages. $17.95. 0 This work presents a powerful argument for free enterprise capitalism that surpasses Helen Foster Snow's China story has most other writers on this subject. He has special interest for those who, like the included a bibliography of references that author, have devoted themselves to trying to alone is worth the price of the book. meet needs of others in the midst of revolu­ Here is a book that is certain to have a tionary changes. The book reveals the per­ large impact and stimulate fresh thinking son of Helen Foster Snow, tracing her trav­ about the causes of and the cures for business els and work from all-American roots to a depressions. job in a foreign American consulate, through Irene Hickman a decade in China as wife of Edgar Snow. We also learn about her years in the Unit­ ed States, writing, and now making world­ Friends and Neighbors: Group Life in wide application of cooperative principles. America's First Plural Society. Edited by She believes cooperatives of various kinds are Michael W. Zuckerman. Temple University the bridge to the future of a peaceful Press, Philadelphia, Pa., 1982. 225 pages. world-her blueprint being the C. I. C. (Chi­ WESTTOWN $29.95. nese Industrial Cooperatives) created by her, Edgar Snow, and Rewi Alley in 1938 to help SCHOOL The editor, in his introduction, advances serve China's needs for goods in wartime. Westtown, PA 19395 the proposition that, while for many years Our familiar term "gung ho" (directly trans­ (21 5) 399-0123 h,.,,,...., .. ,,. of colonial America have con- lated: "work together") has come into use PK-10th Grade Day cellttrated on New England and Virginia, from the C.I.C. slogan, "Gung Ho." 9-12th Grade Boarding the one a theocracy and the other a How good that she herself has put down "I think Westtown is special because the planter-slave economy, were atypical her story for us. We learn of her life, lived people are willing to share, willing to as the developing nation was con­ in high gear in China, India, Korea, Japan, care, and willing to dare to be different. and that more modern historians the Philippines, and the United States-en­ You can be your own personl" recogrlized that the more heterogeneous compassing three-quarters of this century. Betsy Brown '86 Atlantic States (William Penn's open­ The book is full of information from her For Further Information to-all Pennsylvania and West Jersey) were to storehouse of experiences and associations PleCIM Contact: a much greater extent the genesis of the with world leaders. She is a treasury of Bradley J. Quln, developing Union. knowledge of the China scene up to the Director of Admissions Zuckerman presents his argument with present. She took part in the beginnings of considerable eloquence and persuasiveness, contemporary China and is the only person and is probably correct, but the eight theses, in the world who extensively interviewed its by as many junior college faculty and doc­ mid-20th-century leaders in their cave capital candidates, which follow his introduc­ of Yenan before they moved to make their do not do a great deal to support his capital among the palaces of Peking. FRIENDS' CENTRAL SCHOOL As Zuckerman admits, his proteges When they visit the United States, the Overbrook, Philadelphia, 19151 did not collaborate with each United Nations, or Washington, D.C., Chi­ • A co-educational country day , and the sole thread connecting their na's leaders who were her' personal friends, school on a 23-acre campus just is that all relate to some limited facet in earlier years in China now trek to her door outside of Philadelphia. in 18th- or very early 19th-century in Connecticut, to recognize her 'unique con­ • Pre-primary (three-year-olds) through 12th grade. tributions to China. • A Friends school established in the eight essays are Quaker­ One of the important contributions of this 1845, Friends' Central emphasizes ...,, ...,J,.,u. Of greatest interest to the general book is to enliven the life of the reader who the pursuit of excellence in reader would be the essay by Nancy learns of Helen Foster Snow's life so ener­ education through concern for the based upon a study of the journals getically si>ent promoting understanding and individual student. well-to-do Quaker women of Philadel­ cooperation in 'this world that so desperately Thomas A. Wood The period covered-1750-1800- needs it. Headmaster of coilrse, the American Revolution. Margaret Stanley

FRIENDS JOURNAL October 15, 1984 27 Heidelburg University in 1923 and later became Books in Brief a federal judge. He came to the United States in Tbe Perigee Visual Dictionary of Signing: An A 1940 and worked as a professional arbitrator until 1980. He also taught labor law and economics at to Z Guide to Over 1,200 Signs of American Sign Loyola University for 18 years. He published Languaee. By Rod R. Butterworth. Putnam, New numerous articles on labor disputes and co­ York, 1983. 450 pages. $8.95/paperback. Clear authored the textbook, Unions, Management, instructions and illustrations on basic hand the Public. He is survived by his daughter, positions, an alphabetized word list, and a Annemarie Shimony, and his son, Fred Anrod. synonym index make this a useful book for Bell-Mary F. Bell, 78, on August 23. Mary, a William Bagwell lives in retirement in Don­ beginners learning sign language. secretary, was a member of 'Lansdowne (Pa.) alds, S.C., where he farms. Annette Larson Meeting and participated in various community Tbe Desert Blooms: A Personal Adventure in clubs. She is survived by her stepchildren, Edward Benert, a member of Lehigh Valley (Pa.) Growing Old Creatively. By Sarah-Patton Boyle. and Roy Bell, Dorothy Griffith, Gena Rogasch, Meeting, is a professor of English who writes Abington Press, Nashville, Tenn., 1983. 207 pages. and Marie Neff; 22 grandchildren; and 18 great­ poetry for the joy of it. A frequent contrib­ $6.95/paperback. At age 59 the author lost her grandchildren. utor to FRIENDS JOURNAL, Jim Best is a husband and moved to a city where she knew no Cadbury-Lucille Cadbury, 71, a. resident of retired editor and he is a member of Pima one. This is her story of loneliness and aging, of Waldoboro, Maine, suddenly on July 28 in Cherry (Ariz.) Meeting. A member of Newtown Hill, N.J. A member of Germantown (Pa.) Friends the great changes, especially in personal interac­ . (Pa.) Meeting, Laurence Cusbmore is a Meeting, she taught at Germantown Friends tions with people in daily life. Slowly, through in­ · trustee of the Fiducia'ry Corporation of Phila­ School for 30 years. She was also on the Board volvement in a church community and by coming delphia Yearly Meeting. Irene Hickman lives of Directors of the Merry Spring Foundation and to terms with her age-with being considered in Kirksville, Mo. C. A. Lofton is a published active in the Audubon Society. She is survived by "old"-she creates structure and makes friends. her sister, Jean Bradley; sons, Joel and David poet and a member of 57th St. (Ill.) Meeting. Cadbury; and four grandchildren. · Margaret Stanley worked in China with the Clark-A member of State College (Pa.) Meeting, Friends Ambulance Unit in the 1940s. She Martin Clark, 55, on June 19. He was associate has returned to China several times, the latest professor of sociology and religion at Juniata a month's visit in 1983. College, Huntingdon, Pa. A native of London, MILESTONES England, he graduated from Trinity College, STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND Cambridge. He then studied for the priesthood and CIRCULATION (Required by 39 U.S.C. 3685) was ordained as an Anglican priest. After coming I. Tille of publicalion: FllJENDs JoullNAL. to the United States, he earned a Ph.D. from Harvard and taught at Western Connecticut 2. Dale of filina : Seplember 13, 1984. Births College. He is survived by his daughter, Jennifer 3. Frequency of issue: Semi-monlhly-exceplions: January, F. Clark, and sister, Patience Bailey. June, July, Auausl, September one issue only (19 a year). An· Deming-Feminist-pacifist writer, nual subscription price: $12. Bowes-To Arlene Dannenberg Bowes and Barbara 67, at her home in Sugarloaf, Fla., on Stephen M. Bowes Ill, a son, Deming, 4. Location of known office of publication: 1501 Cherry Stephen Mallory August 1. She was known as the author of nine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. on August The parents and maternal Bowes IV, 24. books and scores of essays, letters, poems, grandparents, Aileen and Arthur Dannenberg, Jr., S. Location of the headquarters or general business offices speeches, and stories, as well as through her work of the publishers: 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA are members of Stony Run (Md.) Meeting. 19102. in the civil rights, peace, women's, and lesbian/gay Cadwallader..Staub-Bef!iamin Eves Cadwallader­ movements. She interviewed Fidel Castro for 6. Names and addresses of the publisher, editor and manager, Staub, July 11 , to Julie and Warren Cadwallader­ Nation soon after his takeover of Cuba, was and assistant editor: Publisher, Friends Publishing Corpora­ Staub. The family lives at Pendle Hill. imprisoned in Albany, Ga., for more than a month tion, ISO! Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102; Editor­ Frlsone-L/oyd Paul Frisone, July 20, to Linda in 1964 as a result of civil rights activities, took Manager, Vin1on Deming, Assistanr Editor. Eve Homan, I SO l Cherry Slreet, Philadelphia, PA 19102. R. Jeffrey and John Frisone. The baby's mother part in a well-publicized protest in Saigon against is a member of Lincoln (Nebr.) Friends Meeting. the Vietnam War in 1967, and most recently was 7. Owner: Friends Publishing Corporation, 1501 Cherry arrested for her involvement in the Seneca Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Nonprofit Corporation­ Maurer-To Johan Fredrik Maurer and Judith no stock. VanWyck Maurer, Luke VanWyck Maurer, July Women's Peace Encampment in 1983. As one writer has noted: "Barbara Deming always 8. Known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders 27. Judy is a member of First Friends Meeting in Richmond, Ind.; Johan is a member of Ottawa challenges us to rise above easy answers about who ownina or holdina I percent or more of total amount of we are. Her insight into the nature of political bonds, mortaaaes. or other securilies: none. (Canada) Monthly Meeting. change and the needs of the human spirit makes 9. The purpose, function , and nonprofit status of 1his organization and exempt slatus for federal income tax pur­ poses: Have not chanaed during precedina 12 months. Marriages The people in the AFSC staff photograph on page 5 are: (1) Henry T. Brown, 10. Extent and nature of circulation: (2) Howard Pennell, (3) Guy Solt, (4) Frank Averaae no. Single Ennls-Lorey-Kenneth Lorey and Carolyn Ennis copies each issue on August 30 in Tucson, Ariz. Carolyn; her Bradbeer, (5) Hugh Moore, (6) Elizabeth issue during nearest daughter, Beverly; her mother, Joyce Ennis Kerns, (7) Louise Stinetorj, (8) Blanche preceding filing Hardin; and her stepfather, George Hardin, are Cloeren Tache, (9) Arthur Hershey, (10) 12 months date all members of Pima (Ariz.) Meeting. The bride's Henrietta Seth, (ll) Wray Hoffman, (12) A. Total no. copies prirlted ..... 9568 9400 father, Robert L. Ennis, is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Monthly Meeting. Mildred Everts, (13) Clarence Pickett, (14) B. Paid Circulation: Lilly Pickett, (15) Ruth Carter, (16) Babette I. Sales through dealers, Giessler-Grundman-Douglas Grundman and street vendors, and Helen Giessler on June 23 under the care of Detroit Newton, (17) Elizabeth Marsh Jensen, counter sales ...... NONE NONE (Mich.) Friends Meeting. The bride ~nd her par­ (18) Ray Newton, (19) Fred Suplee, Jr., 2. Mail subscriptions ...... 9202 9058 ents, Hali and Dorothy Giessler, are members of (20) Milton Hadley, (21) Miriam Wilson, C. Total paid circulation ...... 9202 9058 Detroit Meeting. (22) Grace Rhoads, (23) Raymond Wilson D. Free distribution (including 20 O'Kane-Gardner-Darien Adams Gardner and /5 17 samples) by mail or other Kathleen (Katya) O'Kane on July 7 under the care 19 means ...... 132 liS of Beacon Hill (Mass.) Meeting, where the bride E. Total distribution ...... 9334 9173 is a member. F. Office use, left-over, unaccounted, spoiled after prin1ina ...... 234 227 Deaths G. Total ...... 9568 9400 ll. We certify that the statements made by us are correct and Anrod-Charles W. Anrod, 88, a member of complete. Evanston (Ill.) Meeting, on July 19. Born in VINTON DEMING, Editor-Manager Germany, he received his law doctorate from

28 October 15, 1984 FRIENDS JOURNAL hers a unique feminist voice which guides and Mellor-Alfred Mellor, Sr., 77, a much-loved Group and Movement for a New Society. His skills inspires us." member of Dallas (Tex.) Friends Meeting, in July. as a nonviolence trainer, speaker, and author and Hendenon-Anna Louise Henderson, 62, on July A graduate of Germantown Friends School and his warm, personal qualities of working with 23. She was a life-long member of Miami (Ohio) Haverford College, Alfred worked for Westing­ people were deeply valued. He was a doctoral Monthly Meeting. She is survived by her father, house, General Electric, and Chance-Vought student at the University of Pennsylvania when his Keller Hoak; sisters, Monimia Barker and Eula Aircraft. He spent most of his later years working brain cancer was diagnosed in 1983. Jim is sur­ McDermott; brothers, Benton and Seth Hoak; for Dodds Garden Center. He raised and cared for vived by his wife, Linda Nunes-Schrag; parents, daughters, Rebecca Henderson, Kathryn Powell, three children, nursed his wife and her father Lois and James Schrag; sister, Margaret Aker­ and Carolyn Henderson; and two sons, Kenneth through long, fatal illnesses, and participated in strom; and brother, Robert Schrag. Henderson III and John Henderson. several organizations. Kaltenbacb-John E. Kaltenbach, 69, of Cushing, Nunes-Scbrag-On September 16, at home in Sufferings Maine, on August 20 at home. A member of Mid­ Philadelphia, Pa., James Nunes-Schrag, 41, a Coast (Maine) Monthly Meeting, he formerly member of Central Philadelphia Meeting. He is Rossman- 'f/ern Rossman, Beacon Hill (Mass.) belonged to Chestnut Hill (Pa.) Meeting, Guilford a graduate of Earlham College and a former Meeting, incarcerated for participation in Griffiss (Conn.) Meeting, and Uwchlan (Pa.) Meeting. member of Ann Arbor (Mich.) Meeting. Jim was Plowshares Peace Witness in 1983. He faces three John was director of Scattergood Hostel, West a much-loved and admired peace and human rights years of imprisonment for destruction of federal Branch, Iowa, from 1938 to 1940. During the activist in Philadelphia for the past 18 years, and proper~y and conspiracy. His address is Federal 1950s he .helped found The Meeting School, was a founding member of A Quaker Action Prison Farm, Danbury, CT 06810. Rindge, N.H., and Woolman Hill, Deerfield, Mass. He is survived by his wife, Ruth Stanton Kaltenbach; seven children, Faith, Mary, Bart, Sarah, Rachel, Mark, and Patience; 16 grandchildren; and a sister, Louise Kaltenbach Howard. Klein-Karl F. Klein, 82, of cancer, in San Antonio, Tex. He was an active charter member of 57th St. (Ill.) Meeting. In 1948, he and his wife, Helen, went to Wuppertal, Germany, for the AFSC to build a neighborhood center, which is still active. After retiring from foreign service with AID, he lived for some time in Santa Rosa, Calif., CHANDLER HALL where he helped establish Redwood Friends Meet­ Where loving care and skilled nursing mean peace of mind for aging Friends ing. He is survived by his wife, Helen Klein; son, and their families; also providing efficient supporting services including a Peter Douglas Klein; and three grandchildren. certified hospice home/health aide program. Levering-On August 19, Martha L. Levering, 82, at home. A member of Lansdowne (Pa.) Meeting, Jane Fox Laquer-Administrator (215) 968-4786 she also participated in many community organiza­ tions. She is survived by her daughters, Alice Newtown, Pennsylvania 1~940 Levering and Martha Hawkinson, and three grand­ children. watch the birdie. George Sehool Sin<..: 1893 Make . sweet mustc. A Friendly Plaee To Grow Take a hike.--. In Spiri~ luteDee~ and SeU-ReUauee A Coeducational Friends Boarding and Day School At Mohonk there are 24 special Gmdes 9- 12 theme programs. just about one R. Barret Cop pock. Director of AclaaUslo­ every other week. Ranging from George Schoo~ ~ewtown, PA 18940 (215) 968-3811 antiquing to birdwatching. con­ certs to hiking. whodunits to how-to-do-it~. jAil in an inspiring. one-of-a.-kind natura l setting around a glacial lake in the Shawangunk Mountains. only 90 ~WOODS COURT______~ miles from New York. With thou­ sands of acres to hike. ride and dream in. Delicious meals. Con­ Now available-New one-bedroom genial companions. Come for our apartments for senior citizens programs. Come to be yourself. contact: Robert Smith, Administrator Friends Home at Woodstown !WOCOSTOWN Woodstown, NJ 08098 Telephone (609) 769-1500

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