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Editor-Manager Vinton Deming In the Bathtub? Assistant Editor Timothy Drake oon after I became editor I began to write about my children in this column. Art Director Barbara Benton When Simeon was a toddler, for instance (he's 11 now), I described the Advertising Manager S precious insights that came to me as he and I were biking to work together, Catherine Frost exploring a neighborhood park, or encountering a homeless person. Older brother Circulation and Promotion Nagendran Gulendran Andrew also inspired occasional articles. Daughter Evelyn (now a mother herself) Production Assistant dragged me along to a Michael Jackson concert in her teenage years, and I Kenneth Sutton described that awesome event. Trivia Specialist Edward Sargent At times my wife has shook her head when seeing these offerings, feeling, I Bookkeeper think, that it's a bit like my afflicting others with our family home movies when James Neveil people drop over to the house. Surely there is something better to write about, she Volunteers suggests. Jane Burgess, Emily Conlon, Marguerite Clark, Gwen Neveil, Robert Sutton The reason I occasionally have chosen to tell about the children, however, is Board of Managers basically this: I continue to be instructed by them. By seeing life through their eyes 1991-1994: Frank Bjornsgaard, Emily Conlon, (in those all-too-rare moments when I am able to do so), I receive rich insights into Sam Legg (Clerk,), Parry Jones, Richard Moses (Treasurer), Harry Scott, Larry Spears, Robert life. Sutton, Carolyn Terrell Once, I recall, Sim at a very early age startled me with the question, "How old is 1992-1995: Phoebe Cottingham, Richard Eldridge (Assistant Clerk), Deborah Fisch, Kitty Harrison, God?" I'm afraid I totally failed him in my clumsy efforts to respond. I totally blew Bernard Haviland, Paul Jolly, Eric Larson, Mary it, I'm ashamed to admit, when I suggested he ask his mother for her opinion, which Mangelsdorf, Margery Rubin, David Samuel, Carolyn Sprogell, Wilmer Tjossem, Alice Wiser he did. Another time he asked if it was illegal to keep a whale as a pet. I did much (Secretary) better with that one, I'm pleased to say. I come from a long line of lawyers, after all. 1993-1996: Marguerite Clark, Lee Neff, Mary Ellen Singsen Sim answered the question himself, actually, when he surmised he'd not be able to Honorary Managers keep a whale, even a small one, in the bathtub. Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Mildred BinnsYoung In more recent times I've been challenged in far deeper ways. Once at breakfast FRI ENDS JOURNAL(I SSN 0016-1 322) was Sim looked at me and asked, "What's this I hear about AIDS? Is it true that if you use established in 1955 as the successor to The a condom you won't get it?" (This was before the current TV ads, I should point Friend ( 1827- 1955) and Friends lntelligencer (1844-1955). It is associated with the Religious out, so I was caught totally by surprise.) I managed not to spill my morning coffee, Society of Friends. turned down "Morning Edition" on Public Radio, and shared what I knew on the • FRIENDSJO URNALis published monthly by subject. After a few minutes, Sim asked if he could have more Cheerios, and he did, Friends Publishing Corporation, 150 I Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. Telephone (215) and then he gave me a hug and ran to catch his bus for school. 241-7277. Accepted as second-class postage at Someone sent me a clipping this past year or so from a Maryland newspaper, an Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing offices. article that may help to put all of the above into context Entitled "50 Years of • Subscriptions: one year $21, two years $40. 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7 Something for Easter 2 Among Friends Robert Kunkel By tradition Friends don 't celebrate the holiday, but what do 4 Forum we think ofquestions about death and a possible afterlife? 5 Viewpoint 9 The Healing of Bartimaeus, 23 Young Friends The Blind Beggar Jeff Perkins 24 FCNLNotes The Bible story speaks today ofth e possible transformation available to us. 26 News of Friends 11 LeHer from Ruritania 27 Bulletin Board Phillip Gething 28 Calendar Turning swords into garden gnomes? Yearly meeting struggles to reach unity. 30 Books 13 The Testimonies 32 Milestones A. Zoland Leishear They are the product ofsearching and trying, watching and 34 Classified waiting. 37 19931ndex 14 Friends Helping Friends Gordon Browne A farm loan fund: what better way to both "keep the trust" and Poetry meet an urgent current need! 17 To Build, to Discover 10 Consecrating the Bob Taibbi Meetinghouse It takes a lot offaith, for sure, to discover our lives; the paths Elizabeth Cazden are often without clear markers. 18 Grow Old Along with Me 12 Friends Again Alice McMullin Margar~t Hope Bacon It 's never too late in life to commit ourselves to growth and change in a marriage. 20 Sharing Our Lives Karen Seaton and Nicole GrofT Buckingham Friends School and St. Petersburg School 213 discover ways to build bridges offriendship.

Cover art: "Christ Appears to Mary Magdalene, " by Albrecht DUrer. fRIENDS JOURNAL March 1994 3 Forum Population concerns A unique experience Mariellen Gilpin's article "Meditation Thank you for the excellent pair of 10 I" (FJ Jan.) is particularly excellent, and articles by Stan Becker and Aziz Pabaney on a topic too seldom attended to in (FJ Nov.1993). We are happy to see their Friendly circles. concerns in print. I would Jjke to bring to attention one While both say that limiting population matter, the word meditation. Could we is necessary, the tone of Aziz's article in please call what we do worship? condemning the insensitivity of developed Meditation came into common use along countries seems to suggest that with the humanist movement in the late overconsumption at home, not population, '60s. It refers to a quieting of the mind, should be the concern of Friends. usually through use of mantra, with no We believe that overpopulation and expectation of experience beyond oneself overconsumption are two sides of the same and, perhaps, the Divine. Friends' worship coin. Population drives up consumption and refers to a quieting of the mind, usually both drive up pollution. through use ofcentering to openness with "sustainable development," but to bring Ignoring the population/pollution an expectation of experience ofthe Divine this about will require enormous problems of the miserably poor of india, with and among the body of worshipers knowledge, creativity, and persistence. Egypt, and Brazil won't help. But helping present. them to stabilize their population (by Are Quakers ready to face up to this Let me give an example. How often we dilemma, as they finally faced up to the offering voluntary contraceptives and have been in worship, trying to leave a disagreeable subject of slavery 200 years education for women) might. It could problem behind, when someone has stood ago? Those of us who are concerned can prevent much starvation and disease now and spoken to our "condition." It is the only continue to try. and in the future. It could give them a expectation ofcorporate worship being led chance to work on other problems of caring Amy and Paul Weber by Divine Spirit that is so distinctly Haddonfield, N.J. for the old and providing jobs and better different from any other faith and discipline health for the young. It won't be easy to I am aware of. To deny the experience of At last the article by Aziz Pabaney, overcome cultural barriers, but that is no wordless communication among which succinctly states the conclusions I reason to give up. And the same is true for worshiping Friends is, for me, a denial of our own country. reached 20 years ago at Pendle Hill! As a our experience of communion. Calling for reduced consumption in the Western child in the desert community of developed countries is even more difficult Yuma, Arizona, I saw the development of Mary R. Hopkins because ofeconomists and politicians who land and reclamation in the valleys of Media, Pa. believe "consumer confidence," growth, Arizona and southern California, which profits, and jobs are necessary for survival. were based on massive dam and canal Few in our country welcome lower systems and not upon the sustainable Peace within standards ofliving. Even the poor in India, cultural base. And at my last contacts with Before meeting for worship one week, Egypt, and Brazil, who deserve better than many Eastern Friends and their offices, I Yarmouth (Mass.) Friends had a discussion they have, would be happy to live like rich did not see sustainability even in the on the peace testimony and how it relates to Americans. Quaker boarding schools and colleges. our personal lives. One individual seemed Micro-efforts of Quakers to be Mildred Binns Young, where are you to be in turmoil. She expressed acute individual models of simple living­ when we need you? And Wally and Juanita feelings of pain for the sufferings in the wearing second-hand clothes, recycling Nelson, can we have your story of"simple" world today; she did not seem to have a newspapers, riding bikes, and cutting down living?-a very complex thing to be able to way to process these feelings into a place on the use of cars-are laudable small do, indeed! of peace or constructive action. In meeting steps, but some say that only macro­ M.R. Eucalyptous for worship the following message came to measures like the banning of DDT and Kansas City, Mo. me for her. As she was not present for setting pollution and mileage standards for worship, at the rise of meeting I wrote it cars will make a real difference. And while Thanks indeed for publishing my article. down and shared it with her. Others in the they argue, world population is growing by I would be most interested in the comments meeting who also had occasion to read the 11,000 people every hour. Every person of readers, which will lead to further message urged me to send it to you: born consumes a lifetime of the world's thought and discussion. If you and I do not have peace within us, food and other resources, and produces a From 18-22 November, 1993, we had we cannot manifest peace in the world. lifetime of waste. Indeed population/ the first gathering of Indian Friends jointly If you and I do not listen to the voice of consumption is the principal fuel of with Friends World Committee for "God" rising out ofa centered silence, we environmental damage and pollution. Consultation. Some 25 foreign Friends cannot follow the leadings of the Spirit. World population will not stay as it is. It attended. It was followed by a work camp If you and I do not in a meaningful way is growing exponentially every year. And of young friends from 23-28 November. touch the Divine within us, we cannot further environmental disintegration will This was the first such gathering in 130 recognize or feel it in others and the world. follow-lower water tables, more soil years. It was God's leading, and the Spirit If you and I do not manifest peace in the depletion, greater air and water pollution, guided us in working toward a farmly of world, follow the leadings of the Spirit, or etc. Friends in India. The next one we hope will recognize and touch the Divine in others or The whole population/industrialization/ take place in about two years. the world, our actions are as dust in the consumption/pollution issue is a wind. complicated, long-term Catch 22, Aziz Pabaney Rachel Carey-Harper euphemistically addressed by a search for Bombay, India Dennis, Mass.

4 March 1994 FRIENDS. JOURNAL Viewpoint Our Latest Addiction "The attempt, which is inseparablefrom become middle-class. This has become the Objection to our country's addiction gambling, to make a profit out ofthe inevi­ case not only on Minnesota's reservations, to gambling is not a moralistic panacea table loss and possible suffering ofothers but throughout the country. How can we not for all the social ills besieging this coun­ is the antithesis ofthat love ofone's neigh­ rejoice that native Americans in many places try any more than lotteries are the great bor on which our Lord insisted. " are finally moving out of desperate poverty? golden goose that will solve all our eco­ -London Yearly Meeting, 1960 And I must admit some satisfaction in the nomic problems. Still, what appears to historical irony that Indian wealth is based many to be an easy way to avoid taxing Sometimes we are so busy in the events on providing for a peculiarly white man's ourselves for the services we require is of our lives, or events in the world happen vice (remember the importance of "fire-wa­ far from the "victimless sin" it is por­ so fast that we overlook or don't notice ter" to Western expansion in the 19th cen­ trayed to be. At what point will our nation even significant changes in U.S. society. tury?). decide it can no longer wager its future One of these changes became clear to me Nevertheless, I am concerned that gam­ with the pipe-dreams of an increasingly this summer when our family took a vaca­ bling, according to one report I've heard, has alienated citizenry? With this feverish rush tion trip to my home state of Minnesota. become the fastest growing industry in our to place bets, will we know when it's time The last time I had been in Minnesota, in country. I am concerned about what it means to quit? 1989, the state was still debating institut­ to increasingly base the nation's economy Friends historically have held a testi­ ing a state lottery. Today, Minnesota not and tax base on activities which are not only mony against gambling. Like other only has a state lottery (as do 48 other nonproductive, but rely on the human wish "lesser" testimonies, there doesn't seem states), it also has 13 high-stakes casinos to get something for nothing for its very to be a lot ofdi scussion about this, at least on tribal lands. Mille Lacs, the tiny Ojibwa survival. I am concerned with what I believe not around New England Yearly Meet­ reservation near my home town, has been to be the racist hypocricy in our war on crime ing. Is the time approaching for Friends to transformed by a huge casino and nearby (rooted in the "vices" of alcohol and drugs, renew our position on gambling, or at hotel complex. which we believe primarily exist with the least to begin talking about it again? Like many Friends, I have some am­ poor and people of color), and our blatant bivalent feelings about casinos on tribal encouragement of gambling (the " vice" of - Randy Oftedahl lands. When I was growing up, Mille Lacs the middle classes). And I am concerned at Woonsocket, R.I. reservation was every farm kid's example the almost total silence of the churches. With of what poverty was. Today, I am told, some exceptions, churches have kept con­ (Reprinted from the Smithfield (R.I.) there is virtually no unemployment on the spicuously quiet about the rapid rise of gam­ Friends Meeting Newsletter, December reservation and the Ojibwa have suddenly bling in U.S. society. 1993)

pain serves a valuable function when our structures should be discarded into the Accepting death bodies are burned, cut, twisted, sick, or historical wastebasket. What's left then? If it were not for the development of otherwise "bent out of shape." But what is The individualism that Lundy advocates high-tech machinery and the hands of a the function of pain when a life has been is the death knell ofany organization. No skilled neurosurgeon, I would not be lived and the body is clearly becoming less corporate community can be raised on that writing this letter. I'd be dead from the and less useful to its inhabitant and never basis. It is the Society as a spiritual, effects ofa (benign) brain tumor removed can recover its former utility? corporate community that transcends the 12 years ago. It is gilding the lily to say I Bob Barns individual, and the experience of the appreciate that skill, that knowledge, those Nevada City, Calif. individual can be tested against that advances in medical technology. corporate fact. This is not done lightly, and That does not mean I wish to keep going it might well be that the testimony of such as long as this body and frame will flutter Into the wastebasket? individual may be incorporated in the on. There will come a time when I will no Christine Lundy's stance in "What We historical, collective experience of the longer be useful to anyone-a time when Say" (FJ Nov. 1993) is identical with the Society. staying around will be utterly counter­ centrifugal individualism of the Ranters. If H. Otto Dahlke productive. That will be the time when I they would have prevailed, there would Richmond, Va. would wish the skills of the medical have been no Religious Society of Friends, profession to be applied again, to help me which accounts for the extreme hostility move on, to help me find an appropriate expressed by the Foxes against this group. Friends and alcohol way to face death, to cross the line, to make Lundy would have us reinvent the Robert Levering's article and the the medical resources of the world Religious Society of Friends but only with subsequent correspondence on the subject available to someone facing the realistic regard to the testimonies. of Friends and the use of alcohol seems to promise of years yet to come. I am Why not the organizational structures have left out what to me is the major saddened that the same people who "played too? After all, they too are an accumulation argument for total abstinence. Setting an God" when they made it possible for me to of the past. Somehow Lundy seems to think example is obviously an important point, live the past decade cannot find it within all past experience is of dubious quality and but far more basic is our belief in the Inner themselves to do so again and help me of little relevance to the contemporary Light. If we believe there is that of God in move to another state of living/dying! scene unless it is verified or discovered de each of us, should we be clouding our existing. novo in the experience of the present minds (however slightly) with anything? And yet I have many questions. Perhaps members. If not so discovered, then the We are admonished to "Love the Lord your FJ readers can help me with one. Clearly testimonies as well as the organizational God with all your heart, with all your soul,

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1994 5 and with all your mind." I find this very I would also take issue with Scilipoti's Three Friends began in February 1993 hard to do, and I do not want to do anything reading of the Bible. He contends that the by helping volunteer inmates prepare for that might make it harder. The rules for Bible views wine drinking as part of the General Equivalency Diploma (OED). driving a car after drinking alcohol show "divine generosity" and of the "celebration Weekly classes plus workbook exercises that it only takes a small amount to have an of community." This is certainly a novel have helped with subject matter. Personal effect on us. If alcohol might come between reading of Scriptures, considering the contact and understanding concern have me and my Maker, then I' ll do without. numerous explicit admonitions about helped the participants to develop greater drinking, including Leviticus 10:9, self-esteem and an increased ability to Evamaria Hawkins Proverbs 23:29, Isaiah 5:11, and Ephesians cooperate in the community. Bethesda, Md. 5:18: "Be drunk with wine, wherein is From the small beginning, the program excess; but be filled with the Spirit." has grown. Instead of the three original I read with interest the letters on Similarly, it is difficult to understand volunteers, there are now ten, with others drinking, but with nostalgic boredom. I Scilipoti's assertion that "thousands of expected. The state, having seen the have heard these same arguments years" of"spiritual history" argue against progress so far, is now providing a OED repeatedly for the past 70 years. I have teetotalism. Abstinence has long been part instructor and text books. A post-release concluded that on this matter, there are two of other major religious traditions, such as program is planned so participants may groups of Friends: those who drink alcohol, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Thich continue their training after release. and those who don't. Each group can Nhat Hanh, the contemporary Vietnamese In August 1993, Philadelphia Yearly rationalize its position ad infinitum. Buddhist monk (and friend of many Meeting's Meeting for Assignment of New Drinking is such an individual thing that it Friends) urges his followers to adhere to Initiative Resources agreed to fund the full may be time to apply a paraphrased Foxian Buddha's Five Precepts of Right Behavior, $10,248 requested by Prison Action for admonition: "Drink as long as you can." one of which is: "Do not drink intoxicants." computers and software to improve the Finally, I must take issue with instruction now being offered. With the Francis Helfrick Scilipoti's assertion that "the suggestion approval came a letter stating: Manchester, Conn. that we abstain from drink at all times is "It is a delight for us, by this disposition another effort to outlaw some of the of our yearly meeting's resources, to loveliness and vitality of life so that some witness to admiration for a Friends' project may be spared responsibility for their own that is already achieving successes. The actions." On the contrary, Friends residents of Talbot County Detention temperance reformers were primarily Center, who are currently being served in concerned about taking responsibility for earning their OED by your generous­ their own behavior, especially with the kind hearted volunteers, are fortunate-as we ofexample they set for others. They often feel fortunate to be associated with you by quoted Paul's advice: "It is good neither to this use of Quaker money.... eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing "It is so pleasing to see Friends' money, whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is which has perhaps too excessively flowed offended, or is made weak" (Romans into Philadelphia and its near environs, to 14:21). Since drinking wine, beer, or liquor flow out ofthis city into a monthly meeting is by nature a social act, they argued that on the beautiful Eastern Shore." we must consider the effect on society of The New Initiative Committee pointed our actions. Large numbers of people out that Prison Action is a "highly (estimated at a tenth of the U.S. population) replicable" program. It is recommended as are addicted to alcohol, and drinking causes a model for other concerned Friends to untold damage to millions of people every consider emulating. For more information, year (including nondrinkers). As a result, write to us. Friends developed a strong social testimony about alcohol. Besides working for social Testimonies and Concerns Committee political reforms, Friends also refused to Third Haven Friends Meeting participate in the alcohol subculture, either 405 S. Washington St. by trading the substance, or drinking wine, Easton, MD 2160 I beer, or liquor. While some contemporary Friends may consider this testimony irrelevant, many others of us believe it still speaks to our In his Viewpoint on alcohol (FJ condition. FRIEN DS JouRNAL welcomes Forum con­ Dec.1993), Tony Scilipoti and so many Robert Levering tributions. Please try to be brief so we other Friends don't realize that teetotaling San Francisco, Calif. may include as many as possible. LiJI~it has been part of the Quaker testimony on letters to 300 words, Viewpoint to 1,000 alcohol for more than 200 years (since words. Addresses are omitted to main­ 1777 to be exact). Granted, many Prison action tain the authors' privacy; those wishing contemporary Friends choose to ignore this Friends in Easton, Maryland, have to correspond directly with authors may testimony (and other longstanding begun an exciting program in the Talbot send )etters to FRIENDS JOURNAL to be testimonies, such as opposition to County Detention Center. "Prison Action," forwarded. Authors' names are not to gambling). But we ought to at least be addressing the too-frequent cycle ofjail­ be used for personal or organizational aware of our legacy even if we disagree release-jail, seeks to help inmates prepare solicitation. -Eds. with it. for a useful life after their time in jail.

6 March 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL SOMETHING FOR EASTER by Robert Kunkel

here is a mnemonic verse, rather fairs needed to be straightened out. How­ Indeed, in English the very word Eas­ like "Thirty days hath Septem­ ever, despite the Council's edict, the ter hints at the spring season, because, T ber.. . ,"that goes as follows: "No untidiness persisted for many, many according to the venerable Bede, Easter need for confusion if we do but recall, years. For instance, northern England originally was the name of the Saxon that Easter on the first Sunday after the didn't agree to go along until the Council goddess of the spring. However, we full moon on or next after the vernal of Whitby in 664 A.D. mustn't be hemispheric chauvinists; re­ equinox doth fall." Isn't that nice? We naturally tend to connect Easter member, down in the Southern Hemi­ Of course, as we all know, Quakers with the spring of the year, as Housman sphere, Easter occurs not in the spring, don't celebrate religious holidays, or holy did in the familiar stanza: but in the fall. days, for the good and simple reason that The pagan note persists not only in the all days are equally holy. Nevertheless, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now name of the holiday, but in other ways as Easter-unlike, say, Maundy Thursday Is hung with bloom along the bough, well. In its egg-and-bunny aspect, our And stands about the woodland ride or Whitsuntide-is so well publicized Wearing white for Eastertide. Easter is a thinly disguised fertility festi­ that even a Quaker could hardly fail to val. But of course, even if the story of notice it. So it seemed to me you might Jesus' resurrection is in some way con­ find that lovely little poem useful, par­ A CENTRAL ELEMENT OF nected with ancient fertility myths, Eas­ ticularly if your calendar doesn't have ter isn't primarily a fertility festival. What Easter on it. THE ORIGINAL CHRISTIAN it is primarily about is the conquest of No cioubt you are now bursting to GOSPEL WAS THAT Goo death. A central element of the original know where the formula for determining HAD DECIDED TO SAVE US Christian gospel, the good news preached the date of Easter came from in the first by the Apostles, was that God had de­ place. Well, my research hasn't turned FROM DEATH. jESUS' cided to save us from death. So you see, up the name of the actual inventor, but I RESURRECTION LENT Jesus' resurrection didn't just go to dem­ have found out that the formula was made CREDIBILITY TO THE onstrate his own divinity; like the resur­ "official" by the Council of Nicaea in rection of Lazarus, it lent credibility to 325 A.D. Up to then Christians had cel­ PROMISE THAT Goo WILL the promise that God will someday res­ ebrated Easter on various dates- some SOMEDAY RESURRECT ALL urrect all the dead: "0 grave, where is not even falling on Sundays-and the thy victory?" But in order to understand Council decided this untidy state of af- THE DEAD. this aspect of the Easter story, we need to Robert Kunkel's article is taken from a talk know something of the background. given at Chapel Hill (N.C.) Meeting, where I take it that the two big questions he is a member. about death are, first, whether it is inevi-

FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1994 7 table, and second, whether it is final. My invited doubting Thomas to finger his reinserting it in a human body? Can there guess would be that in response to the wounds. But suppose you die at 90, when be delights in paradise that a mere dis­ first question, most of us would say yes, your mortal envelope is riddled with in­ embodied soul would be powerless to nobody lives forever; bodily death is in­ fmnities. Would that be the body in which enjoy? evitable. As to the second question, I you would like to live forever? Paul told What do Quakers say about these would be a bit swprised if Friends were the Corinthians not to worry, that the things? I rather doubt that many Friends all of one mind. Many thoughtful per­ bodies they would get at the resurrection of the unprogrammed tradition believe in sons are convinced there will be an after­ would be brand-new, and spiritual rather a day ofjudgment on which the dead will life, and many others aren't. than fleshly. Whether the Corinthians be bodily resurrected. But the real sense What does the Bible say about our found this answer persuasive is not re­ of the meeting would seem to be that two big questions? First, in general, the corded. even ifsuch questions are worth thinking Hebrews of the Old Testament appear to about, they don't warrant a lot of talking have accepted both the inevitability and he early Christians also believed about. the finality of death. Remember, they the world would soon be coming believed that Adam and Eve had been T to an end, on a day ofwrath when hat of the early Friends, such cast out of the Garden of Eden because the quick and the dead would be called as Fox and Penn and God didn't want them to eat the fruit of W Barclay? As far as Jesus was the tree of life, and consequently live concerned, they accepted as a matter of forever. "You are dust," God said, "and EARLY fRt ENDS WEREN'T course that he had been resurrected bodily to dust you shall return." This was taken "DEMYTHOLOG t ZERs"; on the third day after his death by cruci­ to mean that death was not only inevi­ fixion and that he later ascended bodily table, but final-or anyway, almost fmal. WHERE THE BIBLE WAS to heaven to take his seat at the right Here and there, the Hebrew Scriptures EXPLICIT THEY WERE hand of God. They accepted all that just reflect a belief that shadowy, impersonal PREPARED TO TAKE IT as they accepted that he had been born of remnants of the dead survived in a dis­ a virgin. They weren't "demythologiz­ mal place called Sheol, a word the King QUITE LITERALLY. ers," and where the Bible was explicit James Version of the Bible usually, and they were prepared to take it quite liter­ misleadingly, renders as "hell." Accord­ ally. In this they were oftheir time; in the ing to Ecclesiastes, residence in Sheol before the seat ofjudgment. Note that it religious controversies that raged in 17th wasn't a prospect anyone would wel­ would be unnecessary for the quick, that century England, it was taken for granted come: "Whatever your hand finds to do, is, the living, to be resurrected. So it turns on all sides that the Bible was inerrant. do it with all your might; for there is no out, you see, that for the early Christians But of course early Friends also be­ work or thought or knowledge or wis­ death wasn't inevitable. After all, they lieved in an eternal Christ who was al­ dom in Sheol, where you are going." might still be alive on Judgment Day, ways with God and is God, who dwells Eventually, though, the Judaic view and go straight to heaven without ever within each of us, and who has come to of death altered, under the influence of dying. As for those who had died, they save his people now. They took to heart other Middle Eastern religions. By the would be quickened, which is to say, passages like these from the Gospel ac­ time of Jesus, many Jews had come to restored to bodily life. cording to John: "Those who hear my believe death was only temporary; even­ words, and believe in him who sent me, tually, God would resurrect the dead from ven today, Christians who recite have eternal life. They will not bejudged, their graves and restore them to life, after the Apostles' or Nicene creeds con­ but have passed from death to life." "We which they would be immortal. Please Etinue to declare that they look for know that we have left death and come notice that according to this belief the the resurrection of the dead. The Roman over into life; we know it because we dead were dead, all right, and would stay Catholic view was stated by Pope Paul love our brothers. Whoever does not love dead until God in the fullness of time VI in 1968: is still in death." "God has given us eter­ brought them back to life. nal life, and this life is ours in his Son." Jesus was among those Jews who be­ We believe that the souls of all those who die Now listen to George Fox: "By nature lieved in bodily resurrection. So were the in the grace ofChrist , whether they must still we are born of Adam, and in Christ we be purified in Purgatory or whether from the Pharisees. Among the conservatives who moment they leave their bodies Jesus takes are made children of God, by Grace in thought resurrection a heresy were the them to Paradise, are the people of God in Christ, and quickened, and made alive, Sadducees, some of whom tried to trip the eternity beyond death which will be con­ and restored to life everlasting in him." Jesus up with a story about a lusty widow quered on the day of resurrection when these There are many similar passages, but the who outlived seven husbands. After the souls will be reunited with their bodies. short of it is that for Fox the only life that resurrection, whose wife would she be? matters is spiritual and eternal, and we Bodily resurrection also sounded queer Here you can see that the doctrine of are called to live it now. to Paul's gentile converts at Corinth, as, I bodily resurrection on a day ofjudgment However, if you want to enter into suspect, it does to most Christians today. has been merged with another doctrine eternal life now, remember, there's a rub; Think about it. If you're to be resur­ that we haven't talked about, which is according to the early Friends, you can't rected bodily, what body would you ex­ that you have an immortal soul that can have it both ways. Before you can have pect to be resurrected in? The one you go to paradise without waiting for your eternal life, your old, sinful self must die. had when you died? According to the body to be resurrected. But if your soul is And with that, Friends, I tum this dis­ New Testament, Jesus himself was res­ immortal anyway, you might wonder, cussion over to you. What would Friends urrected just as he was, and to prove it he why should God go to the trouble of like to say about Easter? Q

8 March 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL HEALING OF BARTIMAEUS, THE BLIND BEGGAR

by JeffPerkins They came to Jericho; and as he was leaving the town, with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus, son ofTzmaeus, a blind beggar, was seated at the roadside. Hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, "Son ofDavid, Jesus, have pity on me!" Many ofthe people told him to hold his tongue; but he shouted all the more, "Son ofDavid, have pity on me." Jesus stopped and said, "Call him"; so they called the blind man and said, "Take heart; stand up; he is calling you." At that he threw offhis cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus. Jesus said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" "Master," the blind man answered, "!want my sight back." Jesus said to him, "Go; yourfaith has cured you." And at once he recovered his sight andfollowed him on the road. (Mark 10:46-52, NEB)

h is healing story in there is space for the Spirit to Mark's Gospel can be work in and through me. Christ T seen as metaphor for the is walking with us always, but spiritual journey to which sometimes we are too blind to Christ still calls us. In order for see that Presence. When I am Christ to move in our lives, we centered in Christ, I am more must be in the right place, we likely to recognize God's grace must recognize our condition, and its workings in my life. I we must overcome our hesi­ am able to count my blessings tancy to ask for help, we must and even come to see that dif­ be willing to sacrifice our se­ ficulties can be blessings when curity and material possessions, I learn from them. and we must choose life. This When I am in the right place, story speaks to us today of the I recognize my condition. I transformation available know then I am feeling spiritu­ through the spirit of Christ in ally blind and I'm not content our lives. ., with my darkness. I suffer spiri­ One could say that ~ tual blindness whenever I'm Bartimaeus is in the right place .~ feeling far from the presence at the right time. There he is ~ of God. I am spiritually blind sitting by the side of the road ~ when I try to fill my need for and Jesus comes walking along. .5- unconditional love through re­ What does it mean to be in the ~ lationship with others, rather right place at the right time? Is ~ than through God. I am blind this really a chance encounter? ~ to the blessings and gifts that On my spiritual journey, I too ~ God has given me. I am blind can benefit from being in the .g_ to God's love, which is the ba­ right place at the right time. I ~ sis for my existence. We all know that when I am waiting ~ have our times of suffering­ in a centered place, when I am ...: those times when we seem to disciplined in my spiritual work, c.: grope in the dark for God. If ~~~--~~~------~ A resident student this past year ~ we sit expectantly like the blind at Pendle Hill, Jeff Perkins is a · ~ beggar on the roadside waiting member ofSan Francisco (Calif) t for a movement of the Spirit to Meeting.

FRJENDS JOURNAL March 1994 9 power of God's healing grace. Without his faith in receiving God's grace After regaining his sight, Bartimaeus fol­ When he hears that Jesus ofNazareth mediated through Jesus, Bartimaeus lows Jesus on the road out of Jericho. He is near, Bartimaeus cries out to him. He would not have been rescued from his is clearly a man who has been trans­ is not content with his condition. He is darkness. By faithfully persisting in our formed. When I have regained my sight not content with the darkness of his life. own spiritual journeys, we enter into the on my spiritual path, I must still choose What keeps me in my darkness? Why Presence and are healed. This faith is the way of Life in order to grow. My am I unable at times to cry out for help? trust that God moves in and through us. journey is one of recurrent blindness and Sometimes my insecurities keep me in Our tlesire to be cured, to be lifted from healing. When I choose to faithfully fol­ darkness. I feel unworthy of God's love our blindness through the grace of God, low Christ, the blindness is less severe and forgiveness. Just as with Bartimaeus, holds us up for healing. We are called to each time, and the healing comes faster. there are voices that tell me to be quiet in trust in the power and grace of God, and However, I must take an active part in my darkness. My voices are internal. rest in the knowledge that through God this journey. I must be willing to travel They are the ego saying, "You don't all things are possible. Without faith in with Christ; I must choose Life. This need anything or anyone, you're in con­ and desire for God, we flounder in dark­ story shows us the very real compassion trol!" "You can't do that." "I want to do ness. Our faith cannot rest merely on Jesus had for those around him. This it my way." "I should do this, I don't what can be seen; rather, we must be­ same compassion is available to us today deserve that." At times these voices seem lieve even what we cannot see, even in through the Living Christ. The Christ overwhelming and endless. And yet when our darkness. Spirit responds directly and compassion­ I am able to silence this insecure ego When Christ calls, we are able to ask ately whenever we call. We must be in chatter and bring it into blessed stillness, for what we need, and our need is met. the right place- at the right time. 0 I summon up the courage to cry out to God in my brokenness. I may cry out to my spiritual community or to a special friend, or pray privately. Regardless of CONSECRATING how I do it, when I overcome that part of me that would keep me in my darkness, my Intercessor responds. THE MEETINGHOUSE When Jesus called, Bartirnaeus " . .. No stained-glass windows, threw off his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus." In those days, a cloak was a only sunlight streaming through tall pine trees, significant possession. It was likely the dancing brightly on the Winoosky River, only material possession a blind beggar painting blocks of light on varnished floor. might have, and yet he left it without hesitation. To me, this is a significant No ornate carvings, sign of the faith of Bartimaeus. Imagine only plain grained wood, hammered by many hands how difficult it would have been for a small clumsy hands, large weathered hands, blind man to return to his spot along the road and retrieve a cloak he had thrown polished by loving hands down and couldn't see. Am I ready for and by your grace. this same demonstration of faith in my life? Do I have the courage to leave be­ No red-robed chancel choir, hind all I have to respond to the call of only your melody in silent hearts Christ? The path of Jesus requires my till Emily's clear voice leads mandolin and fiddle, full commitment. I must be ready to leave and a group of neighbors, unexpected, behind the safety of the known and the comfort of the familiar in order to follow brings exuberant songs of praise Christ. While I believe God does not ask from slavery and South Africa. more of me than I can do, I am called to continually grow and stretch in what ·I No flames or incense grace an altar, can do. If I am secure and content in my only mingles scents of soup and bread, blindness, I miss these opportunities and of cider, sweets, and coffee, I miss growing spiritually. If I am open your abundant gifts to us, to the Spirit, these opportunities for trans­ formation nurture my spiritual growth. God's broken people. We see another indication ofthis blind man's faith when Jesus asks the man Becky, pig-tailed, darts away to reach another apple. what he wants. Bartimaeus responds, "I White-haired Gordon sweeps the crumb-strewn floor want my sight back." There is no ques­ with overflowing joy. tion in his mind whether Jesus can heal -Elizabeth Cazden him or not; he asks for what he truly wants. Jesus makes it clear that Bartirnaeus had a role in the healing when Elizabeth Cazden is a member ofPlainfield (Vt.) Meeting. he says, "Go; your faith has cured you."

10 March 1994 FRIENDS JoUR NAL Letter from Ruritania by Phillip Gething

n the far-off country of Ruritania, there was once a company called Sharp Swords Ltd. Its products were much in demand by the armed forces of many countries, for use on ceremonial occasions. This was the only market for swords once duelling became illegal, so SSL made all its money selling to the militaty, at home and abroad. As recently as 1989, the company's annual report showed that it had no other customers. Naturally, members ofthe Ruritanian Religious Society of Friends refused to buy shares in the company, but a copy of the 1989 report somehow came into the possession of the Ethical ous "Tut, tut" letter to the company and Investment Committee and received ad­ sent it again. verse publicity within the Society. A con­ In 1991, the company reported there cerned preparative meeting drafted a long was a further sharp drop in the sale of minute, asking for a letter to be sent to swords. It had made a number of people the directors. redundant, had put a ban on recruitment, Because the minute was obscure in and was now starting to produce plow­ places, it was by no means clear what shares as well. was to be said in the letter. After several There was long discussion at RYM months of deliberation at various levels that year on whether to buy a plowshare up and down the hierarchical organiza­ from Sharp Swords Ltd. by way of en­ tion, an amended version was sent in the couragement, but the final decision was name of Ruritania Yearly Meeting not to do so. The main reason, recorded (RYM). It was now even longer, but the in a beautiful minute ofsome 500 words, gist of it was "Tut, tut." was that the company had not yet re­ In 1990, Sharp Swords Ltd. reported a nounced its involvement in armaments. drop in sales of 10 percent, because A subsidiary reason was that the Society armies were getting smaller, and said it did not actually need a plowshare. The would now try even harder to open up minute did, however, say that a letter new defense markets in more distant should be sent to the government, asking countries. R YM wrote to the government, for help to be given to companies trying asking for tighter controls on the arms to diversify into nondefense markets. trade and requesting that the wearing of How they should be helped was not speci­ swords by senior officers on ceremonial fied. occasions should not be obligatory; they In 1992, SSL announced that it had should only wear them as long as they made 30 percent of its staff redundant couldst. R YM also polished up the pre vi- and had decided to get right out of the shrinking defense market. The company Phillip Gething is a member ofFarnborough had started to make garden gnomes as (England) Meeting and Meeting for Suffer­ well as plowshares, with excellent re­ ings of London Yearly Meeting. His article sults: profits had increased sharply, thanks appeared in The Friend, 3 September /993. to the reduction in staff, the government

FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1994 11 grant, and a surprisingly strong demand with a distant relation who worked for every success and recording the unlim­ for gnomes. A higher dividend would be the company, that it was likely to begin ited goodwill of RYM, but explaining paid and capital would be raised on the producing garden benches shortly. Pro­ the dilemmas facing the Society. The Ruritanian Stock Market for a new fac­ vided these were of a suitable pattern, meeting also felt that one of its commit­ tory. The company would trade in future simple yet pleasing, the Society might at tees should write to the government about as Gnomes Growth Unlimited Ltd. some future YM consider the purchase the high level of unemployment in the Friends were very pleased at what was of one for the courtyard. The existing region around the old factory and the interpreted as an ethical stand by the bench was often crowded on sunny days, need to help other companies trying to company. At the 1992 RYM there was a and it would be useful to segregate the tum swords into plowshares. The choice long discussion on a proposal to buy two sandwich eaters, who made crumbs, from of the appropriate committee caused garden gnomes for the courtyard of the non-eaters. some difficulty and a small working group Ruritania Friends House from the re­ Other Friends pointed out that the com­ was set up to consider the matter, con­ named company, as a gesture of friend­ pany was flourishing and did not need sulting the recording clerk as necessary. ship. Many Friends were in favor, but financial support. Administrative Com­ When the long draft minute was of­ some felt strongly that such fripperies mittee advised that awarding a contract fered, some Friends were not clear were inconsistent with the injunction to to one firm without proper competition whether the wording implied that the let­ live simply and said they could not sup­ would be contrary to the usual code of ter to the company would be copied to port the proposal. A suggestion that only practice, and Finance Committee advised the government, and vice versa. Was it one gnome should be purchased, as a that there was no money in the budget for proper to do so, without the permission compromise, received little support. The such purchases. of the recipients? No rapid agreement objectors said they could not, as a matter It was therefore reluctantly decided could b~ reached, and the Saturday morn­ of conscience, agree to any number. not to buy any gnomes. Instead, a letter ing session was adjourned until later in One Friend reported, from contacts would be sent to the company wishing it the weekend. In the afternoon, there was an enjoy­ able excursion to the Ruritanian salt mines; only two coaches were needed, because RYM has a comparatively small membership. In the evening, Friends came together in groups to discuss effec­ tive campaigning; the general feeling was that Quakers exerted an influence on pub­ lic affairs out of all proportion to their numbers. Meeting for worship was held on Sunday morning, and it was not until the fmal Sunday afternoon session that the subject of the letters came up again. A greater unity was now apparent, perhaps aided by the break and the infor­ mal discussions on the excursion coaches. Many Friends were also anxious to catch trains. Several made the same points: that in the name of openness it was per­ fectly proper to copy the letters and that they should also be published in the Ruritanian Friend. A draft minute was eventually accepted, but not before some Friends had asked for a sentence to be added, making it clear that the selection of material for the magazine was entirely a matter for the editor. This was done. The clerk pointed out that the editor would no doubt be aware (since she was present) that the meeting had no objection to the letters being published. The 1993 report of Gnomes Growth Unlimited Ltd. is awaited with interest. There are rumors that the company has sold a garden bench to the Air Force tennis club and that it is offering large gnomes of a new material for use as targets on the army rifle ranges. It is not yet clear whether there will need to be an item on the agenda of R YM. Cl

12 March 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL THE TESTlMONlES by A. Zoland Leishear

estimonies, from the Latin mean­ words and in our actions. Our duty is that the ing "witness, to witness." Outside former reflect the latter. Our work is that prac­ of the Religious Society of Friends tice follows faith, that faith infuses practice, in rnthe image the word testimonies elicits is the an endless, regenerating cycle. court room, to be a witness. To give testimony For me, the Quakers address this cycle is preceded by the words, "I will give the truth, better than any. They go to the heart of the the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so matter. The idea of the testimonies points to help me God." the necessity of act­ Testimony, then, "to witness to the truth." ing out the miracle of But what is witness and what is the truth? It · God's presence, and may be best to start with the latter, the truth. this acting out, this For me-and I think for Quakers, and indeed giving witness, has many others-the truth means simply that God certain characteristics. is personally available to us; that God speaks But they are not to be to us in many ways, in our longings and de­ imposed. They are not sires, in nature and in human beings, in flashes codes of behavior. of insight and flights of imagination. Most Rather they are the importantly, God speaks to us directly, a voice products oflabor. The in the head, a stillness in the heart, words, labor is done in the images, silences both full and empty, every­ presence of God, in thing and nothing. the mindfulness of I think this is extraordinary that God speaks God. They are the to me, to us. I take it for granted because it has products ofthe silence always been so, but it is monumental, earth of the meeting: the shaking. There is nothing in life to compare. still, reflective hours ofwaiting that over time Goo sPEAKS And yet it is everyday, commonplace, like become transforming. Faith, for me, indeed pouring tea. I pour tea and God is there, the spirituality itself, is nothing if it is not trans­ TO US maker ofthe universe, the one who hand carved forming. The testimonies are the products of DIRECTLY, A lilies. I sip from the cup and next to me God searching and trying, of backing down and sits, the one who was before time, the author of starting up again, oflistening and acting, watch­ VOICE IN THE space; God sits next to me, just there. It is ing and waiting- and thinking. It is from all ordinary, it happens all the time. Like rinsing this that the testimonies arise: peace, justice, HEAD, A tea leaves from the pot, they just flow out and I simplicity, equality, integrity. If these do not STILLNESS IN forget. I forget there is something extraordi­ arise in us; if they do not come about as neces­ nary in this, something almost not to be be­ sary to our life, our salvation, our redemption; THE HEART, lieved that just this morning, that just this if they do not come forth from us, then our minute, God, the one· beyond all imagining, the espousal of them makes us, as Margaret Fell WORDS, one about whom the greatest adjectives are once proclaimed, "all liars and thieves." We IMAGES, blasphemous in their limitations, is right here, are not required to believe all, nor proclaim right now with me, with us-and this is always all. We are required to find instead our truth, SILENCES. lT IS so. and witness wholly to it. This, then, is the truth, THE TRUTH, and For me, the issue of the testimonies comes EVERYDAY, the truth for me. This is the source of the down to a dialogue with God. One listens and COMMONPLACE, testimonies. This is what Friends are asked to acts. Our life becomes an experiment, end­ bear witness to, to affirm. We are asked to bear lessly repeated and refined. It requires context LIKE POURING and perspective, a sense of self and the world, witness to the core of our faith, to the belief­ TEA. indeed the knowledge, the fruit ofexperience­ discipline and freedom, sacrifice and abun­ that God is revealed to us, guides and leads us, dance. In the end, this dialogue with God may affllTils and sustains us. Our witness is in our be all we have, the only concrete foothold on the truth we shall ever possess. Vague and A. Zoland Leishear is a member of Stony Run tenuous as this hold may seem, it may also be Friends Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland. enough. D

FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1994 13 1702 bUst funds "lor lhe care or necessitOus Friends" lind good use during lhe lann crisis ollhe 19805. by Gordon Browne her of old monthly meetings in the east­ tension of use of the funds beyond their ern United States still administer trusts, own meeting, they still lacked enough ery early in Quaker history, taught left in the wills ofprosperous early mem­ applications for aid to use all the income. by imprisonments and by calls to bers, "for the care ofnecessitous Friends." This was in the mid-1980s, when eco­ Vministry which sent men and women What follows is an account of how one nomic crisis gripped Midwest farmers. away from children, homes, and busi­ such trust, left to a meeting which does Told by national leaders in preceding nesses, Friends learned to provide practi­ not wish to be identified, fulfilled that decades that they would have to feed the cal support for one another as it was mission of caring in modern times. world, and encouraged, therefore, to bor­ needed. No welfare system fed or clothed This trust "for the care of necessitous row to expand and increase their produc­ those left behind or looked after crops or Friends" was established in the monthly tivity, farmers suddenly found themselves businesses. Meetings cared for such meeting in 1702 with the bequest of a faced with shrinking markets, falling things, nurturing children or farms or piece of real estate in a growing commu­ prices, inflationary costs, and skyrocket­ impoverished spouses with equal con­ nity. In time, that community became a ing interest rates. Many were going un­ cern and generosity. Fines and seizures city; the real estate grew in value. Even­ der, losing farms that had been their fami­ of property, both in England and in the tually the meeting trustees sold it. The lies' homes and lives for several genera­ American colonies, brought a number of proceeds of the sale, prudently invested, tions. Friends to fmancial ruin. Nor did every continued to grow. By the mid-1980s, In the business meeting, a Friend who Quaker colonist in the New World fmd though the trustees had extended the use had recently traveled in the Midwest sud­ prosperity here. When Friends were in of the income of the trust beyond their denly said, "This money was left for the want, their meetings provided for them. own meeting to other monthly meetings 'care ofnecessitous Friends.' If the trust­ It is not surprising, therefore, that anum- in their yearly meeting, income was ac­ ees can't find them around here, I can cumulating. show them some Quaker farmers out Gordon Browne has been clerk ofNew En­ gland Yearly Meeting and has served on the At a monthly meeting for business, West who are in danger of losing every­ staffs of the Quaker United Nations Office the trustees reported the facts and sought thing if they don't get some help. What and of Friends World Committee for Con­ guidance on how to invest the accumu­ about them?" sultation, Section ofthe Americas. Currently lated funds. Some Friends felt the money Reluctantly, the trustees stated that clerk ofFWCC , Section ofth e Americas, he should not be invested but spent. The policy required that grants from the trust is a member ofPlainfi eld (Vt.) Meeting. trustees explained that despite their ex- be made only within their yearly meet-

14 March 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL ing. A dissatisfied silence settled over sideration in the usual manner ofFriends. Farm Loan Fund would be a tax exempt the meeting before Friends went on to At length, the trustees brought forward a part of the yearly meeting's work. The other business. recommendation to proceed. Voices of new committee developed guidelines for A few days later, an energetic young approval rose around the room. The meet­ the loans and a covering summary of the lawyer in the meeting approached the ing sat silent while the clerk composed plan to be sent to yearly meetings and to Friend who had spoken of the Midwest the minute. It was the sense of the meet­ individual farmers. The summary made farmers. "I can't get those farmers out of ing that the Friends Farm Loan Fund clear that applications were solicited from my mind," he said. "If the trust can't should be created. all yearly meetings where there were make outright grants to them, is there As the minute was read, the meeting farmers in need, not just from Nebraska any reason that funds can't be invested was swept by a palpable sense of joy. nor from yearly meetings of just one by making low interest loans? Would Completely outside good Quaker order, Quaker tradition. that help? If you can find out whether Friends burst into applause! The trea­ The guidelines stated: "Persons eli­ that would help the farmers, I'll propose surer of the trustees rushed across the gible to apply for loans from this fund it to the trustees." room to a startled Don Reeves and thrust shall be those necessitous Friends who Excitedly, the two Friends went to into his hands the meeting's check for are farm operators suffering financial dif­ their separate tasks. Telephone calls went $200,000! In a dramatic, new way, the ficulties and for whom commercial loans to leaders in Iowa Yearly Meeting purposes of the ancient will would be are not available or for whom servicing (FUM), Indiana Yearly Meeting, Mid­ fulfilled. commercial loans would create serious America Yearly Meeting, Iowa Yearly Now the hard work fell to the volun­ hardship in meeting basic family living Meeting (Conservative), and Nebraska teer committee ofNebraska Yearly Meet­ expenses." Loans were to be operating Yearly Meeting. Would such a loan pro­ ing Friends. The yearly meeting officially loans only-that is, loans for the pur­ gram be helpful? Would it make sense? recognized them as a yearly meeting com­ chase of seed and fertilizers, crop insur­ There was cautious interest, particularly mittee and created a special account ance, rental of equipment, hired labor, or from the meetings west of the Missis­ within its own accounts so that the Friends other similar annual expenses that would sippi River, where the crisis was most acute. Nebraska Yearly Meeting Friends pro­ vided the break-through. They offered to "H Bought Us Five Years" create a five-person committee of volun­ teers who would administer the loan fund: The farmer with the longest run­ He talked about the years when to set the standards for loans, to solicit ning loan talked about his experience politicians encouraged him and other applications in all the yearly meetings with the Friends Farm Loan Fund. farmers to invest in expansion and already approached, to evaluate the ap­ He told the history of his farm and of increased productivity so that they plications, to disburse the funds, to re­ his Quaker community. Soon after might feed the world. He told of in­ ceive the loan payments, and to report 1900, eight or ten Quaker families terest rates climbing to as high as 18 regularly to the lending meeting. Clifford had moved from Iowa to homestead percent. The costs of interest and Mesner, a Quaker attorney from Central on the new land. Because ofthe great feed for his cattle were his biggest City, Nebraska, working with the lawyer distances from farm to farm, they annual expenses. And the farmers in the lending meeting, would do all the had built two rural meetinghouses. who, like him, had increased pro­ legal work without charge. Weston Webb, When automobile travel became stan­ duction found not new markets but of Grand Island, Nebraska, would serve dard, they had joined the two meet­ over-production and declining prices as treasurer and keep the financial records. ings into one. instead. Don Reeves, of Central City, Nebraska, His father had come late to the He and his wife are committed to and later, Washington, D.C., would be community, establishing his home­ their farm. She is on the national the primary contact with the lending stead at the end of the First World Executive Committee of the Grange, meeting. War. The arid climate meant huge the farmers' organization which in Meanwhile, the trustees had agreed acreage was needed to support mod­ the past has helped to train farmers that, if safeguards for responsible stew­ erate farming practices that would and keep them up to date on new ardship of the trust were created, they not harm the land. His father had farming practices and which now would recommend to the business meet­ begun a beefcattle breeding business works mostly on agricultural legisla­ ing a year's experiment with the loan on his 5,000 acres. It was this busi­ tion. The past few years have been program, funded at $200,000. On March ness the farmer had continued, con­ hard ones for them, and they are still 15, 1987, Don Reeves attended the busi­ sidering many possible breeds be­ struggling. He said, "We're not out ness meeting. He explained the origin fore choosing the one he felt could of the woods yet! But the Friends and nature of the financial crisis in the be most profitably raised there. He Farm Loan Fund bought us five years. Midwest and outlined the arrangements allows nearly 30 acres of land for And now we've finally succeeded in Nebraska Yearly Meeting was willing to each animal, limiting his herd to a getting the inexpensive Farm and undertake. To the astonished Easterners, maximum of 190 head. It takes years Home Administration loan that we he explained that the capital requirements to develop a good breeding herd. couldn't get earlier." of modem farming meant that $200,000 Once sold off, they cannot be recov­ They are not about to give up. He would provide only a very few loans, ered. The loan had saved him from speaks hopefully. He thinks things and those loans would not be risk-free. having to liquidate his herd. have begun to tum their way at last. . There were questions and prayerful con-

FRJEN.DS JoURNAL March 1994 15 be paid off by the sale of the financed business, but they had gone as far as their operation began to tum around. The long• produce at the end of the year. At a time own guidelines would permit, and they est running loan was renewed for five when interest rates were in double digits could not provide the essential capital for years. Expecting to make some risky (one farmer reported his most expensive operating fund loans. Fresh capital, on loans, Nebraska Friends and the lending loan was at 18 percent interest), the which the farmers paid 7 percent or 8 meeting, nonetheless, grew anxious as Friends Farm Loans would be at 5 per­ percent lower interest than usual, meant certain loans dragged on. On March 21, cent simple interest, with a maximum of that the farmers could keep farming and 1993, Don Reeves came once more to a $75,000 lent to any one producer. gradually reduce the debt burden that business session of the lending meeting. Applications for loans were formal was ruining them. In every instance, the He was greeted at the door by the trea­ and businesslike. Applicants were asked banks granted Friends Farm Loan Fund surer of the trust. The fmal payment of to provide a statement of need and in­ repayments the first call on the farmers' the final loan had been received two days tended use of the loan funds, a cash flow income from their new crops. before. All loans had been paid back in projection for the total farm operations So quickly was the need for the fund full! None of .the borrowing farms had been lost by their owners! Could that 18th century Friend have possibly imagined what he had set in motion as, by his bequest, he helped to sustain the Quaker community practice, still valuable and still honored, ofFriends helping Friends? l:l SerendiPitY With Don Reeves's visit at that March business meeting, the Friends Farm Loan Fund was laid down. Weston Webb admitted that keeping all the financial records and details straight had been a pain. Still, he had been glad to do it. Clifford Mesner had put in far more volunteer hours on the legal work than he had ever dreamed he might. It had been hard work, but the farms had been saved. and for family income and living ex­ confirmed and the prudent management The lending meeting determined penses, the dates when fund disburse­ by Nebraska Friends established that the that it must show its appreciation ments would be needed and the expected original talk of a "one-year trial" simply for the volunteer work done by dates of repayment, a current financial disappeared. Applications came from Nebraska Friends. It decided that, statement and recent income tax return, a Quaker farmers across the region. Un­ without trying to calculate the hours personal recommendation from one or fortunately, not all could be approved. precisely, it should at least pay a two Friends and, where feasible, from Loans were made, however, to Friends substantial legal fee for the excel­ another lender, such as a bank, with an in Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa, Colorado, lent work that Clifford Mesner had interest in the secured crops or livestock. and Indiana. They were members oflowa done. And so a new check was There were still other documents required Yearly Meeting (FUM), Nebraska Yearly written. when a loan was approved, such as a first Meeting, Mid-America Yearly Meeting, Don Reeves is now the clerk of lien security in the financed crop or live­ and Indiana Yearly Meeting. the General Committee of Friends stock and proof of sufficient insurance Six loans were made in all, five in the Committee on National Legislation. made payable jointly to the lender and first year, another in the second year He is much under the weight of the borrower. from repaid funds. Their effects varied FCNL's major fund drive, begun In the minds of the Eastern Friends, greatly. Three saved the borrowers from in 1993, its 50th anniversary year. the loans would be in place ofexpensive immediate or imminent collapse of their So is Clifford Mesner. He had once commercial loans and thus reduce the businesses. In one case, where a death in been an FCNL intern, working with farmers' costs. In fact, that rarely was the the family left no one to carry on the Ed Snyder. So the check for legal case. In most instances, the loans repre­ operation, the loan allowed time for the services traveled from the Eastern sented a new infusion ofcapital for farm­ descendants to arrange for an orderly Friends to Central City, Nebraska. ers whose other sources of financing had sale of the property instead of leaving it There, Clifford Mesner said, "I been closed off. The Nebraska Yearly to the risks of a bank auction. Most loans could never have made such a sub­ Meeting committee found strong support were repaid on schedule at the end of stantial contribution without this." and cooperation from the banks who al­ each production year. Some, however, And he signed the check over to ready had lent money to the farmers. The had to be renewed for a second year, FCNL's 50th Anniversary Fund! banks had no wish to drive them out of even a third, before the finances of the

16 March 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL ver since my grandparents Ecame to the United States from the "Old Country" at the beginning of the cen­ tury, that sense of pio­ neer spirit, building one's life from the rough and the new, has sifted down through our generations. My grandparents had to shake some of the soil from their ancestral and cultural roots tore­ plant themselves in a new country. With their own hands and hard work they built a new world for them­ selves and their chil­ dren. When my father moved away from home he too became a pioneer in his own pointed out, a franticness, emotional and out to and told to follow. To discover, we way, moving away from the city, explor­ physical pressure, fierce crawl-over-each­ must listen and feel and sort. We must ing the world of higher education, build­ other competition, heart attacks, work­ brush aside the undergrowth that hides ing a profession and a career from level aholism, and neglected families. the markers that point the way. ground. There is another way to look at our To discover our life is to trust, to be­ The notion of building one's life is life, of course, one consistent with our lieve that God will tell us what we need fundamental to our U.S. society. It car­ spiritual values. Rather than building our to know. Mistakes become lessons that ries with it all the imagery of the immi­ life, we discover it. Not discovery in the we need to learn; failures become God's grants like my grandparents, who gave sense of basic self-awareness-the dis­ way of telling us when we have made a up all they had for the chance to create covery that you have a talent for art or wrong tum, that we need to tum back something more. It fills us with the husky enjoy sports-or the worst of the New and try a different path. vigor of wilderness families and cowboy Age movement, where discovery be­ Most of all to discover our life is to loners, who carved out homesteads from comes a narcissistic path leading only to live by faith. Not the calm sedentary faith nothing more than a handful of seeds of itself. To discover one's life is to see life that reassures us that everything will tum determination, or found fortune through as unfolding, the way a child may deli­ out all right, but the wild, robust faith that a lot ofsweat and a bit ofluck. Building a cately unfold a napkin on a dinner table. comes from living by the seat of your life means having 40 years between the It is to believe that our life already has pants. To have this type of faith is often ages of 20 and 60 to create a monument purpose, that it moves just a little bit to be unsure where you are going; to to all we are capable ofdoing, a measure ahead of us, in shadows often just be­ wander around for long times in a misty of all we are able to be. It demands unre­ yond the edges of our perception. grayness without any sign ofa marker; to lenting energy, initiative, and self-respon­ To discover rather than build ·is to find yourself suddenly sitting out on a sibility. It also brings, as many have change our relationship with our life. Our limb or looking over the edge of a cliff approach is less muscular, our grip is not and not knowing why; to look down and A family therapist andfree-lance writer, Bob quite so tight, the tablet on which we not only be afraid, but to look inside and Taibbi is a member of Charlottesville (Va.) write is not completely blank. Our life discover courage; to look up and see Meeting. becomes automatically led; we are called visions. Q

FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1994 17 Grow Old Along with Me some Quakers have been interested in striving for ideal partnerships in mar­ riage ever since George Fox and Margaret Fell were wed. Fox clearly per­ ceived his marriage as setting a pattern, and so described it, "that all may come into marriage as it was in the beginning, and as a testimony that all might come to the marriage of the lamb." By this he meant a marriage of equal partnership­ helpmeet, as he called it-as it had been before Adam's fall and was to be again, thanks to the fact that Christ had come to teach his people. Over the centuries there have been many examples of enduring equal partnerships among Friends, many of whom have shared a common mis­ sion. But since we live in a world that has constantly taught a different message, emphasizing power wielding instel:ld of power sharing, not all Quaker marriages A support have embodied such lofty ideals. The group of best we can say perhaps is that we have inherited a strong wish to make our mar­ couples riages better. married at Despite this heritage, it took many phone calls to gather five couples willing least 45 years to join in such an adventure. Many couples in long-term marriages were ap­ finds that even prehensive of any sort of group sharing by Margaret Hope Bacon ''if it ain,t of private problems. The general attitude "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" was a n these days of changing marriage broke,,, it can common response. As a result, the group patterns, to have been married to the be made better. that gathered for that first workshop in I same person for 50 years is regarded October 1990 was diverse. We were all as an achievement. Such a marriage, hav­ Friends, and we had all known each other ing stood the test of time, is commonly in some capacity or other, but we repre­ the subject of admiration and emulation. as one of their goals for the next 25 sented quite different patterns oflifestyle Who, in his or her right mind, would years, "to improve our partnership." and philosophy. propose to tinker with it? Known widely in the Society of Friends Using some of the techniques pio­ We were therefore regarded as little for their work together, it took courage neered by Vera and David Mace and the short ofcrazy, when, in October of 1990, for them to admit that further change in Association for Couples in Marriage En­ five couples, representing marriages that their relationship was both desirable and richment, Nelson and Marian Fuson con­ had lasted from 45 to 52 years, gathered possible. centrated that first weekend on teaching for a three-day workshop on marriage Looking at our own marriages, and us communication skills-how to dia­ enrichment with Nelson and Marian with a discerning eye at those ofcontem­ logue about problems and really listen to Fuson, trained in leading marriage en­ porary friends, we could begin to under­ one another. In the process we began richment groups, and themselves of a stand; not all old patterns are good ones, cautiously to reveal to each other that in similar age and length of marriage expe­ and patterns that served well enough in each of the five marriages there were rience. the days of youth and health may not be problems which caused communication We had been inspired six months ear­ best for the inevitable days of loss and difficulties but were clearly deeper than lier when one couple of our number had curtailment of function. Besides, as ingrained habits of not listening. To each sought meeting clearness in planning their Friends we all wanted our last decades of the couples it was reassuring to dis­ 50th wedding anniversary, and had stated together to be a time of emotional and cover that behind the bright surface of Margaret Hope Bacon and husband Allen spiritual growth for both, not just tread­ "happy family" we presented to the world, are Friends in residence at Woodbrooke, in ingwater. other couples also had periods of anger England. They are members ofCentral Phila­ Current work in Quaker marriage en­ and despair. delphia (Pa.) Meeting. richment has many precedents. At least The workshop went so well that we

18 March 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL decided to meet again, at a time the share our own sense of loss overcame Fusons, who live in Tennessee, could not that obstacle. We renamed ourselves a FRIENDS CAMP join us. This next meeting was partly "life enrichment group," and continued recreational; but after that, as we contin­ to meet. South China, Maine ued to meet regularly, we began to choose The loss of our beloved member *Ages 7-17 themes for our discussions, and to rotate caused us to talk about other losses we * Coed - Residential leadership. We met again with the Fusons had suffered, and how we had grieved. * Non competitive the following year, but this time they In our late 60s or early 70s, as most ofus * $475 for 2 weeks were more like members of the group. were, we went back to the loss of our The rest of us have continued to meet parents, especially our mothers, and found A unique camp program which in­ dudes international campers, Quaker with increasing regularity to this day. that we still had grieving work to do. community living, decision making, Gradually, as we came to know and This led us to talk about our childhoods, peace communications center, crafts, appreciate each other more, and trust de­ and some of the deep hurts that had been drama, sports, water activities, and veloped, we revealed to each other that buried from those days. One member of other creative programs. as a result of improved communications the group shared a painful incident fol­ we were beginning to face real underly­ lowing the death of his mother and the Call or write: Susan Morris, Director ing problems. For some, things that had arrival ofa stepmother, which he had not P.O. 13ox 84 happened in the past still needed to be thought of since. There were many tears, E. Vassalboro, ME 04935 confronted squarely and worked through. and what Friends ofold would have called (207) 923-3975 And though it was hard for all of us to a tendering among us. admit, we were each experiencing real Following the session on grief, we troubles in our relationships with our centered on being prepared for our own grown children, or between the children deaths. This involved the practical ques­ Small classes, strong themselves. tions: wills, living wills, funerary wishes, FRIENDS academics in a As a result ofthe stimulus ofthe group, as well as the spiritual quest for accep­ SELECT supportive, caring one couple sought the help of a family tance of death, and the necessity to be SCHOOL environment therapist to straighten out family rela­ ready for the death of a life companion, emphasizing Quaker tionships, while another worked with two as one of our number was experiencing. values. of their grown children and a marriage • Pre·K thru 12th Throughout these sessions, whatever ' enrichment counselor. Two other couples their focus, we continued to work as ' Day School introduced the methods they had learned couples on our marriages. In the group e • After School Program through the group at family reunions in sessions it became possible to discern • Summer Day Camp order to promote dialogue between them­ real changes in the inte~ction ofthe other 17th & the Parkway selves and their grown children, and be­ couples, and they in us. That change and tween the children themselves. growth is possible at any age was made Philadelphia, PA Early in the process we began to share vivid to us by these observations; one (215) 561-5900 worries about health, disabilities, and the cannot come away from such an experi­ fear of losing a partner. We were all of ence without renewed faith in the ability an age when it was necessary to begin of all of us to change and grow at what­ planning for the final stages oflife. Should ever age, if we are willing to do the THE HICKMAN we go into a life care community? Could work. And that willingness was vastly we afford to do so? What about arrang­ enhanced, we learned, when one has the ing for life care at home? If we were support of a loving group. determined to stay where we were, what I described our group to an adminis­ practical changes could we make in our trator in a local life care community. She living arrangements to insure maximum said she thought it would be wonderful to QuAKEII R£n11EMENT RESIDENCE use in the case of growing disabilities? develop more such groups, particularly I 00 yeors Reasonable Rates ofcoring Not (or Profit These are hard questions to face, and at among couples planning to join such a Personal Core the beginning only one couple of the five community. To put an older couple with Colwenient to Shops and Businesses had made definite plans. As a result of old patterns of some abrasive interac­ 400 NorthWalnutStreet the group process, however, two addi­ tions into a small space is a recipe for WestChester,PA 19380 (610)696-1536 tional couples made their decisions. trouble, she said. As our sharing broadened and deep­ Any one of us would be glad to talk ened, we talked about death as a reality with persons interested in trying to form we must live with. One member read us such a group. Or you might want to fol­ JOURNEY'S END FARM CAMP is a farm devoted to children for sessions of two to some lines of poetry he wrote as he lay low in our path, either joining a diverse eight weeks each summer. Farm animals, garden­ awake at night, thinking about this inevi­ marriage enrichment group, or forming ing, nature, ceramics, shop. Nonviolence, simplic­ ity, reverence for nature are emphasized in our tability. Before our next session took one of couples of similar ages and expe­ program centered in the life of a Quaker farm place, a cherished member of the group riences. The great thing we have learned, family. For thirty-two boys and girls, 7-12 years. died of a heart attack. We wondered if I believe, is that we do not have to settle Welcome all races. that meant our days of meeting as a mar­ for ruts. Change and growth are possible CARL & KRISTIN CURTIS riage enrichment group was over. But and desirable up to the very day we die. Box 136, NEWFOUNDLAND, PA 18445 our desire to be with the widow and to 0 Phone: (717) 689-7552; 2353

fRIENDS JOURNAL March 1994 19 tion from the Quaker U.S./USSR Com­ mittee to participate in the pilot program of Sharing Our Lives, a Soviet/U.S. children's exchange. Through this pro­ Sharing gram, BFS was paired with School 213 in what was then Leningrad, and a letter exchange introduced us to our partner school. Within a year, ten Russian students r and two Russian teachers arrived at BFS for a two-week visit. Through a number of hands-on projects and cooperative games, both children and adults formed easy friendships. The bond between the Lives people of our two schools was almost immediate. It was becoming almost im­ possible not to see that of God in such open and caring people. Through this Buckingham Friends School initial people-to-people exchange expe­ rience, the stirrings of a small miracle could be felt. The Soviet Union was no and St. Petersburg School 213 longer an unknown enemy to be feared. Rather, it was a familiar face with a ready smile and a warm hug. by Karen Seaton and Nicole Groff The summer following the School213 visit to BFS, the Soviet Union collapsed. Yet, through the confusion and fear of wo album quilts are handcrafted and a wide range of misconceptions. Al­ what this might mean, dedicated people from the patches designed by though the Soviet Union was not for­ in School 213 worked hard to assure TBuckingham Friends School stu­ mally discussed in many classrooms, it BFS students the opportunity to travel to dents, Lahaska, Pa., and their visitors became clear that each student carried an Leningrad that fall. As a result, ten stu­ from School 213 in St. Petersburg, unspoken and unshared fear ofthis coun­ dents and two teachers from BFS ar­ Russia. Both quilts are graced with soft try and its people. rived in Leningrad on the historic day brown and green earth tones that give Could these "enemies" be turned into when that city's name changed to St. life to their environmental motifs. One "friends"? Could our students be enabled Petersburg. quilt is now on display in Buckingham to know that ofGod in the Soviet people? Living in Russian homes and attend­ Friends School (BFS). The other hangs It was with these questions that BFS be­ ing Russian school deepened both our in School 213. Together they represent gan a USSR theme week. understanding ofRussian culture and our an environment of hope and a working A month after this theme week, stu­ love for Russian people. The we/they partnership that the two schools share dents were again asked to draw a picture attitude that we held was melting into an and nurture. Just as importantly, the quilts or write a few sentences to show some­ 1/thou relationship. What we once sought represent an evolution ofRussian!United thing they knew about the Soviets. Al­ to know only through our intellects, we States thinking. For our two schools, this though some violence remained in their were now internalizing in our hearts. evolution began a few years ago. pictures, there was a difference. Students A BFS teacher remembers, for ex­ In 1985, principal at the time Richard now clearly had more accurate informa­ ample, the morning she awoke with a Eldridge and the faculty of BFS agreed tion. Political and cultural differences feeling of undefined anger. She realized to abandon formal classes for a week between our countries were readily noted, that the anger was directed toward the and, in their place, explore various as­ but so were the similarities that make us times, government, and people who pects of Soviet geography, history, and all human. Something important had been taught her, as a child, to know Russians culture. About a month before our "So­ gained in trying to know our "enemies." as "the enemy." No one had opened her viet theme week" began, each child in Could more be done? The possibility of to the possibility that Russians could be the school was asked to write a few sen­ introducing Russian language into our friends. Those dark and violent drawings tences or draw a picture showing some­ elementary curriculum was suggested. that our students had made years before thing they knew about the Soviet people. The following fall our school began a suddenly made sense. She knew how Their honest response to this request was pilot Russian language program. During they felt. She too had been holding onto startling. Their drawings were dark and its first year, Russian was offered to sixth fear for many years-<;ertainly longer violent-full of tanks and bombs and grade students only, but interested teach­ than her students. But, as with them, it blood. Their words expressed anger, fear, ers and even the principal sat in on classes! wasn't a spoken or shared fear; it was Karen Seaton and Nicole Groff are both The following two years saw the intro­ just a silent feeling tucked away deep faculty members at Buckingham Friends duction of Russian into our seventh and inside. That fear, she came to realize, School. Karen is librarian and teaches li­ eighth grade curricula. was no longer valid, and anger would not brary skills; Nicole teaches Russian to upper In the fifth year of our Russian lan­ help. At that moment, in Russia, she school students. guage program, we received an invita- learned something very important about

20 March 1994 FRIENDS JoURNAL the restorative love and accompanying schools, the answer to how our futures tion, air and water pollution, vanishing peace that can be found in seeking "that would be shared became obvious. BFS species, over-population, the hole in the ofGod" in everyone-including our "en­ and School 213 students are very aware ozone layer-and the list goes on. The emies." that they share one world-one atmo­ natural world evokes fear. . It was difficult to leave our Russian sphere, one hydrosphere, one lithosphere. Yet, children and the natural world friends that fall. Russia was changing We realized that they also share one fear: belong together. As we move toward an and unsettled. And those of us involved the destruction of that world- not from age of nanotechnology and robotics, we in this exchange, both Russian and Ameri­ nuclear annihilation, but from deforesta- must wonder whether our students are can, were changing and unsettled also. harboring too many fears about their new­ We had entered into a working and car­ est enemy-the environment. Are we pre­ ing relationship that we knew would be paring them to leave the natural world long-term. We instinctively realized that behind or helping them to work together this was fast becoming more than a cul­ to preserve that world? Is it possible our tural exchange between two schools. It children will one day wake up, with un­ was true that our pasts were different. defined anger, and wonder why no one Yet now our presents were merged. We opened them to the alternative possibility knew our futures would be shared-but of a friendly natural world? how? Last spring, with more unanswered The fact that our futures were becom­ questions, School213 again visited BFS ing permanently intermingled was clear for three weeks. During this time of whirl­ when a teacher in School 213 asked one Q wind field trips, shared meals, and envi­ of our BFS teachers and husband to be ~ ronmental projects, the students of both godparents to her two children. They con- ~ schools explored their thoughts and feel­ tinue to struggle together to find a way to ~ ings about the environment and, through give this act real meaning despite the ~ a joint letter, urged Presidents Yeltsin geographical and the religious differences. ~ and Clinton to work together to save their While listening to students from both ~ world. Through watching our students

Above: Russian students, with BFS students, parents, and staff, pose with their environmental quilt. Inset: A visit to a Lenape Indian cultural leamlng center at Peace Valley Park.

f RIENDS J OURNAL March 1994 21 and listening to each other, it seems ob­ vious our collective wisdom is far greater Quaker Retirement Residences. • • than our individual thoughts. By respond­ ing to that of God in each other, we begin For Those With a Spirit of to feel the movement of God within us encouraging participation in a system ~MM~~~~mUp~e larger and more meaningful than our smaller individual worlds allow. What is the right term for A 12-year-old boy named Philip ac­ those who are determined companied School 213 to Pennsylvania. to be self-reliant in their We all worried about Philip. He didn't seem to connect with the school or with later years? How do you the program. With Walkman earphones describe the person who strung permanently around his neck and wants to pursue her or his with eyes focused on the Game-Boy in own interests and priori­ his hands, Philip seemed grounded only in the electronic world. There was a tech­ ties, even while recogniz­ nological passivity about him that we ing the need for a secure could not break through. Not, that is, and supportive environ­ until the morning we went to Peace Val­ ment? ley Nature Center for a lesson on the Lenape Indians. There, Philip, for once If these qualities describe Walkman-free and attentive, sat in a wig­ you, then a Quaker Re­ wam. He excitedly touched and studied tirement Residence is an the artifacts around him. Then, wrapped in a bear skin, Philip seemed to be trans­ option you should con­ formed. He was connecting with the natu­ sider. ral world. That morning Philip tried to start a fire by rubbing sticks together. He In these friendly settings, residents pursue their own agendas, whether caught and gently handled a snake. He those be social, activist, intellectual, or spiritual. Quaker Retirement noticed every leaf and animal track on Residences provide a comfortable home and good meals, but they the trails he walked. And Philip was don't presume to determine residents' interests or schedule their lives. happy! Later that afternoon, at Delaware Valley Agricultural College, Philip took A person's needs for assistance in daily living may increase over time, advantage of every opportunity to be­ and each of these residences has the ability to provide increased come involved with the animals, plants, and people around him. The effect was support or is linked with other members of Friends Semces for the pervasive. As Philip closed the distance Aging that provide other levels of care. between himself and the natural world, he opened emotionally. He remained in­ If you are looking for a retirement setting that supports your indepen- volved, active, and attentive throughout dent spirit, write for more information. · the remainder of the visit. At the end of our three weeks, it was again difficult to see our friends depart. FlU ENDS While the tears at the airport were tem­ CES -'i'·i~l~ 6834 Anderson Street porary, our dream to make the world a S El{VI Philadelphia, PA 19119 better place for all students is not. Through electronic mail, we are keeping in touch AGING Telephone (215) 849-4428 and making plans for carefully designed joint environmental projects. We are also in the process of expanding this project Simplicity, Community, to include the Karoo School in Melbourne, Australia. A Spirit ofImUpendence Of course, there are obstacles. Fund­ ing is a major one. But there are devoted In New Jersey In Pennsylvania people working hard to realize our goals. The quilts that hang in our schools hold •:• Friends Home Woodstown •:•The Barclay West Chester our dreams. If seeking that of God in our •:•The Greenleaf Moorestown •:•The Harned Media enemies can transform them into friends, then perhaps working together with these •:•The McCutchen N. Plainfield •:•The Hickman West Chester new friends will break through the sur­ ·:·stapeley Hall Philadelphia face ofshared fears to find that of God in the natural world. CJ

22 March 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL Young Friends SUl11111er with Jubilee Partners Send for his past summer I worked in a Chris­ it could. At Jubilee there was a real sense of ian community in Comer, Georgia, peace. We were all working together to sup­ alist of T:calledJubliee Partners. Their mission is port the refugees. In tum, the refugees gave to aid refugees in establishing themselves in strength to us. Their will to live and their the United States. Refugees live in the com­ longing for a better life was a constant re­ munity for two months, during which time minder to the community of the sacredness your friends. they learn English, secure housing and in­ oflife, which they saw as a gift from God. come or government aid for the future, and As Zana and Hussein spun around, mov­ rest after their difficult journeys. ing their feet like the ground was on fire, they I worked with Vietnamese and Bosnian were laughing. Despite Hussein's four families for about six hours a week teaching months in a Serbian prison camp, despite When you're snuggling with a them English. This was quite challenging, as Zana's mom and dad being trapped in Bosnia, mental or emotional problem, I had never done teaching before. But their they still found the strength within them­ where do you tum? Those close to eagerness to learn gave me the energy to do selves to celebrate. They had nothing but a you can provide compassion and as well as I could. I realized how vital my job love of life and a love for the lives around was. Their ability to survive in the United them. They helped me understand that the understanding, but sometimes you States depended so much on their communi­ sacredness of life comes from a love oflife, need more-the help of an expert cation skills. not from our luxuries in it. trained to understand problems In the evenings, the refugees often invited -Holly Green like yours. volunteers to join them for coffee and danc­ ing. Both the Vietnamese and the Bosnians This is when Friends of a made extremely potent coffee! The Bosnians different sort can help. Friends often drank about six cups a day. As for the Jubliee Partners, formed in 1979, is Hospital has only one purpose: involved with resettling refugees, volunteers, after two cups we were very to treat mental and emotional hyper! It allowed us to let go a little and peacemaking, prison work, fundraising dance with the Bosnians. They taught us for Nicaraguan amputees, and working illnesses. circle dances and spun us around. Once our against the death penalty. We'd like to send you our free caffeine buzz had worn off, they would settle Volunteers are welcome for vary­ "Guide to Staff." Its a list of our ing lengths of time, but three sessions down a bit and begin telling us stories about people, programs and philosophy. their past in the broken English that we had are scheduled: January to May, June taught them. We played a lot of charades in through August, and September to De­ You'll see the depth of knowledge our discussions, but somehow we managed cember. The community's multi-fac­ we have here. And you can use it to understand one another. eted spiritual life includes a daily hour to call any one of our physicians. of "quiet time," devotions at lunch, As a volunteer, I did other duties as well. Keep it handy. Mental and 1 painted, cleaned, and cared for the children and Sunday worship with the refugees. of the community: We also had a large or­ Volunteers are expected to participate emotional problems affect millions ganic garden where I spent many hours. in dialogue, study, and reflection ses­ of people. You never know when We had no TV to flop in front of and no sions focusing on Christian disciple­ you might need Friends. air conditioning to relieve us from the heat. ship. For more information, contact J u­ Most of our food was unwanted food from bilee Partners, Box 68, Comer, GA Send coupon to: the food bank. The partners at Jubilee had 30629, telephone (404) 783-5 131 . chosen this lifestyle to make their lives and the lives of others richer. At first this seemed like such FRIENDS a paradox. How HOSPITAL could a life ofpov­ 4641 Roosevelt Boulevard erty and humility Philadelphia, PA 19124-2399 make you richer? or call: 215•831•4600 But as time went on, I realized Please send your free Guide to Staff, with Holly Green is a a full list of Friends physicians, their member ofthe backgrounds and phone numbers. class of '96 at Name,______Guilford College. This article is Addre$,______reprinted from City______GCROCaw, Sept. 5, 1993. State Zip.____ _ Jubilee Partners volunteers welcome Bosnian (All information is kept strictly confidential) refugees. Holly Green Is third from left. fRIENDS JOURNAL March 1994 23 FCNL Notes SUkM ~t1J11$W1Jf! SPfrrDIJ1f!Ul1MJ$ Can We Deter m t~ CMttMJPikJ.fti'fJt q'rrf14iitiM Group Leaders Progfam-1 year * U.S. Arms for those who lead contemplative "There is an spiritual formation groups and retreats Trade? Spiritual Guidance Program-2 years * undefined for those who are called to the ministry of one-to-one spiritual direction rms dealers are making a killing. In wealth in the United Sates, gun violence is be- Personal Spiritual Deepening coming a number one health prob­ Shalem, that Program-1 1/2 years lem. Abroad, casualties mount daily in So­ malia, Angola, Bosnia, and scores of other is far deeper, for those who want to dedicate themselves to a contemplative grounding within places that don't appear in the headlines. A far more the context of their daily lives large part of the problem is that gun sales in this nation and abroad are on the rise and out * accredited by Washington Theological Union (WTU) significant of control. Application fo r these ecumenical programs is open to lay Within the United States, one way to con­ than the people, clergy, religious, and others anywhere in the English­ trol and reduce killing by gun violence is to speaking world who want to learn from and deepen their pass gun control legislation. Passage of the Program's givenness to God in the light of contemplative traditions. Brady law, which established a five-day wait­ Scholarship assistance is available. ing period and required background checks for the purchase of handguns, was a first and outline." Staff Rose Mary Dougherty, Tilden Edwards, Gerald May & o.thers important step in the right direction. But we For information & application please contact: SHALEM INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUAL FORMATION Mount St. Alban, Washington, DC 20016 Phone: 202-966-7050

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ASOII)OI.t/HHE I'IOGRESSIVE TWJinoN, THE CAMBRIDGE ScHOOL OF WEsToN OFfEIS HIGHLY I'RSONAIJZED, THOUGHTFUL COLLEGE JWAIATION FOIIIITELLECTUAUY CUilf(IIJS YOUNGPEOI'I.E; AN ETHICAL SCHOOL COMMUNITY BASED ON DEEP MIITIJAL 11/JST AND RESPECT; APlACE WHElE 11/TE61lf1Y AND DIVERSfiY AilE Al't'IECJATED; AND All APPilOACH WHICH must go farther to stop the carnage in our PlACE$ AS MUCH EMPHASIS 011 ASKJN61'HE RIGH'f QUESriOIIS AS ON GIVING THE RIGHT ANSWfllS;· neighborhoods. The carnage overseas is likewise linked (OEDIJCATIDIIAL, IOARDING AND DAY, GllADES 9-12 AND PG. (Au {617} 642-8650. to weapons sales. The Congressional Re­ search Service reported recently that the United States is the leading supplier ofweap­ ons to developing countries, by a three-to­ The Cambridge School of Weston • 1886 one margin. U.S. weapons sales agreements average $17 billion a year since the end of

24 March ] 994 FRIENDS JOURNAL Est. 1689 WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Kindergarten through 303 Years of Quaker Education Twelfth Grade the Cold War, compared to $7 billion a year prior to the Soviet Union's dissolution. Why? Operated under Charter issued by William Penn . The William Penn Charter One powerful reason is that, with the Penta­ School is a Quaker college-preparatory school committed to nurturing in girls gon buying fewer weapons to "contain com­ and boys the education of the mind, the quickening of the spirit, and the munism," the arms industry is aggressively development of the body. Penn Charter stresses high standards in academics, cultivating new markets in other parts of the the arts, and athletics. world. Friends are encouraged to apply both as students and as teachers. A major problem facing those who would Earl J. Ball HI, Headmaster like to curb this dangerous trend is that U.S. 3000 W. School House lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 arms export control laws favor the arms deal­ (215) 844-3460 ers. Congress can prevent a weapons sale only if two-thirds of the Senate and two­ thirds of the House vote to stop a sale. Un­ less we can change those rules, arms dealers will continue to escalate the levels of death and destruction in conflicts around the globe. In November, Senator Hatfield (Oreg.) What kind of a and Representative McKinney (Ga.) initi­ ated a remarkable effort to change U.S. arms PAX export rules. They basically call the bluff of world do you want those who say they support democracy, hu­ \N 0 R L D man rights, and UN arms control and who ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND? express outrage at military aggression. PEAC EF UL? Hatfield-McKinney supporters say, in effect, F U N D "OK, if that's your policy, then the United W ITH EQ UAL OPPORTUN ITY? e States should neither sell nor give any weap­ ons or other military equipment to any gov­ Then Consider Pax World Fund• ernment that: ( I) abuses the human rights of its people; (2) denies its people democratic For a free prospectus Pax World is a no-load, diversified balanced rights, including the right to choose their and other materials mutual fund designed for those who w ish to call toll-free government via free and fai r elections; (3) 24 hours a day: develop income and to invest in life-supportive engages in certain acts of armed aggression; products and services. Pax invests in such or (4) does not participate in the United Na­ industries as pollution control, health care, food, tions Register of conventional arms." 1-800-767-1729 housing, education, and leisure time. We believe that the Hatfield-McKinney Pax World Fund shares Code of Conduct proposal would affect a are available lor sale in The fund does not invest in weapons production, major portion of U.S. arms transfers-and all 50 states. the most deadly: arms to dictators. Under nuclear power, or the tobacco, alcohol or this proposal, the old arms export rules would gambling industries. Various opportunities are continue unchanged for those countries that available: Regular Accounts, IRA's, Educational do not violate the four principles. But Con­ Accounts, SEP-IRA's, and 403(b) Pension Plans. gress would have to vote affirmatively to M inimum investment $250. S~nd no money. approve arms exports to countries that vio­ late the principles. * PA X W O RL D FUND IS THE ONLY M UTUAL FUND IN THE Friends Committee on National Legisla­ NATION AFFILIATED WITH A FOUNDATION THAT, FOR TWELVE tion opposes all arms transfers-from any YEA RS , HAS SUPPORTED TREE PLANTING IN AREAS OF THE country to any country. We are working for DEFORESTED THIRD W ORLD. the elimination of the war system and for complete and general disarmament. We will work hard to pass the Hatfield-McKinney Code of Conduct on Arms Sales because it does two very important things: (I) like the Brady law, it takes a first step in the right Claiming Our Past: Assuring the Future direction; and (2) it radically shifts power What better way to give expression to your from the military industry to the arms control Quaker values than by leaving a portion and disarmament movement. of your estate to FRIENDS JouRNAL? You will assure the growth of Quaker thought and ACTION: Please write your senators and life long into the future. Consider a representatives and ask them to co-sponsor provision in your will for FRI ENDS JoURNAL. the legislation to establish a code ofcon duct on arms sales (S. 1677 in the Senate and H.R. For more information, contact: 3538 in the House) .. FRIEN DS JouRNAL, 1501 Cherry Street - Joe Volk Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 (215) 241-7820

FRIENDS JOURNAl March 1994 25 News of Friends Oakwood School The Clarence and Lilly Pickett Fund is United States, compared to 1,200 U.S. stu­ ready to make its first leadership grants. The dents in Japan. In the agreement, Japanese Grades 7-12 and Postgraduate "Pickett Fund" was created by an indepen­ national universities will create educational Friends Boarding and Day School dent group of Friends, with the cooperation programs for U.S. students, expand programs of William Penn College, to honor the lives to teach Japanese language skills, and assist Emphasis on: ofalumni Clarence and Lilly Pickett, as well students in finding inexpensive housing. The as to recapture their commitment to recog­ accord also facilitates approval of visas for · College Preparatory Curriculum nizing and encouraging gifts for uncommon U.S. students and changes the policy of re­ · Challenging Senior Program leadership among Friends. In 1993 the fund stricting visas largely to foreign students who · Learning Center reached $100,000, was given tax-exempt sta­ are already proficient in the Japanese lan­ • Personal Growth tus from the IRS, and its endowment re­ guage. Earlham College has been a leader in · International Program sources were put under the custody and man­ Japanese education for more than 30 years. · Visual and Performing Arts agement of the Fiduciary Corporation of Through its Institute for Education on Japan, · Sports Program Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Grants will be the school acts as agent for some 25 Mid­ made to recipients nominated by other indi­ western colleges who send students for study For a tour and more information viduals and/or meetings for creative service in Japan. contact: either individually or with Friends' groups An exhibit of Quaker materials is currently Oakwood School and organizations. For complete information about the fund and nomination forms, con­ on view at the Pierpont Morgan Library in 515 South Road tact Allen Bowman, Coordinator, William New York City. The collection includes an Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa 52577, tele­ overview of the history of the Society of Telephone:(914) 462-4200 phone (515) 673-1076. Friends, plus many unique books and docu­ Fax:(9 14) 462-4251 ments dating back to the mid-1600s. High­ Janet Gas til, a Quaker from California, is lights of the collection include early print­ running for Congress. In her formal an­ ings of language books by George Fox; an nouncement, Janet addressed jobs and the engraving by Thomas Roelandson ofan early economy, violence and crime, education, and Quaker meetinghouse; a 1794 edition of health care as the major issues of her cam­ George Fox's Journal; a 1669 printing of paign. This is the second time Janet has run William Penn's No Cross, No Crown; a nI~~,~~~~~ for Congress. In 1992 her grassroots cam­ manuscript dated May 30, 1656, listing the paign drew national attention for its aggres­ names of the first eight Quakers to come to the American colonies from England; a • Quality care in the Quaker tradition. siveness, but narrowly lost the election to an opponent whose campaign outspent her own battledore from the 1800s, with its charts • 42 apartments for independent liv­ by a four-to-one margin ("Money Talks," FJ showing alphabets, short words, and gram­ ing, 60 private personal care rooms. Sept. 1993). Janet Gastil and her husbanc:l, matical phrases, printed by a Quaker pub­ 120 nursing home beds. Gordon, are members of San Diego (Calif.) lishing house; and a Bible from 1764, which Meeting. was translated by Anthony Purver, a Friend • Peace of mind. Supportive medical who claimed divine inspiration for the 30 years it took him to prepare this two-volume and social services throughout your Phoenix (Ariz.) Friends Meeting is joining edition. The exhibit ends in March, but the stay. national efforts to close the School of the Quaker materials will remain at the library. Americas. Their position was formally noted For more information, contact the Pierpont • An active li fe style in a beautiful. in a meeting minute, approved Dec. 5, 1993, graceful sening. Morgan Library, 29 East 36th St., New York, which read: NY 10016-3490, telephone (212) 685-0008. • Meals, housekeeping, transporta­ Phoenix Friends Meeting condemns the con­ tion, culrural and social activities. tinued funding of the U.S. Army School of Throughout 1993, Norwegian Friends cel­ the Americas (S.O.A.) at Ft. Benning, Geor­ ebrated their 175th anniversary. July's • A history of caring since 1904. gia. Since 1946, 54,000 officers and enlisted yearly meeting in Stavanger, the historical men from Central and South American coun­ center of Norwegian Quakerism, was at­ tries have been trained for governments hav­ tended by Friends representatives worldwide Stapeley In Germantown ing the worst human rights records. The and included a bus tour of historical Quaker 6300 Greene Street United Nations Truth Comission Report on sites in the region. In August there was a Philadelphia, PA 19144 El Salvador cited those responsible for the meeting for worship in a recently restored most serious acts of violence in El Salvador 1860 meetinghouse at Royseland, K vinesdal, Call Carol Nemeroff over the past 12 years were attributable to and a scholarly seminar in Stavanger, with Admissions Director graduates of the S.O.A. Latin Americans re­ papers on the history of Quakers and other (215)844-0700 fer to it as "The School of Assassins." It is Norwegian dissident religious groups. Cel­ time to close down the school! ebrations on August 29, the actual birthday, included meeting for worship in Stavanger Bringing Friends" Concerns lor Peace & Justice to Earlham College President Richard Wood and an evening program in which a noted Congress Since 1943 has helped to ease the way for more U.S. Norwegian historian presented the Jubilee Wr•te or call 12021547-4343 students in Japan. Richard was part ofa team Lecture, referring to the Quaker contribution tor actiOn suggeshoo tape that successfully negotiated an agreement to the development of religious freedom in with Japanese university officials in Decem­ Norway. The last event of the year featured ber 1993. Annually, about 40,000 Japanese an exhibit on Norwegian Qua~erism in the undergraduate students attend schools in the Library of the University of Oslo.

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•The 1994 Annual Meeting for the Friends Foster Doan. For more information, telephone World Committee for Consultation, Section (215) 4 31-143 9, or contact the Committee of the Americas will be held March 17-20 in on Education, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, St. Louis, Mo. Representatives to FWCC 1515 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102. from throughout the Americas, plus visiting Friends from Ireland and England, and mem­ •Women from a wide range of backgrounds bers of related Friends groups will come are invited to register for the 18th annual together to share in the spirit and conduct the Quaker Lesbian Conference (QLC), August business of the Section. Highlights of the 11-14, for a weekend of community build­ gathering include preparations for the Au­ ing, deep thought, and fun. The conference is gust FWCC Triennial at Ghost Ranch in a time for spiritual renewal and worship in a New Mexico, and a panel discussion on de­ lovely summer camp setting near Newburgh, veloping Quaker leadership, featuring N.Y. The gathering is planned by and for Earlham School ofReligion, the Quaker Lead­ Quaker women or women familiar with the ership Scholars Program at Guilford Col­ Religious Society of Friends who are les­ Imagine a vacation so relaxing you feel like part of the scenery. . . lege, and other inspiring examples. A variety bian, bisexual, or moving toward a lesbian Experience a farm vacation: of alternative programs will be available for lifestyle. Camp facilities include limited - Explore hundreds of acres of pristine visiting Friends; all are welcome. For further wheelchair access to cabins, a farm house, wilderness information, contact Friends World Com­ areas for tents, and a swimming pond. Veg­ -Participate in the activities of farm life mittee for Consultation, Section ofthe Ameri­ etarian meals are provided and childcare is -Experience animal life first hand cas, 1506 Race St., Philadelphia, PA 19102, available. A sliding scale is applied toward -Relax in a peaceful simple telephone (215) 241-7250. the registration fee. For more information, or atmosphere to register, contact QLC 94, P.O. Box 4019, -Enjoy beautiful scenery -Excellent Family Get Away •"Conflict Resolution: Disseminating Skills Elwyn, PA 19063. Mountain Dale Farm for the Future Now" is (formerly the Water Co Farm) the theme for the 1994 RR 02 , Box 985 National Quaker Youth McClure, PA 17841 Seminar, May 1-4, at 717-658-3536 William Penn House, Open Year Round, Groups Welcome, Private Washington, D.C. Is­ Accommodations. Meals Available. sues to be explored in the program include conflict resolution and Are you torn between going to Quaker values, inter­ ventionism, nonviolent school or receiving job training conflict resolution as an and your conviction against killing instrument for social in war? You can learn without change, problems in --.L------' registering for the disseminating conflict resolution skills, problems in class and cul­ •Individuals involved in the study and prac­ ture, community conflict resolution, and the tice of Christian mysticism are eligible for relationship between conflict and econom­ grants worth up to $500 from the Elizabeth ics. Young Friends who are high school jun­ Ann Bogert Memorial Fund. Proposals should iors and seniors, and Quaker youth leaders include a description of the project, the spe­ are invited to attend. The program is par­ cific amount requested, how the grant would tially underwritten by the Chace Fund of be used, other funding, and how the appli­ Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. A $45 regis­ cant plans to communicate the results to oth­ tration fee includes the seminar program, ers. Tuition and regular living expenses are lodging at William Penn House, and all break­ not usually funded. Applicants are invited to fasts and dinners. Registration deadline is send six copies of their proposal, and to April18. Registration forms may be obtained arrange for letters of reference from people from Christie Evens and Jonathan Ogle, familiar with the project and their ability to William Penn House, 515 East Capitol St. carry it out. Recipients are encouraged to SE, Washington, DC 20003, telephone (202) give a full progress report within a year. 543-5560. Send inquiries, proposals, and letters of ref­ erence to Bogert Fund, Friends World Com­ •A Friends Workcamp at Ramallah Friends mittee for Consultation, 1506 Race St., Phila­ School, in the occupied West Bank, for young delphia, PA 19102. Deadline for applica­ CREMATION people ages 17-25 is scheduled for July 2-30. tions is May 1, and awards will be announced Friends are reminded that the AnnaT. Jeanes Fund The camp will include hard work, regular in July. will reimburse cremation costs. times of worship, and an educational pro­ (Applicable to members of gram to help participants understand the is­ •A "Training-for-Trainers of the Listening Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) sues in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. Project" is being offered by Rural Southern For informalion, write or telephone Weekly trips to sites ofhistoric and religious Voice for Peace, March 10-13, in Asheville, RICHARD R. BETTS 500-B Glen Ec ho Road significance are also planned. The program N.C. The program is designed for people Philadelphia, PA 19119 will be led by Max Carter and Betsy and who want to be able to train groups and (215) 247-335"

FRIENDS JoURNAL March I 994 27 organizations so they can conduct a Listen­ ing Project in their own community. The Listening Projects are an organizing and con­ flict resolution tool used to help communi­ Newtown, PA 18940 ties deal with vital concerns and conflict. They are especially useful in helping various sides in a controversial issue communicate with one another. The first two days of this training will involve participants in the Reli­ gion Diversity Listening Project sponsored by the Asheville (N.C.) Friends Meeting. This project is an ongoing effort to increase communication and understanding between religious leaders and gay and lesbian people. Cost for the four-day program ranges from $100 to $150, and some scholarships are available. For registration information or to send a $25 pre-registration fee, contact Rural Southern Voice for Peace, Attn: Herb Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, George School is a co­ Walters, 1898 Hannah Branch Rd., educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. Burnsville, NC 28714, telephone (704) 675- The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values and includes: 5933. • Courses on 4levels of challenge • International Baccalaureate (IB) •Woodlawn Plantation, a National Trust for • Advanced Placement (AP) • International workcamps Historic Preservation property, is sponsoring • English as a Second Language (ESL) • Required community service • Foreign study • Required full-year courses in the arts its first Quaker reunion on June 25. The • 13 interscholastic sports for boys and girls plantation, once part ofGeorge Washington's land holdings, is located 14 miles south of For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 215/579-6547.

Reservations for display ads in FRIENDS JouRNAL are required. MARCH Issue: May. Reservations must be made by March 7. Ads 16-20- Alaska Yearly Meeting, Noatak, must be received by March 14. Kotzebue, Alaska. Contact Robert Sheldon, Issue: June. Reservations must be made by April 11. Box 687, Kotzebue, AK 99752, telephone Ads must be received by Aprill8. (907) 442-3906. DEADLINES Ad rate is $28 per column inch. 17-20-Annual Meeting of FWCC, Section Call (215) 241-7279 now for your reservation. of the Americas, at the Southwest Holiday Inn in St. Louis, Mo. Contact FWCC, Section of the Americas, 1506 Racr St., Philadelphia, PA 19102, telephone (215) 241-7250. FRIENDS JoURNAL is a forum for discussing 23-27-Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Arch St. Meetinghouse, Philadelphia, Pa. Contact today's concerns: global peace, human rights, Edwin Staudt III, 1515 Cherry St., Philadel­ environmental awareness, Friends education, phia, P A I 9102, telephone (215) 241-7210. social injustice, and current political events. 23-27- Southeastem Yearly Meeting, Lake­ You can receive 3 issues of FRIENDS JouRNAL wood Retreat Center, Brooksville, Fla. Con­ tact Vicki Carlie, 3112 Via Dos, Orlando, FL absolutely free through this introductory offer. 32817, telephone (407) 678-1429. Just use the coupon below. If you enjoy the magazine, we'll invite you to subscribe. 24-27-Near East Yearly Meeting, Brummana, Lebanon. Contact Tony Manasseh, P.O. Box 130, Brummana, Leba­ Yes, please send me 3 free issues non, telephone (04) 960023/4. of FRIENDS JoURNAL. 26--The 2nd International Day of Action for the Innu and the Earth. Every year the Innu, a native people in Canada, are subjected to thou­ NAME sands of low-level overflights from NATO military aircraft. They are calling for a con­ ADDRESS centrated effort by activists from around the 1501 Cherry Street world to oppose the use of lnnu lands and Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 airspace for war preparations, and to insist (215) 241-7115 that the Canadian government help reverse the cultural and environmental demise oftheir Fax: (215) 568-1377 CITY/STATE/ZIP Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.

28 March 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL Washington, D.C., near Mount Vernon, Va. Four Quaker businessmen purchased the property in 1846 and divided the 2,000 acre estate into smaller farms, promoting settle­ ment by many other Quaker families in the community. Jacob M. Troth, one of the founders, described part of the agenda of the Friends' settlement as follows: "Not only Woodlawn but a large amount of surround­ Olney-A Personal Education ing territory was by them reclaimed, not only • A small, coeducational, boarding and day school for Grades 9-12. • A safe, from the forest but from the 'dry rot' of peaceful 350 acre campus, half hour west of Wheeling WV. • Individual attention slavery, in a quiet peaceable way, and with­ and focus on personal growth. • Communication/writing skills are stressed, and out interrupting the friendly relations which electiv.es dealing with global perspective, environmental studies, art, existed between them and their slaveholding and outdoor education, help to prepare students for the colleges neighbors." The first Friends meeting was which are just right for them. held at the plantation's mansion in 1848, and a meetinghouse was built in 1852. The Quaker OLNEY FRIENDS SCHOOL community continues to thrive in the Barnesville, Ohio 43713 (614) 425-3655 Woodlawn area, and the meetinghouse is • still in use today. The "Woodlawn Quaker Reunion" will feature a display of artifacts, old photos, and videotaping memories and stories, a speaker addressing "The Quaker Era at Woodlawn," and free tours of the Woodlawn Plantation and Meetinghouse. For Writing for College more information, contact Woodlawn Plan­ tation, P.O. Box 37, Mount Vernon, VA An Intensive Summer Program 22121, telephone (703) 780-4000. for Secondary Students July 10-30, 1994 people. For more information, contact I. C. I.E., 736 Bathurst St., Toronto, ON Canada M5S 2R4, telephone (416) 531-6154. 29-April 3-El Salvador Yearly Meeting, Soyapango, San Salvador, El Salvador. Con­ tact Maudiel Arevalo E., Calle Antigua a Soyap. #60, Colonia Las Flores, Soyapango, San Salvador, El Salvador, telephone 27-21- 86. 31-April 3-South Central Yearly Meeting, Green Family Camp, Bruceville, Tex. Con­ tact Marianne Lockard, Rt. 3, Box 666, Hope, AR 71801 , telephone (501) 777-5382. Division of General Studies 31-Apri13-Bolivia Yearly Meeting, Amigos Bryn Mawr College Central, Ciudad-Viacha, Bolivia. Contact 101 N. Merion Ave. Evaristo Gironda, Casilla 7802, La Paz, Bo­ livia, telephone (2) 80-00-76. Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899 610-526-7350 APRIL 1-3-lreland Yearly Meeting, Lisburn, Ire­ land. Contact Ireland Yearly Meeting, Swanbrook House, Bloomfield Ave., Dublin 4, Ireland, telephone (01) 6683684. 1-3-Peru-lnela Yearly Meeting, Calle San Sebastian #249, Llave, Puno, Peru. Contact Ramon Mamani Chipana, Apartado 369, Puno, Camp Regis·ftpple~ack Peru, telephone (54} 35-0210. Quaker Dire'< 7 tennis telephone 62-02-86. couns ~ arts and crafts ~ drama ~ nature·science-ecology ~ wilderness __ , - --.;; ' SV mountain and canoe trips A mountain biking program.

FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1994 29 The much-in-demand Books book of cartoons by Philadelphia's "Attack Street Lives, An Oral Quaker" and first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for History of Homeless editorial cartooning. The perfect gift for a Americans special friend. Sales to benefit FRIENDS jOURNAL. By Steven Vanderstaay. New Society Send $8.50 (incl. postage) Publishers, Philadelphia, Pa., 1992. 244 for each copy to: pages. $14.95/paperback. FRIENDS jOURNAL, ISO I "Everyone is potentially homeless," said Cherry St., Philadelphia, Tim, a homeless person from Philadelphia, Abortion Cartoons on Demand PA 19102-1497. Pa. His words are a philosophical truth that encompasses us all. The author of this book was truly inspired to record 50 direct inter­ views with street people, taken over six years during his nationwide travels. There are nine chapters in which homeless people relate life on the street, how they got there, and solu­ tions that effectually work. Steve Vanderstaay introduces each chapter with well researched analysis, but as he suggests, one can skip over them and proceed directly to the rich­ ness of the testimonies. Here are homeless people of every stripe sharing their stories, their hardships, their dreams, and their strat­ egies. The one overriding cry throughout the book is a call for recognition and respect. T, a Vietnam veteran put it best with, "You're dealing with a human life, the most precious thing there is." Lana, a runaway youth put it more succinctly with, " People need to be loved," whereas Tanya, who is mentally ill, calls out directly with, "You need somebody to rely on." There are many Friends respond­ ing to this cry in a variety ofways , especially listening with an open heart. "See, to be an ally to a homeless person is very simple: approach him with an open mind and listen to his story," says Doug, an organizerofTent City in Seattle, Wash. The consistent elements ofhomelessness as borne out by the testimonies are unem­ ployment, lack of affordable housing, and violence. Menial jobs and labor pools ex­ ploit people; minimum wage scales simply do not reach lower rent levels; and violence from society, between each other, and to oneself such as suicides, are prevalent. Un­ derstandably, the guiding principle of the street is "you got to do what you have to to survive," per Batman, a rugged individualist from Roanoke, Va. Chronic to all is the bore­ dom, a chief cause of alcoholism and drug FRIENDS abuse, and exhaustion from continually walk­ HOME AT WOODSTOWN ing all day and being alert all night. People A Quaker-Sponsored Retirement Facility are alone and trapped, completely separated from their family roots. • One-bedroom Woods Court • 60-bed Medicare & Medicaid The solutions offered by the homeless Apartments for People over 60 Certified Nursing Home themselves are a real awakening to the reader. • Residential facility with • Pastoral Setting Establishment and support oftheir own com­ community dining • Caring, supportive staff munities is what provides stability, oppOrtu­ • Delicious, nutritious meals nity, and self reliance. Be it living in a reha­ bilitated building, a tent city, a squatter situ­ ation, or an established home such as the P.O. Box 457, Friends Drive • Woodstown, NJ 08098 • (6o9) 769-1500 Catholic Worker or an Orion Center, each is run by the common goals and rules of the

30 March 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL walk in the woods he loved, and continue to celebrate his birthdays and the anniversaries _,~~· HAVERfORD ~ of his death. When it seems likely the man • who murdered Chris will be sentenced to 851 Buck Lane Pre-School-Grade VI death, they write to the judge, explaining Havetford, PA Coeducational their Quaker opposition to the death penalty, (215}642.0054 Extended Day and ask that a life sentence be imposed in­ Now accepting applications stead. Impressed with John's letter, supported by letters from two Friends meetings, the Friends School is devoted exclusively to judge grants their request. elementary education with an emphasis on During the hardest first year, Reva as­ academic excellence and akcr values sembles an album of photographs of Chris. She recalls his life in great detail. At the time of his death, Chris was a physical therapist, especially skilled and compassionate in work­ Fyfe & Miller ing with children. Reva and John find com­ FUNERAL SERVICE fort in the many letters received from parents of children who had been patients of Chris. 7047 Germantown Ave. They also receive help by attending meet­ Philadelphia, PA 19119 ings of The Compassionate Friends, a sup­ (215) 247-8700 port group for parents who have lost chil­ James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller dren. In the end, what seems to help most is the Simple earth burial continued loving support of their family, and cremation service friends, and meeting, plus the healing pas­ available at reasonable cost. homeless participants themselves. It works! sage of time. A number of Reva's poems Cyrell gives definitive testimony when he written in Chris's memory are included in says, "No one living without community is the book. If you have lost a child or are 0 living the ultimate reality. They're missing interested in a detailed account of one freedom, the freedom to face life in its most woman's journey through grief, this book basic sense: facing the hardships of life may be for you. upfront together." Unfortunately, there are Yvonne Boeger far too few community outreach situations A regular contributor to our pages, Yvonne • m(W~la(je ce~c1pcaces existent today. This book affords Friends an Boeger is a member ofLiv e Oak Meeting in opportunity to be directly opened to the real­ • awa}20s • msc}21pctons • Houston, Texas. ity. • l;1J2Ct2 announcemencs • Vince Buscemi • Cj}200ClnQ Ca£0 OOsl(jnS • In Brief • 1nV1caG10nS • SC}20l.tS • Vince Buscemi is a member ofthe Executive Board of Pendle Hill, as well as a regular A Brief History of Pacifism .:llar'll:fYNresr volunteer with the Catholic Worker in New By Peter Brock. Syracuse University Press, York City. As a member of th e. 15th Street Syracuse, N.Y., 1993. 80 pages. $9.95/pa­ 609-7So-1SZ+ (N.Y.) Meeting, he serves on the Ministry . perback. First released in 1981 , this reprint, and Worship Committee. although allowing the author to make changes, maintains the original text with its focus on absolute pacifism. The subtitle ex­ This Song's for You plains that the span of history discussed is VERMONT By Reva Griffith. Celo Valley Books, "from Jesus to Tolstoy," or from the begin­ Adventure Burnsville, N.C., 1992. 222 pages. This ning of Christianity through the early 20th book can be ordered by sending $12.50 century. The author chose to end his study The Farm & Wilderness summer camps plus $2 shipping to Reva Griffith, 5745 there because it was Tolstoy who examined offer challenging adventures for children Charlotte, Kansas City, MO 64110. nonviolence outside of its Christian tradition ages 9-17 in a nurturing almosphere. This Song'sfor You is a true and moving and "asserted the universality of pacifism Farming, canoeing, hiking, swimming, account of Reva Griffith's attempt to come and nonviolence as a rule of ethics." Chap­ work projects & crafts are offered on un­ to terms with the murder of her first-born son ters include " The Origins of Christian spoiled lakes deep in the Green Moun­ and to cope with her grief. Christopher Antimilitarism," "Anabaptist-Mennonite tains, 54 years under Quaker leadership. Griffith, 38, was shot when he and a col­ Nonresistance to World War 1," "The Quaker Write or call Carla M. Mazzariello, league happened upon the scene ofa robbery Peace Testimony to World War I," and Farm & !!J5:1fi!l1 where two murders had already been com­ "Nonsectarian Pacifism in the Nineteenth Wilderness, mitted. Century." The chapter on the Quaker Peace HCR70, Reva and her husband, John, both Quak­ Testimony will, of course, be of special in­ Box 27, ers, find it important to "tie up the loose terest to Friends, as its sections include "The Plymouth, ends" of Chris's life in ways he would have Era ofFox and Penn," " Quietism and Revo­ VT 05056 approved. They give away his few posses­ lution," and "The Nineteenth Century." (802) sions to people who will treasure them, and 422-3761. keep in touch with his many friends. They

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1994 31 Milestones

Kriesei-Houtman-Joe/ Houtman and Therese Make friends, Kriesel, on June 27, 1993, under the care of Claremont (Calif.) Meeting. Make music Ogle-Welsh-scott W. Welsh and Margaret S. at Ogle, on June 19, 1993, under the care of Middletown (Pa.) Meeting, of which both are members. Friends Rose-Caldwell-samuel Dean Caldwell and Bar­ bara Ann Rose, on Oct. 30, 1993, at and under the Music Camp care of Providence (Pa.) Meeting, of which Bar­ bara is a member. Sam is a member ofGermantown ages 10-18 (Pa.) Meeting. July 1Q-August 7 Senior-Bancroft-Ernest Lonnie Bancroft and at Barnesville, Ohio Rebecca Marie Senior, on Oct. 2, 1993, at and under the care of Falls (Pa.) Meeting. For brochure, write: FMC, P.O. Box 427, Wenny-Evans-Michae/ Thomas Evans and Bar­ Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 bara Baker Wenny, on Aug. 14, 1993, at the Phone 513-767-1311 or 513-767-1818 Wilmington (Del.) Meetinghouse. Deaths Births-Adoptions Barash-Th eodore Barash, 19, on Oct. 22, 1993. GLOBAL WORKS Darby-Matteoda-John Albert Darby-Matteoda, Ted graduated from the University of Michigan on Oct. I I, 1993, to Anna Matteoda and Terry and worked as an advertising executive in New Cultural exchange - Service to: Darby, of Falls (Pa.) Meeting. York City, where he was born, until his retirement Communities and environment. Dew-Co/in Joseph Dew, on April 24, 1993, to in 1980. He was a longtime member ofBuckingham Summer teen adventures in: Lisa Lamont Dew and Thomas R. Dew, Jr. Tho­ (Pa.) and Wrightstown (Pa.) Meetings. In 1989 he mas is a member of Wilmington (Del.) Meeting. moved to Vermont and transferred his member­ ship to Middlebury (Vt.) Meeting. Ted's hobby ~ : :~~~~ ~~=hwest Gallagher-Catherine Taylor Gallagher, on Sept. was photography and he was interested in the 13, 1993, to Karen and Michael Gallagher, of ~ • Russia American Friends Service Committee and the Norristown (Pa.) Meeting. American Cancer Society. He is remembered for • Fiji Islands Mantie-Janelle Mantie, on Nov. 20, 1993, to his boundless energy, his humor, and as "Barash Pam and Biff Houldin 814-667-2411 Chris and Keith Mantie, of Hartford (Conn.) the Bear," gentle, but ferocious when protecting RD 2 Box356B, Huntingdon, Pa 16652 Meeting. others. Theodore was preceded in death by his McQuie-Gregory Steven McQuie, on July 2, first wife, Jean Atkinson, in 1950. He is survived 1993, to Beth and Jerome McQuie, of Evanston by his wife of 42 years, Elise Barash; three sons, (Ill.) Meeting. David, Mahlon, and Timothy; a daughter, Phoebe, and seven grandchildren. DELAWARE VALLEY Myran-Gi/man Thomas Myran, on Sept. 19, 1993, to Laura Sharpless and Thomas Myran, of Barritt-Denis Barritt, 79, on Aug. 31, 1993, in FRIENDS SCHOOL Northern Ireland. Born in Great Britain in 1914, Morris & Montgomery Avenues Germantown (Pa.) Meeting. he was educated at Quaker schools before study­ Bryn Mawr, Pa. Ozer-Emily Dove Ozer, on Nov. 13, 1993, to ing economics at Manchester University. In his For Students with Dorinda Dove and Ron Ozer, of Live Oak (Tex.) 20s, he suffered from tuberculosis and subse­ Meeting. quent years of illness. Upon recovery, he collabo­ Learning Differences Platt-Joshua Henry Platt, on Oct. 19, 1993, to rated on one of the first books of the current era College preparatory, Grades 7-12 Melanie and Jonathan Platt, members of Abington on Northern Ireland. He later wrote many brief­ (Pa.) Meeting. Summer School ings on Northern Ireland. In 1951 he married Read-Co/in McElroy Read, on Aug. 8, 1993, to fell ow Quaker, Monica Clipstone. In 1964 he Come to an Open House Lynn and Roger Read, of Germantown (Pa.) became Secretary of the Belfast Council of Social 526-9595 for info & video, Meeting. Welfare, where he helped establish many welfare and community ventures. Queen's University Schutrum-Boward- Danie/ Ross Schutrum­ "Learning with a Difference" awarded him the Honorary Degree of Master of Boward, on Sept. 5, 1993, to Susan Schutrum and Arts in 1979. He retired in 1980 and went on to Daniel Boward, of Baltimore (Md.) Meeting, Stony lecture in Canada and the United States as one of Run. Educational excellence the fathers of the peace movement in Northern Shafer-Lucian Cili Shafer, on Aug. 22, 1993, Ireland. He was also a member of the Quaker for over 200 years adopted by Jill and Richard Shafer, of Bryan­ team at the United Nations. Denis had a life-long Coed College Preparatory, College Station (Tex.) Worship Group. love of cricket, enjoyed jazz, and was interested Walls-Noreen McLeod Walls, on July 18, 1993, in organic gardening, vegetarianism, natural rem­ to Margaret McLeod and Tim Walls, of Evanston edies, and the wise use of global resources. Denis (Ill.) Meeting. is survived by his wife, Monica Barritt; three sons, Paul, Jonathan, and Christopher; and four Marriages-Unions grandchildren. Beatty-Katherine Wilson Franks Beatty, 16, on Burkholder-McKinney-Doug McKinney and June 22, 1993, in Albuquerque, N.Mex. Kit at­ Peter Burkholder, in holy union on May 29, 1993, tended Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., where under the care of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting, she met her first husband, Emory W. Franks. where Peter is a member. They lived at the Midland School in Los Olivos, UO East Main Street, Moorestown, NJ Edwards-Brown-Bob Brown and Margaret Calif., where Emory taught English and Kit was 609--235-2900 ext. 227 Edwards, on Feb. 13, I 993, under the care of an active part of school life. The couple separated Claremont (Calif.) Meeting. in 1950 and Kit raised her two children, ran a

32 March 1994 F RIENDS JoURNAL nursery school, and served as a librarian. They moved to Santa Barbara, Calif., in 1959 and Kit STTOWN became a member of Santa Barbara (Calif.) Meet­ ing. She worked in the libraries of the University SCHOOL of California, Santa Barbara, and helped start a mid-week meeting for worship for the campus Westtown, Pennsylvania- Founded In 1799 community. Kit retired in 1974 and married Colwell Beatty under the care of Santa Barbara Meeting. Kit was active in the peace movement Westtown is a Quaker school of 600 students in Pre-K through during the Vietnam War. She was well known for her ability to link the right people with the right 12th grade, co-educational, college preparatory, day and boarding projects. Kit also attended a monthly meeting for worship at the federal prison in Lompoc, Calif. After her move to Albuquerque, N.Mex., she main­ • Excellent academic programs tained her correspondences with men incarcer­ ated there and attended Albuquerque (N.Mex.) • Individual attention within a caring community Meeting. She was a life-long student of both natural and social history. Kit was preceded in • Before and after school day care programs death by her husband, Colwell Beatty. She is survived by a daughter, Alison Franks; a son, • Performing and fine arts Jonathan Franks; a granddaughter, Annelise Sklar; and a wide circle of friends. • 600-acre campus with lakes and woods Bigelow-Albert Bigelow, 87, on Oct. 6, 1993, at • Outstanding facilities (science center, arts center home in Walpole, Mass. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Albert graduated from Harvard College and Mas­ fieldhouse, 25-meter indoor pool) sachusetts Institute of Technology school of ar­ chitecture. He worked in Berlin and New York, where he helped design buildings for the 1939 For more information and to arrange to visit classes, World Fair. Albert became a painter until World please call Sarah Goebel, director of admissions, Westtown School, War II, when he served in the U.S. Navy. In 1947 Albert was appointed housing commissioner of Westtown, PA 19395 (215/399-0123) Massachusetts and built low cost housing for veterans. By 1954 he had become a Quaker and was involved in several protest actions. In 1956 he and his wife, Sylvia, cared for two "Hiroshima maidens." In 1958 Albert ignored court orders and sailed a 30-foot boat toward a Pacific nuclear bomb testing site at Eniwetok Atoll. He was stopped and sentenced to 60 days in jail, but his publicized actions resulted in strong support for ending nuclear bomb testing in the region. He also worked with the American Friends Service Committee in 1962 to ban testing and use of atomic weapons. Albert's participation in the civil rights movement included·being a Freedom Rider in 1962. He continued with his sailing, making two trans-Atlantic crossings and serving for I 0 years as a yacht racing judge. Albert is survived by his wife, Sylvia Bigelow; two daughters, Lisa Roberts and Kate Benton; eight grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Grossman-Emma May Macintyre Grossman, 90, on Nov. 18, 1993. A native of Philadelphia, Pa., Emma May graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and taught English in the Philadel­ phia school system for 40 years. She married Louis I. Grossman in 1928. Emma May was a convinced Friend, havingjoined Germantown (Pa.) Meeting in 1952. In her later years, she lived at Penns wood Village in Newtown, Pa., and attended Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting. Emma May is sur­ vived by a daughter, Clara Reeves; a son, Richard Grossman; and two grandsons. Hepp--Anne Woodbury Hepp, 80, on Nov. 13, 1993, in Burien, Wash., of congestive heart fail­ ure. Born in West Lafayette, Ind., Anne grew up in Washington, D.C. It was at Oberlin College that she received her bachelor's and master's degrees, and met her husband, May Ion. The couple were married at Oberlin in 1936 and moved to Rhode Island. The Hepps moved to Granville, Ohio, in 1946 and were among the founders of fRIENDS JOURNAL March 1994 33 Granville (Ohio) Meeting. Anne served on the which, through fresh perspective, served to focus borhood fe stivals in the segregated black section village school board and was active in several collective awareness and thinking. He served on of Lancaster, and later initiated work camps there. service organizations. Maylon died in 1986 and many committees and was co-clerk of the meet­ Dorothea and her two daughters moved to the Anne moved to the Seattle, Wash., area two years ing when he died. Bill was a wonderful musician High Mowing school in New Hampshire, where later, but maintained her 50-plus year member­ who loved all musical genres. He was widely read she taught spinning and weaving. In 1970 she and ship in Granville (Ohio) Meeting. Anne was known and learned, lovable and loving, and quite uncon­ her husband helped found the Waldorf School at for her interest in Chinese and Native American ventional. Bill is survived by his wife, Connie the Lancaster meetinghouse. Dorothea led a medi­ arts, and her ever-blooming window gardens. She Sattler; and a daughter, Valerie. tative life, consciously placing her energies, think­ often encouraged Friends to slow down and take Willams- Dorothea Wieand Williams, 81, in ing, feeling, and activities. Her courage to do time to smell the sweet flowers in life. Anne was Lancaster, Pa., in the family home where she was what was right, even in defiance of the social preceded in death by her husband, Maylon Hepp. born and also married. Dorothea was a free spirit, norm, and her non-judgmental nature, made her a She is survived by two daughters, Barbara Hepp an active seeker, and a pacifist. She was a fol­ fine example and mentor to many, including young Tandy and Susanna Hepp Janes; and a son, David lower of Mahatma Gandhi, and enjoyed meeting people from the meeting. She was a constant M. Hepp. and chauffeuring those ofhis followers who came strength to and participant in Lancaster Meeting. McKean-Barbara Bush McKean, 90, on Aug. to speak in the Lancaster, Pa., area. She and her Dorothea is survived by her husband of almost 50 15, 1993, in Doylestown, Pa. Born in Verna, N.J ., husband, Henry N. Williams, held Friends meet­ years, Henry N. Williams; two daughters, Frances she was a beloved member of Wrightstown (Pa.) ing in their home, and were founding members of L.W. Dunlap and Ellen B. Williams; two grand­ Meeting. Barbara was very active with the Lancaster (Pa.) Meeting. They helped start neigh- children; and a brother, Eugene Wieand. meeting's First-Day school and in recent years she came to worship as often as possible. She was a member of the area's historical society, nature Hawaii - Island of Kaual. Cozy housekeeping cot­ club, and music society. Barbara is survived by Classified tages. peace, palms, privacy. $60-$80/nightly. 147 two daughters, Martha Bass and Sara Jane Royal Drive, Kappa. Hl96746. (808} 822-2321. NYC midtown B&B bargain! Charming, one-bedroom Plunkett; a son, Michael McKean; and eight grand­ For Information call (215) 241-7279. children. apartments of your own in historical, Eastside neigh­ 55¢ per word. Minimum charge is $11. borhood. $70-$125 double, plus $15 per additional Add 10% if boxed. 10% discount for three guest . From simple to sublime. (212} 228-4645. Niles-Henry E. Niles, 93, on Nov. 5, 1993. Born consecutive insertions, 25% for six. and raised in Baltimore, Md., Henry graduated Appearance of any advertisement does not Frenchtown, N.J., B&B. Along the Delaware River. A from Johns Hopkins University and studied eco­ imply endorsement by Friends Journal. victorian inn with contemporary comfort. Getaways, anniversaries, intimate weddings, business, and relo­ nomics and statistics there and in Europe. He cation stays. Full breakfast menu. Seven guest suites worked in the life insurance field and ran a suc­ Classified Ad Deadlines: with private bath s, period furnishings. $11 0-$145/double, cessful management consulting business with his May issue: March 14 weekday rates available. The Hunterdon House, (800} wife, Mary-Cushing Niles, from 1931 through June issue: April 18 382-0375, (908} 996-3632. 1939. For the next 30 years, he worked for the A homely base In the heart of London? Short-, me­ Submit your ad to: dium-, and long-term accommodation available with Baltimore Insurance Company, retiring in 1970 Advertising Manager, Friends Journal excellent meals. Also meeting rooms lor workshops, as Chairman of the Board. During World War II, 1501 Cherry Street lectures, and conferences. Contact: Quaker Interna­ Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 tional Centre, 1 Byng Place, London WC1 E 7JH. Tel: he worked for the Office of Price Administration. Fax: (215) 568-13n In 195 1 Henry went to Germany to lead confer­ 071-387 5648; lax: 071-383-3722. Big Island, Hawaii, Friends invite you into their homes ences on human relations in industry. In 1952 he lor mutual Quaker sharing. Donations. HCt, Box 21-0, served as Deputy Director of the U.S. Technical Captain Cook, Hawaii 96704; (808} 328-8711, 325· Cooperation Mission to India. Beginning in 1967, 7323, or 322-31 16. Henry actively opposed the Vietnam War, and Accommodations The Berkshlres, Massachusetts. 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We are looking for people of all ages who want to Center. Henry was recently preceded in death by ated by Friends Services International, Mission Belize. make a serious commitment to a community lifestyle With two guest rooms (twin beds}. Friends House is the his wife of 70 years, Mary-Cushing Niles. He is based on Quaker principles. For information call (212} perfect gateway for your Belize adventures. Snorkel/ 673-1730. We also have overnight accommodations. survived by two daughters, Cushing N. Dolbeare dive the barrier reef. Explore the unspoiled rainforests and Alice Lynd; fi ve grandchildren; and nine and Mayan ruins. Write FSI, P.O. Box 2060, Belize London? Stay at the Penn Club, Bedford Place, City, Belize, Central America, or call (501} 2-34235. London WC1 B 5JH. Friendly atmosphere. Central for great-grandchildren. Friends House, West End, concerts, theater, British New York City holiday apartment. Charming Green­ Museum, university, and excursions. 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34 March 1994 fRIENDS JOURNAL Assistance Needed Full-time Director position open for North Carolina Opportunities Yearly Meeting, ACA accredited summer camp and Extraterrestrial encounters. Have you, a Friend, ac­ Announcing the Quaker Pilgrimage 1994 to George year-round conference center in Piedmont, North tually seen or encountered a structured craft, aloft or Fox Country in the English lake District; Friday, June Carolina. Four-year accredited college degree and on­ landed, showing evidence of unfamiliar, advanced tech­ 17 to Saturday, July 2. First week is spent at Glenthorne site residence required. Experience in this type work nology? If so, please get in touch: you are one among Quaker Guest house in Grasmere with trips to places preferred. Interested persons send resume by March many- some silent in fear of ridicule. There is much to important in the beginning of Quakerism. We will be 31, 1994 to: E. Clark Wilson, 2421 Willard Road, High share and a Friendly response to think about. Dreams, joined by British Friends. Week two is traveling at your Point NC 27265. visions, trances, or inner subjective events are not own expense and design. Cost: $1 ,500 which includes Greensboro Monthly Meeting of Friends (First Friends currently useful here. Valid sightings along with other first week's room and board, round trip airfare from Meeting), Greensboro, N.C., is now accepting applica­ witnesses will be of particular value. J. Philip Neal, Newark and transportation from london to Grasmere. tions for a full-time pastor. Meeting and pastor profiles P.O. Box 19271, Asheville, NC 28815. For more information, call the Philadelphia Yearly Meet­ are available on request. Inquiries should be directed ing Committee on Education at (215) 241-7223. by early March to Betty Godwin, search committee, Books and Publications Looking for a change of pace for your family and 510 North Mendenhall Street, Greensboro, NC 27401. business? Century-old, unprogrammed meeting invites (910) 273-6316. Essays on the Quaker VIsion of Gospel Order Friends and friendly-minded people to consider the Development Officer: American Friends Service Com­ Lloyd lee Wilson explores Gospel Order as understood Midwest advantages: comfortable, economical hous­ mittee. Quaker organization for U.S./International peace by early Quakers and contemporary Conservative ing, good medical facilities and school, accessible and justice. Chicago-based. Candidates must have Friends. Each essay addresses a different facet of electronic communications, cultural and recreational strong oral, writing, organizational, and interpersonal Friends faith and practice, articulating the ways in which activities, low crime rate, one hour from medium-sized skills; be a self-starter; have understanding of Quaker the vision of Gospel Order has shaped Friends beliefs airport, no traffic congestion, clean air, lots of space. values and peace and justice issues. Responsible for as well as their outward lives. Published by permission For more information, please contact Beth Wilson, 4342 cultivating and visiting major donors; interpreting AFSC of North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative). Pa- Pierce Ave., Paullina, lA 51046. Phone: (712) 448- programs; promoting planned giving; writing grants; perback, 200 pgs. $7.95 plus $2.50 slh. Order from 2215. training volunteers. Computer literacy desirable. Monthly Lloyd lee Wilson, 536 Carnaby Court, Virginia Beach, Reach Financial Freedom after two years part-time travel required. Applicants considered without regard VA23454. work in your home-based family business, based on to race, sex, religion, sexual preference, or disability. golden rule. Great for homeschoolers and others want­ Completed application due March 11 . Contact N. ing economic security while improving the world. Quaker Gotthelf, AFSC, 59 E. Van Buren, Suite 1400, Chicago, Wider Quaker Fellowship mailings offer spiritual nur- family will send details. SASE to: Cathi, RD2 Box 211 P, ll60605. ture for Friends and non-Friends around the world. Bloomingburg, NY 12721. Director, Information Services Department: direct Consider gift membership(s). Donations voluntary. CaiU and manage work of the department, interpreting and write WQF, 1506 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. U.S. Foreign Service Officer assigned to Bangkok beginning August 1994 and wife seeking au pair to look presenting the work and witness of the AFSC to many (215) 241-7293. A program of FWCC, Section of the and varied publics; member of senior management Americas. after seven-year-old son after school during afternoons. No housekeeping or cooking required. Would like some­ team. Requires: substantial and broad media experi­ one to serve for one year. Call or write Peter or ence, preferably with both print and electronic media, Books-Quaker spiritual classics, history. btography, Catherine Kurz, 10603 Muirfield Drive, Potomac, MD editing; creativity; experience in supervision, manage­ and current Quaker experience, published by Friends 20854. Phone: (301) 299-3109. ment; understanding of, agreement with philosophy of United Press, 101-A Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, IN AFSC, and beliefs of Religious Society of Friends. 47374. Write for free catalogue. Chatwalljoq Spanish School. Total immersion lan­ Send resume: lydia Wilcox, AFSC, 1501 Cherry St., guage lessons, indigenous projects, living with family. Phila., PA 19102. AFSC is an Affirmative Action Em- Carlos Castaneda, Academic Opportunism and the Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. SASE: P.O. Box 31783, lo er. Tucson AZ 85751. Psychedelic Sixties examines how academic miscon­ Job Opening: Assistant to the Executive Secretary for duct and New Age experimentation clouded the 1990 Are you led to right stewardship of the earth? let Administration, Friends Committee on National legisla­ Supreme Court ruling which threatens religious free­ Friends Committee on Unity with Nature share and tion. Full-time. $30,000 + benefits. Start June 1994. dom. Send $22.50 (total) to author: Jay Fikes, Box 517, support your concern. Membership $20. Box FJ, FCUN, Application deadline: April 15. Equal Opportunity Em­ Carlsbad, CA 92018. 7700 Clarks lake Road, Chelsea, Ml 48118. ployer. Write AESA, FCNl, 245 Second Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002-5795. Free. Steps Toward Inner Peace, by Peace Pilgrim. Perfonning Arts The Meeting School, a Quaker alternative high school Write: Friends of Peace Pilgrim, 43480 Cedar Ave., in New Hampshire has several faculty opennings be­ Hemet CA 92544. Relive the World of William Penn during his 350th ginning June 1994. We are seeking couples who are How to Write Effective Letters to the Editor. Booklet Celebration Year. Your meeting or other organization interested in houseparenting teenagers, and who have with guidelines and samples. $3 postpaid. Dale can witness Quaker William Penn, In the First Person, office and/or teaching skills. For more info rmation please Roberts, 20 Bell Haven Rd., Asheville, NC 28805-1502. providing a personal account of his life and times. Erik contact Jackie Stillwell, The Meeting School, 56 l. Burro has been seen on TV and radio. He has had Thomas Rd., Rindge. NH 03461 . Fall 1993 Catalogue of Quaker Books free upon re­ numerous performances as Penn on both sides of the Need counselors and cook for small, Quaker-led farm quest from Friends General Conference Bookstore, Atlantic, before audiences of all ages- religious institu­ camp. Skills in lifeguarding, nature, pottery, shop, farm­ 1216 Arch Street 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107; or call tions, government, business, and historical. For fees ing are useful. Emphasize simplicity, peace, (800) 966-4556. Come visit us when in Philadelphia, and more information: In the First Person, 451 High St., Monday-Friday, 9-5. environmental awareness. For children age 7-12. Carl Burlington, NJ 08016. (800) 346-6636. and Kristin Curtis, Journey's End Farm Camp, Box 136, Newfoundland, PA 18445. (717) 689-7552; 2353. Es­ Friendly Oakay Essays for Quakers and others. Many pecially need counselors/lifeguards. good ideas. Free sample. Kliff N. Merry, P.O. Box Personals 6075 los Angeles, CA 90015. Spend a year In Washington as an intern, dividing 1 Single Booklovers, a national group, has been getting time between William Penn House, a Quaker seminar unattached booklovers together since 1970. Please Quaker Books. Rare and out-of-print, journals, memo­ center, and another Washington peace organization. rials, histories, inspirational. Send for free catalogue or write Box 117, Gradyville, PA 19039, or call (215) 358- Room and board at William Penn House and small specific wants. Vintage Books, 181 Hayden Rowe St., 5049. stipend included. College graduates interested in peace Hopkinton, MA 01748. Classical Music Lovers' Exchange-Nationwide link and the political process may apply. Flexibility, initia­ between unattached music lovers. 1 (800) 233-CMlS; tive, people skills, willingness to work hard required. Box 31 Pelham NY 10803. Begin September 1. Send cover letter, resume by May 15 to Greg Howell, Director, William Penn House, 515 For Sale East Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20003. Concerned Singles Newsletter links compatible, social­ Compost bins - under $20, plus packaging and ship­ ly conscious singles concerned about peace, social Staff Opening at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting- Publi­ ping. For information: BloomingBin, 805 North justice, gender equity, and the environment. Nation­ cations/Wholesale Staff Person handles all phases of Washington, Bloomington, IN 47408. wide. All ages. Since 1984. Free sample: Box 555-F, distribution of publications of the Publications Commit­ Energy-efficient, passive solar home with green­ Stockbridge, MA 01262. tee and other materials of PYM including promotion, house/sun space. 2,120 square feet, surrounded by inventorying, accounting and budgeting, handling copy, organically nurtured gardens and mature plantings on correspondence and telephone contacts. Provides staff uniquely lovely property, .6 acres, located near train support of the Publication/Wholesale Committee. Fa­ and bus lines in Elkins Park, Cheltenham Township, Positions Vacant miliarity with the bookselling trade, office systems, Pa., $225,000. Phone: (215) 635-5187. packing, and mailing desirable. Computer skills helpful. Family Relations Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Mid-coast Maine. A very special place near the ocean. Able to work alone and unsupervised as well as with Meeting Is seeking a Program Coordinator to coordi­ people. Needs initiative, ability to communicate well Old cape carefully and tastefully restored. Four bed­ nate and develop the programs of the Family Relations rooms, three full baths, spacious remodeled kitchen; and understand both literate and financial language. Committee, including supporting monthly meetings in Three days/week, starts July 1, 1994. Send resumes to opens onto screened porch with patio doors. large their role of providing pastoral care and administrative attached barn/garage. Fourteen acres, open fields and the Personnel Committee, PYM 1515 Cherry Street, responsibilities to the Friends Counseling Service. The Philadelphia, PA 19102. woods, sunset views. Excellent water from driven well. successful candidate will be a member of the Religious $195K. Bartram Cadbury (207) 354-6074. Society of Friends, active in the life of their own meet­ Director, Powell House. We are seeking a Quaker to Small house at Friends Southwest Center, near ing, and deeply experienced in pastoral care. This provide spiritual and administrative leadership for the Douglas, Ariz. Block construction, about 800 sq. ft.; part-time position is divided between a fixed office New York Yearly Meeting conference and retreat cen­ $20,000 with owner financing. Membership requirement. presence and work at home. Starting salary between ter in Old Chatham, New York. The position entails For flyer, call or write. (602) 396-5452; P.O. Box 121 , $14 and $18/hour, depending upon experience. Job program direction, staff supervision, fund-raising, and McNeal AZ 85617. description available upon request from Family Rela­ maintenance of a Friendly atmosphere. Please send For sale or rent: five-bedroom, two-bath, Germantown tions Committee, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1515 inquiries or applications to Powell House Search Com­ twin. Great family home. Sale by owner. Contact Cherry Street, Philadelphia PA 19102. Tel. (215) 988- mittee, RD 1 Box 160, Old Chatham, NY 12136. Barbara, (215) 843-6075. 0140. Closing date: Monday, April41 1994.

FRJENDS JouRNAL March 1994 35 caring staff, work program, service projects; board, Summer employment - Beautiful Adirondack Park, Adirondacks. Housekeeping cabins on quiet, unspoiled day. 13075 Woolman Lane, Nevada City, CA 95959. private children's camp in lake and mountain district. lake. Fireplaces, fully equipped. June through Septem­ {916) 273-3183. Unique national and international clientele. Some de­ ber. {609) 654-3959; or write: Dreby, Cranberry Lake, partment head and division leader positions open. Also, NY 12927. tennis, athletics, sailing, waterskiing, wilderness trips, Yearly Meeting Friends Home has two beautiful apart­ Services Offered dramatics, arts/crafts, nurse, and office. Family ac­ ments available. Please call {908) 755-8600. Yearly Friendly financial planning. Let me help you prepare commodations, children welcome. Under Quaker Meeting Friends Home, 112 Linden Avenue, North for retirement or work out an estate plan. Socially leadership since 1946. M. Q. Humes, 107 Robinhood Plainfield, N.J. 07060. responsible investments are my specialty. Call Joyce Rd., White Plains, NY 10605. {914) 997-7039. Downeast Maine. Modern house on Taunton Bay. Four­ K. Moore, Joyce K. Moore Financial Services, P.O. Winston-salem Friends Meeting requests your prayers bedroom, 2 1/2-bath, washer, dryer, dishwasher, VCR, Box 3465, Easton, PA 18043, at {215) 258-7532. and your consideration as we seek a full-time, perma­ microwave; large deck, Sunfish, canoe, rowboat. Avail­ Marriage Certificates. Fine calligraphy and beautiful, nent, pastoral minister to begin July 1, 1994. Please able June and July, $600 one week; $1,100two weeks; custom-designed borders. Call or write for information direct correspondence to Kathryn F. Adams, Search $2,000 per month. Write: Allen Bacon, Woodbrooke, packet. Carol Sexton, 820 West Main Street, Committee, Winston-Salem Friends Meeting, 3151 1046 Bristol Rd., Birmingham B29 6W, England. Richmond, IN 47374. {317)962-1794. Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27106. {910) 922- 3195. Nantucket Island, ocean front summer house. An­ tique, charming, three-bedroom cottage. Beautiful ocean Celo Valley Books: personal attention; intelligent typ­ Yearly Meeting Friends Home in Norttr Plainfield, N.J., beach. Comfortably furnished, quiet, private. Sleeps Ing; professional copyediting; 600 dpi camera-ready seeks administrator. Send resume to Charles A. Varian , five. Available June to September. $600 to $1,000 copy; book production {50 copies or more). One per­ Yearly Meeting Friends Home, 112 Linden Avenue, weekly. {21 2) 255-0259. cent to charity. 346 Seven Mile Ridge Road, Burnsville, North Plainfield, NJ 07060. France. Life is sweeter in the Dordogne. 15th century NC28714. Let Friends Camp be your Maine job this summer. village home available April-October near Bergerac. We seek nurses, cooks, EMT lifeguards, crafts, pot­ Rates will vary according to length of stay. Sleeps General Contractor. Repairs or alterations on old or tery, drama, and music staff. Doers, makers, and eight. Fully furnished with books, TV, ping pong, and historical buildings. Storm and fire damage restored. Quakers apply to: Susan Morris, Director, Friends Camp, bikes. Kind neighbors. Call (615) 483-1311, or write: John File, 1147 Bloomdale Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19115. Box 84, E. Vassalboro, ME 04935; or call (207) 923- Jean Grant, 221 East Vanderbilt Drive, Oak Ridge, TN {215) 464-2207. 3975. 37830. Opportu nlty for one or two persons to host and cook Forum Travel at small, well-established Vermont guest farm May - Quaker-owned-and-managed travel October 1994. We'd like someone who enjoys people, Retirement Living agency. Friendly, experienced service; housekeeping, nature, animals, gardening, and early Foxdale VIllage, a Quaker life-care community. • • domestic and international; overnight mornings. Must be nonsmoker, non-drinker. Please send Thoughtfully designed cottages complemented by at­ delivery. {800) 888-4099. resumes and/or letter to Ann Day, P.O. Box 31, tractive dining facilities, auditorium, library, and full Waitsfield, VT 05673. {802) 496-3527 before 6 p.m. medical protection. Setting is a wonderful combination Loans are available for building or improving Friends Intern Position, AFSC Washington Office. Starting of rural and university environment. Entry fees from meetinghouses, schools, and related facilities. We are September 1, 1994, this full-time, paid, ten-month posi­ $38,000-$134,000; monthly fees from $1 ,1 65-$2,140. Friends helping Friends to grow! For information con­ tion is usually filled by a recent college graduate. The 500 East Marylyn Avenue, Department F. State tact Margaret Bennington, Friends Extension intern will assist in varied program and interpretation College, PA 16801 . Telephone: {800)253-4951. Corporation, 101 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. work on AFSC issues and with Davis House, an inter­ The Harned. Lovely old house and carriage house on Phone: (317) 962-7573. {Affiliated with Friends United national guest house. Applications close March 31. quiet, residential, tree-lined street south of Media, Pa. Meeting.) AFSC-Davis House, 1822 R Street NW, Washington, Meals served in main house. Short walk to train. Eleven Quaker Universalist Fellowship is a fellowship of DC 20009. {202) 483-3341 . units. 505 Glenwood Avenue, Moylan, PA 19065. {215) seekers wishing to enrich and expand Friends' per­ Arthur Morgan School. Small, junior high boarding 566-4624. spectives. We meet, publish, and correspond to share school seeks houseparents for 94-95 school year. Po­ thoughts, Insights, and information. We seek to follow sitions also include a mix of other responsibilities: Schools the promptings of the Spirit. Inquiries welcome! Write teaching (academics and/or electives), leading work QUF, Box 201 AD 1, Landenberg, PA 19350. projects and outdoor trips, maintenance, gardening, Wedding Certificates, birth testimonials, poetry, gifts cooking. Particularly seeking one individual experienced Junior high boarding school for grades 7, 8, 9. Small, academic classes, challenging outdoor experiences, all done in beautiful calligraphy and watercolor illumi­ in financial management. Intimate community of staff nation. Book early for spring weddings. Write or call and students; consensus run. Simple living; beautiful community service, daily work projects in a small, car­ ing, community environment. Arthur Morgan School, Leslie Mitchell, 2840 Bristol Rd., Bensalem, PA 19020. mountain setting. Contact Joy Montagano, AMS, 1901 {215)752-5554. Hannah Branch Rd., Burnsville, NC 28714; {704) 675- 1901 Hannah Branch Rd., Burnsville, NC 28714; {704) 4262. 675-4262. Socially Responsible Investing Manager, Lake Paupac Lodge. Summer position in the Using client-specified social criteria, I screen invest­ Poconos. Operate lodge as community center. Room Olney Friends School. A safe, caring, value-centered, educational community for students in grades 9-12. A ments. I use a financial planning approach to portfolio included. Cater three-four meals weekly. Hire own staff. management by identifying individual objectives and June 27 to September 6, 1994. Write or call M. college preparatory curriculum emphasizing a belief in the individual and his/her own abilities makes Olney a designing an Investment strategy. I work with individu­ Trueblood, 716 Autumn Trace, Williamsburg, VA 23188, als and business. Call: Sacha Millstone; Ferris, Baker or call {804) 565-3149. positive environment in which to live and learn. 61830 Sandy Ridge Road, Barnesville, OH 43713. Phone: Watts; member NYSE, SIPC. {202) 429-3632 in Vermont Adventure: The Farm and Wilderness camps {614) 425-3655. Washington, D.C., area, or {800) 227{)308. seek cooks and counselors for a nine-week summer program. Skills in cooking, farming, canoeing, hiking, United Friends School: coed; K-6; emphasizing inte­ grated, developmentally appropriate curriculum, Moving to North carolina? Maybe David Brown, a swimming, carpentry, and crafts. Quaker leadership, Quaker real estate broker, can help. Contact him at diversified community. Write or call Carla M. Mazzariello, including whole language and manipulative math; serv­ Ing upper Bucks County. 20 South 1Oth Street, 1208 Pinewood Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. (919) 294- Farm and Wilderness, HCR 70, Box 27, Plymouth, VT 2095. 05056. {802) 422-3761 . Quakertown, PA 18951. {215) 538-1733. The Meeting School: a Quaker alternative high school Family Relations Committee's Counseling Service for 30 students who want an education and lifestyle (PYM) provides confidential professional counseling to Rentals & Retreats promoting Friends testimonies of peace, equality, and individuals, couples in most geographic areas of Phila­ Bald Head Island, N.C. Lovely panoramic view of ocean, simplicity. Students live in faculty homes, sharing delphia Yearly Meeting. All counselors are Quakers. All dunes, lagoon, and golf course from four-bedroom, meals, ca1J1 pus work, silence, community decision-mak­ Friends, regular attenders, and employees of Friends two-bathroom, beautifully furnished house with wrap­ ing. Characteristic classes include: Conflict Resolution, organizations are eligible. Sliding fees. Further infor­ around deck, electric golf cart. 14 miles of beach, Native American Studies, Ecology, Human Rights, Al­ mation or brochure, contact: Arlene Kelly, 1501 Cherry championship golf, tennis, croquet, swimming, and fish­ ternative Housing, Mythology, Quantum Physics. St., Philadelphia, PA 19102. {21 5) 988-0140. ing. 13,000 acres of maritime wilderness. Many birds College preparatory and alternative graduation plans. and wildflowers. No cars on island. Peaceful, friendly. Wooded rural setting near MI. Monadnock; organic Summer camps Rental by day or week. {215)699-9186. garden, draft horses, sheep, poultry. Annual four-week intensive independent study projects. The Meeting London WC1 Bloomsbury, a rare, bright, quiet, and camp Woodbrooke, Richland Cen­ comfortable flat. Two bedrooms, living room, kitchen/ School, 56 Thomas Road, Rindge, NH 03461. (603) 899-3366. ter, Wisconsin. A caring community; dining room, two WC's, bathroom. Central heating, wash­ ecology, campcraft. Quaker leader­ ing machine, etc. Near Friends' House. £200 per week, A value-centered school for elementary students with ship. 34 boys and girls; ages 7-12; min. one-year contract. Available May 1994. Tel/Fax: learning differences. Small, remedial classes, qualified two or three weeks. Jenny Lang, 795 Singapore {65) 462 4913. staff, serving Philadelphia and northern suburbs. The Beverly, Lake Forest, IL 60045. (708) Coastal Maine. Spacious house sleeps eight. Deck Quaker School at Horsham, 318 Meeting House Road, 295-5705. overlooks pond. Beautiful woods, saltwater cove, swim­ Horsham, PA 19044. {215)674-2875. ming, canoeing. Island ferries, beaches, woods walks, Stratford Friends School provides a strong academic Make friends, make music at Friends Music Camp. program in a warm, supportive, ungraded setting for theaters, concerts, Friends meetings. $700+/week. Ages 10-18. For information: FMC, P.O. Box 427, Weekends spring, fall. Dam Cove Lodge. {207) 443- children ages 5 to 13 who learn differently. Small Yellow Springs, OH 45387. {513) 767-1311 or (513) classes and an enriched curriculum answer the needs 9446. 767-1818. of the whole child. An at-risk program for five-year-olds Prince Edward Island, canada. Secluded seaside cot­ is available. The school also offers an after-school The Leaveners (Quaker Performing Arts Project) in­ tage. Private beach, warm swimming, excellent birding, reading program, extended day, tutoring, and summer vites Friends to join us in raising the creative spirit on bicycling, fishing. Regain contact with the natural world. school. Information: Stratford Friends School, 5 Llandillo holiday residenti al music and drama projects; open to Completely equipped. Reasonable. Available late June Road, Havertown, PA 19083. {215)446-31 44. anyone 16 years and over. For more information write and July. (215) 399-Q432. John Woolman School. Rural California, grades 9-12. to: The Leaveners, 8 Lennox Road, London N4 3NW, Preparation for college and adulthood, small classes, England, U.K.

36 March 1994 F RIENDS JOURNAL Snyder, Edward F., 44 Snyder, Mary, 66 FRIENDS JOURNAL Sorrel, Margaret, 8 Starshine, 101 Stevens, David A., 71 Stritmatter, Helen, 25 Thompson, Paul, 99 Thurston, Linda, 53 19931ndex Thygesen, Barbara, 37 Thygesen, Bent, 37 Tjossem, Wilmer, 84 How to U'se This Index van Wormer, Katherine, 108 The numbers after the author and subject entries below refer to the numbered articles Vogel, RobertS., 80 beginning on the next page. Articles are listed chronologically according to the date they Volunteer Service Support Committee, 36 appeared and include the title, author, issue, and page number. All book reviews and Walters, Herb, 93 poetry are listed by author. Reports are listed by organization. · Waltz, Susan, 56 Wang, Linnea, 101 Heath, Harriet, 13, 23, 40, 70, 138 Webb, George, 66 Authors Hersh, Kathy, 56 Wells, Diana, 96 Abrams, Irwin, 86 Hillegass, Robert, 133 Wheelock, Anne, 69 Adams, Dee Mast, 27 Hom, Helen Weaver, 135 Whitlock, Kay, 67 Anne, 136 Hubbard, Allen, 106 Wilkinson, Signe, 20 Anonymous, 12 Hubbard, Susan, 7, 40 Woodman, Rob Roy, 57 Armstrong, Gabrielle B., 66 Hulbert, Mark, II Worden, Barbara S., 60, 123 Bacon, Margaret Hope, 2, 89 Jasut, Mabel McKeon, 66 Zimmerman, Ann, 100 Becker, Stan, 121 Kahn, Betsy, 24 Zunes, Stephen, 102 Benefiel, Margaret, 87, 88 Kanaan, Susan Baird, 126 Birchard, Bruce, 65 Killeen, Marjorie M., 131 Blanchard, John, Jr., 110 Kriebel, John, 66 Subjects Bronner, Edwin, 46 Lamm, Gregg, 85 Abortion 19 Brown, Joshua, 17 Lammer, Alaina, I 0 I Aging 37, 38,74 Burmeister, Elisabeth, 26 LaMotte, Alfred K., 22 Alcoho194 Caplow, Barbara, 104 Leonard, Elisabeth, 9 Alcoholism 130 Cherry, Helen, 127 Levering,Robert, 94 Arts 10, 21 ,76 Childers, Emma, 95 Liveoak, Val, 15, 35 Bible 10, 50, 64 Cizewski, Leonard H., 120 Lloyd, Melva, 3 Biblical Analysis 10, 64, 79, 105, 134 Claggett-Bome, Elizabeth, 19, 116 Lumb, Judy, 42 Capital Punishment 107, 108 Clark, Marguerite, 59 Lundy, Christine, 119 Children 13, 22, 70, 71 , 81, 96, 102, Ill, 124, Clark, Mike, 115 Manousos, Anthony, 68 126, 138 Coffin, Mary, 81, 124 Mattern, Evelyn, 79 Christmas 111, 131, 134, 135 Condia-Williams, Charlotte, 66 McDonald, Ron, 137 Citizens Rights 75, 112 Councilman, Emily Sargent, 52 McQuail, Fran, 32 Community 22, 50 Dahlke, H. Otto, 105 Morgan, John C., 50, 114 Conflict Resolution 9 Dahlke, Ruth, 39 Morley, Barry, 78 Death 51 , 120 Deming, Vinton, 14, 29, 43, 54, 62, 74, 76, Morscheck, Heather, 30 Discipline 24, 25 82, 91, 98, 113, 129 Morton, Peg, 125 Economics 75 Dempsey, Kate, 45 Moulton, Phillips P., 103 Education 30, 37, Drake, Timothy, 34, 112 Ms Mindful, 28 38, 84, 137 -- FRIENDS 1=1 Elder, Edward, 55 Murphy, Robert C., 90 Environment 122 JOURNAL I!, Elliott, Melissa Kay, 1, 21 Oldham, Alison D., 97 Family 7, 8, 24, Evanston (Ill.) Meeting, 73 Pabaney, Aziz, 122 25, 40, 51 , 62, Fager, Chuck, 10 Pollock, Helene, 109 74, 85, 102, Fell, Margaret E., 66 Post, Steven, 18 111,120,135 Finke, David, 107 Powelson, Jack, 51 Friends Flanagan, Eileen, 77 Pukkila, Marilyn R., 66 Institutions 11 , Flanagan, Ross, 66 Reeves, Don, 11 27,29, 33, 35, Flory, Jim, 134 Rifkin, Arthur, 64 36, 44, 45, 46, Flower, Ruth, 47, 48, 128 Rochester Meeting (N.Y.), 11 7 47, 48, 53, 67, Foster, Georgana, 83 Rosenberg, Jean, 61 78, 82, 84, 86, Garman, Mary, 4 Ruby, Bobbie, 132 89, 97, 109, GAzis-SAx, Joel, 16 Rutkowski, Janet, 111 110, 112, 128, Gillman, Harvey, 31 Scardina, John, 6, 40 132 Glodek, Geraldine, 49 Schnitzius, Mike, 66 Friends Journal Activities 62, 113 Gould, Susan Neiger, 33 Schultz, Barbara, 41 Friends Meeting 12, 14, 15, 17, 42, 43, 57, 66, Gracie, David, 63 Scilipoti, Toni, 130 70, 72, 81, 82, 83, 88, 92, 104, 116, 117, Green, G. Dorsey, 8 Seifert, Rick, 92 121 , 124, 136, 137, 138 Greenley, Jim, 119 Shivers, Lynne, 3 Friendship 56, 135 Gregg, Dennis, 75 Smith, Shiela, 72 Gay Rights 55, 67 Harper, Robin, 58 Smith, Steven, 5 Good Order of Friends 86, 87, 119

FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1994 37 Theological Reflection 50, 90, 105, 106, 28. "Clearing the Clutter," Ms Mindful, 2: 114, 119 30-31 Travel30,35,36,37,38,39, 43 29, "On the Line," Vinton Deming, 3: 2 United Nations 80 30. "From Israel, With Love: Excerpts from U.S./USSR Reconciliation 68 Letters Home," Heather Morscheck, War Tax Resistance 58, 59 3:7-10 Women 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 19, 40, 60, 87, 31. "Outreach, a Visible Option," Harvey 95, 101 , 123 Gillman,3: 11-12 Worship 28, 42, 57, 92, 104, 115, 118 32. "Letting Our Light Shine," Fran Youth 23, 26, 30, 33, 34, 45, 69, 70, 78, 84, McQuail, 3: 12 96, 98, 109, 114, 126, 127, 137 33. "Friendly Camping Experience, A," Susan Neiger Gould, 3: 13 34. "Summer to Savour, A," Timothy Articles Drake, 3: 14-15 I. "Seeking New Dimensions," Melissa K. 35. "Liberating Friends for Volunteer Handicapped 17, 26 Elliott, I : 2 Service," Val Liveoak, 3: 16-1 7 Healing 101, 11 6 2. "Lucretia and James Mott: Sharing Work 36. "Queries for Volunteer Service," History I, 2, 4, II, 44, 46, 60, 83, 84, 86, and Faith," Margaret Hope Bacon, I: 7-9 Volunteer Service Support Committee, 87, 94, 119, 123, 134 3. " 16-Foot Female Grizzly Bear, The," 3: 17 Human Rights 1, 2, 3, 5 Lynne Shivers, 1: 10-12 37. "Elderhostels: New Beginnings and Humor 20, 28, 29, 99 4. "Quaker Women: A History of Challenges," Barbara and Bent lnternationall5, 30, 61, 68, 69, 80, 89, 103, Persistence and Courage," Mary Garman, Thygesen, 3: 18-19 . 104, 109, 112, 122, 125, 127, 129 1: 13-14 38. "Friendly Place, A," Melva Lloyd, 3: 19 Investments 110 5. "Healing Gender Hurt," Steven Smith, I: 39. "Hospitality, Quaker Style: Using the Leadership 65 16-19 FGC Travelers' Directory," Ruth Dahlke, Lifestyle 7, 9, 22, 37, 38, 130 6. "Queries for Men: Growing Toward New 3:20-21 Marriage 2, 6, 7, 8, 18, 40 Partnerships," John Scardina, 1:20 40. "On 'Healing Gender Hurts'," Harriet Ministry 31, 42, 60, 85, 87, 88, 121 7. "Taking the Challenge Home," Susan Heath, John Scardina, and Susan Music 100 Hubbard, 1:21-23 Hubbard, 3: 22-24 'Nature 77, 96, 115 8. "New Steps to an Old Tune," G. Dorsey 41. "How to Respond to Violence?" Nonviolence 21, 41, 63, 89, 93, 103, 125 Green and Margaret Sorrel, 1: 24-25 Barbara Schultz, 3: 30-31 Outreach 31, 32, 39, 43, 104, 117 9. "Shaping Our Future Together," 42. "In the Manner of Friends," Judy Lumb, Parenting 13, 23, 51, 70, 71, 81, 96, Ill, Elisabeth Leonard, 1: 26 3: 30-31 114, 126, 138 10. "Bible Through Female Eyes, The," 43. "Did You Say 'Mogoff?" Vinton Peace 54, 58, 59, 63, 68, 69, 80, 103, 112, Chuck Fager, 1: 27-29 Deming, 4: 2 125, 129, 133 11. "Clerk's Call for 50th Anniversary 44. "FCNL'S 50th Jubilee: A Look Back," Peace Activities 14, 35, 36, 41 , 109, Ill, Jubilee," Don Reeves and Mark Hulbert, Edward F. Snyder, 4: 7-9 127 1: 33 45. "Activism Takes Many Paths," Kate Personal Presence 49, 52, 56, 85, 95,97 12. "Insight into Burnout," Anonymous, 1: Dempsey, 4: 10-11 Personalities 2, 4, 21, 51, 54, 63, 76, 95, 132 36-37 46. "FCN L Priorities, 1943-1993," Edwin Political Action 3, 14, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 61, 13. "Doing Unto Others," Harriet Heath, 1: Bronner, 4: 12-13 67, 95, 97, 108, 128 37 47. "No Alligator Shoes: A Different Style Population 121, 122 14. "Different Cover, A," Vinton Deming, of Lobbying," Ruth Flower, 4: 14-17 Poverty 75, 79, 93, 122, 128 2:2 48. "Typical Friday, A," Ruth Flower, Prisons 53, 107 15. "Joy, Hope, and Faithfulness-A Visit 4: 15-16 Quakerism I02 to Friends in Cuba," Val Liveoak, 2: 7-11 49. "In Church in a Russian Village," Quakerism Today 16, 31, 32, 39, 54, 55, 56, 16. "Invisible Meetinghouse: Quakers in an Geraldine Glodek, 4: 17-18 65,66, 73, 76, 78,91,92,94,98, 104, Electronic Community, The," Joel 50. "What Makes for a Dynamic Religious 130, 132 GAzis-SAx, 2: 12-13 Commu nity?' ~ John Morgan, 4: 19 Race 123, 124, 137 17." We Need Them Too," Joshua Brown, 51. "Brown Cushion, The," Jack Powelson, Racism 93 2: 15-16 4:20-22 Relationships I, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 18, 40, 120 18. "Marriage Vows," Steven Post, 2: 17 52. "What Must Die?" Emily Sargent Religion and the World 27, 103, 108, 133 19. "World of Wanted Children, A," Councilman, 4: 23 Resurrection 49, 52 Elizabeth Claggett-Borne, 2: 18-20 53 . "What are the Alternatives to Prison?" Russia/Eastern Europe 49 20. "Cartoon," Signe Wilkinson, 2: 20 Linda Thurston, 4: 24-25 Self-realization 3, 6, 12, 26, 51 , 52, 74, 90, 21. "Soldier Series, The," Melissa Kay 54. "Remembering Kenneth Boulding," 101, 118, 136 Elliott, 2: 21-22 Vinton Deming, 5: 2 Sexual Abuse 84, 113, 116, 117 22. "Moral Welfare," Alfred K. LaMotte, 2: 55. "Why Covenant with My Oppressors?" Sexual Expression I, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 19 23-25 Edward Elder, 5: 5 Simplicity 72, 73 23. "Adolescence: Time to Sort Things 56 "Voices from the Whirlwind," Susan Social Action 67, 133 Out," Harriet Heath, 2: 26-27 Waltz and Kathy Hersh, 5:7-10 Social Concerns 35, 36, 53, 76, 79, 93, 96, 24. "Sabbath-keeping: A Spiritual 57. "Gathered Meeting, The," Rob Roy 107, 108, 112, 121 Discipline," Betsy Kahn, 2: 26-27 Woodman, 5: 11 South Africa 89, 110 25. "Quaker Practices in the Home," Helen 58. "Queries for the Ides ofEvery April," Spiritual Growth 52, 71, 77, 78, 88, 90, 92, Stritmatter, 2: 27 Robin Harper, 5: 12-13 101, 102, 106, 114, 118, 120, 126, 135, 26. "Bonker's Blessing, The," Elisabeth 59. "What do We Owe Caesar?" Marguerite 136 Burmeister, 2: 28 Clark, 5: 14-15 Stewardship II 0 27. "AFSC Mission Statement," American 60. "Forgotten Quaker Classic: Elizabeth Technology 16 Friends Service Committee, 2: 30-31 Ashbridge's Autobiography, A," Barbara

38 March 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL S. VVorden,5: 16-17 93. "Louisiana Racial Issues Listening Refugees," Peg Morton, 11: 25-27 61 . "Fostering Free Trade in North Project, The," Herb VValters, 9: 9-10 126. "VVidening Nest, The," Susan Baird America," Jean Rosenberg, 5: 22-23 94. "Fresh Look at Friends' Testimony on Kanaan, 11: 28 62. "All in the Family," Vinton Deming, Alcohol, A," Robert Levering, 9: 11-13 127. "Volunteers for Peace," Helen Cherry, 6:2 95. "Money Talks," Emma Childers, 11: 29-30 63 "Little Touch of Kenneth in the Night, 9: 14-15 128. "VVelfare and Dignity and Other A," David Gracie, 6: 5 96. "VVhat Shall I Learn of Beans or Beans Incongruities," Ruth Flower, 11: 31 64. "Vegetarian Lions?" Arthur Rifkin, of Me?" Diana VVells, 9: 16-19 129. "In Search of Angels," Vinton Deming, 6:8-9 97. "Getting Through to Congress-the 12:2 65. "Friends and their Leaders," Bruce Friendly VVay," Alison D. Oldham, 9:21 130. "No Need to Abstain," Tony Scilipoti, Birchard, 6: 10-13 98. "Not At All Boring," Vinton Deming, 12:5 66. "How Big is the Vessel?" Gabrielle B. 10: 2 131. "Perseid: A Christmas Story," Mmjorie Armstrong, Charlotte Condia-VVilliams, 99. "Barclay Tartan, The," Paul Thompson, M. Killeen, 12: 7 Margaret E. Fell, Ross Flanagan, Mabel 10:5 132. "Trusting the Quaker Process: Johan McKeon Jasut, John Kriebel, Marilyn R. 100. " Rise Up and Ride," Ann Zimmerman, Maurer Takes the Helm at FUM," Pukkila, Mike Schnitzius, Mary Snyder, 10:9 Bobbie Ruby, 12: 8-10 George VVebb, 6: 14-18 101. "You Mirror Me VVhole," Dee Mast 133. "Faith and the Alchemy of Action," 67 "Faith in a Time of Fear," Kay VVhitlock, Adams, Alaina Lammer, Starshine, and Robert Hillegass, 12: 11-12 6: 19-21 Linnea VVang, 10: 10-11 134. "Thoughts About Christmas," Jim 68. "Fishing in Troubled VVaters: How to 102. "Quaker Baptism, A," Stephen Zunes, Flory, 12: 13 Help the Russians During Their Time of 10: 12 135. "Salvage Operation," Helen VVeaver Crisis," Anthony Manousos, 6: 22-24 103. "Third VVorld Kairos Documents-A Horn, 12: 14 69. "Reflections on Community in · Pacifist Perspective, The," Phillips P. 136. "Darkness and Beyond," Anne, Yugoslavia," Anne VVheelock, 6: 25-26 Moulton, 10: 13-15 12: 16-17 70. "Importance of Dialogue, The," Harriet 104. "Friend in Siberia, A," Barbara 137. "How to Start a Youth Group," Ron Heath, 6:27 Caplow, 10: 16-1 7 McDonald, 12: 18-19 71. "Yearning for the Light," David A. 105. "VVelcome to the Darkness," H. Otto 138. "Children in Our Meetings: Continuing Stevens, 6: 27 Dahlke, I 0: 18-19 the Dialogue," Harriet Heath, 12: 22 72. " Choosing the Good Portion," Shiela 106. "Enlighten," Allen Hubbard, 10:20-21 Smith, 6:28 I 07. "Death Becomes a Lens," David Finke, 73. "Simplicity in Our Lives," Evanston 10:22-25 Books (Ill.) Meeting, 6: 28-29 I 08. " Capital Punishment as State-Assisted Adams, Judith Porter, Peacework, 5: 25 74. "New QPS Member, A," Vinton Suicide," Katherine van VVormer, (Eugenia Durland) Deming, 7:2 10: 24-25 Allen, Irene (pseudonym), Quaker Silence, 75. "Assisting Those in Poverty," Dennis 109. "Bosnia: Haverford Students 4: 33 (Richard Moses) Gregg, 7:5 Respond," Helene Pollock, 10: 26-27 Anderson, Sherry Ruth, and Patricia 76. "Philadelphia's 'Attack Quaker': A II 0. "Price on Principles, A," John Hopkins, The Feminine Face ofGod, 10: Conversation with Cartoonist Signe Blanchard, Jr., 10: 27 36-37 (Eileen Coan) VVilkinson," Vinton Deming, 7: 7-9 Ill. "Habit of Gratitude, The," Janet Arriens, Jan, compiler, ed., Welcome to 77. "Trees and Other Mentors," Eileen Rutkowski, 10: 28 Hell, 6: 34-35 (Kimmett Edgar) Flanagan, 7: 10-11 112. "Out on the Border," Timothy Drake, Buechner, Frederick, Telling Secrets: A 78. "And the Twain Shall Meet," Barry 10:31-32 Memoir, 5: 24-25 (Kate de Riel) Morley, 7: 12-15 11 3. "Closer to God," Vinton Deming, II: 2 Calvert, Greg, Democracy from the Heart, 79. "Fax to the Homeless, A," Evelyn 114. "Letter to my Daughter about God, A," 12: 26-27 (Staughton Lynd) Mattern, 7: 17 John C. Morgan, II: 5 Carson, Clayborne, Called to Serve: Volume 80. "More Effective UN, A," Robert S. 115. "Seasons and Silence," Mike Clark, 1. The Papers ofMartin Luther King, Jr., Vogel, 7: 18 II : 7 3: 35 (Homer Jack) 81. "Hearing My Child Speak," Mary 116. "Facing up to Sexual Abuse among Chomsky, Noam, Year 501: The Conquest Coffin, 7: 19 Friends," Elizabeth Claggett-Borne, Continues, 8: 27 (Brian Drayton) · 82. "VVestward Ho!" Vinton Deming, 8: 2 II : 8-9 Day, A. Colin, Roget's Thesaurus ofthe 83. "Maintaining Our Unity," Georgana M. 117. "VV elcome to All,'~ Rochester Meeting Bible, 11: 41 (Dorothy T. Samuel) Foster, 8:5 (N.Y.), 11: 9 Deats, Richard, ed., Ambassador of 84. "Quakerdale of Iowa," VVilmer Tjossem, 118. "Spiritual Exercises for Busy Days," Reconciliation, 4: 33-35 (Carol 8:7-8 Jim Greenley, 11: I 0-12 MacCormack) 85. "Ministry of Presence, The," Gregg 119. "VVhat VVe Say," Christine Lundy, Dull, Christine and Ralph, Soviet Laughter, Lamm,8: 9 11: 12-13 Soviet Tears, 7: 23-24 (VVilliam 86. "American Friends Service 120. "Living VVith Dying," Leonard H. Edgerton) Committee-VVhat's in a Name?, The," Cizewski, II: 14-15 Dull, Ralph(see Dull, Christine and Ralph) Irwin Abrams, 8: 10-11 121. "Rapid Population Growth: Traveling Eller, Cynthia, Conscientious Objectors and 87. "Equipping for Ministry," Margaret with a Concern," Stan Becker, 11: 18-19 the Second World War, 6: 34 (Lois Benefiel, 8: 12-14 122. " People vs The VVorld: A View from Barton) 88. "Nurturing Spiritual Gifts," Margaret Another VVindow," Aziz Pabaney, Foster, Richard J., Prayer: Finding the Benefiel, 8: 13-14 11 :20-21 Heart's True Home, 9: 24-25 (Renee 89. "South Africa: Agony and Hope," 123. "That Accursed Abolitionist: The Life Crauder) Margaret Hope Bacon, 8: 15-18 of Laura Haviland," Barbara S. VVorden, Fowler, James VV., Weaving the New 90. "Time," Robert G. Murphy, 8: 19-20 11:22-24 Creation, I: 40-41 (Dean Freiday) 91. "At the Center," Vinton Deming, 9: 2 124. "That VVhich Is the Same," Mary Hopkins, Patricia (see Anderson, Sherry 92. "Seeing in the Silence," Rick Seifert, Coffin, II: 24 Ruth and Patricia Hopkins) 9: 7-8 125. "Accompanying Guatemalan Malone, J. VValter, J. Walter Malone: The

fRIENDS JOURNAL March 1994 39 Autobiography ofan Evangelical Omnicide, Th e Nuclear Dilemma, 9: 26 FWCC Southern Quaker, ed. by John W. Oliver, 11:40 Hoff, Lee Ann(see Goodman, Lis) Marburg Regional (Marty Grundy) and Lee Ann Hoff) Conference, Staff Nolt, Steven M., History ofthe Amish, A, 8: Jackson, Laura (see Compher, Vic and members of FWCC, 27 (Liz Massey) Betsy Morgan, eds., Laura Jackson section of the Religious Education Committee of Friends photography, ed.) Americas, 2: 29 General Conference, Lighting Candles in Johnson, Pegram, III, and Edna M. Troiano, Intermountain Yearly the Dark, 1:40 (Margaret Springer) The Roads from Bethlehem, 11:43 Meeting, Martin Sachs, Marilyn (see Durell, Ann and Kennedy, Stetson, Jim Crow Guide, The Cobin, 11 : 32 Marilyn Sachs ed.,) Way It Was, 10: 37 Iowa Yearly Meeting Schweitzer, Albert, Albert Schweitzer Levering, Frank and Wanda Urbanska, (Conservative), Letters 1905-1965, ed. by Hans Walter Simple Living, 9: 25-26 Sherry Hutchison Bahr, 11 : 39-40 (Homer A. Jack) Levering, Robert, A Great Place to Work, 6: and Horace Sessions, William K., They Chose the Star: 35-36 Autenrieth, 12: 20- Quaker War Relief Work in France, Marsden, Lorna M., Descent ofthe God, 21 1870-1875, 2: 37 (Dan MacGilvray) The, 7: 24-25 Lake Erie Yearly Shuman, Michael and Julia Sweig, eds., Matthews, Marti Lynn, Pain, The Challenge Meeting, Marty Conditions of Peace, 7: 23 (Jack and the Gift, 9: 26 Grundy, 11 : 32-33 Mongar) Mayer, C.H., The Continuing Struggle, 9: Nebraska Yearly Small bone, Ken, James Potter, Quaker: A 26 Meeting, Karen Record ofDis sent in the I 7th and I 8th Morgan, Betsy (see Compher, Vic and Mesner, 10: 29 Centuries, II: 38-39 (Ralph H. Pickett) Betsy Morgan, eds., and Laura Jackson New York Yearly Snarr, D. Neil and Associates, Claiming photography, ed.) Meeting, George Our Past: Quakers in Southwest Ohio Munro, Olive Fyfe, ed., George Fox 1624- Rubin, 12:21 and Eastern Tennessee, II: 38 (Nelson 169 I, Our Living Contemporary, II: 43 North Carolina Yearly and Marian Darnell Fuson) New York Yearly Meeting, Directory, 7:24 Meeting, Melva K. Sweig, Julia (see Shuman, Michael and Peachey, Linda Gehman (see Peachey, Titus Greene, I : 30-31 Julia Sweig) and Linda Gehman Peachey) North Pacific Yearly Trevett, Christine, Women and Quakerism Peachey, Titus and Linda Gehman Peachey, Meeting, Lois in the 17th Century, 2: 36-37 (Margaret Seeking Peace, 8: 28 Barton, I: 30 Hope Bacon) Prior, Jerilynn C., I Feel the Winds ofGod Ohio Valley Yearly Wallace., Terry S., A Sincere and Constant Today,6:35 Meeting, Mildred Love, 11 : 39 (Jane Snyder) Quaker Tapestry Scheme 1992, The Quaker Mahoney, 12:21 Warren, Roland L., Whittier and the Quaker Tapestry Guide in Colour, II: 43 Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative), Bill "Argonauts", 8: 27-28 (Marge Abbott) Rantisi, Audeh G. with Ralph K. Beebe, Taber, 1:32 Werner, David, Where There is No Doctor, Blessed Are the Peacemakers, 3: 36 Outreach to the Former Soviet Union, Kay 2: 37 (Samuel B. 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Vogel, Swaim, Alice Mackenzie, "Symbols of Life Goodman, Lisl Marburg and Lee Ann Hoff, 8:21 Continuing," 12: 15