September 1997 FRl ENDS ~~~~ht An Among Friends Independent magazine serving the A Letter from the Past Religious Society of have often felt a sadness when a Friend decides to resign from meeting. It seems Friends that we Friends do not always have the best ways to say goodbye at such times, I not nearly as clear as our ways of welcoming newcomers into membership with a Editorial dinner or such. With this thought in mind, I was intrigued to receive a letter from Vinton Deming(Editor-MaMga), Kenneth Sutton one of our readers, Rega Wood, from New Haven, Connecticut. She had been (ksociau Ediwr), Timothy Drake (ksisf4nt Ediwr), visiting the Quaker Collection of Haverford College and was kind enough to send j udirh Brown {Pomy Ediwr) me a copy of a letter written by Henry Hartshorne. Henry, I am told, was editor of Production Barbara Benron (Art Dir~cwr), Alia Podolsky Friends' Review from 1881 to 1893. His letter, written to Walter B. Smith in 1893, (Productionksist4nt), John D. Gummere was prompted by news ofWalter's resignation from the Religious Society of Friends. (S~cia/ Projtcts) Excerpts of the letter read as follows: Circulation and Advertising Nagendran Gulendran (Marluting andAdvmising After marrying and setting up a house for myself, for a whole year I did not go to MaMga), Nicole Hackel (Circulationksist4nt) Friends' meeting at all. I would go to different places of worship, so visiting about all the Administration churches in turn, finding a "home" in none. At last I concluded that I had no place in Marianne De Lange (Administrati~ &cr~ry), Lucinda Hudson (Bookupu), Henry Freeman any of them, and would sometimes drive out into the country on First-day alone instead (D~Iopmm t Consult4nt), Pamela Nelson of going to any place of worship, after visiting my patients. I was then not irreligious, but (D~Iopmmtksist4nt), Roben Sutton {Volunu") indifferent, non-religious. Business, home comforts, society and study, filled my mind. Board of Managers Irwin Abrams (Ckrk), Lucinda Anrrim, Well, my dear wife made the first break in this, by asking me if I would not read to Paul Buckley, Susan Carnahan, Sue Carnell, her a chapter in the Bible. I could not refuse her; and, at her wish, I did so nearly every Elizabeth Cazden, Helen Fields, Deborah Fisch, night before we retired, when my engagements would allow it. Not very long after this Ingrid Holcomb, Robert Kunkel (Treasur~r), we went to Europe; and when in London I attended Friends' Yearly Meeting. This Mary Mangelsdorf,Judy Monroe, Caroline Balderston Parry (&cording Ckrk), interested me, and I saw there a prospect of the Society of Friends becoming something Rurh Peterson, Lisa Lewis Raymer, Margery Rubin, more than an organization of petrified propriety, as it had seemed to me then. Catharine David Runkel, Larry C. Spears, Larry D. Spears, M. Shipley ... stirred many of us up about Bible schools, and social devotional Carolyn Sprogell (Assist4nt Ckrk), Roben Surron, Carolyn Terrell, Wilmer Tjossem meetings. I was gradually drawn again into warm religious feeling, which . .. has never since left me, and I hope most earnestly never will: it is the very life of my life. f RIENDS jOURNAL (JSSN 00 16-1322) was established in 1955 as rhe successor ro Tlu Frimd (1827-1955) Now, why do I tell thee all this? Because I look back upon that time of non-religion as and Frimds lnuUigmar (1844-1955). a sort of passage over a desert. Many interests and pleasures were mine then, 0 ye£--but • fRIENDS j OURNAL is published monthly by Friends the very essence ofhappiness was absent. . . . It is possible, of course, I once thought it Publishing Corporation, 1216 Arch Srreer, 2A, would be so for me, to believe in God, and in a general way in Christianity, to be Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835. 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Features Departments
6 They Ask for Change 2 Among Friends Sally Campbell Responding to the Spirit's promptings brings a change in 4 Forum relationships with homeless people. 18 Young Friends 7 A Return to Quakerism 21 News of Friends Sandy Perry The radical nature ofQ,takerism reclaims a lapsed Friend's roots. 22 Bulletin Board 8 Paul and James: We Need Them Both 22 Calendar Roland L. Warren 23 Books Paul and james; Mary and Martha; Worship and Ministry and Peace and Social Concerns-the creative tension stays with us. 26 Milestones 10 Cousin William, or My Weighty Quaker Genes 28 Classified Su Penn Claiming WiUiam Penn's legacy had more meaning than claiming his bloodline. Poetry 12 William Penn-Liberal Universalist T. Noel Stern 11 Family Unes Penn, like other early Friends, can be cited to support many Diane Averill positions that are widely accepted today. 14 What Happens in the Silence Kara Newell While not prescriptive, a description ofworship or other guidance can contribute to richer worship. 16 Water Colors Wynne Busby A sense ofloss can provoke a searching relationship with God.
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FRIENDS j OURNAL September 1997 Forum Facing class issues are married or not? investments, documents like licenses, etc. There are many more ways to look at These days they may want to consider a Brent Bower's letter (Forum, June) is an marriage than either as a social institution ceremony of commitment instead. This appropriate challenge for a researched and to hold men responsible for their children could assure their families and friends that comprehensive study of the relationship of or as an essentially personal commitment. they're "on the up and up" without Quakerism to the labor union movement. For myself and many Quakers, marriage is a disturbing all those legal matters that have As a convinced Friend and a labor union spiritual calling. Some are called to a been settled by now. official, I attempt to apply our testimonies vocation with children in their marriages, jack Fogarty in the struggle to find equity and justice for and some are not. This concept is not so Columbia, Md. those in the work place. Finding "that of new that George Fox would not have God in everyone" is a basis to demand a understood it. living wage and economic justice for all Barbara Benton True worth workers. It is a strong testimony against Philadelphia, Pa. The piece "Who We Are, Whose We "downsizing" and the casting aside of Are, and What Matters" by Thomas H. workers for increased profit. The new wave Contrary to Kent E. Erickson's opinion, Jeavons (F} June) was a remarkably succinct of union organizing, such movements as the foundation of marriage is and always aniculation of a simple code for living that the livable wage campaigns in various U.S. has been the personal provides a practical cities, and the California strawberry commitment, not any measure for what movement are examples of current union expectations or mores imposed by matters most. In this struggles that easily mirror Friends society. Society, due to the inenia "' way it offers a counter to testimonies. Quakers and labor union of tradition, responds slowly to a ~the usual money, power, officials alike have spoken out against changing world. If today's world d fame way of measuring NAFTA. Cesar Chavez led a nonviolent calls for a different paradigm for something's wonh. movement of unionized farmworkers, marriage, the change will occur ~ ~ Many thanks. which many Friends continue to suppon first with individuals. actively. Because it is the personal ~"' Historically Friends and organized labor commitment that is imponant, ::======·~~~ ~ Charles Bethesda,H Simpkinson Md. have walked side by side to abolish one manifestation of marriage I sweatshops and eliminate child labor, to cannot threaten or diminish another. improve working conditions in the garment Whether the Roman Catholic sacrament, industry, and to advocate free public the justice of the peace, or meeting for Meetinghouse/Powerhouse education. Many union members and top worship is used to make the commitment Too many decades ago I had an leaders actively opposed the Vietnam War. public, the unions are equivalent to society. experience in the woods of Vermont that by The links are there, and surely a Likewise, whether the rwo committed no means was a turning point in my life. collaborative history exists. Reflecting on people are of different ethnic origins, are of Rather, it was one of those sneaky Quaker this, it becomes dear that Friends opposing political philosophies, are of the happenings that slipped into my memory testimonies have a cenain relationship with same sex, or their views on the place of banks waiting for unplanned moments to labor historically and, more imponantly, children in marriage differ from our own, pop out and shine light. The perpetrator today. their personal commitment should not be was Kenneth Webb of the Farm and Tom Nowel valued any less by society than any other. Wilderness Camps, the occasion was the Mason, Ohio Marriage as a personal and public daily meeting for worship in the woods, and commitment to another human is an the story was about a visiting camp director institution to be valued and celebrated being shown around our deceptively simple Definitions regardless of any choices or accidents that camp facilities. Why does it not occur to Kent E. result in children. Ken told (eloquently, of course} of how Erickson (Forum, June) that people having Marriage as a "social institution whose the visiting director unfavorably compared ceremonies of commitment and same-sex essential purpose is to hold people, men in our facilities with his (waterfront, athletic marriages may be making "social panicular, responsible for their children" (as fields, crafts shops, cabins with showers, commitments in the sense of traditional prisons hold men responsible for their etc., etc.}. Ken replied innocently to the marriage"? It is possible that they intend to crimes?) would seem to be a hardship to be visitor, "But let me show you our have children in their families and even that avoided. powerhouse!" Ken proceeded to bring the this is the central reason for their Kim Carlyle visiting director to the small chapel/meeting commitments. Long Beach, Ind. place in the woods. Does it not occur to him that no one Evidently, from the day of that message, has ever questioned an older woman's right When a widow and a widower enjoy delivered while we were sitting on a to be married, although she is not able to each other's company, they may think of camper-made log bench, looking into the have children? I do not hear anyone saying living and traveling together for economy woods, I seem to have not really forgotten that ifl were to be married at the ripe old and companionship. But when the question that meeting for worship. age of 50, I would be "expanding the of marriage comes up, it brings all sorts of While I was reading the sequences and meaning of marriage." inconvenient complications such as how it articles by David Albert ("Some Notions on Finally, does it not occur to him that will affect pensions, social security, name Why Friends Meetings Do Not Attract men and women who have children must changing, insurance, wills, estates, home Minorities," Fj Oct. 1996), the be held responsible for them whether they and car ownership, checking accounts, meetinghouse/powerhouse image somehow
4 September 1997 FRIENDS JOURNAL arose. Activities of good immerse many perpetrators and their victims. And victims is refused by many pacifists (with a note of congregations and meetings, fully supported are surely the ends intended. explanation accompanying the refusal and by the members. Seekers, however, are not redirection of the money for constructive always seeking activities in which to involve josephine W. johns purposes) because that tax was specifically themselves, but something else. I suspect Wilinington, Del. reinstated to support the war in Vietnam. seekers are looking for a power to enter Federal bookkeeping does not distinguish their inner lives, whatever their certain tax streams for specific purposes, background. A meeting for worship where Resisting taxes and has not since John Woolman wrestled socially concerned "workers" come to meet When a draft call finds some with this same issue. Nevertheless, many and sometimes get mutual support (what I conscientious objectors unable to Friends are prompted to take a stand for call "the warm fuzzies") is not quite the participate in war, the government not only peace via taxes and thereby find a forum for same as plugging into a powerhouse has provided them alternatives, but also has disclosing that witness with meetings, connected directly to the creator's energy, proceeded to draft others who will governmental representatives, families, and where all involved seem to feel a surge in participate. It is individual conscience that neighbors. their individual journeys to wholeness. makes the difference, not how the Marjorie Schier and Suzanne Day government allocates the recruits. Some Philadelphia Yearly Meeting john Stevens Friends have been unable to enlist, and War Tax Concerns Support Committee Miami, Fla. some cannot voluntarily send dollars in federal tax for military uses. Welsh heritage A way to support Interacting with the federal government through tax resistance as witness for peace is I appreciated Jim Kalish's recent article Elise Boulding (Fj June) closes her more than symbolic; it can be earnest, (F] May) describing his Welsh journey. A moving article on the oppressed people in meaningful religious conscience in action. few years ago my wife and I, with our son Chiapas, Mexico, with a plea for However, it does not change how the Lloyd and his wife, worshiped with Friends information on local Quaker-initiated government allocates its resources, and in Dolgellau and visited ancestral houses projectS in Latin America, which North efforts to witness for changed priorities are and sites. Our Roberts Quaker forebears American Quakers might wish to support. also significant. Many Friends and others from this district, and our Bevan ancestors May I remind Friends that the work for passage of the Peace Tax Fund Bill from Glamorgan, were among those who International Quaker Aid program of by the U.S. Congress because it would not made the long journey to Penn's colony, Friends World Committee, Section of the only provide a legal opportunity for pacifists seeking freedom to follow Christian Americas, currently supports Quaker to pay their full federal tax without convictions with Quaker faithfulness. We projectS in Cuba, Jamaica, El Salvador, supporting war, but also give the honor their memory, grateful for a godly Honduras, Bolivia, and Peru in this government an indication of the numbers Welsh heritage. hemisphere, as well as two projectS in of citizens exercising this option. Arthur 0. Roberts Africa. Yes, the federal tax on telephone service Yachats, Oreg. For copies of the current brochure or to send a gift to FWCC restricted to any of these projectS, please write to Sara Palmer, FWCC, 1506 Race St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1498. CJhe FRIENDS Rosemary K Coffey Pittsburgh, Pa. JOURNAL Lflmpaign We Made It! Boycott justified As of June 30, the closing date for the FRIENDS jOURNAL Campaign, we are pleased to announce that we passed our goal of$800,000! Though we will have a full report on the Regarding Kathryn Parke's letter campaign in our October issue, we wanted to share the following figures with you at this (Forum, June) about sweepstakes addiction, time. Our thanks to all those who contributed-the volunteers, the Campaign Com one must surely agree and commend her mittee, and the meetings and individuals who made gifts over the past 18 months! comments. Campaign Totals I have had occasion to write some of the perpetrators of this specious advertising and Gifts to Endowment No.I Gifts Amt. Received Pledges Outstanding invasion of the postal system, also to the news media. It will take more than Individuals 407 $341, 853.00 $62,057.00 legislation to educate the public. It must Meetings/Friends Org. 60 $74,232.00 $12,950.00 take an actual retaliative reaction by Foundations 10 $150,020.00 $0.00 boycotting any and all producers using the sweepstakes-addiction come-ons. Charitable Gift Annuities 9 $93,733.00 $0.00 If each person wanting to reduce or Gifts to Associates eliminate this form of "entertainment get Calendar Year 1996 1,855 $90,340.00 $0.00 rich quick" would add protest by boycotting the products, we would surely Total Gifts and Pledges Received (as ofJune 30, 1997): $825,185.00 make a dent in the mindset of the
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his morning before meet ing I stopped at a gro change Tcery store to buy a loafof bread for coffee hour, and there I met a man who stands near the door asking for handouts. When I asked him what I could get for him, he requested a ham sandwich with tomato and let tuce, no mustard and no cheese; then I was sure it was the same man I'd helped before but whose name I'd forgotten. Living in New York City means having to make a choice almost every day, and some times several times a day, as to how to react to people begging on the street, in the subway, or in the park. I long ago realized that either just passing them by or just doing what I've been urged in the silence They've given me some of the best advice, giving them money was destructive both to do for a long time--to use a survey often just what I need at the moment and to them and to me. approach. When people ask me for money, frequently deeply spiritual: "Praise God When I first came to the city in the I say I'll give them some if they will every day." "Try to keep your heart open." 1960s, I quickly realized that by giving answer five questions for me. Ifthey agree, "Things have a way ofworking out." "Do money I was almost certainly putting and they all have so far, I then ask the not drink." "Always look up, keep the temptation in the way of an alcoholic or following questions: f.Uth, be strong." But also: "Go to Atlan an addict. Instead I gave food, insisting What is your name? They are re tic City." they tell me their choice from a nearby lieved that the first question is so easy, and Do you have a question for me? deli or coffeeshop. If they would not ac when they give me their name, I give This final question, which again is to cept food, I would not help them. Some them mine and shake hands. If they're make us equal partners, is usually the times I became quite angry with their not sitting on the pavement, I sit down next hardest one for them to answer. If they do accepting my good deed. Clearly this was to them. I want as much as possible to come up with a question it is to ask me still not right. show them we're equals. You'd be sur my name again, what advice I can give When I pray at home or in meeting, prised, by the way, how many of them them, or why I'm doing this. those people from the city streets persist in have names of saints or angels. When the questions are over I give coming to me in the silence. Jesus cer What do you love? I've gotten a them money, at least a dollar-to pay tainly had a great deal to say about those wide range of answers: music, specific them for answering the survey. Ofcourse who ask for our help and what we will do foods, their mother, sex. More often than it may still go for drink, bur everyone if we love him enough to follow him. I not, however, the answers will be relig- · wastes money in one way or another, and read Tolstoy's What Men Live By, which ious: either the Bible or Jesus. For that I don't judge or begrudge others whose tells the tale of a naked "beggar" who is reason I've begun carrying a little Bible to help I pay for. revealed to be an angel being taught to give away if that's appropriate. This morning when I gave my friend trust in God. I then got a very clear Tell me more about this love. his ham sandwich, I only asked him two message in the silence, "Give from your How have you shared it or enjoyed questions: his name (since I'd forgotten bounty." it? This is when I've learned a lot about it-it's Alphonse) and his advice for me. Finally, over the past year I have begun my new friend and about life on the He said "Go with God." We spoke a bit streets ofNew York. Most of us like to be about blessings, and it became clear to me SaU.y CampbeU. is a member of Morningside listened to as we talk on a topic we've that blessings are like the air. We need to (NY) Meeting. She is the volunteer coordina chosen ourselves. Panhandlers who are so breathe both in and out. We need to tor for Friends House in Rosehill, a Quaker frequently ignored are no different. accept blessings and give them forth, and sponsored community ofpeople living with AIDS Please give me some advice or so join the blessing circle. In other words, in New York City. wisdom you,ve learned in your life. to "go with God." 0
6 September 1997 F RIENDS jOURNAL A Return to Quakerism by Sandy Perry literature: at meetings, food lines, rallies, All these people had one common char and factory gates. On weekends I went acteristic: they had no hope whatsoever was raised as a Quaker in Massachu door-to-door throughout the San Fran for the future. They were smart enough to setts in the 1950s and '60s. We at cisco Bay area, from the flatlands of Oak sense that society had no use for them and I tended meeting in uncomfortable fold land to the sun-swept hills of Hunters despised them. This would not happen in ing chairs, in the assembly room ofan old Point. I attended thousands of meetings. a society that shared its wealth, that dis elementary school. Only two memories In the 1980s, as the outlines of the social tributed its riches according to human still stand out from my religious educa struggle became clearer, I linked up with need instead ofprivate profit. Such a soci tion: Joseph's interpretation of Pharaoh's the homeless movement. In 1991 I be ety would value all its people as its most dream, and Jesus' call to Peter and An came a volunteer with the Community precious resource. drew to become "fishers of men." There Homeless Alliance in San Jose. These ideals I embraced more fervently was some discussion of the Inner Light, In all these years, my faith in the ideals than ever. My only question was-and but the whole concept remained rather of communism did not waver, but deep still is-to find the right forms to express vague and abstract to me. ened. As the economy downsized and this vision and to politicize and organize I fell away from the meeting as a teen automated, I began meeting many of the the growing revolutionary movement of ager, about 30 years ago. Even in high people who were being cast aside. I re the poor. school, the Quakers did not seem to me member one sickly, old, broken woman In 1994 I met Amos and Polly Brokaw to have answers to the intellectual chal in a welfare hotel in San Francisco. She ofSanJose (Calif.) Meeting. Through the lenges posed by modern scientists like shocked me when she told me she was meeting, they were able to secure tempo Darwin. I became an atheist. As the larger only 35--one year younger than I was at rary housing for a couple of homeless society became wracked with racism, war, the time. I met foul-mouthed kids on the people I knew. Then, in the fall of that and assassination, I became disillusioned streets of San Jose and saw them defY the year, I went to Massachusetts with my and angry. The Quakers I knew-mainly cops who harassed them daughter to celebrate upper-middle-class professionals-did not day after day. I met my parents' 50th speak to the condition ofour world. Their people who were totally For many years I had a wedding anniversary. lives did not demonstrate the clarity, ur immobilized by alcohol hard time explaining While there I made gency, and social commitment I was look or crack cocaine. I used some brief remarks, ing for. Our government was torturing an to talk to one man, 60 the source of the thanking my parents entire nation in Vietnam. Day in, day years old, when he was radicalism that has for the values they out, gleaming canisters ofnapalm fell from staying at the San Jose had passed on to me: the skies, exploding and hideously burn National Guard Armory driven me for all my integrity, courage, re ing civilians and combatants alike. Yet the shelter last year. I later adult life. Now I am spect, kindness, and Quakers appeared maddeningly compla learned he died, after the racial justice. To my cent, going about business as usual. Armory closed, when he be · · g to think surprise, many Quak At age 21 I began to consider myself a would get so drunk he that on some level I ers who heard me re Marxist. I believed the path to social could not stand up, and sponded very warmly. change was revolution: to educate and just lay in the mud and was a Quaker all along. One ofthem said that empower the low-income section of the rain day afrer day. Quaker Marxists working class, of all colors, to reorga were her favorite kind nize sociery. I dropped out of college of Quakers. It had never occurred and became a communist organizer. I to me that there was such a thing. worked at a variery of jobs: aircrafr During that same visit, which fueler, meat packer, delivery driver, and only lasted a couple ofdays, I found ropfer. I taught myself to speak rudi and read a book about Mary Dyer, mentary Spanish, so as to be able to who was hanged in Boston Com communicate with my fellow-workers. mon in 1660 for refusing to repudi I helped organize a rank and file caucus ate her Quaker faith. I had never in the Butchers Union in South San even heard of her before. To my Francisco. I participated in a hundred surprise, I discovered that she, like coalitions and demonstrations for peace most of the early Quakers, was a and justice. Over two decades I distrib revolutionary. For the very first uted thousands ofpieces ofcommunist time, I became aware of their profound egalitarianism: the :::;:: Sandy Perry is a member ofSan jose (Calif) meaning oftheir thee and thou, ~ Meeting. their respect for women, and their ~ ©1996 Sandy Perry defiance of hat honor. I was im- ~
FRIENDS jOURNAL September 1997 7 pressed by their refusal to rely on scrip and its consequences, such as: constitutions ture, church, or ministers to lead them: drawn up by the victorious class after a suc "You will say, Christ saith this, and the cessful battle, etc., juridical forms, and even apostles say this; but what canst thou ~e reflec~ions of all these actual struggles say?" I also admired their confidence that ~n ~~ mm~s of the participants, political, PAULANC J~nsttc , phtlo~ophical theories, religious they could rise above sinfulness and im vtews and thetr further development into perfection. This religion was one of lib systems of dogmas-also exercise their influ by Roland L. Warren eration and intellectual independence, not ence ~pon the course ofthe historical struggles social control, as was borne out in its and m many cases determine their form in he Apostle Paul said that we fierce struggle against persecution by the particular. ate saved by faith alone, to Puritans and the Stuans. Today it is impossible to experience a T which James responded, All these features grew out of the core, rich spiritual life if we stand apart from "What good is it, my brothers, if a the most ~ndamental concept of all the fight for social justice. In order to be man claims to have faith but has no theology: that the Spirit exists ~~aker effective in that fight, we have to be cleat deeds? Can such faith save him?" tnstde every human being. It occurred to on the influence of economics on politi Many of us ate perplexed by this me that perhaps this was the most revolu cal, social, and intellectual life. If we can dilemma: alternating between main tionary idea ofall, and that it is as revolu agree on these things, then it does not taining our spiritual base and operat tionary today as it was in 1647. really matter which one we consider ulti ing joyously in the world of human When I returned to San Jose it still mately primary, the spiritual or material betterment. Too much emphasis on took me several months to arrive at Quaker world. Some of us examine history and cultivating the spirit may separate us meeting. Slowly but surely, however, I seek to discern God's will. Others look for from the world ofaction, but when we was drawn in that direction. When Af objective laws of nature and social devel try to make an impact for good on the fordable Housing Network asked for vol opment. The important thing is not the world around us, we often feat that unteers to speak at churches in March of ter~inology. we use but understanding our actions lack an adequate spiritual 1995, I deliberately chose the Quakers. the mner umty of the world and finding base. I recall the concern years ago by When I called them, they asked me to within ourselves that place "where the a member of our meeting who be address them at noon. I arrived there at heart stands in perfect sincerity." lieved that in our pursuit of social te~ o'clock, in time for meeting for wor Are Quakers still too complacent? No betterment we were losing our spiri shtp. Once I made that connection, I doubt they are. I may even get frustrated tual base. He said we were close to never left. and leave them again one day. But many converting our meeting into a sort of I am still a philosophical materialist. communists are complacent also. And crisis ethical club, no longer a sufficiently But just because we're made of matter has a way ofbringing out the best in good religious society. doesn't mean we don't have a soul. In people. No matter what you call it-the On rate occasions, when we ate fact, like Tom J oad, I believe we all are end of work, the third wave, the social engaged in a worthy activity that at parts ofone big soul, a collective soul that revolution-we ate entering a crisis as the same time is socially costly or stress includes all humanity and all history. We profound as any in our history. ful or even dangerous, we are blessed ate not islands. This is part of what Quakerism is much more than social with a feeling of being supported by Woolman meant when he wrote that activism. The silence of the meeting for "the everlasting arms." Then we have "he?~forth I might not consider myself worship is opening me up to a new kind a deep conv~ction that we ate doing a distmct or separate being." Our con of community. Through it I have discov the nght thmg and that we ate in sciousness, or spirit, is more than just a ered something very valuable, which no God's hands. The spiritual base is complex of current sensations. It also re one can ever take away from me, no there. However, most of our good flects all our social relationships. It in matter what happens. Experience already deeds ate more mundane and involve cludes the wisdom of the ages, our heri taught me that in order to be effective, neither great cost nor pain nor danger. tage of centuries of intellectual, cultural, you have to be who you ate. Bur for many They ate mostly secular in context. and moral development. years I had a hard time explaining- to There is the school board meeting In Fox's day, materialism was known myself as well as to others-the source of where we want to oppose Junior as the temptation to believe "all things the radicalism that has driven me for all ROTC in the school, or the visit to come by nature." But we have come a my adult life. Now I am beginning to the congress member to urge one of long way since the dry, mechanistic con think that maybe on some level I was a the measures supported by Friends ceptions of Bacon, Hobbes, and Locke. Quaker all along. Maybe all these years I Committee on National Legislation, Modern Marxist materialism, contrary to ~~ really listening to a voice, calling our or simply taking a casserole dish to a popular opinion, is not some kind of mstde me from across the centuries: family in some type of need. Engulfed crude economic determinism. It repeat in such deeds, large and small, ate we edly stresses the important influence of Let all nations hear the word by sound or intellectual activity and spirituality in hu writing. Spare no place, spare not tongue nor RolAnd Warren, a member ofAlfred (NY.) man affairs. "The economic situation is pen, but be obedient to the Lord God and go Meeting, is an emeritus professor at Brandeis the basis," wrote Engels, through the world and be valiant for the University. but the various components of the super Truth upon earth; tread and trample all that structure-political forms ofthe class struggle is contrary under. . . . l:l
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cumbered down with them, to use a This calls to mind Thomas Kelly's treat being led by the spirit that they take Quaker expression, too busy to live in the ment of this passage in A Testament of little account of the effects of their Presence? Just doing busywork? Devotion, especially his treatment oflove, actions on others. These questions came to mind recently joy, and peace. He stressed the emptiness Thomas Kelly does not deny this as I pondered the short Book of James. of good works without the sense of the need for careful deliberation and weigh My heart quickened as I read the passages Presence. He cautioned against the secu ing consequences. Rather, he insists urging us to put our religion into practice: lar struggle for social betterment, in which that we should view our social actions "Do not merely listen to the word, and "large areas of the Society of Friends seem through the glass of the spirit. Living so deceive yourselves. Do what it says." to be predominantly concerned with this in the spirit should not result in im "As the body without the spirit is dead, mobility. Kelly separates himself from so faith without deeds is dead." those who "bask serenely upon the "Show me your faith without deeds, sunny shores of the Eternal" while and I will show you my faith by what I any of us are showing "a lofty scorn for this maimed d 0. " and bleeding world. . . . The fuller Having always preferred Martha to Mperplexed by experience," he is sure, "is of a love Mary, I found these words most support which sends us out into the world." ive. Although I am a great admirer of the this dilemma: He cautions against spreading our Apostle Paul, I contrasted James' sayings selves too thin: "I wish I might em • • • t ._ • • . how a life becomes simplified dominated by fai thfulness to a Investing " many of us do hasten from In Our cause to another without Future to regain our spiritual breath. a balance needs to be between trying to do every at once and passing up calls to that we feel we should answer. return to the apparently con advices of Paul and James, it possible to take seriously the to live our faith, as James ad while still seeking, insofar to be spirit led. In his on the Book of James, Ironside sees no inconsistency in two positions. "Paul was dwelling ustification before God; James on FRIENDS •nr<>r,·r'" before men." I find it hard that Paul would have made JOURNAL distinction. Martin Luther's state on the problem seems more com ng: "You are saved by faith alone, and anger, brawling and slander, along if faith is alone it is not faith." with every form of malice." Where he Luther, I gather, was highly critical urges his converts to positive good deeds, What, Friends might ask, is wrong of the Book of James, apparently be it is usually toward their brothers and with that? Shouldn't we be as circumspect cause of its great emphasis on deeds. sisters in the faith. Paul also acknowledges as possible in our social actions, at least to But to me, James' emphasis on deeds that the spirit bears fruit in our behavior gain some assurance that they will do is most compelling, coming as it does and that "the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, more good than harm? We are certainly from a man whose faith was so impor peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith aware, these days, of the tragic results of tant that, like the Apostle Paul, he fulness, gentleness, and self-control." actions by people who are so convinced of gave his life for it. 0
FRIENDS J OURNAL September I 997 9 The next generation and those t:> come COUSIN WILLIAM need to know your life story. We will travel to you. record you as you share the experiences that have shaped your life. or and gather the richness of your memories of farmers and industrial workers, but we into a beautiful book-a cherished legacy are comforted to know we were nobility for those you love. MyWeighty once. IfWilliam threw away his fortune, at least he had the good sense to become Linda Lyman & Marty Walton Quaker Genes famous in the process and to have a state 505 Willow Road. Bellingham. WA 98225 1-360-738-8599 or 1-800-738-8599 named after him, a distinction so unique we share it only with the Washingtons bySu Penn and a scattering of Anglo-European roy The Bible Association of Friends alty. Never mind that William did not in America ve been to two Quaker gatherings want his name attached to the territory; since 1829 has offered Bibles, New Testaments, s past month, and in my two days more reasonable heads prevailed over his and Portions free or at cost to Friends ong strange Friends I must have unseemly modesty, and our place in his institutions, individuals, and others worldwide. E Write to: P.O. Box 3, Riverton, NJ 08077 heard a half-dozen variations of the fol tory was therefore assured. lowing, upon perusal of my name tag: My family's WiJliam was the powerfUl "Now there's a weighty Quaker name. son of powerfUl men, so exalted and awe THE HICKMAN No relation to William, I suppose." In some that he spoke not at all to the condi fact, it is a great source of pride in our tion of a girl in the late 20th century, family that we are related to William, except to confer on me some glory by "direct descendants," we like to say, association. But in the three years since I meaning we are descended through men began attending meeting for worship, I and still carry his name. I can remember have discovered through his writings, Independent IMng and Personal Care as a child, before I learned to recognize through biographies, and by speaking to Convenient to shops, businesses, patriarchal B.S. when I heard it, being Quakers a William Penn who left a legacy and culwral opportunities Reasonable • Not{or-Profit disappointed that I could not pass the much greater than the name of a state, Founded and operated by Quakers name on to my own children, that they and who could have been a help and role would be descended only "indirectly" model to me all my life. 9 400 North Walnut Street from our illustrious ancestor. Surely he would have supported me, as WestChester,PA 19380 (610) 696-1536 What is the source of my family's my family did not, when I declared myself pride? Why does being rdated to William a feminist at the age of ten. And the Penn, even at three centuries' remove, William Penn who was expelled from One pathway to peace mean so much to us? Here is the myth of Oxford for refusing to be compelled to leads right through the WiJliam Penn as I learned it from my worship in the Anglican church could halls of Congress family, who are not Quakers. have helped me to know, when I carne William Penn the elder, our William's out as a lesbian at the age of 19, that even father, was an admiral in the British a dependent student must do what she navy, as was his father before him, as knows is right, whatever she might lose in Ask how you can help could William himself have been had he the process. A plain dealer with Native brinq Friends' concern for not thrown away the opportunity. Their Americans who honored his treaties with peace andjustice to Capitol Hill wealth was unimaginable, so vast that dark-skinned people, he would approve
FRIENDS COMMIITEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION the king of England was in their debt. of my work against racism within mysdf 245 Second Street N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 Our William received the land that be and in the world. He would have been a carne Pennsylvania in settlement of that help to me when I was a graduate student debt, but even before that the king had in political philosophy in the late 1980s, 1997 given the family landed estates in Ireland his great Pennsylvania experiment and its merely out offriendship. (The Irish were legacy in the freedoms codified in the Spiritual being systematically driven from their U.S. Constitution a reminder that the dry formation retreat land by the conquering English and were texts I was reading and the philosophy I with the targets of an explicitly stated plan of might someday create could be put to the Admission Office Bill and Fran 5800 West Friendly Avenue genocide, but the family myth fails to test in the world, with good results. Taber Greensboro, NC 27410 mention that.) I could have looked to him repeatedly In later generations we were a family during the past 20 years, as I look to him 910.316.2100 September 5-6 1.800.992. 7759 Su Penn attends Red Cedar Meeting in East now, for reassurance that it can be right FAX 910.316.2954 Quaker Educadon Lansing, Mich. She is a writer widely pub to overturn the values one was raised www.guilford.edu Since 1837 lished in the gay and lesbian community. with, that it is good to be-as I have been ©1997 Su Penn as a lesbian, as a feminist, and now as a
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Quaker-<>ne of a small group of people past three years what is truly worthy and with a radical vision for transforming the good in him, and I know he sees what is world. worthy and good in me, and it is a com My ancestor William and I have a fort to us both. He is no longer a distant great deal in common, not the least being icon to me, but a presence in my life, with that we are valued by our family, if at all, whom I share a sense of kinship at last. for the wrong reasons; we endure among Technically, he is my many-greats grand our relations a repressive silence about the father, but I call him Cousin William, values we hold and the work we do that is Friend William, and he answers me as an most important to us. I have seen in the equal, with love. D
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Must be your witch-blood, Mother said For attendance at secret Q!«tker meetinff when my childhood photos came back they were whipt many times. red-eyed. Witches again The witches in our family were Quakers. the time our milk went sour just after I opened it. Historical texts told more: Quakers, named And again witches for threatening the male- when I climbed down from the forbidden Quaker women had direct channel to God. pine, arms covered in tree-blood, Quakers are a contagion, said Minister John Norton. shaking with words. I tried to Puritans must save their nurse-linff translate the creaky cry of the pine .from the poison ofthe destroyers. I'd heard as I held on to the tip, swaying, on my ride through the sky. Today I hold my granddaughter, Kelsey, who is afraid of nothing. She screams in delight But she never knew as webbed, silver water from the garden sprinkler just who our witch ancestors were, touches her skin. What will I tell her though her father had traced the two about peace-loving Quakers, about persecutions soldiers who'd fought in the revolutionary war of women in the name of religion? so we could be good members of the DAR, The skin on my hands holding her and found witches by mistake. is finely webbed with lines, but I asked again at eleven still durable in the winds of aging. as I refused to be confirmed, I think of my recurring dream. The Bible turns stepping around Presbyterian paradigms, to a black, hard-shelled beetle, in search of inner light its translucent pages winging their way the way a bumble bee enters across my past to the pine. the womb of the foxglove bloom. I set my granddaughter down, An old letter from Great Aunt Grace lean into earth, told of Cassandra and Lawrence who planting perennial wildflowers for her lived in the valley of Gallows Hill. as she plays. Lupine. Cosmos. Whirling butterfly starts. Manufacturers of glass Foxglove, and other sins ofthe flesh. and earthenware. They were whipt, I pull wild grasses from around the rosebush imprisoned, andfinaUy banished but let the fireweed stay. to Shelter Island, umg Island Sound in 1659, and died in thespringof1659 -Diane Averill .from privation anJ"exposure within three days ofeach other. Diane Averill lives in Beavercreek, Oregon, am/ teaches English Their daughter, Provide, was sold into slavery. at Clackamas Community CoUege.
FRIENDS ) OURNAL September 1997 11 WiUiam Penn._ Liberal Universalist ~ byT. Noel Stern ophers. After quoting the without the help of metaphysics. ~ Bible, he wrote, For they say there is a great king J that made them, who dwells in a lthough I respect William Penn's Jl I have chosen to speak in glorious country to the south- ~ fundamentalist side, I identifY with the language of Scripture, ward of them, and that the souls ~ which is that of the Holy Ahis broad-minded, liberal univer of the good shall go thither where ~ salist side. The liberal universalist thread Ghost, the spirit of truth and they shall live again. ~ in Penn and several associates was far wisdom, that wanted no art Penn's treaty with the Dela- 12 September 1997 FRIENDS j OURNAL Send FRIENDS JoURNAL to school. FRIENDS JouRNAL is designed to nourish the mind as well as the soul with anicles on social and political concerns, spiritual journeys, and Friends news. 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I was surprised because those What follows here is the outline I pre Grades 7-12 asking me to do the workshop were un pared and distributed to them, along with programmed Friends, and I was then, and the briefguidance that was given in prepa DELAWARE V A LLEY & Summer School am now, an Evangdical and programmed ration for each of the periods ofsilence. I F RIENDS Sc HooL Friend. Out of the experience of prepar am keenly aware that this outline, includ for Students with Learning Differences ing for that workshop (which I have done ing the number of minutes for each sec many times in various forms), I developed tion (to make an hour-long worship expe DELAWARE VALLEY FRIENDS SCHOOL an interest in the essence of worship and rience), is far too rigid. However, I would 730 Montgomery Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA the many ways in which worship is ex be quite comfortable in defending the Call (610) 526-9595 for info & a video pressed, practiced, and experienced. various elements as fairly essential to a As I have traveled and worshiped holistic worship experience, whether pro among Friends, I have often been startled gramn:ted or unprogrammed. to hear someone say that they don't un Centering-eight minutes derstand what the silence is about, saying DISCOVER QUAKER PHILADELPHIA Acknowledge and set aside for the pe that they come to meeting "for an hour of Two-hour walking tours of William Penn's riod ofworship all of the cares, concerns, quiet," "to escape from the world," "be original city of brotherly love, in honor of and distractions that you bring with you cause it feels good," and other reasons. Of Penn's 350th birthday. whether debts, children's problems, out Send a SASE for schedule to: QUAKER course, there is nothing wrong with any side noises, health, pain, disagreements, TOURS, Box 1632, Media, PA 19063. of those reasons for attending meeting. conflict, future responsibilities. Take the They demonstrate that we Friends have a time to set them aside mentally for the wonderful opportunity to add to those next hour. Empty yourself, creating a space 0 reasons by teaching clearly the depth and for God, the Holy Spirit, to work within. breadth of the worship experience and then allowing, even encouraging, the prac Presence-eight minutes tice in our meetings. Acknowledge God's presence in the At the Friends World Committee for space and in your heart. Welcome God • ffi'W}21 0 worship. As a result, one of the afTernoon you find yourself worship periods was given to unpro Experiencing-eight minutes grammed worship, which I felt led (spon Allow God's spirit to cover you and fill taneously) to "guide" based on my earlier you. Consciously experience the wonder, Expc:riential workshops, which were essentially experi Destgns Organizatio.nal develop_ment power, tenderness, and love of God. ential. Participants were anxious to have Ellen Brownfa.in and consultmg worldwtde Allow your co-worshipers to be spiri Principal & Friend Specializing in team building, tually close to you and to each other, 4I5- 24I-I 5 I 9 leadership development and Kara Newell is a member ofReedwood (Oreg.) 1218 Lcavenwonh St. diversity training. Ask about Friends Church. She is executive director of becoming sisters and brothers in faith and SF CA 94109-4013 our upcoming spirit questS ... American Friends Seroice Committee. worship. 14 September 1997 FRIENDS JoURNAL Cleansing- Deep Emptying ship utterly equal with all other worship eight minutes ers present. While we may have "done" This is a time for confessions, for put this kind ofworship before, perhaps hun ting hurts and longing before God, for dreds of times, we come to each such making petition, for expressing thanks to experience anew, just as does the person God, for preparation to be filled and made who is coming to it for the first time. In TEN THOUSAND whole. approaching God in true worship, there VILLAGESn. can be no hierarchy, whether of age, wis • Filling--eight minutes Experience the Holy Spirit's work of dom, intellect, or experience. Worship as filling you with peace, joy, and courage. It experience is truly dynamic and therefore is the experience of being made whole equalizing in the best sense. once again. Often what comes with this That is not to say that experience avails filling is a desire to smile or play, to sing or us nothing; rather, it is to say that each even shout. It can also engender a deep experience is its own and therefore fresh peace that is quite calm and happy simply and new. For example, through practice, I to be silent. am often, though not always, able to center more quickly than the first time I Listening- fifteen minutes experienced unprogrammed worship. But Invite God to speak to you, exercising it is always true that ifl try to skip center the discipline oflistening. Visualize hear ing, it takes me longer to settle into and ing God's voice, seeing God's face, know begin to learn and grow from the other ing God's truth and call for you person elements of worship. I've learned from ally. Be ready to risk being obedient to experience, but what I've learned is that God's leading, whether to remain silent (a the process ofworship is a discipline and a personal word from God) or to bring a practice that no one else can do for me vv spoken message to your faith community. and that I must do each time for myself. vv vv vv Blessing- two minutes I hope Friends can help one another in vvv v v v vvvv v v v the practice of worship by developing Conclude the time ofworship (whether vvvvvvvvvvvvv materials that teach newcomers "what privately or publicly) by acknowledging happens in the silence." is my convic and experiencing God's blessings-of It tion that we all need to be renewed in our peace, joy, love, comfort-as a basis for understanding of where messages come going forth into the dailiness of life as a from, how to recognize ministry, and how renewed person and witness. to support it. What will help us be open to i ,ttt Handshake God's leadings and callings to us in our For 51 years, we have been Offer the open hand of trust and unity times ofworshjp? It is our of worship that to your co-worshipers. we are moved to serve, and it is worship providing vital, fair income that is at the center of our life as a faith to artisans in more than ver the years that I have wor 0 30 countries. shiped among Friends, I Ohave become convinced '&tl~~~ that this very personal form ofwor You can help! ship, which is, as well, very corpo Host an international rate, includes all of the elements of worship that one finds in the tradi handicraft sale in your tional liturgies, and even in worship church. We supply traditions beyond Christianity and beautiful handicrafts, Quaker practice. I often have said that publicity resources and a Quakers practice the "highest" liturgy, in how-to manual. that we come to it and practice it our selves, without an intermediary, and there For more information call: fore we are exposed directly to the power l Anita Beidler at that we are promised in God's presence. I (717) 859-8100 find it an exceedingly demanding disci pline, personally, yet the rewards of re Find us on the World Wide Web: newal and strengthening are always worth http://www. villages.ca the effort. The other observation I think is FAIRLY TRADED HANDICRAFTS important is that each one of us ·=-...-- - FROM AROUND THE WORLD comes to the experience ofwor- FRIENDS joURNAL September I 15 ViI J j t ,.__,_..,.=~-··room in tna.l-Ciwn ~-interi«.._f.lt»r the tunnOtt,-tlie:dlaos: ~L- 1rsarnhaoi1fllleXftcia11iia;: my life journey. In the-- . choppy wate~f my life, in the cold, I sometimes forget that. I'm tired and discouraged, and God seems to have taken off for somewhere dse. I looked for you everywhere today. I looked in the mist over the wetland and in the gkams oflight that filtered through. I looked for you in the black waters of the brook where faUen kaves were rushing along, but I didn't see you there. I looked among the peach-colored kaves ofthe big mapk on Main Street. Its age trapped the sunlight hidden 111'11'11....,\:o mist, and itglowed like a /Jell!Cl»lrll weren't there. I drove over to the state the dog.r, thinking we looked among the yellow under the trees, but I couldn't there. The dog.r looked in the .oult'Ot:i~ ~~~~b:esitk the. dirt road 16 September 1997 FruENDS j oURNAL Broadmead A Friends Continuing Care Retirement Community An Accredited Non-Profit Facility you again in Nt:,._.,,c,6 ~you are, l'IJ.have to open up the 13801 York Road Cockeysville, MD 21030 anJ let in th~ waters that.-might close 410-527-1900 Est. in 1979 _!!._'!er my head. 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For mon· l"omplete intOrm.nion. mduding du~~t'" .unf t'X}XIt~ t''· ph.w;c: ~.:.111 tOr .t pro"pc:cwo;; tO rt".ld cln:tlllly bdO~ im·t"'iting. 10 Yr: 10.56% 15 Yr: 14.04% FRIENDS j o URNAL September 1997 17 Young Friends I atn a Quaker by Kirsten Partenheimer ears of ridicule had shamed me into hiding an important piece ofwho I am, but now I'm proud to say I am a minor- ity. While some may laugh when I say I'm a minority, they forget that you can't see one's religion like you can see the color of one's skin. One's religion can make one a minor A non -profit ity. I truly believe I am a minority because I retirement community am a Quaker. A year ago you might not have and healthcare provider heard me admit that so openly. I can say that operated by members now without hesitation, although it still up of the Religious Society of Friends. sets me to know that ridicule and ignorance can make people ashamed of who they are. I know because that's what happened to me. ResideHiial Apartmmts Today, there are fewer than 130,000 Assisted Living/Personal Care Quakers nationwide and only about 300,000 Skilled Nursing Care worldwide. In the United States, Quakers founded towns, schools, universities, hospi Foulkeways at Gwynedd tals, and even helped found this country. 1120 Meetinghouse Road . Gwynedd PA 19436 Historically, our influence has far surpassed For more information, call Nancy B. Gold, our numbers, but today it seems as though no one has heard of the Quakers. This is even Director of Admissions, at 2 15-643-2200. true in my home town of Haddonfield, N.J., which was founded by Quakers. Though I am proud of my religion now, what I am not proud of was my fear of what others thought about me and my reaction Oakwood Friends School when others heard that I was a Quaker. I was both embarrassed and ashamed to tell people located in the historic Hudson Valley 75 miles oorth of New York City that I was a Quaker, the result of people confusing us with the Shakers or the Amish. Many assumed we were either extinct or didn't use electricity and dressed as people did 200 years ago. Worse, some thought we were part of a satanic culr. I even heard such comments in my own Friends meetinghouse. For years my meet inghouse has been on the Medford Histori cal Society's Christmas house tour, and my mother has been a guide on those occasions. She has .always introduced herself as a Quaker and a member of the meeting, which holds meeting fo r worship in the building each Sunday. Despite her introduction, the ques tions she has answered are astounding: Are Quakers extinct? Is this place a museum? Coed boarding and day school for grades 7-12 and postgraduate Aren't you Amish? Do you still dress like the guy on the Quaker Oats box? Where's the Rigorous college prepu-atory cuniculum Small class sizes altar and minister? Do you still talk funny? Visual and performing arts lJruque~orprogram Do you celebrate Christmas? Are your mar Strong, nurturing community Athletic program riages legal? After my mother answered the International program Commurury service last question, the lady who asked it told the woman next to her that Quakers married Please contact the Admissions Office: SIS South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY U601 Kirsten Partenheimer, a member of Medford (914)462-4200 (NJ) Meetin;y wrote this essay as part ofher application to colleges. She begins her freshman year at Bowdoin College in Maine this foU.. 18 September 1997 FRIENDS JoURNAL without a minister live in sin. Ironically, my old school-a Quaker school, no less-made me self-conscious about being a Quaker. The school taught so little about my religion that when some heard kids Newtown, PA 18940 I was a Quaker, they admitted they hadn't heard of the religion. The fact that there were 12 Quaker students out of a student body of more than 900 probably contributed to such ignorance. Not only had some not even heard of the religion, but many did not know why they had to sit in silence in the auditorium A year ago you might not have heard me admit that so openly. Ridicule and Ignorance can make people ashamed of who they are. I know because that's what happened to me. for 45 minutes once a week. Others, includ Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, George School is a co ing two Jewish students, thought I celebrated educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. Hanukkah. My bus driver laughed when he The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values and includes: heard I had been to a dance and told me that • Courses on 4levels of challenge • International Baccalaureate (I B) in my religion, Quakers aren't allowed to • Advanced Placement (AP) • International workcamps sing or dance. Kids used to push my younger • English as a Second Language (ESL) • Required community service • Foreign study • Required full-year courses in the arts brother around and then tell him he couldn't • 13 interscholastic sports for boys and girls fight back because Quakers aren't allowed to For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 215/579-6547. fight. NonQuaker administrators and teach ers at my school---<>nly three teachers in the school were Quaker-told me I shouldn't do this or say that because it was against Quaker beliefs. I was told we didn't have an honor roll because that, too, was against Quaker beliefs. Even worse, kids weren't allowed to HARVARD DIVINITY curse because "Quakers don't believe in curs ing," not because it isn't polite. I must have ------s C H 0 0 L missed all this in my religious upbringing. I grew tired of other people telling me A what I believe, what I should believe, and what I could or could not do because I was a tradition Quaker. I was tired of being teased, having to of excellence in an answer to ignorant people, and being mixed up with the Amish. God forbid you should interdenominational setting ever make a joke about Judaism, Islam, or any other religion, yet people feel free to say Preparation for ordained and lay ministries what they like about Quakers. as well as a range of professions I began to take the comments and treat enriched by theological study ment I received as normal, the way it was supposed to be. I'd try to hide the fact that Degree Programs: M.Div., M.T.S., Th.M., &. Th.D. we're a Quaker family. I'd say I went to • church on Sunday instead of saying I at International Centers: Women's Studies in Religion Program; tended meeting for worship. If pressed to Center for the Study of World Religions admit that I was a Quaker, I found myself • degrading my own religion. I acted as though Student colleagues from such fields as public policy, law, &. medicine it wasn't as important as other religions and • that it wasn't important to me. I started to Opportunities for coursework &. dual degree programs within copy the reactions I had seen others take Harvard University &. cross-registration in the nine member schools of towards Quakerism. I thought that if they the Boston Theological Institute asked me a degrading question, I was to pretend it didn't hurt me. I often made a joke For information on admissions &) financial aid: because that was what I thought I was ex Admissions Office, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, pected to do. Perhaps if there were an abun Cambridge, MA 02138 • (617) 495-5796 dance of Quakers or if I had been more FRIENDS joURNAL September 1997 19 WESTTOWN SCHOOL involved in Quaker youth groups, I would not have felt the way I did. But none of the kids in my meeting went to my school, and outside my tiny Medford (N.J.) Meeting I had little contact with Quakers. I felt left out when it came to my religion. My views began to change when I reached high school. As a child, what you hear and what you see you assume are true. You don't contemplate what goes on around you. Ifyou are told you are beautiful and smart, you believe that. But if you're told you're ugly We invite you to discover the value ofa Westtown education... and stupid, you think that is true. After years under the care ofthe Philadelphia Yearly Meeting since 1799. of believing that ridiculing my religion was okay, I finally began to wonder if it really was okay. I thought about why I wasn't proud to *Challenging programs in academics, the arts, and athletics be a Quaker. I began to wonder why I ac *Strong Quaker presence in student body and faculty cepted it. *310 day students in grades pre-K through 10 One day my brother's friend asked him *290 boarding students in grades 9-12 (boarding required, 11-12) the simple question: How do Quakers wor ship? My brother said, ''We go to meeting, *Diversity of racial, geographic, economic and religious we sit for awhile, and sometimes old people backgrounds among students and teachers say stupid stuff." I'm sure he was giving the *Weekly meeting for worship and strong sense of community answer he thought people wanted to hear, are central to school life. and I could see myself giving the same expla nation. But suddenly I was furious. My brother was making our religion out to be a Westtown School, Westtown, PA 19395 (610) 399-7900 joke, and therefore his friend probably thought it was a joke. Such comments help ignorant people become more ignorant, and I had been making it worse all this time by either saying nothing or making flippant remarks. "Hiding" my religion was not okay. I had a right like anyone else to be proud of my religion. During my U.S. history class sophomore year, Quakers came up in our studies of The ESR Equation: colonial America. My teacher asked if anyone had been to a Quaker meeting. I hadn't 1. A supportive, Christ-centered, learning community-plus bothered to raise my hand, and I sat quietly 2. Rigorous academics-plus in my seat in the back of the room as one girl, 3. Diversity of age, race, gender and faith traditions-plus who had gone only once, gave a really bad explanation of meeting for worship. I had to 4. Afocus on personal spirituality-plus set my class straight. I raised my hand and 5. Many small, engaging classes-plus started my explanation of Quakerism by an 6. Opportunities to work closely, one-on-one, with caring faculty-plus nouncing that I was a Quaker. To my aston ishment, everyone thought it was cool that a 7. A place where family members are included. real Quaker was in their class. I got as much time as I wanted to speak, and I was happy that my class listened intently. For the first It all adds up time no one made fun of me. Some kids gave me the nickname "Quaker," but it wasn't to to transfonnation. degrade me. They really thought it was neat that they knew a Quaker. Earlham School of Religion- No longer do I tolerate ignorance and (A QUAKER SEMJNARY OFFERING MAsn:R OF DIVINTJY, ridicule because that, I have learned, has MA5n:R OF MlNJSJRY AND MA5n:R OF ARTs DEGREES) helped make many people ashamed of who the right answer for a solid education they are. My friend Ian is an Orthodox Jew. and personal preparation for minisby. He's very proud ofhis religion, and he's eager to tell people about it. I'm doing the same Call Nancy Nelson at 1~1377 thing. I love telling people I am a Quaker 228 College Avenue, Richmond, Indiana 47374 because I love and respect my religion. It's a I very important part of who I am. 0 20 September 1997 FRIENDS JoURNAL News of Friends Friends in Florida are protesting the up does not support same-gender couples. ommendation to revoke their ministerial cre coming launch of a NASA space probe be However, the experience led the group to dentials, and the Administrative Council also cause of its cargo of plutonium. Scheduled to study homosexuality and Christianity, and approved the decision. Dorian and Dorothy be launched on Oct. 6, the Cassini probe their conclusions, issued in a 1994 state are concerned that Quaker process was not poses a danger to all living things on earth ment, challenged the yearly meeting's posi followed in this decision and have written a because of the possibility of an explosion tion. Friends of Jesus submitted the state letter formally declining to either recant the high in our planet's atmosphere that could ment to the superintendent of MAYM, ask statement or resign. The Friends of Jesus disperse radioactive material all over the world. ing for counsel. At the 1996 yearly meeting, paper on homosexuality and Christianity is The problem will not only exist as the probe MAYM's Spiritual Life Board approved a available from the Friends of Jesus home leaves the earth on a Titan N rocket, a resolution asking Dorian and Dorothy to page, www2.southwind.net/~foj, or by con launch vehicle that has exploded in the past, either disavow the statement. or surrender tacting Friends of Jesus Community, 1124 but will occur again weeks later when the their ministerial credentials. Then in Febru N. Hydraulic, Apt. 204, Wichita, KS 67214- probe returns to earth to use the planet's ary the Spiritual Life Board approved a rec- 3169, telephone/fax (316) 263-7325. gravitational force to increase its velocity in a slingshot maneuver to reach Saturn. Adding to these reasons to protest the use of pluto nium is information from the European Space Agency that improved solar cells could be Quaker Inner City School ready within five years to power a mission to Saturn. On June 8, Gainesville (Fla.) Meet Endowment Fund (QICSEF) ing approved the following minute: Contribute stock or cash to QICSEF. You'll increase revenue for Gainesville Friends Meeting calls upon Quaker Schools serving lower income inner-city children for years NASA and our elected officials to suspend plans to launch the Cassini space probe to to come and improve your own tax situation. Saturn as long as any plutonium is scheduled to be on board. Currently, the project calls Contact Richard B. Angell, 150 Kendal Drive for 73 pounds of plutonium-238 to generate Kennett Square, PA 19348 (610) 388-0935 on-board electricity. The risk of an accident at launch or during its "slingshot fly-by" above the Earth is nor worth the gamble. We urge the use of alternative on-board power Washington, DC/Baltimore Area sources such as solar energy and long-life IUel cells for all fUture deep space missions. FIVE or SEVEN DAY BOARDING Gainesville Meeting is encouraging other monthly meetings to approve similar min Grades 9 through 12 utes on this issue. The Cassini probe has been delivered to irs launch sire at Cape Canaveral. Supervised study, planned activities for· nights/weekends. Because President Clinton has final author Five day boarders spend Saturday and Sunday at home! ity for approving the launch, individuals should direct their primary correspondence o PRE-K THROUGH 12 COED DAY SCHOOL o AP COURSES efforts to the White House, and secondarily o TRAVEL ABROAD OPPORTIJNITIES o STRONG ARTS, ATHLETICS to their congressional representatives. Friends can learn more about how ro oppose the o COLLEGE PREPARATORY o TRADITIONAL QUAKER VALUES Cassini launch by contacting the Florida Coa SANDY SPRING lition for Peace & Justice, P.O. Box 90035, Gainesville, FL 32607, telephone (352) 468- FRIENDS 3295. SCHOOL 16923 NORWOOD ROAD, SANDY SPRING, MD 20860 • y_..t;.,.,~· Phone: {301} 774-7455 Fax: (301} 924-1115 Dorian Bales and Dorothy Craven, both recorded Friends ministers, were disciplined by Mid-America Yearly Meeting in Febru Reservations are required for display ads in FRIENDS JoURNAL. ary because of their support of same-gender Display couples. Dorian and Dorothy are both mem November issue: Reserve space by September 8. bers of Friends of Jesus, a covenanted com Ad Ads must be received by September 15. munity under the care of Mid-America Yearly Deadlines Meeting that works in the inner city in December issue: Reserve space by October 6. Wichita, Kans. The situation began several Ads must be received by October 13. years ago when Friends of Jesus realized a Ad rate is $28 per column inch. lesbian couple was participating in one of FRIENDS their programs. Friends of Jesus laid down Call (215) 563-8629 now JOURNAL the program rather than risk a controversy with your reservation or questions. with the yearly meeting, which officially FRIENDS JoURNAL September 1997 21 Bulletin Board Unique •Washington Quaker Workcamps is currently General and the President of the Security accepting inclividuals and groups to volun Council, followed by the ringing of the Peace Resources for teer for a week or more in a church rebuild Bell and a moment of silence. Since the ing effon in Dillon, S.C., through Oct. 31. annual ceremony was established at the UN Quaker Witness The spiritually-based, interfaith workcamp is in 1983, several major cities around the world rebuilding the 1 00-year-old Spring Hill AME have adopted similar observances at 1400 TodaY.------~ Church, which burned by arson in Aug. hours GMT. Individuals are encouraged to Sustaining ;- 1996. Cost for the workcamp is $150 per bring the bell ringing ceremony to their com Peace - Sustaining ..... week. Washington Quaker Workcamps' Min munities. Some suggestions on ways to help ~= ~ istry to Burned Churches is also seeking indi establish the Day of Peace include writing to Peace~--=-~--~~ viduals who can serve as staff as volunteers or federal, state, and local officials, asking for Witness / ~ on astipend. For more information, contact their suppon and recognition of the obser History and 1 \ WQW Ministry to Burned Churches, P.O. vance; contacting local church, school, and Box 205, Greensboro, AL 36744, telephone civic groups, asking that they panicipate; and strategy plus~~~f theology and~ ~ (500) 675-1224 or (334) 624-7004. distributing and wearing purple ribbons on that day as a witness to the dream of peace. personal v •"The Changing Nature of War: Human experience .I:=~::S::L2.~ Jim Bresky, who is leading the effon to estab =. Costs and the Price of Peace" is the theme lish the International Day of Peace, requests Wide-ranging P 22 September 1997 FRIENDS JOURNAL Books CREMATION Friends are reminded that the Anna T. Jeanes Fund rience and FCNL's meticulously kept ar Witness in Washington: will reimburse cremation costs. chives to provide searching and richly illus (Applicable to members of Fifty Years of Friendly trated answers to eight questions about Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) Persuasion FCNL: Is it naive about the real sources of For Information. write or telephone power in government? Does it speak for all SANDY BATES 5350 Knox Street By Edward F. Snyder with Wilmer A. Friends? Can it-as a pacifist organization Philadelphia, PA 19144 Cooper, Stephen L. Klineberg, joe Volk, and be relevant on national security issues? Has it Don Reeves; edited by Tom Mullen. Friends been faithful to the Quaker belief in love and United Press, Richmond, Ind., 1994. $14.951 nonviolence? Has it put too much faith in AN INTRODUCTION paperback. the UN? Supported the right approach to FOR NEW SUBSCRIBERS In 1675 English Friends established development abroad? To ending poverty and "Meeting for Sufferings" in order, according building community at home? Has FCNL 16 issues of Friends Joumal to the minutes of London Yearly Meeting, lobbying been "effective"? for the price of 12- "that the cruelty and oppressions (which also Ed Snyder takes the reader on a tour of 0nly $25. under pretence of Law are committed} tend FCNL's advocacy on a wide range of domes (Ovmeas subscribm add $6for postage.) ing to the ruin of Innocent families may not tic and foreign policy issues over the years in 0 I am a new subscriber. Please sign me up be hid but be laid before those in power to which "FCNL worked in the thick of three for 16 issues for the price of 12. redress." Through Meeting for Sufferings, unprecedented developments in human his D Check enclosed OBili me Qu-akers organized a national network of tory: a cold war . . . the advent of nuclear Friends who visited and wrote letters to mem weapons ... and a dawning recognition that Nam~------bers of Parliament, judges, bishops, and oth planet earth is indeed 'one world,' a global Address: ______ers in authority, appealing to them to end the village." The result is an informative account severe religious persecution of the day and ofFCNL work on arms control and disarma enact laws to establish religious freedom. ment, military spending, the UN, the Middle Friends who read Witness in Washington: East, human rights, antipoverty programs, Phone: ______Fifty Year:r of Friendly Pmuasion, published civil rights, and many other issues. But be to mark the 50th anniversary of Friends Com yond this, the result is also an enlightening Return to: mittee on National Legislation, are likely to display of the wisdom and insight gained Friends Journal, m6 Arch Sc.reec, 2A be moved to reflect upon the continuity be over a lifetime of observation and work on Philaddphia, PA 19107-2835 tween 17th- and 20th-century Quaker activi national policy concerns. Phone: (215) 563-8629 Fax: (215) 568-1377 ties-and upon the similarity of the tensions "Today most citizens are sleepwalking and questions Friends face whenever they seek through one of the most exciting and danger effective ways to speak their truth to those in ous periods in human history,'' he writes in power. Witness in Washington is an engaging one illuminating passage. "We are drugged and highly readable account ofFCNL's con by the mass media, advertisers, the siren call temporary Quaker lobbying. It prompts in of the shopping mall, and status quo special ~ teresting historical comparison, but more im interests which encourage us, at every turn, nI ~~.,fir-~ portantly it reports to Friends on work in to avoid or deny reality." In another he ob • Quality care in the Quaker tradition. progress and encourages them to join in ask serves, "Public witness and civil disobedience ing: What next? How can we do more? and can be supportive of sound legislative action, • 42 apanmems for independent living, What are our responsibilities for the future? in my experience. The best radical witness 60 private personal care rooms, 120 The principle author of Witness is Ed can sensitize members of Congress and make nursing home beds. Snyder, who has served FCNL for more than them more open to new ideas and creative • Peace of mind. Supportive medical 40 years, 28 of them as executive secretary. In legislation." Such distillations of experience and social services throughout your "FCNL's First Fifty Years-A Personal Per and insight alone make Witness in Washing spective," Ed Snyder mines his years of expe- ton a rich and valuable book for Friends and stay. • An active lifestyle in a beautiful, Quaker Quiptoquotes----. graceful setting. • Meals, housekeeping, transportation, by Adelben Mason cultural and social activities. The following is an encoded quote.from a famous Friend. The lettm have been transposed for • A history of caring since 1904. your puzzling pleasure. Stapeley In Germantown 0 SIMAHAUK ZOTIE UK RSXRY LXTR ZI 6300 Greene Street GSUHSITTAWI. RSXRY Z I AKH TU LXPY HSIORIS Philadelphia, PA 19144 Call Carol Nemeroff RYOK UXS PUKP I GRAUK UD AR, FI TYUXME Admissions Director IWI S Z I LOV AKH OS ITY EATPUWI SA lT. (215) 844-0700 Answer on page 25 9 FRIENDS JoURNAL September 1997 23 WilliAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 308 Years of Quaker Education others to read. Joe Yolk, FCNL's current executive sec The William Penn Charter School is a Quaker college-preparatory school retary, contributes an essay on the meaning stressing high standards in acOOemics, the arts, and athletics. Penn Charter of the Quaker peace testimony in the post is committed to nurtwing girls and boys of diverse backgrounds in an cold war world, where questions of interna atmosphere designed to stimulate each student to work to his or her tional peacekeeping and armed humanitarian fullest potential. Kindergarten through twelth grade. intervention increasingly challenge Friends. Reviewing the problems posed in Cambodia, Earl J. Ball Head of School m, Bosnia, and Somalia, Joe writes, "I do not see 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 (215) 844-3460 how Friends could endorse or advocate mili tary intervention, even for purposes of hu manitarian intervention." He adds, "God's work cannot be done with a sword or a gun." 1897-1997 The two other main contributions are Wilmer Cooper's "FCNL in Historical Per spective," and Stephen L. Klingberg's "Envi Its great to be turning 100. Not all homes will make it. sioning the Next Fifty Years: Six Revolution ary Trends." Longevity. Could it be our Quaker philosophy of (Witnesr in Washington, it should be men caring for older adults? Or is it our affordable residential Friends Home tioned, is offered as a companion volume services, Medicare & Medicaid Certified Nursing to E. Raymond Wilson's 1975 Uphill for Home, caring staff, friendly atmosphere, closeness to at Woodstown Peace, which recounted FCNL's first 30 years the community, delicious meals, and handsome P.O. Box 457 • Friends Drive and which the authors have sought not to duplicate.) grounds? Please come visit and decide for yoursel£ Woodstown, NJ 08098 "New insights based on Quaker values Call609-769-1500 and continued openness to God's leading will be required as people everywhere search for security in their communities and their world in this new era," FCNL General Com mittee clerk Don Reeves writes in his intro duction. "FCNL invites all Friends, and oth ers," he adds, "to join us in envisioning a rightly ordered world and the role of Spirit led Friends in its creation." This is a task that 1951 Delta Avenue West Branch, Iowa 52358-8507 has engaged every generation of Friends since the establishment of Meeting for Sufferings in 1675. Reading Witnesr in Washington is a good first step to carrying on that task for the 21st century. -james Fine A member ofthe Policy Committee ofFriends Committee on National Legislation.]ames Fine works on the faculty ofthe University ofPenn sylvania. In Brief Education research informs us that in order to be effective, George Bishop: Seventeenth learning must be comprehensive. Learning must take place within many Century Soldier Turned Quaker settings - the classroom, the home, the community, the workplace and at one's place of worship. Scattergood Friends School encompasses all of these By Maryann S. Feola. Sessions of York, York, elements. Our challenging college preparatory curriculum is enhanced England." 1996. 156 pages. £8.00/paperback. by dormitory living, a learning community comprised of students and those Maryann Feola's book documents the politi who teach, a work-crew and farm program, and Friends Worship. cal disillusionment of 17th-century England Value based education has been the foundation for and the spiritual path to which many turned. George Bishop, a brewer from Bristol, En academic excellence at Scattergood since its founding in 1890. gland, joined the parliamentarian New Model For more infonnation, call319-643-7628, or; 319-643-7600. Army after the royal implementation of eco World Wide Web: http:// www.scattergood.org nomic and civil limitations on the city. His E-mail address: SFS/[email protected] efforts in support of Cromwell's government Fax number: 319-643-7485 were rewarded with a political appointment to the Committee of Examinations, the state 24 September 1997 fRIENDS J OURNAL intelligence operation. Bishop's hopes for the new Commonwealth included religious lib erty, but Cromwell's government, at first ambiguous and later discriminatory against Quakers, led Bishop to seek involvement with those who suffered under the new re strictive laws. -Claudia Wair Starting Out Abington Friends School By Mary Shideler. Scribendi Press, Boulder, Colo., 1996. 331 pages. $22.95/hardcover, $14.95/paper. In Starting Out, the first in a series of books about her life, Mary Shideler, a member of Boulder (Colo.) Meeting, re A Quaker co-educational college preparatory day school lates how she became acquainted with Friends for students in Preschool through Grade 12 when she was a student at Swanhmore Col lege in Pennsylvania. Through narrative, let ters, and journal entries, she relates her relig ious and psychological development. Starting Out takes Mary Shideler from her birth in 1917 through graduation from Swarthmore. For more information, please call Later volumes bring her through her discov 215-886-4350 ery of her vocation as a writer, her marriage, and her experience of growing and being old. - ~ ·- . . _._ . _ Tell me more I am interested in ways I can invest in the future of FRIENDS JoURNAL. 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For more information call or write: we should ever be making fresh discoveries. Pendle Hill Short Courses ~ London Yearly Meeting, 1920, Bobbi Kelly, extension 137 Box F · 338 Plush Mill Road as quoted by Seth Bennett Hinshaw, (800) 742-3150 or (610) 566-4507 VVallingford,PJ\ 19086-6099 Walk CheeifuOy, Friends FRIENDS joURNAL September 1997 25 Milestones 105 North Fourth Street HENRY Centerville, IN 47330 Births/Adoptions Phone: 80()..707-1920 Ambler-Ekanor Brooks Ambkr, on March 6, FREEMAN Fax: 765-855-5278 to Holly and David Ambler, of Germantown ASSOCIATES (Pa.) Meeting. Henry Freeman Associates offers a broad Collins--]tssica ut CoUins, on Nov. 30, 1996, range of fundraising-related services. to Ann Hitch-Collins and Alan Collins, of San Francisco (Cali£) Meeting. Specific areas of expertise include: major gift work, capital campaigns, development Dahlke--Samutl Lane Packard Dahlke, on March 19, to Andrea Packard and Jay Dahlke, program evaluation, annual giving, and of Germantown (Pa.) Meeting. charitable gift planning. !Uy-jonathan Mathias Kay, on June 2, to Based near Richmond, Indiana, we provide services to organizations Susan and Bruce Kay, of Smithfield (RI.) and institutions throughout the country, with many clients located along the Meeting. eastern seaboard (Washington, D.C. to Boston) and in the midwest. We are Lane--Vzctor Hugo Lant, on April?, to Oksana uniquely suited to meet the needs of institutions with well-established and Hugh Lane. Hugh is a member of Ann fundraising programs (colleges and universities, for example) and organiza Arbor (Mich.) Meeting. tions (such as many small non-profits) that are relatively new to the Nonon-Sarah Elaint Norton, on April 28, to fundraising process. Cindy and Roger Nonon, of Reading (Pa.) 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David is a member of Somerset Hills (N.J.) Meeting. A Unique Experience in Education in India Sax-Kunkle-Richard Kunkk and Deborah Ann Sax, on May 24, at and under the care of Media (Pa.) Meeting. • Year abroad program for high school students Deaths • Excellent academic preparation at a fully accredited school Bailey-jackson H. Bailey, 70, on Aug. 2, 1996, of cancer in Bratcleboro, Vt. Born in Porcland, Maine, Jack was a member of Oak Grove (Maine) • American high school diploma or International Baccalaureate Meeting. Following graduation from Westtown School in Pennsylvania, he worked on a farm • Extra-curricular activities including music, art, drama, sports, before being drafted into the U.S. Army Medical Corps as a conscientious objector. Jack was sent to and hiking Japan following World War II, an experience that sparked his interest in that country and irs cul ture. He later graduated in 1950 from Earlham • Students take a Winter Tour of India and volunteer in College in Richmond, Ind., where he met and community projects married Caroline Palmer. He received an MA from the University of Wisconsin in 1951 and worked for the American Friends Service Com Contact: KW International, Inc.,159 Ralph McGill Blvd. NE mince organizing international student seminars Room 408, Atlanta, GA 30308 and workcarnps in Japan. Jack received a PhD from H arvard University in Asian history and Phone: 404/524-0988 Fax:404/523-5420 languages in 1959 and taught history at Earlham College for 35 years. During this time, he trans ferred his membership to Clear Creek (Ind.) Meet- 26 September 1997 FRIENDS ) OURNAL ing. Jack created Asian studies curricula at Earlham and established the Institute for Education, which offered academic programs for Japanese studies and allowed U.S. students to study in Japan. The institute also hdped create Japanese language and culture curricula for secondary schools across In diana. Jack produced educational fdms and docu mentaries on Japan and founded a resources cen ter for audiovisual materials about Asia. He col laborated with U.S. and Japanese educators and television producers on various projects and was associated with a Japan-based multimedia insti tute. Jack served as a trustee of the Friends School in Tokyo, and he was involved in rural develop ment projects in Japan. In 1988 Jack received formal honors from the emperor and government of Japan for his work. Jack coached Earlham's men's volleyball team, served on the staff of the Farm and Wdderness Camp in Plymouth, Vt., for over 20 years, and raised horses. He moved to Brattleboro, Vt., after retiring from Earlham Col lege in 1994. Jack is survived by his wife, Caroline; three sons, Jay, Christopher, and Bruce; a daugh ter, Linda; seven grandchildren; a brother, The Witness considers today's societal, cultural and religious Marriner; and a sister, Nichola. issues from a left-wing, Christian, and frequently iconoclastic Goldstein-Abram Breul Goldstein, 82, on March perspective. Each issue is topical; study guides and back issues 3, in Eugene, Oreg. Born in Rochester, N.Y., Abram anended the University of Rochester and are available. For more information and/or a complimentary copy, later transferred to Oberlin College in Ohio. He call: 313-841-1967; fax: 313-841-1956; e-mail: earned a master's degree from the University of [email protected]. $25/ 10 issues. Checks, Visa and Chicago. A conscientious objector, Abram worked in Civilian Public Service during WWII. Among Mastercard accepted. The Witness, 7000 Michigan Ave., Dept. his CPS assignments were office work ar a hospital F, Detroit, Ml 48210-2872. in Chicago, forestry work, and patient care ar a mental hospital. After the war he worked as an office manager ar Hyde Park Food Co-op, where he mer Norma LeVesconre. They were married ar 57th Street (lll.) Meeting in Chicago in 1947. Though he worked briefly for the Internal Rev enue Service, Abram lefr that position during the Korean War ro avoid aiding the collection of taxes for war. In 1953 he and his family moved to New York where he worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Abram later worked ar Brooklyn College as an accountant until his retirement in 1976. In 1978 Abram and Norma moved to Florence, Oreg., and five years later they moved ro Eugene. They transferred their membership from Westbury (N.Y.) Meeting ro Eugene (Oreg.) Meeting in 1984. 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Following retirement from the University (215) 241-7219 or 7220 or of London, she was the Katherine McBride Pro 1-800-220-0796 fessor of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College for three years, and then returned to Franklin and E-mail: [email protected] Marshall as head of the Women's Studies Pro gram. For more than 25 years she did intermit- FRIENDS jOURNAL September 1997 27 Coming to D.C.? Stay with Friends on Capitol Hill tent fieldwork in West Africa, conducted anthro dren, Kit became a caregiver £o her elderly par WILLIAM PENN HOUSE pological research in East Africa, Asia, and the ents, aunts, two nephews, and a niece. She later Caribbean, and worked as a consultant for the became active in the Women's International 515 East Capitol St. SE World Health Organization, the World Bank, League for Peace and Freedom and with SANE, Washington, DC 20003 and the Rockefeller Foundation. In the latter through which she expressed her concern for years of her work, she often applied anthropology peace and civil rights. As an officer ofboth organi Individuals, Families and Groups to tropical public health, especially as it touched za£ions, she frequently represented them in giving $25 to $40 the lives of people in rural communities. She felt testimony before committees of the U.S. House at one with people in many places: in a women's of Representatives and the Maryland House of Seminars on Current Issues secret society in Sierra Leone, in a Buddhist mon Delegates. Later in life, Kit moved to Broadmead for Schools, Colleges, and Meetings astery in Burma, or among Jamaican market retirement home, where she served for many years (202)543-5560 women. She was quick to recognize that of God in as chair of the Health Committee and volun them all, and the vibrant spirituality of people in teered as a caregiver to patients in Broadmead's [email protected] diverse religious systems. A Quaker by nursing wing. She is remembered as a center of convincment, she was profoundly at home with love, caring, concern, and hope. Kit was preceded the testimonies of peace, simplicity, and social in death by her husband, Herbett Taylor, and a responsibility. In recent years, she and her hus son, Herbett Taylor Jr. She is survived by three band, Jack Mongar, explored together and occa sons, William M., Robett W., and Jon K Taylor; G sionally wrote jointly on the transition to the 12 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. holistic worldview they felt is so needed in our Western materialistic, mechanistic, and individu F alistic society. Carol was active in Lancaster (Pa.) Meeting, serving as clerk at the time of her death, Classified s and Caln Quarterly Meeting, was a former mem For Information call (215) 563-8629. ber of the FRIENDS JouRNAL Board of Managers, 55¢ per word. Minimum charge is $11. Germantown Friends School and volunteered for Hospice ofLancaster County. Add 10% if boxed. 10% discount for three (215) 951-2346 A keen gardener, she experienced great peace and consecutive insertions, 25% for six. Appearance of any advertisement does not Please come to our Open Houses: harmony among her flowers, feeling at one with imply endorsement by Friends Journal. • Saturday, Oct.18, 2-4 p.m. growing things. She was preceded in death by her • Tuesday, Nov. 11, 8:30-11 a.m. daughter, Robin Lea Michitsch. She is survived Classified Ad Deadlines: • Friday, Apri/10, 8:30-11 a.m. by her husband Jack; a son Paul; four grandchil November issue: Sept. 15 dren, Kevin, Katharine, Elizabeth, and William; December issue: Oct. 13 and two brothers, Lewis T. Pulley and L. Thomas Submit your ad to: Pulley. Advertising Manager, Friends Journal 1216 Arch Street, 2A Rava~n-Ciaire Thomas Ravafon, 89, on March Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835 28, at Crosslands retirement community in (215) 563·8629 Friends' Kennett Square, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, she C E N T R A L graduated from the Fontaine School in France and Smith College in Massachusetts. She also Accommodations For over 150 years... received a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Claire had a distin Pittsburgh-Well located. Affordable, third-floor (walk • Excellence in academics up) guest rooms with shared bath. Single or double guished 45-year career as a social worker, family occupancy. Kitchen available. Contact: House Manager, • Respect for the individual therapist, and teacher. She taught ar the Univer Friends Meetinghouse, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pitts • Community service sity of Pennsylvania School of Social Work, at the burgh, PA 15213. Telephone: (412) 683-2669. • A diverse student body College cevenol in France, in Finland, at the Comfortable, Seattle Accommodations, University Meeting School in New Hampshire, and at West Meeting. Private bedroom, shared bathroom with shower. • Outstanding college short walking distance to restaurants. Easy access to Chester University in Pennsylvania. Afrer retiring public transportation. Donations accepted. Reservations, placement to Crosslands in 1977, she volunteered for several (206) 632-9839. Friends' Central School organizations, including the Chester County (Pa.) Coming to study or work In London? Consider the Hospital and Friends Hall. She was the local Penn Club. Offers a home away from home in a commu (61 0) 649-7440 ext. 208 representative for the international exchange or nity-minded environment with strong Quaker links. Minutes away from British Museum and London University. Stays ganization, Youth for Understanding. Oaire dis of 10 weeks to 12 months welcomed. Approx. $1 ,300 per covered her love for travel when her father took month. 21 Bedford Place, London, WC1B 5JJ. Tele her and her sister to visit Europe. Afrer seeing the phone: 011441716364718. Fax: 011441 71 6365516. devastation ofWWI, Oaire made a commitment Chicago-Affordable guest accommodations in historic to peace. Her subsequent travels led her to France, Friends meetinghouse. Short- or long-term. Contact: Excelling Finland, Mexico, Costa Rica, the Caribbean, and Assistant Director, Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. (773) 288-3066, e-mail: Japan. Claire was a long-time Quaker and a mem [email protected]. IN A CHANGING WORLD ber of Birmingham (Pa.) Meeting. She is survived Quaker House, Managua, Nicaragua. Simple hospitality; by a daughter, Oemence Rava~on Mershon; a shared kitchen. Reservations: 011-505-2-663216 (Span son, Pierre Rava~on; a sister, Florence T. Davis; a ish) or 011-505-2-660984 (English). For general FRrFNDs Su FCT half-brother, B. Brooks Thomas; and four grand information, call Pro-Nica (813) 821 -2428. children. An oasis of calm In the heart of London? Yes, at the Quaker International Centre, where short-, medium-, and Pre-K to 12th grade Taylor-Catherine Chand/ee Mottu Taylor, 97, longer-term accommodation is available as well as con on Dec. 10, 1996, at Broadmead Friends retire ference facilities. Excellent homemade food. For further information contact telephone: (0171) 387-5648, fax: I 7th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway ment home in Cockeysville, Md. Kit graduated (0171) 383-3722, or write to: 1 Byng Place, London Philadelphia, Pennsylvania I 91 o 3- 1 284 from Friends School, Bal£imore, in 1917 and WC1E7JH. from Bryn Mawr College in 1921. La£er that year NYC-Greenwich VIllage Accommodation. Walk to 15th 215-561-5900 she married Herbert M. Taylor and joined Park Street Meeting. One-four people; children welcome. (Two Avenue (Md.) Meeting. Afrer raising four chit- cats in house.) Reservations: (212) 924-6520. 28 September 1997 FRIENDS jOURNAL Looking for a creative living alternative in New York Quaker your among Upcoming Conferences at Pendle Hill City? Penlngton Friends House may be the place for you! Writers/Artl~s wort~ The Best of Frfendtll This anthology, sponsored by the Fellow Channels of Universal Love: A Woolman Retreat, Michael We are looking for people of all ages who want to make a Birkel, Sept. 12-14. serious commitment to a community lifestyle based on ship of Quakers in the Arts, will be published in Spring 1998. Categories: fiCtion, non-fiction, poetry, cartoons, Opening Heerta and Minds, Bonnie linker, Sept. 12-14. Quaker principles. For information call (212) 673-1730. Evolution of Liberal Quakerism, Betsy Cazden, Sept. We also have overnight accommodations. line drawings; awards in each category. Deadline: Janu ary 31 , 1998. To enter, first read the complete Guidelines. 19-21. Send a SASE to Kimo Press, P.O. Box 82, Bellefonte, What Do I Do with My Anger? Bill Ratliffe, Sept. 26-28. Assistance Sought PA 16823. Or e-mail: [email protected]. Meister Eckhart: Sounding the Depths, Isabella Bates, Sept. 26-28. Scripture as Radical Handbook, Ched Myers, 24-26. Quaker Witness of a Growing Meeting Wine Or No Wlne? Read Bemard Redmont's Friendly Oct. Spiritual Nurture of Our Meetings, for members of min In a Major Multicultural Southwestern City Moderation: Temperance or Abstinence, Friends' Testi Istry and counsel, Mickey Edgerion and Unda Chidsey, Friends Meeting of San Antonio owns the land and mony against Alcohol Reexamined. 13 pages. $2 + Nov. 14-16. arch~ect's plans for our new meetinghouse. Charitable postage from Pendle Hill Bookstore (800) 742- 3150 gfts will be gratefully accepted for this Quaker venture. Basic Quakerism, Kenneth Sutton and Janice Domanik, Nov. 21-23. Please send contributions marked "Building Fund" to StimulaUng new resources from Pendle Hill's Testament of Devotion: A Weekend of Spiritual Forma Ruth Lofgren, Treasurer, Friends Meeting of San Anto Issues Program on contemporary issues of ~ tion, Jan Wood, Dec. 5-7. nio, P.O. Box 6127, San Antonio, TX 78209. Information Peace, Theology, and Community. These ex- • New Year's Gathering, 3 conference options, Dec. 29- sent on request. citing collections of original essays, by some of Jan. 1. our best writers and thinkers, can help Friends Date Correction: Next Clerking workshop is Feb. 20-22, and meetings renew Quaker faith and witness for the Seeking Personal Assistant. Elder Quaker couple seek 1998. 21st century: strong, kind individual to share physical assistance to Contact: Registrar, Pend le Hill, Box F, 338 Plush Mill Road, physically challenged male writer and refired professor, New Voices, New Light, papers from the Quaker Theol- ogy Roundtable, 1995. Wallingford, PA 19086-6099. (610) 56&4507 or (800) 742- mid-October to mid-May, in relaxed cabin setting on a 3150, X 142. beautiful Florida lake. Wife is a painter with creative A Continuing Journey, papers from the first Quaker friends. Job requires driving, assistance with daily walk Peace Roundtable, 1995. Mexico City Volunteer Opportunities: one-weelk, ser for exercise, and help with light personal care. Attractive The Bible, the Church and the Future of Friends, vice-learning seminars; six-month internships; positions room, board, and salary. Ample time off. Contact: Calhoun, papers from the Quaker Issues Roundtable, 1996. managing Quaker center. Casa de los Amigos, Ignacio P.O. Box 318, Rochester, VT 05767. (802) 767-4319. Prices: $9.95 each, $7.50 each for three or more copies, Mariscal 132, Mexico, OF 06030; (52-5) 705-0521; plus shipping. [email protected]. To order: call the Pendle Hill Bookstore (800) 742-3150. Audio-VIsual Consider Investing In affordable retirement properly MC and VISA accepted. Or wrije: Pendle Hill Bookstore, in the Southern Arizona high desert. Write or telephone 338 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA 19086. And check Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey, care of Elaine De Manicor, Of Lime, Stones and Wood: Historic out our Web page at: http://www.quaker.org/pendle-hill. Rt.1 Box 170 #11, McNeal, AZ 85617. Telephone: (520) Quaker Meeting Houses of the New 642-9319. Yorlc Yearly Meeting Region, by Claire Simon. liD Bookstore. Serving Friends and seekers Three historic Friends meetinghouses worldwide with Quaker-related books and Personals curricula for all ages. Materials to meet needs • come alive ~h ex~ing stories of their and interests of individuals, religious educators, and past, including the Colonial period and Abol~ion : Flush ing, Nine Parlners, and Shrewsbury, N.J. Narrated by spiritual commun~ies. Free catalog of over 500 Utles. Friends who have intimate knowledge of these meeting Religious education consuHation. Call, wrije, or visit: Friends General Conference Bookstore, 1216 Arch Street, ConcernedUingks_ houses. Appr. 50 min. V.H.S. $35. Also available on V.H.S. Video: Who Are Quakers? 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107, M-F 9 a.m.-4:30p.m. EST, Concerned Singles Newsletter links compatible, (800) 966-4556. so Describes Friends worship, ministry, and decision-mak cially conscious singles who care about peace, social ing. 27 min. $29.50, and Crones: Interviews with Elder justice, racism, gender equity, environment. Nationwide. Quaker Women. Quaker women speak unselfconsciously Worship In Song: A Friends Hymnal, 335 songs, his All ages. Since 1984. Free sample: Box 444-FJ, Lenox about being Quaker women and their feelings about aging. torical notes, indexes, durable hardcover. $20/copy (U.S. Dale, MA 01242; or (413) 445-6309; or FRIENDS j OURNAL September 1997 29 Unique cottage-for sale-converted dder mill in Dorset, The Quaker School at Horsham, a value-centered elemen Vermont. 1.5 wooded acres on west branch of the Battenkill tary and middle school for students with learning differences. Trout Stream, a few miles from Stratton and Bromley ski Small, remedial dasses, qualified staff, serving Philadel areas on Rt. 30. Ideal location for writer, artist, small home phia, Bucks, and Montgomery Counties. 318 Meeting business. Asking $85,000. Might rent: (914) 96Hl539. ~ House Road, Horsham, PA 19044. (21 5) 674-2875. Rentals & Retreats SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE Services Offered Colorado Foothills Mountaintop getaway. Near Rocky All Kendal communities and services reflect our sound Mountain National Park. Clean air, pure water, wild ani Quaker management, adherence to Friendly values, and Quaker Writers & Artists! mals. Environmentally friendly home available Oct./Nov. respect for each individual. Full service continuing care Join the Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts. FQA's goal: 1997-Apr./May 1998. Three bedrooms, two baths, sauna. retirement communities: "To nurture and showcase the literary, visual, musical, $750 per month. P.O. Box 92, Glen Haven, CO 80532. Kendal at l ongwood; Crosslands • Kennett Square, Pa and performing arts within the Religious Society of Friends, Kendal at Hanover · Hanover, N.H. for purposes of Quaker expression, ministry, witness, Stone Cottage In rural mountains near Asheville, N.C. Kendal at Oberlin • Oberlin, Ohio and outreach. To these ends, we will offer spiritual, Close to cultural treasures: Biltmore Estate, N.C. Arbore Kendal at It haca • Ithaca, N.Y. practical, and financial support as way opens.• Help build tum. Also near whitewater rafting, hiking trails, Hot Springs. Independent living with residential services and access an international network of creative support and celebra- Sleeps one-four, weekly or nightly. Cottage in the Hem to health care: lion. Membership, $15/year. FQA, P.O. Box 58565, locks: (704) 689-5131. Conlston and Cartmel • Kennett Square, Pa. Philadelphia, PA 19102. E-mail: [email protected]. Our Bald Head Island, N.C. Panoramic view of ocean, dunes, Individualized skilled nursing care, respite care, Web Page: http://www.quaker.org/fqa. lagoon, and golf course from four-bedroom, two-bath Alzheimer's care, and personal care residences: room, beautifully furnished house with wrap-around deck, Barclay Friends· West Chester, Pa. two electric golf carts. 14 miles of beach, championship For information call or write: Doris Lambert, The Kendal Editing and Proofraading: anything, from book-length golf, tennis, croquet, swimming, and fishing. 13,000 acres Corporation, P.O. Box 100, Kennett Square, PA 19348. manuscripts to occasional pieces, given thorough, pains- of maritime wilderness. Many birds and wildflowers. No (610) 388-5581. laking, professional treatment at reasonable cost Spend cars on island. Peaceful, friendly. Rental by day or week. your time on something else while I gel your work ready (215) 699-9186. for the printer. Edward Sargent, 2147 Bainbridge Street, Schools Philadelphia, PA 19146. A Friendly Maul vacation on a Quaker family organic John Woolman School. Rural California, grades 9-12. Marriage Certificates. Fine calligraphy in traditional plain farm. 20 minutes to local beaches. New stone and cedar Preparation for oollege and adulthood, small classes, styles or decorated with beautiful, custom-designed building with large octagonal room, skylight, ocean view, caring staff, work program, service projects; board, day. walk-in closet, and private bath. Full kitchen, organic borders. Also Family Trees for holiday gifts, births, anni 13075 Woolman Lane, Nevada City, CA 95959. (916) versaries, family reunions. Call or write Carol Simon vegetable garden, and hot tub. Bed and breakfast or bed 273-3183. and supper: $70 per day. Weekly and monthly rates Sexton, Clear Creek Design, 820 West Main Street, Rich available. Write or call Henrietta & Wm. Vitarelli, 375 Frankford Friends School: coed, K-6, serving center mond, IN 47374. (317) 962-1794. city, northeast, and most areas of Philadelphia. We pro Kawelo Road, Haiku, HI 96708. Telephone: (808) 572- We are a fellowship, Friends mostly, seeking to enrich 9205. Fax: 572-6048. vide children with an affordable yet challenging academic program in a small nurturing environment. Frankford and expand our spiritual experience. We seek to obey Friends School, 1500 Orthodox Street. Philadelphia, PA the promptings of the Spirit, however named. We meet, Philadelphia. Sunny room available in home friendly to 19124. (215) 533-5368. publish, correspond. Inquiries welcome! Write Quaker bicyclers and Quakers. Share kitchen. Long/short-term Universalist Fellowship, 121 Watson Mill Road, rental. Near Penn and Drexel. Short trolley ride to Center Come visit Olney Friends School on your cross-country Landenberg, PA 19350-9344. City. $80/week. (215) 387-7962. travels, six miles south of 1-70 in the green hills of eastern Ohio. A residential high school and farm, next to Mediation Service Associates-offers a professional Pocono Manor. Beautiful, rustic mountain house suit Stillwater Meetinghouse, Olney is college preparation alternative for resolving disputes in the areas of Family, able for gatherings, retreats, and reunions. Seven built around truthful thinking, inward listening, loving com Business, Organization, and Real Estate. Call (717) 393- bedrooms. Three full baths. Beds for 15. Fully equipped. munity, and useful work. 61830 Sandy Ridge Road, 4440 or e-mail: [email protected] or mirrormln@ Deck with mountain view. Hiking trails from back door. Barnesville, Ohio 43713. (614) 425-3655. Weekends, or by the week, May through October. Con juno. com. Michael A. Maslros and Barbara J. Spiegelberg, Westbury Friends School- Safe, nurturing Quaker tact Jonathan Snipes: (215) 736-1856. Mediators. environment for 100 children, nursery-grade 6, on beau tiful 17-acre grounds. Small classes and dedicated Wedding Certificates, birth testimonials, poetry, gifts all Retirement Living teachers. Music, art, computers, Spanish, and gym. Ex done in beautiful calligraphy and watercolor illumination. tended-day, vacation-holiday, and summer programs. Book early for spring weddings. Write or call Leslie New England Friends Home Half- and full-day nursery, preK. Brochure: Westbury Mitchell, 2840 Bristol Rd., Bensalem, PA 19020. (215) Operated under the care of the Friends School, 550 Post Avenue, Westbury, NY 11590. 752-5554. New England Yearly Meeting, (516) 333-3178. the Friends Home provides a Lansdowne Friends School-A small Friends school for home-like setting for elders in a boys and girls three years of age through sixth grade, ··-· ..::: gradous brick house high on a rooted in Quaker values. We provide children with a - - - hill in Hingham, Mass. quality academic and a developmentally appropriate pro T- he exterior view of the changing New England seasons gram in a nurturing environment. Whole language, is breathtaking, and the interior atmosphere of warmth thematic education, conflict resolution, Spanish, after and community is evident to all. school care, summer program. 110 N. Lansdowne Avenue, For information about this small and surprisingly afford Lansdowne, PA 19050. (610) 623-2548. able alternative to larger, more institutional settings, Westtown School: Under the care of Philadelphia Yearly please call or write: Gretchen Condon, New England Meeting since 1799, Westtown seeks Quaker children for Friends Home, 86 Turkey Hill Lane, Hingham, MA 02043, day (PreK-10) and boarding (9-12). Boarding is required (617) 749-3556. in 11th and 12th grades. Significant Quaker presence among 600 students, 80 teachers. Challenging academ ics, arts, athletics, in a school where students from Marriage certificates, Announcements, Invitations, etc. diverse racial, national, economic, and religious back Do justice to your event with our calligraphy and award FRIENDS HOMES grounds come together to form a strong community of winning graphic design. (800) 763-0053. shared values. Financial assistance is available. West Westtown, PA 19395. (610) 399-7900. Friendly Financial Services. Let me help you prepare United Friends School: coed; preschool-8; emphasiz for retirement or work out an estate plan. Socially respon Friends Homes West, the new continuing care retirement ing integrated, developmentally appropriate curriculum, sible investments-my specially. Call Joyce Moore, community in Greensboro, North Carolina, is now open. including whole language and manipulative math; serving LUTCF, Joyce Moore Financial Services at (610) 320- Friends Homes West is owned by Friends Homes, Inc., upper Bucks County. 20 South 10th Street, Quakertown, 3020 or e-mail [email protected]. (Securities offered by specialists in retirement living since 1968. Friends Homes PA 18951. (215) 538-1733. Washington Square Securities, 20 Washington Square West includes 171 apartments for independent living and South, Minneapolis, MN 55401 ). on-site health care services in the 28 private rooms of Stratford Friends School provides a strong academic the Assisted Uving Unit or the 40 private rooms of the program in a warm, supportive, ungraded setting for Friends Helping Friends Grow. Investment certificates Skilled Care Nursing Unit Enjoy a beautiful community in children ages 5to 13 who learn differently. Small classes are available from Friends Extension Corporation. These a location with temperate winters and changing seasons. and an enriched curriculum answer the needs of the investments promote the growth of Friends by providing For more information, please call (91 0) 292-9952, or whole child. An at-risk program for five-year-olds is avail low cost loans to build new facilities or renovate write Friends Homes West, 6100 West Friendly Road, able. The school also offers an extended day program, existing facilities. For information contact Margaret Greensboro, NC 27410. tutoring, and summer school. Information: Stratford Bennington, 101 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. Friends School, 5 Uandillo Road, Havertown, PA 19083. Telephone: (317) 962-7573. (610) 446-3144. Foxdale VIllage, a Quaker life-care community. Thought Moving to North Carolina? Maybe David Brown, a Quaker fully designed cottages complemented by attractive dining Junior high boarding school for grades 7, 8, 9. Small real estate broker, can help. Contact him at 1208 Pine facilities, auditorium, library, and full medical protection. wood Dr., Greensboro, NC 2741 0. (910) 294-2095. Setting is a wonderful combination of rural and university academic classes, challenging outdoor experiences, com munity service, consensus decision making, daily work environment. Entry fees from $42,000-$147 ,000; monthly Celo Valley Books: Personal attention to all phases of projects in a small, caring, community environment. Arthur fees from $1,205-$2,437. 500 East Marylyn Avenue, book production (25 to 5,000 copies). Typing, editing, Morgan School, 1901 Hannah Branch Road, Burnsville, Department F, State College, PA 16801-6269. Telephone: layout, final delivery. Free brochure. 346 Seven Mile (800) 253-4951. NC 28714. (704) 675-4262. Ridge Road, Burnsville, NC 28714. 30 September 1997 f RIENDS JOURNAL Woolman Commons in Mount Holly, NJ for people ready to give up the responsibility oftheir own home, but not ready for a full-service, continuing care community. Woolman Commons is known as a "partial-service" community. That means your biggest concerns are taken care of for you: building and grounds maintenance, real estate taxes, routine medical needs, prescription drugs, etc. (You have the option of giving up even more chores such as housekeeping for an additional charge.) Because you're still active and able, you make your own meals and arrange your own transportation. At Woolman Commons, by continuing to do some things for yourself, your monthly maintenance fees are lower than they would be in a full-service community. Also because Woolman Commons is a satellite community of Medford Leas Continuing Care Retirement Community, all your nursing and medical needs are assured through Medford Leas for your lifetime. In other words, as your needs change, our care and services can change to meet these needs-helping you maintain as high a quality of life as possible. At Woolman Commons, you'll be stimulated by other independent, active people involved in civic and cultural activities, volunteer work, worship groups ... just to name a few. People still energetic and spirited enough to enjoy and get the most out of life. At Woolman Commons, you'll enjoy the charm and convenience of historic Mount Holly. You can walk to banks, the post office, many nice restaurants, and the lively business district. Nearby public transportation takes you to Philadelphia or New York City and shopping malls are just a short drive away. Woolman Commons of Medford Leas one and two-bedroom units in colonial brick buildings ... a community in the Friends tradition of care and concern. For more infonnation and a brochure giving many more specifics, including the very affordable prices, please call 609-654-3000 or 800-331-4302 (except NJ) and ask for the Director of Admissions. Medford Leas is a Quaker-related Continuing Care Retirement Community conducted by The Estaugh, a non-profit corporation founded in 1914. A special note to Fn'ends: Medford Leas has scholarship monies available to assist Friends with limited assets or income who are interested in living as part ofou r community. FRIENDS j OURNAL September 1997 31 Resources for FGC Bookstore Monthly Meetings Quaker Faith & Practice Britain Yearly Meeting • paperback $13.00 hardcover $20.00 Listening Spirituality by Patricia Loring • paperback $15.00 Friendly Faith & Practice Study Guide by Joanne & Larry Spears • paperback $3.00 The M ediator's Handbook Jennifer E. Beer with Eileen Stief • paperback $19.95 Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community Farnham, Gill, McLean, and Ward • paperback $8.95 Quakers on the Move: A Storybook ofQ uaker History from 1652 to Today FGC RE Committee • paperback $9.00 What I Believe: Kids Talk about Faith by Debbie and Tom Birdseye • hardcover $15.95 I Wanted to Know All about God Virginia L. Kroll, illus. by Debra Reid Jenkins • hardcover $15.00 ~'re Going to Meeting for Worship Abby A. Hadley, illus. by D iane Edwards La Voy • paperback $5.00 Guide My Feet: Prayers and M editations For Our Children Marian Wright Edelman • paperback $10.00 Plus New Curricula: Worship in Song: Silent Worship & Quaker Values A Friends Hymnal by Marsha Holiday $9.50 FGC • large print $35.00 _.,.._ Large___ P___rint E.ditio~ - hardcover I cloth bound $20.00 Exploring My Friends' Beliefs softcover I spiral bound $20.00 Philadelphia YM RE Committee $22.00 Friends General Conference Bookstore 1216 Arch Street, 2B Philadelphia, PA 19107 E-MAIL