October 15, 1986 Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today

Health and Wholeness Seeking Peace in Eastern Europe Reel Violence vs. Real Violence fRIENDS JOURNAl (ISSN 0016-1322) was established in 1955 as the successor to The Friend (1827- 1955) and Friends lntelligencer (1844-1955). It is associated with the Religious Society of Friends, and is a member of Associated Church Press. FRIENDS STAFF Vinton Demina. Editor-Manag~r Eve Homan, Associate Editor Renee C. Crauder, Editorial JOURNAL Assistant Barbara Benton, A rt Director Dan Hamlett-Leisen, Graphic October 15, 1986 Vol. 32, No. 15 Designer ~~~iiJ' Anamaria Rodriguez, Advertising and Cirn~lation Carolyn Terrell, Advertising Contents and Circulation Assistant Joyce Marie Martin, Gene Among Friends: He Listened and Then Miyakawa, and Mildred Williams Typeselling Services He Walked Vinton Deming ...... 2 Jeanne G. Beisel, Secretarial Services Autumn Werner Janney ...... 4 James Neveil, Bookkeeper Allison Snow and Gina Dorcely, The Friends of Jesus Christ Student Interns Lisa Kuenning ...... 5 VOLUNTEERS Jane Burgess (Index); Quaker Oats and Friends Beans Emily Conlon, Larry McKenzie, Ellen Holmes Patterson, and Harold Kulungian ...... 7 Amy Weber (Editorial A ssistance); Mary Erkes (Office Assistance) Health and Wholeness BOARD Of MANAGERS Catherine McCracken ...... 8 1984- 1987: Frank Bjornsgaard Natural Medicines in El Salvador Judith Brown Emily Conlon (Assistant Clerk) Marshall Hoagland ...... 10 Peter Fingesten Mary Howanh Seeking Peace in Eastern Europe Reports ... __ . .. . 21 Books . __ ...... 28 Marcia Paullin William D. Strong (Treasurer) John M. Swomley ...... 12 World of Friends .. 23 Milestones ...... 29 Thomas Swain Forum ...... _. 24 Classifieds ...... 30 Allen Terrdl Edward Burrough: An Early Quaker and Mary Wood Catholicism George E. Clarkson and 1985-1988: Front cover wood engraving by Michael McCurdy, John Breasted Elizabeth Hutton Clarkson ...... 14 Carol H. Brown from The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice ofHenry Teresa J . Engeman (Secretory) Reel Violence vs. Real Violence David Thoreau, edited by Robert Bly, to be Norma P . Jacob Herben L. Nichols Arthur Kanegis ...... 16 published this month by Sierra Club Books. Elizabeth B. Watson 1986-1989: Jennie AIJen Dean Bratis Helen Morgan Brooks Mark Cary Sol A. J acobson Leonard Kenwon hy IAmong Friends: He Listened and Then He Walked Mary Mangelsdor f Linell McCurry (Clerk) J anet Nonon he first thing I learned about Larry Scott of how this could be accomplished. Larry Elizabeth S. Williams was that he liked to get started early in the became my teacher, and my friend. HONORARY MANAGERS Eleanor Stabler Clarke morning. I learned this about him in One of the first lessons he taught was the value Mildred Binns Young T Chicago before we had even met. It was 1965, of talking to everyone, even those one might be FORMER EDITORS Olcutt Sanders five years before the birth of my first child, so tempted to label as the "establishment." I re­ Susan Corson·Finnerty Ruth Geibel Kilpack 7:00a.m. still seemed like an ungodly hour for member during our first weeks in Chester, Larry James D. Lenhart Alfred Stefferud a phone to be ringing. suggested that we meet with the mayor, with the Frances Williams Browin chief of police, and with some of the local busi­ William Hubben It was after 8:00 in Philadelphia, however, and

• fRIENDS JOUR.NAL is publjshed Larry was anxious to call me about a project he ness community. It would be good to introduce the 1st and 15th of each month was helping to organize in Chester, Pennsyl­ ourselves, he said, and to see what these people (except January, June, July, August, and September, when it is vania. He knew I was interested in working with thought we should be doing in Chester. He published monthly) by Friends Publishing Corporation, 1501 it and he wanted to ask me some questions. Had helped me to understand in a deeper way the Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102. (215) 241 -7217. Second-class I read any of Gandhi's writings? did I have a meaning of "speaking to that of God in every­ postage paid at Philadelphia, PA. clear commitment to nonviolence? did I consider one." It was always important, he felt, to be • Subscriptions: one year SIS, two years $29, three years $43. Add myself to be a pacifist? There were several such open, friendly, and honest with others. $6 per year for postage outside United States and "possessions." calls over the next weeks, and I came to recognize Larry also taught me something about person­ Foreign remittances should be in U.S. dollars or adjusted for and warm to the flat Missouri twang that would al courage. I remember once we were meeting currency differential. Sample copies $1 each; back issues $2 each. greet my ear in the morning. "Hello, Vint? with a black civil rights activist in the communi­ • Information on and assistance This's Larry Scott. Have ya got a minute?" ty, a man who had been in the streets with other with advenising is available on request. Appearance of any I did take the job in Chester, and Larry was demonstrators two years earlier to protest the advertisement does not imply endorsement by F'luENDs J0111lNA1. a major support in the next few months. I was inferior schools. Hundreds had been beaten and Copyright ~ I 986 by Friends Publishing Corporation . Reprints terribly idealistic in those days and not very jailed, and there was still deep anger in the black of articles available at nominal cost. Permission should be received knowledgeable about the peace movement. I had community about this police violence. Larry and before reprinting excerpts longer been to S.~lma, Alabama, to witness for racial I were told by this leader that blacks didn't be­ than 200 words. Available in microfilm from University justice, had attended a few peace demonstra­ lieve in nonviolence anymore and that Quakers Micromms International. tions, and had caught the spirit of the anti­ and other pacifists and do-gooders were not wel­ Postmasto<: send address chong .. to Vietnam War movement. I was excited about come in the city. Larry listened very patiently and FRtt:NDS JOURNAL, 1501 Ch•rry St., Philadelphia, PA 19101. working for a better world, but I had little sense eventually had an opportunity to talk. He spoke about his experience the previous year ings. More than once during a parti­ participate in this year's actions sched­ of helping to rebuild more than 30 cularly tiresome meeting I saw Larry uled for August 6, Hiroshima Day. bombed and burned black churches in with his head nodding a bit as he seemed On August 10 I received a call with Mississippi. He said that he didn't be­ to be catching a short nap. But a few the sad news of Larry Scott's death. On lieve violence could improve anything moments later he would look up, make the day following the desert protest, I and that he was committed to seeking a perceptive comment, and be fully in­ was told, Larry had been returning nonviolent solutions. This was at a time volved in the group. Even when he was alone to his home in McNeal, Arizona. when the Black Power movement was napping, it seemed, he had the capacity His car had gone off the road and he just beginning, and I was impressed with to think and listen well to others. had been killed instantly. Larry's courage to speak his mind so One afternoon in 1973 Larry and I Perhaps the most fitting tribute to honestly. drove together to pick up a trailer hitch Larry was written by some of his newest During the next months Larry made for his car. He told me that he and his friends, several of the Franciscans who numerous trips out to Chester to meet wife, Viola Scott, were heading off soon had come to know him in recent months with the Chester staff. Sometimes he to live in the Southwest. I don't think at the Nevada Desert Experience. In a would bring us some doughnuts. Once he called it "retirement." He and Vi mailing sent out shortly after Larry's he came with a car filled with tools and looked forward to seeing old friends and death they wrote: pipes. He knew that the toilet in the old living there for a time. Larry knew that "We quickly grew to love him, for house where we had our office did not I was having a hard time just then, that Larry was easy to love. His sense of work right, and he quietly set to work I was separated from my wife and was humor lifted our spirits, his willingness to replace it with a newer one he had sal­ caring for my two-year-old child. He to make many trips to Las Vegas, to be vaged. Later he had us all in stitches said I was welcome to come to Arizona arrested and go to jail, strengthened our when he told us that the real name of and stay with them, that the change commitment. Larry became our friend. one of the local plumbers was Donald might do me some good. The next day We looked forward to his visits, and he Duck. Larry's sense of humor was keen Larry telephoned to say that he had been was a fixture at our test site actions. . . . and he often shared a bit of humor or serious about the invitation. Though I "Larry was a servant. He stacked our playfulness at times when everyone was declined, I was touched by his sincerity wood and cleaned our toilets. He helped getting tense or too serious. and generosity. out in the office with all the boring jobs. Larry introduced me as well to many We managed to keep in touch over the He took care of others' needs . . .. Quakers. He used to invite our staff to next years. I learned that Larry and "On August 7, on his way home from Philadelphia to attend Quaker commit­ Viola divorced. I enjoyed seeing Larry the action, Larry was killed in a car ac­ tee meetings. Sometimes he would bring on his occasional trips back to Philadel­ cident. On August 8, the House voted a carload of Friends out to visit us. That phia, once, I believe, with his second in favor of an amendment to cut fund­ first summer he invited several of us to wife, Jane. His letters described other ing for nuclear testing. It was as if share his apartment for a week at Cape projects that attracted his support, in­ Larry's first order of business after his May, New Jersey, and to attend Friends cluding his help in organizing the Friends death was a trip to Washington, D.C. General Conference. Larry, I discov­ Southwest Center in 1974. His July !let­ ''On August 9, a few of us made a trip ered, loved the Society of Friends. And ter this year described his involvement to the test site. It is to Larry's credit that this deep affection often led him to con­ with the Nevada Desert Experience, a the DOE suspended their rules and al­ front Quakers when he thought they group protesting the continuing under­ lowed us to go to Camp Desert Rock. were not following their testimonies. In ground nuclear tests at Rocky Flats. Our Quaker teacher Larry would have 1966 he helped to form A Quaker Larry, I knew, had participated in the liked what we did, for we sat in silence Action Group, for he believed Friends first civil disobedience project at Rocky a long time. Our large wooden cross, could be doing more to oppose the war Flats in 1957, and he was writing to which had been on the ground at the test in Vietnam. Within a few months-and many of his friends to invite them to site since Good Friday, was part of our Larry worked tirelessly along with silent circle. It was the anniversary of others-AQAG had launched many Nagasaki and the desert was quiet. We valuable projects, including the voyages ended our time together by singing of the Phoenix with medical supplies to 'Larry's song,' a song he always started both North and South Vietnam. I during test site actions: ' I'm gonna walk learned that earlier Larry had helped when the Spirit says walk.' to establish a number of other na­ "Larry was one who heard the voice tional peace organizations, two of which of the Spirit and listened. He listened were the Committee for a Sane Nuclear and then he walked. He was a seed­ Policy (SANE) and the Committee for ~ planter and the effects of his life are Nonviolent Action (CNV A). :1: broad and deep. From DOE officials to As Larry became more involved with ~ Nye County sheriff deputies to Beatty AQAG, he had less time to devote to the C!! court clerks to those of us who have Chester project-though he never lost ~ been with him at the test site, he is interest. His telephone calls kept com- ~ missed and mourned. ing. I joined the AQAG committee and c "But his spirit lives on, a spirit that enjoyed seeing him in action as a peace '<;-~ calls us to listen and to walk.'' activist. He was able to attend what ~ seemed like an endless number of meet- ~ 1/;,J-. ~ .::t! ~ ~~------~~------~------__, Autumn If, when the season falls, I fall not too, If I lapse not in autumn's gusty grief, Nor with the berry melt within the dew That so early has betrayed the leaf: If empty grapes, bee sucked beyond their prime, The dozen vagrant smokes that fringe the air, Or milkweeds, guessing at the winter's rime, Beguile me not with prophecies of care: Then I may ask, as years, like days, grow weak And brittle as the leaves beneath the tree, What hope this is that stirs in me and seek What holds my heart from autumn to be free- Yet need no further for the answer strive Than, God is spring and keeps my year alive.

-Werner Janney

4 dresses. Although a close-knit com­ munion and celebrate no holidays. Their munity, they live not in communal style weddings are performed in the manner e but in separate family households, all of Friends. within driving distance of their plain Their church government differs from white meetinghouse on the main street that of Friends. There is no regularly of the village of Farmington Falls. (The scheduled business meeting. Occasional­ riends sign over the door reads, "Ye are my ly meetings are called, at which decisions friends, if ye do whatsoever I command are made by voting; but James Wolfe's you" John 15:14.) Many members authority, which he describes as "moral earn their living in a painting business, not legal," is usually not questioned. f Jesus sharing the profits equally; their work Family structure is hierarchical, the hus­ is in demand because they do a conscien­ band being head. Children are strictly tious job for a moderate price. disciplined and sit quietly through two­ hrist The Friends of Jesus Christ are not a hour meetings. Despite these authoritar­ splinter group. Members come from a ian patterns, members of the group do great variety of religious and irreligious not feel that their church order is man­ backgrounds; none from the Society of made. They hold the Quaker principle Friends. Their ages range widely, with that Christ will teach his people himself; the majority in their 30s and 40s. Some and each member finds inwardly con­ are college educated, some not. James firmed the teachings and practices of the Wolfe is a former assistant professor of group. Many can give vivid accounts of physics at the University of Maine. God's dealings with them, including the Their thrice-weekly meetings, which Lisa Kuenning are open to the public, are unpro­ grammed, but differ from Friends meet­ ings in that they last about two hours, riends meetings have recently re­ include congregational hymn-singing by ceived a letter from the Friends of request, and usually close with a lengthy Jesus Christ in Farmington Falls, message by James Wolfe, who is an un­ concerning their republishing salaried pastor. They practice neither out-of-print early Quaker water baptism nor bread-and-wine com- Many Friends are therefore "Who are the Friends of Jesus

The Friends of Jesus Christ are an in­ lepen,deJlt church without ties to any organization. In Farmington, there is no Quaker meeting, local tend to derive their image of from the Friends of Jesus , who are often referred to by neighbors as "the Quakers." The of Jesus Christ do not call them­ Quakers, but they admire the ear­ Quakers above any other historic movement. They seek to live the spirit and power in which early lived. The group began in 1970 under the IClU'"·"·'u1..1 of James Wolfe and presently 30 adults and 16 children. Their conspicuous feature is their dress: wear identical black suits, white , and black, broad-brimmed hats; wear identical floor-length gray

Ku,Pnn,inu is a member of Friends of Truth called Publishers of Truth), which is of­ with Quakers nor with the Friends Christ. She is active in the Quaker freo'/ogica/ Discussion Group, and works as a self­ typist.

October 15, 1986 5 exact words the Lord spoke. purity of heart can be attained only ceive the baptism 9f the Holy Ghost Doctrinally, the Friends of Jesus Christ through a second experience, the bap­ to be empowered ~o evangelize emphasize the necessity of repentance tism with the Holy Ghost and fire. so that there will fbe a great people and conversion, followed by a changed Friends of Jesus Christ feel they have meet the Lord when he comes. life in obedience to God. Like early not yet been given this experience; they Meanwhile, they are reprinting Quakers, they reject the idea that people wait and pray for it, as they continue writings of early Friends. The low can be saved by faith in Christ while with the utmost carefulness to walk in and pay-when-you-get-it policy are continuing to sin. James Wolfe writes, the light they have received. character for the group. One day I was riding in a member's Anyone who is seriously interested What does it really mean to have faith car when we entered the village of Far­ Quaker history or theology should toward Jesus Christ? ... It is to have no doubts at all that Jesus Christ is the eter­ mington and the driver slowed to a to know the Friends of Jesus nal Word of God, that Word which was speed noticeably below that of other because their perspective is fresh. in the beginning with God, that Word traffic. I wondered whether he was look­ ing outside both the Quaker and the U which is God, and that He must be ing for something, till it dawned on me cultural mainstream, they can obeyed in all things in order to escape the that he was practicing one of the group's a corrective to prevailing ---·-···.--­ just damnation of hell forever; and it is unworldly principles: obeying the posted and blind spots. They have brought to have no doubts at all that Jesus Christ speed limit! my attention facts about early vu, ...... , can and will save from the power of sin They do not own TV sets, attend ism that Quakers, even Quaker scholars anyone who comes to Him in full obedi­ amusements, or involve themselves in tend to overlook. ence to His will. politics. They have their own school for More important than historical James Wolfe says more about hell their children. They do not buy personal is to experience the kind of than modern Friends are used to hear­ insurance. Men do not visit with women these people embody. They, of ing. But so did George Fox. The Friends other than their wives unless chaperoned; are not exactly like early Friends and of Jesus Christ believe that without a they marry only within the group, and not claim to be, but they have lively belief in God's eternal judgment, marriage is for life, with complete rejec­ which bring the early Friends to life early Friends could not have maintained tion of divorce and remarriage. They are a way that the printed word cannot do their remarkable rectitude in the face pacifists but not tax resisters. Anyone You may be inspired or you may of the world's hostility. They believe who has, before conversion, stolen or offended, but I have never that this doctrine is as true and relevant evaded due payment of anything, even anyone who found them boring. today as it was in the 17th century. The to the government, is expected to make Whatever one may think of other side of this coin is that James restitution out of his or her earnings. Friends of Jesus Christ, they are Wolfe can preach as movingly about They work hard, live simply, and, like ing to our attention one startling heaven as anyone I have ever heard. the colonial Quakers, have become pros­ some of the greatest spiritual The Bible is accepted as fully inspired, perous in consequence. in the English language has been UJrllttPnl but not as the source of all truth. Christ Sobriety (in the sense which is opposed by Quakers, and for generations himself, they believe, teaches his people to levity) is an important virtue to them, Friends haven't even known of the the right interpretation of Scripture and as it was to early Friends. They avoid tence of most of it. A small, obscure all that they need to know to live in joking or laughing out loud. Yet they has undertaken what the whole '-'"'''"'•J• obedience. are cheerful and at times joyful. of Friends could not or would not A true convert will forsake outward They are also apocalyptic, expecting take the Quaker heritage out of sins, but the roots of sinful desires the outward return of Christ within their library vaults and rare-book stores within are harder to get rid of. Complete lifetimes. Before then, they expect tore- put it back into our hands.

The Friends of Jesus Christ at their yearly meeting, September 1980

6 October 15, 1986 FRIENDS J New Call to What Is Vital er Oats d riends

by Harold Kulungian

first glance my title may look Rufus's life can serve as a case study for to the simpler,wholesome staple foods satirical. I am echoing the title of the typical pattern of degenerative illness and recovering the health that is every­ A Rufus Jones's famous A Call to that plagues us in our time; both Rufus one's birthright can Friends discover the What Is Vital (1948). And I am coupling and his wife Elizabeth succumbed to the truth of my call to what is vital. Words it with what has become the commercial number one killer today: heart disease. may not convince, but if Friends begin symbol of an equally famous tradition From the point of view of discipline in to take up diet as a matter of vital con­ of simplicity and wholesomeness among life, however, Rufus belongs to an era cern, they may be led into an experience Friends. I am confident that there is a alien to us. Born in 1863, when con­ that speaks for itself-an experience of relationship between the call to a re­ science and sense of duty were the pro­ physical and spiritual recovery. newed spiritual life and a partial return, pelling force in life, Rufus was a Vic­ I am aware that I sound a bit old­ at least, to an earlier healthy way of life. torian Quaker. fashioned; some will surely think me Going back to a study of Rufus Jones's It was approximately during Rufus queerly anachronistic for recommending life, I found in him testimony to my own Jones's youth that Quakers ceased be­ oats and beans in place of our sump­ experience. ing a people apart, known for their tuous animal food. I have found myself At age 23 young Rufus wrote to his notorious "plainness in dress, speech sounding like a prophet who has no fiancee, Sarah Coutant, in 1886: "My and behavior.'' As Friends became more place in the Society of Friends. Again body and spirits are closely connected, and more integrated into the dominant I can cite Rufus Jones, who wrote in the and go to the heights and depths togeth­ way of living and eating in modern preface to his call: "This insistence on er" (Friend of Life: The Biography of times, Friends also began to suffer in­ what is vital and suited to the new time Rufus M. Jones, by Elizabeth Gray Vin­ creasingly from the dominant illnesses has been the attitude of prophets and re­ ing, 1958, p. 45). What most impressed in society. formers in every age, and it is the mes­ me in reading his biography was that in As I scan the death notices in Quaker sage most needed at this hour.'' a life beset with health problems Rufus periodicals, I see how little immune our What makes me think that a return to Jones was able to accomplish so much. Society is from the degenerative illnesses a simpler diet based mainly on whole From the point of view of health, that have become epidemic among afflu­ grains and legumes "is vital and suited ent people. And yet we could be entire­ to the new time" in which we live? There Harold Kulungian teaches health through a natural ly free of the contemporary plagues of are several reasons. First is that most of diet and way of life. He is a member of Mount cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. That us are sedentary much of the time. We Toby (Mass.) Meeting. is my contention. But only by returning lack the strenuous activity to work off

FRIENDS JOURNAL October 15, 1986 7 effectively heavy protein and fat. Ani­ healing work I have found sickness as­ knows that this call to return to their mal food that is not efficiently sociated with not only poor dietary prac­ heritage has been a recurrent theme. As metabolized and moved out of the body tice but also poor quality clothing. The early as 1700, Friends were being becomes toxic and the cause of a wide basic necessities for life and health­ warned that their prosperity was clog­ variety of illnesses. Ask any number of food, clothing, and shelter-have in­ ging their spiritual lives: they "eat and people to show you their tongues and see creasingly deteriorated in quality since drink as well as any of the uncon­ how many clean ones you find: this is the time of Rufus Jones. verted." "The Quaker Way of Life," the evidence. We have become internally In the global-conscious age in which as William C. Braithwaite pointed out polluted, which makes us subject to the we live, there is a special satisfaction, in in his chapter by that title in The Second illnesses of clogged bodies, and host to addition to the health benefits, in feel­ Period of Quakerism, was in jeopardy infectious diseases. Wholesome, highly ing our kinship with the greater part of from the beginning. "Friends then were digestible vegetarian fare will give us in­ humanity through sharing their tradi­ alive to the dangers of their prosperity"; ternal hygiene, clearing our bodies and tional diet of staples. Rice and beans, "great efforts were made to check the making us spiritually clear. for example, is probably the most uni­ growth of worldliness in the Society.'' Another crucial factor is the decline in versal meal on this planet. Certainly it But the dangers today are greater than the quality of our clothing and home is one of the healthiest, being free of ever, for at least two reasons. Our furnishings. Synthetic fabrics lack both cholesterol. It is my favorite food, and Quaker institutions no longer attempt to the absorbency to keep our skin dry and I'm always gratified to find myself impose any constraints upon our mode clean, and the ability to insulate warmth sharing it with others. of life. Individual self-discipline, based and let the body breathe. In my natural Anyone familiar with Quaker history on dietary enlightenment, must take the Health and Wholeness by Catherine McCracken titude which says to the pain: since you really daring experiment. Why not try are so persistent, maybe you're trying to what my eyes could do on their own, tell me something. When I consider the without the strong lenses I had worn for hat is the connection between possibility of purpose, or sense, even more than 20 years to correct near­ wholeness and health? About when I don't know what the purpose is, sightedness? At first, of course, every­ W 25 years ago a series of disillu­ my attitude changes; there's even an ex­ thing beyond a small field was a blur. sionments with traditional medical treat­ citement toward learning to perceive and I blundered about, unable to recognize ment had forced me to search for a new cooperate with my body's ways. people or read even the largest signs. I approach to health and physical treat­ That purpose I see not as punishment had constant eyestrain, but, strange to ment. Those negative experiences in­ but as friendly, intelligent guidance. We say, it felt good; I seemed to be more cluded treatment with drugs which aren't given a detailed set of instructions "in touch." Although my glasses had proved to be ineffective and/ or harm­ by our creator to care for the extremely given me clear distance vision, they had ful; a prescription for electroshock complex instrument that is our body­ caused me to feel detached and with­ therapy (which I refused) to treat mild mind unit. The instructions are given on drawn, not a real part of my surround­ depression and abdominal pain; and rec­ the spot, as needed, and are sensitively ings. My connections with other persons ommended surgery which later proved perceived by that body-mind. When we felt unreal, as if they had been made ar­ to be unnecessary. make mistakes or mistreat ourselves, or tificially instead of by my real eyes. When there seemed no way out, I when something gets in the way, our Since I could not feel a firm relationship came to an amazing discovery: pain and body-mind produces whatever symptom with others, I could never bear to meet depression when faced and accepted is appropriate toward right functioning. another person's eyes. turn out to be quite different from the It may be as simple as a cough or sneeze Now, without the glasses (at first, for experience which resulted from fighting to expel a bit of foreign matter, or as short periods), I began to enjoy meeting them. As a perceptive friend stated it: complex as the loss of appetite which people. I also noticed that by using more "Pain when accepted is so different that sometimes comes with psychological of my mind I could make clear some let­ it needs a new word to describe it." stress . It may be a fever, which is part ters on the street signs. That improve­ By " acceptance" I mean not a passive of the body-mind's correctional, cura­ ment has continued, and although my resignation but an active, positive at- tive response to active disease bacteria. vision without correction is not 20/ 20 Often, as in the case of a cut or scratch, and requires help for driving, I manage A member of Columbus (Ind.) Meeting and a we can plainly see the healing process in comfortably. This experiment confirmed graduate of Earlham College and Union Theological Seminary, Catherine McCracken has action. my belief in the intelligent, creative, been an elementary school teacher, and has Because of these experiences and ob­ dynamic nature of my body-mind. published two books of poetry. servations, I felt encouraged to try a Even so, there have been-and still

8 October 15, 1986 FRIENDS JouRNAL place of ''the institution of a close dis­ cipline" by our religious organization. And most significantly, we have entered an unprecedented era of history wherein the individual can no longer assume that the food and clothing produced with industrial methods are of a healthy quality. Special and concerted effort must be made to educate oneself to look at basic necessities of life and distinguish the natural from the fake, the processed, the chemically treated, and thus the pathogenic. Quaker concern for the quality of our spiritual lives needs to be balanced by an equal concern for the physical basis of our lives. The two go together. But the Society of Friends has yet to begin to raise its food-consciousness. Until we do, we remain in mortal danger. 0

Healing is an integral are-periods of discouragement and function of can exist without night." This seems to doubt. To ease them, and to further my confirm my experience about the value experience, I have explored a number of of accepting illness, as opposed to fight­ non-medical approaches. These have in­ our body­ ing illness, as conventional medicine ap­ cluded a stay at Rebecca Beard's retreat; pears determined to do. attendance at two Camps Farthest Out; a "physician "Healing comes from inside, not out­ a ten-day fast at Rhinebeck, New York; side," says Andrew Weil. "It is simply and visits to "Meadowlark" in Cali­ within." the body's natural attempt to restore fornia and Integral Health Services in equilibrium when equilibrium is lost.'' Connecticut. I have consulted a chiro­ This seems to echo my friend's assur­ practor and a number of psychologists, ance of "the physician within," and to and have studied and used various diet ethnopharmacology and lecturer in the define what I mean by health, healing, and exercise programs. I attend the an­ Division of Social Perspectives in Medi­ holism, and holistic medicine. nual sessions of the Friends Healing Fel­ cine at the University of Arizona Col­ Health means being whole, the one­ lowship at Quaker Hill Conference lege of Medicine. He writes about ness, or all-together quality of our indi­ Center, and am on the lookout for new understanding health and healing in our vidual, divinely created being. It is a books on the subject. own lives, in order to make more sensi­ potential dynamically in process, not a At one such period, a physician friend ble decisions about the bewildering rigidly static condition. Healing is an in­ (also Friend), with whom I shared my choices of therapy which are available. tegral function of our body-a "physi­ frustrations, said to me: "You have Andrew Weil defines health as "a cian within" rather than an agent from searched far and wide for a physician dynamic and harmonious equilibrium of the outside, and how we respond deter­ who could help. But you have a physi­ all the elements and forces making up mines our living habits, diet, and way cian within whom you can trust." and surrounding a human being," and of life. With these developments in my back­ adds that "the balancing act of health The principle of holistic living, with ground, you can understand how impor­ is temporary only, destined to break its emphasis on recognition and cooper­ tant the holistic movement has seemed down so that it can be reestablished as ation, seems especially consonant with -and how encouraging the discoveries the foundation it rests on changes." Friends' concepts of "that of God in and philosophies are. The latest of these With this principle, he says, "it is all everyone" and of nonviolence. Instead findings is by Andrew Weil, author of right to be sick," realizing that "sickness of letting holism diminish or die, we Health and Healing (Houghton Mifflin, is the way to the next relative period of need to encourage and practice it as a 1983). A graduate of Harvard Medical health, and that one state cannot exist method in harmony with our basic be­ School, he is now research associate in without the other, any more than day liefs and principles. 0

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 15, 1986 9 Natural Medicines m• El Salvador by Marshall Hoagland

arol Tobkes of Spring Valley, "The bark of the willow tree has a "And even though the library at the New York, felt certain that her component very similar to the main in­ university is not very adequate because C background in chemistry would gredient in aspirin, and if you make a most of the books were burned by the come in handy someday, but she never tea out of it, it's as good as taking soldiers, I did manage to get quite a lot dreamed it would culminate in a research aspirin. It's just a matter of finding out of helpful information. In addition, the project in El Salvador that includes boil­ how much of the bark you have to put faculty that I've worked with at the uni­ ing berries and tree bark. Carol Tobkes into the tea to get the dosage of one versity are so excited about the project went to El Salvador in March 1985 to do gram. An expectorant for coughs is that they've been more than willing to literacy work under the joint sponsor­ made by chopping up and boiling the help on their own time. The director of ship of New York Yearly Meeting and fruit of the 'morro' plant. There are also the herbarium has been studying the Lutheran World Relief. As a member of eucalyptus trees, and eucalyptus is used plants of El Salvador for over 20 years, Rockland (N.Y.) Meeting, she receives in cough drops in the United States. I and her hobby is natural medicines; she special support from this group. also found out that the milk from the has shared with me recipes of her own As she became more familiar with the papaya fruit is wonderful for helping and has gone out into the countryside needs of the poor people in the rural someone with intestinal parasites. with me to help me find and collect areas of El Salvador, she realized that There's just a wealth of information useful plants. health care was a pressing need for many available, so people can go out in their "Then, purely by accident, I came families, noting that some communities yards or into the forest and find a across about 20 theses in the pharmacy did not even have a health clinic, let remedy instead of having to go to the department that came out of a study alone a doctor. clinic or buy expensive medicine. sponsored by the Organization of Amer­ ''In El Salvador, processed medicine ' 'After I had gotten a number of reci­ ican States on natural medicines and the has become very scarce and very expen­ pes, I took them back to San Salvador medicinal plants of El Salvador. Al­ sive," she explained. "So the director to the National University to try to find though this material was very general, of the health program of the Lutheran out if any research had already been I was able to find the woman who had church in El Salvador, who has always done on finding the components of spe­ coordinated the study, and she en­ had an interest in medicinal plants, cific plants, what dosage should be used, couraged me to make a study proposal asked me-because of my chemistry and whether there are any side effects. background-to begin a research proj­ I've been working with the departments ect on medicinal plants to determine of chemistry, pharmacy, and botany. their possibilities and usefulness. "Technically, the National University "The first stage of the project involved is a state institution, but it's funded by my apprenticeship with a natural sources that are not connected with the 'healer' who had been using herbs, government. Education has been seen as plants, and trees to cure illnesses for a threat to the government, and in 1980 many years. I had the opportunity to the national guard took over the cam­ copy the recipes for various cures and pus and closed the school down. They to participate in working with him in do­ auctioned off a lot of the books and ing some curing in a village in the equipment and burned what they eastern part of the country." couldn't sell. Pieces of laboratory equip­ Examples of remedies used by the ment that cost thousands of dollars were healer include a natural form of aspirin, sold for $25 or $30 by guardsmen who a cough medicine, and something to had no idea of their value. They prac­ neutralize parasites. tically destroyed the entire university. When it reopened a couple of years ago, it was on a very small budget, and it still A member of Rockland (N. Y.) Meeting, Marshall lacks the lab equipment that is needed Hoagland is a retired English teacher. He is a free­ lance reporter for a local newspaper and super­ for the research on medicinal plants. vises the bookstore and mailroom at the Fellowship We're hoping to raise about $20,000 for of Reconciliation headquarters in Nyack, N. Y. equipment.

10 to the university. I have a project pro­ order to avoid duplicating work already Carol Tobkes says that the reason for posal to raise money for at least a two­ done by others. the harassment by the government is year study, working with her, to study ''We do try to keep a low profile that they are working with poor people whatever plants the health program of about our work and don't publicize who have no political power. the church requests." what we're doing to the government. "Some of these remote villages need Carol Tobkes explained that the uni­ But our social work among the rural our help badly," she said. "One of the versity would provide the expertise to villagers has brought about problems villages where we work has over 500 help her analyze the plants to discover for the church because of the situation families, and a mobile clinic only gets the active ingredient, the optimum dos­ in El Salvador. Some of these villages out there once every two weeks. The age, and the secondary effects, but a lab are near combat zones where the govern­ government prefers to keep villagers would have to be equipped for the study. ment is trying to destroy guerrilla bases, isolated and have them remain ignorant, Funds still have to be raised for this. and the government tries to discourage because that way they will never ques­ "Once the recipes are tested and found people from giving any kind of informa­ tion the government; whereas, when you to be useful and safe, the Lutheran tion or tt;aining to the villagers that go out to the countryside and teach church will be responsible for getting the might get passed on to the guerrillas. A someone to read and write, you're do­ information to the people. It has trained pastor was arrested and tortured; one of ing something political. Even when you 'health promoters' in at least 14 rural the doctors was arrested and tortured; go out to the countryside with medicine villages who can show the people how a lot of people in the church have been or recipes for healing, that's considered to find and use these remedies. The pro­ arrested. And, with arrest, there is, at political. We don't stop to ask every per­ moters are local people who live right in the very least, the experience of being son what side they're on politically the villages and know how to read and beaten up and being denied sleep." before we treat them." write. Part of my work will be to train Carol Tobkes reported in September Carol Tobkes is very impressed with · them. Our aim is to make the villagers an increase in the arrests and repression the outreach of the Lutheran church more self-sufficient." of the displaced persons living in the through its social programs. The large One reason that this study is especially Lutheran camp where she also resides. organization has mostly local volunteers needed in El Salvador is because of the One of her closest friends, a 16-year-old with only a handful of internationals dearth of information available to the girl who recently returned from a refu­ helping to administer the programs. outlying villages. An uprising of the gee camp in Honduras, was jailed by the There are literacy volunteers, health pro­ peasants in 1932 led to a terrible mas­ National Police and was being held in­ moting volunteers, and people in an sacre and harsh repression. The Indian communicado. She writes that at least agricultural program that is sponsored population was forbidden to propagate 50 displaced persons were arrested, by the church. any of their culture, language, or even blindfolded, beaten, and dragged off for "For a small church-and I think the their knowledge of healing. However, interrogation. Most were released after upper estimate is that about 7,000 peo­ the neighboring countries of Guatemala about two weeks of inhumane treat­ ple in the whole country belong to it­ and Mexico have maintained a large ment. She feels that the presence of U.S. their projects are enormous and the store of information about medicinal citizens and other internationals may social work they do is just overwhelm­ plants. Carol Tobkes hopes to use peo­ have kept worse things from happening ing. The people of El Salvador impress ple in these countries as resources in to them. me also with their faith and humility. It amazes me, that with the amount of vio­ lence they see, how much they trust in God and how much they believe in do­ ing the work of God. When the church comes out to help people in the villages, the 'simple people,' in the Quaker sense of the term, are very open and grateful. It has been a rewarding experience learn­ ing from them.' ' 0 ~ ;;:~ Carol Tobkes will remain in El 8 Salvador until April 1987, helping ~ ~ her Friends and teaching villagers to ~ use natural medicines. She is willing and :.. ~. eager to share and exchange information ··§ with others who are interested in natural ~ medicines. She is also seeking further ~ funding for her work in traveling from ~ village to village to train the health pro­ ~· moters. Donations toward her work Q may be sent to Rockland Friends I· Meeting, 60 Leber Road, Blauvelt, NY " 10913.

11 are for war are very rare." He men­ aisle through the sch/afwagen were tioned the humanitarian assistance Bul­ taken down to examine every nook and garian universities were giving to Nica­ cranny where something might be Seeking raguan students through scholarships to concealed. study science, medicine, and social sci­ In Hungary I was able to make con­ ences. (In Nicaragua in 1983 I had tact with an unofficial peace group Peace learned that Bulgaria had offered 4,000 whose leadership is related to the Inter­ higher education scholarships to Nicara­ national Fellowship of Reconciliation . • guan students.) They reported a membership of about Dejan Pavlov said: "We are helping 200 a few years ago, as well as govern­ m Nicaragua in only a humanitarian way. ment pressure to get them to abandon We are not helping in a military way. It their independence and work through an is a big lie that we do anything in a official or government-sponsored peace military way. Our newspapers criticize group. About half of the group, includ­ Eastern President Reagan for his statements ing its founder, succumbed to economic about this. Reagan's actions against and political pressure and became a part Nicaragua create a very great danger for of the Hungarian Peace Council. How­ Europe peace in the world." He was particularly ever, they have not been absorbed by the concerned about U.S. propaganda Peace Council but have created a new against Bulgaria and cited the C.I.A. as group affiliated with the official Peace spreading the word that Bulgaria was in­ Council. That new group has a mathe­ volved in the shooting of the pope. "Bul­ matical name, 4-6-0. It is shorthand for garia," he said, "is not involved inter­ the four years of World War I, the six rorism." Referring to the C.I.A.'s cam­ years of World War II, and for the idea by John M. Swomley paign during the past three years against that there must not be a third world war. Bulgaria in other countries, he said: If there is a third world war it will last ast November, after the tourists "For our people it is difficult to under­ "zero" years. were gone from the trains, I trav­ stand. Bulgaria is not so big or impor­ The 4-6-0 organization, which was L eled through Bulgaria, Rumania, tant in the world that this should happen formed about two years ago, has about Hungary, and East Germany, talking to to us in an attempt to isolate us." 40 local groups. In spite of its relation­ people about their fear of war and what I left Bulgaria by train in a sleeping ship to the Hungarian Peace Council, its they were doing to prevent war. Ordinary car to Bucharest. Bulgarian border groups are autonomous locally. Its chief people as well as intellectuals seemed guards awakened me at 5:30a.m. They activity is disseminating information preoccupied both with the fear of war spoke perfect English, the best I en­ about nuclear war and the international and with economic security. Their con­ countered in Bulgaria. They asked my scene. Its leader, Ference Koszegi, has cern for peace can be illustrated in the opinion of the summit conference, then a large room in his apartment, the walls following four encounters. taking place in Geneva; whether the of which are covered with bookshelves In Bulgaria I interviewed Professor United States was going to war in of anti-war books from various coun­ De jan Pavlov, a philosopher who is also Europe as it had in Grenada, Nicaragua, tries, including the United States. deputy-director of the Institute for and the Levant. They searched my One of the leaders of the unofficial Studies of Contemporary Social Theories luggage. The chief object of their in­ peace group noted that the Hungarian of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. terest was my briefcase, where I had a political climate has changed. "It is freer He said that the Bulgarian government number of clippings from the New York now," he said, "and we can have a is actively influencing the Soviet Union Times and the Army Times, which I had peace meeting. If the speaker is a visiting and other governments for peace, that read en route from Kansas City to foreigner he might not get a visa again. there is no Bulgarian military-industrial Athens. They wanted my clipping of a But he could talk about what is complex, and that all people are organ­ Star Wars story from the Army Times, happening in the West and in the U.S. ized to do some peace work. Since this but agreed to let me keep it when I told The government would probably not is a typical claim of Marxist peace them I was a writer and needed it to interrupt such a meeting but would groups, I asked him what Bulgarian phi­ write an article against Reagan's military make a record of it to use later at an losophers are doing. policies. appropriate time." They had had He said that philosophers have been The Rumanian border people awak­ demonstrations and meetings in the past researching the history of philosophy, ened me again and examined my luggage which had been stopped. Now, he said, which had demonstrated that ' 'philo­ and the entire sleeping compartment for "we don't know what is allowed and sophical thought is traditionally for bombs and drugs, explaining that they what is not. We can only try.'' peace. Philosophical conceptions that had to be vigilant for C.I.A. activity. Among the officially sanctioned peace Although I was the only U.S. citizen on groups are Physicians for the Prevention A member of Penn Valley (Mo.) Meeting, John M. Swomley is professor emeritus ofth e St. Paul board, our train was detained for two of Nuclear War, Teachers for Peace, the School of Theology in Kansas City, Mo., and a hours so the same detailed search could Catholic Peace Committee, and an Inter­ former executive secretary of the Fellowship of be carried out in every compartment. Church Peace Committee. Budapest is R econciliation. Even movable parts of the ceiling of the also one of the headquarters for the

12 O ctober 15, 1986 FRIENDS Jou RNAL Christian Peace Conference, an organi­ (Lutheran) church. In East Berlin I Governments the world over make de­ zation of Eastern and Western peace talked with people who plan and manage cisions to go to war without consulting leaders drawn chiefly from Protestant 30 church youth summer camps attended the people. The Reagan administration and Orthodox churches. In Hungary each year by about 500 young people. has done that in Grenada, Nicaragua, there are about 150 conscientious objec­ In these camps, and in other church and El Salvador as the Soviet Union has tors in prison, mostly Roman Catholics. youth work, young men and women con­ done in Afghanistan. Governments also In the late 1970s Jehovah's Witnesses front problems of peace and justice and propagandize their people to get their and Nazarenes were allowed to perform often make vocational and other deci­ support for such a venture or to conceal nonmilitary service such as building in sions. The Roman Catholic church is what is really happening in such wars. cities and towns or cooking for soldiers. much more conservative and less likely The remarkable fact about Eastern Eu­ A woman in East Germany who serves to oppose anything military. rope is that governments are propagan­ as an executive in a church-related peace Yet the overwhelming evidence in all dizing for peace and apparently have a group referred to the official recognition Eastern European countries reveals a healthy fear of war. Obviously this is of conscientious objectors in that nation strong desire to avoid war with the West. not pacifist propaganda against all war. and the surprising number of objectors. Government propaganda is clearly The people would undoubtedly support Eight hundred conscientious objectors a against nuclear war and for disarma­ a defense against attack. However, no year are permitted to perform alternate ment. People are encouraged to write to government in Eastern Europe could ex­ service within the army, but there are people in other countries about preven­ pect popular support for either conven­ 1,000 additional objectors waiting for tion of war. The 4-6-0 organization in tional or nuclear aggression against the their opportunity. After the initial 800 Hungary has launched a campaign to es­ West without a reversal of the peace are inducted, the army tends to ignore tablish contacts with groups throughout propaganda and the widespread fear of the rest instead of going to the trouble the world. However, any report of peace nuclear war. This would require months of finding alternate work for them. activity in the Soviet Union or Eastern and perhaps years of "re-education" of Approximately 50 objectors are in Europe is usually greeted with skepti­ the people. The evidence that Eastern prison, chiefly because they will have cism by some in the United States, who European governments and peoples are nothing to do with conscription. Their assert that in a totalitarian state the consciously seeking peace with the West normal sentence is from two to five government makes the decision to go to may not be obvious to many of us here years. war and the people are not consulted. in the United States but it seems easily Almost all of these objectors or war This criticism needs to be examined in discernible to inquiring visitors to those resisters are products of the Evangelical a wider context. countries. 0 An Early EDWARD Quaker and Catholicism by George E. Clarkson and BURROUGH Elizabeth Hutton Clarkson

he gift to the Wells College library Underbarrow, and so to all the In­ Quakers." Now Burrough himself of a 1662 volume of the writings habitants of England." Susanna Kite, in dying a long, slow death in prison T of Edward Burrough began for the Quaker Biographies series, writes, to the terrible conditions. Charles me a sequence of queries and readings. "We find from this time on his pen was learned of his plight and sent word In response to questions from the librar­ seldom idle." have him released. But he was too late. ian, Marie Delaney, we went over our He wrote and preached and traveled The end had come at 28 for this own Quaker books and found many and became a leader among Friends in markable young preacher in England. writings about and by Burrough. The spite of his youth. He traveled on foot One of the fascinating aspects of 1850 Friends Library (Vol. 14) has a and by horseback to Bristol, to London, ward Burrough's life was the way he memoir on him (including extensive back and forth. It was in 1662, when he proached Roman Catholics. In our quotations from him) of more than 100 was 28 years old, that he was seized and open dialogue between Catholics pages. And there are many other refer­ many non-Catholic groups is the norm. ences to him in other volumes. It struck But in 17th-century England the us strongly that we ought not to forget was different. Some Protestants the amazing work of this 17th-century very sure that all Catholics were en Quaker. We hear too little about him. to hell, and some Catholics had the Burrough was born in 1634 in the eternal destination in mind for non­ barony of Kendal in the English Lake Catholics. There was little or no dia­ District. Brought up in an Anglican logue. It was not until the late 1960s, home, he was an avid learner. By age 12, following Vatican II, that extreme he had strong religious leanings and name-calling ended for the most part visited other places of worship, settling and Catholics and their "separated for the time being on being a Presby­ brethren" could talk. In light of this, the terian. By age 17, he came to a strong spirit and mood of Edward Burrough realization of his own shortcomings and were remarkable. He was quite sure that listened to other preachers. In 1652, in he disagreed with much of Catholic doc­ Underbarrow, the town of his birth, he trine, but he said it directly, without first heard George Fox. It was a new day malice, to Catholics. He sought out for Burrough, a time of awakening. As Capuchins and Jesuits to talk with them he found his way into the family of and wanted them to reply. Their Friends, his parents disowned him. committed to Newgate prison "for testi­ dialogues were far from ideal but ex­ He soon began a ministry for Friends fying unto the name of the Lord Jesus, change of views was sought! Burrough, and traveled in the northern counties and for the worship of God." After two and in some instances George Fox also, and into Scotland and later spent a or three sessions in the Old Bailey, he asked for response to charges that were period in Ireland. It is surmised that was fined 100 marks (later reduced to 20 made against Catholic beliefs. We wish Margaret Fell was one of those who marks) and was to be kept in prison un­ that we had a record of more of the re­ helped him with his expenses. Rather til he paid. He was in jail for some eight sponses, but in these instances, only a early (in late 1653 or early 1654) he was months. few were made. We do have a record of arrested for a letter he wrote, but while Some time before, Burrough had ap­ some from Fox's Journal in the full, in jail he wrote another: "A Warning pealed to King Charles II on behalf of earlier edition (not the Penney edition) from the Lord to the Inhabitants of Quakers in Boston (America) who were and in Sewel's history of Friends. in prison. Four had died and others were When Burrough approached the nuns George E. Clarkson is a lecturer in religion at Wells under the threat of death. Burrough had in Dunkirk, so the account says, "after College. Elizabeth Hutton Clarkson, a graduate obtained an audience with the king and hearing a few words, [the nuns] inter­ of Barnesville Friends School and Earlham Col­ lege, met George while both were residents at asked that action be taken speedily. "A rupted them, to inquire whether they Pendle Hill. They are active in Poplar Ridge (N. Y.) mandamus was forthwith granted, for­ were of the order of those called Quak­ Meeting. bidding the execution of any more of the ers. Receiving an affirmative answer, the

14 October 15, 1986 FRIENDS JouRNAL nuns retreated from them, saying, they only of the papists, but of the protestants tle of wine and loaf of bread be brought, must not hear them." Earlier Burrough also, as they now stand, are not true and divided each into two parts, and let had made some solid queries of the ministers and churches of Christ. That the them consecrate which of those parts they Capuchins. There is no record of any scriptures are a true declination given would. Then set the consecrated and the reply from them. Further on, the ac­ forth from the spirit of God ... the most unconsecrated bread and wine in a safe count says that the Capuchins "soon perfect rule of faith and life. place, with a sure watch upon it, and let trial be thus made, whether the conse­ growing tired of the Friends and the A passage from Fox's Journal (the crated bread and wine would not lose its truths they promulgated, they declined full edition, not the Penney version) tells goodness, and the bread grow dry and giving them an opportunity of convers­ how he sent Edward Burrough and moldy. . . . And if the consecrated bread ing with them." Nicolas Bond ahead to discuss Quaker and wine change not .. . this may be a So now the Quakers approached the beliefs with a Jesuit newly arrived from means to draw many to your church. If rector of the Jesuits, who at first did not Spain. It is not clear how much of Fox's they change, decay, and lose their good­ want to talk with them. Then the gover­ account of the discussion came from ness, then you ought to confess your er­ nor of Dunkirk returned and prevailed these two men or if it reflects only Fox, ror, and shed no more blood about it: for upon him, so the rector agreed to have but all 'three were involved in a verbal much blood hath been shed about these conversations with the Quakers. The ac­ encounter with Catholics. Fox does in­ things; as in Queen Mary's day. count says that at first he was "very high clude some of the curious arguments A strange sequel to this account from in spirit,'' but then after a bit he could regarding the sacraments and transub­ Fox that is included in the long memoir not respond successfully. The discussion stantiation: about Burrough is that neither Fox nor went on for three hours, a remarkable Bond were ever brought up on charges event. Then the rector "pretended that .. . But if the bread they eat was Christ, because of these arguments. But Bur­ he had other business to attend to, and he must of necessity be in them after they rough was charged with defamation. At making his escape, refused to have any had eaten it. . . . Then how hath Christ a one court, with a jury present, it was de­ discourse with them afterwards." body in heaven? I observed to him also, cided to fine Burrough 100 pounds. But The account of some of the assertions that both the disciples at the supper, and Corinthians afterwards, were to eat the at a subsequent court hearing, "Edward made by Burrough (and others, as re­ bread and drink the wine "in remem­ being present, was allowed to speak, and counted by Fox) does give us important brance of Christ," and "to show forth so clearly proved the truth of all he had insights. These assertions include the his death till he come," which plainly said . . . that the court did not give the following as drawn from a paper writ­ proves the bread and wine, which they judgment." This time he was set free. ten by Edward Burrough and read to the took, was not his body. For if it had been These accounts do show Burrough as Jesuits: that the Romish church was not his real body that they ate, then he had a keen thinker who was not afraid of the true church of Christ; that the con­ been come, and was then there present, debate. We sometimes forget that Bur­ stitution of the church and the chief and it had been improper to have done rough wrote as much as he did, an parts of its worship and ordinances were such a thing in remembrance of him .. .. amazing feat for a very busy itinerant of man; that compelling persons by out­ Having stopped his mouth as to argu­ preacher who traveled when he was not ward law to conform to certain relig­ ments, I made the Jesuit a proposal thus: in prison. His 28 years were full. He left ions, and to persecute and kill them for . . . let a meeting be appointed between a mark that is still upon us more than matter of conscience, was a worship of some whom the pope and his cardinals two centuries later, a mark written bold­ the beast; and that none are members of should appoint, and some of us; let a bot- ly during a ten-year ministry. 0 the true church, but such as are changed and renewed by the power of the Lord A crowd gathers God in the heart, and are joined to to hear Christ the head. the Quaker Burrough had other meetings in the message, town. One day they found that one of 1662. the chaplains had spoken against them when they were not present. So the chaplain asked the Quakers to set their principles in writing and said that he would reply to them publicly. This time there were some definite affirmations. However, after stating them, the chap­ lain said that the governor was not will­ ing for him to reply. The Quaker prin­ ciples, as stated by Burrough, said in part: That Christ hath enlightened all men with a light, sufficient to bring them to salva­ tion if they follow it. That God hath given Christ to be the Savior of all men. That the national ministers and churches, not

FRIENDS Jou RN AL October 15, 1986 15 REEL VIOLENCE VS. REAL VIOLENCE

Quaker filmmaker Arthur Kanegis Wave project came to Arthur In Search has launched Future Wave, a project Kanegis during meeting for worship designed to encourage a new genre of at the Friends Meeting of Washing­ films with new kinds of heroes. The ton, of which he is a member. The of a project aims to produce a major idea was developed further at Friends motion picture that will project a General Conference, where he and Bully-Proof dramatic, realizable, year 2020 vision fellow Quaker John Darnell led an of a peaceful world that has interest group on Future Wave and developed systems and techniques took part in an "Imaging the Shield more advanced than warfare for Peaceable Kingdom" workshop. dealing with terrorism and conflict John Darnell, as research director between nations. David Goodman, of the project, has been helping to Academy Award-winning producer conduct research and to develop a of Witness to War and a member of coherent vision of how the world by Arthur the American Friends Service could realistically function in the Committee's NARMIC staff, has year 2020 without war. As a part of Kanegis joined Future Wave as a part-time this effort, Future Wave has been consultant. holding brainstorming sessions with Rather than merely criticize the topnotch thinkers, including violence and the bleak vision of the Pentagon personnel, military future depicted in such films as consultants, world federalists, and Rambo, The Day After, Red Dawn, conflict-resolution experts. and Road Warrior, Kanegis and Out of this research they have Goodman have decided to do developed a plan, called "A Bully­ something about it. Proof Shield, " which is the basis of Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Arthur Kanegis's article. Jane Alexander, Martin Sheen, Lily Arthur Kanegis has also met with Tomlin, and James Whitmore are studio executives, screenwriters, and among the Hollywood stars who producers- but funds will not be have already joined the advisory available from the studios until a board of the project. Other advisers powerful and marketable script has include Elise Boulding, Barbara Marx been developed. Until then, Future Hubbard, Mark Sommer, Robert Wave is dependent on tax-exempt Johansen, Marilyn Ferguson, and contributions to raise the $80,000 Major General Jack Kidd. Science needed for the research, script­ fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke has writing, and preproduction stage of sent Future Wave several story ideas the project (which has already raised and offered to advise on the $27,000, all of which has gone into development of the story. project expenses, none into salary). Arthur Kanegis and David Additional funds must be obtained Goodman worked together at the soon if the project is to continue and AFSC for many years. Arthur succeed. Tax-deductible contributions Kanegis co-produced The Automated can be made payable to Future Airwar, The Post War War, and Wave/ CNNS and mailed to Future Sharing Global Resources. Wave, Lewis Mill, Jefferson, MD The inspiration for the Future 21755.

16 October 15, 1986 fRIENDS JOURNAL Five bullies in a pickup truck roar up DI n movie after movie, TV show after Movie producer Steven Spielberg of­ to the high school prom which Ken "- TV show, the public is taught this fers us a powerful insight into how we McCormic has organized over the fairy tale version of the efficacy of might begin to develop such a shield in objection of the anti-dance town violence. It is so inbred in our culture this reminiscence from his own life: council. Chuck, the leader of the that we tend to apply it to the interna­ At school I felt like a real nerd, the skin­ villains, hops out of the truck and starts tional situation. The Russians are the ny, acne-faced wimp who gets picked on taunt Willard and his girlfriend, bullies and "you can't trust them." Ter­ by big football jocks all the way home , until Ken comes to the rescue. rorists are bullies and "the only thing from school. I was always running to hide and Willard take on all five bullies, they understand is force." In the real in my bedroom, where I felt safe. I would them up in a spectacular fistfight world, our Footloose heroes, if they actually call out " safe" to myself. When their girlfriends cheer them on. I was about 13, one local bully gave me were really able to beat up five guys, nothing but grief all year long. He would , all five bullies lie unconscious would have ended up bruised, muddy, knock me down on the grass, or hold my the dust. The girls run up and hug and bleeding and in no shape to con­ head in the drinking fountain, or push my · conquering heroes. Ariel squeals to tinue the dance. Others would have been face in the dirt and give me bloody noses : "You were great! " Arm-in-arm, drawn into the brawl, and the town when we had to play football in phys. ed. return to the dance hall. There is council would have been proved right Once he threw a cherry bomb between my a bruise on the heroes, not a speck that the dance attracted the "wrong ele­ legs in the school toilet. I got up before mud on their white pleated shirts, not ment." Since the central theme of the it exploded. This was somebody I feared. wrinkle in their formal jackets, not a movie was Ken's crusade to overcome He was my nemesis; I dreamed about him. mark on their highly polished the anti-dance mentality of the small­ Then, I figured, if you can't beat him, try to get him to join you. So I said to him, town power structure, our hero would "I'm making this movie about fighting the The heroes jump into the middle of have lost everything he had struggled so Nazis and I want you to play this war dance floor and lead the other teen­ hard to gain. hero." At first he laughed in my face, but in a spectacular display of dane­ And yet, there is something that ap­ later he said yes. He was this big 14-year­ which matches the spectacular dis­ peals to audiences about a quick-fix of old who looked like John Wayne. I made of fighting. Everybody loves Ken, violence to put bullies in their place. him the squad leader in the film, with hero; even the preacher, who had led We've all had the frustration of facing helmet, fatigues, and backpack. After that town council in opposing the dance, a bully-in our homes, workplaces, he became my best friend. (Time, July 15, now had a change of heart, and he neighborhoods, or nations-and we'd 1985) ks off arm-in-arm with his wife, Vi, like to fantasize a way out. Wouldn't it Spielberg, as a child, instinctively car­ · · about their own teen years. be great if someone would invent a bul­ ried out the basic principles behind the -Closing scene from the popular ly-proof shield that could protect us "techniques more advanced than war" teen-age movie Footloose from bullies-or, even better, that could which the Future Wave project is seek­ eliminate the bully? ing to depict. Arthur Kanegis and Paul Newman discuss a scene for a TV spot.

17 In the course of conducting research understand his culture, and under­ you believe yourself to be motivated for Future Wave, we developed a plan standing the injustices which ag­ by noble motives in opposing them. for dealing with bullies in our own neigh­ gravate him. Obtain information on By appealing to nobler motives, to the borhoods and in the world. We call this his values, attitudes, and beliefs. Try moral authority respected by the bul­ plan a "Bully-Proof Shield," for it can to discover his emotional triggers: the ly, you put the bully in the bind of enable a seemingly weaker force to pro­ pictures, sounds, or feelings in his either disproving claimed good inten­ tect itself from and to overcome a more head which lead him to lash out and tions, or taking up the challenge. By powerful "bully" without violence. It maintain a violent state. Try to find appealing to a sense of fairness you can work in the face of traditional out how he goes about making deci­ may be able to develop objective military force (i.e., killing and destroy­ sions. Don't deduce his intentions criteria which apply to both sides. ing the military forces of the opponent from your fears. Put yourself in his Also, look for the good in the bul­ to obtain a political/military objective) shoes. Empathize. Sense how you ly's followers. Most bullies, from the or terrorism (i.e., killing or destroying would feel, think, and react in his kid at school to the military dictator, civilians and their property to obtain a place. Realize that from his point of depend on a group of followers for political/ military objective). While these view, you may be the bully. their strength. Even when you can't techniques are not foolproof, and do in­ Understand your own motivations, break through with the bully, a moral cur some risk, they incur a lower risk of and the emotional strings which may breakthrough with his followers may personal injury or destruction than tradi­ be pulling on you or your followers. undermine his position, causing him tional violent methods, which are also Learn as much as possible about the to join them or be left powerless. not foolproof. (Note: for simplicity, we situation triggering the conflict, and Spielberg's bully was surprised to have generally referred to the bully as its roots. find that Spielberg saw something "he" although the bully could be a male, L: Listen actively. Repeat each other's good in him: "A war hero in your a female, a group, or a nation.) positions. film, are you kidding?" But once he The steps you can take to counter a Often the terrorist, the child throw­ thought about it and realized that bully spell out the acronym B.U.L.L.Y. ing a tantrum, or even a hostile Spielberg was serious, he responded P.R.O.O.F. S.H.I.E.L.D. government is reacting to the frustra­ positively, and rose to fill the role ex­ tion of not being heard. Frequently pected of him. governments use violence to "send a Y: Yin/ yang. Hold opposites, see con­ message." If you are a good listener flict as opportunity, use male/ female they won't have to send their "mes­ strengths. sage" via battleships. The terrorist Know that there is no totally right may feel the only way to focus world side or totally wrong side. In nature attention on the injustice he has ex­ and in human affairs, progress and B.U.L.LY perienced is through spectacular vio­ growth come about from the inter­ lence. Providing a forum to air the action and confluence of opposites. grievances-and really listening-may Therefore, see the opportunity in the B: Breakout of the current conflict; have a much lower cost and be far conflict to evolve toward a higher or disengage and do an end-run. more effective than confrontation. better state for both parties. If you take on the bully in the con­ A good technique, described in the text of violence, you meet him in the book Getting to Yes, is to listen to arena in which he has his greatest your opponent's case, then state it strength and is best prepared. So back to him to be sure you really choose an arena in which you have understand, and then state your posi­ strength. Be creative and imaginative. tion and ask your opponent to state Relax. Form a mental "buffer zone" your case back to you. Ask him to put so your opponent doesn't trigger your himself in your shoes. Ask him what P.R.O.O.F own emotional "hot buttons." Spiel­ he would do in your situation. berg did not do anything to deal di­ L: Look for good in the bully. Appeal to rectly with the bully's behavior. He nobler motives, higher authority. P: Protect the bully's security to protect did the unexpected-an "end-run," Direct your attention to "that of your own. completely disengaging from the good" in your opponent. Don't fall Generally, the bully is seeking at struggle at hand, and thereby putting into the trap of playing to his worst least temporary security by showing the relationship into a completely new behavior. Regardless of who your he is tougher, thus deterring attack. context. enemy is-a terrorist, "the establish­ The bully, in his insecurity, can't trust U: Understand the bully, understand ment," an opposing superpower, a anybody and becomes a walking yourself, understand the situation. small nation, a religious "holy war­ booby trap, ready to be triggered by Empathize. rior," the "military-industrial com­ anyone who tries to threaten him. " Know your enemy" includes plex,'' an opposing group within your Thus, your safety is enhanced by in­ understanding his motivations, own nation, or an opposing "ism" ­ creasing, not decreasing, his security. recognizing the basic human needs he they all believe themselves to be (One of the advantages of handling may be trying to fulfill, trying to motivated by noble motives, just as international and local conflicts

18 October 15, 1986 FRIENDS JouRNAL through court systems rather than a real buffoon, Spielberg might have Visualize the bully in a new role as through combat is that courts protect had his short-term revenge, but he friend. Visualize him as achieving the the safety of the accused attacker as! would have lost everything he had attributes of a winner-distinction, well as the safety of the victim.) gained-the security of having a respect, security, sexual attrac­ R: Respect the bully as a human being. friend instead of an enemy. tiveness, etc.-without diminution of Whatever the bully or terrorist may F: Be Fearless and self-confident. De­ these traits in yourself. When the bul­ demand on the surface, he is acting velop an invincible attitude. ly is pushing your face in the dirt, giv­ to fulfill certain basic human needs. Fear excites the attacker, encourag­ ing you a bloody nose, invading a One of the key needs is recognition. ing negative behavior. The bully, small nation, throwing cherry bombs, All people need recognition, a sense equating fear with weakness, "goes or threatening nuclear bombs, it is of self-worth, and a sense of be­ for the jugular." Fear also projects pretty difficult to visualize him as longing. the bully into a "bad guy" role and anything other than evil. Yet Spiel­ International terrorism could well he plays out the role. Inviting the berg was able to visualize this vicious subside if we recognized the legit­ "bully" to play a war hero in Spiel­ person in a different role-that of a imacy of some of those grievances berg's movie created a new role for movie war hero. We consciously or and gave these desperate groups the him and showed complete fearless­ subconsciously act on our visualiza­ respect they deserve as human beings. ness. tions to transform them into reality. An analysis of the Soviet internal Be invincible, realizing that invin­ E: Empower the bully to achieve his true press shows that one of the Soviet cibility is primarily a perception in needs through peaceful means. Union's great needs is to be recog­ your opponent's mind. You can over­ Enable the "bad guy" to utilize more nized as an equal to the United come fear by developing within your­ effective means to obtain his true ob­ States, to be respected by us. Yet self an aura of invincibility. jectives, his basic human needs for most U.S. presidents give them just security, economic well-being, and the opposite. It is far more costly to control over his life. Violence is fre­ engage in an arms race with the Sovi­ quently the explosive power of the ets, as they vie to gain our respect, frustrated need for love. Providing than to simply give them the respect creative channels for the bully to they are after. Symbolic actions, such achieve his needs may dissipate this as a visit to a Soviet grave site or explosive power. By making the recognition of the brave role they S.H.I.E.L.D "bully" the hero of his film, played in World War II (at a cost of Spielberg gave him a creative chan­ 20 million Soviet lives), would have nel to achieve the respect that he was more power than a hundred more S: Stand up. Don' t capitulate or unsuccessfully trying to bully others U.S. nuclear missiles. surrender. into giving him. 0: Originate win-win solutions. Use Don't try to "buy off" or appease L: Love your enemy. Love the person, inventiveness and humor and sur­ the bully. Hold your ground. Do not not the behavior. prise. legitimize the bully's methods by giv­ If you act in the spirit of love­ Don't just react or try to point ing in to his violent behavior. Just as Jove of yourself, love of life, Jove of blame. Instead, tap your creativity capitulation to a child's temper tan­ others, and love of the Godforce in and the creativity of others to come trums only encourages future tan­ the universe-you surround yourself up with new solutions which will trums, so accepting the bully's violent with a special kind of shield, a light benefit both sides. Brainstorm. Iden­ exertion of power reinforces such that can guide you through the great­ tify shared interests. Invent new op­ behavior. Give generously of recogni­ est peril and insure that while you tions for mutual gain. Spielberg came tion, but do not yield on your basic may yield, you will never truly Jose. up with a creative win-win solution interests. D: Develop nonverbal communications -using the technology of the movie H: Be heroic, be a winner, take the skills and spiritual strengths. camera to create a new situation high ground. Develop an ability to signal your beneficial to both sides. Excel in your own best qualities so intentions through a variety of com­ 0: Overcome evil with good, falsehood that your opponent will want to join munication methods-body language, with truth. Be honest, upright, and you! Project an honest image of as­ tone of voice, tempo, breathing rate, fair. sertiveness, self-assurance, and in­ etc. Signal friendship and harmony When you return evil for evil, you telligence. Stand up to intimidation. in a way appropriate to the cultural give the bully a gift of a justification Stand up for what is right. Be true to background of the bully. Project se­ for his actions. But if you act with your own values. Be smarter than renity and centeredness internally as sincerity and integrity, if you find op­ your "enemy" instead of stronger. well as externally. portunities to act inconsistently with Take the moral high ground, but the bully's misperceptions, you may don't be arrogant or self-righteous. Using these techniques allows an indi­ force him into a reexamination of his I: Imagine or picture your opponent as a vidual to act in a confident manner, with own position. If Spielberg had of­ winner, too. Picture the outcome you a feeling of inner security, in a threaten­ fered the bully the part, only to use desire. ing environment. Used in the aggregate creative editing to make him look like Your win does not mean his loss. they add up to a Natural Security Policy,

FRIENDS JOURNAL October 15, 1986 19 a more effective means to provide for "lady's choice," cuts in on Ariel. Chuck security than National Security. breaks into a big smile, and there is a - Scattergood ~ Friends School How could our Footloose hero have twinkle in Virginia's and Chuck's eyes. · L.&.W-.h• 1110 applied these principles? Let's try this Ariel returns to Ken. Ken and Ariel, High School new ending: surveying the scene, raise their arms Five bullies in a pickup truck come together in a victory cheer, as if to say: with a Difference roaring up to the prom which Ken has "Hey, we made it! The dance is a great We oller soltd academic preparation lor organized over the objection of the town success and even Chuck and his buddies college, traming in good work habits, fun. supportive community life. creative and council. Outside the hall, Willard are in on it now." They break into a performing arts. Boarding students only, notices Chuck and his buddies ap­ wild dance filled with the vibrancy of grades 9-12. Rl. 1, Box32 proaching in the truck, and slips in to their love and respect for each other. West Branch, Iowa 52358 warn Ken. Ken knows that trouble is Pretty soon the whole room is rockin' 319-643·5636 coming, that Chuck has two reasons to and rollin' and the dance has proved be particularly distressed. First, Chuck that it can bring the community is jealous that Ken has won the atten­ together. tion of Ariel. Second, Chuck feels that The preacher, who came to see what Computer Consulting he has lost his position of being the degradation and lowlife the dance would • Custom applications developed for respected "toughguy" in the communi­ bring to the community, has been look­ businesses and organizations. ty, and is going to try to fight to regain ing on and is very impressed. He and his • Advanced mailing list. mail-order, it. Ken realizes that a brawl will ruin this wife get into the spirit of the dance, and and· pharmacy applications available. dance he has worked so hard to set up, pretty soon they are dancing, too. One • Dealer for Progress multi-user rela­ tional database management system. and will destroy any chance for future by one, all of the members of the town • Consulting on application design. dances. council, who had tried to stop the dance, and on soclal impacts of computer So Ken seizes the initiative and walks show up and get swept into the spirit of usage. up to take the mike. As Chuck and his it. Pretty soon the whole town is danc­ Arthur Fink Consulting Box 309, Main Street. Wilton, NH 03086 buddies walk in with a look of anger in ing, and the movie ends in a joyous (603) 654-2784 their eyes, the hall grows suddenly quiet. climax. Their scruffy jackets and tough look are Well, so much for that little scenario. in sharp contrast to the formal dress of In the film medium you can create any everyone else. There is tension in the air outcome you want-as long as it rings 0 0 as everyone wonders what will happen. true to the audience. "Hey, everybody," Ken says into the In Future Wave we are going to depict mike, "Chuck and his buddies are here. this "Bully-Proof Shield" as one of the The party is complete-we've got all the futuristic tools of heroines and heroes ~ kids here now! All you girls who haven't working in their local communities as • m~a~e ce~C1F1ca<:es had anyone to dance with-here's your part of a global security network to • aw~s • msc~1pe1ons • chance. This next dance is lady's choice, combat the forces of war and injustice • e1~ct2 announcemencs • and it's a new dance we're going to teach with techniques more advanced than • <:4J2e&:ltXi ca£b bes1qns • to all of you. It's very simple, so Ariel, war. Actually the basic concept is not •1t2VIC3C10t1S • SCJ'()ll.S • if you'll get Chuck and show him the new-the ultimate weapon was pro­ steps, we'll all join in. Let the music posed by Jesus 2000 years ago: "Love .91anz~5f:Ft11Tesr roll!" your enemies." 609-196-182+ The band starts to play. Chuck starts Throughout history we have tried to

0 to mutter angry epithets but is drowned come up with the ultimate weapon that out by the music. Ariel starts to show would completely vanquish our enemy him the dance, and he angrily rebuffs -from the cannonball to the missile. her. But she is so sincere as she tries And yet none of these has succeeded in again that Chuck can't help but try a actually eliminating our enemy. There Small classes, strong few hesitant steps. He looks a little is only one thing that can truly, com­ Friends academics in a embarrassed, but when he glances at his pletely eliminate the enemy. That is to supportive, caring buddies, he sees that they are trying to turn them into friends. Select environment empha­ sizing Quaker values. dance, too, and that everyone is a begin­ Spielberg's bully is no more. In his A dynamic setting for ner like himself. He tries a few more place there stands his best friend. Maybe School grades K-12 in the heart steps. Pretty soon he is getting the hang someday the enemy Russia will be no of Philadelphia. of it. He learns quicker than his buddies, more. In its place will be our best friend. 17th and the Parkway, and begins to "strut his stuff" to show 0 Philadelphia (215) 561-5900 them how to do it. Because of his great Richard L Mandel, physical strength, he is able to swing his Headmaster partner completely off the floor. Vir­ © Arthur Kanegis, 1986, except all quotes from Footloose and Margaret Harkins, ginia, who has had a secret crush on references to characters therein are reserved for the copyright Director of Admissions holders ofI he movie Footloose. Quoles herein are for research pur· Chuck, is impressed, and since it is poses under the fair use provision of the copyright law.

20 October 15, 1986 FRIENDS JouRNAL sensitivity to modes of religious expression meeting's contribution to his school, saying that differ from our own, these Friends were that Quaker House's budget clearly needed quick to witness to their belief that the only it more! [Re}20rts true unity is in Christ, and that we are all But I was still struggling with my feelings called to witness to him. toward our witnessing Friends. After giving The night after the first session of yearly up the idea of eldering, I decided to stay A Symphony of Peace meeting I had a nightmare. I was in a room away from them as much as possible. Some­ of people, of whom I was one of the leaders. thing inside me said that I should reach out at North Carolina YM But someone else was in charge. This per­ to them, but I was afraid of being either son appeared to be some sort of evangelical hypocritical or unwelcoming in my welcome. North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conser­ Christian whose rules of conduct seemed Someone else would do it and be sincere, I vative) held its 489th session July 9-13 on the very rigid. I was trying to follow these rules, thought; probably our clerk, Louise Wilson, Guilford College campus, Greensboro, North but in some cases I did not know what they who is as loving a person as I know. Little Carolina. The following report of the session were. I discovered that no one was supposed by little,, however, my anger began to wear touches less on outwardfacts than on the ex­ to wear leather-doing so was somehow re­ down. In my times of prayer and meditation, perience of the author. garded as sinful by our leader-and the irr"'our public worship-sharing, and in our leader obviously thought I was sinful because meetings for worship, peace began to steal This year I approached yearly meeting I had not known that. (Shades of George Fox over me. By the third day I was able to with a sense of dread. North Carolina Yearly in his leather breeches!) welcome our visitors sincerely, and to my Meeting (Conservative) had always been for I awoke on the verge of nausea, and had amazement and joy, to be told by one that me an experience of refreshment and re­ to force myself to go to that morning's ses­ she really appreciated me. By the end of newal, of deep spiritual openings. But this sion. When I arrived I discovered that yearly meeting I was talking much more year, my third as its recording clerk, it another Friend, who seldom expressed deep easily about Christ, and my concluding loomed before me as a marathon. Not only concerns in public, had also been troubled, minute was a prayer that had been strongly did I have to write minutes of record for the and had asked the clerk to allow him to voice influenced by the ministry of our visitors. program and business sessions, but I had two his concern to the meeting. But his delicately What had seemed at frrst discordant notes reports to give. Then, due to another mem­ phrased appeal that we not build walls when in the symphony of yearly meeting sounded ber's illness, I ended up with three reports. we were trying to build bridges seemed to in­ more and more like part of the theme. Were The first session was Wednesday evening, spire an even more vigorous witness to our guests learning to play our song? Were and the last was Sunday morning. To make Christ. we beginning to play theirs? Was Someone matters worse, in one of the most parched The theme of our yearly meeting was Else weaving our melodies into one complex North Carolina summers in memory, the air "Peace in Faith and Practice." How ironic whole? Was my musical ear improving? I conditioning of the room in which we met to have that theme in what seemed to me our believe the answer is "all of the above." In was inadequate. least peaceful meeting in several years. What this year of "Peace in Faith and Practice," For many years our yearly meeting has was to be done about our outspoken Friends? our yearly meeting was given an exercise in welcomed visitors and has been blessed with Should someone "elder" them, asking them the practice of peace. This divinely ordered a wide range of Friends in attendance. This to speak less often, and Jess polemically? I exercise, so well conceptualized in two year was no exception. But my negativity was was afraid their ministry would upset the addresses by Thorn Jeavons of Baltimore not helped when I realized that some of our delicate balance in our yearly meeting be­ Yearly Meeting, taught me that peace comes visiting Friends had come to yearly meet­ tween conservative and more liberal Friends, not from without but from within. The lack ing, it seemed to me, with their own strong and frighten away members of other in­ of peace that I had felt near the beginning agenda. Whenever anyone spoke ·or the dependent, unprogrammed meetings that of our sessions came not from visiting unity underlying the diversity of our Friends some of us hoped would eventually join us. Friends, but from me. And the peace that witness, or whenever anyone appealed for As yearly meeting progressed, however, I felt near the close also came not from my anxiety diminished. I began to realize that without but from Christ my true Self. we were not weak or fragile. There was great Our visitors were truly a gift. They strength in our yearly meeting. As we read brought us themselves and their messages. the answers to the Queries, usually a pro Also, in the words of a non-Quaker friend, forma exercise, a sense of deepening grew. they brought up my "stuff" so that I could Our newest meeting, Greenville, a tiny group deal with it. When I began yearly meeting of Friends, had given some of the most pro­ I was in a bad place, dreading what lay found and moving answers. One Friend, a ahead. I projected all that onto our visitors. veteran teacher from the days when children They gave me the opportunity, by welcoming at Olney Boarding School were bribed with them, fmally to be welcomed myself to yearly cookies to get them to go to the Stillwater meeting. Peace, I learned, is never a matter Meetinghouse for the reading of the answers, of defeating or controlling someone else (al­ said it was the frrst time she could remember though in some circumstances restraint may enjoying listening to them. Two of our meet­ be necessary), or of avoiding those who seem ings, small by comparison to most churches, to be disturbers of my "peace." Rather, reported that they were declaring sanctuary. peace comes when one receives the grace to Our Friends schools showed lively spiritual, become open to the "enemy," to love, there­ numerical, and financial growth. And in a by being transformed oneself into a friend. gesture that brought applause from this In becoming open, furthermore, I was able reserved Quaker body, the head of Carolina to receive what our visitors brought. Their Friends School signed over to the director of message of redemption and unity in Christ Quaker House, a military counseling center Jesus became my message too. I was changed in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the yearly by the encounter. My integrity was not

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 15, 1986 21 sacrificed, but enlarged. It was not a matter Friends wore pink triangles, the Nazi of who was "right," but whether we would designation for gays. The yearly meeting let the Holy Spirit expand us to include one adopted a minute urging Friends to educate Oal(_wood another, to experience our unity. themselves about AIDS, to give time and Finally, our exercise changed the yearly money to create a supportive environment meeting and ultimately, the world. I was not for persons with AIDS, and to pray for and the only Friend who was struggling during with them. those sessions. Others were being exercised Friends' concern for the homeless mentally in similar ways, and with similar results, at ill resulted in a minute urging monthly least for some. Still others may have left dis­ meetings to be active seeking information, quieted. But had I been the only one able to funding, and viable programs to enable the Oakwood helps to prepare young claim peace, it would still have changed liter­ long-term mentally ill to live lives as produc­ adults for college and beyond by ally everything. Our lives are being written tive and satisfactory as possible. teaching them to live and work with into a symphony of peace. When we let our­ Our sessions and interest groups covered their hands, hearts. and minds. Come. selves be played, and let our ears be opened a wide range of concerns. For us faith lies take the risk of success. You 'II discover to the music, the symphony becomes strong­ in obedience, a word which stems from the that Oakwood is the place to achieve er, richer, more beautiful. Discordant notes Latin, "to listen all the way through," and and excel. are woven into a larger harmony. When that openness to the corporate search for truth. CaH now to arrange a olsit: happens in a whole meeting it is almost be­ We are asked to be faithful, not necessarily Thomas J. Huff, yond expression. One can only give praise successful. Admissions Director and thanks to God, the composer, arranger, Nancy Salzman (914) 4624200 and director. 515 South Road Damon D. Hickey Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Ohio Valley Friends A Friends Co-Educational Pacific Friends Look Live in the Light Boarding and Day School Inward, Outward Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting held its I 66th Grades 9-12 annual session at Marian College in Indian­ Tuition reduction for Qwaker {amUies This year 406 Friends gathered August 3-9 apolis, Indiana, July 30-August 3. This for Pacific Yearly Meeting at LaVerne year's theme was "Living in the Light." The College, near Los Angeles, California. spirit of the meeting was attuned to the Friends looked inward in examining our theme; Friends expressed joy and love for OLNEY beliefs, speaking to these three central tenets: one another, and we had a willingness to our belief in continuing revelation, the value carry on our work together. FRIENDS of corporate worship to test and clarify a Last year a concern was raised that there leading, and the existence of a spiritual be more opportunities for young people to SCHOOL source. The newly issued Faith and Practice participate in monthly, quarterly, and year­ of Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious ly meetings, and that we develop more effec­ Call or write: • Quaker Society ofFriends : A Quaker Guide to Chris­ tive methods of child care. Planners of the Barnesville. • Boarding tian Discipline stirred strong feelings about 1986 session gave much attention to this Ohio 43713 • Grades 9-12 our definitions of that source, some Friends concern. There were many new activities: 614-425-3655 • College Prep. feeling excluded by the Christian terminol­ worship-sharing groups and workshops were ogy. We sought to focus on the spirit and intergenerational, and youth business meet­ EDUCATING THE find true unity beyond our individual views ings were a strong part of the program. WHOLE PERSON and self-expression. Friends discussed the escalation of war Olney welcomos students kom all rodal and baclt \\11t l 11 Another Friend has placed seismic in­ man's economic philosophy, relating it to the -=-;.-· ( l, ,f,,l l I P ) >II (Jil l I ill struments at the USSR bomb test site to 18th century and to the present, and encour­ A~c red ited B.A. Degree - "Visiting" Student Programs demonstrate the practicality of monitoring aged us to explore our hearts to consider our U.S. • Costa Rica • England • Israel a test ban treaty. Veteran Quaker activists own economic concerns. Irwin Abrams pre­ Kenya • India • Japan • China Language - Independent Study - Field Internships spent Hiroshima Day at the Nevada bomb sented a history of the Nobel Peace Prize, FRIENDS WORLD COLLEGE test site, and the yearly meeting acted in sup­ including an account of the 1947 presentation Sox f , Huntington. NY 11743 Telephone: (516) 549-1102 port of a demonstration planned for to the American Friends Service Committee. Vandenberg Air Force Base. Our young peo­ How we proceed to live in the Light, indi­ ple helped refugee families from Central vidually and as a nation, is an important America in Los Angeles's skid row, caring matter to our yearly meeting. A minute of Bringing Friends' Concerns lor Peace & Justice to for children, sorting clothes, and handing out economic concern which was proposed to us Congress Since 1943 food on the street. They found this work­ in 1985 was approved by the yearly meeting Wnte. or calt (202)547·4343 project experience sobering, frightening, and this summer. "God hath not given us the for actiOn suggest100 !ape. sad. spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and In order to show solidarity with gay men of a sound mind" (2 Tim. 1:7). during these times of the AIDS epidemic and the threat of the quarantine initiative, many Diana Gurley

22 October 15, 1986 F'RIENos JoURNAL Casa Heberto Sein is the second Quaker center in Mexico. Located in Hermosillo in the northern state of Sonora, the center is IWorld of Friends just five hours from Tucson, Ariz. The adobe house with eight rooms and its Domingo Ricart Library can be used by Church Women United's Common Council The Pacific Northwest Gathering of Gay and international groups as a conference center issued a call to action in June "to mobilize Lesbian Friends, which had its fourth annual and also by Friendly travelers ($4 U.S. per the total movement of CWU to address the meeting in May, asks Friends meetings night). The new center will be headquarters 'pauperization' and 'marginalization' of throughout the United States to witness for for rural service work in the surrounding women and children . . . and to deal with equality for gay and lesbian Friends by "us­ area, work that was begun 35 years ago by the root causes of poverty and its linkages ing the same process, celebration, and termi­ the American Friends Service Committee and to the issues." CWU, a national, ecumenical nology to take relationships of couples under has been continued by the Sonora Associa­ group of more than half a million Christian their care regardless of the gender or sexual tion of Friends in cooperation with the women, also issued a strong statement of orientation of the individuals involved.'' In AFSC, the Mexican Friends Service Com­ protest against the June 12 raid on the South addition, meetings are asked to consider mittee, and El Centro de Paz. All but $4,000 African Council of Churches and detention whether acting on behalf of the state by sign­ of the $11 ,600 cost of the center has been of Christian leadership by the South African ing marriage licenses maintains the unequal repaid. Friends wishing to help repay the government. For more information on the status of lesbian and gay persons. remainder may send tax-deductible dona­ CWU's activities, write Jane Burton, CWU, tions made out to El Centro de Paz to Cliff 475 Riverside Dr., rm. 812, New York, NY Cole, treasurer, 339 W. lOth St., Claremont, 10115. Homosexuality is the subject of a new CA 91711. 23-piece study packet that has been compiled by Hartford (Conn.) Meeting. Most of the The Friends Association for Higher Educa­ materials are from Quaker sources. It is the The designation of "Peace Sites" is being en­ tion is cosponsoring a special workshop on meeting's hope that Friends everywhere will couraged by the SANE Education Develop­ peace studies at Quaker colleges Novem­ use this material to study how meetings and ment Fund, which would like to see them dot ber 9-10 at Scattergood Friends School in individuals may wish to respond to what the landscape the same as military sites. A West Branch, Iowa. The workshop is an at­ homosexual persons feel is a silent oppres­ "peace site" can be located anywhere in tempt to bring the Quaker colleges together sion by Friends. To receive the packet, send which people congregate in peaceful pursuits. to see how they can help each other develop $12.50 plus $1.50 for mailing to Hartford To have your meeting or school designated or strengthen peace studies on their cam­ Meeting, 144 S. Quaker Lane, West Hart­ a "peace site," write Peace Sites, Louis puses. Scattergood Friends will provide hos­ ford, CT 06119. Kousin, coordinator, 435 N. Union Ave., pitality and overnight lodging. For more Cranford, NJ 07016. information, write Paul Barton-Kriese, clerk, Peace Studies in Quaker Colleges Taskforce, Friends will be represented at the Day of 417 Kinsey St., Richmond, IN 47374, or call Prayer for Peace, to be held in Assisi, Italy, A megapie and a megagraph of the U.S. (317) 966-2984. on October 27, by Val Ferguson, general sec­ federal budget, showing the percentages that retary of Friends World Committee for Con­ go for military expenditures, have been sultation. The Day of Prayer, called by Pope displayed this summer on the sides of barns "Un-register!" urges the Committee Against John Paul II, will bring together leaders from in Vermont. A project of the American Registration and the Draft (CARD), in an Protestant, Orthodox, and Roman Catholic Friends Service Committee in Vermont, with effort to counteract the government's prep­ churches, along with those of other faiths. support from the Peace Development Fund arations for the draft. CARD's National It will end in the Basilica of San Francesco, of Amherst, Mass., these resources were Un-Registration Campaign offers young men where prayer from representatives of each assembled and displayed with the help of who have registered for the military draft a faith will be offered, ending with a period hundreds of volunteers. The megapies and safe, legal way to express their opposition to of silence. The initiative, it is hoped, will be megagraphs have also been used at press con­ the draft, registration, and U.S. intervention a strong, symbolic voice for a peace based ferences, meetings, fairs, and parades. The in the Third World. By sending an Un­ on justice and love, and an opportunity to AFSC has small versions of these which can Registration Card to the Selective Service, a ask God that we may discover the best ways be displayed in schools and libraries. For in­ young man asks to have his name removed to work together for such a peace. Friends formation about acquiring copies of the from the registration rolls. Un-registration are urged to add their prayers on October 27 megapies and megagraphs, write the AFSC, is legal and can't result in the denial of to those in Assisi. 61 Western Ave. , Brattleboro, VT 05301. federal student aid, job training, or other benefits. In fact, Selective Service regulations .~ A megapie E permit its director to "cancel the registration E and a megagraph of any particular registrant," although this 8 on the Vermont State House lawn, seems unlikely. Rather, the Un-Registration April 15, 1986 Campaign is intended to be a symbolic ex­ pression of opposition to the reinstatement of the draft. To obtain an Un-Registration Card, write iii the CARD Midwest Office, 731 State St., -~ Madison, WI 53703. An organizer's packet -.: including 100 cards and additional resource '0' material is available for a suggested dona- ~ tion of $5. CARD is a national coalition of ~~ 50 local and national anti-draft organizations. ~

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 15, 1986 23 extreme discomfort, and with good reason. Creatures are packed tightly Expand your together, without food or water (not even the 28-hour law protects animals being horizons !Forum shipped by truck), having to stand in their own excrement, and heaven help the Mohonk..... "downers," those animals who fall and at can't get up. The U.S. Humane Slaughte For comfort and hospitality in an Milestones Inspire Act is inadequate at best, and many unspoiled natural setting, come to animals do not come under any coverage Mohonk. in the heart of the This may sound odd, Friends, but the at all. Shawangunk Mountains. Our lake. most beneficial reading for me in each As to "the notion that no animals cliffs and miles of mountain trails issue of the JouRNAL is the death notices. should be killed seems to be an unnatural are perfect for activities like golf. Two profound feelings invariably arise: a result of our affluent, urban lifestyle," tennis. swimming. riding, hiking sharp challenge to do as many loving, quite the opposite is true. It takes many and old-fashioned carriage rides. leading, and varied things in one's life as pounds of grain to "produce" a pound Skating and cross-country skiing. so many of these Friends have done and of meat. By eating high on the food too. Hearty meals. And special a sense of loss at missing the privilege of chain-that is, by using grain to feed theme programs that let you learn knowing them. cattle, then eating the animals-we are JouRNAL articles are important-but by condemning others to starvation. Is that while enjoyin9 the peaceful sur­ nature philosophical and intellectual. "right sharing"? It has been estimated roundings. We re not artificial. just These lives give inspiration and examples that if Americans reduced their meat down-to-earth. Call Miss Oates. that are real. How often we read of consumption by just 10 percent we could departed Friends with five, eight, or even feed the entire population of India. This, Here's what's happening at more worthy milestones or careers, all in too, is what People for Ethical Treatment Mohonk: a single lifetime! of Animals is about. October 29-November 2: I wonder how many others feel as I Beatrice William Octoberfest of Chamber Music do? How I wish you could do more than New York, N.Y. November 7-9: Tune in to Life just these notices in small print. November 20-22: Language Immersion Patrick Jackson Mohonk Exeter, N.H. MOUNTAIN HOUSE In the Hudson River Valley Farm Animals Mistreated New Paltz. (212) 233-2244 N.Y. 12561 (914) 255-1000 While I don't challenge for a moment Joan Anderson's contention that life for the cattle on her farm is close to idyllic, she does not speak for the millions of factory farm animals whose lives are My husband and I often wish we could miserable from birth to death (Forum, find a religion that included in its FJ 6/1-15). precepts not only the loving of other CREMATION Witness the fact that of the total U.S. human beings-and a willingness to die Friends are reminded that the production of antibiotics, a greater rather than kill or injure others-but a Anna T. Jeanes Fund percentage gets put into animal feed than similar reverence for animals. will reimburse cremation costs. into medicine for humans. The stress of We feel very close to the Quakers (Applicable to members of extreme overcrowding is the cause. The because they are some of the most Phi/adelpl;ia Yearly Meeting only.) Department of Agriculture is now compassionate, courageous people we For laforDUidoD wrltt or ttltpboat RICHARD F. BETTS addressing the problem of the high levels know, but how we wish they would take 500-B Glta Ecbo Road of antibiotics in meat. a stand against eating meat, fish, and PbiiiMielpblo, PA 19119 Routine mutilation of factory farm poultry. (115) 147-3354 animals includes removal of pigs' tails Dorothy S. Smith (they are kept so crowded with such St. Augustine, Fla. limited movement that they go berserk and chew on the tail of the captive in front- so instead of alleviating the Joan W. Anderson (Forum, FJ 6/1-15) conditions leading to the bizarre criticizes the letter of Beatrice Williams behavior, the tails are removed). supporting the aims of People for the Similarly, chickens are debeaked. Ethical Treatment of Animals. Joan Castration and dehorning are widespread. Anderson notes the admittedly impressive Veal calves are taken from their fact that she and her husband operate a mothers almost immediately after birth, cattle farm, and so understands that these confined to crates too small to permit animals are not mistreated. However, a any movement, deprived of straw on few points merit clarification. Designs for a nonviolent world which to lie- they would eat it in their When Joan Anderson says that the holiday greeting cards, T-shirts, desperation for iron-and deliberately typical beef cow or sheep is not note cards , postcards, postercards. made anemic so their flesh will be white. mistreated, we must wonder what she Even dairy cows are being made into sees as adequate care; anyone who has Special rates to peace/ justice factory farm animals. ever followed a truckload of cattle must groups for fundraising. Write for I wonder if Joan Anderson has suspect that something unpleasant is free brochure: P.O. Box 28788-D, considered what happens to her happy going on here. Providence, Rl 02908. cattle after they leave her bucolic In fact, very little U.S. animal premises. "Cattle car" has come to mean production is controlled by farmers such

24 October 15, 1986 FRIENDS JouRN as Joan Anderson; this means that most of the billions of animals raised and slaughtered in this country are handled by large "factory farms," or corporations. Most cattle (at six months to a year of age) are shipped long distances to feedlots to be "finished." Here, thousands of cattle are kept in small enclosures and over-fed grain (not a natural diet item, and one that upsets their stomachs) until they go to slaughter; at this point they are rarely fed or given water on the journey. As to the final outcome, a visit to a slaughterhouse will clear up any questions that the reader may have about humane treatment of food animals. I am always interested when someone says, as Joan Anderson did, that all of nature is a chain of eaters and eaten, and that humans are not exempt. But what ~WOODSCOURl------~ about animals that don't eat flesh? Why is being a vegetarian not a natural state Now available-New one-bedroom for humans, whose intestines bear little resemblance to the insides of carnivores? I am driven by a concern that all non­ apartments for senior citizens human animals-livestock, laboratory, zoo, and pet-be treated as sentient contact: beings who are not put here for our convenience, palate, or amusement. They Robert Smith, Administrator are as much a manifestation of the Light Friends Home at Woodstown as are we ourselves; different but not inferior. lWOCX>STOWN Woodstown, NJ 08098 Telephone (609) 769-1500 Sean O'Neill Annandale, Va.

WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 Support Needed Kindergarten Three Centuries of Quaker Education Through Twelfth Grade Friends of the Associated Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs will be sorry, though not too surprised, to learn Penn Charter's coeducational, preparatory environment stresses excellence in that the committee is facing another financial crisis. The giving picture to the academics, arts and athletics. Penn Charter is committed to nurturing girls and boys end of July for the past three years of diversified economic and social backgrounds in an atmosphere designed to shows that yearly meeting and individual stimulate each student to work to his or her fullest potential. giving has decreased nearly $8,000 per Applications from Quaker students and teachers are invited. year. This decrease comes at a time when living and maintenance costs are Earl J. Ball III 3000 W. School House Lane increasing. Headmaster Philadelphia, PA 19144 The treasurer has had to draw on reserve every month since April to cover part of the payroll. The balance is now approximately $7,000 with a checking balance of just above $1,000. F.J Subscription • Gift • Address Change Form Unless ACFIA receives substantial gifts Please enter a subscription to FRI!ONDS JOURNAL, payment for which is enclosed. in the meantime, we will not be able to 0 One year $15; 0 Two years $29; 0 Three years $43. meet some $9,000 regular expenses plus a (Add $6 a year for postage outside the U.S.) $7,400 final payment on the Choctaw 0 Enroll me as a FRIENDS JOURNAL Associate. My contribution of $______is in School/Church building. addition to the subscription price and is tax deductible. It is hoped that each of our constituency might make a survey for 0 Address change or correction: anyone who might be a candidate to (1) For your old address, send your address label from a recent issue of FRIENDS JOURNAL, make ACFIA a loan of from $2,000 to or write the numbers from the top right of your address label here: ------­ $10,000. If ACFIA should be forced to or give your name and old zip code here: that extremity, we should hope for (2) Give your name and new address below. 0 This is a gift subscription in my name for: interest-free funds; however, we have Name ______paid interest on one former loan. Name ACFIA appreciates all the help given in Address ______the past and thanks, in advance, each Address one who makes a contribution to this worthy and needy cause. It is a shame Zip Zip for a cloud of uncertainty to liang over FRIENDS .JOURNAL, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102 the heads of the diligent and faithful

FRIENDS JoURNAL October 15, 1986 25 workers at the five centers. Send contributions through your yearly meeting benevolence treasurer or directly Planning ahead will get you where to Paul Turner, 2030 Chester Blvd., Richmond, IN 47374. you want to be when you retire. Sterrett L. Nash Education and Publicity chairperson Think about retirement now. Think about what you want. Then ACFIA, Frankton, Ind. think about Cadbury, where you can have: • The freedom of living independently Looking for More • Your own apartment and your own furnishings • None of the cares of a house, but all the pleasures of a home I appreciate Peter Donchian's article • Thirteen spacious acres, with a lovely lake and wooded walks "What's Happening to Our Meetings for Worship?" (FJ 7/1-15) very much. I have • Dining facility with private room to entertain friends a similar concern about mine-indeed, • Companionship with other active people your own age about the whole society of Friends. • The pleasure of a library, craft and game rooms, the Recently a well-known peace activist convenience of an on-site beauty shop and gift shop, and a asked me what had happened to Friends; why they were dwindling. He said he had full program of enjoyable activities been attending a meeting, was moved to • Fully-staffed, on-premises Health Care Center join, but had backed off because it was • The convenience of a shuttle bus for shopping and touring composed mostly of "grayhairs" and he wanted a mix. I told him that I didn't But plan ahead. Visit Cadbury NOW. Just call for an appointment. have an answer, that I'd think about it, and that my meeting had a similar problem: Cadbury So I began looking around for the A not-for-profit community in the Quaker tradition places young, dedicated people could be found. I found many in the Buddhist 2150 Route 38, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 609-667-4550 Peace Fellowship. I asked Robert Aitken, co-founder of 'the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, and former attender at Orange Grove Friends Meeting in Pasadena, what he felt the appeal of Buddhism was. He felt the main attractions to Buddhism were the commitment to ''practice'' -through regular, frequent meditation times for all members (at least three times each week)-and the deep CHANDLER HALL sharing of individuals' Jives. Besides the Where loving care and skilled nursing mean peace of mind for aging Friends regular sharing meetings, they have and their families; also providing efficient supporting services including a recently developed weekly healing and certified hospice home/health aide program. reconciliation meetings where there is voluntary sharing about one's own Jane Fox Laquer-Administrator (215) 968-4786 difficulties or about suffering of others. Newtown, Pennsylvania 18940 These are open meetings. The next place I found dedicated, vigorous people was in Al-Anon. (Al-Anon is a spiritual program for families and HEAD OF SCHOOL friends of alcoholics.) There the Moorestown Friends School "practice" is intense. Members make time in their busy lives to meet together, Moorestown, New Jersey pray together, and share their Jives at least two or three times each week. The Moorestown Frienqs School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school process is almost indistinguishable from (K-12; enrollment 608). Candidates must be firmly committed to the Quaker Quaker dialogue. The growth in principles for which Moorestown Friends stands. Candidates must have a strong equilibrium and depth among them is academic background and successful independent school teaching and remarkable, as is their love and caring administrative experience. They must play a leading role in the relationship of the for one another and for the stranger. school to the larger community: parents, townspeople, and alumni. A genuine How can we Friends lace our lives love of children and young adults is an important requirement. together in love, forgiveness, acceptance? The deep sharing in Al-Anon is Interested persons should send a resume, a statement of educational philosophy, teaching me this. I wonder if we could and names and complete addresses of references to: use Quaker dialogue in new ways to knit us to our testimonies and to one another. Lenox Associates, P.O. Box 307, Radnor, PA 19087 If we did, others might begin to say "Look at those Quakers; see how they Deadline for applications: October 15, 1986 Jove one another." And then, they might join with us to learn to do the same. Moorestown Friends School is an equal opportunity employer Gene Knudsen-Hoffman Santa Barbara, Calif.

26 October 15, 1986 FRIENDS JouRNAL ;, ~~~..-~, ,. : 'I . -a1 ~a-~ ~ 1~ Are Friends Seeking ~ , , il '"f.· 11-. .._, :·· W' <' S tl 0\;\1 I a Third Alternative? { . Schon) Nothing is as difficult as writing option, and socialism is given as the about a moral dilemma . .. worst of evils, his viewpoint is at least '-· particularly in an open letter to the understandable, if not acceptable. We group which first sparked the can likewise understand Friends' problem. You see, we are caught political and relief action-but not its WESTTOWN between a strong belief in pacifism, a seeming one-sidedness. powerful agreement with Quaker faith Friends, if we truly abide by the and practice, and a heritage (by 'blood Peace Testimony, shouldn't we seek SCHOOL and by marriage) which will not allow out that of God in contras and Green Westtown. PA 19395 us in good conscience to participate in Berets as well as in Ortega's forces, in (215) 399-0123 Friends' peace work, particularly that Salvadorian government troops and PK-10th Grade Day in Central America. So we come to U.S. mercenaries as well as in the 9-12th Grade Boarding Friends for answers or, at least, rebels? When Francis of Assissi went "I think Westtown is special because the perspectives. as a Catholic monk to the Crusades, people are willing to share, wi lling to We both became ardent pacifists in he did not show his disapproval of the care, and willing to dare to be different. our pre-teen years despite strongly Christian knights' brutality by joining You c an be your own person!" conservative environments which posed the Saracens-rather, he worked for Betsy Brown '86 " American strength" and the healing of both-much to their "Communist world takeover" as the dismay! For Further Information only two possible options. Pacifists The "third alternative" is neither PleaM Contact: were seen as cowards refusing to die quick nor easy, neither safe nor Bradley J. Quln, for their (or anyone else's) country in popular. Often its supporters are Director of Admissions The Cause. despised by both sides. But it is vitally Gradually, and independently, we necessary, if only to mitigate the came to believe in the idea of a "third violence and pave the first steps of the alternative" to war or surrender-or, road to peace. FRIENDS' CENTRAL SCHOOL indeed, to any two polarized options. So my questions are these: what are Overbrook, Philadelphia, 19151 The third alternative is not necessarily Friends doing to seek the third • A co-educational country day school a combination of the two or a alternative, particularly in Central on a 23-acre campus just outside of compromise between thelll, but a America? Why does there seem to be Philadelphia. completely different vision which can such a leaning toward socialist • Pre-primary (four-year-olds) through only be seen by the Light. "liberation"? And why have no 12th grade. Then we joined the Friends, finding lessons been learned, apparently, from • A Friends school established in 1845, in them the only religious group in Soviet emigres' experience: is it that Friends' Central emphasizes the pursuit which we could integrate our Friends have had no direct contact of excellence in education through hodgepodge (ethnic Catholic, U.S. with them? concern for the individual student. Protestant, existential deist) faiths. All of this sounds highly anti­ Thomas A. Wood The Friends Peace Testimony, of Soviet. It is not meant to be so. When Headmaster course, added to the attraction. Here, one has family still living in the perhaps, was a group dedicated to the USSR, one cannot be against the third alternative, not necessarily on Soviet people as a whole (in fact, !­ one side or the other, but on the side Christina-became a pacifist partially of real peace. to ensure that neither I nor my Are you someone who. . . But we were dismayed to see that descendants, if I can help it, will fight • Lives 'apart' and likes it? many Friends' answers to the conflict against our family in Lithuania). • l ives alone (by choice) in a positive in Central America seem to be exactly You can see the dilemma: what does contributive relationship to others? the same as those prescribed by the one do when the religious group one • Possesses a highly developed sense Democratic Socialists of America and has chosen, partially for its Peace of aesthetics, ethics, and universal similar groups. Testimony, supports the goals of the order? I (Christina) have been fortunate in government holding one's family in • Experiences your work and/or dai ly having a Lithuanian heritage, which political, religious, and moral activity as devotional, a calling, or Erick proudly adopted upon our bondage? Knowing how our family as service? marriage. We share many friends of and the families of our friends have • Has designed your life to be as Eastern European origin-few of suffered under the system in the simple, orderly, and uncomplicated whom have any delusions about the USSR, we cannot in good conscience as possible? benevolence of a socialist government. participate in peace efforts aiding the Then you should read: They uniformly hold a deep-rooted cause of socialism in Central America. __.__ conservatism, stemming from a direct What are your answers, Friends? experience of Soviet policies. ORDINARY PEOPLE Please understand that neither of us AS MONKS AND MYSTICS in any way approves of Ronald E. Erick Hoopes and -.- Reagan's militaristic answers, Christina Rizzo Hoopes by Marsha Sinetar although, if force is taken. as a viable Baltimore, Md. ~ PAUUST n.ESS

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 15, 1986 27 to this new era or of leading the rest of the Churches in Struggle: Liberation world into it." He knows we cannot export Theologies and Social Change this ideal either by cunning or by force of IBooks arms. We can only lead by our example. in North America This book is no visionary tract on secrecy Edited by William K. Tabb. Monthly Review versus democracy; it is his factual report on Press, 155 W. 23rd St., New York, NY JOOJJ, the struggle between secrecy and democracy 1986. 331 pages. Slllpaperback. The central Secrecy and Democracy: message of these 25 essays is that "women, men, during his four years at the helm of the and nations are to be judged by how they treat the The C.I.A. in Transition C.I.A. His factual recital of the terrible ero­ most vulnerable members of the human family." sion of its moral integrity, of its loss of faith Contributors include activist and writer Phil Berry­ By Stansfield Turner. Houghton Mifflin in constitutional government, and-worse man and the sanctuary movement proponent Paul Co., Boston, 1986. 320 pages. $7.951 than its fear of the "enemy nation"-of its Burks-both of whom have worked with the paperback. internal distrust and suspicion shows us far American Friends Service Committee. more effectively that democracy and more Quakers with sensitive consciences would democracy is the only antidote. Waking Up in the Age of Creativity do well to prepare themselves spiritually by By Lois B. Robbins. Bear and Co. Books, Santa rereading Mark Twain's account of Huckle­ John H. Davenport Fe, N.Mex., 1985. 187 pages. $8.95/paperback. berry Frnn's dilemma (in the chapter "You We "grow up in the process of expressing our im­ Can't Pray a Lie") before they tackle ex­ ages," says the author, who offers "extrovert C.I.A. director Stansfield Turner's chronicle. Books in Brief meditations" such as dancing to aid us in gener­ For Turner is a modern-day Huck Finn ating images and finding a form for our thoughts writ large. Not the mighty Mississippi but the and feelings. Lois Robbins believes that the spir­ madly turning world lacerates his conscience The Mike King Story itual and creative processes overlap, and that one of the most potent possibilities of art is its healing in one scrape after another. His face on the By Mike King. Good Books, Intercourse, PA function within the community. Her book provides 17534, 1985. 176 pages. $15.95. Mike King, a Men­ cover of the paperback edition inspires in­ a chapter on the ways in which artists may be nonite farm boy from eastern Pennsylvania, writes stant liking, the instinctive feeling: "Here's blocked creatively. a man you can trust." And because he's "on­ of his motorcycle accident and paraplegia, and of ly a boy," Huck can always wiggle out of the 5,600-milejourney, during which he made his tight spots with his outrageous lies. One is peace with the limitations of his life. During the Exercise As You Grow Older discomforts of his cross-country wheelchair jour­ By Naomi Lederach, Nona Kauffman, and Beth a professional liar, the other, an amateur. ney, Mike King's Christian faith sustained him But neither can escape from his conscience Lederach. Good Books, Intercourse PA 17534, through people who were kind to him in the midst 1986. 112 pages. $9.95/ paperback. A cooperative or his deep love of humanity. of their own trials. effort by grandmother, mother, and grand­ No heartless bureaucrat, no stern ex-navy daughter, Exercise As You Grow Older describes man unquestioningly "following orders," how to get your body moving to improve and pro­ Turner is a real live human being caught in long life. The upbeat narrative, with plenty of pic­ the tragic dilemma between "my country tures, encourages exercise to improve strength, right or wrong" and the happiness of others flexibility, balance, and mental alertness. An an­ mired in the same web. He feels bad about notated bibliography and list of companion read­ the C.I.A.'s inhuman treatment-before he ings are included. took over-of a Soviet defector ("my coun­ try right or wrong"), but he is just as Leaves From the Notebook ashamed of the callously bureaucratic ''early of a Tamed Cynic retirement" of 147 C.I.A. employees no By Reinhold Niebuhr. Foreword by Martin E. longer needed. He feels. He is a human be­ Marty. Harper and Row, San Francisco, 1986. 152 ing, not a machine. Such men are beyond pages. $7.95/paperback. First published in 1929, price. In Praise of Law this delightful collection of excerpts from the early But his highest loyalty is always to his own By Betty Stone. Waterway Press, Supply, NC diary of one of the United States' most noted the­ " nation"-as Huck's is to his own "race." 28462, 1986. 348 pages. $7.95 (special price of ologians, Reinhold Niebuhr, is full of surprises. What complicates this-and finally leaves the $5.95 to religious groups, schools, and readers of Although old (1915-1928) it is not dated. These words of a "hireling priest" are not solemn or horrified reader with hope-is that this loyal­ the JOURNAL)!paperback. Billed as "an absolute beginner's guide," this book sets out in simple preachy but are irreverent and questioning about ty is really to the principles on which his "na­ every problem a young minister (or Quaker meet­ tion" was founded. When a senator asked language the legal terms for the areas of crime, rights and freedoms, business, justice, war, and ing?) could encounter. him, prior to confirming the president's ap­ international law. Each chapter begins with ex­ pointment, what he would do about "a presi­ amples of ancient Jaws or saws. The writer is a Meeting the Challenge of dent who is embarking on something that Friend and convener of the Peace Committee of is .. . clearly unconstitutional," he replied: North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Cons.). Disability or Chronic Illness "I would come to you, sir, but after having -A Family Guide resigned my office." Sanctuary: By Lori A. Goldfarb eta/. Paul H. Brookes, P. 0. This devotion to the universal ideal of con­ Box 10624, Baltimore, MD 21285, 1986. 181 pages stitutionally limited government-beyond The New Underground Railroad (plus tear-out pages). $14.95/paperback. When a the powerful myth of "the nation-state,'' By Renny Golden and Michael McConnell. Orbis family must cope with the burdensome care of a "national security,'' "national defense,'' Books, Maryknoll, NY 10545, 1986. 214 pages. member who is blind, deaf, bedridden, or in a and the like which now serve only our most $7.95/paperback. The authors, themselves conduc­ wheelchair, senile, or otherwise dependent, a how­ tors on the underground railroad since its incep­ to book is probably not the first place they turn. bestial and certainly suicidal instincts-Jets tion and members of the Chicago Religious Yet eventually they may recognize their need for him see, in the end, that: "The world is mov­ Taskforce on Central America, have written a very help, for new ideas, for knowledge of how other ing inexorably into an era of openness," and readable history of the sanctuary movement. There families have managed, and here is a book that that "we have the choice of being pushed in- is no index. covers a great deal of that ground-from coping

28 October 15, 1986 FRIENDS JouRNAL with stress to solving problems and finding and using professional support. Marriages Carlson-Howarth-Paul Todd Howarth and Dr. Frau IMilestones Linda Coutch Carlson on December 20, 1985, in By Grace H. Kaiser. Good Books, Intercourse, PA Seattle, Wash. Paul is a member of Media (Pa.) Meeting. 17534, 1986. 165 pages. $14.95. "Dr. Frau," as she has been nicknamed, recalls her 28 years as Mangelsdorf-Rosengren-Karl Sven Rosengren "baby doctor" to the "plain people." She gives and Sarah Charlotte Mangelsdorj on June 14 at a loving, clear-eyed look at life in the Amish farm Swarthmore Meetinghouse under the care of communities of Lancaster County, Pa. Swarthmore (Pa.) Meeting. Sarah and her parents, Births Paul and Mary Mangelsdorf, are members of Belcher-Christopher Richmond Belcher on Sandwich (Mass.) Meeting who are sojourning at Women and Change September 5 to Dana and Cathi Belcher, members Swarthmore Meeting. of Cornwall (N.Y.) Meeting and codirectors of in Latin America Neale-Mitcbeli-Richard Mitchell and Betsy Penington Friends House in New York City. By June Nash and Helen Saja. Bergin and Gar­ Neale, members of Lexington (Ky.) Meeting, on Blood-Patterson-Nathaniel Elias Blood-Patterson, vey, 670 Amherst Rd., South Hadley, MA 01075, May 24, followed by the season's largest potluck on August 3 to Anne and Peter Blood-Patterson, 1985. 372 pages. $14.95/paperback. Women and and dancing until Quaker midnight. Richard is ·members of Media (Pa.) Meeting. Eli is the first Change presents current research findings about clerk of Lexington Meeting. grandson of Bob and Margaret Blood, members the economic, social, and political realities of Latin of Ann Arbor (Mich.) Meeting. W illey-Cook-Milton Cook and Elizabeth Sue American women. Topics include female participa­ Willey on August 10 in Waynesville, Ohio, under tion in the work force, trends in child bearing and Boone-Kyria Elizabeth Boone on August 20 in the care of Miami (Ohio) Meeting. Milton and his childhood education, women's involvement in ur­ Albuquerque, N.Mex., to Robert and Rachel parents, Ernest E. Cook and Sara Furnas Cook, ban development and technology, and in political Howarth Boone. Rachel is a member of Media are birthright members of Miami Meeting. His action. The authors help the reader to understand (Pa.) Meeting. four grandparents were also members of Miami the forces that shape the Jives of women in Latin Furnas-Marjorie Louise Furnas on July 27 to Meeting. Sue is the daughter of Patricia and America. Frederick and Theresa Furnas. Her parents are Richard Willey of Centerville, Ohio. members of Miami (Ohio) Meeting. Marjorie joins a brother, Michael Seth. Deaths IPoet s and Reviewers W ilmerding-Peter Alexander Wilmerding on Balderston and Kramer-Hilary (James H.) August 2 in Huntingdon, N.Y., to John Wilmer­ Balderston, 43, and Marguerite H. Kramer, 34, A member of Westbury (N.Y.) Meeting, J ohn H. ding and Wendy Newhall Wilmerding. Peter's near Coca, Ecuador, about August 24. Both were Davenport Jives in Tenerife, Canary Islands, father and his paternal grandmother, Virginia members of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting. Hilary Spain. Werner Janney is a member and form~r Barmen, are members of Lloyd Harbor (N.Y.) was born in Philadelphia, Pa., and is a graduate clerk of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting. Meeting. of Westtown and the Pennsylvania State Univer-

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FRIENDS JoURNAL October 15, 1986 29 sity. He studied for his doctorate in vegetable crops Philadelpha, Nur Mahal ("Palace of Light"), was at the University of California at Davis. There he Marguerite H. Kramer-See Balderston . a haven for conscientious objectors. Elizabeth and met Greta, an undergraduate from Palo Alto. Edward moved to Tucson in 1951, where Edward Miller-Kenneth Oscar Miller, 79, on April 29 Hilary joined Davis Meeting and was active in died in 1974. Friends said of Elizabeth that she after a prolonged illness. A valuable and beloved Pacific Yearly Meeting and went to South America truly practiced and exemplified her Christian faith. member of Orange Grove (Calif.) Meeting, Ken shortly thereafter. They spent much of the rest of She is survived by a sister, two sons, and two was active in the spiritual and business life of the their lives there, first in Brazil and later in Ecuador, daughters. meeting and never failed to pitch in when work where Hilary held several jobs connected with was required on meetinghouse or cemetery. Ken Sc=ott-Lawrence W. Scott, 77, on August 7 near agriculture and agricultural research. Greta did was born in Traverse City, Mich., and worked in Tucson, Ariz., after attending a reunion of anti- graduate study in ornithology at the University of sales for many years. For the last 20 years of his nuclear weapons test protesters at the Nevada Indiana and joined Hilary permanently when she working life he was a postal clerk in Los Angeles, Rocky Flats atomic testing range. (See Among finished in 1984. At the time of their deaths they Calif. Ken's association with Quakerism began in Friends, page 2.) Larry Scott's Quaker connec- had just bought a farm on the frontier and were 1965, when he and his family attended an tions were deep. He and his first wife, Viola, joined enthusiastic about their new life. Hilary is survived American Friends Service Committee family Penn Valley (Mo.) Meeting in Kansas City in 1948. by his sisters, Betsy Balderston, Caroline Parry, camp. Ken was an active committee worker for From then until his death, Larry's peace activities Anne Peery, Susan Blanchford, and Laura Laky. the AFSC, especially after his retirement. He is included work for the American Friends Service Greta is survived by her father and stepmother, survived by his wife, Beatrice; a son, Rex; and a Committee in their Intern in Industry and Labor Ray and Peggy Kramer; her brother, Paul; and daushter, Eva. Unions projects and as peace education secretary her sisters, Susan Caulk and Jackie Schroeder. Richards-Elizabeth Coon Richards on December of the Chicago region. He helped organize the 1960 Bond-John L. Bond, Jr., 42, suddenly on August 14, 1985, three hours short of her 99th birthday, Quaker witness at the Pentagon and the Friends 14. He was a birthright member and active attender in Tucson, Ariz. Elizabeth was a member of Con- Witness for World Order in 1962 in Washington, of Quakertown (N.J.) Meeting, and the owner of cord (Pa.) Meeting and an attender at Pima (Ariz.) D.C.; he was executive secretary of A Quaker Ac- John Bond Brokerage, Inc., of Flemington, N.J., Meeting. She was born in Urumia, Persia (now tion Group; and he was race relations secretary where he lived. John is survived by his wife Ann· Iran), of American missionary parents and spent for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Larry Scott was four children, Sharon, Ivy, Timothy, and Laura; her first 16 years there. She went to college in the also a student at Pendle Hill and a member of the his mother, Mary Bond; and a sister, Ann United States-Wellesley and Winona State-and Planning and Religious Life committees of the Oihankesni. returned to teach at the Urumia Girls School dur- Friends General Conference. He spoke about his Buck-Ruth Atkinson Buck, 83, on June 28 in ing World War I. In 1918 she married Edward peace work at many monthly and yearly meetings Paoli, Pa. A member of Haverford (Pa.) Meeting, Richards, who wrote of the nonviolent resistance across the country. In 1974, he and Viola helped Ruth was active in Helping Hands. Her husband, to a Kurdish raid on the mission in "A Test of to found Friends Southwest Center and Cochise Addison Buck, died May 18. Survivors are a Faith" (Atlantic Monthly, May 1923). Both of Monthly Meeting near McNeal, Ariz. Larry Scott daughter, Ellen B. McGill; a son, Sydney C. Buck; their sons went to prison as conscientious objec- is survived by his wife, Jane; his first wife, Viola; and five grandchildren. tors to World War II, and their home near a brother, Felix; and a sister, Lola Mulleneaux.

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30 October 15, 1986 FRIENDS JOURNAL Friends Council o n Education, 1507 Cherry St., Woodbrook-Eng!Md. An adu~ residential Quaker Study "Quality Hill" house, $200, both plus util~ies and heat. Also Philadelphia, PA 19102. Application deadline: January 15, Center with a lively international community set in the heart trailer hookups. In wide mountain valley, area rich in birds, of England. A place for learning and spiritual refreshment. hiking trails, sunshine. Snowbird, Friends SW Center, 1987. Your study program can be based on over 60 courses in McNeal, 1\Z. 85617. American Friends Service Committee seeks in a complex of colleges and on our excellent Quaker library. Rent fumiahed, 3 bedrooms, 1 'h bath, living/dining room, Philadelphia : (1) Associate Executive Secretary (starts Inclusive cost £1,020 a term. Contact June Ellis, kitchen for December, January, and March by month. No early '87): senior position with broad management and Woodbrooke, 1046 Bristol Rd., Birmingham B29 6W, U.K. smoking or pets. Stuart, FL. (305) 692-9514. program oversight relating to entire organization; work (0114421) 472-5171 . closely with, serve as deputy for Executive Secretary. Delaware Valley Land Trust Aasoclatlon, 40 acres open Instruction Requires: compatibility with philosophy, practice of AFSC land, woods, swamp, 1-acre home site plots available for and Friends; substantive management experience; strong lease. Tax-deductible contributions welcome. DVLTA, 340 Voice lnatruction: Healthy vocal technique for all singing communication skills; experience with AFSC, other social Pine Ave., Deptford, NJ 08096. (609) 227-5723. styles; optional study in ear training, sight-singing, and change work desirable. (2) Assistant to the Executive theory. Sharon Sigal, (215) 387-4942. Secretary (starts late '86): provide general assistance to Executive Secretary; responsible for minutes of AFSC A group of Hven churches from Ohio to Montana and Board, other administrative group meetings. Requires: Georgia and Sojourners magazine have formed a Opportunities strong administrative experience; sense of organization and Community of Communities. A brief statement of their Conalder a Coate Rican study tour February 19-March 2, confidentiality; experience with Friends and AFSC beliefs would be difficult for Friends to accept and 1987. Write or telephone: Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey, 1808 desirable. Contact: Karen Cromley, AFSC, 1501 Cherry, endorse, but it presents many ideas that might interest Ashby Rd., St. Louis, MO 63114. (314) 426-3810. Philadelphia, PA 19102. AFSC is an Affirmative many people. I should like to communicate with anyone Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. who is interested in studying this statement, with a hope Joyful Culture building cooperation among people. Food, of revising it for use in Friends meeting. For a free copy, housing, children, recreation, medical, skills training provided in exchange for income sharing, 47-hour work please write to: Tom Todd, 3709 W. Main, Kalamazoo, week, other community agreements. You are invited to Schools Ml49007. observe, visit, join, or otherwise value as we do. Federa­ The MHting School, a challenge to creative living and tion/Egalitarian Communities, Twinoaks FJ.JC, Louisa, VA learning. A Quaker high school that encourages individual We would like to Invite you to visit our private adult 23093. Donation appreciated. grow1h through strong academics and an equally demand­ community. A special place for seniors, retired persons, and ing emphasis on community cooperation. Students live in others who want and need a place to live with peace and Personal faculty homes. Art and farm programs. Coed, boarding, dignity. Lakeside Country Inn, Livingston Manor, New York. grades 9--12 and post grad, college prep. Founded in 1957. Phone: (914) 439-5669 or 439-5198 and ask for Tom. Single Booklovera gets cultured, single, widowed, or Rindge, NH 03461. (603) 899-3366. divorced persons acquainted. Nationwide. Run by Friends. Established 1970. Write Box 117, Gradyville, PA 19039, or Quaker School at Horsham, 318 Meetinghouse Rd., Horsham, PA 19044. (215) 674-2875. A friendly, caring Conferences call (215) 358-5049. environment where children with learning disabilities can "Employer~ & EmployMS: Responding to Con8cience," Ctaalcat Muatc Lovers' Excha~Nationwide link grow in skills and self-esteem. Small classes. Grades one a conference for Quaker employers sponsored by the between unattached music lovers. Write CMLE, Box 31 , through six. 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Need someone steadily From manuacrtpta to finished books: Celo Press, for a few months, then one or two days thereafter. publisher of Quaker books, also produces books for For Sale Requirements: loving energy. (215) 622-0022. individuals. If you have a manuscript that you want edited, Executive Secretary, Fellowship of Reconciliation, a designed, typeset, printed, and/or bound in a professional RIIIH funda and awarenen-over 300 progressive 72-year-old religious pacifist organization. Responsible for and economic way, write to Ceio Press, Attn: D. Donovan, buttons, bumper stickers, labels. Immediate delivery. Also general leadership, business and personnel management, posters, T-shirts, postcards, balloons, Nicaraguan coffee. 1901 Hannah Branch Rd., Burnsville, NC 28714. and program activ~ies in Nyack, New York. Past experience Wholesale prices. We can also custom print your message with board/membership organization and multiple staff at wholesale. Union made. Specify in-stock or custom General Contractor. Repairs or alterations on old or printing catalog. Donnelly/Colt, Box 188·FJ, Hampton, CT necessary. Salary negotiable, fringe benefits. Minorities and women encouraged to apply. Apply by: December 1, 1986. historical buildings. Storm and fire damage restored. John 06247; (203) 455-9621 . Send resumes to Scott Kennedy, FOR Personnel File, 1147 Bloomdale Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19115. For Chrtatmas: law (including international law) primer. Committee, Box 2324, Santa Cruz, CA 95063. 464-2207. Betty Stone's In Praise of Law. "Delightfull" 348 pp. index. Moving to North Carolina? Maybe David Brown, a Quaker $7.95 ppd. Waterway, R2, Supply, NC 28462. Volunt..,.. Against Violence: Center For Teaching Non­ real estate broker, can help. Contact him at 1208 Pinewood Limited edition of glowing reproduction of Edward Hicks's Violence seeking full-time staff. Lodging, $150/ Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. (919) 294-2095. famous Peaceable Kingdom. 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FRIENDS JouRNAL October 15, 1986 31 Woolman Commons ''Long ago we decided we didn't want to be off in the country. We wanted to be in a differential age group. We wanted a sm£lller group. We wanted to control our destiny as long as we could." -Woolm£ln Commons Resident

Many factors should enter into your decision to enter a life-care community. The comprehensive and high quality medical and nursing care that Medford Leas offers in its life-care contract is a primary consideration. The way you want to continue living your life is equally important.

Woolman Commons is one of several living arrangements that Medford Leas offers in an effort to address the needs and concerns of a wide variety of older people. The residents ·· of Woolman Commons share a love and a need for continuing independence and community involvement. Life in Mount Holly, the county seat and historic center of Burlington County, affords them opportunities for social action, service, and participation in the community at large. Woolman Commons of Medford Leas in Mount Holly, New Jersey, is an alter­ native to traditional life-care communities, combining the best features of active small­ town life with a comprehensive life-care contract.

Medford Leas is conducted by members of The Religious Society of Friends. For a brochure, tour, or planning assistance, call the Admissions Office of Medford Leas, Monday through Friday, at (609)654-3000. Outside of New Jersey diall-800-331-4302.