July 1993 Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today
Also: AND THE TWAIN SHALL MEET Uberal and evangelical camp directors find unity of spirit A FAXTOTHE HOMELESS w~ Jesus didn't need technology Among Friends Editor-Manager Vinton Deming Aa.ociate Editor Melissa Kay Elliott A New QPS Member Art Director Barbara Benton on't get me wrong. I'm not in a panic. I don't think the end is at hand, that Advertising Manager Catherine Frost I'm losing it. After all, I've got my health, a family that loves me, a place to Circulation and Promotion D work that I truly enjoy. I've got a roof over my head (never mind that I've Nagendran Gulendran got to get it repaired-the roof, that is). Computer Production Susan Jordhamo But something's come up (or, should I say, "come around"?). Things definitely Secretarial Services aren't the same. It all started when I was fixing a bowl of cereal one morning a . Edward Sargent couple of months ago. Just when I was slicing a banana on my com flakes and Bookk-per James Neveil getting ready to reach for the low fat milk, a news item came over NPR that just Editorial Assistant/Computer about ruined my day. The story was about the couple in New England (I don' t recall Production their names; actually, I'm getting terrible at names); you know, the ones who were Timothy Drake found guilty of child abuse. "Elderly grandparents of 61 ," were the words used by Student Intern Bebe Thode Poor the news commentator in describing them. I was annoyed. What do you mean Volunt-rs "elderly," I grumbled. I lost interest in the cereal and went to look for my keys. I've Jane Burgess, Emily Conlon been so distracted lately that I've been leaving them in different places around the Board of Managers house. 1991-1994: Frank Bjornsgaard, Emily Conlon, Sam Legg (Clerk), Parry Jones, Richard Moses Later, I rode the #34 trolley to work. I couldn't believe what a young crowd there (Treasurer), Harry Scott, Larry Spears, Robert was that morning: kids heading to school, young working people, even some babies. Sutton, Carolyn Terrell 1992-1995: Phoebe Cottingham, Richard Eldridge The driver, too, couldn't have been a day over 30. I sat surrounded by people (Assistant Clerk), Deborah Fisch, Kitty Harrison, reading pop magazines and wearing headsets. Definitely unnerving, kind of like Bernard Haviland, Paul Jolly, Eric Larson, Margery Rubin, David Samuel, Carolyn Sprogell, living in another country where everyone looks and talks different. Or a time warp. Wilmer Tjossem, Alice Wiser (Secretary) I bet I was the only person on the trolley who'd ever seen Stan Hack play third base 1993-1996: Marguerite Clark, Lee Neff, Mary Ellen Si ngsen for the Cubs, celebrated VJ Day, remembers when the price for a movie ticket was Honorllf'Y Managers 15 cents, or whose favorite radio program used to be "Jack Armstrong." Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Mildred Binns Young Some recent interactions with my children have provided insight as well. My son FRIENDS JOURNAL (ISSN 0016-1322) was Simeon and I had a profound exchange the other evening. I caught him looking at established in I955 as the successor to The me kind of wistfully at the dinner table. I knew something was on his mind, so Friend (I827 -1955) and Friends lntelligencer ( 1844- 1955). It is associated with the Religious while we were straightening up the kitchen together I asked, "Hey, Sirn, what's up? Society of Friends. How's everything going?" • FRIENDS JOURNALi s published monthly by As he was scraping his plate into the trash Sim responded with a question of his Friends Publishing Corporation, I50 I Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. Telephone (2 15) own, something he's good at: "Hey Dad, were there bicycles when you were a 241-7277. Accepted as second-class postage at kid?" I told Sim about the blue Schwinn my dad bought me when I was six. He Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing offices. seemed unimpressed when I admitted it was not a ten-speed, amazed when I said • Subscriptions: one year $2 I, two years $40. Add $6 per year for postage to countries outside there wasn't such a thing then-just coaster-brakes. His questions continued. He the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Individual copies must have thought I was putting him on, too, when he learned there were no Big $2 each. Macs, VCRs, Nintendo games, or designer jeans when I was ten. What could life • Information on and assistance with advertising is available on request. Appearance of any have been like for a kid "way back then?" he seemed to be thinking. It didn't ruin advertisement does not imply endorsement by his day, though. Before I'd gotten the plates washed he was on the front steps trying FRI ENDS JOURNAL. • Postmaster: send address changes to out his new Super Soaker 200 on the neighbor's cat. FRI ENDSJ ouRNAL, I50 1 Cherry St., So what am I trying to get at? It's simple, really. By the time this issue of the Philadelphia, PA 19102- 1497 magazine hits the newsstands it will be all over (just an expression, no need to • Copyright tC 1993 by Friends Publishing Corporation. Reprints of articles available at worry). I will have achieved another personal milestone, one that at some moments nominal cost. Permission should be received totally amazes me, at others fills me with pride. At the end of June-the 29th to be before reprinting excerpts longer than 200 wo rds. Available in microfilm from University precise-I will have joined that growing number of Friends I shall refer to as Microfilm s International. QPS-Quakers Pushing Sixty. One year short of"elderly" by NPR standards.
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Features Departments 7 Philadelphia's 'Attack Quaker': 2 Among Friends a Conversation with Cartoonist 4 Forum Signe Wilkinson Vinton Deming 5 Viewpoint Pulitzer Prize-winner Signe Wilkinson doesn't spare Friends in her willingness to draw the lines and provoke discussion. 19 Parents' Corner 20 News of Friends 10 Trees and Other Mentors Eileen Flanagan 21 Bulletin Board The natural world can bring us closer to naming God, and serves to both humble and embolden us in our individual lives. 21 Calendar 23 Books 12 And the Twain Shall Meet Resources Barry Morley 26 When delegates from 20 Quaker camps met, common ground 28 Milestones was found above and below Friends' theological differences. 30 Classified 17 A Fax to the Homeless Evelyn Mattern A homeless woman 's introduction to new technology represents Poetry the increasing void between rich and poor. 16 Soundings 18 A More Effective UN Robert S. Vogel Emily Sargent Councilman What kind ofa world would we like to see in the next century? Can the UN utilize its capacities in preventive diplomacy and peacemaking?
Cartoons on cover from 1981 FRIENDS JOURNAL, at left from 1989, both © Signe Wilkinson
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Pickett memories also included concerned local citizens. England Yearly Meeting over the issue of For a biography of Clarence Evan The atomic fuels plant at Gore has had homosexuality: Pickett, I would appreciate hearing from numerous accidents and near accidents, and I am concerned for the youths in the people who knew him and worked with has since been closed, at least temporarily. meetings who feel homosexuality is a him. I am interested in written material and On Memorial Day last year another damnable sin and who abhor the photographs. notable ceremony was held, as the walkers homosexual. The reason for my concern is Larry Miller joined members of Native Americans for a that many young people have taken their 170 Aarons Ave. Clean Environment and headed across the own lives because they realize they are gay New Britain P A 1890 I plains states toward the Nevada Nuclear in an unsympathetic atmosphere. They feel Test Site. One objective for the walk was it is a personal secret. They may not realize the expression ofatonement for the they too hold that of God within, even if the Acts of kindness abrogation of Native American human people around them act as if they don't. In meeting last Sunday, a woman rose to rights and land rights. They are frightened and need reassurance, tell how her daughter's painful experience There is urgent need for public love, and compassion. with emotional distress in a number of pronouncement to seek more peaceful and The message sent out by the Swansea mental institutions had very nearly environmentally sound solutions to our minute does not offer any middle ground, destroyed her own strong faith. When she many problems. understanding, or love for the children who recently admitted this to her daughter, who Mary Jane Saeger may be discovering their sexuality. Such a is now living independently and studying to PO Box 808 minute may seem to give some parents the be a nurse, the daughter said it was that Tahlequah, OK 74465-0808 justification to cast their child out of their experience that gave her faith. She was home or deny them the love and support helped through the ordeal by many staff that prepares their child for life. people and other patients who listened to I hope Swansea and other meetings who her, sent her notes of encouragement, gave are thinking about passing similar minutes her special gifts, and visited her. would make the necessary allowances to Troubling stories of bum-out and protect the youth who may bear the weight dehumanization in human services of such a secret. One solution could be institutions abound. This beautiful story of amending the current minute or passing resurrection is the work of the life affirming another minute that states: "The meeting spirit of mental health workers who are recognizes that a gay or lesbian individual able to keep love and hope alive, who never is also a child ofGod and is deserving of forget the preciousness of the person who the meeting's love. Though the meeting happens to be in the patient role. .., may not condone homosexuality, it is Blessed are those trivial acts of kindness ~ ultimately between the individual and For they heal, and we all need healing. G God." Help us to get beyond the urgencies and ..:! This is a personal concern because I was inhibitions of our lives a child who knew early in life that I was So we can pack more authentic kindness gay. I was raised Catholic and was quite into our days. Credit deserved aware of my church's view of Mike Yarrow Is there no credit given for the beautiful homosexuality. I remember well the pain, 407 Hancock St. illustration on the cover of the May issue? I fearing discovery and the consequences. Ithaca, NY 14850 looked for it and was unable to find it. Before I attempted suicide, I was fortunate Also, I want to express how wonderful the to hear my inner voice tell me the church design of FRIENDS JOURNAL is: the headline was wrong- that I was loved, cherished, Supporting native people type and the art for each article reflect the and a child ofGod . At this time of year we need to pause sense and the tone of the piece, and the I pray that as Friends face this question, and remember a most important event that Journal as a whole is clearly and they do so with love and spiritual was taking place last year-a special walk intelligently organized. I really think it's a discernment, and consider the possible across the United States by 2I young fine looking (and reading!) magazine and a consequences of their actions. Our women from several European countries pleasure to receive each month. meetings' judgments can have powerful and Asia. They were joined by groups of effects on people. No matter how Native Americans at different spots along Hilda Kauffman individuals live their life, they deserve our the way. PO Box 155 love. The Bible, no matter what else it has A main purpose for the venture was to St. Peters, PA 19470 to say, has made that clear. show there is much international concern William J. Hendricks c/o New Paltz Friends Meeting over the attempt by government and some Our apologies for neglecting to identify private agencies to utilize Indian lands as the cover artist for May. The art was by 8 Manheim Ave. New Paltz, NY 12561 sites for the disposal of atomic and other Brooklyn, N.Y., artist and Friend Lucy toxic wastes. Sikes. We do regret this oversight. -Eds. On Mother's Day, I992, a large gathering was held at the gates of the Protecting human rights Sequoyah Fuels plant near Gore, I am deeply grateful that you published Oklahoma. Made up of the 21 marchers, Deserve our love the letters of Heather Morscheck arising many Oklahoma Indian representatives of I write in response to Swansea (Mass.) from her visit to the Middle East (FJ several tribes, and a number of Friends Meeting's published minute (FJ March) March). It was a service to remind from meetings within the area, the group regarding their withdrawal from New concerned friends of the people who live in
4 July 1993 fRIENDS JOURNAL Viewpoint the Middle East that peace has not come there. It reminded me that more than 30 Assisting Those in Poverty years have passed since my family and I lived there as part of the concerned effort of riend Alfred LaMotte's article on dren they are failures is not the way to Friends and others to support the hopes and "Moral Welfare" (FJFebruary) had motivate them. In rural Tennessee and actions of residents to find and pursue ways F much to commend it, particularly inner cities, there is no lack of "failing" of promoting peace. his view that governmental programs can and "suspending" and "expelling" stu Heather's experience with individuals influence people's economic behavior, dents, no overindulgence or "tolerance." and groups seems to show that their lives which in tum may affect the values of the Poverty has negative consequences that are perhaps more disturbed by the absence people involved. I was disturbed, how begin with low birth weights, under-edu of peace than in 1960. The recognition ever, by his creation of the "straw man" of cation, depression, and despair. There are sends pain to my heart. I do not say this is a "Great Society values," which he claims few resources in the home to encourage surprise, rather that I have lived with muted guide governmental approaches to soci the children's development, not because knowledge too long. etal problems. Much of his article then the parents love their children any less Overwhelmingly, public response has seems to be an unabashed, yet theoretical, than wealthier people, but simply because dealt with excoriating this or that group in attack on "liberalism," which I had a hard they cannot afford or do not know how to the Middle East and attacks on political time discerning from the "liberals are evil, most effectively spend their limited re aspects of policy both in the U.S. and all evils are due to the liberals" attacks sources. On the first day of kindergarten, internationally. (An exception is the U.S. that Rush Limbaugh has popularized. the children are already labeled based on Interreligious Committee for Peace in the As someone who has been working family and economic background; unless Middle East.) with poverty people in Appalachia for 15 there has been some intervention through The pressing need is for encouragement years, I have seen the impact of many Head Start or another program, they will and support by both governmental and governmental programs. I have not, for be behind other students in school. nongovernmental organizations of defining the most part, seen the "Great Society Does this mean families in poverty are human rights in the Middle East and values" that LaMotte describes reflected hopeless or that people cannot overcome developing the means to help the countries in governmental programs. Certainly, some these deficiencies? No! My main criti protect them. programs such as AFDC, which used to cism of governmental policies is that un My continued thanks to FRIENDS require that the husband be absent, were til recently, there has been little concern JouRNAL for addressing issues and events of counter-productive in terms of building whether programs were effective. We concern to its readers. families. On the other hand, giving a know how to intervene to support fami Phil Buskirk mother and two children $185 a month to lies, to help "at-risk" youth not fall into 200 N.W. 34 Drive live on (up from $142/month for one child) society's garbage heaps or succumb to Gainesville, FL 32607 is not much of a reward for having chil destructive behavior. It does involve the dren. Three-fourths of all AFDC families positive values that LaMotte desires, but have only one or two children. This pay equally it involves teaching skills. Two stories ment has been calculated to be less than There is a long historical tradition of FJ readers might enjoy these two real one-third of the minimum needed for ba describing poor people as immoral, but it life stories: sic necessities, even if the family receives has never been sustained by analysis. Our daughter, who works in a rug shop food stamps, medicaid, and subsidized There is no evidence that poor people in Vermont, says that in a casual housing. (Less than half of AFDC fami value family less; in fact, the contrary is conversation with a customer, she had lies in the state are in subsidized housing.) often the case. There is no evidence they mentioned being a Quaker. A few days To become eligible for AFDC, the single love their children less or have fewer later the customer returned to report her mother cannot even be working a mini dreams for their children's success. There husband's response when she told him of mum wage job, which, in itself, will not is no evidence they have a lower respect the encounter. In total disbelief he had lift the family from poverty. One could for property. There is no evidence they declared, "Impossible! All the Quakers are argue that there are no rewards for poor are less religious or spiritual than more dead except for two old ladies, and they people, whether you work or not, yet the wealthy people. And finally, there is evi live in Maine." vast majority do work. dence that poor people give a higher per As I read the notice of the death of LaMotte uses "workfare" as an example centage of their income to charity and Lindsley Noble (Milestones, FJ April), I of a program he believes sends the right volunteer their time more than wealthy recalled his account of an experience he values message. In Tennessee, 14,000 people. had had in a brush with the law. The story welfare recipients signed up for 6,000 slots. I agree with LaMotte's vision of the is that he had been driving home after a The problem is not the values of those on Ethics of Community. I would support long day's work, thinking vaguely about welfare, but the lack of opportunities. efforts to restructure society so that one what he might do that evening. He paid no LaMotte goes on to say, "There is noth could not become successful without ex attention to the speedometer until a traffic ing immoral about giving the best students pressing those values. But I believe we patrolman signalled him to pull over. the best grades, or failing those who do are going to have as much work to do on Lindsley admitted he might have exceeded not work." I disagree. In my experience, the businesses and institutions that re the limit, and later went to court as the school system judges the "best" stu ward today's "winners" as we are on re required. After the facts had been dents by who their parents are, not the forming how government provides assis established, Lindsley asked to be allowed children's performance. I believe it is tance to people in poverty. to make a comment. Granted. So Lindsley deeply immoral to fail any student, be said, in effect, "Yes, I was at fault, and the cause it is a sign of failure on the part of Dennis Gregg officer did his duty. I do want you to know, the school. People will not give their best 1574 Lori Lea Dr. however, that throughout the entire effort without motivation, and telling chi I- Maryville, TN 37801 procedure this officer showed nothing but fRIENDS JOURNALJu/y 1993 5 the utmost of courtesy and consideration. I naive, one does not need to worship it. Unfortunately, this will not be enough to feel he should be commended." The judge Bend, if necessary, as the willow does bring in more than one or two speakers and reflected a long moment and then before the storm. But worship it? Never! still fund our other activities. announced, "Case dismissed." Second, the causes of human concern, I am a Quaker. I know that many of you kindness, and love are not lost- not today, are interested in racial justice and have a lot Isabel N. Bliss and not ever. But, as always, these must to offer. We need your help. Anyone who 7700 Clarks Lake Rd. primarily operate on the one-to-one or few would be willing to come to give a speech Chelsea, MI48118 on-few level. This is the secret of their or lead a workshop at minimal cost would success. The kindly word, the helping hand, be greatly appreciated. We'd also like your the cup of friendship freely given-these ideas on how to make our project work Iowa bologna remain the true hope of the world. Let the better, or resources we may find helpful. When I heard of Marian Anderson's machine grind as it will. What we are attempting to do is very death this spring, I was again reminded of C.F. Rockey difficult, and we would appreciate any help an incident of long ago. Box 171 you have to offer, no matter how small. In 1948, Marian accepted an invitation Albany, WI 53502 to participate in the William Penn College Deirdre Kerr concert series. She contributed her Carleton College considerable personal fee in appreciation Facing the problems Northfield, MN 55057 for the college's efforts for racial With my subscription renewal, I'd like integration. Even in provincial southeast to make a request at the same time. As a Iowa, the concert hall was filled. former subscriber to A Friendly Letter, I The lesson ofWaco Before she came to Iowa for the concert, would like to ask that you include some of Who was really murdered in Waco, her manager (who accompanied her, along the better aspects of this publication in Texas? Those children who died with with her accompanist) had checked to FRIENDS JouRNAL. We do need to know what David Koresh represent the part of us that locate suitable hotel accommodations for is going on inside our organizations. Can was murdered; they are witnesses to our their overnight stay after the concert. They you give us impartial reporting on board brokenness. A way to return from this place learned there was no suitable hotel space meetings, new appointments, etc.? Friends of brokenness is for us to begin to listen to for Marian (because of her color) in are not always friendly, and we need to our children, to truly listen and to honor the Oskaloosa, or in that part of the state. The know when there are problems among us. integrity of their words. They know the only hotel available was the Ft. Des Chuck Fager [A Friendly Letter truth we have begun to lose and to deny Moines, 60 miles away. publisher] had lost his impartiality, and it even to ourselves. It became my good fortune to be asked was time to lay down the publication. Can Kathleen Cook Bammer to drive Marian Anderson and her you pick up his original concern to inform 122 Elm St. companions to Des Moines after the Friends? Montpelier, VT 05602 concert. She was a front-seat passenger, so Evamaria Hawkins I had an hour and a half of quiet 6306 Maiden Ln. Friendly Voice conversation with her about many rather Bethesda, MD 20817 In response to the letter from Clifford light-hearted (and personal) matters. When Merry in the April issue regarding printing there was a lull in conversation, she'd hum We'd like to try! We didn 't always agree readers' letters, we are in the process of a tune. with Friend Chuck Fager's opinions, but putting together a monthly publication, When we approached the Dutch town of we appreciated his efforts to bring up Friendly Voice, which will consist Pella, she noticed signs advertising "Pella tough issues, ones that Friends too often . primarily offetters and other material Bologna." When I explained about it, she prefer not to talk about. We need to discuss contributed by readers. It will be an asked me to stop at a still-open store, and controversial issues that exist in our opportunity for Friends to express their she asked her manager to buy a sack of it to meetings and organizations, and do so in ideas and opinions, respond to previously take back to New York. an open, balanced way. Will our readers published letters, ask questions, and Wilmer Tjossem assist us in bringing such di.fficult items to network and share resources. For further 1618 S. 12th Ave. E our pages in timely fashion? We depend on information about Friendly Voice, please Newton, lA 50208 you to be our news reporters and contact us. commentators. -Eds. Laurel Wheeler PO Box 1028 The true hope Sedona, AZ 86336 Money is power, and power will always Assistance needed act to defend its own position first. To talk I write on behalf of the Carleton ethics to power is fruitless today, for the Alliance for Racial Equality (CARE). We, power structure is but another huge as a group, are attempting to combat racist machine. Humans are now but cogs in it actions and thoughts, both overt and subtle. while money is both its fuel and its We feel that the most important step toward lubricant. Even if some high officials this end is the fostering of productive should be moved by an argument of dialogue. We have come up with a long FRI ENDS JOURNAL welcomes contributions compassion, they would be powerless, it range plan, which includes: speakers, from readers. Submissions to Forum seems, to seriously implement change upon workshops, theater performances, video should be no longer than 300 words, this ground alone. productions, small group discussions on Viewpoint 1,000 words. Unless authors However, let me suggest two specific topics, and many other things as request otherwise, names and addresses ameliorating ideas. First, although money is well. We have received a grant from the will be published with all/etters. power and to deny its patent presence is Bremer Foundation for $2,000 a year.
6 July 1993 fRIENDS JOURNAL PHILADELPHIA'S
by Vinton Deming ollin Kirby was the first. The year just taking that vi was 1922. Other winners whose sual image and Rnames I recognize have been Bill drawing it, so that :J~~;;c:~:---...::::::::~~ Mauldin, Garry Trudeau, Tony Auth, and you have one ~~===~ Jules Feiffer. All of them for 70 years image have been men. But this all changed in capture ~ 1992 with the announcement that Signe the sense of what you want to ~ V: How so? What do you Wilkinson had won the Pulitzer Prize in say. For me, what I want to ·~ mean? the category ofeditorial cartooning. Signe say comes first,~~ image ~ S: Well, it's been this way ever since works for the Philadelphia Daily News, comes second-If It ~ 6.. "\ E. Digby Baltzell wrote his dippy book and is a Quaker. comes at all. ... ~ [Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadel- Signe's success has not been instant V: When you ~ phia], his thesis that Quakers are respon- in a profession dominated by men. Just won the Pulitzer, I ~ heard you de- sible for all the problems here. Philadel- out of college in the early 1970s, she had scribed by your editor as the newspaper's phia Quakers rarely respond, even when to scramble for work as a stringer with a "attack Quaker." It seems like an oxy- there's booing at Veteran's Stadium. number of East Coast papers. She was moron. Where did this description come We're almost autistic about our own reli- assigned the rather routine, unglamorous from? gion and beliefs. So, I'm very happy to meetings of suburban school boards and be called a Quaker and to have a profile boards ofsupervisors , but always looked S: (laughing) Well, I wear this proudly! as a Quaker. It's good for the city to for opportunities to share her drawings. For two main reasons, I think. One, of know that some Quakers have a voice Her first "real job," as she calls it, as an course, is that Quakers have the reputa and aren't afraid to use it. editorial cartoonist was in 1982 with the tion in some places ofnot being pacifists, San Jose Mercury-News in California. "I but "patsies." And I definitely believe in V: Are there times when your Quaker was an 'overnight success,' ten years in standing up for what is right. The second ism and your work are in conflict? What the making!" she quipped with a twinkle thing is that here in Philadelphia, Friends are some of the tough challenges for you in her eye when I asked her how she had take the bum rap for nearly everything as you approach your work? gotten her start in the newspaper busi- that goes wrong in this city. S: Well, one of the rea ness. r------, sons art has long been Signe came by my of suspect among Quak fice recently to talk. I ers- not so much any wanted to learn more more, but it was in the about her work as a car past- was that it is not toonist. As a starter, I very useful. Quakers are wondered what the cre extremely practical ative process was like for people. Also, it's not a her, how she gets the in group activity. I do not spiration to create a car come to consensus about toon: my opinion; I consult Signe: It's kind of like myself, and I do not have figuring out how to write a committee for clear a good lead. You want ness to make sure a car one visual image that sort toon meets with of captures what you're everyone's approval. I going to be writing about just couldn't do it. So in an article. A cartoon is it's not a particularly Quaker way of doing Vinton Deming is editor manager of FRIEN DS things. It's very solitary. JouRNAL. Signe Wilkinson is Before my work gets put a member of Willistown into print, it doesn't have (Pa.) Meeting. the testing that most
FRIENDS JOURNAL JuLY 1993 7 Quaker thinking goes through. However, we heard from them! I think Friends don't do so under the auspices of a Friends my opinions are tested eventually. My want to talk about the subject of race that organization, the religion with which I readers are vociferous in their reactions. directly. We'd prefer to have a commit worship and feel most comfortable." And tee to talk about it, perhaps. there's a pause, a blank one, and the V: What are some aspects of Quakers AFSC personnel officer says "You're not that you might like to do a cartoon about? S: Well, I think it is very hard to talk gay are you?" about this type ofthing in a Friends meet S: Well, as you know, I have done sev ing, because a meeting hangs together V: (laughing) Searching for some open eral cartoons for FRIENDS JouRNAL, a pub based upon its personal relationships and lication you might be familiar with ... ing ... ! Well, we'll be looking forward mutual trust, and sometimes we spend so to that one in the next few months. Let V: I've heard of it. .. much time being nice to each other we me ask another question. What's the most forget to deal with things. Yes, a cartoon outrageous cartoon you did, one where S: (laughing) A couple of those have can get us back on course in this sense, taken on Quaker issues. If I could do some editor said, "Oh, no, I don't think can remind us. Of course my meeting has so!"? more, it would be more about Quaker no blindspots (laughing)! I'm just as lifestyle. The highest order of possession hypocritical as anyone else. I generally S: Well, what comes to mind was one I is our inherited antiques!- you know, include myself in the general "Quaker did when I was in California, when the little things like that. I've always wanted glomm" that I criticize. governor, George Deukmejian, issued his to do a cartoon about some Quakers plan first budget, which really cut social ser V: When do you know you've really ning for a conference on JOY (giggling), vices. Deukmejian had recently been re done a good cartoon? or humor, and all the hard work that elected. He had run on his Armenian would have to go into that! all the discus S: First of all, they last over time. And roots-there's a big Armenian commu sions and serious-minded talk. Certainly, they just seem right, sort of a little nity in California. At the time, there were too, the political issues among Quakers epiphany. It all comes together-the gen also some bombings by Armenian na are ripe for cartoons: the fights over gays eral idea, the punch line, the drawing. tionalists in Europe at airports to call and lesbians on the one hand, and abor It's like they were just all there, just wait attention to their lost cause. So I did a tion rights; who's more "Quakerly," the ing to be drawn. It's about as close to cartoon of this crumbling state house evangelicals out West or the left-over feeling the spirit as I ever get. A feeling building in California, and people were liberals back East. All these would be of rightness about it, as you say-it gets reeling out of it, and there were ambu great subjects for cartoons. The Quaker to the heart of things. lances out in front, and a guy with a TV ism I'd most tend to take a look at is the camera saying, "They think it's the work V: On the subject of Quakerism, again: I one I'm most familiar with-the hide ofa lone Armenian terrorist!" (laughing) know you've been an occasional critic of bound, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting type Well, the Armenian community went the American Friends Service Commit of Quaker. wild! and it really caused quite a crisis at tee. If you could do a cartoon about the paper after it was published. The criti V: In your work, do you sometimes feel AFSC, what might it be? like the child who cried, "The emperor cism was that I never would have been has no clothes!"? In cartoon art, I often S: Well, actually, I've had a cartoon in able to do such a cartoon if that had been see that you're able to address something my head that I've never gotten around to a black group or a Jewish group or one of very directly. doing. It would be several panels with a the higher profile groups, but that I'd white male interviewing for a job at taken advantage of the Armenians and S: Well, if you think about it, that's a AFSC. The interviewer says, "Let's see, made fun of the governor's roots. I still virtue of Quakerism. One of the things you're not disabled, you're not female, stand by the cartoon, though. There's a that keeps Quakers so focused is the whole you're not a minority... what in the world problem with a cartoon like that, how idea ofsimplicity and single-mindedness. makes you think you have something to ever. If the uproar is about something Quakers are often bothered by things like contribute to the American Friends Ser that is actually tangential-his Armenian inequality, war, militarism. The Quakers vice Committee?" And the guy says, roots- rather than about his effect on the whom you remember, they live at the "Well, at meeting I felt called to spend state budget and what it actually does to heart of such issues, and they see them my life in service to others and wanted to services, then it distracts from the car- clearly as problems day in and day out. So, I think that's a very Quaker trait, to be calling "the emperor. ..." That's what we were doing early on You CAJLD AlWA'fS JoiN in Vietnam, in our work for civil A. rights. fl 8 July 1993 FRIENDS JOURNAL l CA~I morning. I have to say, well, I had my ~\t ~~ shot, now this person has his. You put an CATt-jolJ c qju/ FRIENDS JOURNAL JULY 1993 9 TREES AND OTHER M by Eileen Flanagan only recently I have identified these ex because it meant getting out of the periences as spiritual. My time as a resi cramped apartment where I grew up. It dent student at Pendle Hill has helped me wasn't a conscious strategy to escape, but henever I feel burdened by to understand that loving nature is more by the time I was ten or eleven, I really troubles or too many things than just a hobby; it is one of the great wanted my own space, and moving my to do, I take a walk in the sources of strength in my life. Whether life outside seemed the easiest way to get woods to clear my mind. Nature has al shaping figures in clay, writing my spiri it. With the trees as my walls and the sky ways given me joy and renewal, but it is tual autobiography, or walking in the as my ceiling, I was free of watchful eyes Eileen Flanagan went from Bethesda (Md.) Swarthmore College woods, trees show and parental prodding. Friends Meeting to Pendle Hil//astfa/1. After up everywhere, speaking to me of my The Girl Scouts gave me access to a two terms as a student, she became a mem past and my future. whole new world. When I was about ber ofthe staff. I suspect I first loved the outdoors twelve, I went on my first grown-up 10 July 1993 fRIENDS JOURNAL fear, and I ran back to the campground. perhaps. But nothing dramatic happened. But to this day, the wonder returns every Then I went on a backpacking trip in the time I stand alone in the woods. Blue Ridge Mountains, which included a TORS The most memorable example of this one-day solitary retreat in the woods. occurred in the Austrian Alps. As a col Looking out at the misty blue horizon, it lege student traveling by myself, I had seemed this was surely proof of some spontaneously jumped off the train when higher power in the universe. My image it stopped in a little village named of God gradually began to change, from Kufstein. I left my backpack in a cheap the vindictive old white man depicted on pension and set off to climb the small a pearly throne, to something that cannot mountain at the edge of town. I had the be put into words. The force that causes a wrong kind of shoes and no idea where I seed to spurt forth and take root, the was going, which added to my sense of strength of a hurricane, the joy one feels adventure. at the top of a mountain- these glimpses What I remember most was my com of nature are the closest I can come to plete amazement at the beauty of the naming God. Alps. As I climbed higher and higher, I Perhaps it is for this reason I head to seemed to be entering an enchanted land, the hills whenever I have a difficult deci where icicles grew on trees and snow sion to make. The issues become clearer lightly veiled the rocks and underbrush. for me there. My next career decision or Every time I turned a bend in the path, love dilemma seems so tiny compared to the view ahead seemed even more magi the unfolding drama of creation. Some cal. As I reached the people despair when they realize how top, I unexpectedly unimportant their lives are, but I find it came upon the back strangely comforting. I can let go of the side of a ski slope. fear that I might screw up, and I usually The ground was sud find that fear was the only thing blocking denly cleared and the my way in the first place. view stretched past I am beginning to see my life as part the village below to of a process much greater than time as I the mountains on the understand it. Gazing at a mountain and other side. With cold realizing it is being washed to the sea air filling my lungs grain by grain gives me a new perspec and my blood pump tive on the slowness of political change. ing from exertion, I As an activist, I have begun to compare looked out on the myself to a drop of water in a mountain craggy peaks and felt stream, which can never see how it fits overcome with joy. into the process of erosion. The drop The earth was mag itselfjust keeps banging up against rock. nificent, and I felt But each drop has a role, and we know completely free that eventually the mountain will free to dance on a crumble. mountaintop, free to My place in this process is one of my yodel with wild explorations at Pendle Hill, and I believe abandon, free to it is the reason I have made several tree dream of the life stumps in clay class. Even after a tree has - ~ wide open before me. As I headed back been cut down, it continues to nourish ~ down the mountain and reentered human life, the moss and ferns that peak out of ~ company, the intensity of joy gradually its cracks, the nutrients that seep back '§ faded. But the memory of that moment into the soil. I seek to be as wise as a tree: ;:;:: will always stay with me. to grow as high and as wide as the ele camping trip where we got to pitch tents In addition to joy, mountains have also ments will allow, and, in the end, to leave and cook over an open fire. Early one given me comfort, particularly at times behind something to nourish those who morning, I left the campsite and sneaked of crisis in my life. During my freshman come after me. down an unmarked trail to see where it year ofcollege, I left the Catholic church As I spend this time, anticipating the led. I didn't go very far; I just stopped and after suddenly realizing I could not in next direction my branches will sprout, listened for a minute to the trees and good conscience recite the Profession of reminders from nature both humble and sounds of the underbrush. I looked up Faith. I began an intense questioning of embolden me. The power ofa wind storm and saw pieces of sky through the leafy my belief, not just in Catholicism, but in reminds me not to take myself and my canopy. I believe it was the first time I the existence of God. I remember lying decisions too seriously. And the glory of was alone in a place like that, and it filled in bed one night and praying that I would blooming wildflowers makes me feel free me with a sense of wonder. After a be sent some unmistakable proofof God's to dance on mountaintops and to dream minute, my wonder started turning to existence-a sign, like a lightning bolt, ofthe life wide open before me. 0 FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1993 11 by Barry Morley "Yes." ing Quaker Knoll Camp she made an off "Tough break." hand statement that spoke to everyone's "It is," he said, his eyes twinkling condition. "I run the camp by praying he Dayton airport contingent mischievously above a disarming smile. and punting." The laughter that followed filled two cars, which took "Where's your camp?" began to dissipate lingering tension. us to the Quaker Hill Con "On Catoctin Mountain seven miles Jon Simmons, speaking for Quaker ference Center in Richmond, from Camp David. We get a lot of heli Meadow Camp, an evangelical Christian Indiana. There, sponsored copter traffic." camp 7,000 feet up in California moun jointly by the Conference Center and the Harlow laughed. The disarming smile tains, went next. I was touched by the Earlham School of Religion, the 1992 reappeared. love he expressed, the same kind of love National Friends Consultation on Camp Friday morning began with silent wor one speaker after another would express ing was to convene the evening of De ship, enough this time to please unpro all day. He spoke of the same joy all ofus cember 3rd.. About 20 Quaker camps had grammed Friends. Erma Wilson, a mem took in the work that makes our camps sent delegates. ber ofthe Quaker Hill Foundation Board, possible. When he had finished I noticed, We ate supper in the Quaker Hill din was moved to speak: "People tend to live with that part of my vision that sees be ing hall where we sought to ease discom in patterns aimed to satisfy what others yond what my eyes see, that light had fort by gravitating to tables with people think they should be. All of us have a come up from the floor to the height of we knew or suspected were oflike mind. certain amount of masking and facade our knees. We were not unaware that we repre which is not really part of ourselves. One JoAnn Coates-Hunter amazed people sented virtually all of the splits that keep of the great possibilities in a camping with her description of Baltimore Yearly Quakers in tension among one another. program is to let people be what they are. Meeting's Teen Adventure Program, After we had cleared our separate tables, we packed into vans and were driven to the Earlham School of Religion. Andy Grannell, bubbling with enthusiasm, gave us a tour. He led us to the worship room. We settled into silence, which was broken much too soon for the taste of unpro- grammed Friends. Ken Jacobsen, the which has no base camp. It consists of consultation's participant observer, sang three weeks of river and trail camping, two Christmas carol-like folk songs. Ken, and includes a work project. Susan Morris an anthropologist, is currently a graduate wondered if the Friends Camp at South student at ESR. China Lake in Maine might do some Another short period of worship fol thing similar. lowed, broken by Andy Grannell. He John Penrose spoke for Camp Quaker gave an introductory talk, then directed Haven in Kansas, another evangelical us to refreshments in the main hall. Con Christian camp. His job is to keep the versation was guardedly polite, usually winterized camp rented out all year, to short. Words were chosen carefully. Sub attract conferences, workshops, other stance was avoided. We were going to camping groups. All this makes four one try to be nice to each other. week sessions of Quaker evangelical "Where's your camp?" I asked camp possible. He sees his mission as Harlow Ankeny. I already knew where providing opportunities to "draw chil his camp was. It said so on his name tag. dren toward Christ." By the time he fin "Oregon," he answered. ished, light had filled the room to the "Where in Oregon?" level of our shoulders. "On the coast-actually, across the The Consultation could easily have highway from the coast." This enables them to have a chance to been called Quaker Camps Galore. There "Do you live there?" discover God. If we can accomplish that were mountain camps, valley camps, in our camping, we have done great flatland camps; evangelical camps; farm Barry Morley is a member ofSandy Spring things." camps; a music camp; hiking, canoeing, (MD) Monthly Meeting. He taught in Quaker David Edinger, director ofQuaker Hill and climbing camps. Then there was the Schools for 25 years and directed Catoctin Conference Center, who guided the Con business of "long camps" and "short Quaker camp for 23. He is currently direc camps." Western camps tend toward con tor ofInward Bound, which offers programs sultation, broke the silence and opened ofspi ritual growth and healing in the Balti the first formal session: "Every camp secutive one-week sessions of religious more Yearly Meeting. He drives a school will have ten minutes to tell its story. training. Eastern camps tend to run for bus, speaks upon request, leads workshops, Who will begin?" several weeks, some as many as eight. and writes articles, opera libretti, one-act "This makes me nervous," said Oreida "It takes a miminum of ten days to build plays, and incomplete books. Schroeder, "so I'll go first." In describ- community," said one director. "Long 12 July ]993 FRIENDS JOURNAL of Jesus was much more in what he did than what he said." He explained that this should be a model for our camps. "It should be, 'do what we do' rather than 'do what we say.' " He had spoken at length. When he finished, a question followed, then a com ... ~ ment. I interjected that I needed a little d"' time to take in what Gary had said and ~ asked for some silence. During the si ~ lence I realized that light had filled the ~ room to the high ceiling. Later someone d would describe this phenomenon by say ~ ing, "When we began, it was like being ~ in a Vennont valley on a foggy morning. & By noon the fog dissipates and you're "& not really aware that it's happened." ~ As people wandered in for supper af ~::. ter a long break, I noticed that a few had d begun to move through the food line. But Attenclers at the Friends Consultation on Camping, December 1992 we haven't had a blessing, I thought. Quickly, I went over to Harlow Ankeny and asked if he'd be willing to give a blessing. Upon his affinnative response I called people back from the food line. I reached out and took hands to either side. Everyone responded. As we stood in a circle with clasped hands, Harlow prayed movingly. The praying here, I thought with pleasure, is better than anything I ever experienced in my years as an Epis copalian. camps" and "short camps" became op the spiritual development of children. "I My talk came next, after supper. "I erative tenns. am impressed," he said, "by your discus know that Western Quakers think East We stood in a circle for a blessing sions of unconditional love. We appreci em Quakers are misguided," I began. before lunch. I bowed my head for a ate nature and are stewards of the land." "At best misguided." After everyone moment of silence, but was surprised He went on to talk about camping be laughed the laughter of people feeling at when a prayer was offered, a lovely ing a North American phenomenon. "Like ease with one another, I went on. "I don't prayer which spoke to the possibilities of all things in America," he said, "it started feel misguided," I said. I told of my per what was beginning to happen here. This in the East and moved West." The main -sonaljoumey, how I had received strong was the first meal at which people began thrust of camping in the West, he told us, religious training as a youth. But the train to mix. We had begun to like each other, began after World War II. It was based on ing never prepared me for spiritual expe and there were things we needed to dis revivalism, which originated as camp riences I longed for even before I knew I cuss. meetings in the East. Emphasis in the longed for them. And when they came, I We finished the reports by mid-after Western camps is on deciding for Christ. had no way of knowing what had hap noon. It was now time for Gary Fawver's "We have recently discovered that the pened. I thought perhaps I was insane, address. He was one of the airport con best way for camps to bring children to and turned away from them so I wouldn't tingent, a professor from George Fox Christ is through counselor centered camps be insane. College in Oregon. "I think I'm dealing in which the counselors live the message." I told of how I became a Quaker. with something ofa revelation here. This Gary went on to say that scripture pro When I was moved to speak for the first is an historic occasion," he said, stating vided him with an apologetic for camp time, I finally recognized that I had had a fonnally what others of us had begun to ing: Jesus taught out of doors by choice; spiritual experience. It was then I was sense. "There are theological differences most of his metaphors were from out of able to recognize other spiritual experi among us." He raised his left forearm doors. Camps provide us with "teachable ences I had repressed or failed to recog across his chest, paused, and gathered moments": Jesus lived for three years with nize. his thoughts. "There are theological dif his disciples in community ("this is much I told how I became a camp director ferences among us," he reiterated. Then more than the ten-day minimum spoken through way opening. I told of a serious he held his right foreann just below his ofhere today"); the disciples saw Jesus as injury to one of our counselors and how, left. "But if we go to the level just below a model to be imitated; when 'they saw in order to keep her strong presence at that, we have many things in common." him praying they as~ed him to teach them. camp, five of us had gathered to attempt, He explained that we do our work out of In that "teachable moment" he offered in our clumsy, neophyte way, a healing. doors even as Jesus did most ofhis teach the Lord's Prayer. When the healing worked, we were ing out ofdoors. We are all committed to There was more: "I feel the message stunned and ecstatic. "One of the coun- FRIENDS JOURNALJu/y 1993 13 selors who participated in that healing 20 that God blesses that work. I stand here a into staff training. Betty Jean Penrose years ago," I said, "is now a camp direc Quaker among Quakers. I will worship spoke of the growth in understanding, tor and is here today, and it is not a with you any time in any way that pleases commitment, and sense of community coincidence." I told how, years later, an you. You have already honored me by that occurred among her staff over the other of my counselors gouged her hand worshiping in the silence I requested af course of four weeks in which these on rusty barbed wire while bringing ter Gary's talk. We are one people who young people provided services to the canoers down the Shenandoah River, how love our mission, who love to nurture series of one-week evangelical sessions. she had been poorly cared for in a nearby children, and who are loved by God." When it was pointed out to her that her :g hospital, how the hand raged with infec When I stood down, the room was staff was her "long camp," her face 14 July 1993 FRIENDS JOURNAL gifts were the stories you told." And the one together with God. When we return gifts of stories enabled us to go deeper to the world, we take up our old roles, but than learned culture, leading us to a place we are never the same. of shared radical trust in God "You have shown me this weekend Building on Gary Fawver's talk, Ken that the cultural part of Quakerism is the gave an anthropologist's view ofthe west smaller part. Your love of children and em movement ofFriends, explaining how the working of the spirit show that Quak circumstances of changing terrain and ers can get along--even more, that we shifting conditions altered the spiritual can love one another. This is the Society climate. Resultant changes in emphasis of Friends right here. It's not theories out and practice, however, were still rooted there. It's happening right here." Ken in the original George Fox message. thanked us for giving him a model that he He had noticed us eating at separate could use among all Friends. tables when the consortium began. "Now Others spoke. "I knew we'd get along. you push the tables together and I can't We're camp people. That's our job." David Coates-Hunter insisted that a record of the consultation be published. "What happened here is important," he said. When it was pointed out that funds were not available, a West Coast Friend said, "I will pay for it myself." Worship began with John and Betty Jean Penrose singing. Then we shifted into silence out of which came moving messages. Two songs were sung. Gary Fawver said, "Christ is the true Light and we are the Light reflected. There is another light that we should not forget: the light of scripture. I have been on many camping trips where I would have been in danger without a flashlight. Scripture is the flashlight for our spiritual journey." Rusty Parsons spoke: At the end, after their struggles, Esau and Jacob embraced and kissed. "We have had a sense of the meeting here," I offered, "a sense of the meeting query asking Friends if they encouraged tell by looking where anyone is from." without a decision." and nurtured the ministry of children. You began to care about one another, he When it came time to leave, I stood At lunch, tables were pushed together. went on, because "you discovered the with Rusty in the parking lot. "What hap On Sunday morning we gathered for a deeper story of being people of faith pened here this weekend was a miracle," closing session of evaluation and wor people of peculiar faith-similar, pecu I said. ship. Ken Jacobsen offered his observa liar people." We are spiritual risk takers "It was," he replied. "But it shouldn't tions: "I am used to having my heart We do impractical, ill advised things that have been." 0 broken by ecumenical gatherings of defy logic because, deep within us, is a Friends," he said. "But that didn't happen real sense of being led. "We are radical here." When we got to levels where risk takers." It is anticipated that a fuller written Friends get hung up, he said, we went "Quakerism is not a religion. It's a report on the 1992 National Friends Con deeper. practice; it's a way of relating to God." sultation on Camping will be available As he proceeded, we listened as if We are not a culture-we are a way of from Quaker Hill Conference Center. worship had begun. I suspect it had. life-a revival of primitive Christianity. Please inquire if interested in obtaining "There are no theological differences Even though we have a history, Ken a copy. among us," he said. "Our differences are showed us, even though we are guided The participants in the 1992 Consul cultural." He went on to explain that all by precedents, we are people who re tation on Camping have made initial culture is learned, that no one escapes spond to the leadings of this day. plans to meet again at Quaker Hill Con acculturation. We wear our culture like a "This is what makes our camping f erence Center in November 1994. All shield. It protects us when we have nor unique." In the camps we set aside nor Friends involved with Quaker camps and mal allergic reactions to other cultures. mal routine, we reinvent society in a natu camp programs who would like to be on We also carry spears, he said. "When we ral setting rather than the human made the mailing list to receive further infor see an opening, we attack." world. And in nature we encounter God mation on this gathering may contact "Instead of coming here with shields a reawakening, a rebirth. In the sacred Quaker Hill Conference Center, 10 and swords you came with gifts. Your communities we form, we come to be Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, IN 47374. FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1993 15 Little Brother Sandfiddler, I sit here quiedy watching, not wanting to frighten you you with your twelve-hour lease on a patch of doomed sand, frantically building a new house certain to be flooded with the rising tide. - With a flair and a flourish, <· , ... your busy work claw scoops out wet sand from the last tide's invasion. And between each scattered load, your beige body, motionless, blending with the sand, you watch me with your periscope eyes. c Are you more threatened by me than by the certain rising sea? The surging, churning, breaking sea? Don't you know z people are the highest form of life? (I guess you never met St. Frances.) :J Little Brother Sandfiddler building your doomed house and watching me eyeball to eyeball, 0 I think I hear what you're telling me. A regular contributor to FRIENDS JouRNAL, Emily Sargent Councilman Emily Sargent Councilman lives in Burlington, N. C. U) She is a member ofFri endship (N.C.) Meeting. 16 Ju/y 1993 f RIENDS JOURNAL denarii at Dives' gate he didn't simply move on over to a gate in another part of town. Dives was probably afraid of cre to the ating welfare dependency from genera AF tion to generation. There were other struc tural impediments as well. So many poor people lived in those days, a majority in fact. What good is it to help just one HOMELESS when hordes of others will quickly take his place? They needed a whole new economic system. Besides, those were by Evelyn Mattern evil days in Israel, and Dives had to spend a lot of time keeping his own kids out of ecently I met with several home lugging on their backs massive stones for trouble. He couldn't be running around less women planning a street festi pyramids, pharaohs' courtiers went shop doing good for everyone else when his Rval to call attention to the special ping for gold bathroom accessories. own were falling through the cracks. problems that living on the streets and in Later, the Old Testament prophets tell us Why was Jesus not more sympathetic shelters poses for women and children. how the now-liberated rich women of to the complexities of Dives's situation? The four women had solicited donations Israel, "cows of Bashan," wore only the The way he told the parable, without offood and were now working on enlist best jewels and perfumes. gloss, makes him seem biased toward the ing entertainment for the festival. The In the wake of the prophets' words, poor man Lazarus. Like the other proph manager of a local radio station prom Jesus told the story ofDives and Lazarus. ets, Jesus risked making people feel guilty. ised that a popular disc jockey would Dives was the rich man who refused to Imputing guilt to people leaves them ei attend if someone from the planning give to the beggar at his gate and found ther angry or paralyzed, and neither feel group could come to the suburban station out later, when both died, that the beggar ing leads to action for change. and fill out some forms. "But there's no rested in Abraham's bosom while Dives The deepest irony is that Jesus took bus out there, and we have no car," said had to go down to Sheol. Jesus uses this the risk of uncovering not guilt ~ut fear. the woman. The manager replied, "Well, parable to condemn Israel's hostility to Dives failed to reach out to Lazarus be you could fax me the information." its prophets, but the rich man-poor man cause he was afraid to look at him: he The homeless women to whom their theme sticks in more minds than does the might see himself in Lazarus, that self representative reported this development warning about prophets. only a few paychecks or one catastrophic did not know what "fax" meant, but the Personally, I can empathize with illness away from homelessness. Donald director ofthe housing coalition at whose Dives. There were no doubt obstacles to Trump and I both accumulate our trea office we were meeting passed through his helping Lazarus that Jesus fails to sures to stave off the spectre ofourselves the room at that moment and said, "Oh, mention. No social services could check as beggars. Jesus, the real Great Commu you can use our fax machine." Thus I him out, making sure that after he got nicator, without fax, understood. 0 saw a woman who has no roof over her head and wears on her body all the clothes - she owns, feed into the fax machine the II numbers that birthed her into the world ,i ~PAC! AIJAILAm I I ,----.. """ ~" of high tech communication. ll•• "'"' \ll.~· Such are the ironies of our time. Else '""1,, ... I r.ti I.DAO N·'~ where in our state, red wolves wearing / sonar tracking devices have been re-in -·- - -. ~:._, troduced into habitats where they were r-- -.. ---.. -· extinct and "Red Wolf Crossing" signs f/t'f.• erected to protect their movements. In that same rural area, some people can't c find decent housing because of their skin color. Brand new four-lane highways lined with cultivated wildflowers carry D cars laden with surfboards and trailing motor launches to the beach. They speed past fields where farmworkers stoop in the sun to pick cucumbers and peppers. Only the details are different today. No doubt while the Hebrew slaves were Evelyn Mattern is a member of Sisters for Christian Community, a Roman Catholic group. She lives in the woods in Rolesville, N.C., and teaches English literature and writ ing at Nash Community College. fRIENDS JOURNALJu/y 1993 17 On February 1, the U.S. Com believe the approach may be coun mission to Improve the Effective terproductive in the long ifnot also ness of the United Nations held AMore in the short run. To introduce armed , hearings in Los Angeles, Califor forces into the business of humani nia, chaired by Iowa Congressman tarian aid is inevitably to militarize James Leach. Robert Vogel pre such aid in the present and future sented the following testimony to and to make it susceptible to ma the commission as a representa Effective nipulation in the interests of the tive of the American Friends Ser parties providing the soldiers. Giv vice Committee. ing the U.S. military a role in hu manitarian assistance may also give would first suggest that one justification for the maintenance way for the United States to UN of military budgets above what I improve the effectiveness of would otherwise be granted by the United Nations is to develop a Congress or deemed right by the vision for the future. What kind of people of the United States. a world would we like to see in the year 2000, 2010, 2020? Unless we he Committee recognizes know where we want to go, neither that no solution will come the United States nor other nations Tquickly or easily. Neverthe will ever get there. Only when we less, we feel that a major UN ini are clear as to where we want to go by Robert S. Vogel tiative has the best chance to save will it be possible to initiate those lives, avoid escalation of the vio changes in the world organization lence, and contribute to a return of that will help us arrive. must commit itself to support and fund a stable peace in Somalia. This initiative The American Friends Service Com peacemaking, economic, and environ would include expanded diplomatic ini mittee, with its long tradition of opposi mental programs as part of its responsi tiatives under the UN involving tradi tion to war and the use of military force, bility to the world community. tional and other leaders from all regions has consistently supported national and The Committee is concerned about and clans; creative efforts to disarm the international institutions that seek alter the possibility that increased military in rival Somali groups by purchase ofweap natives to the use of violence to resolve volvement could undermine the UN's ons, exchange of food for weapons, and conflicts. The ending of the Cold War major role: to act as a mediator in dis development assistance; serious multi has provided new opportunities and new putes. It has strong misgivings about pro lateral action to halt the arms flow into challenges for the UN to utilize its ca viding the UN with an armed force for Somalia; and the deployment ofthe 3,000- pacities in preventive diplomacy and peace enforcement or authorizing mem person, UN commanded, multinational peacemaking, earning it considerable re ber states to provide military force, espe contingent approved · by the Security spect for its effectiveness in these pro cially as it is implied that the credibility Council in August with the sole mission cesses. of the UN might depend on the existence of protecting humanitarian relief efforts The Committtee welcomes Secretary of such armed units. It suggests that the with a minimum use of force. General Butros Butros-Ghali's "Agenda authority of the UN should be based on Furthermore, the Committee wel for Peace" and the discussion it is pro trust developed by the consistent pursuit comes the proposal to strengthen and voking. Meeting violence with violence of peace, the improvement of conditions utilize the International Court ofJustice. is rarely effective in the long term. It is of human life, and the promotion of hu The United Nations needs to take a more important to extend and develop the sec man rights. There is also concern that a vigorous role in the areas of arms con retary general's role and that of the UN militarized UN could be influenced by trol, nonproliferation, and disarmament. as a whole in peacemaking and peace member states or alliances with their own The secretary general's agenda requires keeping. agendas to participate in wars under the the UN to possess the capacity effec However, the Committee has some UN banner. tively to monitor and prevent escalation concerns about the implications for the of disputes into full-scale conflicts. This UN as it develops this role. It has to be an example, let me tum to the role monitoring relies heavily on the UN and realistic about what it can offer, insure of the UN in Somalia. As an orga its agencies, regional organizations, and that it does not overextend itself or raise nization that has carried on de nongovernmental groups. It is critical that unrealistic expectations. A secure finan velopment and relief work in Somalia the relationship among these component cial base is crucial. The UN must have for more than ten years and currently has agencies be maintained and strengthened. the human and financial resources it needs representatives there implementing emer This requires ongoing commitments to to carry the work forward. As one of the gency and development programs, the the future opportunities for the UN to major nations involved, the United States AFSC believes that a grave mistake has promote preventive diplomacy, peace been made in sending UN troops into keeping, and peacemaking. It is our hope Robert Vogel is a member ofOrang e Grove (Calif) Meeting. He serves on the General Somalia under U.S. command. While the that these proposals will be fully sup Board ofPendle Hill and is a member ofth e stated mission of this armed force is to ported by the Congress and the adminis Development Committee of Friends World make it possible for relief organizations tration. Global structures, their develop Committee for Consultation, Section of the to get food to starving people, a goal for ment, and their use are vital to the sur Americas. which the AFSC is also working, we vival of the planet. 0 18 July 1993 FRIENDS JOURNAL Parents' Corner Hearing My Child Speak • m~ac;<: c<:Rctpcaces by Mary Coffin • awatzOs ·msctztpctons • e moved to a new city and were her thoughts moved between the mundane • t;ttzet2 announcemencs • attending the meeting there for the and the profound. • c;tz<:eclfXi ca£b bes1c;ns • Wfirst time. We'd left our three-year Chelsea doesn't speak each week. And • mvtcacwns • sctzolts • old daughter, Chelsea, at home, not sure when she does, it's in a whisper, although what sort of reception she would get. Ten sometimes a very loud whisper, because her :Hal1lf:f§rresr minutes before the end of the meeting, the three-year-old mind has decided that talking children from First-day school joined us. quietly doesn't count as talking. But I've 609-796-JSZ+ r.# ~ There were many small children, and the come to cherish her sharings-and to marvel silence was certainly broken. As children at her innocent expression of what are occa whispered and murmured, cooed and cried, I sionally the thoughts of those around her. looked around at the adults in the room. S1'le's counted heads, asked why people were Fyfe & Miller There were beaming faces everywhere. sleeping, commented on the fact that the FUNERAL SERVICE Adults smiled at the children with pride and same person speaks every time, and won appreciation, love and acceptance. The joy dered who would be speaking next. She's 7047 Germantown Ave. these people had for the children in their expressed the hope that announcements Philadelphia, PA 19119 midst was so strong I could feel it. After a would end quickly so she could eat, and I (215) 247-8700 few minutes of settling in, a woman stood to she's pointed out that people were speaking James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller speak. "As a meeting, if we accomplish noth without being quiet for a little while first. ing other than giving our children 40 or 50 Each week as the children enter the meet Simple earth burial consenting adults to hear them speak, we ing and I share the joy of those around me, I and cremation service have done enough." I suddenly had no qualms think back to the words spoken on my first available at reasonable cost. about bringing Chelsea back with us. visit to this meeting. And I feel a sense of The next week, as the children entered satisfaction as I realize that of all I may the meeting, Chelsea found her way over to accomplish as a parent, hearing my child FRIENDS Small classes, strong us. She settled herself in her own chair and speak may be the best. 0 academics in a then, having been warned SELECf supportive, caring about talking during meet SCHOOL environment ing, addressed me in a loud emphasizing Quaker whisper: "A boy pulled a values. girl's hair." She paused and . • Pre-K thru 12th then continued quite delib ' Day School erately in the same loud e • After School Program whisper, "It's not okay to • Summer Day Camp hurt people." My first instinct was to 17th & the Parkway hush her, but I was struck by Philadelphia, PA the purity of the message (215) 561-5900 she' d shared with me. She had captured the essence of spirituality, of Christianity. It's not okay to hurt people. Find out Love one another. I thought Looking about back to the woman's words nationwide from the week before, about for a job and interna hearing our children speak. in The next week I waited the tional to see what other age-old non-profit positions in wisdom would come from COMMU- my daughter's lips. After five SeCtOr? Nirr JoBs .. minutes ofsilence, she whis The Employ pered quietly, "Will there be ment Newspaper f or tlze Non-Profit food after meeting?" I Sector, a monthly newspaper smiled. Like everyone else, including feature articles and more than 200 job li!:tings in every issue. Call or write for more information. £ACCESS N~t'NOfk•n, In the Public Interest 50 Beacon St. • Boston, MA 02108 ( 617) 720-5627 ·~1201 fRIENDS JOURNAL July 1993 19 News of Friends Brewster Grace is the new Quaker Peace foreign aid. With the Cold War over, Bread ago. She asked the governor to add the shirt and Service representative at the Quaker for the World hopes that the United States to the Clothesline Project and commit him United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzer government will shift funds from military self to ending violence against women. land. He is a U.S. citizen who served four and security aid to programs that directly The Clothesline Project was started in years as the Middle East representative in benefit the poor and hungry. To obtain a October I 990 to bear witness to violence Amman for the American Friends Service Many Neighbors, One Earth offering of let against women. Shirts are created in memory Committee. He was previously an AFSC ters kit, write to: Bread for the World, 802 of victims or as part of the healing process international affairs representative in Geneva, Rhode Island Ave., NE, Washington, DC for survivors of battering, sexual assault, in reporting on the United Nations for the Ameri 20018, telephone (202) 269-0200, or (800) cest, and homophobic attacks. can University. 82-BREAD. (from Seeds Magazine) The original Clothesline of 31 shirts has grown to 280. Over 70 Clothesline Projects A British Friend, Diana Francis, received have been started in communities across the the prestigious American Pfeffer Peace United States. As each shirt is added, the Prize for 1992. The award recognizes her problem of violence against women becomes eight years as president of the International more visible. Clothesline Projects are being Fellowship of Reconciliation (!FOR), from exhibited on village greens, college cam which she has since retired. Diana, a mem puses, at malls, and in churches. For more ber of Bradford-on-Avon Meeting of Lon information, call Rachel Carey-Harper at don Yearly Meeting, was cited forher"bound (508) 385-5443. less energy and commitment," which guided the !FOR "toward meeting the challenges of The William Penn College Literacy Tu a world in turmoil and building structures of toring Project received national recogni peace through active nonviolence." The tion at a meeting of the National Association award was presented at a conference of IFOR, of State Coordinators for the Education of held in Quito, Ecuador. Homeless Children and Youth. Student vol unteers travel to the Hawthorn Hill and Des How can we pray for peace and pay for <:; Moines YMCAs to work with delinquent war? In September 1991, the executive body ·~ teenagers, unwed mothers, abused children, of London Yearly Meeting, Meeting for Suf- ct; adults seeking a OED, and such organiza ferings, looked afresh at being a peace church ~ tions as Beacon of Light and New Direc and an employer. A lost war tax case in the ~ tions. Grants from private and public sources mid-'80s has led to renewed action, in the -s continue to support this project. (from Friends form of a letter writing campaign, to express G Association for Higher Education) objection to paying taxes for military pur- ~ ---...&.------.. poses. A monthly letter to the Inland Rev Tempe (Ariz.) Meeting has been aiding enue, expressing London Yearly Meeting's After serving a 90-day prison sentence for the poor at Paz de Cristo food bank in position, is now being supported by an effort her witness against the Strategic Air Com Mesa, Ariz., by cooking and serving over to reach the members of Parliament. How mand, Wendy Bobbit has been released I 00 meals on the third Friday of each month. ever, help is needed. Friends are asked to use from the Ft. Des Moines Correctional Facil A grocery cart stands in the Tempe Meeting these monthly letters, and their law-quoting ity. A member of Des Moines Valley (Iowa) house to receive non-perishable items for the responses, to show the dilemma which arises Meeting, Wendy found support in her faith, food bank. Friends who weekly buy grocer when an employer with 300 years' heritage and from a number of unexpected outside ies for the poor report being better able to of peace witness is required to collect and sources. She relates in her meeting's news face God and settle more quickly into the hand over money which pays, in part, for war letter, The Friendly Line, that the experience, silence ofmeeting for worship. The meeting's and war preparations. " . . . confirmed and deepened my belief that Paz de Cristo volunteers also report a deep Copies of the letters to Revenue and re if we do follow a leading into the unknown, ening friendship among themselves as a plies are available from QPS Peace Section, God will give us the strength we need and result of their experience. (from Friends Friends House, Euston Road, London NWI will touch others to show how they can Bulletin) 2BJ. (from Quaker News) help .. . . " No War Toys Merit Award Project pre The state of Montana now has its first Owen Newlin has been confirmed as a sents children with a merit citation for giving Friends Meetinghouse. Missoula Monthly member ofthe Iowa Board of Regents. An up a toy gun or battle-related war toy as a Meeting's new site for their growing meet active member of Des Moines Valley (Iowa) statement for peace and nonviolence. To par ing is a solid and simple clapboard structure, Meeting, he had recently retired from his ticipate: I) Mail toy guns or any battle-re with a meeting room, library, kitchen, First position as senior vice president of Pioneer lated war toys to Los Angeles Alliance for day school rooms, a three-bedroom house, Hi-Bred International Inc. Survival "No War Toys" Merit Award and fruit trees. To contribute to this project, Project, 13 Sunset Ave., Venice, CA 90291; write to The Fundraising Committee for On October 28, 1991, Rachel Carey 2) Include return address; 3) Clearly print Missoula Monthly Meeting, Joanne Kidder, Harper stood before the Massachusetts child's name, to be added to the merit award; clerk, 219 Sentinel, Missoula, MT 5980 I. State House with Governor William Weld 4) Include a brief note (from child or with (from Friends Bulletin) in support ofthe Clothesline Project. Carey help from parent) stating: "Why I would Harper, a member of Yarmouth (Mass.) Pre rather have a 'No War Toys' merit award "Many Neighbors, One Earth" is the theme parative Meeting and clerk of Sandwich than a war toy"; 5) Include $1 to cover return of Bread for the World's 1993 offering of Meeting (Mass.), handed the governor a shirt postage and handling; 6) Finally, parents are letters. The aim of this campaign is to influ she had made in memory of Mary Dyer, who urged to offer any networking support or ence Congress to take measures to transform was executed in Massachusetts 330 years ideas. (from Fellowship) 20 July 1993 fRIENDS JOURNAL Bulletin Board ()ak\Yood School • How do you start a Habitat for Humanity mances, including folk entertainer Arlo project in your own community? Anyone Guthrie. The first Parliament of World Reli who wants to explore this possibility or would gions was held in 1893 and marked the be Grades 9-12 and Postgraduate like to volunteer to help build homes for ginning ofa movement toward interfaith dia Friends Boarding and Day School people in need elsewhere in the country may logue, including both Eastern and Western write to the group's national headquarters at religions. Today it is supported by more than Emphasis 121 Habitat St., Americus, GA 31709-3498, 125 groups. on: or call (912) 924-6935. From Millard Fuller's • College Preparatory Curriculum vision 17 years ago of eliminating substan • "Swords and Ploughshares," the summer • Challenging Senior Program dard, poverty housing from the world, Habi institute of Children's Literature New Eng • Learning Center tat for Humanity has grown into a global land, Inc., will be held Aug. 8- 14 at Harvard • Personal Growth ministry. The nonprofit, ecumenical organi University in Cambridge, Mass. In lectures, - International Program zation is now building homes in more than seminars, and book discussions, participants · Visual and Performing Arts 900 communities in 40 countries. Its tech wi ll examine the impact on young people of • Sports Program nique is to work in partnership with people war and peace, conflict and resolution, in who need shelter, building simple homes historical and contemporary settings. For a tour and more information that are sold to people at no profit, through Madeleine L'Engle will be one of the speak contact: no-interest loans. Funds, building materials, ers. Cost is $625, plus housing. Contact and labor are donated. Martha Walke, Registrar, 2111 North Oakwood School Brandywine St., Arl ington, VA 22207, tele 515 South Road • The centennial observance of the Parlia phone (703) 243-5 135. Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 ment ofWorld Religions will take place Aug. Telephone:(914) 462-4200 28-Sept. 5 in Chicago, 111inois. Its purpose is • Attention all Civi lian Public Service vet Fax:(914) 462-4251. to foster cooperation among the world's reli erans; the 38th annual CPS reunion is set for gious communities and institutions, to assess July 25, at Quaker Lake Conference Center, and renew the role of religion in relation to Climax, N.C. Usual attenders have been from Display Ad global challenges, and to develop interfaith Friends units 19, 37, 41, and 108, but all programs to be carried into the 21st century. others are very welcome. For more informa DEADLINES Such worl~-renowned spiritual leaders as the tion, contact Bill Van Hoy, 1007 Mackie Reservations for display ads in FRIENDS Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa will partici Ave., Asheboro, NC 27203, telephone (919) JouRNAL are required. pate. There will be many workshops and 629-4793. Issue: September. Reservations must be seminars, as well as music and dance perfor- made by July 12. Ads must be received by July 19. Issue: October. Reservations must be made by August 9. Ads must be received Calendar by August 16. Ad rate is $28 per column inch. JULY 7-17-"Working in the Light: Exploring Friendly Call (215) 241-7279 now for your 1-4-"Celebrating the Family," a weekend con Service in Philadelphia," a work camp at Pendle reservation or questions. ference for families at Pendle Hill. Leaders will be Hill for high school students. Program will offer John and Diana Lampen, who have trained teach opportunity to explore the concept of Quaker ers in developing children's peace skills in North service by working with homeless people, with CREMATION em Ireland, Uganda, and Russia. Program will low-income housing programs, or with a Quaker Friends are reminded that the give family members new ways to get to know agency. Led by Eileen Flanagan, former Peace Anna T. Jeanes Fund each other, to deal with tensions, and to celebrate Corps volunteer. Cost: $475. Contact Peter will reimburse cremation costs. together. Included will be worship and an outing Crysdale, Extension Secretary, Pendle Hill, 338 (Applicable to members of on the Brandywine River. Cost: $200 for adults; Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA 19086-6099, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) children six and older, half price; children under telephone (2 15) 566-4507. for Information, write or telephone six, free. Contact Peter Crysdale, Extension Sec RICHARD R. BETTS 8-23-"ln the Steps ofFox, Penn, and Woolman," SOO·B Glen Echo Road retary, Pendle Hill, 338 Plush Mill Road, Philadelphia, PA 19119 a tour for adult Quakers of the roots of their faith Wallingford, PA 19086-6099, telephone (215) (215) 247-3354 in England. Sponsored by Friends World Com 566-4507. mittee for Consultation, Section of the Americas. 2-8-" Art and the Spirit," features several work Cost is £750. Contact Christine Snyder, 7897 shops at the Ben Lomond Quaker Center. Attenders Rain Tree Road, Centerville, OH 45459. mllll!ol!o participate in two separate, week-long workshops 9-13-Aiaska Gathering of Friends, Kotzebue, A QUAKER CENTER that utilize song, dance, art, and the expressive Alaska. Contact Robert Sheldon, Box 687, for Rest, Reflection, & arts. Cost is $185, with an $80 deposit. Contact the Kotzebue, AK 99752, telephone (907) 442-3906. Program Director, Quaker Center, P.O. Box 686, Renewal on 110 acres Ben Lomond, CA 95005. 13-18-" Proclaim the Yearofthe Lord," the 1993 IJ-oolMAN .,.,..._..._ of farm & woodlands. Triennial Sessions of Friends United Meeting, at Ideal for personal, group, 3-10-" Riding the Wind of Spirit," the Friends Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. Contact FUM, General Conference Gathering, at Oklahoma State & Friends Meeting Retreats 101 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374- University, Stillwater, Okla. Contact Bruce !A INI M ~1l'l\JJ~~INIC® ~INIVD~©INI~~INI1l' 1980, or call Sandra Baisley, (317) 962-7573. Birchard, FGC, 1216 Arch St., No. 2-B, Phila., PA o@U m ~«l>©~ muu.u. 19107. 15-18-North Carolina (Conservative) Yearly Meeting, at Gui lford College, Greensboro, N.C. 7-11-Wilmington Yearly Meeting, at Wilmington Keets Road Contact George Stabler, 788 W. 52nd St., Nor write¥or .. Deerfield. MA 01342 College, Wilmington, Ohio. Contact Marvin Hall, Pyle Center Box 1194, Wilmington, OH 45177, folk, VA 23508-2026, telephone (804) 489-3946. call · -· (413) 774-3431 telephone (513) 382-2491. 17-23-Northwest Yearly Meeting, at George Fox fRIENDS JOURNALJu/y 1993 21 College, Newberg, Oreg. Contact Mark Ankeny, telephone (6 13) 232-5848. 200 N. Meridian St., Newberg, OR 97132-2714, telephone (503) 538-9419. 4-8-Western Yearly Meeting, at Western Yearly Meetinghouse, Plainfield, Ind. Contact James 22-25-North Pacific Yearly Meeting, at Oregon Johnson, Clerk, P.O. Box 70, Plainfield, IN 46168, State University, Corvallis, Oreg. Contact Paula telephone (3 17) 839-2789. Butzi, 14349 !89th WayNE, Woodinville, WA 98073, telephone (206) 869-2810. 7-10-lndiana Yearly Meeting, at Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, Ind. Contact David 23-29-Evangelical Friends Church, Eastern Re- ~ Brock, 4 715 N. Wheeling Ave., Muncie, IN 4 7304- gion Yearly Meeting, at Malone College, Canton, d 1222, telephone (3 17) 284-6900. Ohio. Contact John P. Williams, Jr., 5350 Broadmoor Circle, Canton, OH 44 709, telephone ~ 7-12-New England Yearly Meeting, at Hamp (216 )"493-1660. .s. shire College, Amherst, Mass. Contact Elizabeth ~ Cazden, 901 Pleasant St., Worcester, MA 01602, 25-31-New York Yearly Meeting, at the Silver · (508) 754-6760. Bay Assn., Silver Bay, N.Y. Contact George Rubin, ~ 15 Rutherford Place, New York, NY 10003, tele 7-14-Central Yearly Meeting, at Central Camp ground, Muncie, Ind. Contact Arthur Hollings phone (212) 673-5750. 3-7-Mid-America Yearly Meeting, at Friends worth, 109 W. Berry St., Alexandria, IN 46001, University, Wichita, Kans. Contact Maurice Rob 28-Aug.l-lllinois Yearly Meeting, at IYM Meet telephone (3 17) 724-9668. inghouse, McNabb, Ill. Contact Jerry Nurenberg, erts, 2018 Maple, Wichita, KS 67213, telephone 60255 Myrtle Rd., South Bend, IN 46614, tele (316) 267-0391. 13-18-Jamaica Yearly Meeting, at the Happy Grove School. Contact Angela Beharie, II phone (219) 232-5729. 3-8-Pacific Yearly Meeting, at Walker Creek Caledonia Ave., Kingston 5, Jamaica, W.l. 28-Aug.l-lowa (Conservative) Yearly Meeting, Ranch, Petaluma, Calif. Contact Ellie Huffinan, at Scattergood Friends School, West Branch, Iowa. P.O. Box 136, Rescue, CA 95672, telephone (916) 14-21-Canadian Yearly Meeting, at Pickering Contact Bill Deutsch, RR. #2 Box 190, Decorah, 626-1524. College, Newmarket, Ontario. Contact Anne Thomas, 91-A Fourth Ave., Ottawa, Ont. KIS lA 5210 I, telephone (3 19) 382-3699. 4-7-lowa (FUM) Yearly Meeting, at William 2Ll, Canada, telephone (613) 235-8553. 30-Aug.I-Central Alaska Friends Conference, Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Contact Del at Dickerson Homestead, Wasilla, Alaska. Con Coppinger, Box 657, Oskaloosa, lA 52577, tele I S-22-"Womyn and Men: Celebrating our Iden tact Jan Pohl, P.O. Box223 16, Juneau, AK 99802, phone (515) 673-9717. tities, Examining our Roles," the Young Friends of North America Summer Gathering, at Friends telephone (907) 586-5606. 4-7-North Carolina (FUM) Yearly Meeting, at Camp, South China, Maine. Tentative workshop Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C. Contact Billy topics include Communication between Men and AUGUST M. Britt, 5506 W. Friendly Ave., Greensboro, NC Women, Spirituality and Sexuality, Gender and 27410, telephone (919) 292-6957. 2-8-Baltimore Yearly Meeting, at Wilson Col Justice, and Exploring a Gender-free View of lege, Chambersburg, Pa. Contact Frank Massey, 4-8-0hio Valley Yearly Meeting, at Manchester God. Cost ranges from $135-150. Contact Nikki 17100 Quaker Lane, Sandy Spring, MD 20860, College, North Manchester, Ind. Contact Barbarie Coffey Tousley, YFNA, 4 Friends Way, St. James, telephone (301) 774-7663. Hill, 6921 Stonington Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, NY 11 780, telephone (516) 862-6213. THE HICKMAN FRIENDS HOME AT WOODSTOWN OF CONCORD QUARTERLY MEETING A Quaker-Sponsored Retirement Facility t.; • One-bedroom Woods Court • 60-bed Medicare & Med icaid Apartments for People over 60 Certified Nursing Home 100 Year History • Residential facility with . • Pastoral Setting A Personal Care Home community dining • Caring, supportive staff • Reasonable Rates W()(X)Sl'OWN • Delicious, nutritious meals • Not-for-profit • Quaker Tradition In Town Location convenient P.O. Box 457, Friends Drive • Woodstown, NJ 08098 • (609) 769-1500 to Shops and Businesses I (215) 696-1536 I West Chester, PA A Quaker Sponsored Coso de los Amigos. r--'A.. Mexico City. Quaker Retirement Community ~/ ' center, needs direc COSO de los tors beginning imme- Contemporary Apartments for an Independent Lifestyle 0 m j g S diateiy for one or 1wo Personal Care Residence for Assisted Living 0 years; and assistants A Fully-Licensed Nursing Home On Site for 3-. 6-. and 12- Meals, Transportation, Housekeeping • Cultural and Social Activities month periods throughout the year. Hous A History of C aring Since 1904 • Beautiful, Secure Setting ing and small allowance provided. Write: Call Carol Nemeroff, Admissions Director: 844-0700 Ellen Gonzalez. Coso de los Amigos. Ignacio Mariscall32. Colonia Revoluci6n, 6300 Greene St. • Philadelphia, PA 19144 06030. Mexico D.F. 22 Ju/y 1993 fRIENDS JOURNAL Books Conditions of Peace East. It seemed the war system was here to stay. With a new administration, the winds Edited by Michael Shuman and Julia of change are sweeping through the White Sweig. Expro Press, Wash. , D.C., /991. House. It is well to have clearly in mind the 254 pages. $15.95. (Available from Talman changes that would be compatible with peace, Company, !50 Fifth Ave., New York, NY as clearly set out in this book. 10011.) JackMongar This book is the culmination of nearly nine years' work by a group of scholars and Jack Mongar, of Lancaster (Pa.) Meeting, activists collectively known as the Explor taught at the University ofLondon, where he atory Project on the Conditions of Peace was engaged in the organization of Peace (EXPRO). The group explored five themes: Research. security, democracy, ecology, economics, and community. Each is presented as a sepa rate chapter by a different author. The intro Soviet Laughter, Assuring duction, which ties together the content, is as Soviet Tears substantial as any of the chapters. the Future The writers examine alternatives to the By Christine and Ralph Dull. war system we have had for so long. What StillmorePress, Englewood, Ohio, 1992. 370 pages. $23.50. What better way to give expression are the conditions for a stable peace system? to your Quaker values than by Idealistic as the writers are, they are afso This book describes a six-month exchange leaving a portion of your estate to realistic about the basis of any new order: It between a Church ofthe Brethren family and FRIENDS joURNAL? You will assure must be grounded in national self-interest, a family on a Ukrainian collective farm. In the growth of Quaker thought and but it need not be as destructive as in war. I989, after three visits to the Soviet Union life long into the future. Consider a Introduction of the peace system cannot wait and three years of negotiations, Christine provision in your will for for universal disarmament or sudden conver and Ralph Dull left their 2,000-acre farm in FRIENDS JouRNAL. sion of humanity to nonviolence. However, Ohio and headed for the western Ukraine. At it would entail dramatic social transforma the same time, two Ukrainian farmers were For more information, contact: tions, revamped security doctrines, new hab welcomed to Ohio by the Dulls' four grown FRIENDS jOURNAL its of mind, and new political, economic, and children and spouses, who arranged for one 1501 Cherry Street cultural policies to reinforce the possibility Ukrainian to work on th~ Dull farm and the Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 of peace. other on a neighbor's dairy farm. (215) 241-7820 The authors recognize thattoday's threats The Dulls' adventure in a Ukrainian vil to stable I?eace come from many nonmilitary lage may be unique in that country's history, sources, such as economic dislocation, envi but it is typical of what this couple has been ronmental degradation, and cultural and na doing for years in working with such organi DELAWARE VALLEY tional antagonisms. Disarmament would be zations as Oxfam America, Pax World Foun FRIENDS ScHOOL coupled with build-up of security practices, dation, and Heifer Project International. They Morris&: Montgomery Avenues such as confidence-building measures, risk make no claim in this book to offer an au Bryn Mawr, Pa. reduction centers, and international verifica thoritative analysis of Ukrainian society. In tion systems. deed, they arrived in their Ukrainian village For Students with However, the proliferation of weapons with no knowledge of the Ukrainian lan Learning Differences guage and less than a year of Russian. They for mass destruction is one of the most ur College preparatory, Grades 7-12 pay warm tribute to Anatoli Kushnir, a teacher gent tasks for the new world order. Curtail Summer School ment of the arms trade is also essential for a of English in the village school, who was stable peace. Freeing the economies of the assigned to be their interpreter and became Come to an Open House world from dependence on arms sales would their closest Ukrainian friend. His account of 526-9595 for info & vitko, solve this problem. Economic conversion their visit from his culture's point of view is "Learning with a Difference" from the manufacture of arms to civilian one of the most informative of the book. goods is central to this change. It will not be A little more than half of the book is easy: In the United States, trade in weapons devoted to excerpts from Christine Dull's and military services accounts for more than journal. In this, hundreds of experience~ pro For Prices & Quality 5 percent of exports and 20 percent of U.S. vide the narrative line for this six-month manufacturing capacity. It involves 35,000 adventure, almost assuming the character of in the Quaker primary contractors and approximately a life-size jigsaw puzzle as the couple at Tradition I 00,000 subcontractors. The Pentagon em tempt to fathom Ukrainian society. Other ploys half a million people to manage these chapters include accounts of the Ukrainian • Medical Forms contracts. Seven to eight million people are farmers' stay in the United States, written by • Computer Forms employed in arms manufacturing. Redirect their Ohio hosts; Christine's account of 55 • Checks ing these vast resources to social and envi letters they received from Ukrainian citizens • Business Printing ronmental projects would be a monumental who read about their venture in the press; a task. chapter drawn from questions the Dulls were The Gulf War was a major setback for asked by audiences when they gave talks :7/ccurale 23usiness Yorms such changes. Before it ended, plans were after they came home. At least nine of their 9 Bank St. • Medford, NJ afoot for the United States to sell $I8 billion Ukrainian friends had visited their farm in (609) 654-2374 worth of high-tech weapons to the Middle Ohio by the time this book went to press, and fRIENDS JOURNAL July 1993 23 an Afterword by Christine updates this as· pect of the story. The final section is devoted to Ralph Dull's analysis of the hopelessly inefficient, bu reaucratic agricultural system encountered in the Ukraine, and his suggestions for its reform. This can be summarized in one sen tence: Set the farmers free to farm on their own. William Edgerton Wi/Jiam Edgerton is a member of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting and professor emeritus ofSlavic languages and literatures at Indiana University. As a Friend, he has done war relief work among Yugoslavs and Poles and has worked overseasfor the Ameri can Friends Service Committee. In Brief Popl•r Ridge (N.Y.) Meetinghouse STTOWN Directory 1993 SCHOOL New York Yearly Meeting, New York, N.Y., 1993. 183 pages. $7.50/paperback.Published Westtown, Pennsylvania- Founded In 1799 as a part of the Yearly Meeting's 1995 Ter centenary celebrations, this listing includes places and times of worship, travel direc Westtown is a Quaker school of 600 students in Pre·K through tions, and simplified maps, plus drawings of 12th grade, co·educational, college preparatory, day and boarding meetinghouses, and historical sketches. In tended to stimulate intervisitation, its publi cation is particularly timely with the triennial * Excellent academic programs meetings this month of Friends United Meet ing, at Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. * Individual attention within l! caring community Friends traveling throughout the region will find the book particularly useful. Copies can * Before and after school day care programs · be ordered from New York Yearly Meeting, * Performing and fine arts 15 Rutherford Place, New York, NY 10003. Add $2 postage for single orders, and $1 * 600·acre campus with lakes and woods each for additional copies. * Outstanding facilities (science center, arts center The Descent of the God fieldhouse, 25·meter indoor pool) By Lorna M. Marsden. William Sessions Lim ited, York, England, 1991. 101 pages. Pa perback. Available from Pendle Hill Book For more information and to arrange to visit classes, store, 338 Plush Mill Rd., Wallingford, PA please call Sarah Goebel, director of admissions, Westtown School, 19086. Inquire for price, postage, and Westtown, PA 19395 (215/399·0123) handling. The concept of incarnation has a language of myth and metaphor that helps to 24 July 1993 fRIENDS JOURNAL describe the human experience. Lorna Highland Park Club is a Florida Marsden feels that our modem Western so oasis of gracious tradition. Our ciety has ignored this, putting too much em exclusive club features a diverse phasis on the external and calculable. As we membership and warm hospitality. evolve, we must rediscover our recognition And we enjoy a rich influence from of being within the whole and accept such SHARE · our Quaker members past and terms as incarnation, redemption, and grace. present. At risk is the health ofour civilization, which, for the fi rst time, is on a global scale. OuR You'll find ample opportunities for BLESSINGS••• recreation, the arts and Disney World George Fpx Speaks for Himself less than an hour away. Our club By Hugh McGregor Ross. William Sessions house overlooks beautiful Lake Easy Limited, York, England, /991. 153 pages. and amenities include golf, tennis, $12.95/paperback. Following the death of croquet and swimming pool. You'll George Fox, worthy Friends chose to pub find beautiful guest quarters and lish writings that would, according to Hugh enjoy fine dining. Ross,"... assert the propriety, respectability and soundness ofthe Quaker movement. They We love to share our blessings, your wanted sobriety and seriousness." An unfor HIGHLAND PARK visit is encouraged. Contact: tunate result of this selectiveness has been CLUB Highland Park Club the loss of Fox's human qualities. Through the use of selected quotations, 1650 S. Highland Park Drive mostly from documents previously unpub Esr. 1924 Lake Wales, FL 33853-7465 lished or little known, Ross's research shows 813-676-1812 the reader a deeply spiritual and personal side to the man whose ministry developed into the Religious Society of Friends. Whether Ross's editing and selection of quotations fully reflect the true personality of George Fox is unknown, but this book certainly provides new insight on a person many Friends have studied, but only par tially know. Self-ReUance Edited and with an Introduction by Richard Whelan. Bell Tower, New York, N.Y., 1991. 207 pages. $/0/paperback. This work in cludes an introduction to Ralph Waldo Emerson's life and philosophy, with quota Newtown, PA 18940 tions from his writings to use as daily inspi rational reading. The selected essays are short ened, the language updated and presented in a format that is easy and inviting to the con temporary reader. Earthkeeping In The Nineties Edited by Loren Wilkinson. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.,Grand Rapids, Mich., 1991. 391 pages. $19.95/paperback. This book is a revised and augmented update of the original 1980 edition that successfully applied biblical thought to many complex environmental problems. The nineties edi tion covers similar historical and theological Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, George School is a co ground, but from the perspective ofa changed educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9 - 12. environmental awareness. The informative, The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values & includes: rich, and well-written text will hold the at • Courses on 4 levels of dlftkulty • International Baccalaureate (18) tention of any environmentally conscious • Advanced Placement (AP) • Intemadonal workcamps reader, even those not versed in biblical teach • English as a Second Language (ESL) • Required community service ings. Friends' concerns about the health of • Foreign study • Required full-year courses In the arts the earth are addressed on many levels here, • 13lnterscholasdc sports for boys A girls in the interest of better human stewardship of For more information, please contact the Admission s Office: 215/ 968-381 1 God's creation. fRIENDS JOURNAL July 1993 25 Resources • Called to Be Peacemakers, A New Call to Peacemaking Workbook, by John K. Stoner, is designed for use by your local church or We're Building meeting to clarifY its calling and commit ment to peacemaking and to join a network for mutual support and growth. Order from New Call to Peacemaking, P.O. Box 500, Akron, PA, 1750 I, phone/FAX (717)859- On Our Reputation. 1958. 1992, 100 pages. $4/ea., $15/5 copies, $25/ 10 copies. • That All May Worship, An Interfaith Wel Friends Homes, Inc. in Greensboro, North Carolina, come to People With Disabilities is by Ann Rose Davie and Ginny Thornburgh. This proudly announces its new continuing care retirement fri endly handbook helps religious groups in community is nearing completion. Located near Guilford clude people with disabilities in their con College, the new facility includes 171 one and two bed gregations. There are sections on getting started, hospitality, personal interaction, care room apartments, an assisted living unit and a skilled care for caregivers, and structural modifications. nursing unit. Only a few apartments are still available in Order from Religion and Disability Program, National Organization on Disability, 910 16th Phase I. For more information, call 919-292-9952. Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC, 20006. 1992, 56 pages. $ 10 (includes post age). FRIENDS HOMES • The Soviet Breakup and U.S. Foreign Pol icy, by Allen Lynch, reviews the Gorbachev West years, provides facts about the current situa tion, and examines U.S. foreign policy con siderations. Order from Foreign Policy As sociation, c/o CUP Services, P.O. Box 6525, Ithaca, NY, 1485 1, 800-477-5836. 1992, 72 pages. $4/ea., quantity discounts are avail able. • Food Security in Africa: A Regional Point of View is by Advocates for African Food Security: Lessening the Burden for Women. This pamphlet reports the results ofa survey of organizations in 26 African nations. It is part of the final review of United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development. The conclusion is that there is still a food deficit in 49 percent of the countries studied. For more informa tion, contact Quaker United Nations Office, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY, 10017. • A Catalogue of Publications, by the Na tional Council on the Aging, Inc., is now available. Topics include adult day-care pro grams, arts and older Americans, support to caregivers, housing, diet, and health care. Write to National Council on the Aging, 409 Third Street SW, Washington, DC 20024. • Can't We All Get Along? A Manualfor Dis cussion Programs on Racism and Race Re lations is based on the small-group, partici patory model known as the "study circle." It is available from Study Circles Resource Center, P.O. Box 203, Rt. 169, Pomfret, CT, 06258, (203) 928-2616.42 pages. $3.00. • ECHOES publishes news of the World Council of Churches' Programme Unit III on 26 July 1993 fRIENDS JOURNAL Est. 1689 WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Kindergarten through 303 Years of Quaker Education Twelfth Grade Justice, Peace, and Creation. This occasional journal replaces the following publications: Operated under Charter issued-by William Penn. The William Penn Charter Women in a Changing World; Youth; CCPD School is a Quaker college-preparatory school committed to nurturing in girls For a Change; Link; and Church and Society and boys the education of the mind, the quickening of the spirit, and the Newsletter. 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Friends Journal, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 • The following books are available from New Society Publishers, 4527 Springfield Moorestown Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 19143: Spinning Tales Weaving Hope: Stories of Friends School Peace, Justice & the Environment is a col lection of 29 stories from around the world. Each entry is introduced by a different story Coed College Preparatory teller who provides suggestions for ways to tell the story and enhance the experience. Pre-K -12 Edited by Ed Brody, Jay Goldspinner, Katie Green, Rona Leventhal, and John Porcino of Stories for World Change Network, the 279- Educational excellence page book is available for $22.95, plus $2 shipping. for over 200 years Through Indian Eyes, Th e Native Experi ence in Booksfor Children, edited by Beverly 110 East Main Street, Moorestown, NJ • 609-235-2900 ext. 227 Slapin and Doris Seale, presents nine essays, eight by Native Americans, that confront the impact of stereotyping and distortion of his tory on children. This 312-page book also includes poems, artwork, stories, reviews of Yes, a Quaker college can remain Quaker, and should! over 100 books, and a resource list of Native educators. It costs $24.95, plus $2.50 ship ping. Partners in Education How to Tell the Difference, A Checklist for A report on the 100-year partnership of Evaluating Children's Books for Anti-Indian Wilmington College Bias is actually a chapter from Through In dian Eyes. This 30-page piece, by Beverly and Wilmington Yearly Meeting Slapin, Doris Seale, and Rosemary Gonzalez, Ofgreat interest to all involved in Friends education is designed to educate outsiders about how Wilmington Yearly Meeting, Wilmington OH 45177 to select non-racist and undistorted books about Native peoples. It costs $7 .95, plus $15 plus $1.50 shipping or at your Quaker bookstore $2.50 for shipping. fRIENDS JOURNAL July 1993 27 Milestones Births/Adoptions Achgill-Christian Edmond Achgi/1, born Jan. 16, arrived home Jan. 28, to his adoptive parents, Helene and Dennis Achgill. Both parents are attenders of North Meadow Circle of Friends, Indianapolis, Ind. Vokes-Erin Nicole Vokes, on March 14, to Siri ~ and Neil Yokes. Siri is a member of Somerset Hills (N.J.) Meeting. Marriages of the NAACP and other interracial and interfaith Bunn-Mason-Michae/ Mason and Hollie J. Imagine a vacation so relaxing you organizations, participating in the placement of Bunn, on August 29, 1992, at Cincinnati (Ohio) feel like part of the scenery. exiled and displaced people, and organizing edu Experience a farm vacation: Meeting. Hollie is a member of Campus cational and spiritual programs for racial justice. -Explore hundreds of acres of pristine (Wilmington College, Ohio) Meeting. He worked for Fellowship House Farm in wilderness Curtis-Ruehling- Robert Ruehling and Ginger Fagleysville, Pa., in the early 1950s, and later -Participate in the activities of farm life Curtis, on May I, under the care of Visalia became involved with the Pennsylvania Human -Experience animal life first hand (Calif.) Meeting, where Ginger is an attender. Relations Commission until his retirement in 1971. -Relax in a peaceful simple This was the first wedding held in the new Visalia His role was often that of trouble shooter and atmosphere Meetinghouse. peacemaker in racially changing neighborhoods. -Enjoy beautiful scenery He was instrumental in bringing the Green Circle -Excellent Family Get Away program to Allentown, Pa., and formed support Mountain Dale Farm Deaths "encirclement" groups for volunteer Green Circle (formerly the Water Co Farm) Banerjee-Be/a Banerjee, 74, on Jan. I, in New instructors. He was devoted to the arts, particu RR 02 , Box 985 ton, Kans., at the home of her long-time friends larly poetry and walnut woodwork. He was author McClure, PA 17841 and co-workers, LaYonne and Dwight Platt. She of several books and hundreds of religious, fam 717-658-3536 was born into a Brahman family near Dhaka in ily, and introspective poems. Russell was a mem Open Year Round, Groups Welcome, Private Bangladesh, but moved to Calcutta as a child. She ber of Unami (Pa.) Meeting. In addition to Ruth Accommodations, Meals Available. had no schooling but began to work for the Ben Barbour, his wife of 51 years, he is survived by gal Social Service League when she was 15 or 16. four daughters, Jean B. Peterson, Nancy B. Miller, Her determination to find ways to help others led Sally Barbour, and Robin Barbour; his brother, Bringing Friends' Concerns Thomas Barbour; five grandchildren; and two lor Peace & Justice to her to take midwifery training at the Lady Dufferin Congress Since 1943 College in Calcutta. She then worked with the great-grandchildren. Wr~te or cal! !202154 7-4343 British Friends Service Unit in their Maternal and Cutler- Tina Cutler, 63, on April 6, in Saint tor acttOn suggeshon tape Child Health clinic. She studied nursing at the Paul, Minn., of cancer. Born Concetta Cirelli in Royal Free Hospital in London, receiving her Avellino, Italy, she attended the University of certificate oftraining in 1951. She said she learned Rome where, in the aftermath of World War II, English by listening to the patients, as later she· she came into contact with ~rthur and Etta Mekeel learned dialects and languages ofthe many places of the American Friends Service Committee's her work took her. She spent the next I 0 years Italian war relief program. She worked with them with AFSC's Barpali Village Project. With sup for several years, and in 1952 was awarded the port from Friends, she also worked I 0 years in the first UNESCO scholarship to work in an AFSC Mitraniketan project in Kerala, South India, de project in El Salvador. There she met Bruce Cut veloping an extensive health education program ler, and they w_ere married under the care of and training young village women to be health Austin (Tex.) Meeting in 1954. A dedicated wife workers. In 1979, she became pratinidhi (admin and mother of three, she helped found the Man istrator) ofthe Orissa State branch ofthe Kasturbai hattan (Kans.) Meeting and later was a member of Gandhi National Memorial Trust. When she died, University (Wichita, Kans.) and Twin Cities (St. she was on her third visit to the United States, Paul, Minn.) meetings. During numerous years The Guest House at Knoll Fann having traveled to Canada and the West Coast, spent overseas with her husband and family, other lind Peace of lniwl and 'Renewal of Spirit renewing old friendships and making new ones. years as a university teacher and administrative On a 150 Acre Orya11ic Fczn11 A Hindu by birth and throughout her life, Bela staff person in a Montessori school, and during /11 the Hills of U!n11011t was deeply influenced by the Brahmo Samaj be the 12 long years of her illness, she showed ex lief in simplicity and spiritual brotherhood, and ceptional qualities of character which made her a Scotch Highland cattle, horses, pond, by Friends' principles. She is survived by her friend and peacemaker to all who knew her. She is organic gardens, pastures with spec sister Sushama Mukherjee ofMurshidabad, West survived by her husband, Bruce Cutler; three tacular views, a well established guest Bengal; three nieces; four nephews; and by her children, David Cutler, John Cutler, and Ann house serving three hearty meals a family offriends around the world. Docken; seven grandchildren; and five brothers Barbour- Russell Brown Barbour, 86, on March and sisters. day. Work in our gardens, hike our I. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., and a candy maker Hargrave-William A. Hargrave, 89, of nature trails, relax in our hammocks, by trade, he experienced the call to his ministry Lansdowne, Pa., on Feb. II, after a lengthy ill recreate your own spirit with a per after the death of his first wife, Flora MacLennan, ness. Born in Wisconsin, he was an electrical sonal retreat or in fellowship with in 1935. He graduated from Ursinus College and engineer who had worked for RCA. He was a other guests. Reasonable rates by day Colgate Rochester Divinity School in 1942, and member of Lansdowne (Pa.) Meeting, serving as served as pastor of American Baptist and United clerk of.the meeting's Peace Committee and work or week. For brochure, write: Ann Church of Christ parishes. He was a conscien ing on Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Peace Com Day, Knoll Farm, Bragg Hill, tious objector in World War II and was involved mittee. He was long-time member of Women's Waitsfield, VT05673 · (802)496-3939 with the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Russell's International League for Peace and Freedom and human relations work included chairing local units served for many years with his wife, Gerda, as an 28 July 1993 fRIENDS JOURNAL Pax World is o no-load, The Fund does not invest diversified, open~nd, in weapons production, balanced mutual fund nuclear power, South international representative to the United Nations designed for those who PAX Africa, or the tobacco, Office in Austria. He was a member of many local wish to receive income alcohol, or gambling peace organizations and enjoyed teaching folk and to invest in life \ C R L D industries. Various types dancing. He was well-known for his volunteer supportive products and of accounts ore available: work for UNICEF. He is survived by his wife, services. Pax invests in Regular Accounts, IRAs, Gerda Hargrave; daughter, Peggyann Hargrave F U N D Educational Accounts, Noel; and two grandchildren, Kevin and Deborah. such industries as pollu tion control, health care, Custodia l Accounts for Hilles-R. Webster Hilles, 81, on March 13, in food, clothing, housing, For o free prospectus ond Minors, SEP-IRAs, Auto Gladwyne, Pa., after a long illness. Web was born in Philadelphia, Pa., a birthright member of education, energy, and other materials call toll-free: matic Investment Plans, Frankford (Pa.) Meeting. He grew up in Glen leisure activities. 1·800-767-1729 and 403(b) Pension Plans. Ridge, N.J., and graduated from William Penn Minimum investment is $250. Therefore, with Pox there Charter School in 1929, Princeton University in This is not a solicitation in those Send no money. Past perfor 1933, and obtained his law degree at the night ore social as well as states where the securities have mance is no guarantee of school of Temple University. In the late 1930s, economic dividends. not been qualified. future results. Web was clerk of Frankford Meeting and was also active in the peace movement. However, at A SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FUND the onset of World War II , he was drafted into the army where he worked for the U.S. Army Claims Ten-Year Total Return Service. While on duty in North Africa, he met Margaret H. Playford-Fenn. The two were mar ried in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1944. Web later continued his law career in the United States, eventually becoming the president, CEO, and chairman of the board of his firm. He also served on the board of managers of Friends Hospital for 27 years. Web was a member of Haverford (Pa.) Meeting. He is survived by his wife, Margaret Hilles; two daughters, Susan H. Geyelin and Wendy H. Gaunt; a sister, Amanda H. Fraser; a brother, Hugh C. Hilles; one granddaughter; and three grandsons. S.:hwarz-Jeanne Schwarz, 16, ofGalway , N.Y., on March 2, after a long illness. She was a retired educator and textbook author. Born in Missouri, she earned degrees at Drury College and Union College. She joined the faculty ofGa lway Central School in 1950 and retired in 1972. She wrote several textbooks on history and social studies FREE! 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Charming, one-bed co-housing, single-family dwellings, homesteading room apartments of your own in historical, Eastside Write: Friends of Peace Pilgrim, 43480 Cedar Ave., in Blue Ridge Foothills (near Charlottesville, Va.). neighborhood. $70-$125 double, plus $15 per addi Hemet CA 92544. Experienced core-group seeks like-minded souls for tional guest. From simple to sublime. (212) 228-4645. harmonious, cross-cultural, multigenerational lifestyle. SASE to Monacan Ridge, P.O. Box 190, Ocala, Florida, Meetinghouse: Two twin-bed rooms, Friends General Conference Bookstore annual Louisa, VA 23093. Voice mail: (804) 980-1019. split plan, private baths, spacious living areas, fully catalogue available free upon request from FGC equipped. Reasonable. George Newkirk, Correspon Bookstore, 1216 Arch Street 2B, Philadelphia, PA Guatemala. Study Espai'lol/culture. Individualized in dent, 4910 N.E. 16th Street, Ocala, FL 34470-1151. 19107. Come visit us when you're in Philadelphia! struction. Home stay. Explore women's issues, (904) 236-2839. Bookstore hours: M, T, Th, F: 9-5. For more informa refugees, poverty, development. Casa 1022 St. Paul tion, call (800) 966-4556. Ave., St. Paul, MN 55116. (61 2) 690-9471. A homely base in the heart of London? Short-, medium-, and long-term accommodation available with excellent whole-food meals. Also meeting rooms Just Published! '7hy Affectionate Son . .. "A collec Personals for workshops, lectures, and conferences. Contact: tion of letters from three brothers, Palmer, from Quaker International Centre, 1 Byng Place, London Delaware Co., Pa., from the Civil War. Price $11. Single Booklovers, a national group, has been get WC1 E 7JH· Tel: 071-387 5648. James B. Stabler, 2104 N. Tejon Street, Colorado ting unattached booklovers together since 1970. London? Stay at the Penn Club, Bedford Place, Springs, CO 80907. Please write Box 117, Gradyville, PA 19039, or call London WC1 B SJH. Friendly atmosphere. Central New! Quakers In Fiction, by Anna Caulfield. Useful, (215) 358-5049. for Friends House, West End, concerts, theater, Brit lively information on 370 adult, 250 children's books Classical Music Lovers' Exchang-Nationwide ish Museum, university, and excursions. Telephone: involving Quaker characters. Indexed. A must for link between unattached music lovers. 1 (800) 233- 071-636-4718. Quaker homes, schools, libraries. Send $15.95 (in CMLS; Box 31, Pelham, NY 10803. Quaker House, Chicago: short- and long-term, in cludes postage) to Pittenbruach Press, 15 A Walnut, Northampton, MA 01060. expensive accommodations available in historical Concerned Singles Newsletter links compatible, Friends meetinghouse in Hyde Park. Meal options Pendle Hill Bookstore offers hundreds of titles of socially conscious singles concerned about peace, also available. For reservations call (312) 288-3066. interest to Friends; special order and out-of-print social justice, and the environment. Nationwide. All Simple low-cost lodging for individuals and groups. search services; shipping all over the world. Hours ages. Since 1984. Free sample: Box 555-F, Seminar planning available. Quaker center on Capi 9-12:30/1:30-4:30 EDT, M, T, Th, F. For catalogue Stockbridge, MA 01262. tol Hill. William Penn House, 515 E. Capitol St. SE, or to order: 1-800-742-3150 (or 215-566-4514 Phila Washington, DC 20003. (202) 543-5560. delphia area). Box F, 338 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA 19086. South central Pennsylvania. Sojourners welcome in Friends' home; rural surroundings, close to York Silent Friends: a Quaker Quilt, stories by Margaret Positions Vacant and Lancaster. One to five people. Sell-catering pos Lacey. $14.95 plus $1.50 postage from Stormline Assistant Director for Quaker intentional commu sible. One hour per day work exchange per adult. Press, P.O. Box 593, Urbana, IL 61801. nity in Chicago. Responsibilities include managing Resident dog and three cats. For details and reser guest room operations, supervising food budget, pre vations (required), call (717) 927-9067. Quaker Books. Rare and out-of-print, journals, me paring meals, and assisting directors. Some cooking Mexico City Friends Center. Reasonable morials, histories, inspirational. Send for free experience necessary. Room, board, stipend. Ideal accommodations. Reservations recommended. Casa catalogue or specific wants. Vintage Books, 181 for graduating college student. Write or call: Pro de los Amigos, Ignacio Mariscal 132, 06030 Mexico Hayden Rowe St., Hopkinton, MA 01748. gram Directors, Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn D.F. 705-0521 . Ave., Chicago, IL 60637. (312) 288-3066. 30 July 1993 fRIENDS JOURNAL Companion/Housekeeper for adult, slightly dis Woolman Cottage. Minutes from Acadia National United Friends School: coed; K-6; emphasizing abled, brain-injured. Live-in position in Texas Park on Maine coast. Enjoy safe, quiet retreat in integrated, developmentally appropriate curriculum, providing living and travel expenses and salary. Du rural, shore-front home with kitchen privileges. Rea including whole language and manipulative math; ties include: shopping, driving, meal planning and sonable rates. Weekly minimum. Carol Woolman, serving upper Bucks County. 20 South 10th Street, preparation, housekeeping, recreational activities, (207) 288-9695; R.R. 1, Box 1710, Bar Harbor, ME Quakertown, PA 18951 . (215) 538-1733. and travel. Prefer woman age 40-50 with imagina 04609. tion, enthusiasm, cheerful disposition, strong Friends Southwest Center. Reasonable accom educational background, and some similar work ex Services Offered modations, R.V. facilities, mild climate at 4,200 perience. Send complete re sume of educational and altitude in southeastern Arizona. Telephone: (602) General Contractor. Repairs or alterations on old work experience including dates and responsibili 642-3547. 642-3451. or historical buildings. Storm and fire damage re ties. Reply to: Box 150, Friends Journal, 1501 Cherry stored. John File, 1147 Bloomdale Rd., Philadelphia, Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. PA 19115. (215) 464-2207. Couple or individual to help care for three children Retirement Living in Vermont Quaker/Zen family. Housing plus salary. Foxdale Village, a Quaker life-care community. Forum Travel Write: Summer-Vine Community Zendo, 19 Vine, Quaker-owned and managed travel Montpelier, VT 05602. (802) 229-9678. Thoughtfully designed cottages complemented by attractive dining facilities, auditorium, library, and agency. Friendly, experienced service; Director(s) for Woolman House in Mount Holly, full medical protection. Setting is a wonderful combi • ~ domestic and international; overnight N.J., a growing Quaker organization devoted to nur nation of rural and university environment. Entry fees ·~ delivery. (800) 888-4099. turing the spiritual life of Quakers and others by from $38,000-$120,000; monthly fees from $1,110- spreading the message of John Woolman. House, $2,040. 500 East Marylyn Avenue, Department F, utilities, and contribution toward health insurance Friendly financial planning. let me help you pre State College, PA 16801. Telephone: (800) 253- pare for retirement or work out an estate plan. Socially costs provided. Ideal situation for couple with some 4951. responsible investments are my specialty. Call Joyce independent income. Job includes maintaining house K. Moore, Registered Representative, John Hancock and grounds and working with program chairper The Harned. lovely old house and carriage house Financial Services, (215) 258-7532. sons, AI and Sue Thorp, on outreach activities. on quiet, residential, tree-lined street south of Me Applicant should be familiar with Quaker principles dia, Pa. Meals served in main house. Short walk to Loans are available for building or improving Friends and have appreciation of John Woolman. Send re train. Eleven units. 505 Glenwood Avenue, Moylan, meetinghouses, schools, and related facilities. We sume to: P.O. Box 427, Mount Holly, NJ 08060, or PA 19065. (215) 566-4624. are Friends helping Friends to grow! For information call: (609) 267-3226. contact Margaret Bennington, Friends Extension Cor poration, 101 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 4737 4. High Point Friends Meeting in North Carolina is Schools Phone: (317) 962-7573. (Affiliated with Friends United seeking a full-time Minister of Music. letters of in quiry and resumes may be sent to lloyd McDonald, John Woolman School. Rural California, grades 9- Meeting.) ------.,...---,---, 800 Quaker Lane, High Point, NC 27262, or call 12. Preparation for college and adulthood, small Quaker Universalist Fellowship is a fellowship of (919) 886-4468. classes, caring staff, work program, service projects; seekers wishing to enrich and expand Friends' per spectives. We meet, publish, and correspond to Minister: active, broad-based meeting in coastal board, day. 13075 Woolman lane, Nevada City, CA 95959. (916) 273-3183. share thoughts, insights, and information. We seek Maine, near college communities, seeks Friends to follow the promptings of the Spirit. Inquiries wel minister with gifts in children's and youth ministries, Junior high boarding school for grades 7, 8, 9. come! Write QUF, Box 201 AD 1, l andenberg, PA preaching, and visitation. Send resume to Durham Small, academic classes, challenging outdoor expe 19350. Friends Meeting, c/o Bob Marstaller, 375 Davis Road, riences, community service, daily work projects in a Durham ME 04222. small, caring, community environment. Arthur Transcribing: oral history, family stories, etc. $3/ Peace Brigades International seeks volunteers to Morgan School, 1901 Hannah Branch Rd., Burnsville, NC 28714; (704) 675-4262. page double spaced, or $5/page single spaced. In work as Human Rights Observers in Guatemala. cludes 5.25" diskette of ASCII DOS file and postage Prerequisites: Spanish, commitment to nonviolence, The Meeting School celebrates the transition from and handling. For more information, please write or ability to work by consensus, preferred age 25 years youth to adulthood by encouraging students to make call: Chuck Freidel, 4004 Third Avenue, San Bernar or older, minimum commitment seven months. Con decisions in their own lives in a Friends (Quaker) dino, CA 92407-3402. (909) 882-4250. tact PBI, 192 Spadina Ave., Suite 304, Toronto, ON, boarding high school in southern New Hampshire. Canada M5T 2C2. Phone (416) 962-6409 for more We emphasize experiential education, striving for Wedding Certificates, birth testimonials, poetry, gifts information. innovative and challenging academics while working ail done in beautiful calligraphy and watercolor illu with consensus and equality regardless of age. Teen mination. Book early for spring weddings. Write or Rentals & Retreats agers live on campus in faculty homes. The school call leslie Mitchell, 2840 Bristol Rd., Bensalem, PA is based on simplicity, honesty, the peaceful resolu 19020. (215) 752-5554. Colorado Mountains. Beautiful, sunny, three-bed tion of conflict, the dignity of physical labor, mutual trust and respect, and care for the earth. Admis room house near Winter Park. Sleeps eight. Hiking, Socially Responsible Investing fishing, golfing, mountain biking, horseback riding, sions: The Meeting School, Rindge, NH 03461 . (603) 899-3366. Using client-specified social criteria, I screen in skiing. Thirty minutes to Rocky Mountain National vestments. I use a financial planning approach to Park. (303) 744-7455. portfolio management by identifying individual objec Handsome private lodge set in a working orchard, Global Friends School offers high school academ tives and designing an investment strategy. I work in a town that Michener called "perfect.· Eight bed ics within the context of real-life experiences, basing wilh individuals and business. Call: Sacha Millstone; rooms, large living and dining areas, kitchen, sauna, studies around service projects in diverse cultural Ferris, Baker Watts; member NYSE, SIPC. (202) woodstove. Ideal for retreat, conference, reunion, or settings. This traveling Friends boarding school is 429-3632 in Washington, D.C., area, or (800) 227- vacation. P.O. Box 534, Walpole, NH 03608. (603) starting its second great year! Costa Rica? The 0308. 756-9800. Pacific Northwest? Santa Fe? Come explore wilh us! Please contact Corinne Joy, GFS, Box 429, Pocono Manor. Rustic mountain house. Seven bed Blairsville, GA 30512. (304) 252-4227. Electrical Contractor. Residential and commercial rooms, sleeps 15, large mountain view deck, full installation and repairs. (Phila., Pa., suburbs.) Call kitchen, large dining room, access to hiking trails, Paul Teitman: (215) 663-0279. great golf and tennis, ideal for groups, retreats, fami A value-centered school for elementary students Moving to North Carolina? Maybe David Brown, a lies. Year-round week and weekend rentals. Contact: with learning differences. Smail, remedial classes, Quaker real estate broker, can help. Contact him at Jonathan Snipes, (215) 736-1856, or493-3664. qualified staff, serving Philadelphia and northern sub 1208 Pinewood Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. (919) urbs. The Quaker School at Horsham, 318 Meeting Pocono Mountains. Summer house on Lake House Road, Horsham, PA 19044. (215) 674-2875. 294-2095·------=---~-=---=- Wailenpaupack. Five bedrooms, two full baths, eight Family Relations Committee's Counseling Service people maximum. Private beach and dock in front Stratford Friends School provides a strong aca (PYM) provides confidential professional counseling yard. Front porch overlooking eight miles of the lake. demic program in a warm, supportive, ungraded to individuals, couples in most geographic areas of Some weeks available in July, August, and Septem setting for children ages 5 to 13 who learn differently. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. All counselors are Quak ber. Full weekends available, too. Contact Tom lyons, Small classes and an enriched curriculum answer ers. All Friends, regular attenders, and employees of (215) 885-1941 . the needs of the whole child. An at-risk program for Friends organizations are eligible. Sliding fees. Fur five-year-olds is available. The school also offers an ther information or brochure, contact: Arlene Kelly, Madison, Connecticut: fully-renovated stable in after-school reading program, extended day, tutor 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102. (215) 988- summer community on Long Island Sound. Tennis, ing, and summer school. Information: Stratford 0140. beach, swimming, tidal pools. 30 minutes from New Friends School, 5 llandillo Road, Havertown, PA Haven. Suitable for couple or single person/child. 19083. (215) 446-3144. $300/week, $1,000/month. Available June-Septem Summer Camps ber. Call (609) 829-9657. Olney Friends School. A safe, caring, value-cen tered, educational community for students in grades The Leaveners (Quaker Performing Arts Project) Share award-winning home In Coventry Conn. 9-12. A college preparatory curriculum emphasizing invites Friends to join us in raising the creative spirit Swimming pond, stream, woods, gardens, 167 win a belief in the individual and his/her own abilities on holiday residential music and drama projects; dows. Interdependent, environment-conscious makes Olney a positive environment in which to live open to anyone 16 years and over. For more infor household. Stately dog. Rooms available June. (203) and learn. 61830 Sandy Ridge Road, Barnesville, mation write to: The Leaveners, 8 Lennox Road, 742-8338. OH 43713. Phone: (614) 425-3655. london N4 3NW, England, U.K. fRiENDS JOURNAL July 1993 31 We invite you to share tn our dream MICHIGAN FRIENDS CENTER where individuals and groups can be surrounded by natural beauty while they meet for workshops, retreats, small conferences and the like. Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting and Friends Lake Cooperative Community have joined together to create a non-profit retreat Center at Long Lake in the lovely hill country west of Ann Arbor. It's an ideal seccing for quiet IfJ6M htl1lt b11ilt tastles in the air, reflection, for consensus building, for planning, for the JOIW WOI'k -.J 1101 be /ost; that is whm they slxmld be. Now pm work of restoring peace to our planet. There are ninety j01111dati(JIIJ Mnd#- thtm. acres of woods and trails, and facilities for camping, - ThoreaM canoeing, picnicking and swimming. The building will have large and small meeting rooms, a children's wing, a kitchen, indoor bathrooms, and a shower. We want to build the Center entirely out of contributions so we . can offer affordable use to groups large and small. Our goal is achievable. We are two-thirds of the way toward the $180,000 needed to make the center a reality before time again increases costs. We ask your fi nancial support so we can begin construction in 1993 and be welcoming users in 1994.