November 1993 Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today

Seasons and Silence Spiritual Exercises for Busy Days People vs. Books! the World: Special Sectiou A View From Another Window Among Friends Editor-Manager Vinton Deming Assistant Editor Timothy Drake Closer to God Art Director Barbara Benton hen you first open your copy of the JouRNAL," I enjoy asking readers, Advertising Manager 'what's the first thing you usually read?" I'm always intrigued at how Catherine Frost many tell me they read the issue from back to front- starting with such Circulation and Promotion Nagendran Gulendran things as Milestones, scanning the Classifieds, checking out the brief department Computer Production pieces. ("The Milestones are what I look at first," a reader told me once. "I want to Susan Jordhamo see who's still around!") There are many too who go first to the Forum, who look Secretarial Services for humor, even a few who read this column (my mother, for sure!). Edward Sargent Since very few check out our Masthead in every issue, let me call attention to Bookkeeper James Neveil several staff changes that have occurred this month. First, you will see that Student Intern Associate Editor Melissa Kay Elliott's name is absent. Melissa resigned from the Kate Nash JouRNAL this fall. After nearly seven years on our staff, she will be missed by all of Volunteers us- as a fine writer and editor, and as a valued colleague and F/friend. We wish her Jane Burgess, Emily Conlon, Marguerite Clark well. Tim Drake, who has been assisting with a variety of editing and production Board of Managers 1991-1994: Frank Bjomsgaard, Emily Conlon, tasks the past two years, is our new assistant editor. The newest name to the page is Sam Legg (Clerk,), Parry Jones, Richard Moses Kate Nash, a junior at Earlham College, who is doing her internship at the JoURNAL (Treasurer), Harry Scott, Larry Spears, Robert Sutton, Carolyn Terrell this fall as part of the Great Lakes College Association program. 1992-1995: Phoebe Cottingham, Richard Eldridge Speaking again of readers' preference, may I mention a recent' letter? It scolded (Assistant Clerk), Deborah Fisch, Kitty Harrison, me for not bringing enough controversy to our pages. ("Don't be afraid to stir us up Bernard Haviland, Paul Jolly, Eric Larson, Mary Mangelsdorf, Margery Rubin, David Samuel, a bit," the Friend encouraged.) OK, I'm not. If you scan the Contents page to my Carolyn Sprogell, Wilmer Tjossem, Alice Wiser right, your eye may stop at one title, Elizabeth Claggett-Borne's article on "Facing (Secretary) Up to Sexual Abuse Among Friends." It's sure to be a piece that stirs us up, and 1993-1996: Marguerite Clark, Lee Neff, Mary Ellen Singsen well it should. Honorary Managers "Sexual abuse happens among Quaker families," Elizabeth writes as part of her Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Mildred Binns Young lead. "It is happening now within Quaker communities. We become even farther FRIENDS JOURNAL {ISSN 0016-1322) was from God when we ignore this fact." estab lished in 1955 as the successor to The · Why, some may ask, should FRIENDS JouRNAL devote space to such a topic? Friend ( 1827-1955) and Friends lntelligencer (1844-1955). It is associated with the Religious Sexual abuse is not something most of us enjoy talking about. Frankly, it's Society of Friends. embarrassing. It feels too personal. Shouldn't it be handled quietly and discreetly? • FRIENDS JOURNAL is published monthly by Yes, and no. Friends must show respect and tenderness for all who may be Friends Publishing Corporation, 1501 Cherry St., involved in such incidents. 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Those desiring more information may contact the Erikssons at P.O. Box 7375, Las Cruces, NM 88006-7375; telephone (505)521-4260. PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER We invite your articles and letters. I trust that sqch sharing may further a spirit of healing for both the victims of abuse and those who have committed such abuse. As we search together in love, may we be moved closer to God. Moving? Let us update your subscription and address. Write or call: FRIENDS JouRNAL, 1501 Cherry St., Next month in FRIENDs JoURNAL: Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 An Interview with Johan Maurer of Friends United Meeting (215) 241-7277; Fax (215) 568-1377 How to Start a Youth Group Thoughts About Christmas

2 November 1993 FRIENDS JOURNAL · November 1993 FRIENDS Volume 39, No. 11 JOURNAL Features Departments 7 Seasons and Silence 2 Among Friends Mike Clark As autumn comes, a Friend discovers new meaning. 4 Forum 5 Viewpoint 8 Facing up to Sexual Abuse Elizabeth Claggett-Bome 28 Parents' Corner Within a loving community, healing may occur. 29 Young Friends 10 Spiritual Exercises for Busy Days 31 FCNL Notes Jim Greenley How can one develop a spiritual life in the midst ofdaily 32 Reports business and obligations? 35 News of Friends 13 What We Say 36 Bulletin Board Christine Lundy George Fox's words ·at Ulverston continue to challenge. 37 Calendar 38 Books 14 Living With Dying Leonard H. Cizewski 44 Milestones A brother's death from AIDS deepens a spiritual search. 45 Classified 18 Rapid Population Growth Stan Becker Poetry A leading to travel with a concern may tap Friends' spiritual energy and insights-and lead to new solutions. 16 All Night the Rain C. J. Muchhala 20 People vs. the World Aziz Pabaney Many in the over-populated two-thirds world see the 17 Transformations population issue quite differently. Wendy McVicker 22 The Life of Laura Haviland A Small Request Barbara S. Worden Jean Ducey She worked courageously against the evil ofslavery. Wild Geese 24 That Which Is the Same Madeleine Stephenson Mary Coffin True acceptance is to discover that ofGod within. 25 Assisting Guatemalan Refugees Peg Morton Front Cover: Engraving ofMoses Brown We may not assume things will be better there. We must witness (17 38-183 6) by T. Pollack, after a portrait by our presence. by W J. Harris

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1993 3 Forum

Commented the Hawaii Court: "We do category-<>ver 80 years. Alii can say is Toys of violence not believe that trial judges are the ultimate we try to keep active. In News of Friends (FJ July) a request authorities on the subject of Divine Will, I think Elizabeth Vining reports that was made for networking suggestions from and as [the final federal outcome of that Rufus Jones, when a QPE, wrote to the No War Toys Merit Award Project. case] amply demonstrates, constitutional someone: "I'm getting terribly old but can Coincidentally, perhaps, an advertisement law may mandate, like it or not, that still conjugate the verb 'to eat' !" ran in the 6/27 Washington Post Magazine customs change with an evolving social Keith Smiley in which Charles Lazarus, CEO ofToys order." Mohonk Mountain House "R" Us, says that the selling of the same Same-gender couples and many of our Mohonk, NY 12561 toys at their stores all over the world Friends meetings have, in recent years, creates a common thread among all dealt with the issues of same-gender As a QPS reader, I was very interested children. To quote from the advertisement: marriage. Those issues become both more in the editor's comments regarding some of " ... if all these kids are playing with the liberated and a bit more complex once legal the communication difficulties we have same toys, how could they ever possibly recognition is involved. This is because any with young people. I was particularly fight with each other? There's a common same-gender couple may come to Hawaii struck by the sentence, "What could life thread about how they grow up and what once legalization occurs they play with .... It makes for one and get a marriage license world." that they could then take If you feel so called, please join us in home. The federal requesting that he consider removing all government would toys of violence from his stores, so that this recognize these licenses "common thread" can be one spun of (e.g., for joint tax returns), peace. His address is: Charles Lazarus, and most likely so would CEO, Toys "R" Us, 461 From Rd., the couple's home state. Paramus, NJ 07652. As the final legalization in Hawaii may occur very Nansie and Steve Wilde 19585 Transhire Rd. suddenly, it would be wise Gaithersburg, MD 20879 for all such couples to plan ahead. Hawaii requires a marriage ceremony to be Making it legal performed locally. So the Friends might be interested in some couple, if they want a recent judicial work out here in the far Quaker ceremony, need to West. For many decades Hawaii stood arrange for a marriage against the majority of states which saw fit ceremony in Hawaii. Faith to ban groups of people from marrying and Practice spells out simply and only because of their color. It how to go about this. was 1967 before the U.S. Supreme Court As the federal govern­ barred miscegenation laws across the ment automatically accepts country. legal marriage licenses Now the Hawaii Supreme Court has from all the states, and as taken a further step forward for human all other states (at least for dignity, equality, and tolerance. It has said now) do as well, the have been like for a kid 'way back then'?" that groups of people may no longer be establishment of one "free" state in this The answer is, of course, that it was great barred from marrying simply and only arena should quickly lead to a wave of fun! This is such a wonderful opportunity because of their gender. In short, based on progress across all the land. for us to open the doors of communication. the Equal Rights Amendment contained in Bob Stauffer We should go right ahead and tell them, not the Hawaii Constitution, our court pre­ 51-019 Lau Pl. about the things we didn't have, but the sumes such gender-based discrimination to Ka'a'awa, HI 96730 things we did have- and which are no be unconstitutional. more. This needs to be done in a positive A legal technicality prevented the court A Quaker Care package way, of course. I fit is, do you know what from sanctioning gay/lesbian marriages What a great JouRNAL! Nourishing! Things will happen? The young people will sit immediately. They are now likely to be are pretty dry sometimes in Gambell, Alaska, there breathlessly taking in every word!· legal by early 1994 or as late as the end of so a good, solid, Quaker Care package every Kids are fascinated by olden times. 1995, depending on how quickly certain month is much in order. Look at the enduring popularity of books court procedures will take. Lucinda Selchie such as Tom Sa-.ryer, Anne ofGreen Harking back to the previous U.S. P0Box437, Gables, and The Little House on the Supreme Court miscegenation case, the Belfast, ME 04915 Prairie, to name just a few. There is more Hawaii Court almost gleefully quoted that than just fun in books such as these. There case's original (Virginia) trial judge, who is outright challenge. Kids welcome this incredibly based his opinion in part on the QPS responses challenge, and see themselves not merely asserted fact that "Almighty God created As usual, I enjoyed the editor's Among coping with it but rising above it. As we the races ... and he placed them on Friends column (FJ July). If you consider talk to them about our own childhood, we separate continents.... The fact that he QPS status [i.e., "Quakers Pushing Sixty"] can raise the same challenges. We can say, separated the races shows that he did not as a questionable achievement, Ruth "Those were tough times, but we man­ intend for the races to mix." Smiley and I are both in the QPE aged." We can say, "There is a lot you

4 November 1993 FRIENDS JoURNAL Viewpoint A Letter to my Daughter about God by John C. Morgan Dear Lynne, Give me a Jacob or Job wrestling with some call "prayer." You ask such big questions, ones I can­ God any day rather than some of the pious •Think about Others. It is almost impos- · not deal with easily. You want to know: twaddle some people mouth. Better not to sible to find God aU by yourself. Look to "Does life become any better if you com­ use the name at all than to twist and distort great figures, but, more importantly, look mit yourself to God?" Perhaps I would it to fit one's own needs. That's called to those with whom you share life now. prefer the word deeper rather than better, idolatry, and a Jot of persons these days Note the pain and suffering, but also the because my life te11s me that a whole new seem to have turned God into a Bible verse. incredible spirit and courage. I have some­ series of requirements about how to live The only way I can speak of God is times found a Presence within and yet be­ has been placed on me as I have come to symbolically, which is to say pointing else­ yond the moment in others, especia11y dur­ accept the Living Presence of what most where. And I must point to life, for it is here ing some of the most difficult moments. ca11 God. Sometimes, to be honest, life I live. Every religious tradition points some­ •Look at your own life work. What you becomes a great deal more complicated where: some to church tradition, others to a commit yourself to in your life gives you a when I must consider needs beyond my book, still others to revelation. I point to clue what you really consider ultimate. Is it own. life, my experience and that of others, be­ money or prestige or justice or what? A The older I get, the Jess I know. I have cause if God is not here, then everywhere few rare persons I have encountered have no secret wisdom to share about God. In­ else dims in comparison. so committed their lives to Jove, that one deed, the word God is not one that God There are a few places you might turn to feels immediately the presence of God. I gives Himself, Herself, or Itself, but rather in your search: have encountered personally such individu­ one we have ascribed to that transcending •Look at Creation. Look at the rhythms of als often. When I have, my life has been mystery and wonder of the universe we the seasons, the ocean spilling over onto changed for the better. And, ironically, as I cannot fina1ly capture. For me, at least, the sand, the mountains. There is beauty reflect, these few persons have been an God has become a Living Presence, not there, even as we destroy it. In creation, I orthodox Moslem, an evangelical Chris­ some abstract concept to be defended. I find a clue to the One who creates. tian, and a "born-again Pagan." would no longer be so presumptuous to •Study History. Study the unwinding of I have come slowly to understand that defend God, but on Iy, from time to time, to time, the unfolding of stories, especia11y each of us is on a journey, yet incredibly say "thank you" for the gift oflife. your own. You may, from time to time, interconnected to the journeys ofmany oth­ I know there are some who are abso­ catch a glimpse of the Master Detective at ers. And, I suspect, we are linked to the lutely certain they have ensnared God in a work. Ironically, I have found myselfchuck­ great story ofCreation in ways we can only book, a person, or a tradition. I have found ling at such times in my life, but, then, as a guess. But that is what I have discovered, some of the most terrible suffering on earth great orthodox theologian, Reinhold and you may have a different version! to have arisen when people who are so Niebuhr, has said: "Humor is the prelude to If a skeptic and failure like me can be certain God is on their side, they will stop faith, and laughter is the beginning of part of such a great journey, I know you at nothing to convert others. One of the prayer." Incidentally, have you ever no­ can, too. Would a father lie to you? wisest comments about God I have ever ticed how incapable oflaughter those born­ heard came from an older Friend, spoken again believers are and how seriously they Love, during meeting, when he confessed his take everything? Dad doubt: " I have spent my life searching for •Examine yourself. God is not you, but an Objective Reality, fit to be worshiped. sometimes in the silence of yourself you John C. Morgan is a Unitarian Universal­ Last night I woke up and decided it didn't may hear a voice not your own. However, ist minister now living in Ohio, and a fre­ make any difference." you must practice listening, which is what quent contributor to FRIENDS JOURNAL. missed out on, but then, we never had ten­ which are not new but which have been on with others-even though this may limit speed bikes, or VCRs, or computers either. the minds of many Friends for some time, staff openings for Friends? And I never learned about them, so I have such as: Is AFSC stiiJ a service committee? AFSC today has a higher staff level of to keep asking you questions about them." a Friends committee? Does it draw women, people of color, and sexual We can say, " I'm glad I Jived then, but I'm inspiration and strength from a spiritual minorities in executive roles. I would also glad I live now, with you, in your source? Can it make more room in its work welcome more Quakers on staff, but is it generation." for Friends and young people? not a Friends' act to remove the barriers Anne H. Allen Irwin goes on to state, "As a historian I that have kept others down, however RR I, Box 2600 am well aware how institutions change in unwittingly, and to be wiiJing to "begin at Vail Rd. Extension time and face new conditions." That is home"? Bennington, VT 05201 indeed what has happened in AFSC's AFSC today has a committee on AFSC experience. For example, in recent times and Friends Relations. Care is given to AFSC has found it right to staff many fashion new and stronger ties with Friends It's rightly named overseas service projects, not with expatri­ and yearly meetings. Is it not evident that Irwin Abrams, in the article "What's in ate Friends, but with citizens of the African, AFSC sees itself as a Quaker organization a Name?" (FJ August), has looked back to Latin American, or Asian country of project and wants that identification to remain? "a golden era" and forward to a future "new location. Is it not a Friends' act to have It is pertinent that AFSC has been put golden age" of the American Friends service programs run by the people who under a microscope in the past two years as Service Committee. He raises questions need to experience hope and to share it a Planning Committee worked on ways to

FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1993 5 strengthen the AFSC despite troublesome dreams that will embrace our future. I am A familiar photo budget cuts. AFSC will surely be a much appreciative of the confirmation of different organization functioning in a Thank you for printing a photograph I these truths. took of my husband, Bob Ruge. It appeared different era. As changes occur, the Brett Miller-White questions Irwin raises should be in the with the poem "Soundings" (FJ July). It 204 Long Branch Rd. was taken on the beach at Fort Bragg, minds of the makers of change and, I think, Swannanoa, NC 28778-3523 so should such questions as I have cited. At Calif., about two years before Bob died in the same time, AFSC people need to be July 1971. open to revelations yet to come. A healing potential Bob, his brother Peter, and parents Val I hope, as Irwin does, that AFSC will and Ray Ruge were long-time members of In response to Barry Morley's article on Cornwell (N.Y.) Meeting. His mother now have a new golden age. I hope it will Friends Consultation for Camping (FJ emerge as Friends inside and outside lives in Duxbury, Mass., and attends a July), I was really pleased to read his meeting connected to Cambridge. We are AFSC, as well as others in AFSC who have accounts of several episodes in which devoted their lives to Quaker action, seek to both curious about how this photograph healing occurred as a result of Quakers surfaced in FRIENDS JouRNAL after lo, these make AFSC ready for the coming changes praying with healing intent. The possibility in our world. I also hope Friends will many years. of physical healing is something Quakers Juliette Waung Ruge support AFSC and help it make clear that are at times fascinated by and often are this great Quaker organization is rightly 298 Main St. unwilling to consider. Cold Spring, N.Y. 10516 named. It is my personal experience that Quaker John A. Sullivan worship at its best taps into a deep flowing Photographs and drawings in our 19401 I 31st Ave., SW river through which God's grace flows with Vashon Island, W A 98070 graphics file come from many sources. In loving power. It is also my experience that most cases the name and address ofthe once we are deeply rooted into that photographer/artist is attached. Occasion­ gathered place, we have the potential to use ally, as with the photo ofBob Ruge, there · that grace for our own healing but espe­ was no name on the print. Our art director cially for others' benefits. It amazes me that knew only that the photo had been in our we haven't made a concerted effort to be files when she started work at the JouRNAL, more fully the instruments of grace by and that it was a lovely one to use with doing this at a corporate level in some way. "Soundings. "-Ed. Maria Arrington . ~ <:>:: 1400 Echo Lake Rd. Population queries <-1 Bigfork, MT 59911 In the September News of Friends, you ::: carried the Minute on Population Concerns .S! approved by Representative Meeting of ~ Work camp leaders needed Baltimore Yearly Meeting on March 27, Do you know any people who are 1993. However, you failed to report that looking for part-time service positions? As Representative Meeting felt that the Minute you may know, the Youth Service Opportu­ needed to·be centered in a group of queries, nities Project employs a part-time staff to which was circulated with the Minute as an Discovering trees lead our work camps. Candidates for these integral part of the meeting's action. The Eileen Flanagan's "Trees and Other positions should have experience working queries were: Mentors" (FJ July) provided me with the with teen-agers. They can be of any age. 1.Are we aware of the interconnection same insight excitement generated when We seek individuals who are committed to of population concerns and such Quaker someone speaks my mind in a meeting for service. YSOP work camp leaders work testimonies as right sharing, simplicity, worship. I am compelled to invite her (and alongside our high school and college peace, and equality? all those who know me) to my retirement student volunteers in soup kitchens, drop-in 2.Do we fulfill our responsibility to be forestry acreage in the Smokies. She didn't centers, and shelters. Our work camps good stewards of God's creation? need to go to the Alps to become "over­ typically occur on weekends, but occasion­ 3.Are we conscious that the possibilities come with joy." Her discovery of the ally are held on weekdays. Leaders must be offered by God's good creation are beyond western Blue Ridge is all that we tree available to stay here overnight, for one or the ability of our human intelligence to people need to do. Sometimes, of course, a two nights. comprehend, and thus beware of mech~nis­ salt water addiction places a few of us early Past leaders have included teachers, tic answers to problems we perceive? on at the inevitable destination of the recreational workers, and others interested 4.Are we filled with God's love for all mountain grains of sand that support the in working with students. We employ both life? trees. The flat lands in between (e.g., college graduates and people with life Bill Samuel Pendle Hill) must have been made just to experience. We have a multi-racial and 4110 72nd Ave. make that journey easier. multi-ethnic staff, and currently have Landover Hills, MD 20784-2608 Eileen's discovery, via the trees, that particular interest in candidates of Hispanic God is not to be gendered is but a starting background. I'll be pleased to hear from FRIENDS JOURNAL welcomes contributions point in that required journey that we must anyone who might be interested. from readers. Submissions to Forum all take in one lifetime or another. Her clay should be no longer than 300 words, tree stumps parallel my own attachment for Jean Sommerfield Viewpoint 1,000 words. Unless authors standing dead trees that are ready to YSOP request otherwise, names and addresses become stumps only when necessary. 15 Rutherford Pl. will be published with all letters. Finally, she points all of us toward the New York, NY I 0003

6 November 1993 FRIENDS JouRNAL How like Friends worship utumn has always been my favor­ work and deadlines. Summer is an explo­ ite season. While growing up, I is the cycle of seasons. sion ofene rgy, growth, and reproduction. loved the piles of leaves blown Summer is the time for physical labor and about by gusts of prairie wind, walking Winter is the silence. It can be hard and the production of food for carrying us with my dogs across the stubble of har­ stressful, but also a time ofrest and medi­ through the autumn, winter, and spring. vested fields, Jonathan apples grown tation. Winter is a time ofliving offof one We need the tropical summer, just as we along the Missouri and Mississippi Riv­ harvest and planning the next. It can be a need the productive time to work for a ers, pumpkin pie hot from the oven, fall time ofloneliness. It can also be a time of better world. rains and those full harvest moons. finding oneself a part of the Spirit and Millions of people live in the tropics, This autumn is special to me. It is my never alone. Winter has always been a an area ofseasona l change but basically a second year back in the United States time for repairing the farm implements; perpetual summer. Many people also live after spending six years in a tropical cli­ silence is a time for the repairs we can in the spiritual tropics, productive but never mate and my first year in the spirit ofth e make to our spirits. Winter is a time for leaving the frenzy of the active world, Society ofFriends. Last week I felt a cold sitting, for checkers by the stove and for never receiving the cleansing silence. A wind, the first touch ofautumn, and there country philosophers to expound on their comparatively few people live in the far came into my mind an analogy of the thoughts; the silence is a time to share the North, an area ofbriefsummers that are changing seasons to the circle of Friends. moving of the Spirit within each person little more than spring blending into fall. Autumn is the settling into silence, the (or the moving of each person within the Few people can live in the spiritual far shedding ofleaves, the storing of the har­ Spirit). Winter is the time for cleansing North, escaping the frenzy ofsummer and vest, the preparation for winter. It does not the diseases, pests, and parasites, as is the not needing it. happen all at once. Yesterday, we went to silence. These temperate latitudes in which we Pilot Mountain. The leaves are turning Spring is the breaking of silence. It find ourselves are healthy, both the physi­ yellow and orange on the north side ofthe does not always come easy. Just as a hard cal and the spiritual. Like the trees that mountain, while a few hundred yards away, freeze may hit the Piedmont in April or a now begin to drop their leaves and wait over the ridge, the south side is still green, snowstorm cover Missouri in May, at the for spring to warm their sap, to renew the and fall will not settle in there for several end of the worship hour we stretch and life cycle, so I learn to settle into the more weeks. My mind settles into the si­ have to settle into the talking just as we silence and wait for the Light to warm lence this way: first one part, then an­ settled into the silence. Fellowship and my inner self and renew me. other. My leg needs to stretch, my ear thoughts come forward as the daffodils in This autumn is special to me, as will itches, just as summer days alternate with the spring: the result ofwinter, the result be every autumn and every silence from autumn days until winter arrives. ofsilence . now until I break the cycle and die. I am Summer is the intrusion of the tropics privileged to share the autumn; I am privi­ Mike Clark attends the Davidson (N.C.) Wor­ into temperate latitudes. Summer is the leged to share the silence with this circle ship Group. busy time between silences, the frenzy of ofFriends. l:l

FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1993 7 by Elizabeth Claggett-Bome process but it is a necessary one. Many Friends have found courage in address­ riends often act contrary to God's ing sexual abuse in their Quaker commu­ love. We don't often think of our­ nities. The following painful events offer Facing F selves as sinful. With trembling, I inspiration to us all: put before you one ofFriends' most pain­ ful problems. Sexual abuse happens • Concerned parents at a Friends school among Quaker families. It is happening met in worship sharing with a suspected now within Quaker communities. We be­ sex offender and succeeded in reducing Up to come even farther from God when we the fear and tension. ignore this fact. • A First-day school struggled with what I have participated in a working party to teach their children to prevent assault within my yearly meeting, which is de­ and exploitation. Sexual veloping a document to help meetings • A meeting set up a support group for work with Friends involved in sexual survivors and their allies. abuse. In examining this issue, our work­ • A Quaker had his membership taken ing party has heard many stories of away and was imprisoned after sexually Friends trying to deal with abuse. Are abusing a child in the meeting. Abuse any of these situations familiar to your • A meeting passed a minute stating that meeting? sexual abuse is against Friends practice. "[This Friends meeting] considers any • A child attended meeting with all the sexual involvement of an adult with a Among signs of abuse but with no legal way for child to be abuse ofthe child by the adult. the meeting to intervene in the situation. Such behavior must be condemned." And ~ A date rape happened within the meet­ later a minute said, "The meeting must mg. be a safe place for children.... There • A Friend confessed during meeting for has been a clear violation of trust." Friends worship to being a victim of incest and was ignored, even attacked afterwards. I want to share a story about healing • An adult left Quakerism because when from abuse within a Quaker community. she was a child her meeting did little to On the floor of a yearly meeting plenary confront her abuser (her father), whore­ session a person was indirectly accused mained a respected member of our Soci­ of being an unrepentant sexual offender. ety. "Ifthe person is a perpetrator, could such •A back rub by a youthworker on a child a person remain a Quaker in good stand­ was interpreted as too sexual at a Friends ing?" people asked. Later, the accused retreat. person asked for a clearness committee. After much delay (committees ofthe quar­ Our working party proposes that meet­ terly and yearly meeting were baflled as ings have a responsibility to address re­ to how to address this situation), a com­ ported incidents ofharassment and abuse mittee met with the accused offender to in their community. Once a meeting rec­ talk with him about his participation in ognizes the extent and seriousness of the Religious Society of Friends. sexual abuse, the number of incidents This person regretted and genuinely will come as a surprise. Victims will feel repented of sexually abusive incidents safe to confide in meeting members. In­ toward an older child many years ago. appropriate touching and aggressive bad­ He admitted he now sees these incidents gering will not be ignored. If meetings as an abuse of power of adult over child, do not prepare themselves, they stay in and a betrayal oftrust. He and the victim denial about this widespread problem. (now an adult) have discussed the past Meetings are like families. The fam­ abuse and are reconciled. ily is not fragmented when someone The committee encouraged this per­ leaves feeling hurt. The family was al­ son, who in some ways had self-ban­ ready fragmented when the hurt (abuse) ished himself (especially after the public first happened. Placing sexual and other accusation), to find a monthly meeting abuse into God's Light is not an easy near him and again become active. Sec­ ondly, the committee recommended that the chosen meeting's committee on Min­ Elizabeth Claggett-Borne, a longtime Friend, is devoted to a new phase ofthe peace testi­ istry and Counsel be acquainted with the mony: God's healing in violent homes. She situation and appoint a small committee welcomes dialogue among Friends on the of oversight to provide support for the issue of sexual abuse, as do the editors of individual or for the others in the meet­ fRIENDS JOURNAL. ing, if that became necessary.

8 November 1993 FRIENDS JOURNAL My experience as a member of this ued. As we understand our own healing As frequently as abuse and harass­ committee is that our meetings were held processes in relation to our own offenses, ment happen in this imperfect world, we in deep prayer and caring. Sometimes we can better learn how to address of­ need not become a fearful and suspicious there were tears. It took courage for this fenders. As we learn to forgive ourselves, community. Abuse is, of course, but one person to meet with Friends and to try we can learn to forgive others. Our task of many problems where the meeting again to be active in a group where he is forgiveness, God's is judgment. needs to be led and to ask God's help. It had felt hostility, fear, and rejection. The committee concluded its report may be that a Friends group is small, I realized none of us can judge one saying, without seasoned members to take on another of past sins. There are times in such a volatile task. God's message may each of our lives when we have sinned. Given the imperfect memories, and the high be, "Your community is not strong There are actions that have hurt others, emotion engendered by such situations, we enough to deal with this issue. Not now." and actions that each of us would rather find it unnecessary and even unwise to pro­ But we can't say, ''Not ever." Let us take not admit, much less have scrutinized in mote or prolong discussion of the on the difficult tasks openly and ten­ a public forum. By admitting such a dev­ particulars .... Let us remember and emu­ derly. Let's confront our fears. Even, or late Isaac Penington: astatingsintoone'sfaith community, grace "Our life is love, and peace, and tender­ should I say especially, when working can pour in: resurrection is made pos­ ness; and bearing one with another, and not with sexual offenders, let us be faithful sible. To the extent each of us on the com­ laying accusations one against another, but and listen to that of God in ourselves as mittee was moved to confront and con­ praying one for another, and helping one well as that of God in another. fess our own sins, resurrection contin- another up with a tender hand." There is hope for healing from abuse within a loving community. Sexual abuse needs to be recognized and confronted. Only then can such a wound in our body begin to heal. 0

ochester (N.Y.) Meeting, sev­ WELCOME TO ALL As a community we are strug­ eral years ago, learned that Quakers try to live by seeking and gling to discern the deepest mean­ R one ofits members had an ac­ paying attention to truth. We believe God ings of the powerful feelings that are knowledged history ofsexually abus­ is present in everyone, and everyone can evoked in us by the reality of sexual ing children. Feeling a need to pro­ respond to truth. We cherish each person violence. This community challenge tect the children in the meeting, and we encounter as a wader in living waters. is a work in progress. Our efforts to give support to those in the meet­ It is a great, and sometimes challeng­ have included meetings for worship ing who once suffered abuse and who ing, joy to wait upon God together. Again sharing, decisions about special ar­ felt uneasy with the presence ofa sex and again we experience love and truth rangements for participation in meet­ abuser in their community, also want­ inseparable, the condition that takes away ings for worship and meeting events, ing to be open and loving toward the the occasion of war and outward strife. appointment ofa small committee to sex offender, the meeting began a We would like to welcome anyone who listen to individuals, work with a con­ deep and lengthy process ofdiscern­ wishes to join with us. Please let us know sultant to learn about child sexual ment. In 1992 the meeting prepared a your needs. abuse and about ourselves and our welcome to all (see right). Copies of Currently (1991-1992) we are chal­ meeting. it stand in the entryway to the meet­ lenged in our community to fmd ways to We have not been of one accord inghouse, and the person closing ev­ make all welcome. One challenge to us in responding to our experiences. We ery meeting for worship invites visi­ now is bringing to awareness the pain of have sometimes been gripped by an­ tors and newcomers to take a copy. If sexual violence in our lives, specifically ger and fear, and we struggle tore­ someone wishes to dis.cuss it, a per­ child sexual abuse. Another challenge main open to one another. We do son is available to do so. lies in our responses to each .other. affirm, in one voice, that we cherish In March 1993 the meeting ap­ We have been brought to face these one another and that we are living proved a Minute on Child Sexual issues by the participation in our com­ out the complications of our com­ Abuse with the understanding that munity of a person with an acknowl­ munity because we seek truth and additions may be incorporated in the edged history of sexually abusing chil­ love together, a commitment which future. An editing group was ap­ dren, and by the presence among us of demands great discipline and dis­ pointed to do this work Particular those who have suffered and continue to cernment. concerns had been raised at the March suffer as victims ofsexual violence. And, If you would like more informa­ business meeting about the handling as we learn more, we see our need to face tion or have questions or concerns, of disclosures of sexual abuse, and the ways in which we may each carry please speak to the person closing confidentiality. At the present time, and perpetuate our cultural legacy ofcol­ meeting or leave a note in the clerk's Rochester Friends continue to wrestle lusion surrounding sexual violence, and box with information on how to reach with this difficult concern. - Ed. with all forms of human violence. you. 0

FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1993 9 by Jim Greenley "It is in vain that you rise upearryand go to bed late, eating the bread of anxious toil." (Psalm 127:2)

w years ago, after an exhausting dawn-to-midnight day of work, I paused, on my way to bed, for a moment of realization. I was startled to find the above line in FRIENDS JouRNAL from Psalm 127 heading a short piece on working. It spoke to me at that moment and now sits, clipped from the JOURNAL and slipped under the glass of my desk­ top. I realized how much I was trapped in a network of obligations, however rea­ sonable, sought out, and even courted. I had taken on children, a partner, jobs, people to help, meeting activities, and more. Plunging ahead, I was trying to get through the next day and the next week. Like a character in Thornton Wilder's play Our Town, I was going through life not seeing it. A common question came to me: how can one find time in a busy life for spiri­ tual pursuits? Or put another way, how can one develop a spiritual life in the midst of daily business and obligations? Then I was reminded of advice given by a Friend (thank you, Kate): "Jim, you don't have a spiritual life and a non­ spiritual life; you just have one life!" So true, I thought. I needed to fmd my spiri­ tual path in the middle of the bustle, not on some mountaintop. Thus began my search for spiritual exercises appropriate for my busy days. .§ There have always been the traditional ~ techniques, such as fasting, witness, l:.' prayer, and others, so well described in ~ Richard J. Foster's well-loved book, Cel- .s~ Jim Greenley is a member ofMadison (Wis.) ~c Monthly Meeting. Cf:

10 November 1993 FRIENDS JoURNAL ebration of Discipline. While each is or worrying about both. does not mean locating myself in the unique, they share a common quality of Finding the now means putting these immediate locale. No, that is what we do deepening awareness or centeredness of aside. It means being aware of the ten­ when we work at our desk, in our room, life. Yet I have found they usually need dency for us to slide from the present. at the steering wheel, at the machine­ to be done apart from my routine. So I When we walk to work thinking about shutting all else out. We fmd the here by have tried to find my own ways of incor­ what we are to do, it is often aimless not shutting elsewhere out. To know porating centering, presencing, or aware­ worrying and churning. We do not think where we are, we need to locate the here ness techniques into my active days. in the larger world. If we limit ourselves Centering is part of our valuable spacially, we are shutting out the world, Quaker tradition. It is, according to and we are lost. We don't know where Thomas Sheehan in his book, The First we are. Thus we find the here by seeing Coming, one of the fundamental mes­ the relationship between the here and the sages of the Gospels. To me, the idea is rest of creation. We place ourselves on to live nearer my spiritual center and the map ofcreation. We expand the edges learn to abide there. It is to abandon the of our awareness beyond our desk or edges, and focus on the essence. It is office walls to the edge of creation- and simply living where you are. So here I beyond. wish only to share a few of my experi­ When I walk I find the here by extend­ ences along this path, including finding ing the awareness of the where to the edge. myself in time and space, bringing my­ I'm walking on this sidewalk, on this self back to the center, and allowing my square ofit, set in a hillside, covered with inner authentic self expression. houses, draining into a river, which flows to the sea, which covers the planet with blue joy. I am walking on a bump out of the Find the ocean called North America. I am walking on a little planet, whirling about the sun. I Here and Now am walking among the stars. The space Living in the present is being aware of is vast. I shall never in this consciousness where you are in time and space. At first reach the other side. I need not walk fast. I tried to do this by building on a method It is not whither I go but how I go. That is of"Walking Meditation," in the spirit of the way it is on the spiritual path, even on Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist who my busy spiritual path that leads to work taught and wrote about it in a book by the or the supermarket. same name. This meditation is done by walking at a slow pace, in a quiet place, usefully and efficiently at these times. If with certain hand positions, and so forth. we want to think about a problem, then Recentering It evolved with me until it was more a we should be with the problem, and work way of being while walking, rather than on it. If not, we should bring ourselves Out ofBusyness a way of walking while meditating. back to the present. Living in the Presence: Disciplines for I walked a lot. From my parking lot I now try to stay where I am while I the Spiritual Heart by Tilden Edwards into my office, from the supermarket walk. Maybe I am on the path from the shares a variety ofpractices and methods home, and to and from meetings, I put in parking lot. I am with the bird there, with for gaining that space in which we are sidewalk time. My effort in the walking the trash in the gutter, with the people closest to God. They are ways of taking became fmding the now and the here. alongside. Sometimes it is uplifting. us out ofthe everyday rnindset and bring­ Finding the now meant to me leaving Sometimes it is depressing. But always it ing us back in closer touch with those the past and the future. We often live in is alive. I am not missing life, I am living spiritual energies within us. The Zen Bud­ the past or future, and then wonder why it. I see the squirrel running along the dhist temple bell rings to the same end, to the present went so fast. What happened path; here are two of us on the way to bring the mind back to clarity as it calls to that year? Where was I when my chil­ work. I see the salt on the ice, and see it to another round of zazen. Thich Nhat dren grew up? How did I get so old? We flow dissolved into the ground water. I Hanh suggests that we can use the phone are often hit with these ideas as if we see. I hear. And especially I smell. I feel bell similarly. When it rings, we can be were not there when all this was happen­ the ground beneath my feet. I feel sorry reminded how far we have drifted from ing. So true, and so often. Where were for the earth trapped beneath the cement. our spiritual center. We can let the first we? We were physically there, but men­ I connect with the now. ring call us back, waiting patiently to tally in some other time. We were re­ Finding the here is needed too. It seems answer with a more centered heart on working the past or imagining the future, to be easier, once in the present. To me, it some subsequent ring.

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1993 11 In my busy day, I have come to use God in everyone, and I try to listen to it the elevator in this way. I wait on the and respond to it." As you can imagine, elevator until it goes on its own time and sometimes I have to (or get to) explain speed. Many of my colleagues, I ob­ this at some length (with marvelous re­ serve, cannot seem to wait for the eleva­ sults sometimes) and at other times I do tor to take them. Rather, they rush to jam not get a chance, such as when I get a the button to speed it on its way. How cold stare or a changed topic. The idea is much time do they save? How much life for me not to have one set ofanswers and do they lose in the process? I do not actions for one part of my life and an­ know. I do know that the elevator I com­ other set in another part of my life. Un­ monly enter at work takes five seconds fortunately, too often this is not the case to begin to move. Five seconds of quiet. for me, and I have to work at integrating Five seconds I can use to remind me, as the parts, especially when I get really does the temple bell, of the eternity I am busy and all the common, long-ago­ SAY in. Time to let myself come back closer learned ways of coping and being come to my center, such that I get off the eleva­ unconsciously to the fore. by Christine Lundy tor at a different place, really a different I call this a discipline because, in many place, than when I started. cases, it is not the natural thing for me to 1be on1J1 testimonies do. And this effort at integrating the vari­ ous sides of the self works to change the we are entitled to self, because the outward presence re­ hold up as standards Integrating the Self flects the inward presence. These are not Integrating the self could be seen as a different. Sometimes I might like them to are those goal of all of our spiritual practice, but I be different, because I might like to think we ourselves originate mean something more specific here. At that what I do does not reflect the real the risk of sounding like the sociology me. But again, there is no "real" and out ofour own professor I am, we do have different "unreal" me. There is just one me. So the shared experience. selves that we present to the world. They different sides of me are at least con­ are selves that reflect what we think of nected. ourselves and what we expect that other A little exercise may show this better. he other day, I was reading to people expect of us. We react to the Put on a big grin, a huge grin-and smile, my nephew, Alex. Alex is 16 environment, especially the social envi­ broadly and deeply. Look around. Keep Tmonths old, and his favorite ronment in choosing which self to put on smiling. How do I feel? Now feel sad, very book is Moo, Baa, La La La, by display. sad. But keep smiling. It is hard to feel Sandra Boynton. He likes to have it As competent members of our cul­ sad while grinning so broadly. A number read to him four or five times in suc­ ture, we get really good at this. For ex­ ofp sychophysiological studies have dem­ cession, starting again at the begin­ ample, there are certain ways of behav­ onstrated these connections between the ning as soon as one reaches the end. ing at a Friends meeting, ways of behav­ physical display ofe motion and the inner The book is about the sounds made ing that might differ from ways at home. feelings. We have physical and emotional by various animals, and Alex appre­ Why else would we ever have to instruct sides that are connected. Thus we can be ciates a spirited reading. But it can children on how to behave at meeting? more integrated if we allow those feel­ become a bit wearing for the reader. Of course, it is because what they have ings associated with our centeredness to To introduce a little variety, I told learned in other settings is not always show and to express those ideas about Alex, in the course of the third or appropriate for our worship. I also am who we are that are consistent with this fourth reading, that Sandra Boynton different with my inlaws or when lectur­ ce.nteredness. When this is done in the is a Quaker. In that light, I then read ing before a class. Well, all these differ­ midst of the busy day; it serves to inte­ the last couple of sentences, which I ent ways of being and behaving split us grate the self rather than fragment it. The had read countless times before with­ up; they disintegrate us, and thus are parts of us are moved closer together, out thinking them in any way special: destructive ofour spiritual wholeness. At and we are moved closer to God. "It's quiet now. What do you say?" least I believe that, and this lies at the These are small practices for mybusy All ofa sudden, these words struck heart ofthe next practice, which is just to days. They are ones, believe me, that I a powerfully resonant chord for me. I try to take that presentation of self that have taken only baby-steps to implement. remembered Margaret Fell's story of goes along with, or is revealed at the time Yet they allow me to plunge into the day, how George Fox, at Ulverston of the centered self, into the business of to walk from the parking lot, to step on steeplehouse, had shaken her from the day. the elevator, and to confront the hectic her complacency with the challenge: For example, I try to bring the lan­ moment with a sense of the opportunity "You will say, Christ saith this, and guage and motive of my centered and it provides me, right there, to deepen my the apostles say this; but what canst seeking side into the relations I have with spiritual life. I can hear the elevator bell thou say?" faculty and students. As a result, I might in a new way, wait with more patience, The freshness, vigor, and power say rather unconventionally, when an­ and smile more genuinely. Christine Lundy is a member ofYarmouth swering a fellow faculty member about Sorry I have to end these ruminations (Ont.) Meeting, part ofCanadian Yearly why I gave exception to such a student or so abruptly, but I must- to run off to Meeting. colleague, "I believe in the essence of work! 0

12 November 1993 FRIENDS JoURNAL ofearly Quakerism lay in the recognition words, to use them to say what we ought world of mass consumerism, milita­ of continuing revelation and the rejec­ to be saying from our own present expe­ rism, and terrorism. If we try to give tion, ultimately, of any authority above rience. the Declaration to Charles II the the authority of experience. All the con­ I am led to question whether it is rea­ weight of authority, as a definitive ventional means of validating religious sonable for us to consider that the Soci­ statement of our contemporary cor­ actions and moral positions, whether ety of Friends maintains explicit fixed porate position, we deprive it of its church tradition or scripture, were sec­ corporate testimonies that transcend in­ own life, and dead words can only ondary to the importance of living and dividuals and are not affected in any way constrain, not empower. knowing the truth of God in a direct and by the accumulation of experience. A The only testimonies we are en­ personal way. Margaret Fox's reaction specific testimony that is maintained as titled to hold up as standards for the to the challenge showed her immediate an absolute, and posited as a means of way we live are those we ourselves understanding ofits implications: "And I identifying· who is a Friend and who is originate out ofour own shared expe­ cried in my spirit to the Lord, 'We are all not, comes perilously close to function­ rience, to express the common ground thieves, we are all thieves, we have taken ing as a creed. Is there a substantial dif­ on which we all stand at the moment the scriptures in words and know nothing ference between "I believe in one God, of stating our perception of the truth of them in ourselves.' " maker of heaven and earth and all things as we know it. If we want to talk We live on the inheritance from those visible and invisible... "and "We utterly about our respect for that of God in early Friends whose lives flamed up in deny all outward wars and strife and every person in terms of a revulsion passionate personal expression of the fightings with outward weapons.. . "? If against violence and war, we have to Light they found shining all around and both are repeated with equal fervor and find our own words that will speak to within them. In our continuing quest to frequency, on the understanding that any­ the world we live in right now. We live in the Light as they did, however, we one who accepts the formula is one of us have to find the words together, in run the grave risk of trying to live in their and anyone who does not is an outsider, freedom, without giving in to the con­ Light rather than in our own. then they are the same thing. . viction that there is one specific truth Without an agreed dogma or creed to This is the very position against which we should possess. And we have to serve as the means of distinguishing the Friends of 1661 asserted themselves. recognize that nothing we say will be Friends from those ofother religious per­ They denied that the traditions and inter­ fixed for all time, that next year (or suasions, we tend to rely on our behav­ pretations of the corporate churches of next week) we will have to fmd a ior-what we do and how we do it-to their day could determine the validity of new, more appropriate expression of define ourselves. All too often, we take their personal experience ofGod. Rather, our experience and our faith. our ideas about what Quakers ought to it was their experience that took first There is no question this way of be from the traditional testimonies, and, place and allowed them to discern what, approaching beliefs and testimonies from that, decide what constitutes appro­ in the tradition, was divine truth and what requires more effort and concentra­ priate or proper Quaker behavior. In op­ was human error. I think they would be tion. We cannot relax into the as­ position to the Catholic apostolic tradi­ appalled to find us using their words to sumption that someone else has al­ tion and Protestant reliance on biblical justify our moral positions. ready provided the answers for us, authority, Friends today justify and ex­ The testimonies are not creeds or dog­ that we know the right way and have plain their understanding of the divine mas, and they are comipted and debased only to adjust our lives to suit the and their actions in the world on the if they are treated as such. The assurance pattern. Instead, we must be con­ words and deeds of past Quakers. We of Friends to a king that their beliefs stantly alert to the lessons of our con­ seem to have evolved a Quaker authori­ would keep them from ever mounting a tinual experience and prepared to take tarian tradition, which determines what rebellion against him was an expression responsibility for decisions about our we say and do and how we say and do it. of their faith and experience at that time own lives and only our own lives. We Far too often, I have heard Friends in response to a particular situation. Beau­ must at the same time be willing and preface statements in favor of peace and tiful and carefully chosen as those words eager to find God in the lives and against war and prepa­ are, they cannot be applied to our situ­ witness of others, however different rations for war with ation today in a from our own experience the declaration made theirs may be, without in to Charles II in 1661. any way making judg­ ·r I have done this my­ ments about their prox­ ~ self. It is almost as imity to the "truth." The ~ though we believe only way I see for us to ~ that our current posi­ avoid the trap ofrelying on ~ tion is valid only because the authority of the past is "§ ofthe position held so many to accept--embrace--with ~ hundreds of years ago, that joy and a clear sense oflib­ .§ ~ we can make our contem- eration that we are people " porary statement only be­ led by the Spirit, partici­ ~ cause Friends in 1661 made ~~~~~-::1[§~~-.t~ pants in a continuing rev­ ~ theirs. And we are content elation of which only God 0 to rest in those venerable is ever certain. 0

FRIENDS JoURNAL November 1993 13 living With by Leonard H. Cizewski n 1988, I learned that my brother, I responded with all the love that I as a spond to it. But I was able to inform him Philip, fifteen months younger, was brother could give. I responded by mak­ ofhow some of his choices increased the I diagnosed with an AIDS-related can­ ing Philip part of my family and moving difficulty in providing for his needs. I cer. Philip and I were the closest in our him into my home for the last three hoped that if I informed him of the im­ family. Over the years we developed the months ofhis life. pact, he could make some changes. most functional and deepest sense offam­ In many ways my experiences prior to In the last weeks of Philip's life, I ily. We had made the fundamental con­ this have been self-purifying preparation chose to no longer struggle with him nection as human beings that for me gives for caring for Philip. I had developed a over his denial of the imminence of his meaning to this existence. growing, overlapping, interconnecting set death. I was reading and meditating on Years earlier, I read some of the spiri­ of relationships from which I could draw Stephen Levine's books with a Zen Bud­ tual writings ofJews following the Holo­ support and comfort during this crisis. I dhist perspective of living with dying: caust. Many asked, "Why us?", "Why had developed a meticulous style of an­ " ... to focus on the moment. To heal this horrific persecution?", "What does ticipatory planning and careful decision­ into the present and to allow the future to this say about the nature of God?" From making. Nonetheless, almost nothing, arise naturally out of that opening." If this Western tradition, the first questions even my training as a registered nurse Philip chose not to live with his dying, or that came to my mind were: "Why with professional experiences with death, to not share his living with dying with AIDS?", "Why Philip?", and "What does could prepare me for what I faced with me, I could experience my part of living AIDS say about the nature of spiritual Philip. with dying. questions," but my Western-based knowl­ Philip, like me, had long ago broken I was able to say everything I wanted edge of spirituality had no answers for with the Roman Catholic Church. Like to say in our last hours together. Philip me. A friend suggested looking at AIDS me, he journeyed in search of spiritual was strong enough and had sufficient from the perspective of Zen Buddhism: connections to suit him. He took comfort consciousness to positively acknowledge "AIDS is. How do we respond to AIDS?" from some elements ofNew Age spiritu­ what I was saying. I referred back to the I chose to respond by joining with my ality, especially the power he found in week when he shared with me his desire brother, as he lived with and eventually crystals. He talked about Zen Buddhism to die. I told him to again look for a door. died of AIDS. I feel as if I became inti­ as his spirituality and read Joseph I suggested that it might be a bright yel­ mate with the AIDS experience. I can Campbell's works. low door, the way his good friend imagine that facing AIDS is similar to The reality I experienced of Philip in Dominic would paint it. If he saw the facing any number of extended high-risk the final crisis of his life is that while he door, he could cross through it. I told him crises, such as war or genocide. The mal­ had an intellectual affiliation with Zen I would go as far to the threshold as I ice shown toward the victims of AIDS Buddhism, he lived his life as an emo­ could, but he would need to cross through and the seeming unpredictability ofwhom tional Catholic. Life with him became an alone. Philip died on January 28, 1991. AIDS strikes, who survives for long pe­ emotional roller coaster. Most days, he We held a simple service in the fu­ riods of time, and who is entirely spared denied he was ill, that his condition was neral home. The worship style was deepens the similarity to such experi­ deteriorating and that death was ap­ Quaker, with some periods of silence ences. proaching. I describe Philip's coping with and many remembrances. Friends and Not responding to Philip as I did would AIDS as a paradigm ofdenial, crisis, and caregivers spoke. I spoke about the ex­ have disturbed or damaged something I rescue. perience of Philip coming out to me, and cannot fully describe, yet which makes Philip, like me, struggled with feel­ I reflected on his pain, fear, isolation, me whole as a person. I acted to maintain ings of lack of safety in intimacy. Even and alienation. Our younger sister spoke my sense of personal integrity. Although though ours was his most intimate rela­ of some emotional and relationship heal­ I could not say this at the time, I was tionship, he never felt safe enough to let ing she experienced through Philip's expressing the highest form of my spiri­ me into his very private living with dy­ death. tuality in maintaining my connectedness ing. Occasionally, for rare, brief mo­ Philip was buried in a family plot in a to someone as significant to me as Philip. ments, Philip would declare that he was Polish Catholic cemetery near Chicago. dying. He once stopped taking his medi­ Polish Catholicism is among the most cations for almost one week. He began rigid and doctrinaire. The cemetery re­ Leonard H. Cizewski lives with his wife and two sons in Madison, Wisconsin. Since the what he described as a search for the quired a letter from a priest giving per­ early 1970s he has been active in peace door which would provide the way out of mission to bury Philip. A friend obtained work. Currently he works full-time as a par­ his suffering. He would express surprise such a· document from a gay-sensitive ent and part-time as a registered nurse in a that he was still alive when the sun rose. priest. state facility for the developmentally dis­ I could not control how the disease My spirituality has included a search abled. affected Philip or how he chose to re- for a sense of connectedness to the earth

14 November 1993 F RIENDS JOURNAL and the people with whom I share it. The cially enjoyed his comment that there are in political action at all levels. death of Philip upset one of my funda­ 84,000 doors to the means of spiritual I have a greater degree of humility as mental connections. Now my search in­ practice. I had become discouraged after I approach questions. I no longer have cludes restoring my own sense of equi­ trying a few. the righteousness of religiously based librium. I ponder the fragility of life and I recently attended an introductory ses­ morality. As part of my ongoing self­ relationships. Rather than finding an­ sion at Madison's Zen Center. While I purification, I am reaffirming a commit­ swers, I find myself calm in the face of found the meditation position unfamiliar ment not to objectify those from whom I what appear to be unanswerable ques­ and I will need to perform some regular find I must defend myself and my con­ tions. Rather than seeking absolute stretching to be comfortable with it, the nections. I more often ask myself if I am knowledge, I am calm in awe of the silence was most familiar and comfort­ right, and I try to be mindful of how my unknowable. I find a resonance with Zen able, similar to my time in Quaker meet­ behavior may violate others' sense of concepts of the formless forms and ing for worship. equilibrium and meaning. I am deepen­ gateless gates. Facing AIDS has helped me crystal­ ing my capacity for empathy for those For the first time in years, I am read­ lize and reorganize my perspective. I do with whom I find myself opposed. I of­ ing nonpolitical spiritual writings. Mostly not think my politics has changed as much ten think they are defending themselves, from Zen, I am gathering insight to pro­ as my perspective. I have become aware their connections, and their need for self­ ceed to explore these questions from a that I am responsible for my own behav­ protection in ways that are violating me position where, to paraphrase D. T. ior and not the behavior ofothers . I prob­ and mine. I am open to honest interac­ Suzuki, I need neither to affirm nor deny ably cannot change the behavior of oth­ tions and willing to recognize the sincer­ questions such as the existence of a god, ers, but I am obligated to protect myself ity and good faith of those with whom I but I can proceed from a place of higher from negative impacts on myself of oth­ am engaged in struggle. I would be af­ affirmation where there are no antith­ ers' behaviors. I also wish to protect the firmed should those from whom I defend eses. I have a greater level of introspec­ connections I have made with others and myself respond with a change of heart. tion and care for myself than I have had the earth. That protection includes an­ I am seeking a more calm approach to in years. I am assessing the connections I ticipatory defense such as is to be found the contradictions of this existence. I am have made in life and am strengthening learning to live in a those that have the most meaning to me. world ofseemingly ir­ I have rediscovered the Vietnamese reconcilable contra­ Zen Buddhist, Thich Nhat Hanh. Nhat dictions. I am learn­ Hanh's work was one of the first I read ing that absolutes do on the Indochinese war. Perhaps because not work for me. I no of our shared experience of the Vietnam longer feel compelled era, I find his presentation of Zen among to contextualize, the­ the most clear and useful for me. I espe- ologize, or politicize every question. Most questions do not have firm, clear answers but instead require me to choose from among difficult and con­ flicting responses. AIDS has cost me my brother and my sense ofequilibrium. This work is part of my ongoing public mourning and griev­ ing. This is another step on my road to healing from the loss. Such sharing may help end the sense ofisolation that people feel while facing AIDS and empower them to make connections to cope with the experience. I would feel affrrmed should someone fmd in my experiences insights useful for their own journey. Sometimes we fmd that one of the only tools we have in the struggle with AIDS is to tell the stories and tell the truth. I will continue to do so. 0 Leonard Cizewski 's article is con­ densedfrom a longer piece that appeared in the Fall/Winter 1991 issue ofChang­ ing Men. The author thanks Chuck Schobert, Mary Beth George, Michael Leonard (left) and Philip Cizewski with Leonard's doctor, Alison Biernbaum, and Will Handy for their as­ LaVoy; Inset, Philip's panel for the AIDS memorial quilt. sistance with this work

FRTENDS JOURNAL November 1993 15 an night the rain: sinews of water knitting window to wall midmorning air as dense as fur all day the wind: a sour sky billowing against glass rain dark as panther claws seeking our cave of light

C.]. Muchhala

16 November 1993 FRIENDS JOURNAL These leaves come down with the suddenness of stones.

It is already too late for the picture I wanted to take of the maple red and sky-reaching as a flame. The leaves drop to the wet green ground, weighted with rain. In the gray light they are yellow, they burn. Soon the branches will rise naked A small request ... and dark into the sky, turning, Scatter my ashes as you choose like the arms of women, of dancers, and no need to clutter the earth feeling fresh space around them. with a marker, although a tree might serve as headstone. A cedar Wendy McVtcker perhaps, or juniper, would help to hold that slippery slope out back and the robins, wintering over, could feast on the berries.

jean Ducey Wild Geese Wavering lines, unerringly directed, High cries that call to us on earth- We too must take our journey through the void To land-we know not where.

Your journey seems the easier, C. J. Muchhala is a former Guided by patterns, mem'ries in your cells, teacher, and is now self-employed Finding land-falls that you have never seen, as a free-lance writer. She is a member ofMilwaukee (Wis.) But known to generations of your kind. Meeting. Wendy McVicker's poetry has been published in Friendly But of you too obedience is required, Woman. She attends meeting in To leave familiar pasturage and wood, Athens, Ohio. Jean Sparks Ducey is a retired To venture forth, commit yourselves to air, librarian who lives in Niles, To trust in that which never can be known Michigan. Madeline Stephenson was a member ofthe Redwood Forest Until the moment of arrival. · (Calif.) Meeting. Her musical and poetic compositions remain an inspiration to Quakers after her Madeleine Stephenson death on September 5.

FRJENDS JoURNAL November 1993 17 RAPID POPULATION GROWTH Traveling with a Concern by Stan Becker

ver the past three years I have been traveling Oamong and searching with Baltimore Yearly Meeting Friends regarding the concern of rapid population growth. In a pre­ vious FRIENDS JOURNAL article (Au­ gust 1989) the concern was out­ lined. Briefly, the addition of about 95 million human beings to the planet each year represents a staggering problem whose solu­ tion is very complicated. Four years ago an inspiration came to me that it was important to share this concern with Friends. The motivation was my belief that the spiritual energy and insights of well-informed Friends can lead to new creative solutions based on lolv~. Before teblli~gfoh~ my perf- Stan Becker (right) and David Greene carry their concern. sona JOUrney, a ne 1story o traveling among Friends is appropriate. traveling in the ministry, traveling with a ings and tell of programs. In most cases Sharing experiences ofthe Inner Light concern, "traveling with a presentation," the input and desired output are clear, as has been the calling of Quakers from the and intervisitation. In the 20th century, distinguished from traveling with a con­ beginning. George Fox walked over En­ traveling in the ministry has been in dis­ cern where the process is one of search­ gland preaching that others might "turn use. Among many Friends General Con­ ing and the outcome is unclear a priori. to the spirit ofGod in themselves." Scores ference (FGC) Friends, it is not accept­ Finally, with the convenience of mod­ of Friends who felt led to the ministry able because historically those who trav­ ern means of transport, a fourth form of traveled to far corners of the world. As eled were "appointed ministers" of the traveling among Friends is common­ Quakerism spread, another aspect oftrav­ meeting, and most FGC meetings do not intervisitation. Often intervisitation sim­ eling became important-traveling retain the practice of appointing minis­ ply involves Friends who are traveling among Friends, helping them mend their ters. The prevalent belief now is that all anyway, visiting the meeting in the town, differences, follow their leadings, and of us are ministers so we refrain from city, or country where they find them­ modify their behavior. Friends who felt corporately recognizing gifts ofministry selves. In addition, FGC staffplay a vital led to do this asked their meetings for in particular individuals, i.e., we do not be­ role by visiting remote meetings in vari­ clearness, support, and a traveling com­ lieve in two spiritual classes of persons. ous U.S. regions. panion. John Woolman is well known Thankfully, a second form of travel­ My leading to travel was nurtured by for his travels among Friends in the ing among Friends-traveling with a con­ the loving support of both the national American colonies, exhorting them to cern-is accepted among FGC Friends. committee ofFriends Committee on Unity abolish slavery personally and collec­ In common with the traveling ministry of with Nature (FCUN) and local Friends. tively. old, the travel is endorsed formally by In 1989, I showed a film about popula­ It seems useful to distinguish four the home meeting, and a meeting mem­ tion to a small group ofconcerned Friends forms oftraveling among Friends today- ber accompanies the Friend. The travel­ in my monthly meeting and they felt it ing Friends share the concern where they was an important message to share. Then visit, and seek the Light on how to pro­ I addressed a letter explaining the lead­ Stan Becker teaches and does research in ing to the meeting's Committee on Unity the Department of Population Dynamics of ceed, drawing on the experiences and the Johns Hopkins School ofPublic Health. insights of other Friends. with Nature. The committee decided the A member of Baltimore (Md.) Meeting, A third more common form of travel matter was more appropriate for the Min­ Homewood, he serves on the steering com­ could be called "traveling with a presen­ istry and Counsel Committee, which in mittee ofthe North American Friends Com­ tation." Examples are representatives turn decided it was more appropriate for mittee on Unity with Nature. from Quaker organizations who visit meet- the monthly meeting. Thus there was little

18 November1993 FRIENDS JOURNAL preparatory consideration when it came another presentation for a second group ties for asking Friends to travel with me, to monthly meeting for business. At that of Homewood Friends. the role such Friends would play, and the meeting the common reaction was "Great, Two monthly meetings responded best format for the program. In contrast if Stan wants to do this, fine!" and we promptly to the letter. I therefore needed to early Friends who were gone for soon moved on to the next item ofbusi­ to make some decisions- who would months or years at a time, most visits ness. Little did we know! The speed of travel with me, what would be the format would be on weekends; I would go out its acceptance was at once affirming and of the presentation, etc. At a quarterly from and return to Baltimore each time. disappointing. It was affirming in that meeting I asked advice of a Friend who This would allow different persons to Friends trusted my leading, disappoint­ had traveled with a concern. He said my travel with me on different weekends. ing in that it was treated clearly as the oversight committee should help with Anyone who had attended one of the concern of one individual, so the those questions. I sheepishly said that I sessions on population at Homewood meeting's support seemed thin. We did didn't have one. He responded in alarm: would be a candidate to be asked. Their examine the form letter for traveling min­ "No oversight committee?!" So, we at role would be supportive; it would be best utes in the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Homewood Meeting have learned a lqt for me to do the organizing. The com­ Faith and Practice and briefly discussed in this process panion would introduce the program, de­ having a Friend travel with me. A couple of months later, the meeting liver the traveling minute (written afresh A letter was to be sent to monthly Nominating Committee brought forward by the clerk for each visit) to the respon­ meetings in the yearly meeting. The clerk to the monthly meeting names for the sible member (usually the clerk) of the consulted me about who should write it oversight committee. In my letter asking visited meeting, and subsequently col­ (we decided it was the clerk's task) and for the same, knowing how busy Friends lect the same for return to Homewood. if I wanted the letter sent to only those are, I indicated that probably two or three We learned that the best format for meetings in the quarter or to all meetings meetings would be sufficient. I felt that the program fit in 90 minutes as follows: in the yearly meeting. With 40 monthly once the procedures for travel were Program Item No. ofM inutes meetings in Baltimore Yearly Meeting, I worked out, then the committee could Outline of the program 3-5 realized the enormity of the task. But we disband. After more than 20 commit­ Silent worship 5-10 decided that the response might be low tee meetings, it is clear that I knew I share my personal journey and that we could still visit some meet­ little about the need for an oversight with the concern 15-20 ings in groups, so a letter was sent to committee. Film about population con­ each meeting. Meanwhile I scheduled The committee helped decide priori- cerns of the Institute for Development Training: "Population and People of Faith: It's About Time" 30 Worship-sharing in groups FRU I TS OF THE LABOR ofthree ~25 Reports to the large group 10-15 As a result of my traveling with a aslcing for a dialogue on the concern, Final worship 3-10 concern for rapid population growth, specifically on the matter of modem In the past two years, I have been a number ofpositive results have been contraception. invited to over 15 meetings, and visits in achieved: •A book with contributions from 12 the yearly meeting have been completed Friends on the subject of population in good order. Some ofthe fruits of these •A pamphlet on population concerns concerns has been published. Titled labors are outlined in the attached sidebar. has been produced in conjunction On World Population, it is available More recently, Chesapeake Quarterly with Friends Committee on Unity for $3, plus $2 postage and handling, Meeting and Baltimore Yearly Meeting with Nature (FCUN), available from from Homewood Friends Meeting, have approved my travel outside of the FCUN, 7700 Clarks Lake Rd., 3107 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD yearly meeting. Two of us traveled to Chelsea, MI 48118. 21218. give a brief presentation to Philadelphia • Instructions for an active game for •Two older Friends who wish to con­ Yearly Meeting in 1993 at the invitation 30-50 people have been prepared. It tribute to the effort have contacted of their Ecological Working Group. A shows the unequal distribution of me. One has set up a trust fund that grant proposal has been written that would population and resources on the will give grants to population provide funds to release me from 20 per­ planet. The game has been used in projects; the other made a contribu­ cent of my usual university duties so I several groups of Friends. Instruc­ tion to FCUN for work on popula­ could travel more widely among Friends. tions are available for $2 from FCUN, tion concerns among Friends. We are also writing to yearly meetings address above. •A challenge has been issued to and outside of the United States- in both de­ •Following labors at several yearly agreed upon by Julian Simon regard­ veloped and developing nations-to learn meeting sessions and with input from ing the negative or positive effects of their insights on the problem many monthly meetings, Baltimore ofrapid population growth; it is based This labor with Friends has been in­ Yearly Meeting approved a minute on statistics of human welfare over sightful, joyful, and inspirational. To the on population concerns on 3/27/93 the next decade. extent it answers a true calling of God, [News of Friends, FJSeptember]. Friends will respond, become inspired, •A letter has been sent to the Vatican Stan Becker seek together, and move toward solu­ from Homewood Monthly Meeting tions. There is evidence that this is al­ ready happening. CJ

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1993 19 PEOPLEv&THEVVORLD

By Aziz Pabaney

widely held view in the one­ third world (OTW) ofeconomi­ cally developed countries is that threat to the environment comes from over-populated two-thirds world (TTW) of the poorer countries. When at Pendle Hill, I served for a time with the Environmental Committee of the Phila­ delphia Yearly Meeting, which had sing­ led out the population problem as a ma­ jor concern. Perhapsmyviewfrom the TTW window may help balance the picture. A plenary session at the World Con­ ference at Tela, Honduras, in 1992, ex­ perienced lively exchanges between Friends, mostly from Latin America and the TTW on the one hand, and from some OTW Friends on the other. Put simply, TTW Friends felt that Columbus's "discovery" and what followed had been destructive of their continent, their cul­ tures, and their lives. Bob Vogel's report to the Pacific Yearly Meeting says, "the Latins saw it quite differently." Malcolm Edmunds states the problem correctly, that the real war is between people and the world. His detailed expla­ nations and examples, however, seem to imply that most of the problems occur in the TTW and have to be corrected there. Though he does mention the greed of the rich, the activities of the poor get more attention. At the outset, it may be stated that limiting population is necessary. But the United States consuming 40 times the grow the fodder that is consumed by its TTW may see it differently. Edmunds energy of the average Indian, the effec­ cattle. states " ... it is pressure from increasing tive U.S. population would be equivalent The "developed market-economy mass of people and their increasing de­ to ten billion Indians. countries" as a whole import more food mands that are placing the world's natu­ Malcolm Edmunds states, as a first than they export. The United States im­ ral systems in jeopardy." This seems to principle of ecology, "that the majority ports more meat than it exports. In 1977, suggest that the increase in population is ofanimal populations increase rapidly to it exported $608 million worth of meat, the most important factor, whereas seen a limit imposed by their food supply, and but imported over $1.2 billion worth. from a TTW view, it is the increasing then crash." This applies to most animal Much of the imported meat comes from demands of the OTW that is the major populations under natural conditions. It South America and Africa, where peas­ cause. With the average person in the does not apply to those peculiar animals, ants are being displaced from their land human beings, who claim to be intelli­ by beef-producing companies and Aziz Pabaney is a memberofBombay (India) gent. Their "intelligence" enables them wealthy cattle herders. As a result, Meeting. In 1991-92, he was a student at to extract food and other resources from rainforests are chopped down and turned Pendle Hill. Much of the historical data in beyond their natural boundaries. Britain into pastures for cattle. his article isfrom an article by Winin Pereria, imports at least 30 percent of its food Europe and the United States seem to co-author of the book Asking the Earth requirements. The Netherlands requires have exceeded their carrying capacity as (Earthscan, 1991). five times its total land area merely to far as food is concerned. As another ex-

20 November 1993 FRIENDS JouRNAL ample, Britain imported fuelwood from lenders; by industrialization that re­ Scandinavia as far back as the 14th cen­ placed large number ofartisans by a few tury. Today, most ofEurope (and Japan) machines running on fossil fuels; and import hardwood from the tropics, be­ by many other means of modernization. sides a wide spectrum of medicinal plants, We may recall the radical faith of cotton, and silk fabrics, jute carpet back­ Gandhi: he had rejected modernization ing, castor oil as lubricant, and thousands as early as 1908 as being against the ofother items. All this represents an over- human spirit. The whole thing was wrong, he felt. Today the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades, and Super 301 policies are trying to make the genetic resources ofthe world- up to now freely available to everyone--into genetically engineered commodities, which even the poor may have to purchase. It is ironic that farmers who have developed genetic resources over millennia would now have to purchase the same at high cost. Poverty in the TTW arises from pre­ vious and current greed of the rich in the OTW as well as from the rich in the TTW themselves. The impoverished are forced to destroy their environment after the rich have extracted tea, sugar, and other valuable natural resources from the load of European and North American virgin forests. carrying capacity. Population growth in the TTW needs All modifications of ecosystems to to be limited, but this can come only maximize their carrying capacity must when people are assured Of a reasonable reduce the habitat available to the origi­ standard of living and security in their nal species. It must be admitted that hu­ old age, as Malcolm Edmunds rightly man beings- as they spread over the earth says. This cannot be achieved by mere hundreds of thousands of years ag~ debt cancellation. We cannot view pov­ always destroyed other species. It seems erty as an attribute that people in the that the problems of Europe's excessive TTW posses~ like some disease that can population was "solved" by forwarding be cured by taking an economic medi­ its people to the Americas, Africa, Aus­ cine. It is a result of a process of impov­ tralia, New Zealand, and a number of erishment continuously maintained and other smaller regions. All this carries a "improved" by the Western industrial history of inhumanity that people in the system ofdevelopment with its insatiable TTW still recall. We need not recount demands for more and more material them here. Human beings are the only things. This is why, it seems, that cancel­ animals that extend their territories by ing today' s debts will not help, unless the killing their own kind. Wherever they processes that led the countries into debt have gone they have destroyed local eco­ are also eliminated. systems and local values. In North with its inseparable resource consump­ Edmunds rightly recommends the les­ America, the eastern seaboard forests tion and pollution production, has in­ sons to be learned from the societies of were first cleared for plantations of cot­ creased 50 times. We may ask, who the Americas, Africa, and Asia that lived ton and tobacco. should be pulled up first? in harmony with their environments. Per­ One agrees with Malcolm Edmunds If we visit a village in India, we are haps the Western development pattern when he states that the natural ecosys­ likely to see little girls carrying water, needs to grow into a sustainable system; tems have to be altered as little as pos­ collecting firewood, and looking after otherwise, the destruction of the global sible. Could perhaps Europe and the grazing cattle and younger siblings. They environment will continue. Since we are United States also restore their ecosys­ have to do all these things because their an inseparable part of the environment, tems to what they were centuries ago? parents are unable to earn enough money we will be destroyed too. Much of the overload of the TTW's either from the little land they possess or To stop the violence on the environ­ carrying capacity comes from the de­ the jobs they have. A major cause of this ment and maintain the integrity of Cre­ mand of agricultural produce from the was the colonial policy that turned com­ ation, Quakers may need to discern anew so-called developed states. While global monly held land into a commodity that our Testimony of Simplicity, and per­ population may have increased fourfold could be bought and sold; by unjust taxes haps add a new dimension to our Peace in the last century, industrial output, along that forced them into the hands of money Testimony . Cl

FRJENDS JouRNAL November 1993 21 That Accursed Abolitionist I The life of laura Haviland I by Barbara S. Worden

n the summer of narrated in her au­ 1974, my hus­ tobiography con­ I band, our small cerns a: son, and I went to teach in a small colored man, named Friends college in Ben, [who] carne to our town with a fam­ the Kansas town ily who opened an named after Laura inn . . . while Ben Haviland. In the was asleep on kitch­ course of going into en floor, some rude the telephone com­ boys put a quantity pany to pay our of powder in the phone bill, I fre­ back of his pants, quently observed the and placing a slow old portrait of a match to it left the rather grim looking room, but watched in a variety offields inch.iding better care the process of their elderly Quaker lady on the wall over the diabolical sport through the window, and company president's desk. When I asked for orphans and prisoners of war during soon saw their victim blown up, it was said, about her, I was informed with pride that the Civil War and the resettlement of nearly to the ceiling. His hips and body were she was Laura Haviland a famous worker freed slaves. so badly burned that he was never able to sit against slavery. The college librarian sent A childish interest in astronomy gave or stoop after this wicked act. He always had me to the lady's autobiography which is an early mystical experience which was to walk with a cane, and whenever too weary the subject of this article. When I read to change her life, by its expansion ofher to stand, was compelled to lie down, as his her life story, I discovered that calling mental paradigm to center on the needs right hip and lower limb were stiffened. Yet Laura Haviland a worker against slavery of others and culminate in a vision of the little notice was taken ofthis reckless act, but is like calling Bach a German church spiritual union of all humanity. to feed and poorly clothe this life-long cripple, as he went from house to house, because he organist, a gross understatement of real­ was of that crushed and neglected race. ity for this radical and courageous fighter As the study of astronomy gives ability to against injustice who never hesitated to look upon the vast universe of thousands of At age 1 7, she married Charles put her life in danger or use her cool and worlds much larger than our own, revolving in their orbits, it develops our intellectual Haviland and moved to Raisin Valley, practical woman's wit to get out of a faculties, and enables us to view the concave Michigan. She and her husband had a tight place. appearance ofthe ethereal blue from a stand­ happy and successful married life, estab­ "Aunt Laura" Haviland was born on point widely differing from the occupancy of lishing a school on the Oberlin plan and December 20, 1808, in the family of a the center. And when supreme self is melted having five children. Her joyous and ful­ recorded Friends minister. As a very away by faith in the blood of the covenant, filling married life was to come to an end young child, she showed a profound in­ our spiritual vision becomes clearer and our in one horrible year, 1845, which robbed tellectual curiosity and capacity for inde­ miniature minds are expanding and we learn her of her youngest child, her husband, pendent judgment that were to serve her to make due allowances for the acts and opinions of others, that we have called pecu­ father, and mother. well in her years as a conductor and After spending a scant 33 pages on leader in the anti-slavery movement, liar, because they do not quite accord with our own usages and tastes. personal information, almost with relief founder-teacher of a school, and activist Laura Haviland turns to the subject mat­ Reading her father's copy of John ter that gave her life its significance in Barbara Worden is professor and librarian Woolman's history of the slave-trade her own eyes, her work against slavery at Houston School of Theology. She chairs radicalized her and set her on a course of for the general betterment of the most the Friends Action Board of Mid-America Yearly Meeting and is the yearly meeting's firm opposition to slavery. This course deprived members of society. She chose representative to Friends World Committee was only strengthened by her outrage at for her autobiography the title, A Woman 's for Consultation. Her article on Elizabeth the brutal treatment often meted out to Life-Work, a clear indication of what she Ashbridge 's autobiography appeared in the the few blacks who lived in Lock-port, felt was important in her own life and in May issue ofFRIENDS JouRNAL. New York. One ofseveral such incidents the life of any individual human being.

22 Novemberl993 FRIENDS JOURNAL It is hard to choose among the numer­ "Man, I fear neither your weapons nor hounds" who were "seen and heard from ous hair-raising incidents of Laura your threats; they are powerless. You are not in almost every direction through the city." Haviland's career as a conductor on the at home-you are not in Tennessee. And as for your property, I have none of it about me underground railway. At one time she The foregoing alliterative epithet dem­ was so popular, so successful, and so or on my premises. We also know what we are about; we also understand, not only our­ onstrates one of the many delights of damaging to the cause of slave owners selves, but you." Laura Haviland's writing, her sly humor. trying to retrieve their property that the Pale a·nd trembling with rage they still On a trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to state of Tennessee offered a price of shook their pistols in my face . . .. Cincinnati, Ohio, she had the following $3,000 for her head. This reward was the Just then the conductor appeared and cried surrealistic conversation with several un­ occasion of a certain modest pride on out; "What are you doing here, you villain­ wary fellow travelers on board ship. Laura Haviland's part. One assumes that ous scoundrels? We'll have you arrested in they wanted her head detached from her five minutes." At this, they fled precipitately body. to the woods, and the last we saw ofthese tall "Mrs. Haviland, from Cincinnati, was the and valiant representatives of the land of one threatened in your dailies," I replied. One of the most sustained narratives chivalry were their heels fast receding in the "Oh, yes that was the name. I heard you in the autobiography is the account of the thicket. say you are going to Cincinnati; do you know escape of the Hamilton family, full of anything of that lady?" hairs-breath escapes, threatened violence, In Cincinnati, when she was informed "I do; I have been acquainted with her and clever tricks on the part of Laura that a group of slave-takers were after an from childhood." Haviland. Our heroine coolly agrees to escaped black woman, she realized that "You have! What sort ofa lady is she?" write a letter for the slave-takers, who she would have to take the woman down "Well, ify ou should see her, you wouldn't don't know who she is, which they think a well-lighted street and the Quaker dress, think it worth while to raise all this breeze will ask the Hamilton family to walk into widow's bonnet, and veil would be insuf­ over her, or any thing she could do. She is a a trap, but which Laura Haviland fills little, insignificant looking woman, anyhow; ficient disguise for the slave's color. Laura and yet I think she is conscientious in what full of subtle clues to inform them of the Haviland cooly called far a dish of flour she does." danger. Too late, the slave-takers realize and powdered her traveler's face so it "There wouldn't have been such a stir but they have been tricked and they confront could pass muster through the veil. She for Mr. Shotwell, who felt himself wronged her and her son Daniel on board a train, calmly walked the woman down the street in the loss of his house servant." threatening them with pistols. Laura and to her designated refuge away from After quite a lengthy conversation on this Haviland calmly defies them. the woman's master' s "biped blood- subject, my new lady fri end, to whom I had

·;"' e ..,.,~~' J''•• ~ · < Page 22: Laura Haviland faces bloodhounds sent by slaveholders to kill her. Above: Slave-takers threaten her after she helps a family to escape.

FRJENDS JouRNAL November 1993 23 related a portion of my Louisville experi­ the Union forces in the white panic that J. WALTER MALONE: ence, was waiting for an opportunity to put a the slaves would join the Northern in­ THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY joke on the Louisville doctor, and called me vaders. by name. At this the astonished doctor said: OF AN EVANGELICAL As if the plight of freed slaves were "I reckon this is not Mrs. Haviland, is it?" not enough scope for her activism, she QUAKER "That is the name by which I am called." "Is this indeed the lady we've been talk- did evangelistic and mission work in the Edited by John W. Oliver ing about and of whose appearance you gave South among both white and black, was such a brilliant description?" And he laughed active in reforming prostitutes, and par­ [Malone's autobiography] ''will heartily. ticipated in a variety of temperance help us establish a major causes. She helped found, among many reference point for late-nine­ The Civil War, the freeing of the institutions for social betterment, teenth and early-twentieth slaves, and her advancing years failed to Michigan's first state orphan asylum, as century Quakerism in much the stop Laura Haviland. As part of her work well as Haskell Indian School in same manner as the journals of in resettling former slaves, she served as Lawrence, Kansas. Fox and Woolman do for the the agent for the Michigan Freedmen's The book is both a treasure trove of seventeenth and eighteenth Aid Commission and traveled through­ stories relating to slavery and the Under­ out the South on behalf of the organiza­ ground Railway and a view of the mind centuries." -:~uglas Gwyn, tion, listening to and reporting on in her along with the "labors and experiences" Berkeley autobiography the savage treatment of of one of the most exciting, admirable, slaves under slavery. A particularly hor­ and inspirational women and Christians I " Walter an~ · ~\ Malone are rific episode she heard about from a freed­ have ever known through the pages of a easily the MA..mWJiunportant woman in Natchez, Mississippi, was the book. I wish I had been able to talk to the figures in evanJd ical Quakerism torturing and hanging of more than 400 real live Laura Haviland for just one eve­ in the last one lflhdred years ... slaves in the days before the city fell to ning, but this book is almost as good. 0 a basic docume of recent Quaker history. ' -Thomas Hamm, Earlham College That Which Is the Same ''I cannot remember any book I by Mary Coffin have read . . . which has moved me as has this slight volume. ast week after meeting, while sign of intolerance with what is dif­ Again and again I found myself talking to me about my son Rob­ ferent. And they serve to emphasize in tears and rejoicing" Lert, someone referred to him as and re-emphasize that which is dif­ -Evangelical Friend "the colored boy." I knew that this ferent, rather than that which is the was said with no intention to offend, same. yet I found myself feeling bad. Part of It's been moving for me to see my " Friends have much to learn the sadness came from knowing there sons accepted and appreciated in the from Malone's ... message will always be people who will see meeting for who and what they are. reaching across class, race, and my sons only as the "colored boys," Anthony and Robert have been ap­ ethnic lines to all in need of the "black kids," the "African Ameri­ preciated for their help last year with salvation, his pacifism and cans." feeding the homeless. Robert has been support for women in ministry.'' Robert is a lot of things. He's accepted and appreciated as a part of - Friends Journal bright, funny, loving, and consider­ the First-day school team. Both boys ate. He's creative, conscientious, or­ have been welcomed and enjoyed at social events and in the oldest First­ ''The evangelical movement nery, and stubborn. He's suffered great physical and emotional pain. day class. among Friends cannot be He's also been known to stretch the True acceptance is not only ac­ understood apart from the life of truth a bit, and if he spent a quarter of cepting what is different, but looking J. Walter Malone." the time working that he spends try­ beyond to see and accept that which - Quaker Life ing to get out of work, I'd be ecstatic. is the same. For me, "that which is He likes skiing, rap music, reading, the same" is what is meant by "that of [Walter Malone] "is the father and amusement parks. And yet, de­ God within." By appreciating and ac­ of Midwest Quaker Evangelical­ spite all of the wonderful (and some­ cepting my sons, the meeting has ac­ ism." times not so wonderful) things that knowledged that which is the same­ - Quaker Religious Thought are Robert, there will always be people that of God within each of them. 0 who see only the color of his skin. Our world is divided by labels. Mary Coffin 's article appeared in the Labels referring to skin color, spiri­ March 1993 newsletter of Pima (Ariz.) tual beliefs, religious membership, Meeting. Currently she edits the news­ ~ Q2lb ISBN N 1).8191·92()8..2 ISBN# 1).8191·9207-4 place of origin, sexual preference, letter and is writing a book about grief 122pages 122 pages politics, and on and on. Labels are a and mourning. $27.50 $47.SO

24 November 1993 FRIENDS JOURNAL Accompanying Guatemalan Refugees by Peg Morton

Photos on p. 25 and at left: Refugees en route to their homes in Guatemala. he presidential auto-coup on May temala City and in isolated locations return to struggle," and many more. Chil­ 25 in Guatemala led to a huge within the country. dren were busy drawing pictures of their T grassroots and international re­ In January of this year, I joined a lives in the camps and of the return, and sponse. A new and better president, Peace Brigades International (PBI) three­ these decorated bulletin boards. Others Ramiro de Leon Carpio, was elected by week delegation, and thus became a part were wild with delight, playing soccer the Congress. Meanwhile, many thou­ of the international nonviolent accompa­ and on seesaws and slides. Groups of sands of Guatemala refugees are, at the niment of the ftrst wave of 2,500 refu­ refugee leaders met in clumps to plan the time of this writing, waiting through all gees to return to Guatemala. There were return. The UNHCR, Red Cross, and the changes to be able to return to Guate­ six Quakers on this delegation. Of the poctors Without Borders set up tents and mala from southern Mexico. One may six, I was the youngest at age 62. The began their work. A long line of buses hope that arrangements will be made and others were Pat Beetle, Ellen Flanders, rumbled in, and we watched the refugees the floodgates opened before the end of and Joe Levinger, all from Albany (N.Y.) as they poured onto the fairgrounds, car­ the year. What actually awaits them in Meeting; Marian Davis, Denver (Colo.); rying their hoes, dragging their personal this poverty stricken and still repressive and Hazel Tulecke, Yellow Springs belongings in produce sacks, babies on country is a big question. The refugees (Ohio). their backs, children by their sides, their know that, yet still they are eager to re- After six years of negotiating, and faces so hopeful. Many of us found tears turn. . many delays due to route and other logis­ in our eyes. There were so many refu­ Some 143,000 Guatemalan Mayan tics, some of the refugees, living in dis­ gees, breaking off all ties with the secu­ people have been living in exile in Mexico persed camps, lost patience and began to rity of Mexico, returning with so much for about ten years. Years of repression walk toward the planned gathering place hope, yet to so much more hardship and following the CIA-instrumented coup in in Comitan, Mexico. The Mexican gov­ almost certainly suffering and danger. 1954 culminated in the scorched-earth ernments and the UN High Commission About 50 international accompaniers, counterinsurgency policies in the early for Refugees (UNHCR) gave in to this from Witness for Peace, PBI, and other 1980s. Some 100,000 people, mostly pressure, buses were sent, and the return organizations, and from many countries, Mayan Indians, were assassinated, some began, despite protests from the Guate­ began to organize to fulftll our role as 40,000 "disappeared," some 443 villages mala government. observers. Later, the number was almost burned to the ground. Many more people The refugees gathered on the Comitan doubled. There was no question that we were displaced, collecting around Gua- fairgrounds. There was a festive atmos­ were wanted and welcomed. International phere, with banners which thanked accompaniment had been one of their Peg Morton is a member ofEugene (Oreg.) Mexico for ten years of "offering your negotiation demands. Refugees beamed Friends Meeting. hands," proclaiming "struggle to return, at us and stopped to chat. They asked if

FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1993 25 we would be with them for the entire trip. (Unfortunately, our delegation would not.) They expressed fears about what might happen to them in the future. Finally, on January 20, some 67 buses bedecked with banners, with accom­ panying vehicles, sped across the border into Guatemala. They were welcomed at the border, along the Pan-American High­ way, and in towns and cities all along the way by crowds of people holding ban­ ners, playing marimbas, shooting off rockets, and bringing food and clothing . . Refugees peered out of the bus windows. They were overwhelmed. Traveling along with them in our PBI who had come to find their families were front of the National Cathedral. There van, we gazed at the long line of buses, a at first not allowed in. Pressures finally were many speeches, songs, and food. snake through the mountains. It ground caused the gates to be opened. There the Ominously, there was no welcome from to a halt, and people poured out. How do refugees received their official papers­ the government, no government presence 2,500 people stop to "go to the bath­ a huge task for the government, as was at all. room" in such circumstances? Two lines the housing and feeding of all these In Cohan, the closest city to the refu­ formed, each looking away from the road, people. I asked a woman, standing with gees' destination in the jungles of the men in front and women behind. I squat­ her two children, how it felt to be in lxcan, in a northern part of Guatemala, ted with a line of women. This was not Guatemala. She beamed and said, the buses departed; they were unable to something I had thought of as a part of "allegre," and pulled a bundle from be­ maneuver the impassable muddy roads accompaniment! hind her back. It was her four-day-old of the last lap. Cattle trucks took over but When they arrived at the government baby, one of four children born in got mired in the mud, taking a couple of processing center in Huehuetenango, spir­ Comitan. days to go only a few miles. About 1, 000 its sagged. Not allowed to stop in the city Conflicts were great between the refu­ of the most vulnerable refugees were center, where crowds had gathered and gees and the Guatemala government, and flown to a military base not far from their ceremonies had been planned, the refu­ the already unwilling government with­ land. gees instead were driven on back roads, drew all help in the process. The UNHCR These refugees have been like pio­ past a military base, to their destination. and the Catholic church provided most neers on their land, which had no infra­ There were no welcoming banners, only of the rest of the help needed for the structure. They are aided by the UNHCR business-like government officials try­ return. and other non-governmental organiza­ ing to get the job done. The refugees In Guatemala City there was a huge tions, which are providing food, tools, were enclosed in the area, so that people march, then a high mass celebrated in materials, and medical help. Despite this, What Can We Do? In thinking about the situation in where Central and South American mili­ cally to continue and expand their Guatemala, we first need to remem­ tary officers receive training in work, and they need long- and short­ ber that the Unites States is deeply counterinsurgency techniques. We must term accompaniers. Also, you may implicated in human rights violations tell our government representatives that join PBI's Rapid Response Network. there. It was our CIA that in 1954 we know and care about human rights When PBI team members or those overturned the only genuinely demo­ abuses in Guatemala, as well as other whom they accompany are injured cratic government in Guatemala's his­ countries with close U.S. ties, and de­ or threatened, we are asked to send tory and inaugurated four decades of mand an end to these abuses. telexes and letters. The addresses for military repression. We still give train­ For information on Friends' efforts to these two groups are: ing and moral support to the military close the School of the Americas, con­ PBIIU.S. Office there. Actual military aid was sus­ tact Pro-Nica, the project supported by Box 1233, Harvard Sq. Station pended in 1990 because of human Southeastern Yearly Meeting: 130 19th Cambridge, MA 02238 rights violations. President Clinton is Ave. SE, St. Petersburg, FL 33705. Col­ ( 617)491-4226 now requesting that the bulk of this lege Park Quarterly Meeting, with repre­ aid be released. We must demand sentatives from 29 worship groups in Witness for Peace that our government not send mili­ northern California and Nevada, has ap­ 2201 P St., NW tary aid, nor re-establish military re­ proved a minute of concern and urges Washington, DC 20037 lations. Friends involvement. -Eds. (202)797-1160 Let's join the nationwide effort to Peace Brigades International and Wit­ close the School of the Americas, ness for Peace both need money drasti- Peg Morton

26 November 1993 FRIENDS JouRNAL over 100 children have died, mostly of intestinal and respiratory illnesses. Following the refugees' return, the Guatemala military made its presence I I known, with low-flying planes and heli­ copters. Soldiers entered the land, taking photos and demanding to see papers. Sev­ eral people were injured by land mines. L!UJl!l!lll!l Not far away, civilian communities of displaced Guatemalans, accused by the military ofbeing guerrillas, were steadily bombed, strafed, and burned over many Scattergood Friends School is a co-educational, college months preceding the auto-coup. Over preparatory, boarding and day high school for 55 students 700 people had fled across the border into Mexico. They returned in June, but military harrassment still continues. • Excellent success in placing graduates in colleges and universities Some ofthe Guatemalan refugees and • 4: 1 student to faculty ratio grassroot leaders have referred to this • Small classes and attention to the needs and interests of individuals return as epic. It is like the return of the • Extensive outdoor and farm experi~nces Israelites from Egypt. However, these refugees are returning from a safe place • Caring and supportive community life to one of danger- but they are returning • Emphasis upon cooperation rather than competition home. I have been reminded ofthe spiri­ • Affordable tuition with extensive financial assistance tual: "Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home .... Ifyou get there before I do, .. . Tell all my friends that For additional information, or to arrange a visit, I'm coming too.... " call or write, Director of Admissions, Scattergood Friends School, We must not assume that things will Route 1, Box 32, West Branch, !A 52358-9715 (3 19) 643-7600 be better in Guatemala with their new president. As of this writing, President de Leon's cousin and several other iead­ ers of the centrist political party were massacred on a highway, an act thought by many to have been carried out by security forces. Union leaders have been threatened, detained, and tortured. A uni­ versity professor has been murdered. Three people, returning from a demon­ stration against civil defense patrols (PACs) were murdered by PAC mem­ bers. PACs are controlled by the mili­ tary. Working toward healing in Guatemala and other parts of the world must include but go beyond political work. I am re­ minded ofand challenged by Jim Carney, a priest who lived and worked and was assassinated in Honduras. He asked, "Do we North Americans eat well because the poor of the Third World do not eat well? Are we North Americans powerful because we help keep the poor of the Third World weak? Are we North Americans free because we help keep the poor of the Third World oppressed?" I fmd myself needing to pray from deep in my spirit for healing in Guate­ mala. I don't know where that prayer will take me, but it feels different. I hope others will join me in that prayer. If a way is found toward healing in Guate­ mala, it could influence many other parts of the world also. 0

FRJENDS JOURNAL November 1993 27 Parents' Corner The Widening Nest by Susan Baird Kanaan was moved to speak at a fall meeting for worship for se­ I niors, parents, and faculty, a cherished tradition at Sidwell Friends .School in Washington, D.C. I quoted Edna St. Vincent Millay's lines from "Rena­ scence": "The world stretches out on either side no wider than the heart is wide.... " I observed that the opposite is also true: our hearts, and souls, widen as our worlds widen. When our chil­ dren leave home and explore new places, ideas and experiences, they help us widen our worlds and our souls. A nice sentiment, to be sure; but could it last? In the months that followed that meeting for worship, mine the past. I've seen with new clarity the grace limited. Visits home will involve juggling was probably a typical emotional roller­ with which these brave young men, my sons, the multiple priorities of friends, cherished coaster ride as I prepared for the departure of have cared for their separately loving and haunts and activities, and two devoted par­ both my children-one headed for college as engaged parents-acting as shuttle diplomats, ents with separate plans and desires-all in a freshman, the other returning to school Solomons, discreet and wholehearted par­ shorter time frames than ever. Earlier this after living at home and working for a year. ticipants in two different life styles. All the year, I found that specter especially trou­ But the ground beneath the roller coaster while they have pursued, with energy and bling as thoughts of my emptying nest and remained constant: that sense of widening enthusiasm, their personal lives and other echoes of its earlier rupture preoccupied my foreshadowed earlier in the year. Later, just priorities. heart. home from installing "my baby" in college, I As their departures approached and time But this advance grieving helped bring to found myself buoyed by excitement at what grew shorter and more precious, their chal­ light the need to identify, strengthen, and put my children are discovering, and warmed by lenges heightened. It became their tum to our faith in the many sources of quality in a sense of connection that transcends the replay the familiar drama ofbalancing friends our relationships. I realized the special inten- physical. and family- with the added tension of need­ . sity and present-ness that have characterized My boundaries have widened to encom­ ing to make separate time for each parent. our togetherness ever since our family di­ pass Montreal, Quebec, and Madison, Wis­ For our part, sometimes their father and I vided. I accept with gratitude that gift of consin. My vicarious interests now extend to made our respective demands and pressed mutual attentiveness and engagement. Now environmental science and physics, sports our claims with the assertiveness necessary I will concentrate on investing in that qual­ cars and youth hostels, public issues forums in this situation-claims for time, presence ity, and I've talked with my children about and Canadian politics, "sweet" sound sys­ at special events, a place at the center ofth eir doing so as well. tems and the latest music, dazzling computer attention. Just as often, though, we held back. We have already learned to stay con­ software, winter sports ... and more. I' m left Like the true parent in the story of Solomon nected when we are physically apart, and we wondering if the common metaphor for and the two claiming to be the baby's mother, will learn more about that. While we are children's leaving home-"the empty each of us at times relinquished desires and apart, we will gain new awareness of the nest"-doesn't focus too exclusively on the claims to preserve what we treasure, the love kind of togetherness- the unity in love­ loss side of the equation, setting us up for and harmony of our version of family life that transcends time and place. We are physi­ more unmitigated sadness than is necessary. and the welfare of other members. cal beings, and it is natural for us to want to Naturally, there have been and will be So now these young adults begin to build hold on to the things and people we cherish. feelings of emptiness and disruption, as be­ their own nests-a process they may relish A thought seems a poor substitute for a hug. fits a change of this magnitude. My own all the more because of the consolidation it Yet when we do let go, by choice or neces­ empty-nest experience is framed by the fact affords after years of dividedness. This pros­ sity, we find an immediacy of connection that my children have two nests, their father's pect moved my younger son, anticipating his through love that can be astonishing. The and mine. Watching the next stage of di­ first year at college, to volunteer his first very qualities that infuse and energize our vided familyhood unfold has aroused unex­ comment ever about his experience of his times together can sustain us during times pected feelings of guilt and grief along with parent's divorce. He remarked that while he apart. the more expected ones ofanxiety and sadness. was not looking forward to being away from Having our imaginations and concerns First, there has been new perspective on home per se, he would surely be glad to stretched in this way is what widens our finally have all ofhis belongings in one place. worlds, our nests, and our souls. We should Susan Baird Kana an is a member ofBethe sda I welcomed that prospect with him, and could not be surprised by feelings of loss. But we (Md.) Meeting, where she serves as assistant well understand. can also expect each one's growth to support clerk. She is a free-lance writer and works Looking ahead, I know that our time to­ and enrich that of the others, giving new life mostly on health and community issues. gether in the next few years, at least, will be to a continuing cycle. D

28 November 1993 F RJENDS J OURNAL Young Friends JOURNEY'S FARM CAMP is a farm devoted to children for sessions ortwo to eight weeks each summer. Farm animals, garden­ ing, nature, ceramics, shop. Nonviolence, simplic­ ity, reverence for nature are emphasized in our Volunteers for Peace program centered in the life or a Quaker farm family. For thirty-two boys and girls, 7-12 years. by Helen Cherry Welcome all races. CARL & KRISTIN CURTIS n the summer of 1992 I had an opportu­ a town in Southern Italy. I opted to go to Box 136, NEWFOUNDLAND, PA 18445 nity to work in Finland under the aus­ Finland. Phone: (717) 689-7552; 2353 I pices ofVolunteers for Peace (VFP). It is I chose the Finnish workcamp for two an organization based in Vermont that pro­ reasons. First, until last summer, Finland was vides summer workcarnp opportunities for for me just a small country located next to people aged 16 and older. Its purpose, as Sweden, of which I had heard very little. I Educational excellence found in the VFP directory, is to facilitate a pictured milkmaids in pigtails dancing in a for over 200 years "vision of our planet in ecological balance field by a windmill (I ignorantly confused where social justice and concern for the well­ the Finnish and the Dutch). Second, the being of future generations reigns, fostering workcamp involved working alongside home­ a world ofglobal cooperation and peace." In less men and women, as well as disturbed or order to do so, VFP coordinates hundreds of underprivileged children. I have always en­ workcamp exchanges with 37 countries and joyed working with people and thought this publishes an International Workcamp Di­ would be an excellent opportunity to learn rectory annually. A few of the workcamp more about people from another culture. possiblities include renovating a castle for Volunteers for Peace not only opened my use as a youth hostel in Anglefort, France; eyes to worldwide problems, but also helped running a program of recreational activities me to mature. By traveling abroad in a psychiatric hospital in Northern Ireland; unaccompanied, I learned to rely on myself 110 East Main Street, Moorestown, NJ and producing a video about the social life of to get by. I soon found that being alone is 609-235-2900 ext. 227 essential for being submerged in a foreign Currently a freshman at the University of culture, for solitude makes it necessary to Richmond, Helen Cherry wrote her article communicate with strangers. I was hesitant when she was a high school senior. She is a about my travels at first, because of the myth member ofRadnor (Pa.) Meeting. that the Finns are a rather cold people, yet Fyfe & Miller my fears were put to rest when I got to FUNERAL SERVICE Helsinki and found my workcamp. 7047 Germantown Ave. One of the reasons I felt the workcamp was a successful venture was Philadelphia, PA 19119 the diversity of our group. Turkey, Bel­ (215) 247-8700 gium, Germany, Norway, Mongolia, James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller England, and Finland were represented in the group oftwelve with whom I was Simple earth burial and cremation service to spend the next few weeks. After clear­ ing the air of various misrepresenta­ available at reasonable cost. tions the group might have had about each nation, the tone was set for fruitful discussions of international politics, beliefs, and culture. It was interesting For Prices & Quality to find that I was often the target for discussion, being the only American in the Quaker Above: Tradition Children and counselors • Medical Forms gather to • Computer Forms embark for • Checks Kesa-nuta, a • Business Printing summerhouse on an island near Helsinki. :Jiccurale 23usiness Jorms 9 Bank St. • Medford, NJ Right: (609) 654-2374 Helen Cherry works with a homeless man on the This Publication island. is available in Microform. University Microfilms International 300 North Zeeb Road . Dept. P.R .. Ann Arbor, Mi. 48106

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1993 29 and being with people who had never been to though most of my time was spent working Foremost, I wanted a better understanding of the United States. I quickly disavowed the beside the homeless to construct shelters, I the roots of homelessness, and whether the theories that all U.S. citizens are overweight, would also cook, go fishing for dinner, clean problem is similar throughout the world. Af­ selfish, and come from homes like the one the boats, and perform other tasks. My work ter discussions with my new friends and hear­ portrayed in the television program "Mar­ also included laying bricks, painting, and ing their tales (or translations of their tales, ried with Children." The curiosity about me installing carpet. On the days that I worked for most of the homeless I encountered did was understandable because U.S. culture has at Kesa-nuta, I helped reconstruct a dilapi­ not speak English), plus talks with the repre­ invaded Finland in many forms, including dated bam that, once restored, was going to sentatives from VFP, I concluded that di­ clothes, music, television shows, Pepsi cola, be used to house animals for the children to vorce is a major cause of homelessness for and Marlboro cigarettes. (One Finnish woman take care of. At the end of the first week, our men in Finland. It is almost always the case even said to me that the United States was to workcamp organized an International Day that the wife gets the home as well as the blame for the high rate of lung cancer in for the children. The day included ethnic children. Whether the alcoholism comes af­ Finland.) foods, games, and a traditional dance from ter the divorce, or ifit has already been there The majority of my time in Finland was Turkey. is not for me to say, but all the homeless men spent on Vartiosaari (Vartio-island), an is­ The work that I was performing on this I worked with were alcoholics. Many, how­ land located about five miles out of Helsinki. island differed from any social work that I ever, had been sober for quite a while. This is where a group ofhomeless men, VVA had ever done back in the States, whether it My Finnish experience through VFP did in Finnish (initials meaning "without was working at Mother Theresa's soup more than open my eyes to international homes"), had been loaned a plot of land by kitchen or participating in Quaker work relations. It enriched my character by mak­ the Finnish government for three years in camps. One Quaker workcamp that could ing me more independent and self-assertive. order to build houses for some of the home­ correlate with my Finnish experience took Now I'm not as hesitant to take on greater less of Helsinki. Also on this island is a place in Philadelphia, Pa., working to reno­ tasks in order to broaden my horizons. I look center for disturbed teenagers, as well as vate the headquarters for the Delaware Val­ forward to participating in more VFP Kesa-nuta (meaning "summer house"), which ley Indians Association. My father and I workcamps in the coming years to help con­ organizes activities where children from low worked along with some Native Americans tinue the organization's philosophy ofglobal income families in Helsinki can come to a to restore their building for use as a museum friendship and peace. 0 wooded island to enjoy nature. For those oflndian artifacts. In both cases, I felt I was who did not reside on the island (including helping people to help themselves. But even Those desiring additional information our group), a boat would come to the main­ more, they helped me to understand the limi­ about Volunteers for Peace, Inc., may con­ land to transport us. tations of my own experience. tact the group at the following address: 43 With all the activity on the island, there I fulfilled most of the expectations I had Tiffany Rd., Belmont, VT 05730; telephone, was never a lack of something to do. AI- set for myself before departing for Finland. (802) 259-2759.

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30 November 1993 FRIENDS JOURNAL FCNL Notes Welfare and Dignity and Other Incongruities uring last year' s •Both parents have a be with her mentally retarded child after campaign, Presi­ responsibility to support school, be counted as "fully employed"? D dent Clinton talked their children. The work­ •Who is "able to work"? People in low­ about welfare. He promised ing group will try to iden­ wage jobs rarely have disability insurance. to "end welfare as we know tifY the next steps needed Yet sometimes an industrial illness or car it." Since welfare has be­ to strengthen the enforce­ accident can cause a person to Jose one job come, in many minds and ment of child support re­ and delay seeking another. Will children re­ hearts, the quintessential sponsibilities. ceive cash assistance, even if the setback symbolofgovemmentgone •Each person should from the injury or illness lasts longer than awry, the promise was an have access to the basic two years? easy crowd-pleaser. education and training •Will welfare recipients actually have a But now the hard work needed to get and hold a chance to improve their situation before is underway. The President ~-~:;., job. Cutbacks in commu­ they're expected to "sink or swim"? Under has appointed a " Working Group on Welfare nity colleges, job training, and vocational the Family Support Act (the current welfare Reform, Family Support and Independence" education programs have taken their toll. program), clients often wait for more than to take on the task of creating an alternative •Cash assistance should be available for a two years for a response to their applications to welfare. In September, the co-chairs ofthe limited time as "transitional support," while for job training. The mandate under the Fam­ working group, David Ellwood and Mary Jo those who are able to work either train for or ily Support Act (to work or get training) was Bane, met with about 25 representatives of find jobs that will support their families. clear. The available funding never quite religious organizations to hear their concerns For several decades, at least, the religious matched the mandate. and to share information about the working community has worked together to support The Working Group on Welfare Reform, group's task. the first three principles. But the concept of Family Support, and Independence has Ell wood and Bane reported that the work­ time-limited ''transitional support" raises opened a conversation on issues of poverty, ing group is guided by four principles: troubling questions: families, and community. Friends should take •People who work should not be poor. •What is "work"? Will the law recognize this opportunity to express their belief in The Earned Income Tax Credit (expanded in only the kind of labor that is exchanged for maintaining respect for the dignity of each the just-passed FY94 budget) and universal wages? Will the work ofthe caretaker of an person. access to health care (still to come) will help infant or an elder be recognized? Will the to make this principle operational. mother who works only part-time, in order to Ruth Flower This Christmas, to give is to receive free! You will receive a free six-month extension of your current subscription just by giving two gift subscriptions to FRIENDs joURNAL for Christmas. And this added bargain: In addition to your six-month extension, we'll send each of your loved ones 16 issues for the price of 12.

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FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1993 31 Reports Oakwood School Intermountain Yearly was expressed honestly and compassionately. Even with the atmosphere of respect main­ Grades 7-12 and Postgraduate Meeting tained in this session, we felt the pain of Friends Boarding and Day School The 19th annual gathering of Inter­ strong beliefs in conflict in a community. We mountain Yearly Meeting met at Fort Lewis hold each other in the light as we continue to struggle organizationally and spiritually with Emphasis on: College, Durango, Colorado, from June 9 through 13. ThreehundredFriendsfromColo­ ·this issue. • College Preparatory Curriculum rado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and We heard reports from wider Quaker or­ · Challenging Senior Program Mexico City, Mexico, with numerous visi­ ganizations such as Friends Committee on · Learning Center tors from around the country and around the National Legislation, American Friends Ser­ · Personal Growth world, gathered for four days ofbusiness and vice Committee, Friends World Committee ·International Program fellowship. for Consultation, and its Right Sharing of · Visual and Performing Arts Our first effort to integrate the Senior World Resources project. Our awareness of · Sports Program Young Friends with the more senior parts of the international fellowship among Friends the meeting was a very positive experience has been strengthened through this experience. For a tour and more information for all. This effort will be seasoned in prepa­ We look forward to welcoming Friends from around the world when Intermountain contact: ration for next year to better balance the need for intergenerational understanding and the Yearly Meeting hosts the FWCC Triennial Oakwood School need of the Senior Young Friends to develop Conference in August of 1994, at Ghost 515 South Road as a supportive community within the meet­ Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Poughkeepsie, NY 1290 1 ing. T.he Junior Yearly Meeting and Junior Martin Cobin Telephone:(914) 462-4200 Young Friends are growing both in numbers Fax:(914) 462-4251 and in direction. The meeting dealt with issues which are Lake Erie Yearly Meeting by their nature divisive. Yet we have ad­ One hundred and twelve adults and 25 dressed these issues with Jove and with re­ Small classes, strong children met at Bluffton College, in Bluffton, FRIENDS academics in a spect for the differences in opinion and prac­ Ohio, June 17-20 for Lake Erie Yearly Meet­ SELECT supportive, caring tice among us. We feel strengthened in our ing. For the past 30 years we have kept our environment sense ofcommunity even while honoring the structures simple so our business can be mini­ SCHOOL emphasizing Quaker diversity ofour membership. mal. Friends come to LEYM for fellowship values. As our keynote speaker, Eric Johnson, a and spiritual enrichment. It almost seems our Friend from Pennsylvania and a teacher, edu­ meetings for business, brief as they are, are • Pre-K thru 12th cation consultant, and author, set the tone for an intrusion on our busy schedule of plenary Day School our meeting by exhorting us to walk cheer­ talks, workshops, poster and small group e • After School Program fully in the face of adversity. He gave us session, book store, and meals. Nancy Nye • Summer Day Camp numerous examples of people who have of FCNL spoke movingly ofpeace prospects brought their capacity for joy and humor into in the Middle East. Nancy Lynn Sharpless 17th & the Parkway difficult situations, often bringing healing in helped young and old make marvelously cre­ Philadelphia, P A the process. With his encouragement, many ative paper in the craft tent. Liz Yeats, (215) 561-5900 Friends added their own examples and expe­ Religious Education staff of FGC, helped riences to this testimony of the power of young Friends explore Quaker process good humor. through a simulated meeting for business at We followed Friend Johnson's leading the time of John Woolman. Our plenary THE HICKMAN by gathe_ring for song and skits, campfire and speaker, Arthur Larrabee, clerk of Phila­ OF CONCORD QUARTERLY MEETING camp outs. We planted more than 1,000 flow­ delphia Yearly Meeting, spoke to our condi­ t.: ers as an intergenerational service project. tion by suggesting that we undertake only as Our sense of community is strengthened by much business as we can consider worship­ this time spent together_ fully. The sense of the meeting is not a deci­ We struggled with the conflict brought by sion nor is it consensus. It is a description of 100 Year History the passage ofAmendment 2 to the Colorado where the meeting is at a given time, includ­ A Personal Care Home constitution, an act which prohibits the state ing that we have labored in the Spirit and • Reasonable Rates • Not-for-profit and its political subdivisions from passing come to no resolution. Ideally, Friends will • Quaker Tradition any law or ordinance protecting gay, lesbian, have come into the presence of God and In Town Location convenient and bisexual people from discrimination. Our experienced unity. to Shops and Businesses largest single block of membership is lo­ Arthur used the metaphor of a dam to cated in Colorado, and Colorado Friends have represent our fears, angers, and resentments (215) 696-1536 been engaged in opposing this amendment which block the flow of the Holy Spirit and West Chester, PA and its implementation. After considerable our willingness to risk communicating with soul searching, we reached consensus to con­ each other. We recognize the need for a free Bringing Friends' lor Peace & Justice to tinue to meet at Fort Lewis College for at flow within our monthly meetings and be­ Congress Since 1943 least another year. We hope to use our pres­ tween LEYM and the monthly meetings, as W nte. or can 12021547·4343 ence to witness against this discriminatory well as a deeper level of sharing and naming for achon sugges11on tape constitutional provision. our spiritual experiences. We experienced The issue of same sex marriage was some openings of the sluice gates as the brought before our meeting in a threshing Spirit flowed among us, touching and mov­ session. Our diversity of opinion and belief ingus.

32 November 1993 FRIENDS JouRNAL Signe Wilkinson:

Johan Maurer, General Secretary (left), and Harold Smuck, Presiding Clerk, at the Friends United Meeting 1993 Triennial

The much-in-demand book of cartoons by Philadelphia's "Attack Quaker" and first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. The perfect gift for a special friend. Decisions were made to continue for an­ and avoid the lack of commitment which Sales to benefit FRIENDS j ouRNAL. other two years Patricia Thomas as our Nur­ drains our passions. Johan Maurer envisioned Send $8.50 (incl. postage) for each turing Secretary. We have agreed to meet at ways to liberate and energize FUM, and to copy to FRIENDS jouRNAL at ISO I Bluffton College for the next few years, no let God's healing power be with and over us Cherry St., Phila., PA 191 02-1497. longer rotating to the Olney campus in as we move forward together. Sadie Vernon Barnesville. The Granville Worship Group shared her vision of a purposeful God and CREMATION was recognized as a monthly meeting. The the ways of empowering the poor in Belize. revision ofLEYM's Policies and Procedures Madeline L'Engle reminded us that all of Friends are reminded that the is underway. Several thoughtful statements Anna T. Jeanes Fund creation conveys God's message that the will reimburse cremation costs. and letters brought by the Peace Committee Creator's plan of love will be fulfilled. Alan (Applicable to members of were approved for further use. Ministry and Kolp delivered the Johnson lecture on "A Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) Oversight Committee approved an ad hoc Motion of Love." Drawing from the example t~or informallon, write or telephone Committee on Spiritual Nurture. ofJohn Woolman, he concluded that "Quaker RICHARD R. BETTS SOO·B G len E

FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1993 33 ~~~~- ~-=-~Claiming Our and National Councils ofChurches. The Gen­ resented, plus a handful of Quakers without eral Board noted that FUM has not budgeted organizational affiliation. Represented were Past: support for these agencies for the past 20 American Friends Service Committee, years. Representatives were unwilling to com­ Friends World Committee for Consultation, pletely sever these relationships, but did agree Friends General Conference, Earlham Col­ to suspend affiliation for three years while lege, US-USSR Committee, Pacific Yearly conducting a thorough study of the griev­ Meeting East-West Relations Committee, ances brought forth primarily by Iowa Yearly New York Yearly Meeting, and New En­ Meeting. During the consideration of this gland Yearly Meeting. Asia Bennett from matter, Iowa Yearly Meetings's reasons for FWCC clerked the gathering. endorsing withdrawal were never mentioned. The morning was devoted to a rich shar­ Later it was learned that the source of dis­ ing of current activities, and a list was made comfort arose from an article in the Reader's of the centers ofactivity in the former Soviet Digest, and the television program "60 Min­ states and Eastern Europe. Mentioned were utes." Other reasons alluded to were support Moscow, Electrostal, St. Petersburg, by these agencies of liberation groups, the Komsomolsky, Tver, Gatchina, Pereyaslav close connection of the Russian Orthodox (Ukraine), Budapest, and Yugoslavia. Re­ Church to the communist government of the What better way to give expression to ports describing the activities in these places your Quaker values than by leaving a former USSR, and the failure often to base were given or were available for reading. portion of your estate to FRIENDS JoURNAL? public statements on religious testimonies. Discussion in the afternoon revolved You will assure the growth of Quaker Johan Maurer, the recently appointed around five questions posed by Dan Seeger thought and life long into the future. Con­ General Secretary, asked Friends to liberate of Pendle Hill: Do Friends wish to provide sider a provision in your will for FRIENDS FUM from intramural differences that have information sharing, coordination, and mu­ JOURNAL beset it. FUM cannot be the Friends General tual counsel for each other in this work? Do Conference and vice versa. [t cannot be the Friends wish to have organizing oversight For more information, contact: arena where Friends fight proxy battles over for the efforts needing wide support? In what FRIENDS JoURNAL, 1501 Cherry Street, Phila­ issues of faith and practice which they are way can the relationship between our spiri­ delphia, PA 19102-1497 (215) 241-7820 unwilling to confront at home. Ifyearly meet­ tual practice and our social activism be com­ ingsare unhappy with other Friends' leadings, municated and modeled as we move forward they should go directly to those yearly meet­ with outreach to the former Soviet Union? ings, search out together God's will, and Are there pitfalls we want to avoid, and are seek a reconciliation. Neither can FUM de­ there specific issues of possible conflict we VITAUTY. fine who is and who is not a Quaker. The job want to address as we move forward? What of FUM is (1) to emphasize Quaker type of relations between evangelical and distinctives, (2) to create a network of warm, unprogrammed Friends may be possible in YOU CD FEEL IT II loving relationships, and (3) to help yearly the work with the former Soviet states? meetings reach their goals of evangelism A lively discussion followed, focusing on YOUR IE. through the two principal services of FUM: these questions and on the next steps. A World Ministries and Meeting Ministries. small committee was charged with the task In its official message, the Triennial ob­ of testing the idea for a Friends Center in served, "Out ofturmoil and separation a 'fresh Moscow, using a proposal from the East­ wind of the Spirit' has sprung up to scatter West Committee of Pacific Yearly Meeting the clouds that have obscured FUM's clear as the basis for discussions with the various vision, and to blow away some of the litter Friends groups in the United States and Eu­ that has obstructed our path.... FUM has rope. This proposed center intends to support the staff and opportunity to help shape development ofgrassroots organizations and Friends' mission into the new century ... to to support opportunities for learning about preach good news to the poor, to heal the Quaker spirituality for the people ofthe former broken hearted, to release the captives, to Soviet Union. give sight to the blind, and to free those who A follow-up meeting for early November suffer." As in Linda Selleck's Triennial song, was scheduled, with the hope of drawing in we pray "Come Spirit, cleanse our souls. an even wider range of people. Pendle Hill What you can't feel is osteoporosis, Make our hearts pure and whole. Grant us agreed to provide the site and to continue the bone-thinning disease that wisdom and courage to Proclaim the Year of supporting the communication process. affects 25 million Americans. It the Lord." can't be cured. But it can often be _RobertS. Vogel Kay 'Anderson prevented. Speak to your doctor. Or call us at 1-800-223-9994. Outreach to the Former Sketchers andphotographers: we love to hear from you! Send your favorite yearly Soviet Union meeting gems to FRIENDS JouRNAL and we On April 6th, Pendle Hill and Philadel­ will try to include them when we run the National Osteoporosis Foundation. phia Yearly Meeting hosted an ad hoc group yearly meeting report. Include caption and We Have AV'rtallnterest In Your Bones. of28 people who are currently involved with credit information, and let us know ifyou • outreach ministries in the former Soviet would like your submissions returned when 2100 M. Stnet, N.W., Sui~ 602, Washington, D.C. 20037-1207 Union. Many Quaker organizations were rep- we're finished with them. Thanks.

34 November 1993 FRIENDS JOURNAL News of Friends mi!!lkll. Marshall Massey, of Mountain A QUAKER CENTER View (Colo.) Meeting, felt led to ..., ~~~fj~] for Rest, Reflection, & boycott Intermountain Yearly ~ ' Renewal on 110 acres Meeting's annual gathering June x IJ.ool MAN .,..,...... of farm & woodlands. 9-13, in Durango, Colo. His deci­ Ideal for personal, group, sion was in response to Colorado's & Friends Meeting Retreats passing of Amendment 2, which /A INI!liJ!?l'IJ'!liJ!?l~INI~ ~INIVO!?l©INI~~INI'IJ' prohibits the state government from passing legislation protecting the rights ofgay, lesbian, and bisexual write~ Keets Road citizens. Marshall camped in New or .. Deerfield, MA 01342 Mexico, and when IMYM was in call · -· (413) 774-3431 session he sat in silent worship on ~ that side of the New Mexico-Colo- 1l: rado border. Yearly meeting Marshall Massey on the New Mexico side attend~rs fror:n Utah Friends Fel- of the New Mexico-Colorado border. lowshtp, feehng the need to sup- Friends' port Marshall, organized carpools of Friends sons with Acquired lrnrnune Deficiency Syn­ C E N T R A L from IMYM to join him in worship. (from drome who wish to remain in the comfort of Friends Bulletin) their homes during the final stages of their 'Learn Among Friends' lives. The group wanted to provide a Quaker Formded in 1845 Charles Kelly has recently returned from response to a long-held concern regarding o Record enrollment an international peace witness in former the AIDS epidemic. They felt something o 2 spacious campuses Yugoslavia. Kelly, co-clerk of Philadelphia uniquely Quaker needed to be expressed Yearly Meeting's Peace Committee, was part which was different from services provided o Community outreach of a group of peace activists who accompa­ by other volunteer groups. They sought to programs nied trucks of food enroute to Sarajevo, ground their work in Quaker faith and pro­ o Small classes Bosnia. He visited refugee camps in Croatia, cesses, and wanted a simple, direct action and reports that the people there were inter­ which "a friend" would take. For i11jomltllio11: (2 15) 649-7 440 ested in learning conflict resolution tech­ The 19 volunteers, including Friends from Friends' Central School 110 1 City Avenue, Wynnewood, PA 19096 niques they could use in their homeland. seven meetings, received intensive training "Talented men.and women in these camps which was organized by nurse Carolyn have had their lives ' on hold' for more than a Schodt of Chestnut Hill (Pa.) Meeting with year," he said. "They welcome training, in­ Kenneth Sutton and Raymond Bentman of cluding development as peace activists." Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. The 25 Kelly would like to share his experiences hours of training were followed by weekly with other Friends and encourage meetings supervised practice of bedside care at Betak, to help better the lives of the war's refugees. an AIDS facility in the West Mount Airy For more information on this peace witness, section of Philadelphia, Pa. The training pre­ contact the PYM Peace Committee at (215) pared volunteers to give a bath; offer a back 241-7232. (from PYM News) rub; assist with problems of immobility, in­ continence, and dementia; and offer a friendly The Quaker Leadership Scholars Program presence. of Guilford College is beginning its second The next training course is scheduled for year. The ten new students accepted into the Nov. 10-14 in Philadelphia. The AIDS Work­ program, along with 11 returning students, ing Group is looking for people who are represent 12 yearly meetings from Friends flexible, able to listen and reflect, aware of United Meeting, Friends General Conference, their own needs, comfortable with silent Evangelical Friends International, and Con­ meditation, willing to give personal care, servative Friends. QLSP's successful first and who understand the work as part of their year included a long list of campus visitors own spiritual practice. A one-year commit­ Imagine a vacation so relaxing you feel like part of the scenery. and several field trips. Monthly meetings, ment of four hours of work weekly, with Experience a farm vacation : small group discussions, academic courses, monthly attendance at a support and supervi­ -Explore hundreds of acres of pristine and conference attendance further enhanced sion group, is required. One need not be a wilderness an experience that all participants claim has Quaker to apply. For more information, con­ -Participate in the activities of farm life irnrneasurably enriched their lives as Friends. tact the AIDS Working Group at (215) 241- -Experience animal life first hand As a new group enters the program, current 7238. (from PYM News) -Relax in a peaceful simple students will begin a year of emphasis on atmosphere spiritual formation. (from Friends Center A look back in history reveals that John -Enjoy beautiful scenery -Excellent Family Get Away Newsletter, Guilford College) Dalton, an eminent Quaker physicist, pub­ Mountain Dale Farm lished the first study of color blindness in (formerly the Water Co Farm) "A Quaker Ministry to Persons with 1794. Friend Dalton, who himselfhad color RR 02 , Box 985 AIDS" got underway with its first home deficient vision, began his work after he sup­ McClure, PA 17841 visits on July 1. The volunteer service was posedly startled his colleagues by wearing a 717-658-3536 developed by the AIDS Working Group of pair of bright red hose, which to him looked Open Year Round, G roups Welcome, Private Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to assist per- brown. Accommodations, Meals Available.

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• "A Weekend for Quaker Women" will take Near East Section will journey together in ment will be among the topics explored. The place Nov. 19-21 at Quaker Center, Ben England and Ireland, exploring their heritage concluding program, scheduled for Nov. 21, Lomond, Calif. Through the sharing of sto­ as they explore their future as Quakers in a from 8:30 to 10 p.m. (ET), will be a live call­ ries, both personal and spiritual, participants modem world. Adult leaders from Europe in special featuring a panel of experts repre­ will explore the question, "Is there some­ and North America will also accompany the senting a variety of faith traditions and pro­ thing unique that we share as Quaker group. The deadline for applications is Jan. fessional expertise. Congregations are in­ women?" Artistic exploration will be used 31, 1994. For more information about par­ vited to participate in the live program, and so individuals can know their own stories ticipating as a Pilgrim or as a leader, contact study guides and resource materials will be better. Personal learnings will then be shared Debi Chadwick, FWCC, 1506 Race St., available to facilitate discussion and follow­ in small and large group settings. Towards Philadelphia, PA 19102. up activities. Contact VISN Interfaith Satel­ the end of the weekend attenders will begin lite Network, 74 Trinity Pl., Suite 915, New to consider the questions, "How can we make • Individuals or groups who are actively de­ York, NY I 0006, telephone (212) 602-9670. our meetings safe and supportive for women? veloping ways to address conflict in Quaker Could regular gatherings of Quaker women groups are invited to share information about • Does thee wear traditional Friends' cloth­ transform our meetings and enrich our spiri­ their efforts. The Friends Conflict Resolu­ ing? Frank Kutka would like to know. Other tual journeys?" Cost for the weekend is $90. tion Programs Committee of Philadelphia questions he is asking include, "Does any­ An experimental child care program will also Yearly Meeting can help cross-fertilize and one have patterns and construction details? be available. For more information, contact enrich this work by serving as a clearing­ What materials are used? How are the broad Quaker Center, Box 686, Ben Lomond, CA house for these developments. Send a de­ hats made? What leads someone to wear 95005, telephone (408) 336-8333. scription of your progress to Lou Matlock, these clothes, and under what circumstances Matlock Mediation, 1665 David St., Camden, are they worn?" Ifyou can provide any infor­ • Applications are being accepted for 1994- NJ 08103, telephone (609) 541-5510, fax mation, contact Frank J. Kutka, 1451 CoRd 95 Gest Fellowships from Haverford Col­ (609) 541-8466. 6E, Barnum, MN 55707. lege. Three $1,200 fellowships are available for one month of research, using materials in • Proposals for papers on any aspect ofQuak­ the college's Quaker Collection, to study a erism are requested for the tenth biennial topic in the field of comparative religion. meeting of the Conference of Quaker Histo­ The fello~ships are available for pre- or post­ rians and Archivists. The meeting will be at graduate study, and may be used for any one­ Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., on month period between June I, 1994, and June 24-26, 1994. Please send one-page January 31, 1995. The deadline for applica­ abstracts of ideas for papers to Charles L. tions is Feb. I, 1994. Contact Emma Jones Cherry, Office of Academic Affairs, Lapsansky, curator, Quaker Collection, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085. Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041- The abstract deadline is December 31 , 1993. 1392. • "The Death Penalty in the Arts" is the 13th • Friends are encouraged to begin planning annual conference for the National Coalition for activities in 1994 to commemorate the to Abolish the Death Penalty to be held Nov. 350th anniversary of the birth of William 5-7, in Pittsburgh, Pa. Bringing together ac­ Penn. Penn's almost universal name recog­ tivists from around the country, the confer­ nition can provide Friends with a powerful ence aims to share up-to-date information, focal point around which to develop major strategies, victories, and energy for aboli­ outreach and education activities. By high­ tion. Panels and workshops include grassroots ~ lighting William Penn's ideals, work, vision, organizing skills, working with defense com- a and the spiritual basis of his actions, atten­ mittees, responding to consensual executions, 8 tion can be called to the enduring and sus­ and organizing in abolition states. Artists .5 taining beliefs, practices, and efforts of the will give talks about their incorporation ofan -?I Religious Society of Friends now and anti-death penalty message in their work. An J5 throughout history. The William Penn Project exhibit will also be displaying pieces by death < has organized the year's centerpiece event to row prisoners, plus topical works by local t take place on October 22, 1994, in Philadel­ artists. Cost for the conference is $55. For ~ phia, Pa. Contact the Quaker Information more information, contact National Coali- <;' Center at (215) 241-7024 to volunteer with a tion to Abolish the Death Penalty, 1325 G St. t= L------' project committee or to plan your own cel­ NW LL-B, Washington, DC 20005, tele­ ebration. phone (202) 347-2411, fax, (202) 347-2510. • Have you used the clearness process for decisions other than membership or mar­ • The next Quaker Youth Pilgrimage is set to • "Violence Against Women: Where is the riage? Peter Woodrow is rewriting the visit England and Ireland from July 13 to Faith Community?" will be the subject of a widely-used pamphlet on the clearness pro­ Aug. 10, 1994. The purpose of the Pilgrim­ week of upcoming television programs on cess to include guidelines for clearness with age is to bring together young Friends of VISN (Vision Interfaith Satellite Network). a spiritual tone, and Quaker resource materi­ various cultural, language, and theological Presented by the Women's Television als. It will also contain individual stories of traditions in efforts to promote loving under­ Project, award-winning documentaries and how people have applied clearness to their standing of our diversities. A total of 28 dramas will air Nov. 15-19, from 9to 10 p.m. decision-making. If you have such a story to young people, ages 16-18, from Friends (ET) on VISN/ACTS, the Faith and Values share, please send a briefdescription to Peter World Committee for Consultation's Sec­ Channel. Domestic violence, rape, clergy Woodrow, 22 Sacramento Street, Cambridge, tion of the Americas and the European and abuse/the abuse ofpower, and sexual harass- MA 02138.

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5-7-Friends Work Camp at the Penn Center, St. Helena Island, S.C. For further information, con­ tact Columbia (S.C.) Meeting, c/o Harry or Re­ becca Rogers, 1726 Chadsworth Dr., Cayce, SC 29033, telephone (803) 791-8441 , fax (803) 796- 9645. S-7-"Training for Nonviolence Trainers," a work­ shop led by George Lakey that allows participants to increase training skills, learn new techniques, and network with other trainers. This weekend's program will take place in Seattle, Wash., and is sponsored by New Society Trainers. For more information, contact Training Center Workshops, 4719 Springfield Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19143, telephone (215) 729-7458. 6--"Nonviolence in the Nineties" is the theme for the American Friends Service Committee's An­ nual Public Gathering, at the Friends Center, Phila­ delphia, Pa. The event will feature a keynote ad­ dress by Beyers Naude, plus group discussions on the struggles of indigenous peoples, the current situation in South Africa, and economic justice issues. For more information, contact AFSC, Pub­ lic Gathering, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497, telephone (215) 241-7000. 7-14-Guatemala Yearly Meeting, at Tabernaculo "Amigos," Chiquimula, Guatemala. Contact Salome Ramirez Miguel, Aptdo Postal 8, Chiquimula, Guatemala, telephone 42-01-49. 10-14-Training for volunteers who want to sup­ port and nurture people with AIDS and their fami­ lies, at the 4th and Arch Sts. meetinghouse, Phila­ delphia, Pa. Quaker Ministry to Persons with AIDS Pox World is a no-load, The Fund does not invest of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is offering the diversified, open-end, in weapons production, program. See this issue's "News of Friends" for balanced mutual fund nuclear power, South more information or contact Carolyn Schodt at designed for those who Africa, or the tobacco, (215) 241-7238 to register. wish to receive income alcohol, or gambling 12-14-Japan Yearly Meeting, Tokyo. Contact and to invest in life­ industries. Various types Japan Yearly Meeting, 8-19 Mita 4-Chome, supportive products and of accounts ore available: Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, telephone (03) 3451- services. Pox invests in Regular Accounts, I RAs, 7002. such industries as pollu­ Educational Accounts, 19-21-Jnquirers' Weekend, an introduction to tion control, health core, Custodial Accounts for Quakerism for attenders and new members, at food, clothing, housing, For a free prospectus and Minors, SEP·I RAs, Auto­ Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pa. Warren Whitte and education, energy, and other materials call toll.free: matic Investment Plans, Elaine Crauderueff will be leading the program. leisure activities. 1-800-767-1729 and 403!b) Pension Plans. Early registration is recommended and scholar­ Minimum investment is $250. Therefore, with Pox there ship assistance is available. Telephone Shirley This is not a solicitation in those Send no money. Past perfor· Dodson, (215) 24 1-7 182, or Peter Crysdale, (215) ore social as well as slates where th e securities have monee is no guarantee o f 566-4507, for more information. economic dividends. not been qualified. futu re results. 19-21-"Training for Nonviolence Trainers," in Philadelphia, Pa. See Nov. 5-7 in this issue's "Cal­ A SOCIAL RE~PONSIBILITY FUND endar" for more information. Avcraqe Annual Rate of Return Ten-Year Total Return For Pt•nod EndtrHJ 6/30/93 DECEMBER 1 Veer: 2.66% 3-5-Prayer Retreat, a program for beginners and 5 Veers: 11.36% those who are midway on their journey, at Pendle 10 Veers: 11.22% Hill, Wallingford, Pa. William Tabor will be lead­ 15 Veers: 12.15% ing the program. For more information, telephone Pendle Hill at (800) 742-3150. 11-18--Central and Southern Afiica Yearly Meet­ ing, South Africa. Contact Anita Kromberg and Richard Steele, Box I 5045, Bellair, Durban, 4006, South Africa, telephone 031-301 663.

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Claiming Our Past: Quakers for WYM's future. The first six assume con­ who undertook to read a Quaker pamphlet tinuation of pastoral meetings. The seventh after the sermon. A tumult ensued and the in Southwest Ohio and alternative raises the possibility that a change young man soon found himself in Winches­ from pastoral to non-pastoral meetings may ter gaol, the first of nine imprisonments to­ Eastern Tennessee solve the dilemma WYM faces in its second talling nearly six of his 70 years. Quakers By D. Neil Snarr and Associates. Gaskins century. suffered during the dictatorship of Oliver Printing Co., Sabina, Ohio, 1992. 107 Nelson & Marian Darnell Fuson Cromwell for their doctrine ofthe Inner Light, pages. $9/paperback, plus $3 shipping which seemed blasphemous to other Protes­ from Wilmington Yearly Meeting, Pyle The Fusons are members ofNashville (Tenn.) tants. Their worst suffering, however, was Center Box 1194, Wilmington, OH 45177. Meeting and the Southern Appalachian during Charles II's reign, when parliamen­ Neil Snarr's preface to Claiming Our Past Yearly Meeting and Association. tary legislation forbade religious gatherings appropriately begins with a quotation from other than those of the Anglican Church. Rufus Jones written 92 years ago: Quakers nevertheless managed "No religious people can safely to meet for worship. In 1670, neglect its history. When it gets George Fox attended Baughurst so that it does not care about its Meeting. It was held in an attic past, and is unconcerned about which officials failed to search. what its apostles lived for, and Fox preached, and later wrote its martyrs died for, it is fast that it had been "a precious, approaching the end of its ca­ fresh meeting." reer." This admittedly sketchy The most persistent suffer­ history of Wilmington Yearly ing of Friends was taking of Meeting (WYM), written on the their property when they re­ occasion of its Centennial Cel­ fused to pay tithes to support a ebration in 1992, should stimu­ "hireling priest." These takings late many younger yearly meet­ continued sporadically in ings to gather records to docu­ Baughurst until 1759. James ment their history for their cen­ Potter thus lost goods worth tennials in the future. _ more than £175. The Hamp­ Nineteenth century Quaker ~ shire Quarterly Meeting re­ migrations to southwest Ohio l:i ceived payments from constitu­ and eastern Tennessee are sum­ ~ ent meetings to a "stock" to marized, and then high-lighted · ~ ~epay Friends for these suffer­ by vignettes about some of the · ~ mgs. early Quaker pioneers, both men 0 James Potter went twice and women, who started the g with other Friends on preach­ meetings that came together to ~ ing journeys. His sister Anne become WYM. We found par­ ~ accompanied him on one, and ticularly interesting the discus­ -:. her health suffered severely sion of the important impact ~ from the imprisonment which Quakers had on educational op­ ~ followed. But Potter's princi­ portunities in east Tennessee for ~ pal service to Quakerism was whites, as well as for blacks freed ~ to Baughurst Meeting, Alton from slavery during the Civil ~ Monthly Meeting, and Hamp­ War. (The appendix lists 15 '0' shire Quarterly Meeting. For schools for whites and 23 schools Q them, he performed such need­ for blacks established in the mid- ~ ful duties as collecting funds 1880s by WYM Quakers in east for sufferings. In 1687 he was Tennessee alone. These schools flourished made clerk for life of the quarterly meeting. long before public schools started and even­ James Potter, Quaker: A He never wrote an account ofhis life, and his tually replaced them.) Record of Dissent in the letters are lost, but meeting records mention Titles of other chapters-"Missions and him frequently, as do court records. These Missionaries," "Quaker Dress Through the 17th and 18th Centuries are the principal sources for Smallbone's Ages," "Responses to the Military," "The By Ken Smallbone. Sessions Book Trust, book. Emergence of the Paid Ministry Among York, England, 1992. 260 pages. $161 After Potter's death in 1703, Baughurst Quakers," and "Concerns for Minorities"­ laminated hardcover. Available from Meeting rapidly declined. Many Baughurst will give the prospective reader some idea of Pendle Hill Bookstore, 338 Plush Mill Rd., Friends became prosperous and consequently the topics included. Since chapters were writ­ Wallingford, PA 19086, with $2/shipping worldly. After the Toleration Act of 1689, ten by different authors, styles vary, and in­ and handling. Quaker meetings could be held openly in evitably some repetition creeps in. The author is a genealogist and historical towns and flourished there, attracting rural We found the concluding chapter, "Look­ researcher. The book is a microcosm ofearly Friends. Thus Basingstoke Meeting grew at ing to the Future," provocative. After docu­ Quaker history, being principally about the the expense ofBaughurst. Methodists estab­ menting the dwindling of WYM member­ rural village ofBaughurst in northern Hamp­ lished a chapel in Baughurst. It attracted ship from about 6,000 in the early years of shire. Quakers were in this village by 1655. poorer people, while the prosperous, includ­ the 20th century to less than 3,000 in the In 1657, the Calvinist pastor in Baughurst ing descendants of James and his brother 1990s, the author suggests seven alternatives was challenged by 24-year-old James Potter Richard, became Anglicans. The last men-

38 November 1993 FRIENDS JouRNAL Special Sectio11 tion ofBaughurst Meeting in Friends' records pieces from documents Fell wrote concern­ searched out: was that in 1767 it failed to contribute to the ing herself. 1905-To The Rev. Alfred Boegner, Di­ sufferings fund. Ironically, the meeting's The Spirit is an essential element of rector, Paris Missionary Society. "I am writ­ greatest activity was during its bitterest per­ Quaker faith and practice. Margaret Fell's ing you today to inquire whether you might secution; when this ceased, the meeting be­ writing is clear on the role of the Spirit. Not need someone for [missionary work in) the gan to dwindle. only did she understand the theology, but she Congo .... I am 30 years old. I am in very Much of the material in this book is un­ was also intimate with both the teachings of good health, I have never been sick. I am a documented, and the author admits that he the Bible and with direct experience of the teetotaler .... " wanted his people to come alive. However, Spirit in her life. 'In her time and in ours, 1908-To his parents in Giinsbach. "I in the latter chapters he reverts to antiquari­ many claims have been made about religion. have just been asked to participate in the gala anism when he meticulously records the tran­ Her preaching about how to discern truth is concert that will be given on Monday evening sition of land titles and data on Potter de­ as useful to us today as it was to her 17th [in Barcelona) in honor of the King and scendants, including himself. century audience. Her words from 1666: "So Queen .. .. I am to play a Handel concerto Those interested in details ofearly Quaker let all mouths be stopped that would limit for organ .... I am the only soloist in this life and sufferings will find this book very Him, whose power and spirit are infinite, concert." much worth reading. who is pouring it upon all flesh." 1913- To the Paris Missionary Society. Ralph H. Pickett The only drawback to the book is that, "The two months l have spent by the river [at when finished, one is still eager to read more. Lambarene) in the midst ofour dear mission­ Ralph Pickett, a retired history professor, is aries have been enough for me to make a a member ofProvidence (Pa.) Meeting. Jane Snyder final decision: I will continue to serve the work as long as God grants me life and Jane Snyder is an isolated Friend livingfour health .. . ." hours' drive away from Multnomah (Oreg.) 1915-To Romain Rolland. "I must tell A Sincere and Constant Meeting, of which she is a member. She you how greatly I admire you for your cour­ teaches remedial reading and lives with her age in fighting against the vulgarity to which Love husband and three daughters. the minds of the fanaticized masses have By Terry S. Wallace. Friends United Press, sunk in our time .... Richmond, Ind. 1992. 142 pages. $10.951 1926-To C. F. Andrews. "I send my paperback. profound respects to Mahatma Gandhi. I am For a working mother, time to read is a Albert Schweitzer Letters deeply moved by everything he undertakes treasure. I have read Margaret Fell pam­ and by the thoughts he imparts to others. I phlets before, and was especially eager to 1905-1965 would very much like to make his acquain­ read A Sincere and Constant Love. One way Ed. by Hans Walter Biihr. Macmillan, New tance. Will it ever be possible for me to see I fit in reading time is to read when my jun­ York, N.Y., 1992. 420pages. $35/ him and also the poet Rabindranath ior high students are reading in class. They hardcover. Tagore ...." are mostly boys and read magazines such as More than a quarter century after the death 1946-To Hermann Hesse. "I feel a bond Dirt Bike and Car and Driver. Some have of Albert Schweitzer in 1965, this jungle with you in the ideal ofhumanity. Both of us not outgrown the urge to make engine noises physician and world ethicist continues to remained loyal to this ideal in an age when it as they read. The day I first brought my new fascinate new generations of world citizens. lost prestige . ..." book, Bubba saw the title and assured me, Some of Schweitzer's earlier books remain 195 1- To Prime Minister Jawaharlal "My mom likes them romances, too." in print and new ones continue to be pub­ Nehru. "I have not forgotten the hours you The restlessness and motor noises faded li shed on several continents. Albert spent with us in Lausanne .... I do not be­ away as I was drawn Into Terry Wallace's Schweitzer awards and schools proliferate. lieve, dear Mr. Nehru, that we will ever meet book, drawn into the vitality of Margaret For those who have never read anything again, but we think about each other and we Fell's words. by Schweitzer, the best still remains his au­ understand each other, for we each have to Terry Wallace selected eight examples of tobiography, Out of My Life and Thought, carry out a task that absorbs us and that Margaret Fell's writings, edited them, and even though it was completed in 1931-and constitutes our destiny." introduced them. As he stated, "It is not omits more than three decades of vigorous 1953- To Dr. Felix Meiner, publisher. uncommon to have a sentence run on through thinking and acting. Recently a new English "An old pastor stopped me on the street in more than half a dozen sentence structures translation has been made by Antje Bultmann Strasbourg and took me to task: 'What's this before the reader's tenuous and exhausted Lemke, with Henry Holt remaining the U.S. I hear, Albert! You're already writing about comprehension stumbles upon the oasis ofa publisher ($24.95 hardcover). your life? That's a sign of arrogance. A per­ period." His editing provides needed peri­ Of the new volumes on the Schweitzer son should do something like that only when ods, modern typeface, and readable Bible bookshelf, one of the most fascinating is he's past 70 .. .. Don't be offended... .'" translation. Albert Schweitzer-Helene Bresslau: The 1955- To Albert Einstein. "We are men­ The pieces selected for this book are rep­ Years Before Lambarene. Letters 1902-1912. tally in touch even without corresponding, resentative of Fell in her various roles as the However, this volume of his letters to his for we both feel the horror of our dreadful nurturing mother of Quakerism, a lobbyist future wife is still being translated from Ger­ time and are mutually afraid for the future of for freedom of religion, a prophet, an ex­ man into English. mankind .... It is strange how often our two horter, a theologian, and sometimes a blunt The Schweitzer archives in Giinsbach, names are mentioned together publicly. I critic. Wallace included, A True Testimony France, contain thousands of his letters, and find it lovely that we have the identical first From the People of God (1660), We Are a answers, Albert Schweitzer Letters 1905-1965 name ...." People of God Called Quakers (1660), contains no answers, but an admittedly sub­ 1955- To Frau Kitja Mann [Mrs. Tho­ Women's Speaking Justified, Proved and Al­ jective selection ofhis letters, edited by Hans mas). "I can never forget those early days of lowed by the Scriptures ( 1666), Some Ranters Walter Bahr, a German professor and friend. the Hitler period when 1 was in Lambarene, Principles Answered (1656), and shorter There are nuggets here, but they must be wondering what was to become of our civili-

FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1993 39 Books! zation, and I came across an article by him give you advice for your health." some pieces of the 17th century Quaker vi­ [Thomas Mann] about what truly constitutes sion, and added other pieces from outside Homer A. Jack civilization. I was deeply impressed because Friends' tradition. It may help us see our own he entered the area and clearly and coura­ mix to look at someone else's. Malone had a geously expressed what our time needed . . .." Homer A. Jack was a friend of Albert strong sense of the spiritual gifts of women, 1958-To Pablo Casals. "I want to write Schweitzer from 1952 to 1965 and edited and provided equal opportunities for them as you a note to tell you how impressed I am by two books about him, including Albert students, ministers, teachers, and adminis­ your plan to play in the U.N. [General] As­ Schweitzer on Nuclear War and Peace (1 988, trators. However, the role of his wife does sembly on October 24, to give a speech at­ $11.95). Until his death August 5, he was an not cotne through very clearly in his autobi­ tacking the nuclear arms race, and on that attender at Swarthmore (Pa.) Friends Meet­ ography. She is often referred to as "wife" or day to ask orchestras throughout the world to ing. as "Mrs. Malone." Only one reference to her perform the "Hymn to Joy" with the chorus as "General" hints at her leading role as chief from Beethoven's Ninth. You are right to administrator of the college. There are refer­ move the fight against [atomic] weapons to J. Walter Malone: The ences to Malone's use ofplain language, and an artistic level. .. ." Autobiography of an of his female students wearing plain dress 1962-To Bertrand Russell. "You have and bonnets. He did not wear the lapelless brought the anti-nuclear struggle in England Evangelical Quaker coat of Friends ministers, but led the service further than it has advanced in any other Edited by John W. Oliver, introduction by in a Prince Albert coat and white tie. He was country ...." Arthur 0. Roberts. University Press of a staunch pacifist and teetotaler. . 1963- To Herr Elster. "Sometimes I'm America, Lanham, Md., 1993. 122 pages. Malone's theology and lifestyle are what embarrassed at being able to do such beauti­ $47.50/hardcover, $27.50/paperback. interest us as Friends. His mission was to the ful work ["Keeping the hospital properly J. Walter Malone (1857-1935) was a "pro­ poor, alcoholic, and destitute of Cleveland. afloat"] and having such a beautiful old age. gressive evangelical" Quaker with whom Immigrants were welcomed into member­ April 18 will be the fiftieth anniversary of readers of FRIENDS JouRNAL are probably not ship. He and his students roamed the streets, my life under equatorial palms." very familiar. He is credited with bridging made house calls, and exhorted bums and 1963- To Dr. Robert Weiss, Strasbourg the gulf usually found between "personal derelicts. He would put his arm around a pharmacist. "My strategy consists of never holiness" and "social righteousness," a syn­ suffering sinner, praying and offering words responding to any attack ofany kind whatso­ thesis that the evangelical Friends church did until the individual could pray for forgive­ ever. . . ." not maintain after the First World War. ness and salvation. He offered the poor sal­ 1963- To President John F. Kennedy and Malone's mother was a strong-willed Or­ vation and compassionate band aids; he was Secretary General Nikita Khrushehev. " I am thodox Friends minister in rural Ohio who not challenging the system. Although Rob­ writing to congratulate you and to thank you spoke regularly with her Lord. Malone, too, erts speaks ofa premillenialist element, I did for having the vision and courage to initiate a pleaded, argued, and asked for specific in­ not detect in the autobiography a sense of policy of world peace.... The East-West pact struction from "the King," which he then God's realm breaking into Cleveland. He that bans nuclear testing in the atmosphere followed with complete faith. He moved to seemed to see his mission as one of reaching and under water is one of the greatest events Cleveland, Ohio, and was encouraged to out to sinners (defined as alcoholics, misfits, in world history ... ." leave the Congregational church for a mori­ and those who had not yet been saved) rather 1965--:-To Max Tau, Oslo. "I am sound bund little Orthodox meeting, which he com­ than to the oppressed and afflicted .. and fit. At 90 I can still do my work at the pletely revitalized with a series of revival Malone's focus was on the Bible as the hospital. This means a lot to me. I am still preachers and Bible classes for neighbor­ Word ofGo d. George Fox's first prison term fi ghting against atomic bombs. Now that hood youth. He engaged in a successful stone was for disputing this. Fox insisted the Word China has atomic bombs, no one knows what business (the red sandstone of the Philadel­ was Christ, not a book; the final authority is to come next. . . ." phia Museum of Natural Sciences is from was the Spirit which gave forth the Scrip­ If Professor Biihr has brought us, in this one of his quarries). But like earlier Friends tures, not the Scriptures themselves. Malone's volume, almost more than all but the closest ministers, his business was for the purpose method of praying perhaps could be described followers ofSchweitzer can easily digest, he ofs upporting his ministry, which he described as badgering God. His mother had told God also omitted equally significant comments, as winning souls for Christ and training young what kind of a house she needed, and God including many letters to Norman Cousins. workers to do the same. He and his wife, provided it. Malone insisted on getting spe­ He also omitted, perhaps intentionally, one Emma Brown, began the Cleveland Bible cific information from God- what bid to put hilarious letter Schweitzer sent in 1957 to Institute to train students in the "Word of in for a contract, how much money to pay a President Dwight D. Eisenhower: "I was cha­ God" and to do pastoral work. Arthur 0. minister, or how to cure an ill child, for grined to see a photograph of you in the Roberts's introduction places their institute example-and then obeying completely. newspapers where you were seated in an in the context of other Bible colleges of the Friends have much to learn from Malone's automobile with a bad cold, gripping your late 19th and early 20th centuries, which explicit faith, his assurance that God would handkerchief in your hand. Permit this an­ eventually became liberal arts colleges. Theirs provide the specific guidance he needed, his cient doctor to send you through Norman became Malone College in Canton, Ohio. enthusiastic message reaching across class, Cousins a simple remedy which can keep Editor John Oliver has done a great deal race, and ethnic lines to all in need of salva­ you from colds, if you take it in time. It's a of background research and provides volu­ tion, his pacifism, and his support for women powder of lactic acid, thus inoffensive, to minous footnotes and endnotes on nearly in ministry. Where he differed from earlier take the same way one takes tobacco. As every person or place mentioned by Malone. Friends challenges us to listen to what God is soon as you sneeze or feel that your nose is I am sorry that Oliver has not told us more, teaching us today. beginning to drip or clog up you must take particularly of the parts Malone omits. But Marty Grundy pinches of this powder in the two nostrils, he leaves Malone's narrative to speak for each half hour at least a dozen times and itself. Marty Grundy iks a member of Cleveland even more often than that. ... Please excuse What does it say to Friends today? Like (Ohio) Meeting and serves as clerkfor Lake me, Mr. President, for being so bold as to every other Friend of his time, Malone had Erie Yearly Meeting.

40 November 1993 FRIENDS JouRNAL 5jJecial Sect iou FRIENDS JoURNAL is a forum for discussing today's concerns: global peace, human rights, Roget's Thesaurus environmental awareness, Friends education, of the Bible social injustice, and current political events. A. Colin Day. Harper Collins Publishers, You can receive 3 issues of FRIENDS j ouRNAL New York, N.Y., 1992. 927 pages. $301 absolutely free through this introductory offer. hardcover. Just use the coupon below. If you enjoy the Most of us became fully literate through magazine, we'll invite you to subscribe. the help of Rogel's Thesaurus of English Words & Phrases. Now the same inspired format is offered to bring the meanings, varia­ Yes, please send me 3 free issues tions, overlaps, and distinctions in the Bible of FRIENDS JouRNAL. into organized form. References, compari­ sons, and expansions are more readily and NAME more richly available than in a standard con­ cordance. One need not leaf through all the ADDRESS appearances of a single word (i.e. death) in 1501 Cherry Street all of its variations (die, dying, kill, killing, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 etc.) to locate the verses that deal with a (215) 241-7115 particular aspect of death ("death of ani­ Faoc(215)~1377 CITY /SfATE/ZIP Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery. mals," "death ofbelievers," "death penalty," "second death," among others given). Also, because one searches from a word as con­ cept, the differing vocabularies of today's multiple translations are no barrier. References can also be approached from the verse that arouses a question. Reading "I am the bread of life," for instance, one can look up John 6:48 in the separate Bible index and be guided to other "I am" passages and other "Jesus as food" passages. In the thesaurus listings, verses are quoted far more generously than in any concordance, making it easy to avoid unnecessary look­ ups. The print is also normal size. The search process thus becomes easier, quicker, and more complete than through the usual con­ cordance. Churches, meetings, and schools will, of course, want this volume in their libraries. But individual Bible readers will also find it well worth the modest investment.

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In Brief Reservations for display ads in FRIENDS JoURNAL are required. This Dancing Ground of Sky Issue: January. Reservations must be made by November I. By Peggy Pound Church. Red Crane Books, Di~ay Ads must be received by Nov. 8. Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1993. 184 pages. $12.95/ Issue: February. Reservations must be made by December 6. paperback. This selection of mostly unpub­ Ads must be received by December 13. lished poetry represents some of the final DEADLINES Ad rate is $28 per column inch. works of the late Peggy Pound Church. Call (215) 241-7279 now for your reservation. Church, who passed away in 1986, was an

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active Quaker in Santa Fe, N.Mex., and a STTOWN well known literary figure in the Southwest. In 1943, she and her family were forced from SCHOOL their home in Los Alamos, N.Mex., by the Westtown, Pennsylvania- Founded In 1799 U.S. government and the infamous Manhat­ tan Project. Coming to terms with this expe­ rience affected much of Church's writing, and this book's release coincides with the Westtown is a Quaker school of 600 students in Pre-K through 50th anniversary of the effort to develop a 12th grade, co-educational, college preparatory, day and boarding nuclear bomb. Three thematic sections group the book's 100 poems. The first deals with the poet's relationships, both with herself • Excellent academic programs and others. The second addresses her social • Individual attention within a caring community concerns, including poems about being a woman, as well as her experiences at Los • Before and after school day care programs Alamos. The final section deals with her relationship to the natural world, where she • Performing and fine arts found strength and renewal. The book also includes an introduction by Shelley Armitage • 600-acre campus with lakes and woods that traces Church's development as a writer • Outstanding facilities (science center, arts center and places her in the literary context of her time and region. fieldhouse, 25-meter indoor pool)

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P.O. Box 457, Friends Drive • Woodstown, NJ 08098 • (609) 769-1500 Going Home, Building Peace in El Salvador: The Story of Repatriation Edited by Vic Compher and Betsy Morgan, photography edited by Laura Jackson. Apex Press, New York, N. Y., 1991. 146 pages. WilliAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 $1 7. 50/paperback. This book documents the Kindergarten through struggle of thousands ofrefu gees to return to 303 Years of Quaker Education Twelfth Grade their native lands in El Salvador. The story Operated under Charter issued by William Penn. The William Penn Charter unfolds through first person accounts by refu­ School is a Quaker college-preparatory school committed to nurturing in girls gees and North American visitors, and is and boys the education of the mind, the quickening of the spirit, and the accompanied by over 80 strikingly vivid pho­ development of the body. Penn Charter stresses high standards in academics , tographs. Forced to flee from death squads the arts, and athletics. and civil war, these rural peasants spent ten years in the confines of underserviced refu­ Friends are encouraged to apply both as students and as teachers. gee camps in neighboring Honduras. Deter­ Earl J. Ball Ill, Headmaster mined to one day return to their homeland, 3000 W. School House lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 they learned the skills ofse lf-sufficiency and (215) 844-3460 organized their communities on the basis of cooperation and participatory self-govern-

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F RIENDS JouRNAL November 1993 43 Milestones _,~-· HAVERFORD ~ • married Gertrude Tow. They made their home on Births-Adoptions 851 Budc Lane Pre-Sdtool-Grade VI the farm that had belonged to Gertrude's grand­ Haverford, PA Coeducational Askonas--Ellen Rose Jones Askonas, on June 27, parents and became a vital part of the small rural (215}642-0054 Extended Day to Carla Askonas and Chuck Jones. The parents are members of Chattanooga (Tenn.) Meeting. Friends community there, raising four children. Now accepting applications In 1943, the couple retired from farming and Balber-Hannah Rainier Balber, on May 5, to moved to Eugene, Oreg. Elden's experience with Susan Rachel Balber and Artie Bloom, ofSummit hard work and business acumen made him a valu­ Friends School is devoted exclusively to (N.J.) Meeting. able asset, whether it was providing encourage­ elementary education with an emP1$is on Bostrom-Andrew Micah Johnson Bostrom, on ment for the conscientious objectors in nearby academic excellence and aker values Aug. 28, to Marilyn Johnson and David Bostrom, Civilian Public Service Camps during World War of Minneapolis (Minn.) Meeting. II, working on the American Friends Service Com­ Bradley-Tia Rebecca and Lia Elizabeth, daugh­ mittee's Executive Board, or helping Eugene ters of Joan Mcilvain Bradley, adopted on June (Oreg.) Meeting with acquiring and maintaining 15, by John A. Bradley. Joan, Tia, and Lia are the property on which the meetinghouse was built. Elden spoke very little, but when he did, Friends STAPELEY members of London Grove (Pa.) Meeting and IN GERMANTOWN John is a member of Penn Hill (Pa.) Meeting. listened because what he had to say was usually O both wise and important. Since 1971, he had lived Campbeli-Unsoeld----Sierra Jolene Campbe/1- at Friends View Manor in Newberg, Oreg., where Unsoe/d, on June I, to Susan Campbell and Regon • Quality care in the Quaker tradition. he was able to continue his interest in gardening, Unsoeld, of Olympia (Wash.) Meeting. as well as to enjoy the friendship of other resi­ • 42 apartments for independent liv­ Day-Gennett-Erin Alexis Day-Gennett, on July 24, dents. Elden is survived by a son, Horace; three to Judith Gennett and Richard Day. Judith is a ing, 60 private personal care rooms. daughters, Emily Lewis, Barbara Thygesen, and member of Live Oak (Tex.) Meeting and attends 120 nursing home beds. Norma Autenrieth; 15 grandchildren; and 12 great­ Bryan/College Station (Pa.) Worship Group. grandchildren. • Peace of mind. Supportive medical Fischer-Jonathan Casey Fischer, on May 27, to Llewellyn- Philip Hall Llewellyn, 41, on Aug. and social services throughout your Amy and Lawrence Fischer, of New Brunswick 12, in Wyncote, Pa., of cancer. He grew up as a (N.J.) Meeting. stay. member of Cheltenham (Pa.) Meeting, attended Golub-Celeste Raven Golub, on May II, was Westtown School, and graduated from Temple • An active lifestyle in a beautiful, adopted a few days later by Kit Raven and Steve University. He held a variety of jobs but was an graceful setting. Golub, of Swarthmore (Pa.) Meeting. especially sensitive drug and alcohol counselor. Haber-sarah Machiko Haber, on June 22, to Phil loved to travel and drove across the .U.S. a number of times. He had a great appreciation for • Meals, housekeeping, transporta­ Nancy Moriuchi and Mark Haber, of Moorestown the natural beauties of the world and our respon­ tion, cultural and social activities. (N.J.) Meeting. sibility for maintaining them. A deeply spiritual Shipley-Rachel Marie Urban Shipley, on June person, his life reflected a commitment to relig­ • A history of caring since 1904. 23, to Ruth and Dave Urban Shipley, of Madison ion, the human condition, and care for each per­ (Wis.) Meeting. son whose life touched his. He is survived by his parents, Robert H. and Jane F. Llewellyn; three Stapeley In Germantown Marriages brothers, Ernest Foss III, Mark H. Llewellyn, and 6300 Greene Street Edwards-Brown-Bob Brown and Margaret Robert I. Llewellyn; two nieces; and a nephew. Philadelphia, PA 19144 Edwards, on Feb. 13, under the care of Claremont Niles-Mary-Cushing Niles, 93, on Aug. 27, of (Calif.) Meeting, of which Margaret is a member. congestive heart failure, peacefully in her sleep. Call Carol Nemeroff Kriesel-Houtman-Joe/ Houtman and Theresa Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she was raised there and Admissions Director Kriesel, on June 27, under the care of Claremont in Baltimore, Md. She was a graduate of the Bryn (2 15) 844-0700 (Calif.) Meeting, of which Theresa is a member. Mawr School and of Johns Hopkins University, Meyer-Drake--Andrew R. Drake and Barbara and she did additional graduate study in econom­ M. Meyer, on Feb. 27. Andrew is a member of ics at Columbia University. Mary-Cushing mar­ Montclair (N.J.) Meeting. ried Henry E. Niles in 1923, and they raised two :··············· ····· ········~ children. Her career in management included pio­ Pinney-Herrigei-David Herrigel and Eva neering the field of human relations. She worked Pinney, on June 12, under the care of Montclair as an editor from 1925 to 1928, and as a partner Repair Your (N.J.) Meeting, of which Eva is a member. with her husband in management consulting from Stevenson-Hudson-Wayne Hudson and Amanda 1931 to 1939. From 1941 to 1957, she worked on · Birkenstocks Stevenson, on Aug. 8, at Crosswicks (N.J.) Meet­ organization and management issues for the ing, under the care of that meeting, of which United States Civil Service Commission, the Fed­ Don't throw away your Amanda is a member. eral Personnel Council as assistant to the chair­ Birkenstocks. We have Terreii-Richie- Robert Richie and Cynthia man, for 18 months in the Truman White House, the knowledge and Terrell, on June 19, at, and under the care of, and for the government of India to establish a national management institute. She authored sev­ experience to Germantown (Pa.) Meeting, of which Cynthia is a member. eral books and numerous papers on management, make them and she lectured around the world. She was a Williams-Mugford-8tephen Andrew Mugford four-time delegate to the International Manage­ good as and Kristin Kiely Williams, on May 30, under the ment Congress and taught at American Univer­ new. care of Plymouth (Pa.) Meeting, of which Kristin sity from 1947 to 1953. Mary-Cushing was a is a member. founding trustee of Friends World College and BENJAMIN LOVELL SHOES .. served as a member of its board from 1965 to J 18 South Street Deaths 1992. She actively worked to assist the college, Philadelphia, PA 19147 i= Autenrieth-Eiden Autenrieth, on May 20, in his organizing its centers in India and Japan. She was (21 5) 238-1969 j: IOOth year, in Newberg, Oreg. Elden was born in a member ofthe General Committee ofthe Friends We sell them, tool i: Big Spring, Mo., and spent his childhood and Committee on National Legislation and chaired • ••~.~.~.~.~.:-::.:-::.-:-.-:-.-:-. -=-. -:- . -:-.:-•• :-.:- .:-.:-.:-.:-.-.-.-.-• ...~• • -o:· early adult life in that state as well. After World its Policy Committee from 1958 to 1974. As a War I, Elden migrated to Iowa, where he met and member of Stony Run (Md.) Meeting, she served

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ber of Germantown (Pa.) Meeting. While in Phila­ For Information call (215) 241-7279. 55¢ per word. Minimum charge is $11 . delphia, he was a member of the Executive Com­ Add 10% if boxed. 10% discount for three mittee of Friends Council on Education, the Cor­ consecutive insertions, 25% for six. poration of Haverford College, and of the Corpo­ Appearance of any advertisement does not ration of Friends Hospital. He is survived by his imply endorsement by Friends Journal. wife, Carol B. Purdy; three sons, Marshall B., Philip R., and Jeffrey E.; a daughter, Sarah; six Classified Ad Deadlines: January issue: November 8 grandchildren; a sister, Lyn Jones; and a brother, February issue: December 13 Donald A. Purdy. Toothaker-James Joseph Toothaker, 8 I, on Submit your ad to: Advertising Manager, Friends Journal March 6, in S. Dartmouth, Mass. James received 1501 Cherry Street his call to Quaker leadership in mid-life while a Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 member of Lynn (Mass.) Meeting. He served Fax: (215) 568-13n Lawrence (Kans.) Meeting part-time from 1956 to 1960 and Kernersville (N.C.) Meeting part­ time from 1960 to 1962, before graduating from Guilford College in 1963. He continued his reli­ Acconvnodations gious education with graduate study at Brown A homely base in the heart of London? Short-, University. Subsequently, he served pastorates at medium-, and long-term accommodation available Aliens Neck, Mass.; Sugar Plain, Thorntown, Ind.; with excellent whole-food meals. Also meeting rooms Oxford St. Friends, Worcester, Mass.; and for workshops, lectures, and conferences. Contact: Quaker International Centre, 1 Byng Place, London Mattapoisett (Mass.) Meeting. He hoped to nur­ WC1 E 7 JH · Tel: 071-387 5648. as clerk for its Overseers, Ministry and Counsel, ture each meeting to find its own ministry. James Big Island Friends invite you Into their homes for and Social Order Committees. She was also a felt that his most fulfilling position was Religious mutual Quaker sharing. Donations. HC1 , Box 21-0, long-time member ofthe Group for Creative Medi­ Education field secretary and interim general field Captain Cook, HI 96704; (808) 328-8711 , 325-7323, tation in Ojai, Calif. Her life-long interest in inter­ secretary for the New York Yearly Meeting, from or 322-3116. national affairs was expressed through extensive 1968 to 1978. Jim was well known as a lover of The Berkshires, Massachusetts. Baldwin Hill Farm travel and participation in various organizations. driftwood and rocks; of winds, woods, and seas; Bed & Breakfast, Box 125, RD3, Great Barrington, of conversing with children, teens, adults of all MA 01230. (413) 528-4092. Friend's victorian farm She was a founder and secretary of the Connecti­ homestead of 450 acres on Berkshire mountaintop. cut Council for International Visitors, president ages, as well as with ants, flowers, trees, and Panoramic views with warm hospitality and country of the United Nations Association of Maryland, rabbits. His curiosity and wonder at divine earthly breakfasts. Close to golf, skiing, concerts, drama, active with Church Women United, and speaker, expression freshly beamed from Jim. His poems, museums, shops, trails, and restaurants. Open ail board member, and organizer of World Commu­ stories, and conversations are reflections of his year. Pool. hiking, maps, and menus. nity Day. Her concern for civil rights led her to early loves and unique perceptions. Jim is sur­ Cambridge, England, B&B. Historic Old Rectory. vived by his wife of 56 years, Vernah; their chil­ Ensuite rooms. Peaceful surroundings. Log fires. help organize and chair the Public Accommoda­ Easy access. Also self-catering, short and long lets. tions Committee for Maryland, and to serve as a dren, S.Allen, Joyce, and Jeffrey; and two grand­ (44) 223-861507. Fax: (44) 223-441 276. children. member of the Morgan University Committee for Hawaii-island of Kauai. Cozy housekeeping cot­ African Students. In the 1970s, Mary-Cushing Westwick-Onvin B. Westwick, 78, of cancer, in tages. Peace, palms, privacy. $60-$80/nightly. 147 and her husband donated approximately 800 acres New Hampshire. Born in Great Falls, Mont., he Royal Drive, Kapaa, HI 96746. (808) 822-2321 . in West Virginia to establish the Rolling Ridge grew up in Easton, Wash. During World War 11 he Ithaca, N.Y. Friends Center of Ithaca Monthly Meet­ Foundation, which now includes the site of Friends was a conscientious objector and spent three and ing, 227 North Willard Way. Sojourn by day, week, or month (kitchen available). (607) 273-5421. Wilderness Meditation Center. Since 1981, she a half years in forestry Civilian Public Service and her husband lived at the Broadmead Life Care NYC-Greenwich Village Accommodation. Walk camps in California. In 1951 , he graduated from to 15th Street Meeting. One-four people; children Community in Cockeysville, Md. She is survived the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, in physics. welcome. (Two cats in house.) Reservations: (212) by her husband, Henry E. Niles; two daughters, Thereafter he worked for the Donner Medical 924-6520. Cushing N. Do1beare and Alice Lynd; five grand­ Research Labratory and the Cory Hall Electrical NYC midtown B&B bargain! Charming, one-bed­ children; and nine great-grandchildren. Engineering Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. In room apartments of your own in historical, Eastside Purdy- Thomas Ellison Purdy, 7 I, on March 19, 1946, he married Jennivieve Tootell and they had neighborhood. $70-$125 double, plus $15 per addi­ tional guest. From simple to sublime. (212) 228-4645. of pneumonia, following a 20-year struggle with two daughters. Orwin was a member of Berkeley (Calif.) Meeting. In 1968, the Westwicks moved Looking for a creative living alternative in New multiple sclerosis. Bom in Richmond, Ind., he York City? Penington Friends House may be the grew up in Hartford, Conn. Tom graduated from to Fairbanks, Alaska, and built a log home. Orwin place for youl We are looking for people of a ll ages Guilford College, the Hartford Theological Semi­ worked for the Geophysical Institute at the Uni­ who want to make a seri ous commitment to a com­ nary, and the Bread Loaf School of English in versity of Alaska, Fairbanks, where he was with munity lifestyle based on Quaker principles. For Middlebury, Vt. After teaching for three years at the seismology group. In 1976, he became an information call (212) 673-1730. We also have over­ the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, he operator and instrument engineer for the Alyeska night accommodations. Pipeline Service Company, working beyond the South central Pennsylvania. Sojourners welcome took a position at Westtown School, where he in Friends' home; rural surroundings, close to York taught English and Bible. In 1960, he went to age of 70. After retirement, the couple purchased and Lancaster. One to five people. Self-catering pos­ Oakwood School in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where a motor home and spent two winters traveling. sible. One hour per day work exchange per adult. he worked as assistant headmaster and later, head­ Following Orwin 's treatment for cancer, he and Resident dog and three cats. For details and reser­ master. While a member of New York Yearly his wife stayed with one of their daughters, who vations (required), call (717) 927-9067. Meeting, Tom became a recorded minister. Among lives near Lee, N.H. Orwin was a pilot and ama­ London? Stay at the Penn Club, Bedford Place, his many outreach visits while at Oakwood School teur radio operator, belonging to the Aircraft London WC1B SJH. Friendly atmosphere. Central for Friends House, West End, concerts, theater, was a trip to Mississippi in 1964, to investigate Owners and Pilots Association and the Great Bay British Museum, university, and excursions. Tele­ burned churches and other aspects ofthe struggle Amateur Radio Club. He was a long-time member phone: 071-636-4718. for civil rights. He was a devotions speaker at the of Chena Ridge (Alaska) Meeting. His loving Quaker House, Chicago: short- and long-term, in­ 1967 sessions of Western Yearly Meeting, and presence, inquiring mind, interest in a wide range expensive accommodations available in historical chaired one ofth e Round Table Discussion Groups of topics, soft-spoken way with everyone, and Friends meetinghouse in Hyde Park. Meal options at the fourth Friends World Conference at Guilford quiet humor are gifts that will be cherished and also available. For reservations call (312) 288-3066. College, also in 1967. A move to Philadelphia, remembered. Orwin is survived by his wife, Casa Heberto Sein Friends Center. Reasonable Pa., brought him to Germantown Friends School Jennivieve; two daughters, Laurel Cox and Marian accommodations. Reservations. Asociacion Sonorense de los Amigos, Felipe Salido 32, and later to Friends Central School, where he Ziemer; a sister, Clarice Akerson; eight grand­ Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Friends Meeting, Sun­ taught English and Quakerism. Tom was a mem- children; and a niece and nephew. days 11 a.m. Phone: (011 -52-621) 7-01-42.

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Resumes welcome now. For detailed job description, application materials, contact: Board Free. Steps Toward Inner Peace, by Peace P1lgnm. Conferences of Trustees, RFS, P.O. Box 66, Ramallah, West Write: Friends of Peace Pilgrim, 43480 Cedar Ave., Bank Via Israel Fax· +972- 2 -956231 Hemet CA 92544 ' Peacemaker Congress '93-94, sponsored by Chris­ tian Peacemaker Teams, New Call to Peacemaking, Cambridge Friends School, Cambridge, Mass. Dance Fire Dance, by Thomas Dorsett, Quaker and 20 supporting groups, will be held in Chicago, Seeks Head poet. "I like Dorsett's poems which show a keen December 3ChJanuary 2. Theme: Christian alterna­ This excellent, diverse, coed Friends elementary intelligence, saying and trying to say truth." Richard tives to a culture of violence. Main speakers: Michael school (200 students) seeks head of school to take Eberhart. 80 pages; $8 postpaid. Icarus Books, P.O. Banks, African-American pastor in the Bronx; Julie office July 1, 1994. Interested persons send re- Box 5524, Baltimore, MD 21285. Garber, editor at the Brethren Press; and Bill Wylie sume, one-page statement of philosophy, several Kellermann, peace activist, writer, and teacher. 40 references, to Barbara Barnes, RFD 2, Box 202, Norwich, VT 05055. End of Summer, by Margaret Diorio, Quaker poet. workshops. Saturday night concert by Susan Stark, "You have a real gift. So many of these poems Quaker singer-songwriter. All invited, young adult and college age emphasis. N.Y. and Pa. travel by respond to my own experience." Elizabeth Watson. Head--Quaker elementary school. Friends School "There is something gently moving about Margaret Peace Train. Phone: (312)455-1199, or write: P.O. Box 6508, Chicago, IL 60680. Haverford, coeducational, with 160 students in pre- Diorio's poetry with its illumination of the most ordi- school through sixth grade. Devoted exclusively to nary events (so called) in daily life." Ann Tyler. 80 developmental elementary education, the school pages; $8 postpaid. Icarus Books, P.O. Box 5524, emphasizes academic excellence in an environment Baltimore, MD 21285. For Sale based on Quaker values. Founded 1885. Located in Awbury Arboretum; Philadelphia. Handsome Bryn Mawr/Haverford college community of subur- stone Colonial Revival-style mansion, built in 1909. ban Philadelphia. Write: Search Committee, Friends Stolen Joy: Healing After Infertility and lnfent Original oak woodwork,large windows, five fireplaces School Haverford, P.O. Box 30, Bryn Mawr, PA Loss. "Almost overpowering account of Anne and gorgeous 2+ acres of handsome plantings. Up­ 19010. Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Em- Barney's intense pain, and her struggle with God. dated for 20th century living. Eight bedrooms, four ployer. Can provide sharing for those who experienced the baths, working elevator, possible au pair suite, and loss of a child." Rev. Davin. 48 pages, includes W. much more! $325,000. Contact Beth Bartle, Eichler Executive Director. Well established Quaker CCRC bibliography/resources; $6 postpaid. Icarus Books, & Moffly Realtors, 97 Bethlehem Pike, Philadelphia, in suburban Philadelphia area seeks chief executive P.O. Box 5524, Baltimore, MD 21285. PA 19118. (215)248-4050. to manage staff; provide vision, leadership, planning

46 November 1993 FRIENDS JOURNAL financial management, and public relations. Requires beach, championship golf, tennis, croquet, swim­ the needs of the whole child. An at-risk program for B.S. with senior management experience. Long-term ming, and fishing. 13,000 acres of maritime five-year-olds is available. The school also offers an care and housing preferred. Excellent salary and wilderness. Many birds and wildflowers. No cars on after-school reading program, extended day, tutor­ benefits. Please send resumes to our Search Con­ island. Peaceful, friendly. Rental by day or week. ing, and summer school. Information: Stratford sultant, P.O. Box 554, Moorestown, NJ 08057. {215) 699-9186. Friends School, 5 Llandillo Road, Havertown, PA Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Two bedroom, 2 1/2 bath 19083. (215) 446-3144. Haverford College condo in beautiful private area with pool, one block Assistant Professor of German from beach. {215) 598-7492. Services Offered Haverford College is currently seeking candidates France. Life is sweeter in the Dordogne. Fifteenth for a tenure-track position in German at the assistant Authors-need editorial help, experienced writing century village home available April-October near professor level, beginning in September, 1994. Ph.D. counsel, advice, manuscript preparation, self-pub­ Bergerac. Sleeps eight. Fully furnished with books, in German. Native or near-native fluency. Generalist lishing? 20 years in London/NY. Special introductory TV, ping pong, and bikes. Kind neighbors. Call {615) with a strong commitment to language and literature, fee for first consultation. Ann Roush, Writer's Help­ 483-1311, or write: Jean Grant, 221 East Vanderbilt teaching, and research. Expertise in German cul­ ers, Suite 201A, 917 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, WA Drive, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. tural studies, feminist criticism, or comparative 98402. (206) 272-1609. literature would be welcome. Submit a c.v., dossier Portugal. Beautiful country house, southern Portu­ including three letters of recommendation, and a gal {Algarve), for s/1-term rent. Completely renovated Celo Valley Books: personal attention; intelligent writing sample by November 15, 1993 to: Kathleen olive and almond estate. Bright, airy, furnished, four­ typing; professional copy-editing; 600 dpi earner­ Wright, Chair, German Ad Hoc Committee, Haverford bedroom three-bath, mezzanine, modern kitchen, ready copy; book production {50 copies or more). College, Haverford, PA 19041. Haverford is an Equal cathedral ceilings. Long walks, writer's paradise, 20 One percent to charity. 346 Seven Mile Ridge Road, ErnploymenVAffirmative Action employer. Women and minutes to pristine beach. 30 minutes Faro interna­ Burnsville, NC 28714. persons of color are particularly encouraged to ap­ tional airport. Professionally managed, $1 ,200/month. ply. Contact Sheila (Portugal) 011 351 89 792-723. General Contractor. Repairs or alterations on old or historical buildings. Storm and fire damage re­ Head-West Chester Friends School. Founded in Retirement Living stored. John File, 11 47 Bloomdale Rd., Philadelphia, 1836, a quiet gem. Coeducational, K-6, 165 stu­ PA 19115. (215) 464-2207. dents. Stressing Quaker values, developing the Foxdale Village, a Quaker life-care community. whole child. Seeking superior head to help lead the Thoughtfully designed cottages complemented by · Forum Travel school into the future, working with parents, faculty, attractive dining facilities, auditorium, library, and Quaker-owned and managed travel and board to build upon a sound program. Write: full medical protection. Setting is a wonderlul combi­ agency. Friendly, experienced service; nation of rural and university environment. Entry Search Committee, West Chester Friends School, • ..domestic and international; overnight 415 North High Street, West Chester, PA 19380. fees from $38,000-$134,000; monthly fees from delivery. (800) 888-4099. $ 1,165-$2,140. 500 East Marylyn Avenue, Depart­ Innkeeper: Victorian B&B along the Delaware River. ment F, State College, PA 16801. Telephone: {800) References required. Mature, enthusiastic, able­ 253-4951. Friendly financial planning. Let me help you pre­ bodied, non-smoker. Experience preferred. Con­ pare for retirement or work out an estate plan. Socially cierge atmosphere. Must be able to interact The Harned. Lovely old house and carriage house responsible investments are my specialty. Call Joyce comfortably with guests and owners. Send re sume on quiet, residential, tree-lined street south of Me­ K. Moore, Registered Representative, John Hancock to: K.J. Amritt Properties, 298 Hilltop Road, dia, Pa. Meals served in main house. Short walk to Financial Services, (215) 258-7532. Coopersburg, PA 18036. (215) 282-1 768. train. Eleven units. 505 Glenwood Avenue, Moylan, PA 19065. (215) 566-4624. Loans are available for building or improving Friends New Zealand; resident friends needed. Enjoy liv­ meetinghouses, schools, and related facilities. We ing in New Zealand's capital city for a year, starting are Friends helping Friends to growl For information after March 1994. Accommodation free in return for Schools contact Margaret Bennington, Friends Extension Cor­ care of the Wellington Meeting House and Friends John Woolman School. Rural California, grades 9- poration, 101 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. Centre. Not an employment situation. Please con­ 12. Preparation for college and adulthood, small Phone: (317) 962-7573. (Affiliated with Friends United tact: Joan Garman, P.O. Box 9790, Wellington, New classes, caring staff, work program, service projects; Meeting.) Zealand. board, day. 13075 Woolman Lane, Nevada City, CA Quaker Universalist Fellowship is a fellowship of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Soci­ 95959. (916) 273-3183. seekers wishing to enrich and expand Friends' per­ ety of Friends is seeking a person to fill the chal­ United Friends School: coed; K-6; emphasizing spectives. We meet, publish, and correspond to lenging position of Executive Secretary of the Com­ integrated, developmentally appropriate curriculum, share thoughts, insights, and information. We seek mittee on Education. This person must be an active including whole language and manipulative math; to follow the promptings of the Spirit. Inquiries wel­ member of a Friends meeting, a knowledgeable edu­ come! Write QUF, Box 201 AD 1, Landenberg, PA serving upper Bucks County. 20 South 10th Street, 0 cator with substantial experience in the field of ele­ Quakertown, PA 18951 . (215) 538-1733. 19350. mentary and/or secondary education, a good lis­ Wedding Certificates, birth testimonials, poetry, tener, and a creative thinker who has the capacity to The Meeting School: a Quaker alternative high school for 30 students who want an education and gifts all done in beautiful calligraphy and watercolor help others listen to each other. The person should lifestyle promoting Friends testimonies of peace, illumination. Book early for spring weddings. Write have administrative experience, experience as a equality, and simplicity. Students live in faculty or call Leslie Mitchell, 2840 Bristol Rd., Bensalem, teacher of teachers, knowledge of current educa­ homes, sharing meals, campus work, silence, com­ PA 19020. (215) 752-5554. tional innovations, and a thorough understanding of munity decision-making. Characteristic classes Friends beliefs, testimonies, and practices. The re­ Socially Responsible Investing sponsibilties will require visiting and overseeing the include: Conflict Resolution, Native American Stud­ ies, Ecology, Human Rights, Alternative Housing, Using client-specified social criteria, I screen invest­ spiritual life of the nearly 40 Friends schools in the Mythology, Quantum Physics. College preparatory ments. I use a financial planning approach to port­ Yearly Meeting, planning teacher workshops, con­ folio management by identifying individual objectives sulting with trustees, school heads, faculties, and and alternative graduation plans. Wooded rural set­ ting near MI. Monadnock; organic garden, draft and designing an investment strategy. I work with parents regarding the Quaker mission of their horses, sheep, poultry. Annual four week intensive individuals and business. Call: Sacha Millstone; schools, supporting Friends who teach in other set­ independent study projects. The Meeting School, 56 Ferris, Baker Watts; member NYSE, SIPC. (202) tings, and more. The 3/5s time position offers a 429-3632 in Washington, D.C., area, or (800) 227- salary ranging from $15,434 to $19,293, depending Thomas Road, Rindge, NH 03461 . (603) 899-3366. 0308. on experience, and will begin August 1, 1994. Junior high boarding school for grades 7, 8, 9. Small, academic classes, challenging outdoor expe­ Moving to North Carolina? Maybe David Brown, a Philadelphia Yearly Meeting seeks new develop­ riences, community service, daily work projects in a Quaker real estate broker, can help. Contact him at ment coordinator. Technical position requiring small, caring, community environment. Arthur 1208 Pinewood Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. {919) experience, background, and very specific skills. Morgan School, 1901 Hannah Branch Rd., Burnsville, 294-2095. Reports to PYM general secretary and responsible to Development Committee. Salary at upper end of NC 28714; (704) 675-4262. Family Relations Committee's Counseling Ser­ PYM salary scale. For job description: Devel. Coord. vice (PYM) provides confidential professional Search, c/o Gen. Sec., PYM, 1515 Cherry St., Phila., A value-centered school for elementary students counseling to individuals, couples in most geographic PA 19102. Deadline is Nov.1. with learning differences. Small, remedial classes, areas of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. All counselors qualified staff, serving Philadelphia and northern sub­ are Quakers. All Friends, regular attenders, and em­ urbs. The Quaker School at Horsham, 318 Meeting ployees of Friends organizations are eligible. Sliding Rentals & Retreats House Road, Horsham, PA 19044. (215) 674-2875. fees. Further information or brochure, contact: Arlene Olney Friends School. A safe, caring, value­ Kelly, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102. (215) Handsome private lodge set in a working orchard, centered, educational community for students in 988-Q140. in a town that Michener called "perfect.· Eight bed­ grades 9-12. A college preparatory curriculum em­ rooms, large living and dining areas, kitchen, sauna, phasizing a belief in the individual and his/her own woodstove. Ideal for retreat, conference, reunion, or abilities makes Olney a positive environment in which Summer Camps vacation. P.O. Box 534, Walpole, NH 03608. {603) to live and learn. 61830 Sandy Ridge Road, The Leaveners (Quaker Performing Arts Project) 756-9800. Barnesville, OH 43713. Phone: (614) 425-3655. invites Friends to join us in raising the creative spirit Bald Head Island, N.C. Lovely panoramic view of Stratford Friends School provides a strong aca­ on holiday residential music and drama projects; ocean, dunes, lagoon, and golf course from four­ demic program in a warm, supportive, ungraded open to anyone 16 years and over. For more infor­ bedroom, two-bathroom, beautifully furnished house setting for children ages 5 to 13 who learn differently. mation write to: The Leaveners, 8 Lennox Road, with wrap-around deck, electric golf cart. 14 .miles of Small classes and an enriched curriculum answer London N4 3NW, England, U.K.

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