Quaker Thought and Life Today

VOLUME 7 APRIL 1, 1961 NUMBER 7

IN THIS ISSUE

BOD knoweth best whot is needful for us, and all that He does is for our good. If Dialogue and the Inner Light we knew how much He loves . • . • • by Maurice Friedman us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all A Quaker Profile would please that came from Him...... by Ralph A. Rose - BROTHER LAWRENCE Learning to Teach While Teaching ., by Irvin C. Poley

A Treasure Hunt for History Teachers . • . . • by Richard A. Platt

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$5.00 A YEAR Greece and the Greeks 130 FRIENDS JOURNAL April I, 1961

Of Interest to Friends FRIENDS JOURNAL John Woolman Memorial House John Woolman continues to challenge our times with his insight into personal needs and causes of social evils. The early American house built in 1783 on land in Mount Holly, N.J., once John Woolman's orchard, became the John Wool­ man Memorial in 1916. Ever since it has been a quiet place for study and writing, for individual and group retreats, for committee meetings and small conferences. The living room comfortably seats up to 25. There are Published semimonthly, on the first and fifteenth of each month, at 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania five bedrooms with seven beds, providing for up to ten per­ (LO 8-7669) by Friends Publishing CorPoration sons. The garden and lawn slope back from the street to the WILLIAM HUBBEN Editor lower quiet nook, quite suited to retreats and outdoor meet­ MILDRED A. PURNELL BUSH CLINTON ings. There is a small library of devotional and Quaker Assistant Editor Business Manager books, including several editions of the Journal of John Wool­ MYRTLE M. WALLEN TACY H. BROWNBACK Advertisements Subscriptions man. CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS The facilities of the Memorial for night lodging and meals RICHARD R. WOOD, Philade)phia are offered on a cost basis for persons wanting to use the house Africa ...... Maurice Webb, Durban England ...... Horace B. Pointing, London and grounds for purposes suggested above. Food will be pro­ Joan Hewitt, London France ...... Wolf Mend), Paris vided by arrangement, or guests may bring their own provi­ Germany ...... Ann! Halle. Berlin sions and prepare meals in the kitchen. India ...... Benjamin Polk, Calcutta Japan ...... Paul M. Sekiya, Tokyo The John Woolman Memorial is within ten minutes' walk Lebanon ...... Calvin W. and Gwendolyn Schwabe, Beirut Scandinavia ...... Ole Olden, Stavanger, Norway of the Friends Meeting House, Mt. Holly's business section, Midwest (Five Years) .. .. Errol T. Elliott, I ndianapolis, Ind. West Coll8t ...... Ferner Nuhn, Claremont, Calif. public eating places, and the Philadelphia bus. Yet, even with BOARD OF MANAGERS a new housing development nearby, the grounds are secluded 1958-1961: Carol P. Brainerd, Arthur M. Dewees, Miriam enough for a person to feel quite removed from the throng E. Jones, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Anne Wood, Mildred B. Young, 1959-1962 ; Howard H. Brinton, Sarah P. Brock, and thralldom of the passing world. Bliss Forbush, Lawrence McK. Miller, Jr., Philip Stoughton, Carl F. Wise. 1960-1968: Mary C. Calhoun, Eleanor S. Inquiries for the use of the John Woolman Memorial are Clarke, James Frorer, Francis Hortenstine, Emily Cooper Johnson, Elizabeth H. Kirk, Elizabeth Wells. invited by the resident caretakers, Samuel and Clarissa B. THE JOURNAL ASSOCIATES are friends who add five Cooper, 99 Branch Street, Mt. Holly, N.J. (Amherst 7-3226). dollars or more to their subscriptions annually to help meet the over-all cost of publication. Make cheeks pay­ able to Friends Publishing Corporation. Contributions are tax-exempt. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States, possessions, Can­ The Journal of John Woolman and a Plea for the Poor, ada, and Mexico: $5.00 a year, $2.75 for six months. Foreign countries : $5.50 a year. Single copies: t wenty subtitled "The Spiritual Autobiography of the Great Colo­ cents, unless otherwise noted. Cheeks should be made nial Quaker" and comprising the John Greenleaf Whittier payable to Friends Journal. Sample copies sent on request. Second Class Postage Paid at Philadelphia, Pa. Edition text, has been announced as one of the new Ameri­ can Experience Series, published by Corinth Books and dis­ tributed by the Citadel Press, 222 Park Avenue South, New York 3, N. Y. The introduction has been written by Frederick Contents B. Tolles, Director of the Friends Historical Library, Swarth­ Page more College, and the author of many books on Friends, the Of Interest to Friends ...... 130 most recent being Quakers and the Atlantic Culture. To be Editorial Comments ...... 131 published in the spring of 1961 at $1.75, the book is one of a Dialogue and the Inner Light-Maurice Friedman . . 132 new series of quality paperbound books, all "new editions of A Quaker Profile-Ralph A. Rose ...... 134 historic writings which mirrored and shaped our nation from Poetry by Sam Bradley and Marguerite Werner .... 135 earliest times to the present." Greece and the Greeks-Florence L. Sanville ...... 136 Ecce Homo (poem)-Kenneth Heafield ...... 137 A statue by Sylvia Shaw Judson, formerly a member of Rescuing the Caleb Pusey House- Mary Sullivan Providence Meeting, Pa., and now a member of Lake Forest Patterson ...... 138 Meeting, Illinois, has been received by the City of Philadel­ The Courier phia. This sculpture, cast in bronze, is a statue of Mary Dyer, Learning to Teach While T eaching-Irvin C. Poley 140 seventeenth-century Quaker fighter for religious freedom, who A Treasure Hunt for History Teachers--Richard was hanged in Boston. The statue, a duplicate of the one on A. Platt ...... 142 Boston Common, will probably be installed in the Independ­ Friends and Their Friends ...... 144 ence Hall area of Philadelphia. FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRIEND (1827-1955) and FRIENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955)

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Editorial Comments Are Miracles Unwanted? now that much of it is becoming the secret property of HE early associate of Martin Buber in his work of a few highly trained minds willing to serve destruction? T translating the Old Testament was Franz Rosen­ These are new dilemmas, and our religious leaders stress zweig, who died years ago. Rosenzweig once instructed that the sense of being lost and living without direction his hearers about the need of inward freedom in acquir­ is the most pervasive feeling in contemporary man. ing a belief. He illustrated his point in the following The National Council of Churches has now published manner: Long before the days of Hitler many Jews in the views of over 1,000 "knowledgeable" people who Frankfurt, situated on the Main River, were indifferent have expressed themselves about the great needs con­ to their faith. The city was a prosperous cultural center, fronting the Church. These needs are identical with and Jewish families in large numbers settled there, in­ those of most individual persons. The replies indicate cluding a good many secular or indifferent Jews. Rosen­ that "being lost" has a new meaning in our day. We zweig ventured to say that all of them, the timid ones, have to discover anew what it means to save man's soul. the cold ones, the cynics, all would become firm believers The individual has lost his sense of purpose. Fatalism if the Main River would suddenly stop flowing on Sat­ and cynicism are common. Most people are willing to urdays. Their new faith, however, would be the faith of be manipulated for power or profit by a few. Many con­ weak ones, who wanted special proof that they were fess that their almost perpetual state of "numb fear" doing the right thing. They were unwilling to assume remains unrelieved. Many feel disappointed after join­ the risks implied in a living faith. They were neither ing a Church. free to sense the glory of faith nor strong enough to bear its unpleasant consequences. But God wants free Instantaneous Communication believers, whereas a miracle has a dictatorial effect. It Our plight is increased by the overuse of all means is totalitarian. It dictates agreement. It cuts off any of communication. World problems seem to have become doubt. But God will not take responsibilities from our constant personal problems. We are bound to link human beings, and the River Main kept flowing even events in Africa with problems in the South. A short during the tragic days of the Nazi persecution. while ago the white leader of the delegation of the Union of South Africa to the United Nations was denied the Great Needs use of two apartments in New York City because he Two generations ago the Swiss historian Jacob Burck­ could not promise not to receive Negroes as guests in hardt, who was as prophetic in many of his statements his apartment. There can hardly be a doubt that echoes as he could be pessimistic, wrote that "the people no from this incident were immediately heard in Africa and longer believe in principles. But from time to time they welcomed by his apartheid friends. Conversely, incidents are likely to believe in messiahs. . . . This is the reason of white churches which appoint Negro leaders or sup­ that in our hopeful twentieth century authority will port the cause of the American Negro are similarly broad­ again raise its head." He might have added that modern cast in the dark continent. We may feel intimidated by man also expects miracles to happen, although he prides being all the time on the stage of world opinion. But himself on his power of reason and his scientific outlook. we may also seize such a situation as an enormous oppor­ Authority, or dictatorship, has indeed raised its head tunity. in our time, and an unwanted faith in miracles, with a belief in the messianic role of dictators, has been one Courageous Reminder factor leading to catastrophe. Many in their search for Bishop Pike from California is one who believes that inward guidance have turned to reason. Yet how skill­ the Church must be willing to lose its life for the sake fully we can reason for what is unreasonable, including of the higher life. In the March 14 issue of Look the wars and racial discrimination! Is science a better guide Episcopalian leader says that some of our religious teach- 131 132 FRIENDS JOURNAL April 1, 1961

ing must face the guilt it bears for perpetuating pre­ biased teaching places the blame for Jesus' death on all judice. Conservative groups are the most biased ones. Jews of that time, although actually only a powerful No religious groups will directly favor an anti-Catholic minority group was guilty. Our teaching also' glosses over or anti-Jewish bias. But they let bias creep into New the role of the Roman authorities. In fairness it can be Testament theology and history. Sunday school lessons stated that some textbook authors and teachers are not describing the persecution of Protestants by Catholics conscious of their bias-producing presentations. But, as include nothing about the Protestant persecutions of Dr. Pike says, Christians, like all others, tend to transfer Catholics. In the Easter season the biased treatment of guilt and blame to other groups, leaving themselves a the crucifixion story should be on our minds. The story comfortable identification with God and Christ. These is usually presented in a manner that divorces Jesus from are days when we need the reminder that Jesus came not his people, as if he were the only Christian in a Jewish only to comfort those who are troubled but also to setting, although Jesus and his family were Jewish. Our trouble those who are comfortable.

Dialogue and the Inner Light

HE covenant of peace is not only Isaiah's vision of response of the person commanded is really new and Tpeace "at the end of days." It is the comfort that unique. God gives man now, "the very present help in time of Absolutes have to do with a morality abstracted from trouble." It is emuna, that unconditional trust that en­ the total situation in which any moral conflict arises, the ables the man of the Bible to enter into the new his­ situation of a person facing other persons and called on torical situation without guarantees or security and yet to act in relation to those persons. The absolutist, inso­ know that there, too, he will meet his "cruel and kind far as he is one in practice as well as theory, acts unila­ Lord." "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose terally and monologically. He knows what is right a mind is stayed on thee," says Isaiah, and adds, "because priori, before he reaches the situation, and this knowl­ he trusteth in thee." This is the "peace of God, which edge means that his action is not a true response to the passeth all understanding," but it is not a peace beyond situation, but something imposed on it. The absolutist history and daily life. The biblical covenant of peace thinks he is being uncompromising and true to his ideal is not a consolation at the end of history or an eternity when, in fact, he is simply not responding to what is above it: it is an integral part of history, of the tension asked of him. For what is asked of him is not the per­ between present and future, the dialectic between com­ fection of his own soul, or the moral purity of his actions, fort and demand. but the most adequate response possible in a situation A peace witness based on the covenant of peace can­ which, just because it is human, is always in need of not be an absolute pacifism, accordingly, for in history redemption and never entirely redeemable. there is no room for absolutes. "You believe in faith The difference here is an old quarrel between Plato and love," one kindly Friend remarked to me. "Are not and Isaiah. Plato's philosopher king is so identified with these absolutes?" "No," I responded. "These are rela­ "the Good" that he may safely impose his single con­ tions to the Absolute. The only Absolute is God." For sciousness upon all the men of the state, holding them the Bible and for the man of biblical faith, any absolute in submission through royal myths and royal lies, know­ other than God is idolatry, and any pretense on the part ing better than they do what is best for them since only of man to rest his life on "absolute" ideals is a denial he knows the Good. Similarly, T. S. Eliot's Thomas a both of his situation as a creature in history and of the Becket in M urder in the Cathedral alone knows what is word of God that may come to him in that situation. right in the drama in which he is the central character, Even the Ten Commandments are not universal norms, the only real actor, and his own spokesman, while priests, but, as their language clearly attests, a dialogue between knights, and the ignorant women of Canterbury are alike the "I" of God and the "Thou" of man, in which man in the dark about the true nature of the objective divine learns in each situation anew what is asked of him. They do not say, "One must not kill," but "Thou nhalt not design. In contrast to this situation, Isaiah's vision of kill." They do not impose this command on man as a peace is no utopia abstracted from the historical situa­ universal prescription to be applied to particular situa­ tion but is itself a demand placed upon man in history, tions but speak it into the concrete situation of each man a dialogue between God and man. It does not necessitate in such a way that both the word of command and the leaving the concrete world-the world of Plato's cave- April 1, 1961 FRIENDS JOURNAL 133 in order to reach some timeless absolute, but believes tions and catchwords. "Our work is for education," one that reality can be met in the "lived concrete." of the young leaders of an organized protest against Plato, together with the absolutist after him, sets a atomic bombs said to me. If this is so, then this work timeless ideal that history is supposed to approach. The cannot afford to be purely political, purely external. It result of such an ideal, however, is all too often a dualism must start, like Montgomery, from some organic base. between "is" and "ought," real and ideal. The very It must build on social reality and find its roots in the existence of the ideal becomes the excuse to dissociate community already there. It must be concerned about oneself entirely from the actual state, as Plato recom­ real communication with the people whom it approaches. mends that his philosopher should do, since, as he rightly The distinction between education and propaganda recognizes, the philosopher never will be king, nor the does not lie in whether one is a Communist or a pacifist, king philosopher. Or, as with the absolute pacifist and but in whether one approaches another wishing to im­ the absolute social-actionist, it becomes a temptation to pose one's truth on him, or whether one cares enough impose the truth on the situation in such a way as to for him to enter into dialogue with him, see the situa­ recognize neither the possibilities of the situation nor tion from his point of view, and communicate what truth the need for communication with those actually involved one has to communicate to him within that dialogue. in the situation. Sometimes that dialogue can only mean standing one's The covenant of peace implies risk- one responds ground in opposition to him, witnessing for what one without certainty as to the results. It also implies trust believes in the face of his hostile rejection of it. Yet it -the trust that if one responds as best one may, this can never mean being unconcerned for how he sees it response will constitute the work that one can perform or careless of the validity of his standing where he does. toward establishing the covenant of peace. And it im­ We must confirm him even as we oppose him, not in his plies humility-the humility which says, "I cannot take error but in his right to oppose us, in his existence as on myself the remodeling of the world according to some a human being whom we value even in opposing. great blueprint or even the armchair administration of "One absolute surely stands," this second young man the United Nations. This assignment is not asked of me, remarked, "and that is that nonviolence is the way to and this is not my task. What I can do is to make real solve conflict." No, even this absolute cannot stand. To that portion of existence that is given to me, including claim that nonviolence is possible in every situation is the political, but not the political alone." to ignore the most obvious facts of personal and social "One cannot simply build community when the existence. How often even a literal turning of the other world is about to be blown up," a Young Friend pro­ cheek masks a violence we cannot extirpate, no matter tested. He is quite right. Yet are we really in a position how we suppress it! How often a tiny word, or gesture, to prevent the world from being blown up? And if it or facial expression betrays the latent violence in a rela­ is to be blown up, is it not better that meanwhile we have tion between persons in which each is trying with all created something real and positive? The peacemaker his might to act positively toward the other! And in "is God's fellow worker," writes Buber. We make peace social and international relations it is no different. The not by conciliatory words and humane projects, however, congealed violence that lies just beneath the surface in but through making peace "wherever we are destined so much family life, civic administration, government and summoned to do so: in the active life of our own administration, the cold war that has been the dominant community and in that aspect of it which can actively note in international relations ever since the Second help determine its relationship to another community." World War, give glaring evidence of how much the alter­ If the present crisis leads us to succumb to the merely natives "violent" and "nonviolent" falsify the concrete political, we shall have reinforced the mistrust between situation. nations that makes them deal with one another not in One can no more know that one will be completely social or human terms but in terms of political abstrac- nonviolent in a given situation than one can know that

r£r is not opinion, or speculation, or notions of what is true, or assent to or subscription of articles or proposi­ if ~ions, though never so soundly worded, that . .. makes a man a true believer or a true Christian. But it is a conformity of mind and practice to the will of God, in all holiness of conversation, according to the dictates of this Divine principle of Light and Life in the soul which denotes a person truly a child of God.-WILLIAM PENN, A Key 134 FRIENDS JOURNAL April 1, 1961 one will love-really love in genuine caring and response the group as such, as well as upon individuals. What -every person one meets or that one will meet every is more, he does not identify the inner light with his temptation with Kierkegaard's "purity of heart that wills own self; when he does so, his speaking and his silence one thing-the good in truth." We do not know our have already degenerated from the "inspired" to "inspira­ resources in advance of the situation which calls them tion." out of us, the situation to which we respond. What is Taken as an intellectual abstraction, the inner light more, our insistence that we shall deal with every situa­ may be located spatially within. Taken as an existen­ tion in a nonviolent way may actually limit our resources tial reality, it is as much between as it is within-between by curtailing our open awareness of what is asked of us a man and the situation that calls to him, between a and our readiness to respond from the depths with the man and the message or event that "speaks to his con­ spontaneity of the whole being. dition," between a man and the divine spirit that enters Whether or not one believes that the original mean­ into him and works through him, between a man and ing of "inner light" was that of a dialogue-the "inshin­ the "still small voice" that addresses him from the depths ing light of Christ"-one only need consider what the of his conscience. inner light means in any concrete situation to see that Dialogue means responsibility, and responsibility it must have dialogical element. The inner light comes means open awareness and genuine response from the to the Friend as a stirring, a prompting, a leading, and depths and wholeness of one's being. The inner light it comes in a particular situation that calls for his active lies at the heart of that awareness and that response. concern. He senses it within, to be sure, but even this When the inner light is present, reality has by no means "within" is part of the shared silence of a gathered meet­ come to rest within the self; nor is the source of all action ing, a product of his openness to a spirit that rests upon grounded in the self. MAURICE FRIEDMAN A Quaker Profile N Saturday evening, November 12, 1960, at 10:30 nature of the man himself, and who take for granted O p.m., Edward Behre got in his station wagon near extraordinary service, were impressed. Behre's perform­ the Friends Meeting in N.W. Washington, D. C., and ance led one visitor to ask: "How did you get so deeply headed toward the capitol-hill offices of the Friends Com­ involved?" To all such questions Edward Behre had a mittee on National Legislation. There he was to pick casual impersonal answer. He was available! The im­ up the signs that Friends would carry the following day portant matter was the task in hand and how to get the in their march to the Pentagon across the Potomac River. job done quietly and well. It was the end of a four-month period of intensive plan­ From an urban family background of Lutheran, ning, and on the next day the Quaker Tercentenary German tradition, this slight, graying, youthful-looking celebration of the Friends traditional peace testimony man had come to a position of conscience that led him would begin. to spend two days of each month during the previous Charles Edward Behre (pronounced Beyrah) was rid­ year in the vigil line at Fort Detrick in Maryland, pro­ ing the crest of a wave of enthusiasm and concern that testing the experiments in chemical and biological war­ he had helped to generate and sustain. Weeks of daily fare being carried forward there. effort in the office of the Quaker Peace Witness Com­ That November Saturday evening, Edward Behre mittee in the conference room of the FCNL, hundreds reached his home on the Virginia side of the river after of letters written and answered, volunteers en~ouraged midnight with a station wagon filled with guests and and directed, visits to the newspapers, the radio, the the signs which were to proclaim from featured photo­ hotels, and the police were all behind him. Two clays graphs in the \1\Tashington papers the next day some of later over 1,200 Friends returned to their homes, offices, the reasons for the Quaker protest. Before leaving for and schools all over the nation with a strong feeling that home from the meeting of Overseers in charge of the something significant, vital, and sustaining had occurred Witness, he had been entrusted with some fourteen or in their lives. fifteen thousand dollars of contributions given by Friends At the heart of this experience was the energy of a as a self-imposed tax payment to further the work of the slight, vigorous Master Forester, born some sixty-five United Nations. years before in the Borough of Brooklyn in the State By eight the following morning he was sitting quietly of New York. Friends, who traditionally look to the in the meeting for worship at the Hotel Washington, source of a man's concern and energy rather than to the and within the hour he had helped to organize and was April 1, 1961 FRIENDS JOURNAL 135 walking at the head of the line of some one thousand effort to make this a significant witness for peace. "Force Friends. Soon the line stretched out over the two traffic­ may subdue, but love gains," proclaimed one of the pla­ filled miles between the hotel and the Pentagon. "We cards carried in the vigil. The gains of love had been walked too fast for some of the older Friends," said Behre forwarded. Not until peace has been won can this Friend, later in answer to a question about the experience, "but or any other, feel content. RALPH A. RosE we arrived at the Pentagon exactly at 10 a.m., as we had said we would." Somewhere in that quiet, prayerful two­ mile walk he remembered his brief case, with its content Poetry of checks, sitting in the meeting room of the hotel. Not until much later in the day was he able to rescue his A New Gethsernane By SAM BRADLEY precious charge safe and sound. During those two filled days Ed Behre, who usually Is our way dresses in a neat gray suit and wears an overcoat when At last he thinks of it, seemed to be everywhere and to be able To a cross to think of everything. To one observer it seemed a far Of choice: cry from the outdoor stove and sleeping bag of the young To obey forester, who from 1917 until his retirement in 1955 had Atom's blast concern for, and later a major responsibility in, the task Or God's still of building an adequate estimate of timber growth in Small voice? the U.S.A. From his own children and from his 1938 Coopers­ The Risen Christ town, N. Y., work-camp experience with a forestry proj­ By MARGUERITE WERNER ect, he had come to an intimate knowledge of CPS and Who in his worldly pilgrimage the pacifist position. In 1919, while teaching at the Uni­ views the changing scene, versity of Idaho, he had met and married Vernice Gray­ loving people- bill, who had come in that year to the school as a fresh­ seeing them, trusting them­ man. Edward Junior, the first child born to the Behres, discovers his fellow man was born in Moscow, Idaho. Three other children 'were struggling, hoping, later to help fill the big house given to the resident praying. forester stationed at New Haven, Conn., until 1942. Earlier visits to New England Friends Meetings while One day the family was at Amherst had led to a convincement he beholds his neighbor! that seemed natural and logical. A transfer to Washing­ Then is the miracle: ton to the office of the Chief Forester led to a service of unafraid, he sees the Image some ten years of volunteer work with the Friends Com­ in whom all men mittee on National Legislation. Retirement from govern­ are created. ment service opened new doors for volunteer service, which in the past year led to three Yearly Meeting ses­ Known But, to Few sions and to the Cape May Conference. By SAM BRADLEY On ,Monday morning, November 14, 1960, at about A quiet life in small space 7 a.m., Friends gathered outside the Mariott Motel along Is as a crocus, eloquent the river bank just below the Pentagon. The Behre sta­ Of foliage, of good consent tion wagon with its many posters was unloaded. A com­ To earth's lighter pace. plaint from the manager of the motel that the gathering crowd would block the access to the motel had been dis­ The gentlest embrace cussed with the local police. The line was forming that Wakes the earth. No loud intent was to move and stand facing the curious faces that Need shake the firmament: peered from the outer circle of the Pentagon offices dur­ No, just grace. ing that day. Come, angels, erase Until late that evening, when the meeting of the Anxious names and spring content, Overseers completed the final duties of their assignment, But see with awe what flowering meant Edward Behre had moved among Friends in a tireless To this quiet place. 136 .FRIENDS JOURNAL April 1, 1961

Greece and the Greeks A Sketch HIS array of pictures and incidents is one aspect of which I struggled. Another shake of the head, from her Ta month in Greece, which, except for a week in the this time; then she repeated the word very slowly, for Peloponnese, was spent in Athens. The experience­ all the world like a schoolteacher dealing with a back­ not a "trip"-was a deep and moving one, in which the ward child. I did better, whereupon she ran off for more beauty of the past and present merged, and a vanished flowers, quite overwhelming me by the time I reached age, still alive, asserted its astonishing vitality. It spoke the waiting car. through the imperishable beauty of wildflowers among The contrast between life in teeming Athens and the ruins, an ever-changing landscape, and the seldom absent not too distant villages of the Peloponnese does not ex­ blue of the Aegean Sea. And being a part of it fulfilled tend to the intangibles. In both I found the single, con­ a lifelong dream. stant element wherever one meets a Greek: friendliness In the mainland of Greece, about the size of the state and kindness. The small girl in the fishing village was of Ohio, the gods have bestowed as wide a variety of a miniature portrait of people everywhere. In Athens nature as is offered by the whole of the United States. I was forever losing my way in the twisting, narrow Steep and barren mountainsides are brightened by the streets. On a Sunday morning, having been driven by ever-present gold of yellow vetch and Jerusalem sage; the taxi driver to the Orthodox Cathedral instead of the lofty, towering cliffs are pushed back by acres of fertile church of my choice, and discovering the mistake too groves of orange, lemon, and olive trees. Narrow, wind­ late, I was lost on emerging after the service. A con­ ing roads are thronged with herds of sheep and goats cerned parishioner tried to direct me, but neither of us oblivious to the demands of a modern automobile, as understood the other. He hailed another man who, are the patient donkeys laden with brushwood or greens, showing signs of comprehension, took me gently by the or with an occasional ancient peasant busy with her elbow and steered me through a maze of streets until the spindle. white fac;ade of my hotel was visible above the rooftops. In the Peloponnese I was hurled back centuries from With a courteous bow he left me and went in quite the crowded streets of Athens, which I had just left. another direction. Gypsy caravans of camps are forever appearing; on any Another time, coming down from lofty Lycabettus rise of ground there is a probable glimpse of Homer's with a friend, we were utterly at sea as to direction. A "loud-roaring sea." Little shepherd huts dot the pasture fruit dealer at his stand tried in vain to help us, then lands. Peasants are working their garden patches or sit­ hailed a passing girl. She glanced at us and asked joy­ ting on their doorsteps to avoid, I am told, the cold, fully, "Americans?" And then in good English, "Can dark interiors of their homes. I help you?" We asked our way, and she exclaimed,. On the outskirts of Tiryns, below its prehistoric "I will take you." Over our expostulations she did just Cyclopean walls, a group of peasants were working. Their that, for a long distance. donkey was tied to a fence post, a sleeping puppy beneath At Cape Sunion, the southern point of Attica, where it watched by an interested black-and-white kid. A woman the Temple of Poseidon on its lofty cliff overlooks the stepped to the fence and spoke to our guide. She wanted blue Aegean Sea, we found ourselves in a throng of young their photograph taken. We obliged her and then started people having a Sunday-afternoon outing. Most of them the climb back through the centuries to the massive walls were gathering wild flowers from the indescribable surrounding the Great Palace ruins. masses pushing up between the ancient stones, or thickly In the fishing villages, never far distant, nets dry in the covering the patches of grass spread out from the ruins. noonday sun, the fishing smacks and rowing skiffs hauled I had left my companions studying some detail of the along the shore. In one small village, where the wind­ temple and found myself halted by a small group of ing lane lined by tiny cottages rose steeply from the teen-age girls. We looked at one another in friendly shore, two little girls, neither more than six years of age, helplessness, punctuated by an occasional word or ges­ emerged from a doorway to gaze curiously at two elderly ture. They had apparently spotted us as Americans but and strange-appearing women. The older girl approached, had hesitated to invade our group of five. Catching sight holding out a flower and telling us its name, in Greek. of me alone, they were trying to ask questions that I was I shook my head, helplessly it would seem, for she tried trying to answer. Suddenly they grasped a nearby boy, again. I tried to pronounce the word. But she laughed, and exclaiming, "America-America," pulled him to­ and pointing to a chicken, gave me its Greek word, with ward me. Then came the inevitable questions about our April I, 1961 FRIENDS JOURNAL 137 visit, the group growing larger by the minute, both girls In the Greek temperament this same insouciance as and boys. Before I could break away, they had my ad­ to space seems to extend also to the element of time. The dress (to write me); I had the address of one of the girls passage of hours is apparently of small account. A meal (for the same reason), as well as numerous flowers and is a movable item, as frequently are other engagements­ two kisses on my hand. "Is this love of America," I won­ An American told me of her embarrassment at arriving dered, "or just the friendly Greek nature expressing for an eight o'clock dinner at the appointed time to find itself?" herself the only guest and her hostess not dressed. After Halfway up Mt. Hymettus on a school holiday we half an hour the native guests began to wander in; even­ had about the same experience, with the one exception tually all went smoothly and happily over a very good that on this occasion a girl held up her hand, making meal. what looked like Winston Churchill's V-sign for victory. My account does not depict the Greece that beckons A couple of other girls pulled her sharply away. I learned an ever-increasing flow of visitors and tourists. The later that this gesture was a signal for a cigarette; it was Acropolis of Athens is still superb; the cliffs and ruins the nearest approach to begging that I experienced in of Delhi are overwhelming in their grandeur. This same this impoverished land. I could not help comparing it indomitable spirit that bequeathed the glories of Greece to other countries I had visited, notably Italy. to the world is still revealed in the life of the Greek In the city of Athens another aspect of Greek life people. Poverty has not quenched this spirit. Not once and temperament is vividly revealed in the ordinary did I encounter an outstretched hand, large or small. In process of crossing a street. In order to reach the other fact, the innate pride of the Greek merchant often cor­ curb unhurt and alive, a person must use all available rected my error in trying to deal with the ineffective resources of sight, speed, and steadiness of nerve. Neither drachma. Gaiety surmounts anxiety with music that the drivers nor the walkers pay any attention to each seems to play itself for the gloriously colored native other. Traffic officers are rare, and are often disregarded dancing; or for the celebration of Liberation Day in early even when present. This situation has given rise to con­ spring, when I watched men and women, girls and boys, siderable reflection on Greek ways of thinking and doing. march with flaming torches in the darkness. Several Americans, among them long-term residents Poignantly I realize now, as homeward bound aboard of Athens, relate this dangerous traffic confusion to a a Greek ship I write these lines, that I have been with prevailing conception among Greeks of the word "free­ an indestructible people who have survived centuries of dom" and the privileges of the democracy they so prize. stress and strain that would have destroyed a lesser breed. Their hard-won liberty seems to be translated literally Now we are tied to the pier at Halifax, Newfound­ into doing what a person wants, even if it endangers him­ land. I have been watching the stream of immigrants, self and others. Instances were given me of a driver who about 700 of them-women with small children, unat­ waved scornfully at a traffic officer, pointing to a one-way tached young men and girls job-hunting, some few bent, sign the driver was violating. The man drove on. The old people-walking across a gangplank separating them eyewitness did not learn if he was penalized; probably for always from a land already aglow with fruit blossoms not, although total disregard of regulations was quite and wildflowers, into a New Foundland snowstorm, and manifest. Another friend told of seeing a woman driver an unknown future. But all dismay is quenched by the who refused to stop at an officer's signal to let a group overwhelming need of work-work- work. of pedestrians cross the street. She was cheered by the Too plainly that slow-moving line of people tells the waiting onlookers as she drove on. story of Greece today. The shadow of it dims my memory This tendency to ignore traffic regulations seems a of the Acropolis, radiant in the Athenian sunlight. Al­ strange contradiction to the courtesy that so characterizes though their present, like the Temple of Athena, may these people. In walking on the pavements, one meets be in ruins, not so is the spirit of the descendants of its a still stranger one. For there these kindly folk, who will creators. FLORENCE L. SANVILLE go far out of their way to pilot a visitor lost in their streets, have no compunction about monopolizing the Ecce Homo entire sidewalk when in conversation with a friend, or By KENNETH HEAFIELD when quite alone. I came to the conclusion that Greek Behold vitality is such, and interest in conversation, or in medi­ The Man: these words tation, is so absorbing, that an approaching person is not Will echo at each new even seen. I soon acquired the habit of taking refuge in Gethsemane. Why must he stand the first doorway when I saw other walkers approaching. Alone? 138 FRIENDS JOURNAL April 1, 1961

Rescuing the Caleb Pusey House

IRST homes of the Quaker settlers who came to Pennsyl­ The site Caleb Pusey selected was close to the King's High­ Fvania in the summer of 1682, the year when William Penn way, probably an old Indian trail. The name of the house and arrived on the Welcome, are extremely rare. The neglected, plantation was "Landingford." The mill and the house are little stone house that belonged to Caleb Pusey at Upland, believed to have been built by Richard Townsend, another adjoining Chester, Pennsylvania, has been certified by the 1949 Friend who came out on the Welcome, bringing with him State Commission as the earliest English-style and English-built parts of a prefabricated mill, soon ready for operation. house, unmodernized and intact, still standing in the Common­ The house was lengthened by 1696, when Chester Monthly wealth. It has more connections with William Penn than any Meeting held some sessions there. By 1700 the Quaker journals other house in the New World. His homes in Philadelphia are tell of groups of Friends who stayed overnight in this home gone. Pennsbury Manor is a re-creation. But to this unmod­ on their way from Philadelphia to Maryland. Perhaps the ernized cottage, locally called "the Billy Penn House," Penn family slept in the barn! came on several occasions, both on business and in friendship. Running a mill, and later another in partnership with Penn The j ournal of Thomas Story tells of one visit here on the and Samuel Carpenter, was only a first service. Invaluable in 14th of lOth month, 1699. Translated to modern dating, this the local courts and in handling the Indians, Caleb spent 30 day would be in the Christmas season, probably Christmas Eve years serving in the Assembly, the Executive Council, and the or Christmas Day. After attending a court in Chester the day Council of State. He was an overseer of the Public School, now before, Penn and Story spent the night at Lydia Wade's home. the William Penn Charter School. He came to the fore in the They attended a meeting for worship next morning, then trav­ controversy with George Keith, schoolmaster and theologian, eled "two miles off" to this little house on the bank of Chester who caused a split to develop among Friends in both Pennsyl­ Creek for their midday meal. After dining with the Pusey vania and New Jersey. The statements Caleb made at the time, family, they rode eight miles to John Blunston's, near Darby taking the traditional position, were printed by Philadelphia Meeting, and so returned the next day to Philadelphia. Penn's Yearly Meeting. In a time of adversity he gave balance to wife Hannah and his daughter "Tish" were living at Edward Philadelphia Friends. Friends owe him much. Five of his and Rebecca Shippen's Great House, and a few weeks later, booklets and the photostat of a sixth are preserved in the John Penn, always called "the American," was born. Rare Book Room at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Who was Caleb Pusey, and why is it important to Friends Caleb collected the stories of the first colonists and the set­ that this house be saved from destruction? Born a Baptist in ting up of the Friends Meetings. Although these accounts, Berkshire, England, in 1651, he moved to London, joined the later turned over to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, were never Quakers, and published his first religious tract in 1675. In 1681 published as he left them, they were drawn upon by later he married Ann Stone Worley, a widow, and became one of writers. He is considered the first historian of Pennsylvania. William Penn's first purchasers of land. Before he sailed the next Late in life Caleb Pusey moved to be close to his older year he had been chosen by a group of English Quaker inves­ daughter, Ann Pusey Smith, near London Grove Meeting, and tors to manage a grist mill, to be set up at a convenient place. here he died in 1727, a year after his wife. (Another daughter,

Caleb Pusey House, 1683, Upland, near Chester, Pennsylvania. William Penn was a frequent visitor here. The sketch was drawn by H . T . MacNeill. April 1, 1961 FRIENDS JOURNAL 139

Lydia Pusey Painter, moved to Philadelphia and was an ances­ Henry C. Patterson, Charles Palmer, Walter Palmer, Donald A. tor of the Dillwyn and Parrish families.) Purdy, Mary Strawbridge Shipley, Samuel L. Smedley, Jr., Anna Numerous attempts have been made in the past to preserve Estes Strawbridge, Frederick J. Tolles, Eliza U. Ullman, George this house. Now there is a sense of urgency. The condition Vaux, Nora Wain, William A. Welsh, Mary E. Williamson, and of the house has reached such a state of dilapidation that it D. Robert and Elizabeth B. Yarnall. Thomas E. Drake, Libra­ will be lost forever unless saved now. A fire last fall took rian of Haverford College, is also on the committee, as well as part of the roof, since covered with a tarpaulin. The Orphans' R. Norris Williams, 2nd, Director of the Historical Society of Court of Delaware County has placed the house for safekeep­ Pennsylvania, and Dr. Roy F. Nichols, Pulitzer Prize winner in ing in the hands of four trustees. The Delaware County His­ history. The list of sponsors and workers is twice this long. torical Society owns nine acres in front, which can be developed The campaign opens April I. This early architectural gem as a park. The area will be upgraded and more land acquired. will probably be the only Quaker home in America ever to be The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and saved by public subscription. Because the incorporation is not the newly formed group, The Friends of the Caleb Pusey yet completed, checks should be made out to the Delaware House, believe that the cost of a good restoration will be County Historical Society, marked "For the Caleb Pusey House," $70,000. Bipartisan bills asking for an appropriation of $35,000 and mailed to Box 256, Swarthmore, Pa. They will be tax-de­ from the State of Pennsylvania are being introduced into the ductible. Those who contribute to the restoration will become House and Senate. This money will be paid directly to the Charter Members of The Friends of the Caleb Pusey House. Commission. Local groups, historical societies, Friends, de­ It will be helpful if Friends will write at once to Governor scendants of the family, business, and individuals will be David L. Lawrence, State Capitol, Harrisburg, Pa., asking him expected to match it, dollar for dollar. to sign the bill to save the Caleb Pusey House. Brochures giv­ This project will be a pilot project in Pennsylvania restora­ ing more details about Caleb Pusey may be ordered. A play tion. After the house is renovated by a colonial architect and suitable for schools and First-day schools is also available. furnished with the crude pieces of the times, it will be open to MARY SULLIVAN PATTERSON the public, the only early settler's home to be saved for future generations. It will be maintained by The Friends of the Caleb Pusey House through annual dues, admission fees, etc. The Friends of the Caleb Pusey House was organized last summer under the chairmanship of Sarah Pratt Brock of Wil­ listown Meeting and Mary Sullivan Patterson of Swarthmore Meeting. These two Meetings, along with Chester and London Grove Meetings, to which the Puseys belonged, The Friends Historical Association, The Welcome Society, the Delaware and Chester County Historical Societies, and the Philadelphia So­ ciety for the Preservation of Landmarks, are among the spon­ soring organizations recommending that this home be saved. Two of Caleb's own descendants, Edward Dillwyn Parrish and Maxfield Parrish, the artist, and two of Ann Stone Worley Pusey's descendants by her first marriage, Francis Worley and George A. Hay, are working on the committees, as are many who come down from Caleb's nephews, William and Caleb, II, who followed their uncle to America and lived in this old house.

The Pusey Quaker descendants on the committees are .hi~-~"~ Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Katherine M. Elkinton, Helen Thorne Reproduced by permiesion of Griscom, Charles E. Pusey, E. Frank Pusey, Elbert N. Pusey, the Historical Society of Penneylvania George C. Pusey, Jesse D. Pusey, MaryS. Pusey, Walter Carroll This weathervane once marked the mill partnership of Pusey, Jr., Ida Palmer Stabler, Sarah S. Stabler, George A. William Penn-Samuel Carpente1·-Caleb Pusey, probably along Walton, and J. Barnard Walton. (Nathan M. Pusey, President Chester Creek close to the historic Caleb Pusey House in of Harvard University, also lending his name, is not a Friend.) Upland, near Chester. Other Friends associated in this effort are Bart Anderson, Presented to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1870, C. Canby and Ida R. S. Balderston, Jane Taylor Brey, Howard it was for a time gilded and mounted above the Society's head­ and Anna Cox Brinton, Lynmar Brock, Henry J. Cadbury, Dean quarters, then in the old square of the Pennsylvania Hospital, and Jane Caldwell, Elizabeth Lukens Crothers, Charles J. Dar­ Philadelphia. lington, Mabel Sullivan D'Olier, J. Passmore and Anna G. Elk­ Restored to its original state, it now is on exhibit at the inton, William, 3rd, and Julia Eves, Charles R. Hepburn, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Phila­ Jr., George Norman Highley, Arthur E. James, Edmund Jones, delphia. The museum is open on Mondays, 1 to 5; Tuesdays Richmond P. Miller, Allen S., 2nd, and Mildred Olmsted, to Fridays, 9 to 5. 140 FRIENDS JOURNAL April 1, 1961 THE COURIER A Publication of the Friends Council on Education Spring 1961 Number 18

r• Learning to Teach While Teaching A Quaker Venture in Graduate Education HE Friends Teacher Training Program started in the first two years: Sheviakov and Redl, Discipline for T1958, and three years later the group is continuing Today's Children and Youth; Max McConn, Examina­ in much the same way as the Friends Program for tions Old and New; Ford Foundation Pamphlet, The Teacher Training. (Some people seemed to think that Pursuit of Excellence; James B. Conant, The American the first title suggested that only Quakers could be train­ High School Today; Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims ees.) We have, we think, learned something from our of Education; John Dewey, The Child and the Curricu­ experience, and we think this last year has been our. lum. Not required but read by nearly everybody were best. But the main outlines of our program were thought Irvin Poley's Speaking of Teaching and Eric Johnson's out the way we want to keep them. They are described How to Live Through junior High School. here in the hope that they may be suggestive to other This work with individuals, of course, keeps up all groups that may be prompted to try something similar year, and the director manages to observe each trainee in their part of the country. We know of two such groups on an average of once or twice a month. Each participant of teachers in other localities that hope to start a similar keeps a diary of at least one of his classes, giving assign­ project. ments, lesson plans and adaptations, notes on what went All three years we have begun our program as part well and what did not. There is no final examination of the early September conference at Pendle Hill for at the end, but each trainee writes an inventory of what teachers new to Friends schools. The young people ac­ he has discovered about education from his reading and cepted for our project belong there anyway, and it gives conferring, from his own experience, and from his ability an added impetus to have their first session shared with to tap the ideas of others in meetings and in informal about a hundred other teachers who are starting in conversations. Friends schools scattered up and down the Eastern sea­ In October we start a series of group meetings in coast. We usually choose a title like "Getting Off to a Philadelphia at the same time every month- the first Good Start," and try to give in our presentation as many and third Mondays for a dinner meeting from 4:30 to specific suggestions as possible on how to get classes 8 p.m. at 304 Arch Street and the adjoining meeting launched successfully. School starts a few days afterwards, house, and the second Saturday morning from 10 to 12 and only after three weeks or so, when the trainees are at 1515 Cherry Street. These meetings are canceled only ready to come up for air, is a second meeting called for for school holidays or for bad driving, as happened the group. During this time the director tries to observe twice this winter. Our brochure is headed by the phrase each beginner at work and to help with individual con­ "Learning to Teach While Teaching," and we choose ferences and suggested readings and procedures. Most of nonschool hours so as to interrupt the learning that the trainees' reading is on an individualized basis, but comes from teaching as little as possible. we list here the books we required of everybody during Once a month, however, to supplement this learning we take trainees away from their work for a day to visit The colophon on this page depicting a Quaker on one end of one of our participating schools. These visits have been a log and a student on the other was drawn by Mary Lou Scull of the Art Department of Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia. one of the most valued parts of the program. Teaching April 1, 1961 FRIENDS JOURNAL 141 is strenuous work for experienced teachers who make or threats or, even, of rewards or liking for the teacher). an honest effort to meet its demands, and it is even more (2) Burton P. Fowler and David Mallery, Fund for strenuous for equally earnest beginners. So just getting the Advancement of Education, on "What Is Important away from their classrooms for a day is good in itself in Education." for the trainees, but seeing some excellent teaching of (3) Edward J. Gordon, Yale University, on "How their own subjects is a really rewarding experience. Be­ People Learn." fore each visit the director spends two days seeing for at (4) John F. Gummere, William Penn Charter School, least part of a period every teacher of every subject on "Structural Linguistics." taught by any of the trainees. He then plans for each (5) Mary Carter, Radnor High School, on "Modern beginning teacher a long day of five or six class visitations Trends in Education." and a luncheon conference with the best teachers avail­ (6) Henry Scattergood, Germantown Friends School, able in his field. on "The Making of a Good Examination." The trainees begin to see how they can catch the ball (7) Professor Rachel D. Cox, Bryn Mawr, on "Coun­ next time instead of fumbling it. "There you can see," seling." said one young woman in the program, "experienced (8) Professor Marguerite Lehr, Bryn Mawr, on "More teachers doing their stuff and doing it brilliantly-or Knowledge or More Knowing," and Gaylord P. Ham­ badly, for that matter-but doing it so we can see some­ well, University of Pennsylvania, on "Education in thing in action and line up our own objectives with it." Russia." The trainees, who have now had real teaching experi­ (9) Eric W. Johnson, Germantown Friends School, on ence, notice some things they would not have noticed "Parents," and Rosamond Cross, Baldwin School, on the year previous if they had had the chance then to "Professional Standards for Teachers." watch the same teacher with the same lesson. (10) Thomas S. Brown, Westtown School, on "Com­ We sometime think that the best thing about the mitment." program is its timing, that perhaps all courses in secon­ (11) Professor Evelyn Banning, Wheaton College, on dary education should be graduate courses, that class­ "What Makes a Good Teacher an Excellent Teacher?" room procedures taught before experience are as futile In addition to many of the speakers of the previous as describing to an engaged girl how to bathe a baby; year, the meetings for 1960-61 included: she just is not ready to listen. (1) Vice Dean G. E. McMullin, School of Education, These monthly visitations have a decided impact on University of Pennsylvania, on "Some Principles of the schools themselves. The contact is good for the ex­ Learning." perienced teachers, too. Thinking out what parts of (2) Saul Sack, University of Pennsylvania, on "Edu­ their own experience, what phases of their educational cational Theory and Educational Practice." thinking are worth passing on is, like mercy, a blessing (3) Associate Dean Judson T. Shaplin, Graduate to him that gives as well as to him that takes. School of Education, Harvard, on "The Make-up of the Our Quaker schools have been fortunate in having Secondary-School Curriculum." more than their share of gifted and dedicated teachers, (4) Wesley Schneyer, University of Pennsylvania, on and we have invited many of them to speak in our "Reading and Study Skills." seminars. The programs outlined next will show that One observer of our project, who had visited five or we have also taken advantage of some of the experts in six of these sessions, quoted a young man in the program: seconaary education in the universities. The combina­ "This sure is different from college. I took the notes tion has been most fruitful-one group knowing from there, sheets and sheets of notes, got the marks, and long experience what our trainees are actually up against, silently agreed, disagreed, or slept with my eyes open. and the others able to give the broader, more philo­ With something like tonight, you feel as if it counted, sophical bases of what works well in the classroom. In as if it were really important to fight out this kind of general, we have tried to follow the psychological order thing with the 'pros' and with yourself." in programing the subjects that seemed to be needed Now a paragraph or two on the make-up of the group. next; sometimes we have had to break the logical pattern There have been forty-five young people participating by the availability of speakers we wanted. full time in the program-thirteen in 1958-59; sixteen in The meetings for the year 1959-60 included: each of the subsequent years. As to major fields of inter­ (1) Irvin Poley on "The First Week Is Important" est, English claims thirteen; history, eight; French, six; (the value of getting students to work through interest science, five; mathematics, four; Spanish, Latin, and Ger­ and self-motivation rather than because of punishments man, each two; upper elementary grades, two; and reli- 142 FRIENDS JOURNAL April 1, 1961 gion, one. Nearly all graduated from liberal arts colleges Perhaps they will now that we have been recognized by the preceding June, although four had master's degrees, the Graduate School of Education at the University of and one had graduated from law school. Only two had Pennsylvania; successful participation in the Friends had any undergraduate courses in education. Program for Teacher Training for the full academic year As to colleges from which they had graduated, Smith will bring four units of credit towards a graduate degree is represented four times; Oberlin, Radcliffe, Vassar, each (and toward accreditation in the public schools) if the three times; Amherst, Goucher, Hamilton, Princeton, student enrolls at the University and pays the proper fees. and Trinity, each twice. Eighteen American colleges are The three non-Quaker schools were, incidentally, represented only once, and four trainees did their under­ helpful in meeting our budget; each of their representa­ graduate work in England, France, Germany, and Scot­ tives brought in a contribution from his school that land. supplemented the modest budget of the program. Our Of the nine sponsoring Friends schools in the Phila­ main expenses are salaries for the director (his assistant, delphia area, eight have been represented at least once. Elizabeth Rilles, is a volunteer and works for the love Westtown has had eleven participants; Germantown, of it) and a part-time secretary, modest fees for speakers, eight; George School, five; Moorestown, three; Abington, expenses for suppers on Monday evenings, and $30 apiece Friends Central, and Penn Charter, two each; and Wil­ for each trainee to buy approved books and magazines, mington, one. Chestnut Hill Academy and Episcopal a little start on a professional library. The budget has Academy had one entrant in this, their first year of been largely met by three Quaker groups: the Commit­ admission to the program; Springside School has had six tee on Education of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting; the participants in two years. T. Wistar Brown Fund, which pays the tuition of en­ These non-Quaker schools were invited to enter not trants belonging to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting; and, only because we wanted their point of view in our pro­ last but decidedly most, the Chace Fund. These groups gram, but also because the very success of the first two have made the Friends Program for Teacher Training years left not enough vacancies in the Friends schools possible, and we feel that the relatively small sums for new beginners to fill up our ranks; most of the young invested have yielded good dividends- dividends not trainees had stayed on most acceptably in the schools in which they had started. We hope someday to persuade limited to Quaker education, important as that is to us. one or two public high schools also to enter our program. IRVIN C. PoLEY A Treasure Hunt for History Teachers N Thursday, November 3, 1960, the meeting of the with the question of using Quaker testimonies in inter­ O Friends Council on Education was held at Abing­ preting history to high school students. Several members ton Friends School, Jenkintown, Pa. At the evening meet­ of the panel felt quite strongly that deliberate slanting ing two themes in the field of history were explored: of a history program would be too parochial, and would first, ways of highlighting Quaker testimonies in the inter­ therefore violate in principle the free search for truth. pretation of the events of history, and second, a treasure Little else was said about this problem during the meet­ hunt for new and dynamic approaches to the teaching ing, although it was obvious that Friends schools are of history. The following remarks represent the thoughts deeply concerned to fulfill their responsibility to teach of a panel of history teachers as exchanged with an en­ and interpret Friends testimonies. A future meeting thusiastic audience. On the panel were John Emerson, might well be directed to this concern, with the follow­ Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia; Mark Emer­ ing question a~ an opener: Should the teaching of Friends son, Friends Central School, Philadelphia; George C. testimonies be handled in a scripture class by a Friend, Reeser, Friends School, Wilmington, Del.; C. MacCul­ or in a regular history class by a teacher who in all prob­ loch Miller, II, Moorestown Friends School, N. J.; Eliz­ ability is not a member of the Society of Friends? abeth H. Giangreco, Lincoln School, Providence, R . I.; Discussion on the second theme, that of experiment­ Clark D. Moore, George School, Pa.; and Richard A. ing with new and dynamic approaches to the teaching Platt, Friends Select School, Philadelphia, with Alex­ of history, was quite open-ended and occupied the bulk ander H. Hay, Westtown School, Pa., serving as mod­ of the program. The comments of the panelists were in erator. response to the belief of many history teachers that a There was a curious reluctance on the part of the purely chronological approach to their subject is to( meeting, in both panel and audience, to come to grips limited in scope. To explore the possibilities of new April 1, 1961 FRIENDS JOURNAL 143 approaches to history is to explore all of culture, a rather least one half of South America, the Huguenots in overwhelming task for both teacher and student. The France, and the Athenians in the Mediterranean gen­ task, therefore, is twofold: first, to identify academic erally. fields in which the contents are relevant and valuable There are fascinating possibilities in an approach to to historical interpretation, and second, to present these history which attempts to parallel the study of biological to the student in a meaningful and stimulating manner. evolution. Although a small group of historians is con­ Germane fields having possibilities which the panel fident of discovering evolutionary rules for the historical felt were worthy of serious inclusion were economics, art, development of civilizations similar to those well docu­ cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, literature, mented in the literature of biology, current thought is to paleontology, music, geography, geology, ethics, and reli­ search for analogous rather than homologous rules of gion. It is obvious that this list can be considerably cultural growth and development. amplified. An interesting development among history teachers A great deal of attention was given to the contribu­ is to approach the presentation of a people's history from tions of cultural anthropology, particularly the concepts the geographical setting of their civilization. The study of culture areas and culture patterns. The culture-area of history in geographical areas introduces the student concept envisions a demographic study of man's ideas, to preliminary evaluations of cultural development; in artifacts, and culture traits generally. It is important for other words, to what a people has accomplished when the anthropologist to locate centers of culture traits and the probabilities and possibilities of their geographical trace their diffusion over time and space. This ability is setting are brought into focus. The writings of the Yale certainly a prime conceptual tool of the archeologist. geographer, Ellsworth Huntington, serve as an excellent Historians have made use of this technique previously, introduction to students interested in the influence of and are still doing so in tracing the genesis and spread the environment on the course of history. of religious, social, and political patterns of organization. A literary approach to history offers an untold wealth A certain amount of this material well presented to his­ of material. Several departments of history in Friends tory students can give them a most exciting view of the schools depend almost entirely on paperbacks for textual past, enabling them especially to "see" people in contact. material. These include both commentary material by As used by most anthropologists, culture patterns em­ historians and original source materials taken from the phasize patterns of behavior in which the sum is made historical periods under consideration. Literary material up of both verbal and nonverbal parts. One example of these types can be of great value to the teacher whose would be an important religious ceremony which in­ course presentation is oriented around "great ideas," such cludes beliefs, dogma, ceremonialism, mysticism, andre­ as materialism, nationalism, imperialism, etc. ligious paraphernalia. This approach can be further re­ History classrooms can be employed very interestingly fined by searching for cultural foci, or areas of a people's as social studies laboratories. Current social and political life that are immensely important from an emotional as problems can be analyzed against similar historical situa­ well as a material point of view. A frequently cited ex­ tions. A format such as this kind of analysis permits an ample is the ill-defined mysticism that, seemingly part extensive use of audio-visual techniques. An interesting of the German character, played a large role in the events problem in this vein would be for the class to conduct leading to the Second World War. It can be found in a sociological and literary study of some of the traditions the Germanic mythology, the writings of many German found in large cities today (such as the Mardi Gras in philosophies, and in the papers and speeches of German New Orleans and the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia) leaders during periods of political and social unrest. in an attempt to discover their historical roots. Related to the subject of national character as ap­ It might be well at this point to draw these remarks proached by culture areas and culture patterns is the together and see if any sort of trend emerges. Although finding of tidy problems for history classes in the study a good many and varied suggestions have been offered, of what sociologists call microcultures. The teacher can they share a common concern with a philosophy of his­ direct much attention to the influence and leadership torical relativism-that is, to emphasize the worth and emanating from minority groups in large nations. An uniqueness of each people's history, and to impress upon example might be the role played by the nomadic tribes students the dynamic and ever-changing nature of human culture. of Mongolia in the history of both China and Russia. RICHARD A. PLATT Others would include the Magyars in Eastern Europe, The Editorial Staff of The Courier compri.. s Haward G. Platt, Rachel K. Letchworth, Alexander M. MacColl, James A. Tempest, Mark F. Emeroan and the Hametic cattle people of East Africa, the Inca in at Edwin W. Owrid. ' 144 FRIENDS JOURNAL April I, 1961

About Our Authors Abraham Lincoln. The three-week hike, which will end in New York on Easter Day, April 2, is being held to stimulate "Dialogue and the Inner Light" is an excerpt from Pendle regional support for unilateral disarmament. Hill Pamphlet 110, The Covenant of Peace, published July 26, In Portland, Oregon, a nonviolent peace witness is being 1960. Maurice Friedman has been Professor of Philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College since 1951. He is also a member of the sponsored by the Portland Students for Peace, an organization faculties of the New School for Social Research, New York including students from several local colleges and high schools. City, and the Washington [D. C.] School of Psych.iatry. During The climax of the walk on April I is a group meeting on the the fall of 1959, while on sabbatical leave, Maurice Friedman north steps of the Federal Court H ouse Building and an address and his wife Eugenia were at Pendle Hill as Resident Fellows. by a Methodist minister, Eric L. Robinson, on "Modern War­ From January to September, 1960, they were in Israel and fare in the Light of the Christian Ethic." Europe on a Littauer Foundation grant for work on a book about the image of man in Melville, Dostoievsky, Kafka, and North Columbus, Ohio, Meeting tells in its March News­ Camus. Maurice Friedman has edited and translated most of letter of a silent vigil to be held March 25 to April 2 at the the work of Martin Buber. In 1955 he published the first new Newport, Indiana, chemical warfare plant, "as will similar comprehensive study of the great Jewish philosopher's thought, ones in some 17 other cities." "As those who have taken part Martin Buber: The Life of Dialogue, reissued in 1960 as a in similar work for peace and brotherhood have found out, Harper Torchbook (paperback). there is loving power in these vigils." Ralph A. Rose, a member of the Friends Meeting of Wash­ Seventeen organizations, including five Friends groups, are ington, D. C., is the business partner of David H. Scull in the cooperating with the Call to Witness for Peace, with head­ Turnpike Press, Annandale, Va. Before undertaking this work quarters at 326 West Patrick Street, Frederick, Md. In the he was for two years the Associate Secretary of the Friends week prior to Easter the Witness for Peace, drawing attendance World Committee, at the Midwest office in Wilmington, Ohio. from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and the Florence L. Sanville of Westtown, Pa., is a member of District of Columbia, scheduled vigils at Fort Detrick, Fred­ Concord Monthly Meeting, Pa. erick, Md., the Atomic Energy Commission, Germantown, Md., Mary Sullivan Patterson, a member of Swarthmore Meet­ and the Pentagon, Washington, D. C. Preceding or following ing, Pa., is Secretary of the Meeting House Fu nd Committee, the vigils were public rallies, addressed by prominent speakers. Friends General Conference, and Cochairman of The Friends of the Caleb Pusey House. Two affiliations announced last fall by the School Affiliation Irvin C. Poley spent 45 of his professional years at German­ Service of the American Friends Service Committee are Catlin town Friends School, Philadelphia, of which he is Vice Princi­ Gabel High School, Portland, Oregon, with Fletcher School, pal Emeritus. Since 1958 he has been directing the Friends Southern Rhodesia, the first native African school to affiliate Program for Teacher Training, Philadelphia. with an American school; and Lakewood Elementary School, Richard A. Platt is Head of the Junior High School at Oswego, Oregon, with Escuela Fernando Rodriguez, Mexico Friends Select School, Philadelphia. City, the first Mexican affiliation in this area. Anne Hay, a member of the Portland, Oregon, SAS com­ mittee, and her family left in September to spend a year in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, where her husband, George H ay, Friends and Their Friends Director of Admissions at Reed College, Portland, planned to This Easter season all over the world people are walking do research under a grant from the Center of International for peace. In New York the Methodist Church held a 100-day Relations at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. campaign for peace, to end with a walk to the United Nations, urging disarmament for all nations. The American Friends Service Committee has planned vigils and walks for peace in A print by Grace E. Oehser, "The Gift of Fire," shown by many U.S. cities. About 500,000 people are expected to take the Society of Washington Print Makers at the Hiratsuka Nip­ part in the Aldermaston walk for nuclear disarmament in Eng­ pon Gallery, Washington, D. C., received the Smithsonian, land. Labor leaders and union members across the country are Graphic Arts Section, Purchase Award. Grace Oehser is a becoming concerned with disarmament and are investigating member of the Friends Meeting of Washington, D. C. ways of changing from wartime to peacetime economy. In addition to Easter Peace Walks reported in the March 15 A report from the Radio-TV Parish department of The issue, page 120, we have heard of one organized in Minneapolis Upper Room, interdenominational daily devotional guide, which is not sponsored or affiliated with any other organization. states that for the Advent and Easter seasons, 1,054 radio sta­ A 340-mile Peace March, sponsored by the New England tions have r equested The Upper Room "Meditation of the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA) began in Kittery, Day"; 106 television stations have requested "Thought for the Maine, on March 11 following a civil disobedience protest Day"; 339 radio stations requested "Words around the Cross"; at the commissioning of the Polaris missile-firing submarine 374 radio stations requested "The Seven Last Words." April 1, 1961 FRIENDS JOURNAL 145

Coming Events 16--Merion Friends Community Forum, 615 Montgomery Avenue, Merion, Pa., 8 p.m.: the Honorable Catherine May, Member of Con­ (Deadline for calendar items: for the issue dated the first of a gress from the State of Washington, "Selling Freedom to the World." month, the 15th of the preceding month; for the issue dated the 21-Elizabeth Fry Lecture at the Friends Meeting House, 221 East 15th of a month, the first of the same month.) 15th Street, New York City, 8 p.m.: Austin H. MacCormick, Execu­ APRIL tive Director of the Osborne Association and Professor of Criminol­ ogy Emeritus, University of California, "The Modern Application 1--5hrewsbury and Plainfield Half-Yearly Meeting at Plainfield, of Pioneer Penology." The event is sponsored by the Continuation N. J., Meeting House. Ministry and Counsel, 10:30 a.m.; business Committee of the Friends Conference on Crime and the Treatment session, 2:30 p.m. Leonard Kenworthy speaks at 8 p.m. Luncheon of Offenders, the New York Friends Center Committee on Social Re­ and dinner served. All cordially invited to all sessions. habilitation, and the Prison Committee of New York Yearly Meeting. 5 to 8-Ireland Yearly Meeting, 6 Eustace Street, Dublin, 21, 22-"The Vocation of Being a Friend-Alternatives to Con­ Ireland. formity," Spring Conference of New York Yearly Meeting, at the 6 and 7-"The United Nations in a Divided World," Special Friends Meeting, Shrewsbury, N.J. Thomas B. Harvey will lead the Conference at the U.N., sponsored by the Peace and Social Order Friday evening and Saturday afternoon sessions, and six resource Committee of Friends General Conference. Emphasis on Africa persons the Saturday morning workshops (on alternatives to con­ and disarmament. Speakers include Ambassador U Thant of formity in business, professional, social, and community life, and the Burma, members of U.S. and other delegations. General Assembly preparation provided by home and Meeting). For information and will be in session. For program and reservation form write the reservations write Alice Kiessling, 62 Knollwood Drive, New Shrews­ conference secretary, Roy Heisler, 27 West 44th Street, New York bury, N. J- (SHadyside 1-7210). All interested are welcome. The 36, N. Y. Meetings at Shrewsbury, Manasquan, Plainfield, and New Bruns­ 9-Fair Hill Meeting, Germantown Avenue and Cambria Street, wick, N. J., invite visitors to remain over for Sunday. Philadelphia, Conference Class, 10 a.m.: Francis Bosworth, Execu­ 22- Third Friends High School Institute at Westbury, N. Y., tive Director of Friends Neighborhood Guild. Friends Center. Theme, "Crime and Punishment: Our Responsi­ 9-Frankford Meeting, Unity and Wain Streets, Philadelphia, bility to the Offender against Society." For details see page 123 of Conference Class, 10 a.m.: 'Vayne and Marian Dockhorn. the issue for March 15. 9-Millville-Muncy Quarterly Meeting at Pennsdale, Pa., 11 a.m. 23-Frankford Meeting, Unity and Wain Streets, Philadelphia, 9-Fern Gage Memorial Forum, Portland, Oregon, Meeting, 3 Conference Class, 10 a.m.: Roscoe Giffin, "The Economics of Dis­ p.m.: Charles Frantz, Professor of Anthropology, Portland State armament." College, who has spent two years in Southern Rhodesia, "Peace and 29-Disarmament Conference on "The United Nations and the the African Political Revolution." Prerequisites of Disarmament," at Wilmington College, Ohio, begin· 9--second of four conferences at Newtown Meeting, Pa. Box ning at 9 a.m. Speakers: William Epstein, Edmund Gullion, Ray­ supper, 6 p.m. Speaker at 7 p.m.: Colin Bell, Executive Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, "What Have Quakers mond Wilson, Kenneth Boulding. Discussion groups under resource to Give to Current History?" Discussion, closing worship. leaders. Nine Friends organizations are sponsors of the conference. 10, 11-Seventh National Conference on World Disarmament and 29-Chester Quarterly Meeting at Swarthmore, Pa., 3 p.m. Development, 820 13th Street, N.W., Washington 5, D. C., sponsored 29, 30--Caln Quarterly Meeting, convening at 3 p.m. on Satur­ by 38 church, civic, labor, farm, professional, ethnic, and peace day, at Camp Hilltop, one mile south of Downingtown, Pa. organizations, including the American Friends Service Committee. 30--Third of four conferences at Newtown Meeting, Pa. Box sup­ Speakers include Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, the R t. Hon. Philip per, 6 p.m. Speaker at 7 p.m.: Ira De A. Reid, Professor of Sociology Noel-Baker, M.P., William C. Davidon, Jay Orear, Norman Thomas, at Haverford College, "The Quaker 'Vitness to a Cosmic Scare." Kenneth Boulding, Victor Reuther. Discussion. Notice: A series of lectures on '"The Character and Mind of Paul" 14--,Vomen's Problems Group at Race Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, 10:45 a.m.: a panel and discussion on "Our Place in will be given by Henry J. Cadbury at Pcndle Hill, Wallingford, Pa., This Shrinking World." The panel will include Sarah Benson, in the Pendle Hill Barn on Mondays, 8 p.m. The topics follow: Rachel Cadbury, Jean Fairfax, and Nan Brown. Bring sandwiches April 3, "Life, Personality, and Religious Experience"; April 10, and stay for lunch; coffee and tea provided. "Jewish Influence"; April 17, "Greek and Roman Culture"; April 24, 15-Western Quarterly Meeting at New Garden, Pa., 10 a.m. "Pagan Religion"; May I, "Jesus and Primitive Christianity"; May 8, 16--Frankford Meeting, Unity and Wain Streets, Philadelphia, "Reaction against Judaism and Gnosticism"; May 15, "Conflict with Conference Class, 10 a.m.: Julius Jahn, "Acts for Peace Which We Jewish Christianity"; May 22, " Religious History Past and Future"; Individually Can Do." May 29, "Mysticism or Christology"; and June 5, "Paul's Ethics."

MElTING ADVERTISEMENTS at 11 a.m., northeast corner of Vine and P.A.Iii.Al)JIJf.A.-1126 E. Orance Grove (at Oak· Walnut Streets. Monthly meetings the la11.d). lleeu~ for worship, Sunday, 11 a.m. Third Sunday of each month, at 7:30 p.m. .4RIZONA Clerk. Russell .Jorgensen, LA 4-1934. S.&lll" PJU.NCXSCO-Meetlngs for worahlp, First-days, 11 a.m., 2160 Lake Street. PBOJDIIX - Sundays, 9:•5 a.m., .A.dult OLABBlii:Orl'-P'r1ends meeting, 9:10a.m. Study: 11 &.m., M"tlng for Worship and on Scripl)a campus, lOth and Columbia. .11'1rat-4ay School. 17th Street and Glendale Franklin Zahn, Clerk, 836 S. Hamilton A venue. Shirley Hllftnger, Clerk, 1002 Blvd., Pomona, California. COWRADO East Palmarltas Drive. LA 30L~¥eeting, 11 a.m., 7180 Eada D:Bli"VllB-Kountain VIew Meeting, 10:•5 'l'VCSOlii"-Pima Friends Meeting (Pacific Avenue. VIsitor• oa1l GL 4·74118. &.m., 2026 lil. Williams. Clerk, BU 9·1780. Yearly Meetlnc), 1201 :m. Speedway. Wor­ ship 10 &.m., JDlisha T. Kirk, Clerk. Route 2. Box 274, Axtell 8-6073. LOS .&lii"G.LB8-Meetlng, 11 a.m., Univ. Meth. Church, •th floor, 817 W. 34th Street. CONNECTICUT C.4LIFORNIA. PALO .A..L'I'Q-Firat-day school for chil­ BAB'I'POBD-Meetlnc, 11 a.m., First-day dren and adults, 10 a.m. Keetill&" for sohool, 11 a.m., 14• South Quaker Lane, BBBKBLBY-Frlends meeting, First-days worahlp at 11. 1167 Colorado. West Hartford. 146 FRIENDS JOURNAL April I, 1961

NEW JlAVJ:lr-Meeting 9:45 a.m., Conn. Hall, Yale Old Campus; phone CH 8-5432. lOW.4 NEW ]ERSEY NEW'rOWlr - Meeting and First-day school, 11 a.m., Newtown .Junior High DBtl •ODr.ll8-8outll entrance, 1920 lOth .A.'l'r..A.~IO CI'l'Y- Meeting for worship, School. Street, worah.lp, tO a.m.: ola.uM, 11 a.m. 11 a.m., F irst-day school, 10:30 a.m., South Carolina and Pacific Ave nues. l".A.IB.rXBLD - Bible School, 9 :·30 a .m.; worship service, 10:30 a.m. 1207 South DOVER-Fir s t-day school, 10:50 a .m ., DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 6th Street. w orship , 11 a.m., Quaker Chu rch Road.

W&BJDJICI'I'O•-Meetln~~:, Sunday, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.; Sunda7 School, 10:30 a.m., JlADDOBI'IELD-Meetlng f or w orship, 11 211t Florida .A.Tenue, N.W., one block from KENTUCKY a.m., F ir s t -day, F ir st- day school, 9:41S Connecticut .Avenue. a.m., Lake S t r eet. LOlTISVUar.B - Meeting and First-day school, 10:30 a .m . Sundays, Neighborhood M.A.lr.A.SQ'D'AX-First-day school, tO a.m., House, 428 S. First St.; phone TW ts -7110. meeting, 11:111 a.m., route 35 at Manas­ quan Circle. Walter Longstreet, Clerk. FLORIDA

D&~•& :Bli&OB-Meeting, 11 a.m., WUISIANA i'irat-daya at 800 North Halifax Drive. In­ Information, Sarah Belle Georce. CL 1-2811. ~W OB:LJIAX8- Friends meeting each NEW MEXICO Sunday. For Information telephone UN G.&Dr.IISVU.:Ioll - Meeting for worship, 1-8022 or UN 6-{)389. .A.LB'D'Q'D'EBQ'O'E-Meetlng and Flrst-4a.y Flrat-daya, 11 a.m., 116 B'lorlda Union. School, t1 a.m., 815 Girard Blvd., N.E., .Albuq uerque. .John Atkinson, Clerk. Phone .J.A.OJI:BOB'VDJoJI- Heetinl' for worahlp, ALpine 5-91188 . 11 a. m., YWCA. Contact EV 9-4345. MASSACHUSETTS BAN':r.A. PB-Meeting, Sundays, tt a.m., liiXAXI-Meetlng for worship at Sunset Olive Rush Stud!~ 630 Canyon Road. and Corsica, Coral Gables, on the south CA'M]Ip.t'DCJB-Meeting, Sunday, ts Long­ Sante Fe. .Jane H. J:iaumann, C lerk. Miami bus line, 11 a.m.; First-day school, fellow Par k (near Harvard Square), 9:80 10 a.m. Miriam Toepel, Clerk. TU 8-6629. a.m. and 11 &.m. : telephone TR 6·688a. OB:L..t.JrDO·Wlli'ZliB P.a.BB:-Meetlng, 11 a.m., 116 E. Harka St., Orlando; HI 7-8025. WBL:LBBr.EY- Meeting, Sunday, t0:30 NEW YORK a.m. at Tenacre Country Day School, P.A.LM BB.A.CK- Frlende Meeting, t0:30 Benvenue Str eet near Grove Street. ALB.A.lii'Y-Worshlp and First-da7 school, a.m., 821 North .A. St., Lake Worth. tt a.m., YMCA, 428 State St.: Albany 8·6242. WOBClii8'F.BB -Pleasant Street Friends S'll!. PJI'll!l!IBSBVBG-First·da7 school and Meeting, 90t Pleasant Street. Meeting for B'D'Pl".A.LG-Meetlng a nd F irst-day s chool, mee~. 11 a.m., tao 19th .Avenue s.:m. worship eaoh Jrtrst· daJ', 11 a..m. Telephone 11 a .m ., 1272 Delaware .Ave.; phone NF PL 4-8887. 4-3214.

:LONG IS:LAND-Northern Boulevard at Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset. First-day GEORGIA school, 9 :411 a.m.: meeting, 11 a.m. MICHIGAN .A.'li!:L.IJI"ll!.A.- Meeting for worship and :IDIW YOBE - First-day meetinas for Flrat-da7 achool at 10 a.m. 1184 Fairview Alrl!T Alir.BOB--Meeting at 1416 Hill, two Road, N.E., Atlanta. 6. Phone DR 3-7986. worship: Phern Stanley, Clerk, Phone DR B-63117. m ee tings f or worship, one at 10 a.m., and one at 11:30 a.m., w ith an .Adult Forum 11 a.m. 22t E. ttsth St., Manhattan during the firs t meeting o f worship. 22 Wash ington Sq. N . Earl Hall, Columbia Unlverslt7 110 Scher merhorn St., Brooklyn HAWAII DJI'li!BOn-Meeting, Sunda)'ll, 11 a.m. ln t87-t6 Northern Blvd., Flushing Hl«hland Park YWCA, Woodward and 3:80 p.m. Riverside Church, tilth ftoor WbaoD&. TO 1'·f't0 •va~Da'& KONO:LV:L'D' - Meeting, Sundays, 2426 Telephone GRam ercy 3-8018 (Mon.-Fri. Oahu Avenue, tO:.lll a.m.: teL 999-447. 9-4) a bout Firs t-day schools, monthly E•T·A••zoo- Meeting for worship, 10 meetings, suppers, etc. a.m., discussion, tt a.m., Friends' Meeting House, 1108 Denner. Call FI 9-t7M. BC.A.BSD.A.T.B-Worshlp, Sunda.:rs, 11 a.m., 133 Pop-ham Rd. Clerk, Wlllla.m VIckery ILLINOIS 162 Warburton .Ave. Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. OJUC.A.CI0--67th Street HHti~ of i'rlends. Sunda7 worehip hour, 11 a.m. at Quaker Bonae. KlG Woodlawn .Annua. Konth17 MINNESOT.4 S"l'B.A.C1J11B-Meeting and First-day school, meetina, 7:10 p. m.~ eTVJ' arat :J'rida7. 11 a.m., YWCA, 839 E. Onondaaa Street. Telephone BUttertlw.4 8-aoe&. KDnii1LARO:r.D- Church Street. unpro• grammed worship, lO:tll a.m., University Y.M.C.A., li'E ts-{)272. DOW1IJIB8 GBOTJI (suburban Chlcago)­ Meeting and First-day school, t0:80 a.m., Avery Coonley School, 1400 Maple Avenue: IIDflDI.A.PO:LIB-Meeting, 11 a.m., First­ OHIO telephone WOodla.nd 8-2040. day school, 10 a.m., 44th Street and York .Avenue 8. Harold N. Tollefson, Minister, OINCINNA'l'I-Meeting for worship,. tO 4421 .Abbott .Avenue 8.; phone W.A. 6-967ts. a .m., 3115 West McMilla n, Ric hard Day, Correspondent. WI 1-2419. INDIANA CLEV.E:L.A.ND-First-day school for chll· dren a n d adults, 10 a.m. Meeting for wor­ .-v.. a ..JUJV~Keeti~. Sundays, YMCA. MISSOURI ship 11 a.m., 10916 Magnolia. Drive, T U 11 a.m. ll'or lodl'ina or transportation call 4-2695. Corinne Catlin. HA S-8103; after 4 p.m., H.A. 2-872$. B:.A.JI'B.A.S CrrY-Penn Valley Meeting, 806 West 39th Street, t0:30 a.m. Call m 4-{)888 or CL 2-69118. Ilii'DI.A.lii'.A.POLia-Lanthorn Friend's, 10!0 W. 42nd Street. Meeting for worship a.nd PENNSYLJ'.4NIA ll'lrst-cla7 school, 10 a.m. Telephone AX 8'1'. LOlTIB-Meetlng, 2ts39 Rockford .Ave., 1-8677. Rock Hill, t0:80 a.m.; phone PA 6-{)429. DtJBNillfGB CBB.EB:-.At Fishertown, 10 April I, 1961 FRIENDS JOURNAL 147 mlles north of Bedford: First-day school, 10 a.m., meeting for worship, 11 a.m. W A.SHINGTON POSITIONS WANTED KABJUBB'IJBG - Meeting and First-day RELIABLE EARLHAM GIRL, OL.A.SS school, 11 a.m., YWCA. 4th and Walnut Sts. 8B.A.~B- UniveMity Friends MeetiD&', 31'!59A 1Mh .Avenue, N.E. Worship, 10 a.m.; 1965; "Mot her 's Helper" available J une 20- dlscuBSion period and First-day school, 11 September 10. Penn sylvania or New Jersey JLI.VBBPOBD-Buck Lane, between Lan­ a.m. Telephone MElrose 2-9988. prefe rred, shore or mountains. References caster Pike and Haverford Road. First-day exchan ged. Box M 192, Friends Journal. school, 10:80 a.m. Meetin&' for Worship at 11 a.m. COMPANI ON-HOUSEKEEPER, educated, r efin ed, lig ht duties. Vicinity of Philadel­ phia, Pa., or suburbs. Will tr avel. Box LAJrO.A.S~BB--Meeting house, Tulane Ter­ FOR RENT H 191, Friends Jour nal. race, 1~ miles west of Lancaster, off U .S. SO. Meetin&' and First-day school, 10 a.m. VIEW OF POCONO MOUNTAINS, P.A. Four-bedroom house, lake, trout fishing, WANTID JDIIDU-125 West Third Street. Meetlnc tennis, clubhouse, g olf, a nd riding nearpy. for worship at 11 a.m. Quiet, friendly setting. $70 dollars per INT ERIOR DESI GNER for established week, $600 season. Mrs. Merriman Smith, contemporary home furnishings stor e. P:a:n:..t.DBLI'Bl.A.- Meetings, 10:80 a.m., 6609 81st Place, N.W., W ashington 15, .Also Manager Trainee w ith experience In unless specified; telephone LO 8-4111 for D. C.. EM 2-8014. retailing or related field. Salary com­ Information about First-day schools. m ensurate with training and ex perience. Byberry, one mlle east of Roosevelt Boule- Send resuml! t o Erich Ursell, 4800 Fat­ vard at Southampton Road, 11 a.m. stone Avenue, Washington Hi, D . C. Central Philadelphia, Race St., wes t of 15th. AVAILABLI Chestnut Hill, 100 East Mermaid Lane. .ASSI STANT SECRETARY for F riends Coulter Street and Germantown Avenue. Gene ral Conference. Needs academic train ­ Fair Hill, Germantown&Cambrla,11:15a.m. Ing a nd/or ex verien ce in the field of r eli­ Fourth & Arch Sts., First- and Fifth-days. KINDLY COMFORTABLE C.ARE, for gious education; experience or potential Frankford, Penn & Orthodox Sts., 10:80 a .m . elderly ambulatory lady, in nurse's mid abilities in writing, e diting, publishing, Frankford, Unity and Wain Streets,11 a.m. Buck s County h ome. First flo·or room with and speaking; general administrat ive Green St., 45 w. School House L., 11 a.m. lavatory. Box Wl87, Friends Journa l. skills. Writ e Friends Gener al Conference, Powelton, 86th and Pearl Streets, 11 a.m. 1{)15 Cher ry Str eet, Philadel phia 2, Pa., for job description. CLASSES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 1961 at I'~SB'IJBGK- Worship at 10:30 a.m., Sandy Spring Friends School. For Infor­ adult clab.3, 11:45 a.m., 1858 Shady Avenue. mation write: Sam Legg, Headmaster, FOB SALE Sandy Spring, Maryland. JONATHAN EVANS AND HIS TIME, BJIADX.G - First-day school, 10 a.m., 192 pp., 30 Ill...... $3.75 meetin&', 11 a.m., 108 North Sixth Street. Contains account of the Separation of 1827 SEVEN SCORE BIRD SONG8-258 pp, $3.00 FURNITURE REUPHOLSTERED - 85 Battle Dore, and Unconventional Verse S~A~B OOLLBGB- 818 South Atherton years experien ce. R easonable rates. Mem­ Street. First-day school at 9:30 a.m., ber Swarthmore Meeting. Will go within SONNETS FOR LOVERS AND FOR meeting for worship at 10:45 a.m. 25 miles of Philadelphia. Thorn Seremba, LOVERS OF SONNETS ...... $2.00 Coll1ngdale, Pa., LU 6-71592. 101 chosen Sonnets--84 pp. A BRIEFER BARCLAY-4 pp ...... $ .05 An abbreviation of "Barclay's Apology" GADGETS : Pyramids, Magic Thr eads, MEXICO CITY FRIENDS CENTER. Bent Nails, &c. TENNESSEE Pleasant, reasonable accommodations. Reservations, Casa de los Amigos, Ignacio WILLIAM BACOJII' EVANS IIJPO'KIB-Meetin&', Sunday, 9 '30 a.m. Mariscal 132, Mexico 1, D .F. Friends Meet­ 3 04 Arch Str eet Philadelphi a. 6, l'a. Clerk. Sumner Parker. BR 6-8891. Ing, Sundays at 11 a..m.

JII'.A.BKVU.LB-Meetlng for worship, 10:30 a.m.. Sundays, 2020 Broadway. Call CY 8-8747. cv1.. complete, modern plant for the production of FINE PRINTING TEXAS 'Y AlJ'S'.L'Ill'- Worship, Sundays, 11 a.m., Firs t-day s ch ool, 10 a.m., 606 Rathervue Place. Otto Hofmann, Clerk, HI 2-2288. The Legal lntelligencer 10 South 37th Street, Philadelphia 4, Pa. D.ALLAII--Sunday, 10:30 a.m., Adventist Church, 4009 N. Central Expressway. Telephone EVergreen 6-1535 Clerk. Kenneth Carroll, Rellcton Dept., S.M.U.; FL 2-1846. aova~o•- Live Oak :rrtends KHUn•· Sunday, 11 a.m.; Council of ChUrchel Bulldln&', 9 Chelsea Place. Clerk. Waltsr Whitson; JAckson 11-6418. · New • • • TEEN-AGE PROGRAM e e e VIRGINIA A lively quiz program, which has just been developed in Swarthmore Friends Meeting, is now available for your Cr.lii.ABJIBOOK-Meetlng for worship at Hopewell Meeting House, First-days at Forum. "One of the best programs ever," said one. adult. 10:15 a.m.; First-day school at 11 a.m. "Let us know when you have another/' said a Teen-ager. :r.DrOOLJII'- Goose Creek United Keetlng Questions are prepared by the Philadelphia Temperance House. Meetlnc for worship, 11:15 a.m., Committee, one of whose members serves as chairman. First-day school, 10 a .m. Some advance study by contestants is advisable. For in­ WDI'CEliB~- Centre Meeting House, formation, address: Temperance Committee, 1515 Cherry corner of Washington and Piccadilly Streets. Meetin&' for worship. First-days Street, Philadelphia 2, Po. at 10:15 a.m.; First-day school, 10:411 a.m. 148 FRIENDS JOURNAL April 1, 1961

PEDIATRIC RESIDENT FRIENDS ARCH STREET CENTRE FULL-TIME POSITION OPEN AS AND FAMILY (ONE INFANT) 304 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA 6, PA. ASSISTANT IN THE FRIENDS need low-cost or rent-free Jiving quarters in ROOMS AVAILABLE Philadelphia area for two years, starting Single with running water, also rooms HISTORICAL LIBRARY OF July 1, 1961. Wife able to care for children with private or semiprivate bath. Enioy Swarthmore College or aged. Contact H. BURTT RICHARDSON, home cooking. M.D., 701 E. Raynor Avenue, Syracuse, N. Y. Free parking. Telephone MArket 7-2025 QUALIFICATIONS: College edu­ cation, library experience (training BUSINESS WANTED -Wanted- unnecessary). Interest (actual or Old established, top rated Philadelphia Quaker potential) in Quaker History. family concern national offices desires to pur­ Receptionist - Secretary chase for up to $750,000 cash, each, busineooes To start September 1, 1961. relating to tangibles used by Industrial, commer­ for Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Boarding cial and l~~ttitutlonal users. Sellers' products Home. Must also be able to assist with must hove b"n succeooful in at least one mar­ Superintendent's duties. W. Worth Mackie, HOURS: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday ket for at least one year. finders' fees paid. Superintendent, 6300 Greene Street, Philadel­ Box M-146, friends Journal. phia 44, Pa. Telephone GE 8-6323. through Friday; 9 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday.

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Write the Director or call ARE YOUR SAVINGS INSURED? Klngswood 3-0200 (extension 435) They would be in the Lansdowne Federal Savings and Loan Association. Our accounts are Federally insured up to $10,000.00 and participate in liberal dividends. PLEASE MENTION THE Accounts may be opened by mail in any amount from one dollar upwards. Legal FRIENDS JOURNAL investments for trust funds. WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS LANSDOWNE FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 32 SOUm LANSDOWNE AVENUE, LANSDOWNE, PA. Beginning in September J96J Literature on request , FRED A. WERNER, President Westtown School needs a CRETH & SULLIVAN, INC. HOSTESS to direct the social, dining, In-sur an c e and recreational activities of the School. An active woman 320 WALNUT STREET 40-55 years of age, alert to the social and day-to-day PHILADELPHIA 6, PAe needs of faculty and students WAlnut 2-7900 as well as guests and visitors. An absorbing post, requiring LET US SOLVE YOUR INSURANCE PROBLEMS administrative skill, imagi­ nation, and resourcefulness. Experience in recreation and work with, and love for IT'S SO EASY TO. OPEN young people needed. AN INSURED SAVINGS ACCOUNT BY MAIL Living quarters provided for single person or for married Send a check and your name and address, your account will be couple. Member of the So­ insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation ciety of Friends desired. up to $10,000. Legal investment for Trust Funds. SALARY COMMENSURATE WITH EXPERIENCE LANGHORNE FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION , Apply: 126 S. Bellevue Avenue, Langhorne, Pennsylvania Daniel D. Test, Jr., Headmaster A. PAUL TOWNSEND, JR., Secretary SKyline 7-5138 Westtown School, Westtown, Pa. April I, 1961 FRIENDS JOURNAL 149

ASK OUR OPINION -For Rent- OF YOUR SECURITIES SUMMER COTTAGE NEAR CONWAY, NEW HAMPSHIRE Accommodations for six, HECKER & CO. foot of Mt. Chocorua. Members of New York Stock Exchange WILLIAM W. OLIVER GWINN, MICHIGAN LIBERTY TRUST BUILDING

Broad and Arch Streets FOR THE BEST IN Philadelphia 7, Pa. LOcust 4-3500 PLUMBING SPECIAL TIES which give longer wear at lower labor costs­ CHARLES J. ERICKSON write or call Registered Representative Good Manufacturing Co., Inc. THE CALEB PUSEY HOUSE 191 Lincoln Avenue, New York 54, New York Phone Motthaven 9-5360 278 Years Old Information is needed on present-day de­ CHURCH WOMEN, GRANGES, P.T.A.'s, scendants, with addresses, of AUXILIARIES, ORGANIZATIONS NEEDING MONEY- Klngswood 3-3809 CALEB PUSEY'S FAMILY Sell Nylon Handbags, Rugs, Hosiery, Caleb's granddaughter, LYDIA SMITH, Greeting Cards, Perfume, Vitamins, married THOMAS J ACKSON of London Candy and other items. Write Marple Store Antique Shop Grove in 1738. Their known children were: for Free Catalogue. Write to MABEL AND STU.UT BREMILLEil ANN JACKSON married MORDECAI S. J. PHILLIPS, 24 SOUTH 2nd STREET, CLOUD in 1757. HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 816 WEST SPRINGFIElD ROAD MARY JACKSON married WILLIAM Springfield, Delaware County, Pa. WINDLE in 1761. CALEB JACKSON married HANNAH 10:30 to 5:30 - Evenings by Appointment BENNETT iu 1765. THE PENINGTON Closed Sundays All lived then in Chester County, Penna. 215 EAST 15th STREET, NEW YORK CITY 3 A Friends Hostel in New York for Friends Caleb's great · great · granddaughter, SU­ and friends of Friends. Comfortable rooms SANNA COX, 1788-1851, married the emi­ and wholesome meals for permanent guests. nent Philadelphian, DR. JOSEPH PARRISH, Accommodations for transients limited. EASTMAN DILLON, UNION in 1808. Nine of their eleven children mar­ Advance reservations requested. ried. They were DILLWYN, died 1886; ISAAC, died 1852; JOHN, died 1896 : WIL­ Telephone GRamercy 5-9193 SECURITIES i CO. LIAM DILLWYN, died 1863: JOSEPH, died Members New York Stock Exchange 1891 : GEORGE, died 1871; EDWARD, died 1872; SAMUEL, died 1889; and SUSANNA, Investments wife of M. RODMAN WHARTON, died WILLIAM EDWARD CADBURY 1915. Locality, Philadelphia. Counseling Service Representative of the PHILADElPHIA NATIONAL BANK BUILDING Caleb's nephews, WILLIAM and CALEB Family Relations Committee Broad and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia 7, Pa. P USE Y (11), the sons of his brother JOHN, - For appointments - came over later to join their uncle. Many With Lovett Dewees, M.D., Glen Mills, Pa., descendants, centering in Chester County, Pa. call GLobe 9-24 H. With Christopher Nicholson, M.S.W., Phila­ delphia 44, Pa., call VI 4·8809 between 8 Caleb Pusey's stepsons, FRANCIS and and 10 p.m. HENRY WORLEY, who accompanied him With Karoline Solmltz, M.S.S., Bryn Mawr, and their mot her to Pennsylvania. Large Pa., call LA 5-0752 between 8 and 10 p.m. FYFE & BOYD families. Some went early to Nottingham, Md. Books on Family Relations can be borrowed through Philadelphia If you are a descendant or know the where­ Yearly Meeting office. abouts of these people, please contact FUNERAL HOME THE FRIENDS OF THE CALEB * ]ames E. Fyfe • Irvin B. Boyd PUSEY HOUSE, BOX 256, STRAWBRIDGE Cremation Service Available SWARTHMORE, PA. 7047 Germantown Ave. Read the story on pages 138 and 189 of this issue. & CLOTHIER CHestnut Hill 7-8700 -• Member Germantown Meeting ____• Elnwood Convalescent Home s. 0. s. Baltimore Pike & Lincoln Avenue When your son dates a silly romancer, Swarthmore, Pa. And your girl falls in love with a dancer; Telephone K.Ingswood 3-0272 While their dad starls to sputter, Private and semiprivate rooms And dire threats to muller, Quiet 10-acre estate THOSE WONDERFUL TEENS is you r answer. 24-hour understanding nursing care Builders of Confidence By Willard Tomlinson Under personal supervision of Since 1868 At all bookstores MRs. ELLEN M. Woon 150 FRIENDS JOURNAL April I, 1961

Q. WILL MY DAUGHTER BE A BETTER QUAKER IF SHE GOES TO SANDY SPRING FRIENDS ROCKMERE LODGE ON SHEEPSCOT BAY SCHOOL? FIVE ISLANDS, MAINE A. Not necessarily. But she might. Offers GOOD FOOD, REST and RELAXATION. SANDY SPRING FRIENDS SCHOOL, Sam Legg, Write for circular or call HUbbard 5-4786 Headmaster. Sandy Spring, Maryland. HARRIET E. WORRELL 4001 :Naaman's Creek Road Telephone WAlker 4-9132. Ogden via Marcus Hook, Pa.

POSITION WANTED UPLAND COUNTRY DAY TEACHER UNIONVILLE, PA. EXPERIENCED-DESIRES POSITION SCHOOL preferably in F riends college or junior college. NURSERY THROUGH 7th Broad gauge background of social studies. We emphasize developing in the child English and humanities, specializing in politi· a sense of responsibility, confidence, cal science, international organization. Com­ good study habits; the total develop­ pleting Ph.D. this summer. Complete resume ment of the individual. on request. Box Dl89, Friends Journal.

FURNITURE CREMATION Friends are reminded that fund. UPHOLSTERING are available /or the purpo1e of cremation. SLIP COVERS AND DRAPERIES send for application for:m.s to Over 35 years experience repairing and HENRY BECK, Director, Th~~M®Wl reupholstering. firsf·class workmanship at Anna T. Jeanes Cremation Pund, REASONABLE PRICES. Estimates are free. 2862 Germantown Avenue, Will go anywhere within 25 miles af Philadelphia 33, Pa. Philadelphia, Po. Ten years references from @a~® ~Jh®a~ Friends in the Philadelphia area. Member of Swarthmore Meeting. Write THOM SEREMBA King Edward VIII t®~c{tamm©rm~ 1024 SPRUCE ST., COLLINGDALE, PA. or telephone LUdlow 6-7592 Here, in the annual (May-June) Complete-AU for $1.00 Lay Witness Number of The Up­ During "King Eddie's" Short Reign per Room, men and women from as Monarch of the British Empire, the four corners of the earth bear just 15 stamps were issued. witness for their faith. SELLING YOUR HOUSE? We will sell all 15 stamps for only A housing service in the Philadelphia $1.00, to introduce our approval serv­ Each year, in this one number, suburbs ... endorsed by Friends ice of unusual sets "From All the the preachers and pastors stand YOU can help to overcome racial injustices World." aside and only laymen speak. The in your suburban community. J. MERRITT BRUNDIGE meditations they contribute are List your Suburban House with us Many fine people are applying for good houses Cambridge 1, N. Y. among the most inspiring of all - teachers, engineers, designers, doctors. the year. • Your house will be available to all interested boyers • We cooperate with other brokers If your church does not have a • AND you will be helplna- to estab- standing order for The Upper lish the principle of LAKE PAUPAC NON-DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING Room, please let us know imme­ The natural beauty of Lake diately how many copies of the Friends Suburban H'ousing, Inc. 53 Cricket Avenue • Ardmore, Pa. Paupac is one of its greatest May-June issue you will need. '------MI 9-2911 ______. charms. Much of the shoreline is Ten or more copies to one address, 7¢ rocky and wooded, and the cot­ per copy, postpaid. Consignment ordeT8 tages are so placed beyond a may be arranged, individual yearly sub­ RAMBO, CLOSE & KERNER lake-side strip of community acription by mail, $1 ; three years for Incorporated property that they are nearly $2. Order from INVESTMENT SECURITIES hidden among the trees. High on the hill overlooking the lake is PAUPAC LODGE, an informal DOROTHY EDGERTON RIDGWAY family resort in the nearby Po­ conos. Our twelfth season will The toorld's most toidely used open the last week-end in June. daily devotional guide Residence Telephone 1518 LOCUST STREET LAKE PAUPAC CLUB 3 7 Editions-31 Languages PAULSBORO PHILADELPHIA 2, PA. HAZEL 3·0300 PEnnypacker 5·2800 RICHARD P. BELL, Manager 1908 Grand Avenue Nashville 5, Tenn. 422 EAST RIDLEY AVENUE, RIDLEY PARK, PA. April 1, 1961 FRIENDS JOURNAL 151

FRIENDS BOOK STORE M 0 S E S BROWN SCHOOL 302 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA 6, PA. MArket 7-3576 A Boarding and Country Day School for Boys Quaker books, British and Amerlean, biogra­ phies, new books, large aeleetlon of children's Dedicated to Quaker ideals of education and life. booka. Any book In print will be ordered. Mall and telephone orders filled promptly. Under the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends. Branch, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa. While the school is strongly college preparatory, it makes every effort to help the individual find and develop his own best capacities. FRIENDS' Boardlng students from the 8th grade through the 12th CENTRAL SCHOOL Robert N. Cunningham, Headmaster Providence 6, R. I. OVERBROOK, PHILADELPHIA 31, PA. ARE YOU A SUBSCRIBER OR ONLY A READER? A Coeducational Country Day School

Four-year kindergarten through 12th Grade College Preparatory Curriculum Seventy-seventh Year Founded In 1845 by the Society of Friends, our school continues to emphasize Integrity, freedom, simplicity In education through concern for the Individual student. LINCOLN SCHOOL MERRILL E. BusH, Headmaster PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND A day and resident, college-preparatory school for girls. Conducted by the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends. Administered in the belief that students should be encouraged FRIENDS ACADEMY to develop thoughtful and discriminating attitudes toward life, a ESTABLISHED 1877 sympathetic interest in the welfare of other people, and an ap­ This coeducational day school with· preciation of enduring principles of value to a Christian world. In 25 miles of New Y ork provides a well balanced college pr eparatory Mary Louise Schaffner, Headmistress Providence 6, Rhode Island prog ram designed to s tress In the student a desire to live a creative Christian life In today's world. Kindergarten through Grade 12 A reduction in tuition ia available to Penn Charter's Message to Friends Not Enrolled in a Friends School: members of The Society of Friends. If the cost of attending a Friends school has discouraged you, If you wish a ALEXANDER TUNSTALL MACNUTT sound education with healthy athletic and ext racurricular programs for all Headmaster students, and If you value a strengthening Quaker atmos phere in education, we Invite you to consider PENN CHARTER. Box 8, Locust Valley, Long Island, N. Y. Founded In 1689 and carrying on the concern for education exPressed In W!ll!am Penn's Charter, unde r which It now operates, P enn Char ter can ot'fer substantial scholarship aid to students of g ood char a cter and a bility whose financial resources are limited. It welc omes Inqu iries from Friends. The Headmaster, JOHN F. GUMMERE The Meeting School William Penn Charter Sc:hool A COEDUCATIONAL FRIENDS BOARDING SCHOOL Philadelphia 44, Pa. RINDGE, N. H. BOY8-Xln4ergarten through Grade 12 GIBLB-Elndergarten through Grade 2 Started in 1957 Emphasizing Friends Testimonies • PEACE A FRIENDS COEDUCATIONAL BOARDING SCHOOL • SERVICE GRADES Pounded • SIMPLICITY 9-12 GEORGE SCHOOl 1893 Secondary School Level - Accepting RICHARD H. McFEELY, Principal concerned Young Friends for the tenth grade. A limited number of postgrad­ Enrollment has been completed for autumn of the coming school year. uate students will be accepted. A conventional high school curriculum A limited waiting list is being established from which applicants will offered. Russian, arts and crafts in­ be accepted as vacancies may occur. cluded. Send inquiries to Address inquiries to: ADELBERT MASON, Vice Principal George I. Bliss, Clerk Box 350, George School, Bucks County, Pennsylvania The Meeting School Rindge, N. H. CAMP ~ ~ POCONO the International Camp for Boys -···· Ages 7 to 17 in four separate age groups CHOCONUT A friendly cam p wher e boys of varied and interest ing backgrounds FRIENDSVILLE, SUSQUEHANNA come to learn a nd share a wide range of wor thwhile exper iences. Sail COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA and canoe on 14-mile lake high in the Poconos. All sports and crafts. CANOE T RI P in CANADA for QUALIFIED OLDER CAMPERS. Stressing Self·Reliance - Far bays from 9 to 16 ~ 42nd season. Inclusive fee. Quaker leadership. Boys learn to live, work, and p lay together ,~~~~~ ~· on 800 a cres in N. E. Pennsylvania, 20 CHAUNCEY F. PAXSON, PENNS PARK, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNA. miles south of Binghamton, N. Y. Profes­ (Room for a few qualified counselors on this year' s staff) sional leadership; correlated activities. Ca mperaft trips , natural science, projects. Sports include baseball, tennis, wrestling, swimming . Private spring-fed lak e. Brochure 0 11 request CAMP LEN-A-PE (Boys 4-16) INDIAN LODGE HOTEL MR. AND MRS. S. HAMILL HORNE L akefront hotel. Cabins . Riding, t en­ 637 MORRIS AVENUE, BRYN MAWR, PA. Indian, magician, nurse, etc. R iding, t ennis, water-skiing, etc. Overnight nis, sw imming, wa ter-skiing. On t he Phone: LA S-4582 canoe and horseback trips. most beautiful lake in the Poconos. • IN 'THE POCONOS 115 MILES FROM NEW YORK CITY AND PHILADELPHIA • PLEASE NOTIFY US THREE WEEKS IN DAVID S. and MARJORIE HEDLEY KEISER- Box 8825F, Phiadelphia 17, Pa.; MElrose 5-1682 Employ 50 counselors, maintenance men, cooks, hostesses, nurse, etc. Why n ot apply 1 ADVANCE OF ANY CHANGE OF ADDRESS

ON GRAND LAKE IN EASTERN MAINE CAMP CELO CELO WORK CAMP Ages 7- 11 • Ages 12 through 15 A farm-home camp in t h e Black Mountains • Active, in forma l program of working , swim­ of North Car olin a, for 24 boys and g irlB. ming, hiking f or 18 energetic young teen- FOR BOYS Non-regimented camp progr a m of w orship, • agers. Work is preparation for future Ar­ AGES: 11-18 work and p lay u nder Quaker leadership. thur Morg an School. Close by Ca mp Celo. OUTDOOR LIVING W rite Robert Barrus or Elizabeth Morgan, Route 5, Burnsville, N. C. and CANOE TRIPS (including Allagash R.) Small informal groups with In­ dividual attention given. Quaker leadership. C. I. T. and Junior FRIENDS JOURNAL is regularly on sale in the magazine Maine guide programs. department of the John Wanamaker store in Philadelphia. George F. Darrow, Director c/o OAKWOOD SCHOOL, POUGHKEEPSIE, H. Y. W H A T should a camp give a boy or girl? FRIENDS' SELECT SCHOOL F un ? Yes, or the camp won't last. Health a nd skills? Expected. Social adjustmen t? Unavoidable! A CAMP, far more t han a school, THE PARKWAY AT SEVENTEENTH ST. can influence attitudes and foster ideals. PHILADELPHIA 3, PENNSYLVANIA E stablished 1689 The FARM and WILDERNESS CAMPS Coeducational Day School try to create an atmosphere in which F riendly a t titudes and ideal s m ay b e cau gh t Kindergarten through T welfth Grade TIMBERLAKE for boys, 9-14 INDIAN BROOK for girls, 9-14 W hile college preparation is a p rimary TAMARACK FARM, the teen-age, co-ed work camp. 500-acre tract a im, person al guidance helps each student to develop as an individual. Spiritual of Vermont forest and farm land on a mountain lake. values and Quaker principles ar e empha­ F r iendly, relaxed, informal, with carefully plann ed work projects for all. Ext en­ sized. Centra l location provides many edu­ sive campcraft and trip programs, an integrated group, I ndian lore, sports, cation al r esources a nd easy access f r om square dancing, and general camp activities. Junior Counselor cour se. t he suburbs. Friends interested in a sound academic program are encour aged to apply, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Webb Woodstock, Vermont G. Laurence Blauvelt, Headmaster

The Sidwell Friends School HORIZON'S EDGE Started by Frie1UU in 1811 Thoma& W. SidweU, Principal, 1883-1936 A Country-Home Schoal This co-educational day school in the na­ tion's capital stresses good will, integrity of CANTERBURY, NEW HAMPSHIRE aration for colleges best suited to individ­ ual needs. A non-profit corporation since A family school for boys and girls, grades one through 1936 with a majority of trustees Friends. eight. Because young children need family life, our school character, and sound scholarship in prep- Kindergarten through Grade 12 is home-centered. We emphasize individual teaching, sound ROBERT S. LYLE, Headmaster academic foundation, creative arts, French in all grades. 3825 WISCONSIN AVENUE, N .W. WILLIAM AND MILDRED MEEH WASHINGTON 16, D. C.

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