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Minutes of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Three Hundred Fifty-First Year held at Bryant University Smithfield, Rhode Island August 6–11 2011 Contents Sessions . 5 Schedule Sessions Coordinating Staff & Volunteers List Minutes . 7 General Young Adult Friends Young Friends Addendum to Yearly Meeting Minutes (incl . FUM panel) Financial Statements . 58 General NEYM Statements Friends Camp New England Friends Home United Society of Friends Women Epistles . 69 General Epistle of Friends General Epistle in Spanish YAF Epistle YF Epistle JYM (5–6) Epistle JYM (K–2) Epistle Childcare Epistle Cuba Yearly Meeting Epistle Annual Reports . 77 Staff Permanent Board Other Committees Directory of Committees . 109 Officers & Staff Committees & Boards Appointments to Other Organizations Directory of Meetings . 128 Index & Key of Meetings Connecticut Valley Quarterly Meeting Dover Quarterly Meeting Falmouth Quarterly Meeting Northwest Quarterly Meeting Rhode Island-Smithfield Quarterly Meeting Salem Quarterly Meeting Sandwich Quarterly Meeting Vassalboro Quarterly Meeting Other Meetings in New England Statistics Member Address Directory . 170 Directory of Organizations . 187 General Index . 190 2011 New England Yearly Meeting Sessions Schedule Saturday, August 6 Sunday, August 7 Monday, August 8 Tuesday, August 9 Wednesday, August 10 Thursday, August 11 6:30–7:00 6:30–7:00 Early Morning Worship — sponsored by the Earthcare Ministry Committee (outside Bryant Center) 7:00–8:15 7:30 Breakfast for those 7:00–8:15 Breakfast (Salmanson Dining Hall, Unistructure) staying Friday night 8:30–9:00 8:30–9:00 Bible Half Hour with Maggie Edmondson, Winthrop Center (ME) Friends Church (Janikies Auditorium) 9:00–noon 9:30 Permanent Board 9:00 Meeting for Worship 9:15 Meeting for Worship (See YM news* for location) (Bello Center) for Business 9:30 Ministry & Counsel Worship (all ages) Young 11:00 Concluding 9:15 Meeting for Worship for the Conduct of Business (Janikies Auditorium) (See YM News* for location) Adult Friends worship (all ages) 10:00 Registration begins Junior YM leaves (9:45) (Hall 16 Lobby) Unprogrammed Worship 11:30–1:00 11:30–1:00 Lunch (Salmanson Dining Hall, Unistructure) 1:00–5:30 1:00 – 2:45 Committee 1:30–4:00 Community 1:30–4:00 Community 1:30–3:00 Anchor Groups 1:30–3:00 Anchor Groups 1:30 Permanent Board meetings (See YM news* Plenary (Bello Center): Plenary (Janikies): Theme (Location on front of nametag) (Location on front of nametag) (See YM News* for location) for locations) Theme presentation by presentation by members 2:00 Check-out ends 2011 SessionsSchedule 2:00 Meeting for Worship Steve Chase, Putney (VT) of Peace & Social Drop keys in box (Info Desk (Rotunda) Friends Meeting, followed Concerns and Racial, at Rotunda or Hall 16 lobby) by small group sharing Social, & Economic Justice 3:00 – 4:15 Parent/ in… Committees, followed by 3:15 Committee Fair, 3:15 Committee Fair, Sponsor & Youth Day 1 (Rotunda) Day 2 (Rotunda) Youth Programs Orientations (See YM 2:30–4:00 Anchor Groups 2:30–4:00 Anchor Groups (Location on front of nametag) (Location on front of nametag) Childcare: news* for locations) Sessions Su: 9–11:45am, & 4:30 – 5:00 Orientation 4:15 NEYM’s 350th 1:15–4:15pm; 4:15 Afternoon free time & special events: For rest, recreation, intergenerational activities, for first-time attenders Birthday Celebration M–W: 8:15–11:45am, & special presentations, small groups (worship sharing, interest groups), committee activities, daily Open (Bello Center) (Rotunda) 1:15–4:15pm; Meeting to Hear Concerns Th: 9–11:00am 5:00 Registration closes Junior Yearly Meeting & 5:00–6:30 5:00–6:30 Dinner (Salmanson Dining Hall, Unistructure) Junior Highers: 6:00–9:00 6:45 Opening 6:15 Vespers: Singing for 6:15 Vespers: Singing for 6:15 Vespers: Singing for 6:15 Vespers: Singing for Sa: 7:30–9pm; Celebration (all ages) all ages (outside Rotunda) all ages (outside Rotunda) all ages (outside Rotunda) all ages (outside Rotunda) Su: 9:45–11:45am, & 7–9pm; (Bello Center) 6:15 Orientation for first- 7:00 Meeting for Worship 7:00 “The Fire and the 7:00 Meeting for Worship M–W: 8:15–11:45am, 7:30 Children & youth time attenders (See YM for Business Hammer” (all ages) for Business & 7–9pm (No program staff leave News* for locations) NEYM singers perform Tuesday evening); 7:45 Welcoming & 7:00 Meeting for Worship 8:30 Contra Dance a choral work on George 8:30 Coffee House Th: 9–11:00am Junior YM only, Anchor Groups for Business (Janikies) (Salmanson Dining Hall) Fox’s life (Interfaith Center) (Salmanson Dining Hall) Su–M: 1:15–4:15pm; 9:00–11:00 9:00–10:00 Registration 9:00 Interest Groups 9:00 Interest Groups 9:00 Interest Groups 9:00 Interest Groups Tu–W: 1:15–3:15pm continues (Hall 16 Lobby) (See YM news* for topics (See YM news* for topics (See YM news* for topics (See YM news* for topics Young Friends: and locations) and locations) and locations) and locations) Day & evening program * YearlY Meeting news is published Saturday through Wednesday mornings at breakfast and on the web at sessions.neym.org, with information about events at Sessions. Deadlines for submissions: Sunday at noon; Monday and Tuesday at 1:30pm. Drop off materials at the Info Desk, located in the Rotunda in the Unistructure. Announcements, notices, and flyers not specifically related to Sessions will not be included in the YM news. Please check with the Info Desk for where to post these items. registration Hours: 8/6 Saturday (Hall 16 Lobby): 10:00am – 5:00pm; 9:00pm – 10:00pm 8/7 Sunday (Hall 16, Room 308): 8:00am – 9:00am; 1:00pm – 2:00pm; 7:00pm – 8:00pm 8/8 Monday – 8/10 Wednesday (Hall 16, Room 308): 9:30am – 10:30am; 4:15pm – 5:15pm To order CDs of community plenaries, the FUM panel, or The Fire & the Hammer, contact the NEYM Office, 508-754-6760 or 5 neym@neym .org . 6 New England Yearly Meeting 2011 2011 YM Sessions Coordinating Staff & Volunteers Access Needs Coordinator Jana Noyes-Dakota Accounts Mgr. Frederick Martin* Audio-Visual Coordinator Neil Blanchard Bible Half Hour Speaker Maggie Edmondson Bookstore Sandy Moyer (Manager), Virginia Bainbridge Children’s Bookstore Karen Sargent (Mgr), Christopher McCandless Christian Education Coordinator Beth Collea* Communications Dir./Office Mgr. Jeffrey Hipp* Database Mgr . Clifford Harrison Housing Coordinator Josiah Erikson Information Desk Eric Edwards, Chris Jorgenson, Nancy Marstaller Office Assistant Priscilla Ewen On-Site Sessions Coordinator Richard Frechette Pastoral Counselor Kevin Lee* Plenary Room/Display Coordinator Bruce Kay Clerks Linda Jenkins (Presiding), Brian Drayton & Rebecca Leuchak (Recording), Beth Bussiere Nichols & Will Jennings (Reading) Registrar Laurel Swan Sessions Children’s Peacemaker Nancy Shippen Sessions Committee Clerk Jean McCandless Special Needs Childcare Ed Kerwin, Emma Lippincott Special Nominating Data Entry Delia Windwalker Shuttle Coordinator Barbara Dakota Spanish Interpreters Mary Hopkins, Benigno Sanchez-Eppler Speakers/Presenters Steve Chase, John Sheldon, Greg Williams Treasurer Ed Mair Volunteer Coordinator Betty Poynton Youth Coordinators NiaDwynwen Thomas* (Young Friends/YAF), Kevin Lee* (JYM), Gretchen Baker-Smith* (JHYM) YM News Editor Liz Yeats Yearly Meeting Secretary Jonathan Vogel-Borne* Child Care Junior High Yearly Meeting Coord: Kimberly Walker-Gonçalves Coordinator: Gretchen Baker-Smith* Elias Borne, Grey Grantham, Anne Anderson, Dylan Anderson, Sarah Hunter, Avery Johnson, Holly Lapp, Buddy Baker-Smith, Lillie Catlin, Chandra Linnell, Zan Walker-Gonçalves Brian Colby, Emily Edwards, June Goodband, Adam Kohrman, Junior Yearly Meeting Jennifer Staples Coordinator: Betty Ann Lee Carol Baker, Dave Baxter, Young Friends Brad Bussiere-Nichols, Margy Carpenter, Coordinator: NiaDwynwen Thomas* Larissa Correia, Aliza Correia, Asst Coord: Kate Bonner-Jackson, Rebecca Edwards, Lisa Forbush-Umholtz, Zach Alexander, Tom Antonik, Betsy Kantt, Felice Lopez, Emily Mason, Aimee Belanger, Hilary Burgin, Ruth Mobilia-Heath, Theresa Oleksiw, Brianna Clark, Cassidy Clark, Peter Colby, Karin Sprague, Amy Lee Vieira, Jay Vieira Allon Storey Dubler, Jonah Erikson, Rocky Malin, Elaine Mar Afternoon Junior Yearly Meeting Coordinator: Cynthia Rankin Young Adult Friends Kevin Victoriano, Zach Kronisch Sessions Coordinator: Katherine Fisher * = Year-round staff member Minutes 7 Minutes of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends In this publication, a Friend’s meeting affiliation will often be identified with an abbreviat- ed meeting name after the individual’s name. A key to these abbreviations is on pp. 128/129. Saturday Evening, August 6 1. The New England Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends gathered on Saturday evening, August 6, 2011 for its 351st Annual Sessions at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI, singing as we entered. Out of gathered worship, the clerk, Linda Jenkins (NSan), welcomed all to this, our celebration at the ending of our 350th year . 2. Members of the clerks’ table were introduced: Linda Jenkins, presiding clerk; Rebecca Leuchak (Prov) and Brian Drayton (Weare), recording clerks; Frances Brokaw (Han), and Will Jennings (BHill), reading clerks. 3. In her welcome, the clerk reminded us that this week together our theme is 350 Years of New England Friends: Called to Heal a Broken Earth . We recognize the num- ber 350 is shorthand for our crisis condition: human behavior has taken us past the point of no return. It will take a miracle to recover the condition of the earth that our human conduct has brought. She said that this is our cross: 350 represents the parts per million of carbon dioxide in the air that allows the earth to be as most of us knew it as children. Three hundred fifty is also the number of years we have been a faith community in New England . That is our joy . And both bring us to the spirit . Two hundred fifty of us began our celebration of 350 years of New England Friends on Friday, with singing and waiting worship at the Great Meetinghouse in Newport .