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Other of us groaned agreement, hopped from Marie McGowan foot to foot to stay warm, and strained to catch sight of an approaching trolley. None Bookkeeper Nancy Siganuk could be seen. Poetry Editor Now, two hours later, as I sit at Friends Center and feel the warmth of a second Judith Brown cup of coffee, I think of Jim Neveil, our friend and colleague at the JoURNAL these Development Data Entry past 16 years. His death on February 10 brought sadness to our office during a cold, Pamela Nelson hard winter. Intern Cat Buckley Jim was a JOURNAL veteran. He joined our staff after taking early retirement from Volunteers the world ofbusiness. As a traditional, old-fashioned bookkeeper, he brought the Jane Burgess, Robert Sutton skills we needed. 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8 The Development of Quaker Marriage, 2 Among Friends 1653-1677 4 Forum Bruce Ames Folsom Contemporary Friends still use procedures for marriage 5 Viewpoint developed in the earliest years ofthe Quaker movement. 24 AFSC Notes 10 Marriage: A Divine Covenant Siva Raven 26 Parents' Comer This marriage is a gift given not on individual terms or the terms currently set by enlightened society but on God's terms. 27 Reports 11 Contemplative Practice in a Quaker 29 News of Friends Context 30 Bulletin Board Jim Flory There are ways in which all Friends can benefit by making our 31 Calendar meetings more nurturing for contemplatives. 32 Books 13 The Inward Teacher Among Us Today 35 Film Marcelle Martin God sometimes communicates in ways beyond rational comfort. 36 Milestones 16 Terror in the Heartland: A Friend's 39 Classified Perspective Clarence Cullimore III -42 Meetings The bombing ofthe Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, continues to affoct Friends and their Poetry presence in that city one year later. 20 Benjamin, the Meetinghouse Mouse 19 April (for Mary Seymour) Clifford Pfeil Enoch Dillon Benjamin finds a friend among concerned members. (Part 2 of8) Resurrection 23 Quaker Quiz Carolyn Tait Underwood Esther Greenleaf Miirer Sharpen your wits for an adventure in Quaker esoterica! 22 A Prayer (Luke 18:9-12) Big Bang Monthly meeting was going fine until Dudley's slip into profanity Robert Kunkel with the four-letter "V" word. To Whom It May Concem Ultratranscendentalist Hymn Esther Greenleaf Miirer

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Beijing anyone? Under a bushel Great -grandfather I am a member, age 20, of Friends Thank you for the articles on evangelical Just 115 years ago, in 1881, my great­ Meeting at Cambridge (Mass.). Since the Friends and on Friends worldwide (FJ Dec. grandfather, William Penn Reynolds, born fall of 1995 I have been studying in China. I 1995). I do wish Mark Cary's article had in 1844 in western Indiana, was "released" will be in Beijing through July 1996 at the made clear that there are many Friends in by the eastern Illinois meeting where he had Capital Normal University. programmed meetings who are not married in 1868 and settled. The minutes I would like to meet other Quakers who evangelicals at all, at least in Quaker terms, state that it was at his request, and no written are in Beijing. My pager number in Beijing but very liberal Christians-just as liberal as records exist to offer explanation. "New is 4614488-192 (ability in spoken Chinese is the liberal Christians in unprogrammed ways" coming into vogue seem likely to necessary to leave a message), or a message meetings. Nevertheless, the idea behind have been a major factor. He went on could be left at CET, Capital Normal such articles as these remains valid: If we farming and building houses, but for the rest University College of Foreign Languages, Friends do not know about and understand of his life he was a Quaker under a new Building #3, Jia 23 Baiduizi, Fuchengmen other Friends in the United States and label-Conservative. His wife, later that Wailu, Haidian district. elsewhere, how can we expect our fellow meeting's clerk, and probably keeping in Peter Radocchia citizens to learn about and understand step with her family and hometown, was of Beijing, China Friends? How can we teach Quakerism a different opinion. She thought the music when we are ignorant of it? and the program offered more for children, Tongue twister My wife, Judy, a kindergarten teacher at and indeed it offered enough that one son a public school in Paterson, N.J., has an and two grandsons and two great-grandsons Jesse Garrison, age ten, of Oxford (Ohio) anecdote in this connection. She has told committed themselves to pastoral and/or Meeting sends in the following tongue many fellow teachers and aides that she is a missions work. twister. Say it five times fast! Quaker. Many hadn't the vaguest idea of Two decades later, these great­ "How much peace could a peace-keeper what a Quaker might be. Many others said grandparents relocated to a community keep, if a peace-keeper could keep peace?" that Quakers were very similar to (or the south of Indianapolis where he could attend Jesse Garrison same as) Amish, wearing plain clothes, his type of meeting and she hers. This Oxford, Ohio driving horses and buggies, and living on arrangement continued until shortly before farms-even though the real Quaker in front his death in 1924, when they had to go live of them contradicted all these notions. Not with a son elsewhere. My father stayed with Worth the price one of Judy's colleagues, black or white, them once for continuity in schooling while For me, the Peg Phillips interview alone knew of Quaker involvement in antislavery his parents moved, attended meeting with (FJ Jan.) was worth the entire year's or civil rights struggles; and not one knew of each of them, and puzzled over this subscription. My wife and I were delighted Quaker pacifism. However, one aide difference to the end of his life. I puzzle over to discover that one of our favorite immigrated from southern Peru about 15 it still. My father believed that in all other characters in our all-time favorite TV series, years ago, and she recognized Quakers respects, his grandparents' life together was Northern Exposure, is a Quaker, whose life instantly as the members of Peru's INELA harmonious. somewhat matches the centeredness and (Iglesia Nacional Evangelica de los I learned at boarding school that lightheartedness she put into her character, Amigos)! She was the only one of Judy's Conservative Friends sometimes called Ruth Ann. We were further delighted to colleagues who had an accurate, pastoral Friends (when they thought they learn that she takes her fame with a grain of contemporary idea of who Quakers are! weren't listening) "Fast Friends." I expect salt and a twinkle in her eye and that she is The moral that 1 take from this story: Too that Great-Grandfather saw the people engaged in other good works as well. many of us are closet Quakers. We're promoting the new ways as "Fast Friends" Our favorite episode featuring Peg was experts at keeping our light under a bushel. too, and suspected they were not too sorry to the one in which, after a fiustrating time at I've heard that Johan Maurer, General be relieved of the embarrassment of his old the store, Ruth Ann rides off into the night Secretary of Friends United Meeting, has hat and collarless coat and his ''thees" and on a Harley-Davidson for an adventure with preached Quakerism and pacifism on the ''thous"- and who knows but that he had a motorcycle gang. radio in Russia and on television in New some difficult personal characteristics Peg was definitely an important York City. How many of us will follow his besides deafness. But was this important contributor to the wit, intelligence, and example? enough for him and his traditionalist Friends playfulness with which Northern Exposure JeremyMott to be, or feel, cut off? His obituary noted was so generously imbued. Now we see that Ridgewood, N.J. that he was a birthright Friend and called her real life isn't really very far from that of him "a man of sterling integrity and ofan her character. unyielding faith in God," and my father once Thank you, Peg! included him on a list of the 14 "most real Arden Buck religious persons" he had ever known. Boulder, Colo. Sabron Reynolds Newton Chicago, Ill.

-~"' Pe• Phillips (center) on the set of Ruth Anne's ~ They deserved store In Northam Exposure with Anne ~<:> disownment and Bill St. Germain, ~ Why is everyone so upset that members of Eastside ~ Cleveland (Ohio) Meeting was disowned? (Wash.) Meeting Cl It's about time. Some people simply have

4 Apri/1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL Viewpoint Everything You Do Affects Everyone Else This viewpoint appeared in the March 1996 really loving, really loved, and very talented. night, are generally from privileged Young Friends Newsletter ofPhiladelphia They have made the conscious choice to families and backgrounds. In their fun, Yearly Meeting. become involved heavily in drugs, and I guess though, they don't seem to realize they I have made the choice not to preach to them are supporting an industry that has wiped want to talk about something that I'm about my antidrug feelings. I know the truest out entire families and communities. experiencing at college, something that lessons are learned firsthand; that is the way I Buying that eighth of dope or whatever I has made me very upset and confused. learned to hate drugs. indirectly keeps the drug industry alive. I' m addressing this letter to Young Friends This kind of drug use angers me for a The people at Yale have the ability to especially because you, like many of the political reason as well. Being a half puerto­ choose whether or not to take drugs. people at college, have been lucky enough riquena, I was raised used to the sights of the Twelve-year-olds are not so strong; neither to be raised in an economically strong barrio, where most of my family lives: sights are innocent people who are killed, caught family- strong enough, at least, to always of people dancing on the streets to loud salsa in the crossfire; nor whole communities have food on the table. and merengue; smells of the rice and beans when they are facing a multimillion-dollar Something I have seen and heard more boiling on the stove, wafting out of every industry and hardly have the government of at college than I did in high school is abuela 's [grandmothers's] window; and helping them in their cause. drug use. Mostly the drug is alcohol, one sounds of quick conversations in Spanish that I am furious that my privileged friends that is very often abused to the disgusting whiz by your ears. and classmates, as educated as they are, point of passing out, throwing up, and However, all the sights are not this lively. support one of the most horrible and being sent to the hospital. Other times the Much of this vibrant activity takes place in grotesque industries of today. I am drug is pot, acid, or beyond. Something neighborhoods of extreme poverty, where begging you to think about this. As a that strikes me about this drug use is that it boarded-up houses are another common sight. Quaker, ifyou use drugs, you also support is not occurring in people who have serious I have grown up seeing families trying their an industry that is responsible for the use emotional problems, in people who are best to survive in neighborhoods where of powerful guns and weapons on and by crying out for attention, or in people who violence exists at horrible levels and where our nation's youth. do not have the hope or ability to focus on drugs have become a major influence. Families It is true that everything you do affects things other than drugs. Rather, this drug have tried to survive while the government everyone else in your community, city, use, as far as I have seen, occurs basically and the police have looked the other way, and world. It is up to you to decide whether as a pastime. People who are looking for ignoring the problem. It is easy for people to you will use your power to make that a fun go and do drugs, get bombed or wasted. forget el barrio, since it is totally separate positive or negative change. I have made In a good university where activities in the from the rest of the city. It is like this with all my decision, and not only have I helped arts and sports are always going on, drug poor neighborhoods. They are apart, and they others' lives, but I've made mine a truly use is still the recreational activity ofchoice remain forgotten by the people who have the spiritual and rewarding one. for many people. power to help them change. More power to ya. This has especially upset me this year This is why drug use angers me, because close friends of mine have made specifically the drug use I see happening at Quiara Alegria Hudes the choice to dive seriously into drugs. Yale and other schools. The people doing Philadelphia, Pa. These are friends who are really smart, these drugs for recreation, for a fun Saturday

to learn the hard way, and need to foundation stone of the Religious Society of did not suggest, for instance, that we should understand that "No" means "No." Friends- that we may corporately eradicate money because love of money was Where are the ones who should be upset understand the will of God. the root of evil. that Cleveland Meeting was wantonly Three cheers to Ohio Yearly Meeting­ Second, the belief that drug use causes violating the spirit of unity in Ohio Yearly for backbone, for courage, and for maturity violent behavior is unfounded except in the Meeting? Through selfishly seeking a in dealing with rebellion. May God raise up case of alcohol consumption. There is a defiant path, Cleveland got what it deserved. more yearly meetings like them! direct correlation, however, between The sense of the meeting to Ohio Yearly violence and drug law enforcement. As Brian Daniels Meeting was not to allow same-gender enforcement becomes more vigorous, drug Wabash, Ind. marriages. Who has the right to expect marketing is relegated to increasingly anything less than disownment on such a aggressive individuals, and violence levels volatile issue? Legalization of drugs rise. Where are these supposedly open­ Walter Wink's excellent article on I agree with Walter Wink that it makes minded Friends whose only sense of legalizing drugs (FJ Feb.), with which I no sense to combat one violence with tolerance is to agree with those who agree wholeheartedly agree, succinctly illuminated another. It makes even less sense to with them? If anything, the foundation of the major talking points and even addressed continue a form of law enforcement violence our Friends business is to discern the sense potential problems arising from legalization. that is itself responsible for the violence of the meeting-from little things like the Congratulations. from which it purports to be protecting us. paint on the church walls to big things like Two issues might be further clarified. David Rhodes same-gender marriage. Cleveland Meeting First, the "evil" of drugs surely does not Wonewoc, Wis. was arrogant, impudent, and plain out-of­ refer to drugs themselves, but rather to line with its decision. Worse yet, it was behavior that has come to be associated with Our perceptions of drug use are not about the business of undermining a the abuse and marketing of drugs. Timothy anywhere near reality. I personally feel drug fRIENDS JOURNAL Apri/1996 5 use should be treated as a health problem, vision are clouded. They are spiritually for a quick death when they were old or not as a legal problem. bankrupt and have absolutely no idea why. weak. Today's reality is another dimension. Unfortunately, it usually takes a crisis to get These letters leave out important The point that the solution to drugs lies in anyone into treatment, but they are indeed considerations. Animals may be treated with creating a severe economic disadvantage to the lucky ones! Eventually the Light Within relative kindness on a family farm, but most those who sell the drugs could work. The warms and begins to grow, and they begin of them, after all, are kept for the benefit of answers are also in educating our children to heal. the farmers. Many are sent to the and society by creating economic With healing comes the search for slaughterhouse in their prime, not for opportunities for all people. Low-paying wholeness, the perpetual quest for God's euthanizing. And, as Lamborn points out, jobs should have the same company benefits guidance and will, a spiritual knowledge and only about one percent of our population are as middle- and upper-paying jobs. It's the connectedness that is incorruptible. This is now farmers. The vast majority of animals benefits and pay that make a job worth what Walter Wink would put up for sale kept for food purposes exist on factory keeping. Otherwise, why flip hamburgers with the legalization of drugs. farms, where kindness seldom enters the when welfare will pay for your sick child in picture. the hospital? Lauren E. Wilkens We humans differ in important ways Riverside, N.J. Another reality is that we as a nation from other animals. As Carol Adams cannot take care of an individual on welfare Walter Wink's article is outstanding, as it pointed out in The Sexual Politics ofMeat, without a bureaucracy of government covers so many of the reasons for we do not pursue and bring down our prey, employees to ensure that the individual gets legalization. kill it with tooth and nail, and tear the flesh those benefits. We as a nation cannot even I have been a proponent oflegalization off the bones to consume it raw. Nor are we, settle the national budget, let alone balance for at least 25 years. The only reason I can in the manner of our carnivorous sisters and one. see that it has not happened yet is that most brothers, incapable of identifying with the The bureaucracy needed to deal with the of these drugs were made illegal at the time extreme distress of the victim. If we do our control and distribution of drugs would cost Prohibition was lifted in the early 1930s. I own killing we must deliberately close down more to maintain than our current am sure the alcohol industry would fight our hearts to their screams. We must use government. If U.S. corporations could with every cent they could to keep drugs instruments to kill and to cut apart; the conduct these services, they might do a illegal. They are fearful that too many pieces must be cooked. This instrumental better job than the government. However, people will turn to these now illegal drugs process of killing and dismembering, which corporations won't do anything and stop buying alcoholic beverages. the vast majority of us have others do for us environmentally or socially unless thay can out of sight, distances us from the violent show a profit. Similarly, health insurance Diane Reimers reality. Carol Adams calls the killed and companies are set up to make a profit. The Jackson, Wyo. eaten animal the "absent referent"; the living being with feelings and interests of her or U.S. government, it seems, is the only As a psychiatrist who has seen many business that can operate at a loss and not go addicts, and as a long-time member of the his own becomes a thing for another's out of business. staff of Friends Hospital and the Northeast consumption. The process is disagreeable, The author may be leading us in a viable Community Center for Mental Health/ and Lamborn, like most who eat flesh, found direction. Solutions to drug use rest in you Retardation, Philadelphia, Pa., I have long it appropriate to have others do it on her and me. favored the decriminalization of addictive behalf Steven M. Hoelzer drugs. Walter Wink's article ably delineates Friends are challenged here in regard not Columbus, Ohio the failure of the criminalization of drugs, as only to nonviolence but also to truth and happened with alcohol during Prohibition. I integrity. Would those who use the food Statistics can be framed to support any agree the important step in drug control is chain argument to defend eating flesh be kind of picture one wishes. to paint. My robbing the drug trade of its profits. Equally willing to procure a living chicken or rabbit and kill it with their own hands (or teeth)? overall reaction to Walter Wink's article was important is the establishment and funding Nonhuman carnivorous and omnivorous one of great sadness and dismay. I thought, of drug treatment centers. animals, because of their limited here is yet another person who hasn't the My only criticism of the article is consciousness, have little choice (at present) slightest idea about the disease of addiction inclusion of caffeine among the dangerous but to follow the instinct to kill. We human or the pain, confusion, and heartache it drugs such as heroin, cocaine, animals are not bound to follow any drive to inflicts. People just don't realize that anyone amphetamines, etc. kill creatures with feelings. We are not who uses has the potential to become an Robert A. Clark addict; it is only a matter of time. Elkins Park, Pa. bound to follow the dictates of our culture's Continued use for most people conventions, in which eating flesh (as highly progresses into an increased tolerance level. desirable "meat") has long been taken for As tolerance develops, people slip across Vegetarianism granted, though there is increasing evidence that insidious line into the disease called The letters by Ruth Marsh and Suzanne that we can be entirely healthy without it. addiction. Addiction impacts the entire Lamborn (FJ Jan.) responding to Barry We who can entertain the image of the human being-spiritually, emotionally, and Zalph's essay on vegetarianism (FJ Oct. Peaceable Kingdom, and can pray for its physically. When I look around, I see a 1995) assume that animals are, among other increasing realization, have the option to nation in the throws of a pandemic, and no things, rightly used as human interest lead. one seems to know or care. What we see in dictates. Friend Marsh says that "Ruminant Gracia Fay Ellwood the recovery field is only the tip of a grand animals not only convert inedible plant Altadena, Calif and massive iceberg. materials into meat for humans but for all People are living, working, making carnivorous and omnivorous animals as I found Barry Zalph's approach to be decisions-all under the influence of mood­ well. ..." Friend Lamborn speaks ofhaving much too simplistic. He comments several altering drugs. (Alcohol is the biggest been a dairy farmer whose animals were times that vegetarianism is more culprit.) Their understanding, judgment, and treated kindly but sent to the slaughterhouse ecologically sound. This summer I made a

6 Apri/1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL divergence regarding sexual practice? Pulling out the tares may weaken the wheat plants, so that they also are destroyed. At harvest time a "third way" will be evident to tender seekers. Keith Smiley Durham, N.C. Quaker women Geneva (Switzerland) Meeting has received a bequest that is being used to establish a library of books in English and French that are by and about Quaker women. We are particularly interested in books that describe how Quaker women have put their beliefs into practice. We have been reviewing the standard lists from sources in Britain and the United States and now would like suggestions from the readers of FRIENDS JouRN AL of lesser known works or authors. Please send your suggestions to: Librarian, Geneva Friends Meeting, Maison trip to Iowa, where I saw fields and fi elds of still hungry people there, as well as those Quaker, 3 av du Mervelet, 1208 Geneva, soybeans, the most popular plant protein who are overfed. Switz. Yonny Levy used by vegetarians. These are grown using Kathryn Dau-Schmidt St. Genis-Pouilly, France the "no-till" method, whereby the ground is Brackley Beach, Prince Edward Island not plowed at all during the growing cycle, resulting in very little loss of topsoil. I can appreciate Suzanne P. Lamborn's Near at hand Because the weeds are not uprooted by "different view" as a dairy farmer (Forum Paul Buckley's "Dear Augusta" (FJ Jan.) plowing, however, farmers must rely heavily Jan.). Many Friends have agricultural prompted me to read again a poem found on herbicides as well as pesticides and backgrounds. But to all Friends I would among my mother's papers after her death: chemical fertilizers. inquire whether vegetarianism may be an Likewise, there are areas of the great expression of reverence for life in I dare not slight the stranger at my gate plains that should never have been used for accordance with the Friends Peace Threadbare ofgarb, sorrowful of lot, crops. These are very dry areas that evolved Testimony and the principles of simple Lest it be Christ that stands and goes His as grasslands grazed on by large mammals living; whether vegetarianism is in keeping way (buffalo and deer). Plowing them for crops with concerns for a healthful lifestyle, for Because I, all unworthy, knew Him not. does terrible damage that will take centuries preservation of the environment, and for I dare not miss one flash of loving cheer to repair and only provides a borderline feeding the people of the world. These From alien souls, in challenge fine and high; living for the farmers. These areas are best views were revealed to me by a Quaker Ah, what if God be moving very near­ used for grazing cattle, not for growing food vegetarian. If the sentiments of Friends And I, so blind, so deaf, had passed Him by? plants. involved in handling animals for industry There are areas in southern California were the industry's standard, perhaps some Laura Nell Morris that produce massive amounts offiuit and would be less inclined to abstain from meats Washington, D.C. vegetables through irrigation. This practice and dairy and/or egg products. I don't think results in pollution of the ground water as the Friend opting to eat vegetarian can be well as raising the salt levels of these waters considered wrong. Indeed, neither should so high that when the rivers move from the Friend who disagrees with vegetarian southern California to Mexico, the views. Mexicans are unable to use the water. The point remains that disagreement Barry Zalph also says "meat-based doesn'tjustify division. Can we reach agriculture drastically reduces the possibility consensus on that? of adequately feeding the hungry world." Gerald Niles FRIENDS JOURNAL welcomes Forum con­ Food distribution, not food production, is the Lake City, Fla. tributions. Please try to be brief so we problem. U.S. farmers, in some cases, are may include as many as possible. Limit paid not to grow food; in Canada there are Until the harvest letters to 300 words, Viewpoint to I ,000 quotas. Even in parts of the world where words. Addresses are omitted to main­ food is in short supply, this is often the I recall a discussion with Howard tain the authors' privacy; those wishing result of the land being used to grow cotton Brinton, sage ofPendle Hill, regarding the to correspond directly with authors may or coffee instead of food for the people who need of bringing together Friends of send letters to FRIENDS JouRNAL to be work the fields. different traditions. Howard's response forwarded. Authors' names are not to be Things are not as simple as Barry Zalph concluded with these words: "Let the two used for personal or organizational so­ portrays them. Remember, a large portion of grow together until the harvest." How does licitation. - Eds. India's population is vegetarian; there are this quotation relate to the current

FRIENDS JOURNAL April 1996 7 The Development of Quaker Marriage 1653-1677

1753 there were still several ways of en­ tering into it. The Catholic Church began to require the presence of a priest for a valid and binding marriage in 1563, but the Anglican Church did not recognize this innovation. By ecclesiastical law in England, the spousals (the formal ex­ change oforal promises, usually with wit­ nesses) were as legally binding a contract as the church wedding. Actually, any sort of exchange ofpromises before witnesses followed by cohabitation was regarded in English law as valid marriage. During the 16th and 17th centuries English clergy and laity increasingly came to regard the church wedding as the key ceremony. However, the civil lawyers who ran the courts continued to recog­ nize the spousals with witnesses. This led to considerable confusion about who was married and who was not. It was not until Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753 that marriage was clearly defined. After that time only a church wedding would be legally bind­ ing; all marriages had to be entered in the parish register and signed by both parties; to marry under the age of 21 required consent of parents or guardians; and en­ forcement ofthe law was transferred from church courts to secular courts. Because prior to 1753 any form of exchange of promises before witnesses by Bruce Ames Folsom creation of legitimate offspring: "mutual followed by cohabitation was regarded as society, help, and comfort, that the one a valid marriage, the legal validity of the uakerism and Quaker marriage ought to have of the other, both in pros­ Quaker marriage ceremony was estab­ developed against the backdrop perity and in adversity." This emphasis lished by 1661. Quakers followed the Pu­ Q of the Reformation. One of the was developed even further by later Puri­ ritan criticism of the Anglican Church for changes from Catholic to Prot­ tans who put mutual comfort and support secret betrothals, child weddings, forced estant thought was a shift from seeing before procreation (a priority first adopted marriages, and hasty ceremonies. They celibacy as an ideal for all people and a by William Tyndale as early as 1528). opposed an exchange of rings as well as legal obligation for priests, monks, and Historian Lawrence Stone comments: such vows as "with my body I thee wor­ nuns, to seeing marriage as the ethical "Marriage for Puritans was an extension ship" as too pagan. They opposed mar­ norm for Christians. In 1549 English Arch­ of Covenant theology and was regarded riage of first and sometimes second cous­ bishop Cranmer officially added a third as a sanctified contract, with binding mu­ ins, practices common in the Church of reason for marriage to the old formula­ tual obligations. . . . They increasingly England. tion of avoidance of fornication and pro- tended to emphasize companionship and It was George Fox who established friendship as the prime considerations." the first written guidelines for Quaker Bruce Ames Folsom is a member ofSan Fran­ In England marriage was fairly well marriage. In a 1668 entry in his Journal, cisco (Calif.) Meeting. defined by the 16th century, but up until Fox refers to a "paper [that he had writ-

8 Apri/1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL FRIENDS JouRNAL has set an ambitious goal of raising $800,000 in gifts and pledges by December 31, 1996. For the joURNAL to achieve this campaign goal of building an endowment, many Friends must come f.Orward to make an investment in the future. Here are ways of giving we ask you to consider:

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Similar to the gift annuity but a lot more flexible in terms ofwhat it can do in your particular situation. A Gift of a Life Insurance Policy. Donate an existing policy and receive a charitable deduction for its cash value. ten] about 1653 concerning ofmarriages ." eluded in their advice on proper Quaker on the Marriage Relationship," FRIENDS In Quaker Social History, 1669- 1738, behavior a section on marriage: JoURNAL, June 1989.) It is clear that Fox Arnold Lloyd describes the procedures and Fell married not for the purpose of Fox wrote of in this paper: Intentions of manjage to be made known to having children or for financial gain but the Children of Light, especially those of the that "all might come up into marriage as it meeting where the parties are members. The The couple should first consult privately some was in the beginning" (paraphrase by older Friends; their proposal ofm arriage might marriage to be solemnized in the fear of the Lord, and before many witnesses, after the Lloyd). It was a demonstration that mar­ then be announced towards the end of the riage is to be undertaken by two redeemed meeting for worship which they usually at­ example of scripture, and a record to be made persons at the direct and clearly appre­ tended, so that it might be further scrutinized in writing, to which the witnesses may sub­ and any former engagements brought to light. scribe their names. hended command of God. Objections were to be considered at the next London Yearly Meeting published a general meeting for church affairs and there n a 1659 epistle, Fox articulated a solemn epistle in 1675 warning Friends settled. When the couple had been liberated strong prohibition against marrying against marriage between first cousins, both by older Friends and by members oftheir I non-Quakers, drawing on Exodus, breaking marriage engagements, and not own meeting, an announcement of the forth­ Deuteronomy, Nehemiah, and II Corin­ publishing the banns. Clearly the fact that coming marriage might be made at the end of thians. This position was supported by these practices were mentioned indicates the public meeting for worship, or "in the Robert Barclay in The Anarchy of the that they were happening all too fre­ mid-time of the market," but the couple need Ranters and William Penn in Primitive quently. follow neither course unless they were moved The first marriage certificate to be to do so. Christianity Revived. After a suitable interval, the parties at­ By 1667 Fox had become concerned signed by the couple themselves (in addi­ tended a meeting for worship with at least 12 over the failure ofFriends to follow proper tion to the witnesses) was in 1676. The older Friends, where a testimony was given procedures-few obtained parental con­ Hough-Barnes certificate records the en­ on their behalf and they themselves spoke as sent or informed their meeting, banns were tire process from the first intention of they were moved All those present, exclud­ not published, and justices not notified. In marriage to the final ceremony itself. ing the bride and bridegroom, signed a dated some cases a couple would stand in a certificate as witnesses and the marriage was meeting for worship and take one another he last major step in the develop­ reported to the magistrate by the couple if in marriage without any prior notification ment of the Quaker marriage as it they felt it right to do so. Fox laid down that to the meeting at all. Part ofFox's motiva­ is still practiced today was the stan­ nothing was to be done for money, and, in an T additional note, declared that the bill of di­ tion in setting up men's and women's dardization of the wording of the certifi­ vorcement, a concession to weakness among meetings was to prevent such "loose cate. Lloyd states: Jews, Gentiles, and apostate Christians, was liberty." In 1677 an official marriage certificate was no longer relevant to the condition of those A long, detailed, 1669 epistle gives who came together "as it was in the begin­ many provisions for marriage. In it Fox drafted by the Quaker lawyer, Thomas ning." Rudyard, at the request of the Meeting for prohibits being married by priests, or mar­ Sufferings; it was submitted to the Morning The marriage might be published in the rying "unbelievers"; he advises having marketplace, not in the least as a concession Meeting and finally to the Six Weeks' Meet­ no fewer than 12 Friends and relations ing, who were responsible for the oversight of to public sentiment but because it was desir­ present after first obtaining approval of marriage discipline in London; they recorded able to 'judge" the World's marriages. The the men's meeting, and then recording "that the form of a certificate about marriage advice about procedure was throughout quali­ this day is agreed to be made use of for the fied by the clause "as they are moved," and the marriage in a book. He requires chil­ the responsibility at each step was squarely dren of prior marriages be provided for time to come and that the words to be spoken placed on the couple wishing to marry. The before allowing a second marriage. Fox by the Friends that take each other be given to the persons by Ellis Hookes and they desired civil registration required by the act of 1653 reminds us that marriages in the Scrip­ was to be ignored, unless the couple felt it tures used no ring. He advises no man to to observe to speak them as near as they can." right to report their marriage to a justice. As Hookes was both clerk to the Six Weeks' speak to a woman about marriage before Meeting and registering officer, no copy of informing her parents and obtaining their the certificate was entered in the records, but Fox also wrote a brief epistle on mar­ consent, and that if there were any prior it is safe to assume that any certificate issued riage in 1653 and a longer one in 1654. engagements, written release from that in the London area after this date is in the Neither give specific marriage procedures, person must first be obtained. Fox also form officially approved. but both offer insight into Fox's under­ writes that " if any man should defile a standing of marriage. woman he must marry her, if she is a With this the form of Quaker marriage beggar, though he have never so many became set and has remained virtually argaret Fell, in her 1656 epistle hundreds." (This is somewhat at odds unchanged since that time. Though on marriage (unpublished text with his earlier advice that marriage should Friends have often, then as now, veered M courtesy of Elsa Glines), differs take place only by God's command.) Fox away from our traditional discipline, and slightly from Fox's procedures. She rec­ goes on to require a marriage proposal be many statements have been needed to ommends men Friends present at the mar­ submitted first to the women's meeting, exhort Friends to remain faithful to our riage, and who feel free to do so, sign a and if approved there, then to be sent on traditional practice, it is nevertheless true "little note." She offers a short text for the to the men's meeting. that marriage today is one of our oldest note and recommends that the couple It was in the same year, 1669, that testimonies connecting us directly to our should take it the next day, or as soon as George Fox (age 45) and Margaret Fell forebears. It is to be hoped that while we convenient, to the justice of peace. This (age 55) married. (For an excellent dis­ consider changes to accommodate con­ became the standard practice. cussion of their marriage, see Caroline temporary needs and issues we not lose Also in 1656 the elders of Balby in- Whitbeck, "Friends Historical Testimony sight of our ancient testimony. Q

FRIENDS JOURNAL Apri/1996 9 Marriage: A Divine Covenant by Siva Raven ·

have been thinking a lot about my the self-control I often lack in relating to in a way that is often contrary to my most relationship with my husband and the my partner. I am continually grateful for fundamental instincts and to what I de­ I marriage and relationship that pre­ the strength of the Light, which guides cide is "fair" or "meeting my needs"- as ceded it. I can easily see why most mar­ me in this leading to parent. I define those needs, not as Spirit defines riages end. I believe that the absolute At the same time, my relationship with those needs!- and is definitely politically belief my partner and I have that our my partner seems fraught with my basest incorrect at times. I am having to accept marriage was and is a spiritual leading­ insecurities, selfishness, and disrespect, where and who we are not only in terms a gift from God and a sacred trust- is the often completely lacking in self-control. I of what I want, what we will become, saving grace of our marriage. It alone has can be as far from transcendent with him and what we will achieve in connection held us together at times, when even love as I am transcendent with our child. I find but in terms of what Spirit gives us to wasn't enough. This has given me the this perplexing. It is hopeless to try to use share with each other at each and every time I have needed to see our marriage in with my partner any of the skills I so moment. new Light and given my partner the time easily employ with strangers. I am re­ Often that actually seems like less than he needs to walk though his fears as well. duced to my lowest denominator, fear, it what! want to give. I haven'treally learned I had always felt that it was reasonable seems, and vice versa. And yet, Spirit has to hand my partner over to Spirit. I con­ to assume I was entitled to defme my brought us together and keeps us together. tinue to operate as if I were the voice of needs from a relationship and to work to The difficulty of realizing the "perfect Spirit. I trust Spirit fully with myself, but get those needs met, expecting the same union" with my spouse reminds me that when it comes to my partner, I tend to from my partner. What I wanted and the ultimate perfect union is between me believe that Spirit really needs my help. I thought I needed, my ideal family; would and Spirit and that this union makes me am afraid that Spirit will allow my mate help me to heal from previous wounds whole and heals my wounds. My rela­ to forget. I fear that if my mate forgets and banish loneliness in my life. My part­ tionship with Spirit fills me, comforts me, (gets distracted by ambition, money, al­ ner would respect and value me and our guides me. It is my primary relationship cohol, old hurts and angers, old patterns­ union, as well as our need for individua­ with myself, which moves me beyond whatever), I will suffer and my life will tion and community. This is, after all, the self. My primary relationship with Spirit be, in some part, made meaningless. I current and liberated feminist definition frees me from the idealistic constructs of fear that because of my complicity in our of modem relationships. I terminated my the perfect marriage that my mind has partnership, my "moral purity" is humbled last two long-term relationships when it created. Spirit and my conscious relation­ by his choices. became evident to me that there was no ship with Spirit is what heals me from the way I could get IDY needs met within their pain in my past, not the new and better o, as I sometimes watch my part­ context. relationships I seek by defining a new ner sink into negativity and dis­ That now seems the wrong way to family for myself with my partner and S tance from Spirit, I remind myself nurture this marriage of sacred trust. This chosen friends. The ideals of relationship to trust Spirit and the "mysterious ways" marriage is, instead, a gift that has been that I promised my partner and that my in which Spirit moves. As I pray for guid­ given to me, not on my terms, or the terms partner promised me in our wedding vows ance, God reassures me that all is well. presently set by enlightened society, but are lovely ideals to strive toward, but This is not martyrdom or saintly co­ on God's terms. It seems that there is certainly not realistic to where we each dependence on my part. When I come much more here for me to master than I are in our authentic, all-too-human, though from full faith in Spirit and the centering had realized. I may yet attain my ideals, I Spirit-based, relationship. I see them now of my life in Spirit, I cannot help but see don't know, but only by walking God's as a prayer or supplication ofintent, rather the beauty in my life as I allow Spirit to path, not my own, and by allowing my than a promise of present behavior to be show me how to partner my spouse. Spirit partner to walk his path with God. In this exacted. gives me a self-control I haven't had be­ Spirit, things unfold very differently than fore. Spirit infuses our union with a depth I had imagined. the difficulty of attaining my ide­ and sureness of purpose that seemed un­ I find it easy to be loving, supportive, alized marriage partnership propels attainable. I often feel like an infant learn­ and consistent with friends. I feel quite in A me deeper into my spiritual rela­ ing to walk, learning to be in partnership awe of my relationship with my daughter tionship, that, in tum, guides me toward a in the way that Spirit leads me. and my behavior towards her. It" often deeper purpose of marriage in the Light. I My relationship with my partner has seems so holy and transcendent, unbound am beginning to see my Spirit-given task led me deeper into my spiritual faith and by selfish behavior, that surely something as much more selfless and giving than I awareness. That, in tum, has drawn me greater than I must be directing it. I feel as had decided I wanted or than I had de­ inexorably to the wonder of the mysteri­ ifl were God's puppet in my parenting. I cided was "healthy." Indeed, it appears to ousness of the mate with whose Spirit I sincerely doubt my capacity to do it so me more and more like the task of moth­ am joined in ways I don't really under­ well alone. It is one arena in which I have ering. I understand that I have to let go of stand. I see that deepening my relation­ my "I wants," although I can't think of ship with Spirit unfolds a plan for our Siva Raven is a member of Ithaca (N. Y.) much that could be more difficult for me. marriage that I can only begin to fathom. Meeting. If I allow Spirit to guide me, I have to act D

10 April 1996 F RIENDS JoURNAL Contemplative Practice in a Quaker Context by Jim Flory

riends meetings can be a home tal constructions that George Fox called for modern contemplatives-­ "notions." Fa place for those of us who feel Friends worship can certainly be a place at home neither with the authoritarian in which we practice letting go, or sub­ structure or theology of the Catholic tracting those mental activities that pre­ Church nor with the Eastern customs vent us from being open to the Divine in and world views of Asian contempla­ the moment. Most contemplative tradi­ tive communities. Of course Friends tions in one way or another include en­ meetings attract people other than counters with silence. Meeting for wor­ those looking for companions com­ ship is of course used by people with mitted to contemplative practice. other needs, from the overextended single Probably the majority ofFriends seek parent who fmds in worship his only time the tolerant social atmosphere and the of peace and quiet during the week to the sense of community they find lacking burdened Friend who finds the opportu­ in other settings. Others seek a place nity to express the vocal ministry to which where they can find support and en­ she feels called. Fortunately, unpro­ couragement for their efforts to cre­ grammed silent worship and other prac­ a.te a better world through social ac­ tices of Friends are very robust, robust in tion. Most of us are drawn to Friends the sense that many ofthe assumptions on for more than one reason. which a procedure is based can be vio­ What defines the contemplative is lated and it still works pretty well. We that she makes a choice, at some level, find that in meetings with a strong core of to modifY her life in response to a experienced Friends, inappropriate vocal unitive experience. The certain knowl­ ministry and efforts in meetings for busi­ edge that life can be experienced very ness to pursue ego-driven courses of ac­ differently leads her to search for ways tion somehow either become useful or to return to this new way of being drop out ofsight with the passage oftime. and/or to extend it into more areas of Here are some of the ways it seems to her life. Unitive experience often re­ me we might make our meetings even The Society ofFriends sults from a "letting go" rather than a more nurturing for contemplatives. direct effort. It therefore requires an 1. We can become more aware and is perhaps the most indirect intentional effort to move to­ verbally explicit in our explanations to ward a radical openness to life as it is newcomers of the ways in which Friends remarkable example in the present moment. These prac­ practices fit with the contemplative life. tices are necessary since most of our The testimonies of Friends are very simi­ in history ofthe lives consist ofconditioned responses, lar to the vows taken on entering the and our perceptions are distorted by contemplative traditions both in the East availability ofmystical our desires and fears. These practices and West. We can be sure that there are direct our attention in a way that modi­ opportunities for interested Friends to be experience to groups ties, or at least makes us aware of, the introduced to centering prayer, various ways in which we are continually con­ styles ofsitting meditation, practicing the ofopen but otherwise structing our view ofthe world- men- presence (mindfulness), lectio divina, walking meditation, transpersonal psy­ ordinary people. Jim Flory, a member of Twin Cities {Minn.) Meeting, attends Corvallis (Oreg.) chology, the perennial philosophy, and Meeting. He publishes What Canst Thou family life as a contemplative discipline. - John Ferguson Say?, a newsletter for Friends interested 2. We can make sure there are oppor­ The Encyclopedia ofMysticism in mysticism and contemplative practice, tunities for Friends to share their unitive and Mystery Religions from which this article is reprinted. experiences with other Friends who have

FRIENDS JOURNAL Apri/1996 11 had similar experiences. These conversa­ tive practice. As we sit in meeting for there aspects ofour tradition that could be tions can be very useful in helping us business, we give up our desire for, or useful to others? This is another way of see both the similarities and the differ­ attachment to, a specific outcome. This asking what is unique about Friends tradi­ ences of our experiences and meet those frees us to examine our own reactions to tion. My own answer, in part, is we have a who are growing in similar ways. Besides the events and matters at hand. The slow tradition that has at its core an interper­ feeling that we are no longer alone, we pace ofmeeting for business provides the sonal contemplative practice that is rela­ can come to a better discernment of how silence in which we can recognize our tively free from theological and cultural to understand the experiences we have anger, fear, desire, boredom, judgmental­ ties. been having. Out of these conversations a ism, or whatever the grist for the mill is at 6. As our unitive experience and spiri­ common language can grow that makes the time. We can then try to gain distance tual practice help us begin to see through communication about our spiritual life from these processes and look at their our personal fictions, they also help us much easier. origins, either right then or at some later see through social fictions. Another 3. We can provide opportunities for time. As we become more insightful in strength of our tradition has been a poli­ growth and support in contemplative prac­ terms of our own reactions, we become tics of leadings rather than a politics of tice. Spiritual growth groups modeled on more sensitive in recognizing them in ideology. Just as religious creeds often the Shalem Institute groups, study groups, others as well. This opens the possibility are partial and divisive, so often are po­ spiritual friendships, or contemplative of ministry, again often after the meeting litical ideologies. While making us seem practice support groups can be useful in is over. a little strange to others in the social move­ this effort. Weekend retreats can provide This practice of observing what is go­ ments in which we find ourselves, we can the opportunity for longer, more inten­ ing on, rather than being caught up in the sometimes bring an added spiritual di­ sive practice. activity of the moment, can help us be­ mension to those movements. Here again 4. We can consider the ways in which come open to the Light from whatever we fmd ourselves engaging in the prac­ Friends practices can be used as contem­ source it may come. Or it may just leave tice of being open to the moment in truth plative practice and add these insights to us more willing to let the issue season if without clinging to specific goals, always our understanding of Friends and our in­ the time for action doesn't seem right. In searching for a strong, nonjudgmental struction ofnewcomers. For example, let's this way, contemplative practice is a prepa­ moral stance based on the unity with all look at meeting for business. Friends usu­ ration for meeting for business, and meet­ creation that we have experienced, and ally explain meeting for business as a ing for business becomes part of our indi­ looking for that of God in each person. way both of arriving at consensus and of vidual practice. Approached in this man­ 7. Finally, there is the question of what finding Divine guidance with regard to an ner, meeting for business is neither a bor­ might in the past have been considered issue facing the meeting. Author Scott ing, time-consuming way of reaching a evangelism or might nowadays be seen Peck provides us an additional insight decision nor an efficient way of coming as marketing. Many of us have had our into the group dynamics of meeting for to consensus, but a time for spiritual prac­ moral training grounded in the Christian business from a spiritual perspective. He tice regardless of the outcome or charac­ ethics of love and our search for truth suggests that we think about the process ter of the meeting. guided by scientific secular education. as one of moving from pseudocommunity 5. It may be very useful for us to com­ Unitive experience can be an answer to to chaos, to emptiness, to real commu­ pare and contrast Friends practices with the spiritual problems posed by each of nity. For him community is not a perma­ the practices of other contemplative tra­ these traditions. Regardless of our defini­ nent condition but a state that needs to be ditions. What are the similarities and dif­ tion of love, there is an emotional tone to arrived at time and time again through ferences between sitting in meeting for love that can't be coerced or faked. Hence these steps. When people realize there worship, sitting in meditation, or practic­ the problem of embracing the ethic of are real differences between people in the ing contemplative prayer? If we have love but not feeling that love. The spiri­ group that no longer can be papered over, gained insights into Friends processes and tual problems associated with the scien­ the stage Peck calls chaos emerges. At­ practice by participating in the contem­ tific method are that it cannot be brought tempts to manage the conflict in one way plative practices of other traditions, are to bear on life's existential questions and or another all fail. What looks like a hope­ it often leaves its practitioners feel­ less impasse then develops. The way out ing alienated from the world, other of this impasse into community he calls people, and the possibility of relig­ emptiness. ious experience. In unitive experi­ It seems to me that the group process ence our ego boundaries become of entering emptiness is very similar to rearranged and more inclusive and individual contemplative process in con­ we recognize ourselves in those templative prayer or meditation. Empti­ we meet. For the alienated, the ness consists of a recognition of the real notion ofa single, unified, complex differences in point of view, combined system is no longer experienced as with an attitude of expectant waiting and a cold truth seen from a distance an openness to the future or a different but a living personal experience. perspective on the issue. Emptiness adds Are there ways we can better the dimension of collective contempla­ express or conceptually package tive practice. contemplative Quakerism so that As contemplatives, we can contribute modem people, whose spiritual to this outcome by seeing every meeting hungers might be satisfied by it, for business as a part of our contempla- will see it as food? 1:1

12 Apri/1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL InwardThe Teacher Among Us Today j by Marcelle Martin r uakerism is historically rooted in the mystical experience of direct To hear more / / ~ contact or communication with QGod. George Fox and the early dearly the -~ Friends of the Truth sometimes experi­ enced mystical contact in ways that many guidance ~ Quakers today do not feel comfortable given by the with in themselves or their contemporar­ ies. As a result, we have limited our ca­ Inward pacity to understand and be guided by Teacher, we God. To hear more clearly the guidance given by the Inward Teacher, we must let must let go of go of certain judgments about how God certain I can reach us and balance the discrimina­ . i tion of the often cynical intellect with the judgments !' : \\ . simplicity and trust of an open heart. about how \ . I In 1995, at both the Friends General I I Conference Gathering and the Friends God can reach \ Conference on Religion and Psychology, us. Friends met in workshops on mysticism to discuss what constitutes mystical expe­ rience, how one opens to it, what its pur­ or to advocate a par­ pose and effects are, how to ground those ticular cause or take experiences in our daily lives and our up a certain work. In bodies, and how to support others who my own life, after ·;.: ' are encountering such openings. Above several years ofspiri­ -~ all, we gathered to share those ordinary tual attention had ;1 \ ~ and extraordinary moments in our lives taught me to trust in­ L------~ ~ we considered mystical, moments that ner guidance, I was ranged from subtle perceptions of the lov­ given specific direction during a major very college. Then one morning I woke ing presence ofGod to dramatic and some­ transition. One night I was awakened by a with an image of the Sunday paper in my times startling experiences, including vi­ beam of light imprinting something upon mind and the certainty that I should apply sions ofbeings or places not of this world. my consciousness. It was a wordless trans­ for a job listed in the classifieds that day. Together we discussed how our experi­ mission until the end, when I was told to Only one job in that paper matched my ences enlarged our understanding, healed move to Philadelphia. At the time, I was qualifications: a position teaching at the us, guided us, and made us better able to living in New England. I made a leap of Community College ofPhiladelphia. I was do God's work. Many had never dared to faith and moved. hired and taught there for years. In Phila­ tell their stories to their meetings, yet their When I first arrived in my new home, I delphia, both my work and my spiritual accounts testified that the Inward Teacher sensed I was being asked not to take a job · life have developed in ways I didn't fore­ is among us now as much as in the time of yet but to spend time in inner work. As see in New England. the early Quakers. my savings became depleted, I became Early Quakers sometimes took guid­ George Fox was often inwardly given fearful and complained to God. In a dream ance from their dreams, as Howard direction to travel or speak in one place or a patient voice asked ifl could wait a little Brinton documents in Quaker Journals: another. Some ofthe stories shared in the while longer. In a subsequent dream I Varieties ofReligious Experience Among workshops were of this nature. People was looking for a student at the Commu­ Friends. They were following biblical pre­ told how they were guided to Quakerism nity College of Philadelphia. I had never cedents in which God used dreams to heard of such a place and was surprised communicate to human beings. George Marcelle Martin serves as alternate record­ when I later heard a subway conductor Fox cautioned, however, that there were ing clerk ofNewtown Square (Pa.) Meeting. announce a stop as the location of that many sorts of dreams and that it required

FRIENDS JOURNAL April 1996 13 in which all atoms, including those in my It is important body, merge into and out of the 'forms' taken by plants, animals, humans, rocks, that we share our and other elements ofCreation." One par­ stories and give ticularly powerful experience happened while she was sitting by a pond and saw a testimony to the snake swim toward her. Normally -she is transforming terrified ofsnakes, but at this moment she perceived her oneness with the snake, power ofthe Light, even on the molecular level, and felt what in whatever ways she described as an "all-encompassing love or compassion toward a fellow­ we have become creature," a love she feels is "a faint im­ aware ofit. age of that love God has for us, the Cre­ ated." Her experiences have led her to feel personally called to care for Earth, to discernment to know which dreams simplify her lifestyle, and to share this were "speakings of God to man." leading with others. He himself was often guided by vi- Michael Resman, leader of the work- ~ sions, sometimes symbolically. Once ~ shop on Quaker mysticism at FGC, expe- he attended a meeting in which "pro- ~ rienced his first mystical opening during fessors" were "discoursing on the ~ a meeting for worship at a time of great blood of Christ." He had a vision of a crisis. In the midst of intense prayer ask- the blood of Christ and was moved _,..- , . - ~ ing how God could have allowed the car to speak of his understanding that .___ill_~__ ..._ ...______---''"------' ~ accident that nearly killed the co-clerk of Christ's blood is in every heart. In his meeting, who had been a spiritual another vision he saw "a great crack go the need to take an action that my ego mentor, Michael suddenly had the expe- throughout the earth." Smoke came out doesn't like. There are moments when I rience of being shown heaven. Though of the crack, and then the earth shook. He can feel God working directly in me to he saw a royal purple sky with stars, the felt that this vision proved prophetic when dissolve my resistance and mflke me able experience was not primarily visual. He people began to respond to his message. to accept what I am being taught. knew himself to be in the presence of Hewroteinhisjoumal, "the Lord's power Other mystical experiences seem to be God, the Creator, and from God he expe- began to shake them, and great meetings revelations as much as teachings. In what rienced an immensity of love "greater we began to have." was perhaps George Fox's most power- than the love of all mothers over all of Sue Regen, clerk of the Friends Con- ful visionary experience, all creation was time," a constant, perfect love. He was ference on Religion and Psychology "opened up" when he came "up in spirit shown the moment when the stars and all (FCRP), shared an experience of a trans- through the flaming sword into the para- the physical universe were created and formative vision. Years ago she prayed to dise of God." His journal account con- then allowed to see the end of this ere- be able to help her son with his recurring eludes by saying that God would open ation. At the same time he was given the nightmares. Shortly afterward, she was in others to similar revelations: certain knowledge that heaven-the non- a meeting for worship when she had a physical reality of God- is eternal. This vivid and startling vision of a cross with Great things did the Lord lead me into, and visionary experience in meeting for wor- fire in its center. She understood it repre- wonderful depths were opened unto me, be- ship was the beginning of a new and sented a telephone pole on fire that had yond what can by words be declared, but as transforming relationship to the Holy terrified her in recurring childhood night- people come into the subjection to the spirit of Spirit. Since then he has sometimes expe- God, and grow up in the image and power of mares of her own after a transformer out- the Almighty, they may receive the Word of rienced seeing the universe within his side her window had spewed fire. When wisdom, that opens all things, and come to chest. "I can say I live in the Kingdom of faced with this image in meeting, she know the hidden unity in the Eternal Being. Heaven, because the Kingdom of Heaven realized she needed to embrace it. As she lives within me," he reported. did so, a figure of light appeared around Fox's promise that others would also The group on Quaker Mysticism specu- the pole where the fire was. Sue felt her- be shown the underlying unity of God lated about what opens people to mystical self radiated by light that taught her about seemed verified by stories told by work- experiences. Michael Resman was quick the nature ofGod's love and helped her to shop participants. Many reported subtle to insist that he is "the least of God's accept God, herself, and others more fully. perceptions of oneness, often while in children" and that his unexpected open- Afterward she related the experience to nature or during meeting for worship. ing was not given to him because of any her son, whose nightmares ended. Others had more vivid experiences. merit on his part. One Friend feels that Many ofthe stories shared in the work- One Friend told about moments when her mystical experiences happened spon- shops demonstrated how the Inward humanity's complete unity with nature taneously, "as a state of grace or gift from Teacher enables spiritual growth and heal- was revealed to her. She said, "I have had God, not as the result of any spiritual ing. Often the lessons are joyful, but some- more than one experience offeeling filled discipline that I do." Jean Roberts sug- times they are humbling. During meeting with light, of feeling my physical body gested such experience may sometimes for worship, I am occasionally made melt into the Light, of becoming aware of come in response to a long held or in- acutely aware of one of my faults or of the world as atoms in motion, of a world tensely asked inner question. During Sun-

14 April 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL day School lessons at age six, Jean first doubted the reality of God and the power began to wonder what was the love Jesus ofprayer .Their cynicism affected me, and FRIENDS Small classes, strong spoke about. This question remained with I began to doubt, too. Yet I knew that the academics in a her until a difficult period in her adult life, fate ofhumanity depended upon the prayer SELECT supportive, caring environment when she was given a brief but unforget­ of this group being effective, so I called SCHOOL emphasizing Quaker table experience of God's love. Many on God to teach me a new way to pray. In values. years later, she had an intense mystical the dream I was shown that I must be­ experience that lasted for days, in which come like a child, very simple and abso­ • Pre-K thru 12th Day School she experienced an awesome love, "an lutely trusting. As I did so, my heart soft­ • After School Program ened, and a beautiful energy flowed out e all-encompassing physical and mental • Summer Day Camp force that engulfed my whole being." It of it, through my arms, and around the transformed her perception of the world circle, moving from one person to the 17th & the Parkway and revealed how all minds are connected. next, softening and opening the hearts of Philadelphia, P A For some, the first mystical opening everyone gathered together. Then a child (215) 561-5900 was a startling herald --of major life remembered a dream in which a rebel­ changes. Elisabeth Dearborn, leader of lious adolescent learns that, in spite ofhis the FCRP workshop on caring for the rebellion, he will nonetheless receive his mystical, had a vision during a meeting inheritance from his father. I understood for worship 18 years ago, when an im­ this to be a parable about humanity. mense angel appeared and spoke to her. By the time I shared my dream with Her concept of the world at that time did my fellow workshop members, we had not include the existence of such a being; spent a week telling stories, asking ques­ this experience was followed by intense tions, and expressing some doubts about changes that transformed every aspect of our mystical experiences. In spite of the • Quality care in the Quaker tradition. her life. Since then, she has been guided gifts we had received, many of us were by a series ofvisions, including visions of still influenced by our contemporary • 42 apartments for independent liv­ Jesus. culture's fear that spiritual realities are ing, 60 private personal care rooms. When I requested permission to in­ merely fantasies. We were struggling to 120 nursing home beds. clude the stories in this article, several fully accept the openings we had received, • Peace of mind. Supportive medical people hesitated. Their hesitation reflected openings that gave us direct evidence that and social seiVices throughout your not only the deeply personal nature of the the spiritual realities are more real and stay. experiences and a desire not to make a enduring than anything else. The chal­ fuss, but also trepidation because of nega­ lenge was for each ofus to become simple • An active lifestyle in a beautiful. tive responses from some members ofour and trusting enough to accept our own graceful setting. meetings to mystical experiences shared experience. Hearing the stories of others publicly. It seems some Friends have dif­ went a long way to help this happen. • Meals, housekeeping. transporta­ tion. cultural and social activities. ficulty believing that God can and some­ It is important, for the sake of our times does communicate with people to­ spiritual communities and for the sake of • A history of caring since 1904. day in such ways. all humanity, that we share our stories The importance of sharing such sto­ and give testimony to the reality and trans­ ries, however, was made clearer to me as forming power of the Light, to whatever Stapeley In Germantown I shared a dream with the FGC workshop. extent and in whatever ways we have 6300 Greene Street In this dream I was part of a large group become aware of it, even though we may Philadelphia. PA 19144 of people who had been born on Earth at be bewildered by the sometimes contra­ Call Carol Nemeroff this time in order to help avert a great dictory seeming glimpses given to differ­ Admissions Director catastrophe. The only way to succeed ent people of that immense, all-encom­ (2 15)844-0700 was to transform the consciousness of passing reality we call God. At the end of humanity. We were traveling in the min­ our week together, one workshop mem­ istry, two by two, to groups all over the ber compared the variety in these ac­ planet to teach an effective way to pray. counts to the reports that could be given With a partner, I traveled from one group by a group of people walking in a huge DELAWARE VALLEY to another, forming circles and praying. forest- some seeing small plants and moss We knew our prayers had been effective on the ground, some noticing the bark of FRIENDS ScHOO L Morris & Montgomery Avenues each time when a child in the group sud­ the trees, others awed by sunlight dap­ Bryn Mawr, Pa. denly remembered and told a dream. pling leaves. In spite of the incomplete­ Things were different, however, when ness of our understanding, it is important For Students with we came to our third group. These were to share what the Inward Teacher teaches Learning Differences well educated people, materially com­ us, for our experiences are given not only College preparatory, Grades 7-12 fortable, and socially liberal. We took for our own sake, but for the sake ofall. It Summer School hands around the circle and said, "Let us is good to hear such stories with a simple, Come to an Open House pray." But I felt no movement circling the open mind and heart, open to sense the (610) 526-9595 for info & video, group as I had before and realized that reality that permeates, but cannot be con­ these intelligent people were cynical; they tained by, the words and images. CJ "Learning with a Difference"

FRIENDS JOURNAL Apri/1996 15 by Clarence Cullimore ill was south of the Capitol. We tuned our thorough, and as I watched I noticed a radios to the local news. One of our tech­ woman covered with blood sitting on the n Fourth Month 19, 1995, a little nicians was monitoring the communica­ curb of a street near the disaster. She had after 9 a.m., a highly destructive tions of the U.S. Treasury Department's the shocked stare that I had seen so many Oexplosion occured at NW Fifth Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Divi­ times before during the Vietnam War. I and Robinson in downtown Oklahoma sion. We listened to one agent making his realized it was our former clerk's wife, City. The sound and pressure wave way through the rubble of the Alfred P. Noel Osbourne. She worked across the reached my office, about two and a half Murrah Federal Building in a controlled street from the bomb site in the Water miles away, twelve seconds later, jarring and professional manner, accounting for Resources Board Building, which was the five-story public building. As a vet­ the workers in what was left of his office. also destroyed. People died. People were eran and a victim of explosions in the Two were missing. injured. I held her in the Light, and tears past, I instantly knew it was a high explo­ Within two hours, the governor de­ began to well up from my eyes. sive detonation. I jumped up from my clared an emergency and sent all state The following day, many younger, less desk and left my office, seeking a win­ workers home, which allowed volunteers essential, and more able fellow employ­ dow. My colleague Alice joined me at the and the National Guard to mobilize. As I ees of the Oklahoma Department of Hu­ window. I saw nothing and was turning to began to leave, our evacuation alarms man Services volunteered for various re­ see if anyone else was in the area when went off. A bomb threat had been called lief and rescue duties at the site of the Alice called my attention to the mush­ in to our building complex. I went home bombing, nearby in the makeshift cafete­ room cloud emerging over the trees and and watched the news, anywhere I could ria at the Myriad Convention Center, at homes blocking our view ofthe governor's get it. I am not normally a channel surfer, the temporary morgue, and elsewhere. mansion. but I was on that day. My 13-year-old Thousands of people dropped everything My first thought was that the mansion son, who lives with his mother, called me to lend a hand. Many people downtown had blown up, then I realized the cloud after school and we talked about the inci­ were displaced from their homes, offices, dent. He had felt the shock wave in shop automobiles, and their jobs. Clarence Cullimore Ill is a member ofOkla­ class. He was frightened even though he In addition to the federal building, homa City (Okla.) Meeting, where he serves had been several miles from the danger. scores of structures were damaged be­ on the Ministry and Oversight Committee. The local media coverage was very yond repair. Two were churches, regis-

16 April 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL tered historical buildings. The men's dor­ called attention to ourselves as Friends. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols mitory at the YMCA was demolished, Wisely, we asked our one family going had been in custody since April at the and, according to current accounts, is not to the Friends General Conference Gath­ Federal Reformatory at El Reno, Okla­ likely to be included in the future building ering to query folks there about what is homa, for allegedly committing the bomb­ renewal plans. The Oklahoma Water Re­ expected in this situation. They returned ing. One other alleged perpetrator is miss­ sources Board Building and the Journal having spoken with Friends who had ac­ ing and still is referred to as John Doe Record Building, with several congres­ tually written some ofthe checks. It seems Number Two. Both federal and county sional and federal offices across the street that there was implied release to use the district attorneys filed charges. Public de­ from the Murrah building, are uninhabit­ money to directly help the community, fenders were appointed. The appointed able. Undamaged business buildings were with Friends values and Friends tradi­ judge, also a bombing victim, had his closed due to their dangerous proximity. tions at work in the process. At this point impartiality questioned. Many more were small businesses, single the meeting embarked on several forums For the meeting the possibilities for auto repair garages, small loan compa­ defming the relationship of Friends to the the distribution of funds at the end of nies, and welding and sheet metal shops leading of the Light and the relationship summer were these: that just collapsed. of Friends to the community. The latter 1. Alternatives to Violence promotions developed into discussions of how we and seminars. he following First Day, Noel share as Friends in our community: spiri­ 2. Building Bridges workshop. Osbourne was in our forum before tually, intellectually, emotionally, and eco­ 3. Beyond Violence curriculum. Tmeeting, and sharing, concern, and nomically. Hand-printed charts prolifer­ 4. Local nonprofit organizations. support carried into meeting for worship. ated all over the meetinghouse as remind­ 5. Religious groups not receiving Federal Noel's wounds were healing quickly, and ers of the wisdom that was developing. Emergency Management Agency funds her spirit was undaunted. There was con­ At Seventh Month meeting for wor­ or community services. cern expressed for the souls accused of ship for business there was no consensus 6. Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the planting the 4,500 pounds of ammonia on how best to deal with the fmancial Death Penalty. nitrate and fuel oil in front of the federal support we were still receiving. For a building. There was discussion about the meeting with a meetinghouse, a guest y the end of Tenth Month, we xenophobia that followed on the heels of house, and annual expenditures under agreed to seek the best method to the blast Most of the testimony was be­ $6,000, donations of the magnitude we Bapply the donations, primarily, to reaving the loss of children and of institu­ have received are, as might be said lo­ Beyond Violence curricula, Alternatives tions that served so many poor and hard­ cally, enough to choke a steer. The seek­ to Violence promotion and seminars, and working people in the downtown area. ing and testing of leadings are taken very a Building Bridges workshop. But then, As other First Days separated us from seriously by the meeting. We continued during Twelfth Month meeting for wor­ the trauma, letters of support carne into to have forums further focusing on and ship for business, came a hitch. A few our tiny meeting. In some letters were assessing the Creator's plan for us. And members, including the clerk, had not checks. Some of our members seemed to we continued to receive money. been at meeting during the various be more traumatized by the money we During this period the local media threshing sessions. Their questions raised were receiving than by the tragedy down­ reported every detail of the incident and doubts about consensus and the priorities town. Suddenly, a responsibility had come the ancillary fundraising projects, coun­ of the meeting. More passive members of up out of the mist, rearing its head threat­ seling, and community support. There the meeting seemed willing to allow the eningly. Our 14 regularly attending mem­ were even some fraudulent fundraisers process to begin all over again, rethreshing bers, of whom only two are birthright identified and arrested. The death toll at what many of us had devoted a lot of Friends, have never dealt with such an the end of summer rose by 1, to 169, time, study, emotion, and speaking to­ outpouring ofsupport. We discussed what when a remaining leg was found not to ward. More pragmatic members, after sev­ to do with the funds, ideas ranging from match with any of the victims previously eral minutes of hearing the discussions of locally promoting more Alternatives to identified. the meeting being called to task, finally Violence Project seminars and cur­ riculum programs to giving it to the YMCA or YMCA tenant or­ ganizations and not worrying about how to administer it. It seemed that another hat was be- ..... ing placed on the heads of a few ~ Page 16: The Friends who already had more re- ~ ruins of the sponsibilities than they could en- '§ Federal dure. Thoughts ofusing the money ~ Building, to promote ongoing local meeting ~ Oklahoma City projects that are seriously ll Left: Damage underfunded, due to the size and ~ to St. Paul's resources of our meeting, were ~ Cathedral, labeled at one point as "self-serv- ~ two blocks ing"-surely, there was no inten- ~ north and tion of helping our meeting do ~ east of the something that was direct and il: blast site

FRIENDS JOURNAL Apri/1996 17 spoke up and gave testimony toward finality. That was that. The meeting came to a consensus on the first distribution of funds. It was min­ uted that the first contribution would be to fund publication of course guides and handouts of a locally developed curricu­ lum-Beyond Violence from Conflict to Cooperation- targeting middle school children. The intention is to provide seed money for this project to help children How Would You Shape The World? learn to deal with their frustrations and That's the question every student tries to answer during their years at Antioch. with one another with positive outcomes. For themselves. For the world at large. The program will be included in existing Antioch's contemporary liberal arts program was designed to enable you to realize social studies curricula in our public your potential, and to empower you to shape the world around you for the better. At schools. Deep in my thoughts, the still voice murmurs: "If such a lesson had Antioch, our diverse students and faculty and our small classes allow you to explore been provided to whomever conducted who you are, where you want to go and how you're going to get there. Our innovative this act of terrorism, would April 19, majors, our intentionally chosen work programs and our community service compo­ 1995, have been only the Tuesday after nent allow you to integrate your knowledge, experience and involvement. We give Easter?" you the opportunity and the responsibility to function as a partner in your educational Judge Richard P. Matsch of Denver, program -the kind of responsibility that will shape you as a leader, not just a graduate. Colorado, was appointed to replace Judge Wayne Alley of Oklahoma City. Bomb­ It's not for everyone, but if you want to ing profiteers, as well as viable public and make a difference in the world - and charitable organizations, are raking in in your life - it may be for you. Take the money from Hero Calendars. There have first step: call today 1·800..543-9436. 795 Livennore Slreet, YeUow Springs, Ohio 45387 been several legal tussles over ownership of photographs. Victims' families seem to have already convicted the accused, though up to now there have only been discovery hearings, and the trial date has been postponed several times. As a small community of Friends, a small, plain stone on the shiny, western­ style buckle of the Bible Belt, the Okla­ homa City Friends Meeting has been care­ ful, perhaps too careful, in proceeding to build bridges of the spirit in a very con­ servative religious environment. Yet in the past the meeting has worked through statements on war, opposed the death pen­ alty, given sanctuary, participated in re­ pairing the damage that racism still does, helped heal hearts broken by HIV, chal­ Abington Friends School lenged homophobic ordinances, delivered groceries to the needy, and once brought the Alternatives to Violence Project to Oklahoma City. Time and circumstance A Quaker co-educational college preparatory day school have now thrust us into activity the likes for students in Preschool through Grade 12 of which we had never imagined. In all this I often wonder, would we be missed if we were gone? Who cares, I tell myself, as long as we are not missed while we are here. I see us as Friends For more infonnation, please call working in the present to maintain the compassion and response to need that our 215-886-4350 city has clearly demonstrated. The finan­ cial help of Friends will make that task possible. The impression I have from friends in other states is that Oklahoma City will be on people's minds for a long time to come. l:l

18 Apri/1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL April (for Mary Seymour)

God creates the world anew In every /nsta~~t.-Ruysbroek

Arthritic maples arch to gravid green

azaleas coexist with mud and thistle

cherry blossoms drift to whitewash potholes, dandelions, and joggers

dogwoods are anayed for opening night

the morning's planetary showers foreshadow noon's eclat of palettes

thunder hardens walnut, oak, and pine for sawmills whirring near the garden

squalls freshen roses for a reverie

shoots gossip In the skinny loam

earth girds to carpenter and landscape neighborhood for banlo and suburb

life Is given Its billionth seconckhance.

-Enoch Dillon

Resurrection Jesus rises In me, In you, between us, around us.

In all the creatures of the cosmos He sings, He puns, He roars, He barks, He growls. He pours forth fragrance, beauty, health, purity, astonishing Insight, nourishment, Author ofLove , from the growth, ends of the earth, a book of lyrical poetry, Enoch Dillon gladness, makes his home in Joy! Bethesda, Md. Carolyn Tait Underwood is Jesus, the Christ, from Silver Spring, Md. Is risen Indeed. -Carolyn Tait Underwood

fRIENDS JOURNAL Apri/ 1996 19 Ben jam in, the Meetinghouse Mouse

"Will you be staying for refreshments?" she asked. Emily "I believe so," I answered nonchalantly. "What kind of refreshments?" by Benjamin (as told to Clifford Pfeil) "Here, " sh e rep 1·1e d . "Le t me sh ow you. " Illustrated by Lorna Kent Before I could object, Emily scooped me up in her hands and stood, holding me high over the table. Readers will recall from last month that Benjamin Down below was a plate of cream cheese sandwiches, Mouse just made his first appearance in small for a human, but a feast for me. Next to these the ministry. were plates with squares of yellow cheese and fresh soda crackers. Down near the other end of the table eeting ends when the snack is ready. was a beautiful, dark, moist, two-layered chocolate Everyone stands up, moves chairs cake. In the excitement of the moment I lost my about, and shakes hands. It's a very manners. I sprang from Emily's hands to the table and for a mouse to be out on the floor. But was scurrying toward the cake when an ear-splitting before I could make a run for my hole, the little girl scream brought me to my senses. who had recognized me as a small but articulate rodent "Horrid mouse!" shouted someone. "Get it off the was on her knees before me, shaking my paw. table!" "Thank you for your message," she said kindly. Off the table! My very thought! I leapt to someone's "My name is Emily. What's yours?" pant leg and clawed my way to the floor. Dodging "Benjamin," I said nervously. It was the first time I stamping feet all the way, I raced across the room and had been addressed by a human, even a little one. slid into my welcoming hole. There was just the Much larger ones were shuffiing about, paying no faintest taste of chocolate frosting on my whiskers. attention. In the meeting room outside my hole, things began to settle down. Curious, I perked up my ears to listen. A Special Meeting had begun, a Special Called Meeting to address the question: "What to Do About the Mouse." Man's voice: "A simple spring­ loaded trap would easily do the job. We could place several of them around the kitchen in places the mouse might frequent. We could bait them with a good smelly cheese." Woman's voice: "I don't want to reach into a cupboard for a sauce pan and put my fingers in a trap!" Second woman's voice: "Clerk, pease.1 " Man's voice: "Just look before you reach . " First woman: "I don't want to

Clifford Pfeil a member ofPima (Ariz.) Meeting, teaches English as a second language. "Benjamin, the Meetinghouse Mouse" is rkdicated to Mark, Robert, Matthew, Emily, and the sweet memory ofLaura. Lorna Kent is a member ofCen tral Philarklphia (Pa.) Meeting.

20 April 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL have to worry about traps, either." squeaked in meeting." Second woman: "Clerk, please." The room was silent as this bit of information sank Man again: "Better to be snapped at by a trap than m. by a mouse!" "Whose name is Benjamin?" asked the clerk Second woman: "Clerk, please." "The mouse's," said Emily. Clerk: "Yes?" "He's very polite," she added. Second woman: "We could use 'Have-a-Hean' The meeting grew quiet, and I sensed a curious traps. They would just capture the little thing without change in the atmosphere. No one said anything for a hurting it, and we could let it go outside." very long time. I peeked out of my hole to see what Another man's voice: "There's probably more than was happening. Everyone was sitting very still. Some one. " had closed their eyes. Some had their heads back, Another woman's voice: 'There could be dozens of looking at the ceiling. All looked thoughtful and a little them, multiplying like rabbits. We'll have to embarrassed. Finally the elderly lady who had spoken fumigate!" in meeting for worship rose from her seat and spoke I was on the side of the Have-a-Hean, mysel£ I was agam. about to stick my head out of the hole to address the "Friends," she said, "should we perhaps find a little issue when I heard a voice speaking clearly and chair for Benjamin and invite him to meeting?" thoughtfully, a quiet, familiar, friendly voice. A moment ofhesitation was followed by a chorus of "His name is Benjamin," said the voice. "He voices shouting "Approved." There were smiles all squeaked in meeting." around, and little by little every person in the room "What?" said the clerk was gathered into a deeper silence. "His name is Benjamin," repeated Emily. "He Continued next month. . .

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FRIENDS JOURNAL Apri/1996 21 A Prayer Big Bang (Luke 18:9-12) "Let It bang!" said the Lord, and the cosmos exploded. Quarks quivered in fury, great gas clouds formed, The Pharisee gives thanks that he stars bloomed and burst, nebulae swarmed, Does not resemble thee and me, worlds whizzed, rain fell, and mountains eroded, But we (thank God!), as all may see, dinosaurs were devised, and mammals invented, Are nothing like the Pharisee. and humans took shape and soon grew demented. "Whew!" said the Lord, "though I ought to have known it, 1 had no Idea the darn thing was loaded!"

- by Robert Kunkel

To Whom It May Concern Tune: Leoni (Jewish Doxology) Friends Hymnal #58

To whom It may concern, Unmentioned be thy name! Some say thou art, but If Thou ain't, It's all the same. Some say thou art alive, Some say that thou art dead; Some say thou art eclipsed, Or snoring In thy bed.

And whether thou art black, Or whether thou art gay, Or he, or she, or It, Or naught (but never they), In joy we lift our hearts, And In our need we tum, And pray unto the One (at most) Whom It may concern.

Ultratranscendentalist Hymn Tune: St. Denio (lmmorlal, Invisible) Any unorthodoxies in Robert Accepting acceptance, 0 ultimate grace! Kunkel's poetry may be Transcending transcendence, 0 Face without face! attributed to his childhood Bible study in Christian We sing not unto some old white-bearded clod, Science Sunday School. But the god beyond god beyond god beyond God. Esther Miirer, a composer and lyricist, is a former - by Esther GreenleafMiir er Unitarian-Universalist.

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24 Apri/1996 FRJENDS JoURNAL Join the Quest victims and refugees; they helped POWs and ery that enemies can become fri ends, that even worked with some SS internees. Some common people--not just Quakers, but all for a find it difficult to understand how the Friends people--can restore trust and make peace could bring themselves to help people who with each other. If this was possible in Ger­ Renewed were responsible for human suffering on such many 50 years ago, it is possible elsewhere in a large scale. Yet this too, we felt, had to be a the world today. Let us continue to make this dimension of our service. vision a reality." Friends "Quaker faith and service are based on the In addition to those mentioned above, the conviction that the spirit of God dwells in all opening ofth e exhibit was attended by Brenda Peace human beings. This element of the Divine is Bailey, chairwoman of the British Quaker called by different names-the 'Inner Light,' Peace and Service Council, and Lutz Caspers, ' Truth,' or the 'Christ Within' .... This expe­ German Friend and Board member of rience of God's light in ourselves and our Quiikerhilfe (a foundation jointly founded by fellow human beings is the basis for our belief German Friends and the AFSC); representa­ that human life is holy and that the dignity of tives from the German Foreign Ministry and each individual must be respected. It is inter­ other ministries; political leaders and repre­ twined with a rejection of violence and war. It sentatives from the U.S. and British missions; leads· not away from, but into, the world, and the press. After two months in Berlin, the calling us to human solidarity, practical ser­ Stille Helfer exhibit will tour more than a vice, and occasionally to public witness. It dozen cities in Germany during the next 18 leads us to places of hopelessness, suffering, months. and conflict, as was the case in Germany after A list of U.S. Friends and former volun­ World War II , during the Nazi era, and in the teers who attended the opening in Berlin and 1920s. It leads Quakers today to try to help in information about the exhibit are available places like Somalia, Burundi, Cambodia, Cen­ from Katharine Winings, Development De­ tral America, and elsewhere, and to work for partment, AFSC, 1501 Cherry Street, Phila­ Papers from tre t:;.,... peace and social justice in many countries. delphia, P A 19 102. 0 Quaker Peace ~ "We are encouraged to think that some of ~a:=- the insights from Quaker Service in postwar 111MW- Editedwilhan IntrOduction Germany are relevant today: that social and Far left: The Deutsches byCht.ldiFager economic deterioration undermine true peace; Historisches Museum in Berlin, that sound aid and development require a site of the exhibit opening, is Peace Witness today can be .. . partnership that involves the people who are located in a former armory. served and enables them to help themselves; • as abstract as how to make that nongovernmental organizations can serve Center: The Quaker feeding the UN work better ... as catalysts; and that individuals, acting on program in Germany after World War II • as concrete as a masked the basis of hope, can make a profound differ­ teenager carrying a gun ... ence in human affairs. Below: Janie and Peter • as terrifying as finding your "Perhaps the most precious legacy of Whittaker, British Friends, at a Quaker Service in Germany was the discov- Stille Helfer photo display name on an assassination list .. . • as imaginative as pursuing a mythical beast from the Arthurian legends. Pendle Hill's Quaker Peace Roundtable celebrated our witness as A Continuing Journey In these papers you'll find personal stori es, historical perspective and new ideas. $9.95 To order cal l the Bookstore 1 (800) 742-3150'

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Congratulations Guilford to our Role Models •College ten graduating by Dusty Rhoades Quaker Admission Office 5800 We$t Friendly Avenue Leadership Greensboro, NC 27410 Scholars n a Friday evening several 910-316-2100 years ago, a group of Friends FAX 910-316-2954 Quaker Education Ofrom Patuxent (Md.) Meeting hnp://www.guilford.edu Sfn_c~ 1137 sat in our living room enjoying a discussion like me-40-something, white, male, ex­ ofour individual spiritual journeys. The mem­ military, engineering test pilots. I was trying ber facilitating the program asked a series of to moderate the debate a bit, and I wasn't insightful questions, one of which led to dis­ always on my daughter's side of the discus­ cussion of our spiritual role models. This led sion. I don't always agree with my daughter's to an interesting and sometimes surprising views, but I always admire her conviction. commentary on parents, teachers, and other After a couple of hours of minority, gay, and You will never forget the exciting good fiiends who inspired or encouraged us Native American issues, one ofthe men asked, whitewater, the wildlife, fishing, new in a number of ways. A thought kept going "Shannon, where do you get all these ideas friends, and the triumphs of a through my mind that didn't quite fit the dis­ from?!" My wife and I were as anxious as successful expedition, on an extended cussion that evening, or perhaps it simply anyone in the room to hear the answer to that wilderness canoe trip! wasn't clearly formulated, but I was moved to question. We were more than a little puzzled share it at our next meeting. ourselves. Our daughter's answer was, "Why, Let your imagination soar! Canoeing, My wife and I often talk about how much from my parents. . . ." Amazing. . .. We merely tried to teach our children to treat art, photography, nature study, writing we tiave learned from our children and grown through their experiences. Our daughter is people with respect and to do the right thing. or hiking in beautiful wilderness areas. now 26 years old and our son is 24. Both have We didn't know they would apply these con­ Ages 11-1 7, adults, and families. graduated from college and begun service­ cepts so actively in their day-to-day lives! oriented careers. When they were younger, I Back at our meeting, I was disappointed to • ·;.. Lunt Road, Dept. F J Brunswick, ME 040 II was stationed in Japan, where they had the hear one of our young, college student ® 207-725-4748 experience of being minority students in the attenders comment that she had been in a government school system. When we returned previous religious situation where younger to the United States, where they finished high participants had not been treated as valued school in the local public system, they were members of the congregation. Young people truly "color blind" in the selection of their seemed merely to be tolerated as attenders DISCOVER QUAKER PHILADELPHIA fiiends. Their guests in our home, some of who would be there for only a few years and Two-hour walking tours of William Penn's whom seemed to live with us for extended then move along. This seemed a lost opportu­ original city of brotherly love, in honor of periods oftime , were a "rainbow coalition" of nity to me. When one of our younger Friends Penn's 350th birthday. ethnic and social backgrounds. As our chil­ is moved to share a thought with the meeting, Send a SASE for schedule to: QUAKER dren grew and went away to college, they I feel the mood oft he group brighten. Whether TOURS, Box 1632, Media, PA 19063. brought home many social causes to which it is coming from one of our college students my wife and I had little or no exposure. Veg­ or from one of the children ofthe group, these etarianism, women's studies, gay rights, ecol­ thoughts provide a different and fresh per­ ogy, Black activism, Native American issues, spective that is usually refreshing and often "Take Back the Night," Arab community, inspiring. I like to "spin my daughter up" by Hispanic culture, the "Right to Choose," eat­ quoting Winston Churchill, who I am told Fundraising Consulting for ing "lower on the food chain," and a seeming said something like, "If one is not a liberal at Educational lnstiwtions and host of others trooped into our home and 20, he has no heart. If one isn't a conservative Nonprofit Organizations instigated endless spirited discussions. Our at 40, he has no brain." In truth, I feel that Currently serving Midwest, daughter is now the editor of a gay newspaper within each of us 40-something conservatives Southeast and East Coast in a major metropolitan area, and our son is is a 20-year-old, liberal, social activist. The clients working as a live-in counselor for deaf and younger self is often buried under various Henry Freeman Consulting developmentally disabled individuals. We are layers of family and work responsibilities, 713 S.W. 15th Street, Richmond, Indiana 47374 mortgage and car payments, college tuition, 983-1578 extremely proud ofboth of them. One night, five or six years ago, we had a and so forth. Every once in a while, the per­ party at our home. Our daughter, who was spective of a younger Friend or family mem­ home visiting from college, got into a pro­ ber is the breath of fresh air that gives that tracted debate with two of my fiiends who are younger self the impetus to break free into CREMATION NASA astronauts. These are great people, but the daylight. Far from being a group merely to Friends are reminded that/he they are fairly conservative. They look a lot be tolerated, our younger Friends and chil­ Anna T. Jeanes Fund will reimburse cremation costs. dren enrich our individual and collective (Applicable to members of Dusty Rhoades is a member ofPatuxent (Md.) lives and keep us focused on the social re­ Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) Meeting, where he serves as recording clerk sponsibility that brings real joy and sense of for Information. write or telephone and as a member ofthe ministry and counsel accomplishment. SANOY BATES committee. An ex-nary pilot, Dusty and his Who are our role models? My wife and I 5350 Knox Street wife joined the Religious Society of Friends have many, not the least of which are our son Phllodelphil, PA 19144 three years ago. and daughter. 0

26 April 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL Reports THE HICKMAN

A Visit to Australia Yearly U.S. Friends, but we don't read their publica­ tions-including the bimonthly Australian Meeting Friend and the very challenging series of Jetlagged and happy, I have just returned Backhouse Lecture pamphlets published an­ from the 1996 Australia Yearly Meeting held nually. Independent Uving and Personal Care in Melbourne, Jan. 5-13. The spiritual vitality January is summer in Australia, and each Convenient to shops, businesses, and joyful social action of this small group of year an adventurous Friend or two from the and rulturol opportunities Friends, 1,060 strong, spread across the conti­ United States find their way there for yearly Reasonable • Not-for-Profit Founded and operated by Quakers nent of Australia in a network of seven re­ meeting (always held close to the beginning gional meetings, was inspiring. Since Quak­ of each new year). Next year it will be in 9 400 North Walnut Street ers are well known in Australia for their peace Sydney. Topsy Evans, Yearly Meeting Secre­ West Chester, PA 19380 (61 0) 696-1536 and antinuclear activism, their high level of tary, would be delighted to hear from Friends involvement with Aboriginals (some meet­ interested in coming to yearly meeting in 1997 ings pay rent to the Aboriginals of their re­ and visiting local meetings afterwards or sim­ gion), their concern for the environment, and ply learning more about activities and publi­ the activities of Quaker Service Australia in cations. Australia Yearly Meeting and Quaker ,. many countries of the Asia-Pacific and also Service Australia share space at the same INTERNATIONAL SERVICE Africa, fellow Australians can hardly believe address: Box 119, North Hobart, Tasmania • Community & Culture they are such a small group! 7002, Australia. • Adventure & Language Study As you can see from what I have written, I Sessions of the meetings for business, in Summer programs - High School ages spite of a very full agenda, were so deeply fell in love with Australian Friends. I think centered and so gently, compassionately, yet you would tool • Pacific Northwest . • . • Czech Republic firmly clerked by Pat Firkin, that I felt I was - Elise Boulding • Costa Rica experiencing something of what early Friends • • Puerto Rico must have been experiencing as they devel­ • Fiji Islands oped this unique way for a religious body to For brochure contact: GLOBAL WORKS Religiose Gesellschaft Der RD 2 Box 3566, Huntingdon, PA 16652 make decisions. It was very moving to have 814-667-2411 [email protected] the yearly meeting sessions opened with a Freunde (Quaker)­ respectful request to an Elder of the indig­ enous residents of the Melbourne area for German Yearly Meeting permission to meet on their Iand-a permis­ The theme for our 1995 yearly meeting, sion graciously granted by that Elder. Oct. 6-8, was "Life and encounters amongst Friends' sensitivity to the young among us Quakers-in the past and present." them, and the longing for more intergenera­ Having considered religious friendship and tional participation, was matched by vigorous the sharing of religious experience last year, youthful expressions of Quakerism in the jun­ we focussed our attention at this yearly meet­ ior and senior Young Friends groups. Much ing on looking back to the origins of Quaker­ thought was given by both older and younger ism. Annette Fricke entitled her Cary Lecture Friends to the problem that many meetings "My experience of the message of George are very isolated and have few children-a Fox through his epistles." In considering key A Quaker Conference Center problem partly dealt with by the practice of words such as "the Light," "the Word," and each child having a "Penn Friend," an adult in "that of God in every person," she succeeded 340 HIGH STREET P.O.BOX246 another meeting with whom to exchange let­ in making George Fox's message come alive. BURLINGTON, ters. Everyone recognizes that more opportu­ She also reminded us of the Christian values NEWJERSEY08016 nities for community togetherness are needed and references ofthose times, which we nowa­ Available for day and overnight use beyond the eagerly anticipated annual youth days don't share unanimously. The question camps and the yearly meeting gathering. In of how broadly or narrowly we define "being 609-387-3875 fact, my being invited to speak as Backhouse a Christian" is one that confronts us continu­ Lecturer was a result of these concerns, and ally. In various groups we discussed different my topic was "Our Children, Our Partners: A aspects of the Cary Lecture and other Quaker Vision for Social Action in the Twenty-First themes. Coming to D.C.? Century." It was exciting to see how many In other respects, too, our 1995 yearly Stay with Friends on Capitol Hill ideas and plans were generated about that meeting was a different experience from the partnership in the following days. usual. We met in a family holiday center as a What struck me the most was the contrast big, lively family. Among the 240 partici­ WILLIAM PENN HOUSE between the vibrancy with which they live pants, there were 30 children and a further 30 515 East Capitol St. SE their Quaker testimony and their sense of young people below the age of30 years-for Washington, DC 20003 isolation from the larger Religious Society of us a new and unusual age structure. Friends, only partly assuaged by active par­ It was a group of Young Friends who had Individuals, Families and Groups ticipation in Friends World Committee for undertaken to prepare the yearly meeting in Consultation. Maybe Australian Friends need content and to help in actually running it. $25 to $40 "Penn Friends" from the United States! They Their organization contributed to the com­ Seminars on Current Issues read our publications, work with American paratively relaxed atmosphere. Innovations for Schools, Colleges, and Meetings Friends Service Committee International Af­ in the program, such as the distinction be­ (202)543-5560 fairs Representatives in Bangkok, Tokyo, and tween silent meetings for worship and wor­ [email protected] elsewhere, and follow what goes on among ship sharing, the half hour each evening for

FRIENDS JoURNAL April 1996 27 young and old together, as well as the arrang­ ing of Friendly "fostering links" between in­ dividual older Friends and a specific child Scattergood offers a rigorous college preparatory program for approximately 60 were accepted gratefully and gladly. students, grades 9 through 12, in a caring, close-knit community of boarding So this yearly meeting offered not only students and resident staff living and working together in a beautiful rural setting. spiritual retrospect, but much hope for an active development in the future. • Coeducational - Lore Hom, Clerk • Graduation requirements include Quaker Studies and an off-campus community service project NoiWay Yearly Meeting • Strong programs in the arts • Four-year Spanish language The yearly meeting of the Religious Soci­ program with work-camp ety of Friends in Norway was held at experience in Mexico Solbakken Folk High School in Skames, Nor­ way, June 23-25, 1995. The theme for the • Daily campus and farm work crews yearly meeting was "Faith in Service." • Outdoor and wilderness programs In the opening address, Susanne Kromberg • Cooperation emphasized over gave us challenges from history. There is a competition longstanding theological opposition between • More than one-third of students and salvation through works and salvation through staff have Quaker backgrounds faith. For Quakers, faith and works have al­ ways been inseparable; faith is necessary for To learn nwre about Scattergood, or to arrange a visit, contact the Director ofAdmissions, good actions. Furthermore, experience shows Scattergood Friends School, 1951 De/to Avenue, West Branch, Iowa 52358-8507, that one who sets his or her trust in God phone (319) 643-7638, FAX (319) 643-7485. constantly receives new strength. In discussion, it became clear that faith Under the care oflowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (C) since 1890 must be understood in a broad sense, for loving service and unselfish actions happen in all cultures and faith communities. Good actions can also be a way to faith. How shall we translate the Light we re­ ceive into practice in our lives so that we may reach others? Good works can be carried out in small ways, not necessarily in great projects Individuals in Community or as part of great changes. In all cases, it is inward transformation in meeting with the Light, and a deep respect and love for all we meet and deal with, that must lie at the foun­ dation. Here, [Norway's] Quaker Aid has given us visible and clear witness. By helping people and meeting them as fiiends on even terms, it has become possible for them to take respon­ sibility for their own development. This per­ sonal development must be the basis for all social development and is just as important whether we work in Afiica or in Norway, whether we are involved in projects for a particular purpose or just going about with people in our daily life. As George Fox said over 300 years ago, "Do everything you do in peace and love, and with respect toward God and each other, in the simplicity and inno­ ASCHOOl IN THE lf061ESSIVE TIADITIOII, THE fAMBIIDGE ScHooL OF WESTON OFFElS HIGHLY l'flSOIIAJJZED, THOUGHTfUL cence oflife and truth, and in God's wisdom, COLlEGE I'IEPAlATIOII FOIIIITEUKTIJAJ1 YWIIOUS YOUNG PfOI'LI; AN ETHICAL SCHOOl COMMUNITY BASED 011 DEEP so that this becomes everyone's crown, that MUTUAL TfUST AND IESIKT; A f'IACE WHERE IIITlGIITY AND DIVEISITY AlE AII'IWATED; AND AN AI'I'IOACH WHICH nothing is done in contention, for you are f'IACES AS MUCH EMPHASIS ON ASKING THE liGHT QUESTIONS AS ON GIVING THE liGHT ANSWERS. called to the peace and righteousness ofGod's kingdom, and to serve each other in love." (OEDUCATIOIIAL, BOAIDING AND DAY, GlADES 9-12 AND PG. CAu (617} 642-8650. -Marit Kromberg, Clerk (Translated by Kathryn Parke) The Cambridge School of Weston • 1886

28 Apri/1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL News of Friends

Friends Committee to Abolish the Death tion, a job application, or to make a contribu­ for professional soldiers, not draftees. The end Penalty used the movie release of Dead tion, contact East-West Relations Commit­ of the Dutch draft is part of a trend throughout Man Walking to assist with its goal of public tee, 1163 Auburn Dr., Davis, CA 95616. Western Europe. Belgium ended its draft in education. The film (see review on page 35), (From Friends House Moscow, Dec. 1995) 1994, and Germany has cut the length of based on Sister Helen Prejean's Pulitzer Prize service for draftees from 18 to I0 months over nominated book about the death penalty, was The Netherlands ended its military draft as the last few years. In addition, France an­ released nationwide on Jan. 19. FCADP rep­ of Feb. l. On Aug. 31 all draftees will be sent nounced in January that its draft, dating from resentatives were outside theaters in 50 home, and the Dutch army will become an the French Revolution, will be replaced over cities, distributing flyers with a message by all-volunteer force. The decision was made the next six years by a volunteer force. The Helen Prejean, facts about the death penalty because another great land war in Europe is Dutch military has shrunk from 130,000 in in the United States, and membership informa­ considered unlikely and the army was over­ the 1980s to 84,000 today. The government tion for FCADP. The action-oriented organi­ staffed. In recent years the role of the Dutch plans to continue cutting its military budget zation's mission is to educate the public about army, like those of other NATO nations, has and will reduce the army to 72,000 members realities of the death penalty while supporting been to facilitate multinational peacekeeping by 1998. (From The Philadelphia Inquirer, programs that address the root causes of crime. missions, and military leaders see this as a job Feb. 4) Last fall FCADP enjoyed tremendous suc­ cess setting up literature tables during the R.E.M. concert tour, and will be looking for opportunities to reach large numbers ofpeop le CZhe FRIENDS in the future. For more information, contact Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Pen­ alty, 1140 Schuylkill Rd., Rockville, MD JOURNAL Ozmpaign 20852, telephone (301) 881-8024. In the February issue we announced A highlight of the evening was a pre­ sentation by the JouRNAL staff of a George Fox College will merge with West­ the FRIENDS JouRNAL Campaign, a major ern Evangelical Seminary on July 1, 1997, fundraising initiative to develop an en­ slideshow with readings from issues of the according to a decision made in November dowment fund and substantially increase magazine over the years, including ex­ 1995 by the boards of the two institutions. annual support for the JouRNAL. The goal cerpts from the two predecessor publica­ tions, The Friend and Friends 1ntelligencer. George Fox College, located in Newberg, of the 15-month campaign is to raise a Following the December 9, 1995, kick­ Oreg., is a liberal arts college founded by total of $800,000 from readers and off celebration, a 14-member Board Cam­ evangelical Friends. Western Evangelical supporters who care about the future of the Seminary was founded by predecessors of the JouRNAL and the contribution of this work paign Committee worked for six weeks on present Friends and evangelical churches in to the direction and future of the Religious obtaining gifts and pledges from current the Northwest and later supported by the Free Society of Friends. and former board members. As a result of their good work, Lee Neff, clerk of the Methodist and Wesleyan Churches. The semi­ The Board of Managers Campaign Committee, reported at the Feb­ nary will become the Portland-area campus Campaign: $118,000 in Gifts for the new university. The combined pro­ and Pledges ruary l 0 Board of Managers meeting that grams will offer 12 graduate degrees. David The first phase of the campaign fo­ a total of $118,000 had been received in C. Le Shana, the president of Western Evan­ cused on the JouRNAL's immediate family, gifts and pledges to the campaign. Members of the Board Campaign gelical Seminary who also served as the ninth namely obtaining campaign pledges and Committee include the following Friends: president of George Fox College from 1969 commitments from current and former to 1982, will be the Bible speaker atthe Friends members of the Board of Managers. Irwin Abrams, Yellow Springs, Ohio; Judith Brown, Bainbridge Island, Wash.; United Meeting triennial this July in India­ The Board of Managers Campaign be­ Susan Carnell, Baltimore, Md.; Phoebe napolis, Ind. (From George Fox College's gan December 9, 1995, in Philadelphia Life, Dec. 1995, and Quaker Life, Jan./Feb.) with a dinner and kick-off celebration. Cottingham, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.; Among the 70 people present was former Richard Eldridge, New York, N.Y.; Paul Friends House Moscow expanded its op­ editor Susan Corson-Finnerty. Also join­ Jolly, Tacoma Park, Md.; Parry Jones, erations on Jan. I by hiring an interim staff ing in the celebration were family mem­ Newtown, Pa.; Mary Mangelsdorf, and leasing an apartment in Moscow for of­ bers of a founder of the JouRNAL, Eleanor Swarthmore, Pa.; Patricia McBee, Phila­ fices and gatherings. In addition, Patricia Stabler Clarke-her daughter and son-in­ delphia, Pa. ; Lee Neff, Seattle, Wash.; Cockrell and Chris Hunter have agreed to law Kinnie Schmidt and Marshall Schmidt, Harry Scott, Jr., Cockeysville, Md.; Larry continue working on the many projects begun and nephew Clifford Gillam and his wife Spears, Indianapolis, Ind.; Carolyn in Russia by Britain Yearly Meeting's Quaker Mildred Gillam. Sprogell, Philadelphia, Pa.; and Wilmer Peace and Service. Chris will work part-time Current editor Vinton Deming read a Tjossem, Newton, Iowa. with Friends House Moscow and Patricia will letter from his predecessor, Jim Lenhart, Support for the Campaign clerk the executive committee charged with who was unable to be present for the cel­ During the course of the campaign, program oversight. Galina Orlova, current ebration. Jim described the dinner as "a staff and volunteers will be contacting clerk of Moscow Meeting, also joined the wonderful way to launch what will un­ Friends throughout the country seeking staff full-time in January. A search for a per­ doubtedly be a successful campaign and a their support and involvement in this ef­ manent staff is underway, with a goal of hir­ very appropriate preparation for the next fort. If you would like more information ing by June 30. Friends interested in working century offaithful reporting on the life and about the campaign and the various ways in Moscow for at least two years are encour­ thought of Friends." It has been a delight you can provide a gift toward the $800,000 aged to apply. Pledges of$77,500 have made over the years, Jim wrote, "to see the unique goal, please contact us at (2 15) 241-7280. this first fully staffed and funded year pos­ way that the magazine has combined sible, but continuing financial support is tradition, faithfulness, courage, and good needed for the program and for a Quaker journalism." meetinghouse in Moscow. For more informa-

FRJENDS JOURNAL April 1996 29 ffiARl~lA.GE Bulletin Board Cert!ficates •"Rediscovering the Scriptures Through the Meeting (FUM) and Iowa Yearly Meeting Spirit that Brought Them Forth" is the title for (Conservative). Stan Thornburg, pastoral team DIANE AMAROTICO • CALLIGRAPHY [1. DESIGN a weekend family Bible conference, June 14- member ofReedwood (Oreg.) Friends Church, 215/ 766·8797 16, at George School in Newtown, Pa. The and Chrystal Jorgenson, Youth Coordinator keynote speaker will be Marty Grundy, and for New England Yearly Meeting, will be workshop leaders will include Annie guest leaders. Youth and children's programs Patterson, Chuck Fager, Georgia Fuller, Tom are also planned. For additional information, Fyfe & Miller Gates, Herb Lape, Patty Levering, Patricia contact Tom and Liza Klaus, FWCC Mid­ FUNERAL SERVICE Loring, Deborah Saunders, Virginia west Staff, 315 Market St., Carlisle, Iowa Schurman, and Terry Wallace. The confer­ 50047, telephone (515) 989-9282, e-mail 7047 Germantown Ave. ence will include a complete program for [email protected]. Philadelphia, PA 19119 children and middle school Friends, inter­ (215) 247-8700 generational singing with Peter and Annie •The Quaker Council for European Affairs's Blood-Patterson, worship, Friendly Bible annual study tour, June 22- 29, will include James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller study, and opportunities for swimming and visits to the institutions ofthe European Union Simple earth burial other recreation. Sponsored by Philadelphia in Brussels, Belgium, a day at the political and cremation service Yearly Meeting's Religious Education and headquarters of NATO, and a stop in available at reasonable cost. Worship and Ministry committees, the pro­ Strasbourg, France, to meet staff members of gram is open to members and attenders of all the Council of Europe and observe a session yearly meetings. For more information, con­ of the Council's Parliamentry Assembly. The tact Shirley Dodson, Philadelphia Yearly study tour offers an opportunity to discuss the Oakwood Friends Meeting, 1515 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA work of QCEA and find out how awareness 19102, telephone (215) 241-7182. of Quaker concerns is being kept alive in School these institutions. For further details, contact located in the historic HlXIson Valley •Friends in New Zealand are seeking study Mala Nathan, QCEA, Quaker House, Square 75 miles north of New York City materials for small meetings. Elizabeth Duke Ambiorix 50, B-1 040 Brussels, Belgium. of the Yearly Meeting of Aotearoa/New (From The Friend, Jan. 12) Coed boarding and day school for Zealand is preparing a booklet that will in­ grades 7-12 and postgraduate clude how small groups manage worship, pas­ •Casa de los Amigos, the guest house and toral care, the needs of children and young social service center of Mexico City Meeting, people, witness and relationship to the public, has inaugurated a program of volunteer ser­ • Rigoro~ coUege preparatory vice opportunities and experiential education curriculmn and contact with other Friends. To share ex­ periences, good and bad, write to Elizabeth seminars for people who feel drawn to ad­ • Unique Senior program Duke, 752 Highgate, Dunedin, New Zealand. dress the world' s social conditions in positive • Small cla\.'s sizes (From the Jan. 1996 Friends Bulletin) ways. The program aims to contribute to a • Community service more peaceful world by deepening awareness • International program •The theme for this year's National Quaker of human unity and interdependence and • Visual and performing arts Youth Seminar at William Penn House in by facilitating cooperation between people of • Athletic program Washington, D.C., April28-May l, is "Race different backgrounds. Participants come not Relations in the United States." The program, to "do good" but to contemplate the social • Strong.nurtwing conununity designed for Friends who are high school realities of the community they serve. The juniors and seniors, will address concerns "Casa" offers one- and two-week experiential related to the overall theme, including reflec­ education seminars that combine community Please contact the Admissions tions on the Million Man March, hate crimes, service, structured study, and reflection. All Office: 515 South Road, economic and environmental racism, immi­ three elements focus on a common theme Poughkeepsie1 NY 12601 gration policy, and urban issues. The Na­ of social concern, facing concrete issues with (914)46:L-4200 tional Quaker Youth Seminar provides an real people. Casa de los Amigos also offers opportunity each year for young Friends to full-time volunteer opportunities ofsix months be involved in discussions with experts or more for Spanish speakers through partner on national and international issues. Cost for service organizations in Mexico City, includ­ the seminar is $45, which includes accommo­ ing a community health clinic, a shelter Educational excellence dations at William Penn House and some for homeless children, and a support center/ for over 200 years meals. For registration forms and additional hospice for HIV carriers and AIDS patients. Coed College Preparatory, information, contact William Penn House, Seminar openings are available for June, 515 East Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC July, and August. Six-month volunteer 20003, telephone (202) 543-5560, fax (202) positions are available for immediate place­ 543-3814, e-mail [email protected]. ment. Send inquiries to Service Coordina­ tor, Casa de los Amigos, Ignacio Mariscal •"Treasure in a Jar ofClay-Growing as Chil­ 132, Mexico, DF 06030, Mexico, telephone dren of the Light" is the theme for a regional (011) 525-705-0646, fax 705-0771, e-mail gathering ofFriends, May 3- 5, in Des Moines, [email protected]. Iowa. Sponsored by the North High Plains region of Friends World Committee for Con­ •One of the most common requests received sultation, Section of the Americas, the theme by the Quaker Information Center in Phila­ 110 East Main Street, Moorestown, NJ is inspired by II Corinthians 4:7. The gather­ delphia is for volunteer and service opportu­ 609-235-2900 ext. 227 ing is hosted by Friends meetings and churches nities. In response, the QIC has compiled lists in central iowa affiliated with both Iowa Yearly of short-, medium-, and long-term volunteer

30 Apri/1996 fRIENDS JOURNAL and service opportunities, internships, and other potentially transformational experiences, Quaker and nonQuaker, domestic and inter­ The ESR Equation: national. The updated and expanded list for 1996 includes more than 220 options. Three 1. A supportive, Christ-centered, learning community-plus different packets are available: an inclusive list, a listing of shorter opportunities (up to 3 2. Rigorous academics--plus months in length), and information for people 3. Diversity of age, race, gender and faith traditions--plus seeking paid employment. A donation is en­ 4. A couraged to help defray the development and focus on personal spirituality-plus printing costs. To order a packet, or for more 5. Many small, engaging classes--plus information, contact the Quaker Information 6. Opportunities to work closely, one-on-one, with caring faculty-plus Center, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102, telephone (21 5) 241-7024. 7. Aplace where family members are included.

Calendar It all adds up APRIL to transfonnation. 4-The Peace Studies Association's " Day With­ out Violence" on college campuses around the Earlham School of Religion- world. Contact the Peace Studies Association, (A QuAKER SEMINARY OFFERING MAsn:R OF 0JVINTIY, Drawer 105, Earlham College, Richmond, IN MAmR OF MINISJRY AND MAsn:R OF ARTs DEGREES) 47374, e-mail [email protected]. the right answer for a solid education 4-7-South Central Yearly Meeting, at Greene and personal preparation for ministry. Family Camp, Bruceville, Tex. Contact Marianne Lockard, SCYM , 602 N. Greening St., Hope, AR 71801 , telephone (501 ) 777-5382. Call Nancy Nelson at 1-~2-1377 228 College Avenue, Richmond, Indiana 47374 Easter Week- Bolivia Yearly Meeting, INELA­ I Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia. Contact INELA, Casilla 8385, La Paz, Bolivia, telephone (591-2) 34-36-26. Easter Week-EI Salvador Yearly Meeting, at Soyapango, San Salvador, El Salvador. Contact Maudiel Arevalo E., Calle Antigua a Soyap. #60, Colonia Las Flores, Soyapango, San Salvador, El Salvador, telephone (503) 27-21-86. The Prayer Project Easter Week-Honduras Yearly Meeting, at San Marcos, Ocotepeque, Honduras. Contact Apartado <...Are you willing or do you know someone who would be willing to answer Postal #563, San Pedro Sula, Honduras, telephone a confidential series of surveys about prayer and related issues of spirituality? (504) 56-7071. Serious California researcher seeks a limited number of mature individuals Mid-April-Peru-INELA Yearly Meeting, at Calle San Sebastian #249, Llave, Puno, Peru. Contact for long-term (1 year +) and occasional correspondence(s) who. . . INELA-Peru, Apartado 369, Puno, Peru, telephone ,._ are over age forty, (5 1-54) 35-0210. 17-21-Southeastem Yearly Meeting, at Florida ,._ pray daily (in their own way or in some more traditional manner), United Methodist Camp, Leesburg, Fla. Contact ,._ consider their life to be, in some fashion, like art or prayer, Nadine Mandolang, 1822 Medart Dr., Tallahassee, FL 32303, telephone (904) 422-1446, fax 385- ,._ have experienced concrete benefits (e.g., the cultivation of strong 0303. faith) from their practice, 24- 30-"Natio na l TV Turnoff," T V-Free America's second annual tum-off binge. To order ,._ have been praying regularly for at least ten years, a $5 organizers kit for local events, contact TV­ ,._ consider themselves "spiritually mature" and have developed Free America, 1322 18th St. NW, #300, Washing­ ton, DC 20036, telephone (202) 887-0436. a vocabulary to discuss the variables of a rich and constant inner life, In April- Bolivia Yearly Meeting, Amigos Cen­ * feel disposed to enter into occasional, ongoing correspondence about tral, Ciudad-Viacha, Bolivia. Contact Casilla 7802, the benefits, dictates, and transcendent potentials of prayer and its La Paz, Bolivia, telephone (591-2) 80-00-76. more practical correlates. In April- India Yearly Meeting, Bundelkhand, Chhatarpur, India. Contact I. William, Bundelkhand This is a small, ongoing, and personal study with limited openings. Masihi, Mitra Samaj, Chhatarpur, MP 471001 , Jn­ If you (or someone you know) would be interested in our confidential dia, telephone (91) 2755. research project, please review this ad and respond briefly describing your Apri1 28-May 2-"A New Call to Conciliation," a training conference in Akron, Pa., cosponsored by background and interest, with a business-size SASE. Friends Conflict Resolution Programs. For infor­ mation, call Chel Avery at (610) 892-01 80; to Boxholder ..._ POB 1 ,.._ Stewarts Point, CA 95480 register call Debra Gingerich at (717) 859-3889. fRIENDS JOURNAL April 1996 31 WESTTOWN SCHOOL Books Trapped Under Ice: A Death Row Anthology Edited by Julie Zimmerman. Biddle Publishing Company, Brunswick, Maine, 1995. 73 pages. $8/paperback The voices in Trapped Under Ice: A Death Row Anthology speak to us from the cellblocks ofour nation's overflowing prisons. This slim volume of poetry, with its themes of incar­ ceration and execution, is edited by Quaker We invite you to discover the value ofa Westtown education... Julie Zimmerman. About the writers we know only the city under the care ofthe Philadelphia Yearly Meeting since 1799. and state where they are incarcerated. They write of hoping for a letter, wishing for a *Challenging programs in academics, the arts, and athletics view, watching a sparrow, missing a friend. A man in Florida longs for the time when: *Strong Quaker presence in student body and faculty *310 day students in grades pre-K through 10 A little red wagon became a giant, bright red fire engine, *290 boarding students in grades 9-12 (boarding required, 11-12) and a popsickle stick became a beautiful *Diversity of racial, geographic, economic and religious vessel that sailed magnificently along a street gutter backgrounds among students and teachers after the rain. *Weekly meeting for worship and strong sense of community In "Becalmed," a prisoner in Maine, where are central to school life. there is no death penalty, writes sea images of "limp sails beneath windless skies" and of (610) 399-7900 being "banished to the doldrums." Westtown School, Westtown, PA 19395 Some writers, unrepentant, express anger: "Who will sentence the father and mother of slavery? / Who will pay for our lives?" Dolores Hornick, the lone woman contributor, writes bitterly ofa judicial system "ripping the bind­ ings of motherhood into shreds." HARVARD DIVINITY But regret, remorse, guilt predominate: "There aren'tenough 'I love you's' / To cover -SCHOOL- what I've done." "They'll take my life I for I' m guilty of what I've done." "I've done crime." A Not surprisingly, the quality of the poetry tradition is uneven, the language sometimes sanctimo­ nious, pompous, exaggerated. But the book, of excellence in an finally, is not about poetry and language. It is about how we, as a society, deny the human­ interdenominational setting ity of our " misfi ts." Dolores Hornick puts it Preparation for ordained and lay ministries this way: as well as a range of l?rofessions Blinded, we cannot see enriched by theological study the consequences of returning evil for evil. From San Quentin's death row, Steven Degree Program s: M.Oiv., M.T.S., T h.M., & T h.D. • Ainsworth speaks in chilling tones of: Internation al Centers: Wom en's Studies in Religion Program; Potassium chloride Center for the Stu dy of World Religions a killer injection • the fi nal solution. Student colleagues from such fields as public policy, law, & medicine Zimmerman writes in her introduction, "If • we as a society condone legal execution, we Opportunities for coursework & dual degree programs within need to face the fact that we are intentionally Harvard University & cross-registration in the nine member schools of taking human lives. We must at least ac­ the Boston Theological Institute knowledge the humanity of the men and women we imprison and remember they are For information on admissions eV financial aid: still a part of our world. And if we forever still Admissions Office, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, a human voice, we should fi rst listen to what Cambridge, MA 02138 • (617) 495-5796 it has to say." This book gives us this chance.

32 April 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL Trapped Under Ice may be ordered from the publisher at P. 0 . Box 1305, Brunswick, Spiritual Life Enrichment Program ME, 040 II. Royalties go to the National Coa­ lition to Abolish the Death Penalty, ACLU's With Barbarajene Williams June 24-August 17 Prison Project, and the American Friends Ser­ Do you hunger for a deeper experience of sacredness? Have you always vice Committee. - Natalie Kent Kempner wanted to study at Pendle Hill but have not found the time? Are you looking for a meaningful way to spend a summer vacation? If your answer is yes, Natalie Kent Kempner serves as clerk of then this program may be perfect for you. Come for one or more weeks. Brunswick (Maine) Meeting. Options include: • Workshops to develop skills in • Meetings with a spiritual nurturer. The Manufactured Crisis: prayer, spiritual listening, storytelling, • Daily meeting for worship. Myths, Fraud, and the the Enneagram, and a spiritual • Retreats in our hermitage houses. appreciation of nature. • Arts and crafts in our studio. Attack on America's • Small group discussions. • Fun and fellowship, community Public Schools • One-on-one spiritual friendships. work projects, and Taize singing. By David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Barbarajene Williams is an educator, poet, and nature writer. After 20 years Reading, Mass., 1995. 350 pages plus as a professor of writing and literature in Oregon, Barbarajene was led to endnotes, index, and references. $251 study at Earlham School of Religion and in the School ofthe Spirit's Spiritual hardback. Nurturer program. She is a member of Clear Creek Meeting, Richmond, IN. With this examination of the grounds upon which public education in the United States has been villified in political and community ~ PENDLE HILL . A QUAKER CENTER FOR STUDY AND CONTEMPLATION debate over the past couple of decades, pro­ fessors Berliner and Biddle should lay to rest V (Soo) 742""3150 Box F • 338 Plush Mill Road • Wallingford, PA 19086 much of the nonsense about the "failure of American public schools." The authors do not suggest there is nothing wrong with U.S. education, indeed, they insist there is. To misidentify problems and generate solutions designed to address pretend problems is to direct fiscal, intellectual, and social resources away from solutions that deal with the real issues. Though the book is heavily research based, it is addressed to a lay audience; were I still a superintendent of a school district, I would make it required reading for the board, the faculty, and for community people wish­ ing to be involved in school restructuring. Newtown, PA 18940 Were I still on a university faculty, I would not attend to fellow faculty or administrators who had not familiarized themselves with Berliner and Biddle's observations. It is an important book. The authors suppose no specific educa­ tional, political, religious, or economic bias among their readers, but rather ask the reader to examine data used by eritics to support their cases. They begin with four "achieve­ ment myths": student achievement has fallen in this country, college student performance has declined, students are not as bright as they used to be, and U.S. schools fail to prepare students as well as other countries. Using the Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, George School is a co­ data upon which each of these "myths" are educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. based, the authors demonstrate that each is The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values and includes: false. The data are clear, what is not clear is • Courses on 4levels of challenge • International Baccalaureate (IB) the shell game undertaken by many in • Advanced Placement (AP) • International workcamps academia at the behest of the prevailing po­ • English as a Second Language (ESL) • Required community service litical wind. The authors indicate a conspira­ • Foreign study • Required full-year courses in the arts torial mechanism about which some of us • 13 interscholastic sports for boys and girls would argue. The facts are there for those For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 215/579-6547. interested.

FRIENDS JOURNAL April 1996 33 FRIENDS HOME AT WOODSTOWN A Quaker-Sponsored Retirement Facility The authors then move to an examination of other myths about expenditures for educa­ • One-bedroom Woods Court • 60-bed Medicare & Medicaid tion in the United States, about the relation­ Apartments for People over 60 Certified Nursing Home ship between education and industry, and • Residential facility with • Pastoral Setting about specific features of public education community dining • Caring, supportive staff that allegedly cause widespread citizen dis­ • Delicious, nutritious meals satisfaction. I'll use but one illustration from the lengthy exposure of these categories. In P.O. Box 457, Friends Drive • Woodstown, NJ 08098 • (609) 769-1500 1989 John Sununo, Chief of Staff during the Bush Administration, claimed, "We spend twice as much as the Japanese, and almost 40 percent more than all the other major industri­ alized countries of the world." This is a lie, though confirmed by Lamar Alexander and Quaker Service, Lauro Cavazos, both former secretaries of education during the Reagan years. In an analy­ Training, sis of K- 12, per pupil expenditures of 16 National Conference industrialized nations, the United States placed ninth, spending less than half ofboth Switzer­ and Witness April ~20, :J.997 land and Sweden, 30 percent less than Japan, Burlington Meeting House Conference Center, Burlington, N.J. and 14 percent less than Germany. As ex­ pressed in terms of per capita income in per 0 leam from and about other Friends' projects student expenditures, the United States ranked o look at setting up an ongoing network on service and witness 14th, surpassing only Australia and Ireland. o work together to develop advlces and queries on how Friends' These data were available and known to the beliefs connect service and work players in the Bush Administration, but were fudged or ignored. This illustration is not the By exchanging ideas for training and development, brainstorming on most dramatic, nor the most obscene-it is administrative problems, sharing how we work our faith into service and simply the first in Chapter Ill. work, and inspiring each other we hope to fan the flame of active caring The issue is not that education in the United that has always characterized Friends. States has been given short shrift by folks, it is This work rises out of a leading from Illinois Yearly Meeting to strengthen that the dedication of funds to phoney solu­ tions will not address what is wrong, and and support volunteer service and witness. We invite and welcome Yearly there are things wrong. Primary among the Meetings, Quaker service organizations, and individual Friends to join us wrong things is the uneven financing of edu­ now in planning this important event. cation for the poor. Among states, districts, Also, please contact us for a just-completed directory of cu"ent Quaker and individual schools, one discerns gross service opportunities. differences in funding for schools serving the underclass and those serving the overclassed. Solutions, like vouchers, ostensibly designed Contact Judy Jager (847) 8648173 to "level the playing field," promise only to 1002 Florence Ave., Evanston, IL 60202 deepen the gulf between the haves and the e-mail: [email protected] have nets in our national community, ex­ hausting resources in unproductive ways. Underfunding ofeducation , the underpayment and overwork of teachers, and the attack on public education is, or ought to be, a national Guidelines for FRIENDS joURNAL Writers disgrace. What we know for sure is that money, well spent, is the way to solve the issue of The articles that appear in FRIENDS JoURNAL are freely given; authors receive copies educational performance. There can be no of the issue in which their article appears. Manuscripts submitted by nonFriends are legitimate doubt about this after considering welcome. We prefer arricles written in a fresh, nonacademic sryle, using language rhar the evidence. clearly includes both sexes. We appreciate receiving Quaker-related humor. The authors do point the way to a solution. •!•maximum 8-10 double-spaced, typewritten pages (2,500 words) The way includes a method of making sane •:•include references for all quotations the funding that informs public schools, a •:•author's name and address should appear on the manuscript reexamination of the methods of student as­ <•enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of manuscript sessment, development and examination of Submissions are acknowledged immediately; however, writers may wait several methods of instruction, willingness to em­ brace new responsibilities, a clear statement months to hear whether their manuscripts have been accepted. about what education is in a democracy, and, For more information contact Kenneth Sutton, Associate Editor. above all, honesty in what is happening in the public schools. fRUIERNNDASL 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 - Ed Dodson Telephone (215) 241-7282, e-mail: [email protected] Ed Dodson attends Agate Passage Worship Jo Group on Bainbridge Island, Washington.

34 April 1996 F RIENDS JoURNAL In Brief than positive envisioning. As he looks at the Jack ofa significant Budgeting for Disannament: peace dividend, and as he sees the minor U.S. commitments to conversion and to The Costs of War and Peace the need for remediating the environmen­ By Michael Renner. Worldwatch Institute, tal damage caused by militarism, Michael Washington, D.C., 1994. 70 pages. $5/paper­ Renner explores the building of institu­ back. Friends peace testimony projects a tions of peace. He sees the promise of vision of a world of peace for the future. Yet modem technology for creating interna­ as parents look to a future for their loved ones, tional organizations for earth stewardship they see an endangered planet with most na­ and conflict management. He calls for tions deeply invested in militarism: not only courageous leadership. lethal weapons and soldiers trained for war, This is an exiting challenge. It should but also scientists exploring more sophisti­ be the basis for discussion in schools, in cated ways to inflict death and destruction. meetings, and in community gatherings. Too often peace movements, including Quaker efforts, have been negative protests rather - Robert H. Cory

Dead Man Walking ead Man Walking, written and The acting, while powerful most of the Susan Sarandon's masterful performance directed by Tim Robbins, begins time, doesn't always stand up to tear-jerker throughout the entire film, which brought D when Sister Helen Prejean re­ standards, in my opinion. In a few scenes, her a well-deserved Academy Award ceives a request from a coworker to write most notably Matthew's last phone call home, nomination. However, while I was riv­ to an inmate on death row. Before she it seems those involved in making this movie eted to the screen with tears streaming knows what she's gotten herself into, she were more interested in the production of down my face, the gentleman seated di­ finds herself regularly visiting Matthew tears than the production of the movie itself. rectly behind me snored peacefully Poncelet (Sean Penn), who is set to be This left a forced quality in a few scenes filled through the better half of the movie. executed for the kidnapping, rape, and with lines choked by exaggerated tears. My My only other complaint about this murder of two young people. suspension of disbelief was stretched to the movie I suppose can also serve as a warn­ Sister Helen, beautifully played by breaking point as a few actors reached the full ing to those with a low tolerance to vio­ Susan Sarandon, struggles to balance the extent of their ability, and jumped off the lence. Several unneccesary, short scenes, humanity of Matthew with the rights of edge, taking with them some of the authentic­ which I could only assume were meant to his victims and their angry parents. ity of the story. be flashbacks to Matthew's crime, were Through her, both sides of the issue of I can hardly blame them for trying to score interspersed throughout the film depict­ capital punishment are shown without too points by provoking an emotional reaction in ing graphic violence. While they did a much judgment, as she engages in discus­ the audience. This movie, based on the book good job ofkeeping the audience in check sions with people holding up either end of of the same titile by Sister Helen Prejean, is a with their attitude towards Matthew, these the debate. In protests, prison cells, court­ true story (about a nun, no less) tied up with scenes relentlessly showed the stuff of rooms, and Jiving rooms the usual argu­ an extremely controversial subject. Plus, with nightmares and could have been easily ments dominate much of the dialogue, the complete absence of senseless, colorful envisioned by the viewer without the aid running through cliches (eye for an eye) violence; stereotypical helpless, voluptuous of a 30-foot screen. and Bible quotations (thou shalt not kill) women; and a clear force of evil for the view­ By abandoning the usual movie for­ in the same interminable circles wound ers to hate, its potential audience is bound to mat of good vs. bad, the audience is left around real people, real courtrooms, and be a devastatingly slim minority ofoften blood­ to make its own decision about the mo­ real life. thirsty U.S. moviegoers. Their only fallback, I rality ofthe death penalty. While I under­ Since both sides are shown without suppose, would be to rely on the drama fans stand that neutrality is really the only designating "good guys" and "bad guys," who sometimes measure the quality ofa movie stand a major motion picture can take on a neutral stance is taken throughout most by the number of tear-streaked faces exiting such a volatile subject, it left me wonder­ of the movie. However, the scenes cover­ at the end of the show. ing what this movie was trying to say. ing Matthew's last hours leading up to the Despite whatever boundaries of good act­ Was there a message hidden somewhere execution, and especially his heart­ ing might have been crossed at times, there in the reels of this film, or was it merely wrenching last words, suggest to me some were many scenes charged with sincere and trying to tell a story? Maybe, simply by bias on the movie's behalf leaning to­ moving emotion. On the close of Matthew's bringing both sides of capital punishment wards an anti-death penalty message. very last visit with his mother, for example, into the light, Dead Man Walking is Tim Robbins does an excellent job of stirring challenging us to make an educated deci­ Cat Buckley is a die-hard Phialdelphia up compassion by subtly illustrating the help­ sion about our personal viewpoint. In my Yearly Meeting Young Friend (despite be­ lessness of Matthew's mother when she is opinion, that alone makes this movie ingfrom Chicago) who is currently work­ told she cannot hug her eldest son goodbye worthwhile. ing as an intern for FRIENDS JouRNAL. for the last time. Also deserving mention is -Cat Buckley

FRIENDS JOURNAL Apri/1996 35 Milestones Friends Journal is designed to nourish the mind as well as the soul with articles on social and political concerns, spiritual journeys, and Quaker Births/Adoptions news. Our readers enjoy the stimulating articles, sensitive poetry and Bischoff--Christopher Lee Bischoff, on Nov. II, illustrations, thoughtful book reviews, timely news features, and lively 1995, to Jennifer Bischoff-Elder and Roland readers· forum. We invite your partidpatlon in the dialogue. Bischoff, of Germantown (Pa.) Meeting. Dilloll-Ariel Dorothy Wiley Dillon, on Dec. 26, THREE FREE ISSUES -or­ 18 ISSUES 1995, to Susan Getes Wiley and Eric William Dillon. Susan is a member of Albuquerque If you enjoy your free issues, FOR THE PRICE OF 12 (OVetSe:ISSUI>safbets (N.Mex.) Meeting, and both Susan and Eric consider a subscription. Only $25. odd $6for postage.) attend Socorro (N.Mex.) Worship Group. Kurtze--Jocelyn Beverly Kurtze, on April 17, I am a new subscriber. Please sign me up for: 1995, to Ellie Knickrnan and Doug Kurtze. A D 3 free issues. member of Bismarck (N.Dak.) Meeting, Ellie D 16 issues for the price of 12. (Check enclosed/Bill me) attends Red River (N.Dak.) Preparative Meeting. Langbert--Emma Nicole Langbert, on Sept. 4, Name:. ______1995, to Sara Langbert, a member of Flushing Address :.______(N.Y.) Meeting. City/State/Zip :.______Masemall-Meghon Claire Maseman, on Dec. 5, Phone:.______1995, to Maggie Gould and Ray Maseman, of Mountain View (Colo.) Meeting. Return to Myran--Caroline Marissa Myran, on Nov. 24, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 191 02-1497 1995, to Laura Sharpless Myran and Thomas Phone: (215) 241-7115 Fax: (215) 568-1377 Myran, ofGennantown (Pa.) Meeting. Navarr~Jayden Navarro, on Oct. 10, 1995, to Lauren Marl-Navarro and James Navarro, of FRIENDS JOURNAL Santa Cruz (Calif.) Meeting. Schonholtz--Douglas Anders Schonholtz, on July 18, 1995, to Marie and Tim Schonholtz, of Corvallis (Oreg.) Meeting. Schweigart--Ma//hew Churchill Schweigart, on Jpirituality and the cArts: Nov. 8, 1995, to Ann and Michael Schweigart, of Woodstown (N.J.) Meeting. A VACATION OPPORTUNITY AT PENDLE HILL Seamall-Austin Roberts Seaman, on Oct. 12, Songwriting from the Heart 1995, to Debra R. and John M. Seaman. John is a +July 19- 23 member of Manhasset (N.Y.) Meeting. -Bob Franke Shils--Gideon Forrester Shils, on Nov. II, 1995, +July 19-23 Painting as Meditation to Pam Pittinger and Brad Shils, of Germantown -Helen David Brancato (Pa.) Meeting. +July 26-29 Printmaking Wall--Benjamin Dakota Wall, on Nov. 28, 1995, -Helen David Brancato to Jacqueline Arnritt and Leonard Wall, of Abington (Pa.) Meeting. Dances ofUniversal Peace +July 26-29 Walter--Nathan Lane Walter, on Nov. 7, 1995, -jeanne Ayesha Lauenborg to Richenda Foulke Walter and Martin Walter. +Aug. 2- 6 Clay, Color and the Word Richenda is a member of Poplar Ridge (N.Y.) -M. C. R ichards Meeting. +Aug. 2- 6 Photographer's Retreat - Danna Cornick Marriages/Unions + Aug. 9-13 Writing Poems Doyle-Graves-Jim Graves and Kathy Doyle, on Sept. 30, 1995, under the care of Wyoming -jeanne Lohmann (Wyo.) Meeting. Visiting artists between workshops Louko-Diffenderfer--Wil/iam E. Diffendetfer and Tammy J. Louko, on Oct. 7, 1995, under the See Classified Ads for full list of Spring and Summer programs. care of Elmira (N.Y.) Meeting, of which William is a member. ~ PEND LE HILL . A QUAKER CENTER FOR STUDY AND CONTEMPLATION McPeak-Franssell-Frea'rik Lars Franssen and V (8oo) 742--:3150 Box F • 338 Plush Mill Road • Wallingford, PA 19086 Katherine Elizabeth McPeak, on Oct. 7, 1995, under the care of Cleveland (Ohio) Meeting, of which Katherine is a member. Display Ad Deadlines MitcheU-Schneider-Kuhll-Ray Schneider­ Kuhn and Gail Mitchell, in Dec.-1995, at and Reservations are required for display ads in FRIENDS JoURNAL. under the care of Mountain View (Colo.) June issue: Reserve space by April 8. Ads must be received by April 15. Meeting. July issue: Reserve space by May 6. Ads must be received by May 13. Ad rate is $28 per column inch plus an hourly charge if we design and typeset your Scala-Ben-Ami--Etan Ben-Ami and Katherine ad. Call (215) 241-7279 now with your reservation or questions. (Kate) Scala, on Oct. 8, 1995, under the care of Birmingham (Mich.) Meeting, of which Kate is a

36 Apri/1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL Pox World is a no-load, The Fund does not invest diversified, open-end, in weapons production, member. Etan is a member of Morningside balanced mutual fund nuclear power, or (N.Y.) Meeting. designed for those who the tobacco, a lcohol, Stow-Van Wormer-Marvin Van Wonnerand wish to receive income or gambling industries. Marion Stow, on Dec. 17, 1995. Marvin is a and to invest in life­ Various types of member of North Columbus (Ohio) Meeting. supportive products and accounts ore available: services. Pax invests in Regular Accounts, IRAs, Deaths such industries as pollu­ Educational Accounts, tion control, health care, Custodial Accounts for Brooks-Iris J. Brooks, 84, on Sept. 16, 1995, in For o free prospectus and Minors, SEP·IRAs, Auto­ San Jose, Calif., of pneumonia following a stroke. food, clothing, housing, other materials call loll·free: Iris was born in Geneva, N.Y., where she gradu­ education, energy, and matic Investment Plans, ated from William Smith College. Following a leisure activities. 1-800-767-1729 and 4031b) Pension Plans. year of teaching, she attended Cornell University 224 Stale Street Minimum investment is $250. Therefore, with Pax there Portsmouth, NH 03801 and received an MS in 1936. Iris returned to Geneva Send no money. Post perfor· and taught high school biology for four years be­ are social os well as Pax World Fund shares ore monee is no guorontee of fore marrying Robert F. Brooks in 1940. She raised economic dividends. available for sale in all 50 states. future results. four daughters in Geneva and Columbia, Mo., where Bob became a professor in 1949. Iris was active in A SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FUND the League of Women Voters, Camp Fire Girls, Ten-Year Total Return PTA, census taking, and programs for interna­ Average Annual Rate of Return tional students. She began worshiping with Friends For Pertod End1ng 12/29/95 $27296 in Columbia and became involved in the peace 1 Year: 29.19% movement and the Fellowship of Reconciliation in 5 Years: 9.79% the late 1960s when her son-in-law became a draft 10 Years: 10.56% resister. Bob died in 1967, and in 19691ris visited 15 Years: 12.00% the Friends community in Monteverde, Costa Rica. She decided to purchase land there and built a small house. She lived in Costa Rica until 1978, when she donated her land to the Monteverde Conservation League and the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve and moved to Melbourne, Ark. Iris became active with the Greens political group, Acres for Wildlife, and Little Rock (Ark.) Meet­ ing, which she joined in 1982. She served as South Central Yearly Meeting's representative to Friends Committee for National Legislation during the 1980s and worked to increase awareness and sup­ port for FCNL in that region. Iris participated in numerous protests against nuclear war. In 1986 she received a Senior Peacemakers Award from SANDY SPRING the Arkansas Peace Center in Little Rock. Iris donated her diaries, letters, photographs, and fam­ ily records to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection in Columbia, Mo., and moved to Ameri­ FRIENDS can Samoa in 1990 to live near one of her daugh­ ters. Iris is survived by four ·daughters, Joan Goddard, Susan Warshauer, Ellen Brooks, and SCHOOL Wendy Malepeai; four grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter. Frey-Elizabeth Lehnert Frey, 95, on Oct. 28, "LaY~~ ~II 1995, at Foxdale Village retirement community in State College, Pa. Born and raised in Vienna, Aus­ tria, Elizabeth worked for many years as a transla­ • Boarding Option Grades 9 to 12 • Day: Pre-K through 12 tor for Larousse Publishing House. In 1928 she married Otto Max Frey. The couple moved to the Five or seven day programs United States, and Elizabeth worked as a book­ keeper for a book store in Pasadena, Calif. She was Outstanding college preparatory curriculum a member of Orange Grove (Calif.) Meeting. She based on traditional Quaker values later moved to Foxdale Village in State College, Pa., to be near one of her daughters. Elizabeth was preceded in death by her husband, Otto, in 1966. • Upper School AP courses e Strong arts and athletics programs She is survived by two daughters, Trudie Engel and Dorothy Marshall; seven grandchildren; and • Required community service e Travel abroad opportunities four great-grandchildren. Situated on 140 acres in historic Quaker country, an hour's drive Hadley-Sara Elizabeth Hadley, 77, on Nov. 12, from Washington, D.C., Baltimore, or Annapolis. 1995, in a hospital near Sandy Spring, Md. Sara was born to missionary parents in Kotzebue, Alaska. In spring 1924, the family moved to a Kansas farm For further information: SANDY SPRING FRIENDS SCHOOL, BOX 3, where she was raised. She attended Friends Uni­ versity in Wichita, Kans., and later graduated from 16923 NORWOOD ROAD, SANDY SPRING, MD 20860 Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C.In 1945 Sara Phone: {301) 774-7455 Fax: {301) 924-1115 received a grant that enabled her to teach at the fRIENDS JOURNAL Apri/1996 37 Est. 1689 WIIlJAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Kindergarten through 306 Years of Quaker Education Twelhh Grade Operated under Charter issued by William Penn. The William Penn Charter Friends Girls School at Ramallah, Palestine, for nearly two years. She returned to the United States School is a Quaker college-preparatory school committed to nurturing in girls ft!.~~ and worked in the office of Friends Meeting of and boys the education of the mind, the quickening of the spirit, and the Washington (D.C.), where she later became a mem­ development of the body. Penn Charter stresses high standards in academics, ber. Sara then worked in the International Depart­ the arts, and athletics. ment of the National Education Association. She Friends are encouraged to apply both as students and as teachers. earned a master's degree in early childhood educa­ tion from The American University and worked Earl J. Ball m, Head of School for ten years at the Association for Childhood 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 Education International. She also did library and (215) 844-3460 reference work for the National Council for the Aging and the American Association of Retired Persons. Sara had a special knowledge of the his­ tory of the Religious Society of Friends in the Washington, D.C., area. She took an active role in her neighborhood's affairs, often serving as the meeting's neighborhood representative. Sara is survived by a brother, Herbert Hadley; five nieces and nephews; and five grandnieces and grand­ nephews. Hayden- Ruth Hayden, 91, on July 5, 1995, at her home in Yarmouthport, Mass., ofa lengthy illness. A member of Sandwich (Mass.) Meeting and Peace was in Their Hearts Yarmouth (Mass.) Preparative Meeting, Ruth was By Richard C. Anderson a strong supporter of civil rights, especially for the Twelve thousand men during World Wor II acted on their Wampanoag Indian community in Mashpee, Mass. She served as a representative of Yarmouth Pre­ beliefs ond become conscientious objectors. This is o moving parative Meeting to the Committee on the Suffer­ chronicle of opinion ond achievement by those who refused to ings and Concerns ofWampanoags and Other Na­ go to the killing fields of wor. An inspiring account of: tive Peoples, a committee of Friends from through­ out Cape Cod who seek to address Indian issues from Friends' perspective. She also worked with - the passion of their convictions Circle of Caring, a support group for those affected - their work in Civilian Public Service by substance abuse that was originated by several Wampanoag mothers. Born in Hartford, Conn., - their frustrations, challenges, ond triumph Sara graduated from Pratt Institute's School of - the logic of their "impossible ideo I" Fine Arts in New York City. She attended the University of Connecticut and the University of Pittsburgh and earned a degree from Bridgewater Paper, 318 pages, $17.95; in Conodo $25.75. State Teachers College. Sara taught art at Hartford High School in Connecticut for 20 years. After· Available through your local bookstore or by calling 1 800 759-4447. returning to school for training in physical therapy, she worked at a children' s rehabilitation center in Hancock, N.H., as a physical therapist and later as 616 Walnut Avenue ~ 490 DuHon Drive director of the center's physical therapy depart­ ScoHdale, PA 15683-1999 HERALD Waterloo, ON N2l6H7 ment. Sara also worked with children with cerebral PRESS palsy at St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson, N.Y., and for the Easter Seal Society for Crippled hp%mph(Qlmcimml.com http I /lwiW mph lm com/hp Children and Adults in southeastern Massachu­ setts. During the last I 0 years of her working career, she taught perceptually handicapped chil­ dren at the Morse Pond School in Falmouth, Mass., retiring in 1974. Sara is survived by four cousins, Helen Finley, Deborah Murphy, Elizabeth Selle, FRIENDLY LEADERS and Ruth Whitford. Jenks-Barton Loag Jenks Jr., 72, on Nov. 6, TRANSLATE YOUR CORE BELIEFS 1995, in State College, Pa. Born in Rutherford, INTO EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONAL ACTION N.J., Bart married Jane Reppert in 1943. He gradu­ Quaker methods underlie the strongest modern management techniques. ated from Swarthmore College in 1945 and re­ Work with a Friendly organizational consultant who shares your values and ceived a master's degree in mechanical engineer­ has put them into dynamic practice in family business, school, human service ing from Princeton University in 1950. He later did additional graduate work at Columbia University agency, and corporate settings. Public or private sector, any locale. in New York City. Bart joined the mechanical ORGANIZATIONAL DEva.oPMENI•CHANGE MANAGEMENI•TEAM BunniNG• WoRK PROCFSS engineering faculty at Penn State University in REDESIGN•INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP RoLE CoNSULTAnoN•'CoUABORATIVE LEADERSHIP' 1950. During his career, he published many papers TRAlNING• CoNFUcr RF.soumoN • AliJANCE DEVEI.OPMENI on engineering education and applications. He also assisted with designing the department's curricu­ GEMINI ALLIANCE DIANE CANo, PRINGPAL lum and developing graduate courses. He served as cooperative education program advisor from 327 FOUR1H STREET #lR, BROOKLYN, IW'11215 1979 until his retirement, as the department's ca­ [email protected] PH.: (718) 832-0678, FAX: ( 718) 832-3684 reer counselor from 1970 to 1979, and as advisor to Pi Tau Sigma Honorary Fraternity from 1973 to

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Eileen's artwork was published regu­ larly in FRI ENDS JouRNAL, Saturday Review ofLit ­ erature, and other periodicals. In 1947 Eileen met Arthur Waring at their 25th Westtown School class reunion, and the couple married later that year. Accommodations They moved to New York City, and she joined Arthur as a member of 15th Street (N.Y.) Meeting. Peaks Island, Malne-15-minute ferry ride from Port­ § land. One square mile for walking and biking around ~ She worked on concerns and committees of the village, on beaches, and in woods. Historic sites, vistas ~~------~ meeting, including the United Nations, Friends (maximum elevation 100 feet), yard sales, etc. Tranquil Seminary, Powell House retreat center in Old summer home facing Casco Bay. Good base for sightseeing on mainland and offshore. DIY breakfast. No 1979. A professional engineer himself, Bart cre­ Chatham, N.Y., and New York Yearly Meeting's pets. Jack and Hermine Berry: May-September (207) ated and evaluated Pennsylvania Professional En­ annual gathering at Silver Bay on Lake George. 766-3366; winters (941) 995-1234. gineering Licensing Examinations for six years. In For many years her favorite volunteer activity was An oasis of calm In the heart of London? Yes, at the 1952 Bart became an active member of State Col­ working in a thrift shop sponsored by St. Quaker International Centre, where short-, medium-, and Bartholomew's Church. Though settled in New longer-term accommodation is available as well as con­ lege (Pa.) Meeting, where he served as clerk, trea­ ference facilities. Excellent homemade food. For further surer, First-day school teacher, and member of the York, Eileen often traveled to the Philadelphia information contact telephone: (0171) 387-5648, fax: worship and ministry committee. He was one of area to visit family and attend meetings of the (0171 ) 383-3722, or write to: 1 Byng Place, London the founders of Foxdale Village, a continuing-care Westtown School Alumni Art Committee. She WC1E 7JH. retirement facility, and served as chairperson of its served as a FRI ENDS JoURNAL board member trom Beacon Hill Friends House: Quaker-sponsored resi­ 1966 to 198 1. In the years following Arthur's dence of 19 interested in community living, spiritual growth, board for six years. Bart is survived by his wife, peace, and social concerns. All faiths welcome. Open­ Jane; a daughter, Effie D. Jenks; a son, Barton death in 1986, Eileen continued with her art and ings in June, September. For information, application: Harold Jenks; a grandson; and a sister, Betty Jenks volunteer work, but also took on the task of orga­ BHFH, 6 Chestnut Street, Boston, MA 02108-3624. (617) Johnson. nizing Arthur's papers, both meeting and personal, 227-9118. Overnight accommodations also available. and after that, her own writings and works of art. Moving to Indianapolis. North Meadow Circle of Friends Waddington-Henry Goodwin Waddington, 73, Eileen is survived by a sister, Sarah W. Brinton; have housing opportunities in their meetinghouse. Write: on Dec. 3, 1995, at home in Mannington, N.J., of Property Oversight, 1710 North Talbott, Indianapolis, IN two brothers, Arthur H. Brinton and William F. 46202. cancer. Born in Salem, N.J., the youngest of six Brinton; nine nieces and nephews; and 17 grand­ children, Henry attended George School in NYC midtown B&B bargain! Charming, one-bedroom nieces and grandnephews. apartments of your own in historical, Eastside neighbor­ Newtown, Pa., where he was active in sports. In hood, $7Q-$125 double, plus $15 per additional guest. 1942 he joined the U.S. Navy and served as a Wentworth-W: Norris Wentworth, 94, on Nov. From simple to sublime. (212) 228-4645. radioman fo r four years. After the Second World 17, 1995, in Bloomington, Ind. Born in State Cen­ Explore George Fox's territory. Lake District, York­ War, Henry worked as a paymaster for the H.J. ter, Iowa, W. Norris was a graduate of the Univer­ shire Dales. Friend welcomes paying guests at her small Heinz company. In 1952 he started Waddington sity of Wisconsin. He grew up in the Congrega­ hill farm. Excellent food. Peacocke, Dummah Hill Farm , N. Stainmore, Kirby Stephen, Cumbria CA17 4DZ, En­ Dairy as a retail milk delivery service in Salem tional Church and came to Quakerism as a result of gland. Telephone: 07683 41218. City, N.J. He continued working in the business meeting Ruth Jones, a birthright member of In the Depths of France: Restored medieval home in until retirement in 1987 and served as chairman of Lansdowne (Pa.) Meeting, when she spent a sum­ village in the Dordogne. Accommodates six. All modern the board until his death. 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Apartments and guest Home in Woodstown, N.J ., where he was active in served on several committees and boards in West­ rooms. (212) 695-3404. the construction of the new home in the 1970s. em Yearly Meeting, including II years on the Henry was also director of the Farmers Mutual Earlham College board oftrustees . A man of wide­ Washington, D.C., sojourners welcome in Friends' home in pleasant suburbs nearby. By day, week, or month. For Insurance Company for 30 years and chairman of ranging talents and interests, he was an active details call (301) 27Q-5258. that board trom 1988 to 1993. During his retire­ member ofseveral civic organizations, was a strong Big Island Friends invite you into their homes for mutual ment he fulfilled his desire to see the world by supporter of Boy Scouts in Bloomington, and served Quaker sharing. Donations. HC1 , Box 21-0, Captain traveling with his wife to many parts of the globe. as president ofthe Monroe County Historical Soci­ Cook, HI 96704. 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FRIENDS JOURNAL April 1996 39 Coming to London? Friendly B&B just a block from the British Museum and very close to London University. A Opportunities Travel-Study In 1996 for the Socially Concerned central location for all tourist activities. Ideal for persons Consider a Costa Rican Study Tour January 30 to Join Quaker educator, Robert Hinshaw, on anthropol­ ogy-focused tours to Guatemala (winter '97), Scandinavia traveling alone. Direct subway and bus links with Heathrow February 10, 1997. with an optional five-day extension to (June), Peruvian Amazon and Andes (August), or Nova Airport. The Penn Club, 21 Bedford Place, London WC1 B Nicaragua. Write Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey, 11B2 Horn­ Scotia (September). Wr~e or call Hinshaw Tours: Box SJJ. Telephone: (0171) 636-471B. Fax: (0171) 636-5516. beam Road, Sabina, OH 45169, or call Lori Musselman, 412, Allenspark, CO 80510; (303) 747-2658. Looking for a creative living alternative in New York telephone: (513) 382-2B69. City? Penington Friends House may be the place for you! Consider Investing In affordable retirement property in We are looking for people of all ages who want to make a the Southern Arizona high desert. We envision a support­ Opportunities Sought serious commitment to a community lifestyle based on ive community of friends (Friends) enjoying one another Quaker principles. For information call (212) 673-1730. and the spacious, dry climate near an established Friends Young, married couple with Quaker/Mennonite back­ We also have overnight accommodations. meeting. To be part of the planning process, or merely to grounds interested in opportunities in peace education gain more information, write Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey, and environmental issues. Both have international expe­ 1182 Hornbeam Road, Sabina, OH 45169. rience and graduate college May 1996. Contact: Jennifer Assistance Sought and Aaron Chappell Deckert, Bethel College Box 55, Wanted: suggestions to complete this sentence: "If 1996 Friends Consultation North Newton, KS 67117. (316) 283-4693. you etc., you just might be a Quaker. • Send Friends and Their Media of Communication suggestions to Weston Webb, 53 Kuester Lake, Grand Richmond Indiana, May 2-5. Come and discuss writing, Ukrainian environmental film producer, currently at­ Island, NE 6BB01. I promise a free copy of compiled editing, placing material, news, comment, discussion, tending Westerly (R.I.) Meeting, seeks opportunities to produce documentary videos. Speaks English. Will relo­ selections to each contributor who encloses SASE. Friends on the Internet, and what the future holds with the editOfs of Friends Bulletin, Friends Journal, and cate. Write or call Andrei Loskoutor, 43 Barnes Road, Quaker Ufe. Sponsored by Quaker Hill Conference Cen­ Stonington, CT 0637B. (203) 536-9968. Audio-Visual ter and Earlham School of Religion. Cost: $180. Call David Edinger at (317) 962-5741 or e-mail John Punshon WHO ARE QUAKERS? by Claire Simon: at [email protected]. Performing Arts & Music Describes Friends' worship, ministry, and decision-making. Excellent tool for Upcoming Conferences at Pendle Hill Royale Muslcke-Renaissance and Baroque music for outreach and education. $26.50 Spring Conferences: your wedding, party, or special occasion. Classical guitar (appr. 27 mins.). Gospel of Thomas, Anne Thomas, April 26-2B. and recorder/flute duo. (609) 85B-9374. Also available: CRONES: Interviews with Elder Quaker Women of Age, Wisdom, and Power, (women over 65 Women-Claire Simon's first program. Quaker women only), Elizabeth Watson, April 29-May 3. Personals speak unselfconsciously about their lives, being Quaker George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism, Larry women, and their feelings about aging and death. Re­ Ingle, May 3-5. Single Booklovers, a national group, has been getting duced to $15 (appr. 20 mins.). Poetry of Adrienne Rich and Emily Dickinson, Eugenia unattached booklovers together since 1970. Please write Please add $3 for postage with your order and allow three Friedman, May 10-12. Box 117, Gradyville, PA 19039, or call (610) 358-5049. weeks for delivery. Quaker Video, P.O. Box 292, Deepening Your Experience of Quaker Worship, a Maplewood, NJ 07040. retreat, Liz Kamphausen and Dorothy Steere, May 10-12. Simplicity: A Meditat io n and a Lifestyle, Ruah Swennerfelt, May 24-26. Concerned c5tngkQ Books and Publications Singing Weekend: Sacred Harp Music, Robin Fox, May 31-June 2. Concerned Singles Newsletter links compatible, so­ Time Is Running Out. Until June 1, 1996, order Friends Summer Conferences: cially conscious singles who care about peace, social General Conference's new Worship in Song: A Friends Massage and Energy Work, John Calvi, June 14-16. justice, civil rights, gender equity, and the environment. Hymnal at $1B each (free shipping in U.S.). Send prepaid Men and the Spirit: Discernment and Everyday Life, Nationwide. All ages. Since 1984. Free sample: Box 444- (U.S. funds) to FGC Bookstore, 1216 Arch Street, 2B, Barry Morley, June 14-16. FJ, Lenox Dale, MA 01242, or 413 44~309. Philadelphia. P A 191 07 or charges call (BOO) 966-4556 Sources of Spiritual Renewal for Educators, Paul Lacey, June 24-2B. Heron Dance: A publication celebrating the good. The Meaningful Work Is Possible, Jacqueline McMakin and Positions Vacant spiritual underpinnings of work in prisons, soup k~chens, Susan Gardiner, June 28-30. Companion In Costa Rica: speaks Spanish, drives stick­ refugee camps, homeless shelters. The beauty of art Family Weekend: Quaker Values In Family Life, Harriet shift, nonsmoker, interested in Quakers and small town and of nature. For a sample send $3 to P.O. Box 31B, Heath and Larue Evans, July 5-7. life. Live independently in simple cabin, pursue own Westport, NY 12993. Annual subscription (B issues) $27. Basic Quakerism for Inquirers, Mickey Edgerton and interests, help out a few hours every day, and be avail­ Frank Massey, July 12-14. able fo r full-time assistance a few days a month. Write A God Who Looks Like Me: Discovering a Woman­ New 1995-86 FGC Bookstore catalog-An annotated Rebecca and Osborne Cresson, Apdo. 51-5655, Affirming Spirituality, Patricia Reilly, August 9-14. Monteverde de Puntarenas, Costa Rica. list of over 500 Quaker titles for adults to children. Free Special program: from Friends General Conference Bookstore, 1216 Arch Spirituality and t he Arts Programming, July 19- Earlham School of Religion seeks candidates for a Street, 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107. Open Monday- August 13, see display ad page 36 for details. faculty appointment in Christian Spirituality with addi­ Friday, 9 am.-4:30 p.m. Call or vi~ to consuH about Contact: Registrar, Pendle Hill, Box F, 338 Plush Mill tional responsibilities in either Pastoral Studies or the religious education materials. (800) 966-4556. Road, Wallingford, PA 19086-6099. (610) 566-4507 or Ministry of Writing for Publication. Candidates must have (BOO) 742-31 50. demonstrated achievement in teaching, spiritual direc­ tion, and hold the M.Div. and Ph.D. or equivalents. Public Quaker Books. Rare and out-of-print, journals, memori- Calling all Friends and Alumni of Earlham College. identity and skills as a writer and/or pastoral minister are als, histories, inspirational. Send for free catalogue or Join John Punshon, Professor of Quaker Studies at the desirable. Applicants from the pastoral tradition of the specifiC wants. Vintage Books, 1B1 Hayden Rowe St., Earlham School of Religion, on a special two-week pil­ Religious Society of Friends, women, and minorities are Hopkinton, MA 0174B. grimage to Quaker England to visit the historical sites, encouraged to apply. Residency and significant partici­ people, and landscapes that gave rise to the worldwide pation in the seminary's community life are expected. Books--Quaker spiritual c lassics, history, biography, family of Friends. The trip runs from July 8-23, 1996, and While a full-time appointment is preferred, two half-time and current Quaker experience, published by Friends will depart from NYC. For more information, contact appointments may be considered if residency expecta­ United Press, 101-AQuakerHill Dr., Richmond, IN47374. Kimberly Tanner at Earlham College, (317) 983-1421. tions can be met. Review of applications begins in early Write for free catalogue. March and will be continuous until an appointment is High School Youthcamp at Pendle Hill: Combine ser­ made. Salary will be commensurate with the level of the vice and learning, fun and adventure, seeking and social appointment. A curriculum vitae and the names of three For Sale change. Join in an inner-city workcamp, learn conflict references should be sent to Bill Ratliff, clerk of the resolution skills, explore arts and crafts, canoe on the Search Committee, Earlham School of Religion, Rich­ Home, Ft. Myers area, Florida: 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 Brandywine River, and build community with a diverse baths, 1Q-year-old custom-built on one acre with 17 cit­ mond, IN 47374-4095. Earlham School of Religion is an group of high schoolers from around the country. Sun­ equal opportunity affirmative action employer. rus trees, garden, and old oak tree shade. 1936 sq. ft., day, July 7-8unday, July 15. Rides may be available 1522 sq. ft. air-conditioned, shop, hobby room/4th bed­ from FGC Gathering in Hamilton. Contact: Alex Kern, Friends General Conference seeks Development Man­ room, lanai, solar hot water, all appliances, blinds, drapes, Pendle Hill, Box F, 33B Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA ager to coordinate fundraising with yearly and monthly and rugs. Beautiful, quiet, four-family Friendly commu­ 190B6-6099. (610) 566-4507 or (BOO) 742-3150. meetings, individual donors, fo undations, and funds, plus nity. $90,000. (941) 728-2229. other special efforts. Works with General Secretary, De­ Quaker House Intentional community seeks residents. velopment Committee, volunteers. Experience in Home In Westtown, Pa. This two-story, architect de­ Share living and meal arrangements in historic Friends development, public relations, managing complex projects, signed, and custom-built home is s~uated in one of meetinghouse. Common interests in spirituality, peace, organizing and analyzing data, working with volunteers Westtown's most beautiful locations. Finest construction and social concerns. One- or two-year terms. Directors, and within Quaker organizations helpful. Candidates throughout with 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, large offiCe/ Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL should be Friends. Salary range: $27,000 to $41,000, studio, library, spacious eat-in kitchen, curved "shaker" 60637. (312) 288-3066, [email protected]. plus generous benefits. Letter and resume to Bruce stairway, two-story greenhouse. In-law possibilities. Tran­ Turn your love of cooking Into fun & profitable home­ Birchard, General Secretary, FGC, 1216 Arch Street, 2B, quil setting with views of tall trees and beautiful landscaped based business demonstrating high-quality kitchen tools. Philadelphia, PA 19107 by April30. grounds. Convenient to major highways. Rare find! To Low start-up cost, high hourly income in one of America's Resident/Resident Couple: Buffalo (N.Y.) Friends Meet­ see, call Prudential Preferred Properties (610) 353- fastest growing companies! Call for FREE catalog and ing still seeks residentls for our urban meetinghouse, 6660. Ask for Toni Pressey. information packet about THE PAMPERED CHEF; (31B) beginning immediately. Preferred-member or attender of 742-8276. Quaker meeting, familiar with community outreach, basic Marketplace available to you! Commemorative items, Walking In Wales. Ten-

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Re­ fax (215) 568-13n. sume and letter to Rose Hagan, Head of School, Friends ment community in Greensboro, North Carolina, is now I Select, 17th and the Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103. open. Friends Homes West is owned by Friends Homes, Service community, lnnlsfree VIllage. Volunteers live Inc., specialists in retirement living since 1968. Friends and work with adults with mental disabilities on a farm in Homes West includes 171 apartments for independent the Blue Ridge Mountains. Must be 21, able to stay one Rentals & Retreats living and on-s~e health care services In the 28 private year. Receive room, board, medical benefits, and $160/ rooms of the Assisted Uving Un~ or the 40 private rooms Bald Head Island, N.C. Panoramic view of ocean, dunes, of the Skilled Care Nursing Unil Enjoy a beautiful com· month. Recruiting, lnnisfree, Rte. 2, Box 506, Crozet, VA lagoon, and golf course from four-bedroom, two-bath­ 22932. mun~y in a location ~h temperate winters and changing room, beautifully furnished house with wrap-around deck, seasons. For more information, please call (910) 292- Minister: Part-time position for Quaker meeting in rural, three electric golf carts. 14 miles of beach, championship 9952, or write Friends Homes West, 6100 West Friendly waterfront community. Parsonage Included. Smith Neck golf, tennis, croquet, swimming, and fishing. 13,000 acres Road, Greensboro, NC 27410. Friends Meeting, 594 Smith Neck Road, S. Dartmouth, of maritime wilderness. Many birds and wildflowers. No MA02748. cars on Island. Peaceful, friendly. Rental by day or week. (215) 699-9186. Enjoy rent-free living! The Caretaker Gazette publishes Foxdale VIllage, a Quaker life-care community. property-caretaking jobs, worldwide. $24/year. 2380 NE Beautiful Vacation House. Maryland Eastern Shore. Air­ Thoughtfully designed cottages complemented by attrac­ Ellis, Suite C-16FR, Pullman, WA 99163-5303. (509) conditioned, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, loft, deck. Near tive dining facilities, auditorium, library, and full medical 332-0806. beach, golf course, peaceful, wooded, $550/week. (410) protection. Setting is a wonderful combination of rural 433-0605. and university environment. Entry fees from New York Yearly Meeting seeks Field Secretary. Dem­ $40,00()-$140,000; monthly fees from $1 ,1 64-$2,354. onstrated communication skills, ability to reach out to Cape Cod Rental. Studio barn in Truro, one mile from 500 East Marylyn Avenue, Department F. State College, diverse Friends, computer literate, financial management Ballston Beach. Large living room, private bedroom, PA 16801. Telephone: (800) 253-4951 . skills, team player. Must be a Friend. Resume to: Boyce kitchen, bathroom. $700/week in July and August. Con­ Benge, 80 Dupont Street, 4D, Brooklyn, NY 11222. tact Ellen Anthony (508) 349-3439. Quaker couple as Friends in Residence for Redwood Cozy Maine Cottage on quiet island minutes across Schoqls Forest Friends Meeting in Santa Rosa, California (one swing bridge from restaurants and shops of Boothbay The Quaker School at Horsham, a value-centered el­ hour north of the Golden Gate Bridge). Living quarters Harbor. Great home base for exploring Maine coast. ementary and middle school for students with learning provided. Contact: Wende Hilyard Muhler, 1647 Sleeps six. $450/week. Homan (610) 828-3192. Guerneville Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95404. differences. Small, remedial classes, qualified staff, serv­ Kaual Quaker owner's beach retreat. Sleeps 5. $385/ ing Philadelphia, Bucks, and Montgomery Counties. 318 week plus $100 deposit. Allow clean-up time. References Meeting House Road, Horsham, PA 19044. (215) 674- Technical assistance provider for state-wide networ1< needed regarding old house care! Bring linens. 87-226 2875. of community land trusts: Seeking energetic, well-organ­ Holomalia Place, Nanakuli, Hl96792. (808) 668-7337. ized person who likes wor1John Woolman School. Rural California, grades 9-12. demonstrated skill in community organizing, experience Onas, beautifully located in rural Preparation for college and adulthood, small classes, in program work related to disarmament and militarism Bucks County, one hour from caring staff, work program, service projects; board, day. issues, and budget management. For more information A Philadelphia, is available for fall, 13075 Woolman Lane, Nevada City, CA 95959. (916) contact Gregory Johnson, American Friends Service Com­ winter, and spring rentals. Facili­ 273-3183. mittee, 1664 Lafayette Street, Denver, Colorado 80218...... ,...... ,_, ...... c..., ties for both large and small The Meeting School: a Quaker alternative high school Telephone: (303) 832-4789. groups include indoor and outdoor sleeping facilities, for 30 students who want an education and lifestyle Beacon Hill Friends House, Quaker center and residen­ comfortable'~ meeting and retreat areas, indoor and out­ promoting Friends testimonies of peace, equality, and tial community, seeks Associate Director for August 1. door recreation areas, modern k~chen and dining facilities, simplicity. Students live in faculty homes, sharing meals, Desire to live in diverse community of 19 interested in outdoor education facilities, and walking trails. Additional campus work, silence, community decision making. Char­ spiritual growth and social concerns and commitment to services and programs available. For information write or acteristic classes include: Conflict Resolution, Native Quaker faith and practice essential. Supervise mainte­ call Camp Onas, 609 Geigel Hill Road, Ottsville, PA American Studies, Ecology, Human Rights, Alternative nance of historic building, oversee resident life, manage 18942. (610) 847-5858. Housing, Mythology, Quantum Physics. College prepara­ guest rooms, and administer daily operations. Salary, Maine Coast. Spacious house sleeps eight. Deck over­ tory and alternative graduation plans. Wooded rural setting housing, benefits. Inquiries: BHFH, 6 Chestnut Street, looks pond. Beautiful woods, salt-water cove. Swimming, near Mt. Monadnock; organic garden, draft horses, sheep, Boston, MA 02108, (617) 227-9118. April 20th deadline. canoeing-islands, bays. Near beaches, woods walks, poultry. Annual four-week intensive independent study projects. The Meeting School, 56 Thomas Road, Rindge, Internship at William Penn House. 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Cooking skills, group Arthur Morgan School, 1901 Hannah Branch Road, AZ 85617. living experience helpful. Cover letter and resume to Burnsville, NC 28714. (704) 675-4262. Director, William Penn House, 515 East Capitol Street A Friendly Maul vacation on a Quaker family organic SE, Washington, DC 20003. Telephone: (202) 543-5560. farm. 20 minutes to local beaches. New stone and cedar Westbury Friends School-Safe, nurturing Quaker Fax: (202) 543-3814. Apply by May 15. building with large octagonal room, skylight, ocean view, environment for 90 children, nursery-grade 6, on beauti­ Durham Friends Meeting seeks experienced Quaker walk-in closet, and private bath. Full kitchen, organic ful 17-acre grounds. Small classes and dedicated pastor. Rural setting near Brunswick and Freeport, Maine. vegetable garden, and hot tub. Bed and breakfast or bed teachers. Music, art, computers, Spanish, and gym. Ex­ Close to colleges, par1

FRIENDS JOURNAL April 1996 41 HEIDELBERG-Unprogrammed meeting. First and third Stratford Friends School provides a strong academic Marriage Certificates. Fine calligraphy in traditional plain Sundays. Call Brian Tracy: 06223-1386. program in a warm, supportive, ungraded setting for styles or decorated with beautiful, custom-designed bor­ children ages 5 to 13 who learn differently. Small classes ders. Also Family Trees for holiday gifts, births, GUATEMALA and an enriched curriculum answer the needs of the anniversaries, family reunions. Call or write Carol Simon GUATEMALA-unprogrammed. First and third Sundays. whole child. An at-risk program for five-year-{lids is avail­ Sexton, Clear Creek Design, 820 West Main Street, Rich­ Call Trudie Hunt: 0343886, Nancy Espana: 0392461. able. The school also offers an extended day program, mond, IN 47374. (317) 962-1794. tutoring, and summer school. Information: Stratford MEXICO Friends School, 5 Llandillo Road, Havertown, PA 19083. FRIENDS JoURNAL typesetting and design (610) 446-3144. services. We prepare copy for newsletters, CIUDAD VICTORIA, TAMAUUPAS.Iglesia de los Amigos, brochures, books, posters, and other printed Sunday 10 a.m.; Thursday 8 p.m. Matamoros 737 2-29-73. works. FRIENOS JouRNAL, 1501 Cherry Street, MEXICO CITY-unprogrammed meeting, Sundays, 11 a.m. Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. Telephone Casa de los Amigos, Ignacio Mariscal 132, 06030, Services Offered (215) 241-7283. Mexico 1, D. F. 705-Q521. Friends, are you receiving monthly payments on a e Mortgage/Trust Deed and need cash for any reason? I NICARAGUA can help you sell all or a portion of the payments to give Summer Camps MANAGUA-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. each Sunday you the cash you need. Call Richard Butler collect at at Centro de los Amigos, APTOO 5391 Managua, Make Friends, Make Music: Friends Music Camp this (303) 53Q-2156. Nicaragua. Telephone first: 66-3216 or 66-0984. summer. Ages 1Q-18. FMC, P.O. Box427, Yellow Springs, Friendly Financial Services. Let me help you prepare OH 45387. (513) 767-1311 or (513) 767-1818. UNITED STATES for retirement or work out an estate plan. Socially respon­ sible Investments-my specialty. Call Joyce Moore, Alabama LUTCF, Joyce Moore Financial Services at (61 0) 258- Summer Rentals A THENS.Umestone Co. worship group (205) 23Q-3006. 7532 or e-mail [email protected]. (Securities BIRMINGHAM-Unprogrammed meeting. 10 am. Sundays. Summer Cottage in Rufus Jones' Country: Lake-front offered by Washington Square Securities, 1423 N. 28th Creative Montessori School, 1650 28th Court South, cottage; 2 bedrooms, screened sleeping porch on China Street, Allentown, PA 18104, [610)437-2812.) Homewood. (205) 592-Q570. Lake in south-<:entral Maine, one hour to Maine coast. Friends Helping Friends Grow. Investment certificates Available for weekly or monthly rental June-August; $400 FAIRHOPE-Unprogrammed meeting 10 am. Sundays at are available from Friends Extension Corporation. These weekly or $1400 monthly; 2-week minimum preferable. Friends Meetinghouse, 9261 Fairhope Ave. Write: P.O. investments promote the growth of Friends by providing Contact: Marilyn or Bob Clark, 5405 Purlington .Way, Box 319, Fairhope, AL 38533. (334) 928-Q982. low cost loans to build new facilities or renovate existing Baltimore, MD 21212. Phone: (410) 435-8683. HUNTSVILLE-Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m. Sundays in facilities. For information contact Margaret Bennington, various homes. Call (205) 837-6327 or write P.O. Box Adirondacks. Housekeeping cabins on quiet, unspoiled 101 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. Telephone: 3530, Huntsville, AL 35810. (317) 962-7573. lake. Fireplaces, fully equipped. June thru September. (609) 654-3659 or write Dreby, Cranberry Lake, NY 12927. ROYAL (Blount County)-Worship group. (205) 429-3088.

Socially Responsible Investing Prince Edward Island, Canada. Follow the blue herons Alaska to clear skies, berry picking, fresh seafood, warm swim­ Using client-specified social criteria, I screen invest­ ANCHORAGE-Call for time ln1 directions. (907) 566-Q700. ments. I use a financial planning approach to portfolio ming, and private picnics on miles of clean sand beaches. Splendid view from new bay-front cottage. 1 1/2 baths. FAIRBANKs-Unprogrammed, First Day, 10 a.m. Hidden management by identifying individual objectives and de­ Hill Friends Center, 2682 Gold Hill Rd. Phone: 47!t-3796. signing an investment strategy. I work with individuals Available July. $550 per week. (413) 774-3733. and businesses. Call Sacha Millstone; Raymond, James JUNEAU-Unprogrammed. First Day 9 a.m. 325 Gold & Associates, Inc., member NYSE, SIPC. (202) 789- Prince Edward Island, Canada. Seaside cottage on Street. Phone (907) 586-4409 for information. 0585 in Washington, D.C., area, or (800) 982-3035. private peninsula. 18o-degree sweep of sea and sky. Warm swimming, excellent birding, bicycling, fishing. Arizona Regain contact with the natural world. Completely FLAGSTAFF-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school Still looking for a book? Free search. Sperling Books, equipped. $450/week. Available late June and July. (61 0) 10 a.m. 402 S. Beaver, 86001. 160 E. 38th Street, 25-EFJ, New York, NY 10016. 399-Q432. McNEAL-Cochise Friends Meeting at Friends Southwest Center, 7 112 miles south of Elfrida. Worship 11 a.m. We are a fellowship, Friends mostly, seeking to enrich Phone: (602) 642-3894 or (602) 642-3547. and expand our spiritual experience. We seek to obey PHOENIX-Worship and First-day school tO a.m. 1702 E. the promptings of the Spirit, however named. We meet, Glendale, Phoenix, 85020. 943-5831 or 955-1878. publish, correspond. Inquiries welcome! Write Quaker Universalist Fellowship, 121 Watson Mill Road, PRESCOTT-Worship group (602) 778-5971 or 445-7619. Landenberg, PA 1935Q-9344. TEMPE-Unprogrammed, First Days, 10 a.m., childcare provided. 318 East 15th Street, 85281. Phone: 968-3966. Wedding Certificates, birth testimonials, poetry, gifts all Meetings TUCSON-Pima Friends Meeting (unprogrammed). 10 a.m. • done in beal!liful calligraphy and watercolor illumination. 931 N. 5th Ave. Information: (602) 625-0926. Book early for spring weddings. Write or call Leslie A partial listing of Friends Mitchell, 2840 Bristol Rd., Bensalem, PA 19020. (215) Arkansas 752-5554. meetings in the United States and abroad. FAYETTEVILLE-U~ed.(501)521.a657or267-6822 . General Contracto r. Repairs or alterations on old or HOPE-Unprogrammed. Call: (501) 777-5382. historical buildings. Storm and fire damage restored. MEETING NOTICE RATES: $13.50 per line LITTLE ROCK-Unprogrammed meeting, discussion John File, 1147 Bloomdale Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19115. per year. Payable a year in advance. No 10 am., worship at 11 a.m. at 3415 West Markham. (215) 464-2207. discount. Changes: $8 each. Phone: (501) 664-7223. Moving to North Carolina? Maybe David Brown, a Quaker real estate broker, can help. Contact him at 1208 Pine­ California wood Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. (910) 294-2095. ARCATA·11 a.m. 1920 Zehndner. (707) 677-Q461. BOTSWANA BERKELEY-Unprogrammed meeting. Worship 11 a.m., Family Relations Committee's Counseling Service 2151 Vine St. at Walnut. 843-9725. (PYM) provides confidential professional counseling to GABORONE-Kagisong Centre. 373624 or 353552. individuals and couples in most geographic areas of BERKELEY-Strawberry Creek, 1600 Sacramento. P.O. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. All counselors are Quakers. CANADA Box 5065. Unprogrammed worship 9:30a.m. 524-9186. All Friends, regular attenders, and employees of Friends HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA-(902) 461-Q702 or 477-3690. CHIC0-10 a.m. singing; 10:30 unprogrammed worship, organizations are eligible. Sliding fees. Further informa­ OTTAWA-Worship and First-day school10:30 a.m. children's class. 2603 Mariposa Ave. 345-3429. tion or brochure, contact Steve Gulick, 1501 Cherry St., 91A Fourth Ave. (613) 232-9923. CLAREMONT-Worship 9:30a.m. Classes for children. Philadelphia, PA 19102. (215) 988-Q140. TORONTO, ONTARlO- Worship and First-day school 11 727 W. Harrison Ave., Claremont. Celo Valley Books: Personal attention to all phases of am. 60 Lowther Ave. (North from cor. Bloor and Bedford). DAVIS.Meeting for worship, First Days, 9:45 a.m. book production (25 to 5,000 copies). Typing, editing, 345 L St. Visitors call 753-5924. layout, final delivery. Free brochure. 346 Seven Mile COSTA RICA FRESNO-Unprogrammed meeting. Sunday 10 a.m. Child­ Ridge Road, Burnsville, NC 28714. MONTEVERDE-Phone 645-5207 or 645-5036. care. 1350 M Street, Fresno, CA 93721. (209) 486-8420. SAN JOSE-unprogrammed meeting, 11 am. Sunday. GRASS VALLEY-Meeting for worship 9:45am., Phone: 224-4376 or 233-6168. discussion/sharing 11 am. John Woolman School ~tudios campus, 13075 Woolman Ln. Phone: (916) 265-3164. EGYPT HEMET-Meeting for worship 9:30a.m., 26665 Chestnut Dr. CAIRO-First, third, and fifth Sundays at 7 p.m. Call Visitors call (714) 925-2818 or 927-7678. Johanna Kowitz, 357-3653 (d), or Ray Langsten, LA JOLLA-Meeting 10 a.m. 7380 Eads Ave. Visitors call Marriage certifiCates, Announcements, Invitations, etc. 357~9 (d), 348-3437 (e). • Do justice to your event with our calligraphy and award- 456-1020. winning graphic design. (800) 763-0053. LONG BEACH-10 a.m. Orizaba at Spaulding. FRANCE (310) 514-1730. PARIS.Meeting for worship 11 a.m. Sundays. Centre LOS ANGELES.Worship 11 a.m. at meetinghouse, Quaker International, 114 Rue de Vaugirard, 75014 Paris. ... Forum Travel 4167 So. Normandie Ave., L.A., CA 90037. Quaker-owned-and-managed travel Phone: 45-48-74-23. Office hours: Wednesday 2:3Q-5. (213) 296-Q733. agency. Friendly, experienced service; LOS ANGELES.Th ird Street Friends worship group (LA. • domestic and international; overnight de- GERMANY and Westwood) 10:45 a.m., Whittier Law School, 5353 W. livery. (800) 888-4099. HAMBURGH-Unprogrammed meeting !0:30a.m. Sundays. Third St. (213) 296-Q733 or (310) 472-1137. Mail: 1m Winterhuder Weg 98 (Aitenhof). Phone (040) - 2700032. Stone Canyon Rd., L.A., CA 90077.

42 Apri/1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL MARIN COUNTY-10 a.m. 177 East Blithedale Ave., STAMFORD-GREENWICH-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Georgia Mill Valley, CA. Phone: (415) 435-5755. 572 Roxbury Rd. (corner of Westover), Stamford. (203) 637-4601 or 869-0445. A THENS..Worshlp and First-day school 10 to 11 a.m. MONTEREY PENINSULA-Friends meeting for worship, Sunday; 11 to 12 discussion. Athens Montessori School, Sundays, 10 a.m. Call (408) 649-8615 or STORRS..Meetlng for worship 10 am. Corner North Barnett Shoals Rd., Athens, GA 30605. (706) 353-2856 or (408) 373-5003. Eagleville and Hunting Lodge Rds. Phone: 429-4459. 548-9394. OJAI-Unprogrammed worship. First Days 10 a.m. WILTON-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. ATLANTA-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. Call 646-4497 or 646-3200. 317 New Canaan Rd., Rte. 106. (203) 762-5669. 701 W. Howard Ave., Decatur, GA 30030. David Thurman, ORANGE COUNTY-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Harbor WOODBURY·Utchfield Hills Meeting (formerly Watertown). clerk, (404) 377-2474. Area Adult Day Care Center, 661 Hamilton St., Costa Woodbury Community House, Mountain Rd. at Main St. AUGUSTA-Worship 10:30 a.m. at Meetinghouse, Mesa, CA 92627. (714) 786-7691. Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. Phone: 263-3627. 340 112 Telfair St. (706) 736-8036 or (803) 278-5213. PALO ALTO-Meeting for worship and First-day classes for Delaware ST. SIMONS ISLAND-Weekly meeting for worship in children 11 a.m. 957 Colorado. homes, 10:30 am. Call (912) 638-1200 or 437-4708. PASADENA-Orange Grove Monthly Meeting, 520 E. CAMDEN-Worship 11 am., (10 am. in June, July, Aug.), Visttors welcome. Orange Grove Blvd. First-day school 10 am., meeting for First-day school 10 am., 2 mi. S. of Dover, 122 E. worship 11 a.m. Phone: (818) 792-6223. Camden-Wyo Ave. (Rte. 10). 284-4745, 697-6910. Hawaii REDLANDS-RIVERSIDE-sAN BERNARDINO-Inland CENTRE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. 1 mile east of BIG ISLAND-10 a.m. Sunday. Unprogrammed worship, Valley Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed. Call (714) 682- Centreville on the Centre Meeting Rd. at Adams Dam Rd. potluck lunch follows. Location rotates. 5364 or 792-7766. HOCKESSIN-First-day school 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m. Call (808) 322-3116, 775-0072. SACRAMENTO-Meeting 10 a.m. Stanford Settlement, N.W. from Hockessin-Yorklyn Rd. at first crossroad. HONOLULU-Sundays, 9:45a.m. hymn singing; 10 a.m. 450 W. El Camino near Northgate. Phone: (916) 44~22. NEWARK-First-day school 9:30 a.m., worship 10:30 a.m. worship and First-day school. 2426 Oahu Ave., 96822. SAN DIEGO-Unprogrammed worship, First Days, Newark Center for Creative Learning, 401 Phillips Ave. Overnight Inquiries welcomed. Phone: (808) 988-2714. 10:30 a.m. 4848 Seminole Dr. (619) 287-4127. (302) 456-0398. MAUl-Friends Worship Group. Contact: John Dart SAN FERNANDO VALLEY..U nprogrammed worship, First ODESSA-Worship, first Sundays, 11 a.m., W. Main Street. (808) 878-2190, 107-D Kamnul Place, Kula, HI 96790; or (808) 572-9205 (Vitarellis). Days, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; 15056 Bledsoe, Sylmar. WILMINGTON-Worship 9:15 a m., First-day school 360-7635. 10:30 am. Alapocas, Friends School. SAN FRANCISCO-Meeting for worship and First-day Idaho school, 11 a.m., Sundays. 65 9th Street. (415) 431-7440. WILMINGTON-Worship and First-day school10:30 a.m. BOISE-Boise Valley Friends. Unprogrammed worship, 4th & West Sts. Phone: 652-4491 . SAN JOSE-Worship and First-day school10 a.m., 9:30a.m. First Day. (208) 345-2049. discussion 11 :30 am. 1041 Morse St. (408) 25Hl408. District of Columbia MOSCOW-Moscow-Pullman Meeting, Campus Christian SANTA BARBARA Marymount School (above the Mission), Center, 822 Elm St., Moscow. Unprogrammed worship WASHINGTON-Friends Meeting, 211 i Florida Ave. NW 11 a.m. Sunday. Childcare. (208) 882-3534. 10 a.m. Children's program and childcare. P.O. Box 40120, (north of Dupont Cirde Metro, near Conn. Ave.). (202) 483- Santa Barbara, CA 9314()..()120. Phone: (805) 563-9971. 3310. Unprogrammed meetings for worship are held at: SANDPOINT-Unprogrammed worship group at Gardenia Center, 4 p.m. Sundays. Various homes in summer. Call SANTA CRUZ-Meeting 10 a.m., Louden Nelson Center. FLORIDA AVE. MEEnNGHOUSE-Worship at 9 a.m. Elizabeth Willey, 263-4290. Clerk: Terry Thiermann, (408) ~2160. and "11 a.m. Sundays, also 7 p.m. Wednesdays. First­ SANTA MONICA-First-day school and meeting at 10 a.m. day school at 11 :20 a.m. Illinois 1440 Harvard St. Phone: 8284069. QUAKER HOUSE-2121 Decatur Pl., adjacent to BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL..lJnprogrammed Sun. SANTA ROSA-Redwood Forest Meeting. Worship 10 a.m. Meetinghouse. Worship at "10 a.m. 11 a.m. Sept.-May, Campus Religious Center, 210 W. 1647 Guerneville Rd. Phone: (707) 578-3327. "Interpreter for the hearing impaired a110 and 11 a.m. Mulberry, Normal. Summer-homes. (309) 888-2704. FRIENDSHIP PREPARATIVE MEEnNG-at Sidwell SEBASTOPOL-Apple Seed Friends. Worship 10 a.m. CHICAG0-57th St., 5615 Woodlawn. Worship 10:30 a.m. 167 No. High Street, P.0. Box 1135. (707) 823-7938. Friends Upper School, 3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Kogod Monthly meeting follows on third Sunday. Phone: Arts Bldg. Worship at 11 a.m. VISALIA-Worship 10:30 am. 17208 Ave. 296, Visalia. 288-3066. WILLIAM PENN HOUSE WORSHIP GROUP-515 E. CHICAGO-Chicago Monthly Meeting, 10749 S. Artesian. (209) 739-7776. Capitol St., SE. (202) 543-5560. Worship at 9:30a.m. Worship 11 a.m. Phones: 445-8949 or 233-2715. WHITTlER·Whitleaf Monthly Meeting, Administration Building, corner Painter and Philadelphia Worship Florida CHICAGO-Northside (unprogrammed). Mailing address: 1456 W. Leland, Chicago, IL 60640. Worship 4 p.m. at 9:30am. P.O. Box 122. Phone: 698-7538. CLEARWATER-Clerk: Priscilla Blanshard, 8333 Seminole 3344 N. Broadway, Chicago (Broadway Un~ed Methodist Colorado Blvd. #439, Seminole, FL 34642. (813) 397-8707. Church), lower level. Phone: (312) 929-4245. DAYTONA BEACH-Sunday 10:30 a.m. in homes. Please DECATUR-Worship and First-day school, 10 a.m. at BOULDER-Meeting for worship 8:30 and 10 a.m. Childcare call (904) 677-6094 or 734-3115 for information. available. First-day school 10 a.m. Phone Mary Hey at DOVE, 788 E. Clay. Phone: 877~ or 423-4613. (303) 442-3638. FT. LAUDERDALE-Worship group. (305) 977-6311 . DOWNERS GROVE-(West Suburban Chicago) Worship COLORADO SPRINGS..Meeting Sunday at 10 a.m. at FT. MYERS..Meeting at Lee County Nature Center Days at and First-day school 10:30 a.m. 5710 Lomond Ave. 701 East Boulder Street, Colorado Springs, CO. Tel: (719) 10:30 am. Telephone: (813) 334-3533, 489-3531; or in (3 blocks west of Belmont, 1 block south of Maple). Phone: 685-5548. Address: Colorado Springs Friends Meeting, Naples, 455-8924. 968-3861 or 852-5812. P.O. Box 2514, Colorado Springs, C080901·251 4. GAINESVILLE-Meeting and First-day school 11 a.m. EVANSTON-Worship 10 a.m. 1010 Greenleaf, 864-8511. DENVER-Mountain View Friends Meeting, 2280 South 1921 N.W. 2nd Ave. 462-3201. GALESBURG-Peoria-Galesburg Meeting. 10 a.m. in Columbine St. Worship and adu~ religious education JACKSONVILLE-Meeting for worship, First Days. For homes. (309) 343-7097 for location. 9 am. Worship and First-day school 10:30 a.m. Worship at location and time phone (904) 768-3648 or 733-3573. LAKE FOREST-Worship 10:30 a.m. at meetinghouse. 12100 W. Alameda, Lakewood 10 a.m. Phone: 777-3799. KEY WEST-Worship group Sunday 10:30. 61 8 Grinnell West Old Elm and Ridge Rds. Mail: Box 95, Lake Forest, DURANGO-Unprogrammed worship 10 am., First-day Street in garden. Phone: Sheridan Crumlish, 294·1523. 60045. Phone: (708) 234-6410. school and adu~ discussion 11 a.m. Call for location, 247-4550 or 884-9434. LAKE WALES.. Worship group, (813) 676-2199. McHENRY COUNTY-Worship 10 am. (81 5) 385-8512. ESTES PARK-Friends/Unttarian Fellowship. LAKE WORTH-Palm Beach Meeting, 823 North A St. McNABB-Clear Creek Meeting. Unprogrammed worship Unprogrammed worship 10 am. Phone: (303) 586-5521. 10:30 a.m. Phone: (407) 585-8060. 11 a.m., First-day school 10 am. Meetinghouse 2 miles south, 1 mile east of McNabb. Phone: (815) 882-221 4. FORT COLLINS..Meeting for worship and First-day school MARATHON-Worship group. January through April, 10 a.m., 2222 W. Vine. (303) 491-9717. second and fourth First Day 11 a.m. 69 Tingler Lane, OAK PARK-Worship 10 a.m. (with First-day school and (305) 289-1220. childcare) at Oak Park Art League, 720 Chicago Ave. NORTH METRO DENVER-Unprogrammed worship 10 Mail Address: P.O. Box 3245, Oak Park, IL 60303-3245. a.m., conversation after. Children welcome. Colorado MIAMI-CORAL GABLES..Meeting 10 a.m. 1185 Sunset Phone: (708) 846-1 892. Piedmont Meeting, (303) 254-8123, Internet Dr., 661-7374. Clerk: David Landowne, (305) 661-4847. PARK FOREST-Worship 10 am. (708) 748-2266. [email protected]. OCALA-10 a.m. ad hoc First-day school. 1010 N.E. 44 Ave., TRINIDAD-Unprogrammed worship, 10 a.m. every First 32670. Lovely reasonable accommodations. (904) 236-2839. QUINCY-Friends Hill Meeting. Unprogrammed worship Day, 605 W. Pine St., Trinidad, CO. Clerk: Bill Durland, 10 a.m. 223-3902 or 222-6704 for location. (719) 846-7480 . ORLANDO-Meeting and First-day school 9:30 a.m. 316 E. Marks St., Orlando, 32803. (407) 425-5125. ROCKFORD-Meeting for worship, First Days, 10:30 a.m., Friends House, 326 N. Avon. (815) 962-7373, 963-7448, or Connecticut ST. PETERSBURG-Meeting, First-day school, and 964-0716. Teen Group 10:30 a.m. 130 19th Ave. S.E. HARTFORD-Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m. Phone: (813) 896-0310. URBANA-CHAMPAIGN-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. 714 discussion 11 a.m. 144 South Quaker Lane, West W. Green St., Urbana. Phone: (217) 328-5853 or 344-6510. Hartford. Phone: 232·3631. SARASOTA-Worship 9:30a.m., discussion 10:30 a.m., MIDDLETOWN-Worship 1 0 a.m. Butterfield Colleges, Unit Cook Hall, New College. For directions, call 362·9549 or Indiana Marie Condon, clerk, 355-2592. A, corner of High and Lawn Avenue in Middletown. BLOOMINGTON-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Moores NEW HAVEN-Meeting and First-day school, Sundays, STUART-Worship group. October-May. (407) 335-0281. Pike at Smith Road. (812) ~5576. 10:30 a.m. Worship sharing Wednesdays 7:30 p.m. 225 TALLAHASSEE-Worship Sunday 10 am. 2001 Magnolia EVANSVILLE-Worship 11 a.m. Sundays at Patchwork East Grand Ave., New Haven, CT 06513. (203) 453-3815. Dr. South. Unprogrammed. Potluck first Sunday. Central, 100 Washington Ave. NEW LONDON-Meeting for worship and First-day (904) 878-3620. FORT WAYNE-Friends Worship Group meets for school 10 a.m., discussion 11 am. Friends Meeting TAMPA-Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m. discussion and unprogrammed worship. Phone Vincent House, Oswegatchie Rd., off the Niantic River Rd., 11215 N. Nebraska Ave., Sutte B-3. Phone contacts: Reddy (219) 424·5618 for time and place. Waterford, Conn. 536-7245 or 889-1924. (813) 989-9261 and 977-4022. HOPEWELL-Unprogrammed worship 9:30 a.m., discussion NEW MILFORD-Housatonic Meeting. Rte. 7 at Lanesville WINTER PARK-Meeting 10 a.m. Alumni House, Rollins 10:30 am. 20 mi. W. Richmond; between 1-70, US 40; 1-70 Rd. Worship 10 a.m. Phone: (203) 746-6329. College. Phone: (407) 894-8998. exit Wilbur Wright Rd., 1 1/4 mi. S., 1 mi. W. 478-4218.

F RIENDS JOURNAL Apri/1996 43 INDIANAPOLIS-North Meadow Circle of Friends, Maryland WELLESLEY-Meeting for worship and Sunday school 1710 N. Talbott. Unprogrammed, worship 10 a.m. Children 10 a.m. at 26 Benvenue St. Phone: (617) 237-

44 Apri/ 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL DOVER-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 am., 141 Central TRENTON-Meeting for worship and primary First-day LOCUST VALLEY-MATINECOCK-10 am. all year, Ave. Clerk: Charlotte Fardelmann, (603) 436-7652, or school 10 am. Hanover and Montgomery Sts. Children FDS Sept.-June. Duck Pond and Piping Rock Ads. write: P.O. Box 98, Dover, NH 03820. welcomed and cared for. MANHASSET·Adu~ class 10 am., FDS 11 a m., Winter. GONIC-Semi-programmed Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays. TUCKERTON-Utile Egg Harbor Meeting. Left side of (Worship 10 a.m. June· August.) (516) 365-5142. 10:30 a.m. Maple St. Clerk: Shirley Leslie. Rte. 9 traveling north. Worship 10:30 a.m. ST. JAME5-CONSCIENCE BAY-Friends Way, off Phone: (603) 332-5472. WOODBURY-First-day school 10 a.m., meeting for Moriches Rd. Adu~ discussion, First-day school, and HANOVER-Worship and First-day school, Sundays, worship 11: 15 am. 140 North Broad St. Telephone: singing. (516) 862-6213. 10 am. Friends Meetinghouse, 43 Lebanon St. (next to (609) 845-5080, if no answer call 845-9516. SHELTER ISLAND EXECUTIVE MEEnNG-10 :30a.m. high school). Cieri<: Anne Baird, (603) 989-3361 . WOODSTOWN-First-day school 9:45 a.m., worship Summers: Circle at Quaker Martyr's Monument, LANCASTER-Unprogrammed meeting at the Episcopal 11 a.m. July and Aug., worship 10 a.m. N. Main St. Sylvester Manor. (516) 749-0555. Winters, call Rectory first and third Sundays at 5:30 p.m. Check with Phone: (609) 358-3528. (516) 324-a557. Mary Ellen Cannon at (603) 788-3668. New Mexico WESTBURY-550 Post Ave., just south of Jericho Tpke. NORTH SANDWICH-10:30 a.m. Contact: Webb, at Ex~ 32-N, Northern State Pkwy. First-day school and (603) 284-6215. ALBUQUERQUE-Meeting and First-

FRIENDS JoURNAL Apri/1996 45 DAVIDSON-10 am. Carolina Inn. (704) 892-3996. Oklahoma GWYNEDD-First-day school 9:45a.m., except summer. Worship 11 :15 am. Sumneytown Pike and Rte. 202. DURHAM-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school OKLAHOMA CITY-Friends Meetinghouse, 312 S.E. 25th. ;~ ~)";s~~;,xander Ave. Contact Karen Stewart, Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 a.m., Quaker study HARRISBURG-Worship 11 a.m., First-day school and 1 group, midweek. (405) 632-7574, 631-4174. adu~ education (Sept. to May) 9:45 a.m. Sixth and Herr Sis. Phone: {717) 232-7282 or 232-1326. FAYETTEVILLE-Unprogrammed. Phone 485-5720. STILLWATER-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 11 am. GREENSBORO.Friendship Meeting (unprogrammed), For information call (405) 372-5892 or 372-4839. HAVERFORD-First-day school 10:30 a.m., meeting for worship 10:30 a.m., fifth-day meeting for worship 10 am. 1103 New Garden Rd. Worship 10:30 a.m. Call: TULSA-Green Country Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed (910) 294-2095 or 854-5155. during college year. Buck Lane, between Lancaster Pike worship 5:1 5p.m. Forum 4 p.m. For information, call and Haverford Rd. GREENSBORO.New Garden Friends Meeting. Meeting for (918) 743-6827. worship: unprogrammed 9 a.m.; semiiJrogrammed 11 am. HAVERTOWN-Old Haverford Meeting. East Eagle Rd. at First-day school 9:30 a m. Hank Semmler, clerk; David W. Oregon Saint Dennis Lane, Havertown; First-day school and adult forum, 10 am., meeting for worship 11 a.m. Bills, pastoral minister. 801 New Garden Road, 27410. ASHLAND-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Sunday. {91 0) 292-5487. 1150 Ashland St. (503) 482-4335. HORSHAM-First-day school, meeting 11 am. Rte. 611. GREENVILLE-Unprogrammed worship and First-day CORVALLIS..Meeting for worship 9:30a.m. INDIANA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, 10:30 a.m., school. 355-7230 or 751Hl789. 3311 N.W. Polk Ave. Phone: 752-3569. first and third Sundays. (412) 349-3338. HICKORY-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school EUGENE-Meeting for worship f1 am. Sunday. 2274 Onyx KENDAL·Worship 10:30 a m. Rte. 1, 1 mi. N. of Longwood 10:15 am., forum 11 :30.328 N. Center St., (704) 324-5343. St. Phone: 343-3840. Gardens. MOREHEAD CITY..U nprogrammed. First and Third Sundays, FLORENCE-Unprogrammed worship (503) 997-4237 or KENNETT SQUARE·First-day school10 a.m., worship 2:30 p.m., Webb Building, 9th and Evans Street. Discussion, 964-5691 . 11 a.m. Union and Sid

46 Apri/1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL POCONOS-Sterling-Newfoundland. Worship group under NASHVILLE·Adull sharing (child care offered) 9:15a.m. LEXINGTON-Maury River Meeting, Worship at 4 p.m. the care of North Branch (Wilkes-Barre) Meeting. Singing for all 10:15. Meeting for worship/First-{jay school Discussion at 5 p.m. Phone (703) 464-3511. (717) 689-2353 or 689-7552. 10:30 a.m. 2804 Acklen Ave., (615) 269-0225. F. John LINCOLN-Goose Creek Un~ed Meeting for worship and POTTSTOWN-READING AREA-Exeter Meeting. Potter, clerk. First-{jay school 10 a.m. Meetinghouse Rd. off 562, 1 and 6/10 miles W. of 682 and WEST KNOXVILLE-Worship and First-{jay school l 0 a.m. NORFOLK-Worship and First -{jay school at 10 a.m. Phone 562 intersection and Yellow House. Worship 10:30 a.m. D.W. Newton, 693-8540. (804) 624-1 272 for information. QUAKERTOWN-Richland Monthly Meeting, 244 S. Main St., First-{jay school and meeting for worship 10 :30 a.m. Texas RICHMOND-Worship 9:30 and 11 a.m. 4500 Kensington Ave. (804) 358-8185. RADNOR-Radnor Meeting for worship and First-{j ay school ALPINE-Meeting for worship, Sunday, 10 :3Q-11 :30 a.m. in 10 a.m. Conestoga and Sproul. Roads, lthan, Pa. the home of George and Martha Floro. Call: RICHMOND-Ashland Meeting. Worship 11 a.m. Children's (610) 688-9205. (915) 837-2930 for information. First -{jay school 11:15 a.m. (804) 227-3439 or 227-3563. READING-First-{jay school 10:15 a.m., meeting 10:30 a.m. AUSTIN-Forum 10 a.m., unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. RICHMOND-Midlothian Meeting. Worship 11 a.m., 10 8 North Sixth St. (61 0) 372-5345. Supervised activities and Firsl-{jay school for young children's First-{jay school 11 :1 5 a.m. (804) 743-8953. SOLEBURY-Worship 10 a.m., First-{jay school 10:45 a.m. Friends. 3014 Washington Square. 452-1841. RESTON-Singing 10:45 a.m., First-{jay school and worship Sugan Rd., 2 miles N.W. of New Hope. (215) 297-5054. CORPUS CHRISTI-Unprogrammed worship 9:30a.m., 11 a.m. K. Cole, (703) 391.{)824. SOUTHAMPTON (Bucks Co.)-Worship and First-{jay St. James Middle School, 623 Carancahua, 993-1207. ROANOKE-Worship 10:30 a.m. Info.: Fetter, 982-1 034; or school 10 a.m., Adull forum 11 a.m. Street and Gravel Hill DALLAS.Sunday 10 a.m. 5828 Worth St. Hannah Kirk Waring, 343-8769. Ads. (215) 364.{)581. Pyle, clerk. (214) 826-6097 or call (214) 821~543. VIRGINIA BEACH-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. (based on SPRINGFIELD-Meeting and First-{jay school, 11 a.m., EL PASO-Meeting at 10 a.m. Sunday. 2821 Idalia, silence). 1537 Laskin Rad., Virginia Beach, VA 23451. W. Springfield and Old Sproul Ads. Del. Co. 328-2425. El Paso, TX 79930. Please use the back door. Phone: WESTMORELAND-Unprogrammed worship. P.O. Box 460, STATE COLLEGE·Firsl-{jay school and adult discussion (915) 534-8203. Please leave a message. Colonial Beach, VA 22443. (804) 224-8847 or [email protected]. 10 a.m. worship 11 a.m. 611 E. Prospect Ave. 16801. FORT WORTH-Unprogrammed meeting at Wesley SWARTHMORE-Meeting and First-{jay school10 a.m., Foundation, 2750 West Lowden, 11 a.m. Discussion WILLIAMSBURG-Unprogrammed meeting for worship forum 11 a.m. Whittier Place, college campus. follows worship. (817) 428-9941 . 4 p.m. Sundays, First-day school 5 p.m. 1333 Jamestown Road, (804) 229-6893. UPPER DUBLIN-Worship & First-{jay school11 :15 a.m. GALVESTON-Worship, First Day 11 a.m.; 1501 Post Sept. through June; 10 a.m., July & August. Office St. (409) 762-1785 or 74Q-2781 or 762-7361. WINCHESTER-Hopewell Meeting. 7 mi. N. on Ate. 11 Ft. Washington Ave. & Meeting House Rd., near Ambler. (Clearbrook). Unprogrammed meeting for worship (215) 653.{)788. HILL COUNTRY-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m., 10:15 a.m. Firsl-{jay school 11 a.m. Clerk: (703) 667-1018. discussion 10 a.m. Kerrville, Tex. Clerk: Polly Clark: VALLEY-1121 Old Eagle School Rd., Wayne. Worship and (512) 238-4 154. First-{jay school 10 a.m., forum 11 :10 a.m. Close to Valley Washington Forge, King of Prussia, Audubon, and Devon. (610) 688- HOUSTON·Uve Oak Meeting. Unprogrammed worship BELLEVUE·Easlside Friends. 41 60 158th Ave. SE. Worship 5757. 11 a.m. Sept.-May: adull discussion 9:30 a.m.; supervised 10 a.m., study 11 a.m. (206) 747-4722 or 547-6449. WELLSBORO.Meetifl9'childcare 10:30 Sundays at I. Comstock activities and First-{jay school for children 9:30-noon. At SSQQ, 4803 Bissonnet. (713) 862~. LOPEZ ISLAND-Worship group meets weekly on Sunday Seventh-Day Adv. Sch.; (717) 324-2492 or 724-1852. 10 am. in homes of members. Please call (206) 468-3764 or WEST CHESTER-First-{jay school 10:30 a.m., worship LUBBOCK-Unprogrammed worship, Sunday morning 468-2406 for information. 10:45.425 N. High St. Caroline Helmuth, (610) 696-0491 . 10:45-11 :45 a.m. United Campus Ministries Building, 241213th St. (806) 749-2008or791-4890. OLYMPIA-Worship 10 a.m. 219 B Street S.W., Tumwater. WEST GROVE-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. First Sunday each month; potluck breakfast at 9 a.m. 153 E. Harmony Road, P.O. Box 7. RIO GRANDE VALLEY-Unprogrammed worship 1 0 a.m. Address: P.O. Box 334, Olympia, WA 98507. Phone: Sundays. For location call Carol J. Brown (21 0) 686-4855. WESTTOWN-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday. 943-3818 or 357-3855. Westtown School campus, Westtown, PA 19395. SAN ANTONIO-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. PULLMAN-See Moscow, Idaho. Discussion 11 a.m. at Methodist Student Center, WILKES.BARRE-North Branch Monthly Meeting. Wyoming 102 Belknap. Mail: P.O. Box 6127, San Antonio, TX SEATTLE-Salmon Bay Meeting at Phinney Center, Seminary Lower School, 1560 Wyoming Ave., Forty Fort. 78209. (21 0) 945-8456. 6532 Phinney N.; Worship at10 a.m. (206) 526-7166. Sunday school 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m., For summer and TYLER-Unprogrammed. Call: (903) 725-6283. SEATTLE-University Friends Meeting 4001 9th Ave. N.E. vacations, phone: (717) 825.{)675. Quiet worship First Days 9:30 and 11 a.m. 547-8449. WILLISTOWN-Worship and First-{jay school1 0 a.m. Utah Accommodations: 632-9839. Goshen and Warren Ads., Newtown Square, A.D. 1. SPOKANE-Unprogrammed worship. 536-8622, 326-4496. LOGAN-Unprogrammed meeting and Firsl-{jay school. WRIGHTSTOWN-Ate. 413. Meeting for worship Sunday 10 Sundays, 10 a.m. 290 N. 400 E. Call: 245-4523, or TACOMA-Tacoma Friends Meeting, 3019 N. 21st St. a.m. for all. Firsl-{jay school10:15 a.m. for children, adult 752-2702. Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m., First -{jay discussion time variable. (215) 968-9900. 11 a.m. Phone: 759-191 0. YARDLEY-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. First -{jay school SALT LAKE CITY-Unprogrammed meeting and First-{jay school 10 a.m. Friends Meeting House, 161 E. Second TRI.CmES.Unprogrammed worship. Phone: follows meeting during winter months. North Main St. Ave. Phone: (801) 359-1506, or 582.{)719. (509) 946-4082. YORK-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 11 a.m. WALLA WALLA·10 a.m. Sundays. 522.{)399. 135 W. Philadelphia St.; clerk, Lamar Matthew: Vennont (717) 843-2285. YAKIMA-Worship group, unprogrammed. Meeting time/ BENNINGTON-Worship, Sundays 10 a.m., Senior Service place varies. Call Holly Jennings at (509) 698-4224. Rhode Island Center, 124 Pleasant St., 1 block north, 1/2 block east of intersection of At. 7 and Main St. (At. 9). (802) 442~ 1 0. West Virginia PROVIDENCE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. each First Day. 99 Morris Ave., corner of Olney St. BURLINGTON-Worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday. 173 North CHARLESTON-Worship Sundays 10 am. Wellons (304) 345- Prospect St. Phone: (802) 680-9221 . 86591747-7896 (work) or Leslie or Ben Carter 733-3604. SAYLESVILLE·Worship 10:30 a.m. each First Day. Uncoln-Great Rd. (Ate. 126) at River Rd. MIDDLEBURY-Worship 10 a.m. at ParenVChild Center. MORGANTOWN-Monongalia Friends Meeting. Every 11 Monroe Street. Middlebury. (802) 388-7684. WESTERLY-Unprogrammed worship and First-{jay school Sunday 11 a.m. Phone: Lurline Squire, (304) 599-3109. 10:30 a.m. 57 Elm St. (401) 596-0034. PLAINFIELD-Each Sunday all 0:30a.m. Call Hathaway, PARKERSBURG-Mid-Ohio Valley Friends. Phone: (802) 223-6480 or Gilson, (802) 684-2261. WOONSOCKET-Smithfield Friends Meeting,l 08 Smithfield (304) 428-1320. Road, (Ate 146-A). Worship each First day at 10:30 a.m. PUTNEY-Worship, Sunday, 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Singing (401) 762-5726. from 10:15\o 10:30 a.m. First-{jay school for all Wisconsin 9:30a.m. Ate. 5, north of village, Putney. (603) 256-8362. BELOIT.U nprogrammed worship 11 a.m. Sundays, South Carolina WILDERNESS.Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Summer 811 Clary St. Phone: (608) 365-5858. CHARLESTON-Worship 9:45 a.m. Sundays. The Christian schedule (Memorial Day- Labor Day) 9 a.m. In Wallingford. EAU CLAIRE-Menomonie Friends Meeting for worship and Family Y, 21 George St. (803) 723-5820. Rotary Building, N. Main St. Call Kate Brinton, (802) 228- First-{jay school at the Meetinghouse (1718 1Oth Street, COLUMBIA-Meeting for worship and First-day school 8942, or l en Cadwallader, (802) 446-2565. Menomonie, 235-8368) or in Eau Claire. Call: 235-5686 or 10 a.m., forum 11:30 a.m., Harmony School, 832-{)721 for schedule. 3737 Covenant Rd., (803) 252-2221. Visitors welcome. Virginia GREEN BAY/APPLETON-Meeting for worship and First­ GREENVILLE-Unprogrammed worship and First -{jay ALEXANDRIA-Worship every First Day 11 a.m., day school 11 a.m. Contact Reed Hardy, clerk: school 5 p.m. First Christian Church, 704 Edwards Road. unprogrammed worship and First-{jay school. Woodlawn (414) 337-{)904. (803) 233-0837. Meeting House, 8 miles S. of Alexandria, near US 1. Call MADISON-Meetinghouse, 1704 Roberts Ct., (608) HORRY·Worship Sundays, 10:30 a.m. (unprogrammed), (703) 781 -9185 or 455-0194. 256-2249. Unprogrammed worship Sunday at 9 and Grace Gifford, inland, (803) 365-6654. CHARLOTTESVILLE-Discussion 9:45a.m., worship 11 a.m., Wednesday al7 a.m., 12 noon, 5:15 and 8:30 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. (childcare available). Summer p.m. Children's classes at 11 am. Sunday. Tennessee worship only 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. 1104 Forest St. MILWAUKEE-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. CHATTANOOGA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and Phone: (804) 971-8859. 3224 N. Gordon Pl. Phone (414) 332-9846 or 263-21 11. children's First-{jay school 10 a.m. 335 Crestway Drive, FARMVILLE-Quaker Lake Meeting, discussion 10 a.m., 37411. (615) 629-5914. worship 11 a.m. (804) 223-4160 or 392-5540. Wyoming CROSSVILLE-Worship 10 a.m., discussion 11 a.m. At. 8, FLOYD-Unprogrammed meeting and First-{jay school WYOMING MEETING-Unprogrammed worship: Jackson, Box 25. Gladys Draudt, clerk: 484~920 . 10 a.m. Call for directions. (703) 745-4340, or 929-4848. (307) 733-3105; Lander, 332~18; Laramie, 745-7296; Savery, 383-2625; Sheridan, 671-6779. Call for time and JOHNSON CITY-Tri-Cities Friends (unprogrammed). FREDERICKSBURG-Worship Sunday, 4:30p.m., 1115 place. Information: Sharon Gitlin, (615) 926-5545. Caroline Street in U n~aria n church. Contact: (703) 898- MEMPHIS.Meeting for worship (unprogrammed) and First­ 7316. Unprogrammed. day school 11 am. Discussion 10 a.m. 917 S. Cooper, HARRISONBURG-Unprogrammed worship, 4:30p.m. (901) 372-8130. Sundays, Ate. 33 West. (703) 828-3066 or 885-7973. fRIENDS J OURNAL April 1996 47 Friend, does thee know • • • that older Friends have access to a unique array ofprograms in Pennsylvania and New jersey?

Unique because all are Quaker-directed and because they serve older people of differing needs, means, and lifestyles. The Barclay-Friends Hall Cadbury Programs such as: Chandkr Hall •!• contmumg care-at •!• hospice care Crosslands home and in residential •!• specialized Alzheimers care Foulkeways at Gwynedd Foxdale ViUage commumues •!• home health care •!• Friends Home at Woodstown retirement residences •!• psychiatric services Friends Hospital ·:· skilled nursing care •!• subsidized elder housing ·:· personal care and assisted Friends Lift Care at Home living •!• resptte care Friends Rehabilitation Program ·:· adult day services The Greenleaf The Hickman Jeanes Hospital hese programs serve people from all religious }(e.ndafatlongwood groups, races, and backgrounds--diversity enriches The McCutchen T life at all ages! Our organizations are located in New Medford Leas Jersey and Pennsylvania and frequently attract Friends and Mercer Street Friends Center others from around the country and abroad. Pennswood ViUage Stapeley in Germantown The organizations listed here have formed Friends Services for the Aging, a cooperative effort to better serve older people, their families, and their loved ones. FSA has joined in publishing a Guide to Quaker Services for the Aging. Write or call for a free copy for yourself or a loved one.

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