November 1, 1970

Quaker Thought and Life Today

l rll FR I E ND S SCHOO L BUCK L ANE. HAVE R F ORD , PA. 190 41 From a FRIENDS Facing Bench JOURNAL THE PHOTOGRAPH ON THE COVER is of the Great Galaxy November 1, 1970 in the constellation, Andromeda. Poems about the wonders Volume 16, Number 19 observed by astronomers and their implications in religious thought are on page 579. W. Fay Luder, in an essay that Friends Journal is published the first and fifteenth of each month by Friends Publishmg Corporation at 152-A North Fifteenth begins on page 578, refers to galaxies beyond the range Street, Philadelphia 19102. Telephone: (215) 563-7669. of telescopes to introduce his theme: Children of God Friends Journal was established in 1955 as the successor to The Friend (1827-1955) and Friends lntelligencer (1844-1955). should be citizens of the universe; Jesus helps us to base our lives on the hypothesis that the creator of the universe ALFRED STEFFERUD, Editor JOYCE R. ENNIS, Assistant Editor is a God of universal and unlimited love for every one MYRTLE M. WALLEN, MARGUERITE L. HORLANDER, Advertising of us. ~INA I. SULLIVAN, Circulation Manager ioARD OF MANAGERS Daniel D. Test, Jr., Chairman James R. Frorer, Treasurer Mildred Binns Young, Secretary 1967-1970: Laura Lou Brookman, Helen Buckler, The contributors to this issue: Mary Roberts Calhoun, Eleanor Stabler Clarke, James R. Frorer, Francis Hortenstine, Walter H. Partymiller. w. FAY LUDER, a professor of chemistry in Northeastern 1968-1971: Carol P. Brainerd, Arthur M. Dewees, William University, is a member of Cambridge Monthly Meeting, Hubben, Miriam E. Jones, Margaret B. Richie, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Massachusetts. He has written many books and articles Eleanor B. Webb, Elizabeth Wells, Mildred Binns Young. on chemistry and religion. 1969-1972: Paul Blanshard, Jr., Len Cadwallader, Walter Kahoe, Richard P. Moses, Ada C. Rose, James B. Shuman, Eileen B. Waring, Gordon D. Whitcraft. HOWARD H. BRINTON lives at Pendle Hill. He and Anna CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Brinton were directors of Pendle Hill from 1936 to 1952. Frances Williams Browin He has written ten Pendle Hill Pamphlets and several William Hubben Richard R. Wood books. Subscription: United States, possessions: one year $6, two years $11, three years $15. Foreign countries (including Canada and DOROTHEA BLOM is a teacher, writer, lecturer, and artist. Mexico): one year $7, two years $13, three years $18. Single She is a member of Chappaqua Monthly Meeting, New copies: 35 cents, unless otherwise noted. Sample copies are sent on request. York. She is teaching a course, "Prophetic Art," at Pendle Second class postage paid at Philadelt>hia, Pennsylvania. Hill. Copyright © 1970 by Friends Publishmg Corporation. Requests to reprmt excerpts of more than two hundred words should be GEORGE M. STABLER is professor of sociology and chair­ addressed to the editor. Friends Journal Associates are those who add not less than five man of the department of sociology in Rockford College. dollars to their subscriptions annually to help meet the over-all He is a member of Rock Valley Monthly Meeting, Rock­ cost of publication. Contributions are tax-exempt. ford, Illinois. LOUREIDE J. BIDDLE and WILLIAM W. BIDDLE are authors Contents of The Community Development Process and Encourag­ ing Community Development. The Children of God as Citizens of the Universe- KEITH HAMMOND, M.D., is assistant professor of pediatrics W. Fay Luder ...... 578 in Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson Uni­ Poetry by Margaret Durgin, George Emerson Haynes, and versity and staff physician in the Children and Youth Laurie McNeill ...... 579 Clinic in South Philadelphia. King Charles's Hat and Penn's Hat- Howard H. Brinton . . . . 579 Women's Liberation Again-Now and Then ...... 580 LEVINUS K. PAINTER has spent thirty-five years in pastoral The Artist Who Shocks Us--Dorothea Blom ...... 581 service, mostly with the Society of Friends. IJe is a mem­ A Community Is People-George M. Stabler, Loureide J. ber of Orchard Park Monthly Meeting, New York. He Biddle and William W. Biddle, and Keith Hammond, M.D. 582 was for nine years chairman of the Associated Executive A Memorable Meeting-Levinus K. Painter ...... 585 Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs and has done Wisdom and Prophecy- Everett Lee Hunt ...... 586 relief work with Arab refugees and with refugees in Kenya. Merrily Danced the Quaker's Wife-Mary Whiteman ...... 587 EVERETT LEE HUNT, professor of English and dean emer­ A Quaker Teacher in Visakbapatnam-Stanley M. Ashton. 587 itus in Swarthmore College, is a member of Swarthmore Simplicity and a Sense of Relative Values-- Dorothy K. Garner ...... 588 Monthly Meeting. and the author of The Revolt of the College Intellectual and editor of Persistent Questions in Reviews of Books ...... 589 Public Discussion. Cinema- Robert Steele ...... 592 Letters to the Editor ...... 593 DOROTHY K. GARNER, of Schenectady Monthly Meeting, Friends and Their Friends Around the World ...... 595 New York, is editor of the newsletter of the Schoharie Reports by Martha Gay, Jane Morgan, Richard Manners, County Farm Bureau. She has taught First-day school for R. W . Tucker, and Phyllis C. Byerly fourteen years and has served New York Yearly Meeting Announcements and Coming Events ...... 604 in several capacities.

576 November 1, 1970 FRIENDS JOURNAL children; which seems only to have produced a universal Today and sullenness that looks like a great black cloud coming on, Tomorrow ready to burst in a general tempest. What the event will be God only knows. But some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitu­ Gratitude for Song tion and the best king any nation was ever blessed with, When I forget my gratitude for song, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, Let me know death. I shall have lived too long. pensions, and plunder." The second is from an address prepared in 354 B.C. by THUS CARL F. WISE ended a sonnet he wrote for Friends !socrates, a youthful companion of Socrates and a con­ Journal some years ago. In all his life, which began June temporary of Plato: 6, 1900 and ended September 12, 1970, Carl kept his "I wish to say that a mighty change has come in the gratitude for song, whatever its form of expression-in affairs of our city, and our ideals are utterly unlike those teaching, helping edit Friends Journal, ministering in the of our leaders in a previous generation. When I was a boy Meetings he held dear. In all, Carl had a listening ear and it was considered not only safe but honorable to create a heart and voice that spoke and wrote and sang clear as an estate, so that almost all men of standing wished to add a bell. to their possessions, and felt a certain dignified honor in We who knew and loved Carl know how sensitively the prospering, but now one must apologize for any success in sonnet reflected the symphony of his life: business as if it were the utter violation of the moral law, When I consider this imperfect me­ so that today it is worse to seem to prosper than to be an Ignorant of what I best possess, guarding open criminal. Criminals can get off with a small punish­ My tight-fisted praise with jealousy ment or a pardon, but there is no escape for the prosper­ But free with blame, with fat intention larding ous, as they are doomed to utter destruction. You can find My lean deeds, hedging my grace to please more men banished for their wealth than criminals pun­ My timid mind, and content that conscience' prod ished for their crimes." Should dull itself on privilege and ease- l wonder at the open hand of God: The rising sun still dripping from the sea, Miscellany Beauty made permanent in paint, the line v' "We have worked too long and too hard, made too Of melody along a brook-such free many sacrifices, spent too much money, shed too much Innumerable gifts are mine, all mine. blood, lost too many lives fighting to vindicate our man­ When I forget my gratitude for song, hood as full participants in the American system to allow Let me know death. I shall have lived too long. our victories to be nullified by phony liberals, die-hard racists, discouraged and demoralized Negroes and power­ If Men Could Learn seeking politicians."-Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood. v' "Doctor, I wrestled with reality for forty years, and from History I am happy to state that I have finally won out over it." J. KENNEDY SINCLAIRE, a member of Montclair Monthly Elwood, in the play, Harvey. Meeting, sent us two quotations to remind us "how the v' "The flag celebrates a great many more things than pendulum swings back." the war, inflation, high interest rates, and a depressed One is from a letter Benjamin Franklin wrote from Lon­ stock market. It celebrates the Grand Canyon, the sequoias don May 14, 1768 to John Ross of Philadelphia. It is and redwoods, Mt. Rainier, and the Hudson River; it quoted in Benjamin Franklin, a biography by Carl van celebrates Harvard College, the New York Public Library, Doren: and the Smithsonian Institution; it celebrates George "Even this capital, the residence of the king, is now a Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln; it daily scene of lawless riot and confusion. Mobs patrolling celebrates John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin the streets at noonday, some knocking all down that will Luther King and millions of other things, including you not roar for Wilkes and liberty; courts of justice afraid to and me. It celebrates the common experience of Ameri­ give judgment against him; coal-heavers and porters pull­ cans. No one can suborn the flag to promote his own ing down the houses of coal merchants that refuse to give causes and beliefs. The New York policemen who are now them more wages; sawyers destroying sawmills; sailors authorized to wear flag-pins on their uniforms to indicate unrigging all the outwardbound ships and suffering none support of the war have no more corporate use of the flag · to sail till merchants agree to raise their pay; watermen than the Ku Klux Klan, which imagines that it is saving destroying private boats and threatening women, and America."-Brooks Atkinson, in The New Republic.

FRIENDS JOURNAL November ] , 1970 577 is impossible. If Jesus had not also known this fact, he The Children of God as would not have had so much to say about repentance and Citizens of the Universe forgiveness. A possible solution is given by C. C. Torrey in his book, The Four Gospels. As the concluding sentence of the by W. Fay Luder paragraph in which Jesus urges his followers to love every­ one because God loves all His children, "good" or "bad," it should read essentially as follows: "Be therefore uni­ OUTSIDE OUR PLANETARY system are millions of suns like versal [in your love] even as your heavenly Father is uni­ our own, members of our local galaxy. Most of the stars versal." With this change, the completed passage is con­ visible with unaided eyes belong to this galaxy, which is sistent with the others in which Jesus urges his followers shaped like an enormous watch about one hundred thou­ to act in the belief that the creator of the universe is a sand light-years in diameter. Far beyond the limits of our God of universal and unlimited love for all of us. galaxy, millions of light-years distant, are countless other In John 7: 17, Jesus promises that if we try to live ac­ galaxies, which reach beyond the range of any telescope. cording to this belief we shall learn by experience whether Cosmologists offer us two alternatives. Either the uni­ it is justified. Such experience demands that we live every verse is infinite in space and time or it is finite. Many moment of our lives as citizens of the Kingdom of God. cosmologists now favor the second alternative and give To paraphrase Matthew 6:33, we must "Put first the King­ the present age and radius of an expanding universe as dom of God, and his sovereignty, and everything else will twelve billion years and twelve billion light-years. Others take its proper place." maintain that the universe is not expanding, never had a Matthew 6: 33 is the essence of the teaching and the beginning, and does not have a boundary. life of Jesus. All else is commentary, explanation, or ex­ Either of these alternatives is incomprehensible. Human ample. The reason for returning good for evil and for beings cannot understand fully the nature of the universe. loving our enemies is that, as citizens of God's Kingdom, Consequently, the nature of a possible creator of that we must put loyalty to God first in all of life. universe can never be fully understood. Nevertheless, if Anyone who honestly tests the belief by trying the ex­ we can be humble enough to accept our ignorance, we can periment that Jesus asks us to try will learn that giving learn to feel at home in such a grand universe. Jesus shows one's supreme allegiance to God is the most practical way us the way. of living with other people. Furthermore, he will learn Jesus helps us to base our lives on the hypothesis that that it is the best way of living with himself. the creator of the universe is a God of universal and un­ When a citizen of God's Kingdom acts as if he loved limited love for every one of us. an enemy by turning the other cheek-or by returning This hypothesis is stated many times in the New Tes­ good for the evil being done him-he has a chance of tament, but in one of the statements the conclusion is weak­ making the enemy ashamed and turning him into a friend. ened by what seems to be an error in translation. The Even if this result is not achieved, the citizen of the uni­ error has been a stumbling block for people who think verse has remained in charge of his self; he has not per­ much about the peculiarities of their own behavior. The mitted the enemy to determine his own behavior by react­ mistranslation occurs in the last sentence of the fifth ing to that enemy in the same evil way. This self-possession chapter of Matthew. In most translations it reads essen­ is essential to his own mental health. Loyalty to God is tially: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in the best way for all concerned, in any situation. heaven is perfect." Such loyalty demands that we sacrifice all other loyal­ One might question the statement for at least two rea­ ties whenever they conflict with our supreme allegiance. sons. Thus Jesus is the greatest protester against the establish­ First, it has little connection with the part of the para­ ment-the ultimate resister of the establishment's attempt graph that precedes it. Jesus is asking us to love our to brainwash us into worshiping its multitude of petty enemies and to do good to people who hate us, so that idols: The nation, the group, science, mammon, sexual we act as God's children, for God makes His sun rise on license, the church, and, worst of all, our own selves. Jesus the evil and the good. He is asking us to love everyone, therefore is the ultimate radical. He taught us the ultimate no matter what anyone does to us. This behavior that freedom, the freedom to obey God rather than men. He Jesus asks of us is difficult but not impossible. demands from us the ultimate responsibility, citizenship in Second, the sentence is unworthy of Jesus, who was the Kingdom of God. such a master of psychology that he asked his followers To help us become citizens of the universe, Jesus left never to pray in public. Anyone who thinks much about us a model prayer. In it is the passage, "Give us this day human behavior knows that to attain absolute perfection our daily bread." Some translators have rendered it, "Give

578 November 1, 1970 FRIENDS JOURNAL us this day our bread for the morrow." Now it seems best translated as "Give us this day the bread of the coming King Charles's Hat day." Remembering the preceding words, "Thy Kingdom and Penn's Hat come; thy will be done," one can see that the "coming day" is the time when all men will become citizens of the Kingdom, and that "bread" is a figurative reference to by Howard H. Brinton strength. Thus, when we use the prayer ?S a model, "Give us this day the bread of the coming day" means that we are ask­ KING CHARLES once asked William Penn, "What is the ing God to give us (without waiting for anyone else) this difference between my religion and yours?" day (right now) the strength to live as if all the children Penn replied, "The same as is the difference between of God (our brothers and sisters) were also citizens of the my hat and thine." universe. Penn's hat was without adornment, while Charles's hat was covered by ribbons and plumes. This is as exact Before Suns or Moons or Planets an exposition of Quakerism as is possible in a short dialogue. It follows that Quakerism is an inconspicuous He moves from planet to planet As a mother hen religion and may attract little attention. Brooding over her chicks; In the American Colonies, there were three sections, He covers and surrounds all, dominated principally by the Puritans in the north, Angli­ Bridging gaps of time and space. cans in the south, and the Quakers in the middle. All Planet to planet is His course, three were scattered everywhere to some extent; I mention And star to star; Within Him are they held upon their paths. only the dominant groups. I have frequently examined Colonial histories in order to discover what mention is Before sun or moons or planets shone With but a dull reflection of His life made of the Quakers. In most instances, the Quakers are He was there, singing in space. mentioned little and sometimes not at all. And from the fragrant steaminess of a new-formed earth A book by Arthur Schlesinger, The Birth of the Nation He brought forth His living image. (Knopf, 1968), makes a sincere effort to include the Beloved is man, and the Lord is mindful of him. Quakers, but source material has proved too incon­ LAURIE McNEILL spicuous to be found, even by a historian attempting to be fair. Dr. Schlesinger has written a social history, and Together there is almost nothing about the social life of the Quaker The Andromeda Galaxy community. This social life is principally recorded in the Quintillion miles away. minutes of the Monthly Meetings, known only to a few. Across the void its counterweight, Galactic Milky Way. One of my professors at Harvard, Ralph Perry, wrote a Colonial history that mentioned Quakers in one short We stop before these discs of stars Humble, hand in hand. paragraph, which was wholly inaccurate. American his­ That God is our Creator tory about that period says a great deal about the Pur­ We both can understand. itans, because the Puritans had clergymen trained to MARGARET DURGIN express themselves at length for publication. The Pur­ itans managed to create the illusion that they were the The Great Galaxy founders of the country. Before long, however, Philadel­ Now toward life's close there dawns again phia had become by far the largest and most influential as in favored times there was before city in the Colonies, surpassing even Boston. Although a sense of that vibrant world unseen Bostonians continued much more vocal, Philadelphia had yet encompassing and penetrating all many firsts-the first scientific society, the first general wherein the all-loving will of the one Creating Spirit cycles forever through the void hospital, the first public library, and others. Boston did snatching new forms from its grasp have the first university, and so it was better trained to and, drawing them in sweeping spiral arms talk than quiet Philadelphia. Most Quakers were well like the motion of a great galaxy educated, but not in colleges. over the eons, involves them to ever more sensitive and responsive being Simplicity, not only in dress and architecture but also and interweaving them in a living tissue in speech, was the intent of the Quakers. Though they shapes therein for them in Him were in a major!ty for a time in Pennsylvania and Rhode an ever new and richer life. Island, and widely scattered throughout the other Colonies GEORGE EMERSON HAYNES -especially New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and North

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1, 1970 579 Carolina-this determination to be simple in speech was The Ministry of WoDlen a handicap in making their mark on history. BELIEVING THAT the Divine Light works in the hearts of Penn's constitution was the most liberal of any yet all and that every Christian disciple has a part in carrying drawn up, and it influenced the United States' constitution on the Master's work, the Society of Friends has been makers: Jefferson, when in Philadelphia, was active in led to a full recognition of the equality of the sexes in the family of the Church. Women, equally with men, the scientific or "philosophical" society. John Locke is share in the Christian ministry, and have their special recorded as having much influence on the structure of the contribution to make. Many of us have been accustomed Constitution of the United States. When Locke had been from childhood to hear the Gospel message from the lips asked to construct a constitution for the CaroHnas, he of women, whose words have often been so evidently gave them a feudal type of society. After he became ac­ spoken "in demonstration of the Spirit and of power," that it was impossible to question the Divine origin of quainted with William Penn and helped Penn to write the their call to service. constitution for Pennsylvania, his philosophy of govern­ London Yearly Meeting ment ~as radically changed. On the manuscript of Penn's Christian Practice, 1925 constitution there are still notes by Locke. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution Women's Liberation of the United States contain statements which can apply only to the Middle Colonies and not at all to New Eng­ Again land and to the South. In New England there was a theocracy; only church members could vote or hold office. Letter from the Past-248 In the South, the social structure was feudal. Only in the middle Colonies was there democracy. Penn was the first to suggest a congress for all the NO MEMBER of the Society of Friends has been honored colonies, each represented by two "senators." (He was more often on American postage stamps than has Susan also the first to suggest a league of nations.) The consti­ B. Anthony (1820-1 906). The issue of August 26, 1970, tution drawn up for the United States contains many prin­ is at least a third. It commemorates the fiftieth anniversary ciples first tried out by the Quakers in Pennsylvania. I of the nineteenth amendment (for women's suffrage) to shaH not take the space to enumerate them here. (See: the Constitution of the United States. It is sometimes Elizabeth Janet Gray, Contributions of the Quakers. called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. She is not pic­ Pendle Hill Pamphlet 34.) tured on the stamp itself, but its first issue, at her birth­ Another reason why the Quakers have been to some place, Adams, Massachusetts, implies the connection. degree ignored by historians is that they did not take Although she died in 1906 she deserves the honor, since part in the American Revolution. Most were not Tories, she more than any other person prepared the way for it but they did believe that freedom for the Colonies could for more than fifty years before her death. This year is also be secured by some means other than war. This has the sesquicentennial of her birth. since been demonstrated by Canada, Australia, New Since my last letter about her (No. 153), two new biog­ Zealand, India, and others. Even South Africa got its raphies of her have come to hand. Reading them has freedom in losing its war for independence. reminded me of her genuine Quakerism and of some of the I have heard that a book is being planned that will be problems that individual Friends today are facing when, concerned with the Quaker contributions to American like her, they attempt to combine with loyalty to Quaker­ history. That book should not spare the Puritans and ism efforts for human welfare implemented far outside the Anglicans for their savage persecutions of the Quakers. confines of the Society. Although she was born in 1820 in And though, in their own words, the Quakers wanted to Adams, Massachusetts, where her father was a Friend be the "quiet in the land," their minutes and their journals (East Hoosac Monthly Meeting), she was not a birthright must be studied to set the record straight. Access to this member. material is available in the libraries of Friends colleges. In 1827 the family removed across the state line to The Quaker influence in America has been all the Battenville, New York, and five years later the parents greater because it has been inconspicuous. It has been requested membership for all the children in the nearest like an underground river that comes to the surface in Meeting, at Easton, New York. In 1845 they moved to occasional springs of fresh water. Even Lincoln's emanci­ Rochester, New York, of which meeting Susan Anthony pation of the slaves and Stanton's treatment of conscien­ remained a member until her death, which is duly noted tious objectors may have been unconsciously influenced in the Meeting records. by their Quaker ancestors as well as by the Quaker peti­ Like other Friends of the period, she gave up the tioners of their own time. The meek inherit the earth just Quaker garb and speech, although she seems to have used because they are meek and so do not attract opposition. "thee" to fellow members and in the family. She constantly

580 November 1, 1970 FRIENDS JOURNAL The Artist Who Shocks Us

by Dorothea Blom

WHEN THE FIRST CROSS that had a figure of Christ on it was shown in a church many years ago, the congregation was shocked by the unfamiliar image and threatened to riot. Finally the figure had to be covered. Christ on the Cross, Ward Brackett, of Westport, Connecticut, designed this postage stamp to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the ratification though, became familiar in churches in the generation that of the nineteenth amendment-suffrage for women. followed. Impressionism shocked the public in Paris during the reminds herself (in her diary) and her friends of her 1870's. By the turn of the century, however, Impressionism Quaker background, and it seems to explain much of her had become academic art, and most of the greatest artists career. who were trained by Impressionism had left it behind. She lived when, as today, several reforms were com­ Fauvism and Cubism also are words that grew out of peting for promotion. She shared the interest of many shock. They were first used in hostile attempts to dis­ Friends and others in abolishing slavery before the Civil credit unfamiliar visual experience. War. The Women's Christian Temperance Union was in Most people in this century have experienced shock, its heyday in the 1880's. The advocates of each cause, baffiement, and inner resistance to each new phase of art however, wished to avoid the liabilities of the others. For in turn. "They're only trying to shock us." That may be instance, women were told that the franchise for them true sometimes, but it misses entirely the value and func­ must wait until after that for Negroes. Even in the different tion of shock. fields of reform, unity was fragmented by disagreement If a work of art shocks us (and pray earnestly that we about method and by personal friction. Susan Anthony may not become immune to shock), it means that our as­ was able to achieve a single-minded devotion to her main sumptions of what life ought to be and what reality is objective-an ultimate Federal law to give the right of have been challenged. We are shaken up. This shaking up suffrage to women. makes transformation possible. If we accept this shaking We are now having a wave of concern for "women's and can allow our easy assumptions to shatter, we can liberation." Past achievements do not satisfy a new mili­ respond to life more directly and with more discrimina­ tancy. Whether Quaker women will espouse the cause as tion. We discover inner freedom to assess values. We are conspicuously as Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and less apt to confuse value with habit and custom. Ali€e Paul did in previous generations one cannot foretell. The most outrageously shocking art of our time, like The concern for disabilities of their sex-real or imagined some of the works of Francis Bacon, Max Beckman, and -will again today have to compete with causes like the Leonard Baskin, can help us remove some of the blind campaigns against war, racism, poverty, and pollution. spots in our responses to life. When Martin Luther King, Jr., was criticized for con­ The culture from which we are emerging thought art fusing by his pacifism the struggle for civil rights, he ~plied should be beautiful. The concept of beauty was limited to that among good causes he rejected "segregation." Some a narrow and isolated idealism that often had little to do may agree with him; but others may, like Susan B. with life. Perhaps a source of this was Plato's insistence Anthony, center their efforts on a single goal. that the ideal was more real than the actual. NOW AND THEN A function of the artist in recent generations has been to reincorporate life with a new, vital, and generative use One evening, an over-thirty Friend had charge of a of sense experience and to reestablish our relationship to meeting of young people. life on an intuitive and feeling (as well as intelligent) bas­ Next day, another Friend asked him whether the meet- is. If reason often seems shortchanged, it is because art­ ing went well. ists today instinctively know that reason itself is guided "Yes, I think it went quite well," was the reply. by assumptions, value systems, and custom. "And did thee speak to their condition?" An artist sent me a quotation from a Greek mathema­ "No. I listened to it." tician: "What is ugly and unfamiliar today is familiar and JOHN F. GUMMERE beautiful tomorrow."

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1, 1970 581 A Community Is People

Community and the Search for Values

by George M. Stabler

MARTIN BUBER told us that love and ethical values find their meaning in human community. Anthropological in­ vestigation, however, makes it clear that human com­ The Museum of Modern Art Departure, by Max Beckman munity is a product of man's actions. We inherit no in­ stincts for cooperative behavior or for shared sentiments A contemporary French artist, Jean Dubuffet, wrote: "I to guide or inspire our lives. We learn them as we live with like to proclaim that my art is a rehabitation of rejected others. For many animals, but not for man, community values .... Let us learn not to reject that half of the uni­ creation is instinctive. verse usually declared ugly. Let the enchanter touch them We build communities, but we also destroy them. We with his wand, and here they are! Splendid, full of won­ sometimes destroy the very environment on which our der." How much that suggests .Martin Buber's, "There is lives depend. We destroy even more easily the collective nothing that is evil in itself; every passion can become a actions and meanings that make living worthwhile. virtue, every inclination a 'vehicle of God.' " It would seem Only in community can we realize values. In the En­ that even the best things are a blessing or a curse, depend­ lightenment, some men dreamed of the isolated man cre­ ing on how they are used. ating values of great worth; to them, Robinson Crusoe We need to remind ourselves that during the Counter­ was a hero. Men and women, already educated by family Reformation the nudes of Michelangelo were described and community, may create new ideas, devices, and works as "a filthiness of the master of all filth.'' Rembrandt the of art in virtual seclusion, but these products will be rec­ year he died was described as "a master capable of noth­ ognized as objects of worth only after their creators re­ ing but vulgar and prosaic subjects . . . who merely turn with them to the fellowship of others, who are ap­ achieved an effect of rottenness." The best art of the past preciative. hundred years has educated our vision to recognize some We learn our identities, our language, our ideas, and of the greatest masters of the Western tradition, which the habits necessary to our survival · only in community. the tradition itself had rejected-El Greco, Rembrandt, If our communities collapse, we tend to disintegrate as Vermeer, Valasquez, George de la Tour. persons as well. Rules to limit conduct that would destroy "Experience is full of dead spots," says Irwin Edman. the values we share in community are essential. We de­ "Art gives it life." Insofar as our experience of our world pend on them for survival and the realization of our as­ is dead habit, we are the walking dead. Shock is terribly pirations. alive. It asks transformation. It invites us to join the living, The rules we need depend on our goals. to feel at home in an increasingly unfamiliar world, and Do we value human life and health? If we do, man's to participate with imaginative initiative. If we make good destructiveness in warmaking, the use of harmful drugs use of shock, perhaps we can survive. and chemicals, and the pollution of environment will have to be checked. Protection against highway accidents, Simplicity requires care, good management, attention to strong radiation, avoidable disease, and inadequate nutri­ detail, responsibility for oneself and one's surroundings, tion is needed. sensitivity to one's place in the good order of the universe. Do we value freedom? If we do, no man can be per­ It does not allow us to "do our own thing"; on the con­ mitted to enslave another; use violence to prevent orderly trary, it requires awareness at every moment, and particu­ association and free speech; or thwart a person's proper larly so in the highly technological environment we have rights to education, employment, and participation in the developed. It may require Friends to forego automobiles, civic, social, and religious community he chooses. to get rid of spare houses, clothes, and furniture, to cut Similar criteria apply to other values. down on travel, water, and electricity, and to boycott the If we are honest, we admit that our rules and the means supersonic transport. we use to achieve values often have been inadequate and ROBERT R. SCHUTZ inconsistent. We must devise better systems to uphold our

582 November 1, 1970 FRIENDS JOURNAL values. We must do so in a way that expands the sense of community in our families, schools, communities, and world. A heavy imposition of authority and tradition is not the answer. Coercive authority may only increase hostilities in communities; violent confrontations are no better. Members of a divided community find it difficult to agree on any kind of rules, whether we call them directions, guides, maxims, regulations, standards, or whatever. We will have to start from where we are. The search for better ways to formulate rules for our common life could be a high calling for Friends, who tra­ ditionally seek the reconciliation of opposing forces. A conscientious search of this kind could be a means of helping us all to be clearer about what we value and how we actualize those values.

The Quaker Conscience In Communities by Loureide J. Biddle and William. W. Biddle

SOME THEORISTS in community development stress the im­ provement of the externals of life as a goal that will help alleviate the alienation of hopelessness. We, however, look Photographed by Peter Vandermark within: Self-development usually encourages improvement of the external situation. important. First is the reconciliation of local ecumenical The personal and community process can be expedited differences. All churches should endeavor to produce a by a small group of persons who become friends-a nu­ better community and better lives for citizens. cleus. When the process is effective, this group is like a What about clashing points of view as to what is better Quaker family, in which there is mutual respect and the for a community within and outside of the nucleus? Re­ determination to get things done in the midst of loving dif­ conciliation comes from a recognition that some positive ferences. The consummation that is sought is a consensus action must be taken in order to carry religiously inspired that will allow the group to achieve effective community impulses into community action. As a nucleus grows to­ leadership. ward responsibility and maturity, it may be able to medi­ Within such a community-responsible group there de­ ate between capital and labor, between hawks and doves, velops an atmosphere that resembles that of a Quaker between landlords and tenants, between factions seeking meeting. There is not, however, any specifically religious public office, and so on. A community nucleus can be­ identification of members. In fact, a community nucleus come a conscience and a reconciling force. works best when it has representation from all religious The role of conscience and reconciling force is a para· denominations. All people of good will can join in the doxical one. The nucleus must become known and trusted effort to find better answers to community problems. A as an advocate of the good. It must be careful, however, spiritual atmosphere is present that often is hidden by dis­ not to become identified as partisan for any political party, cussion of practical solutions to consciously observed denomination, or community faction. It must serve every­ problems. Although prayers are not voiced, there may one and not seek its own aggrandizement. Constant self­ be moments of silence as individuals mull over their points discipline and group discipline is necessary to avoid the of view. These are not identified, as they would be in a temptations of power. Friends meeting, as a waiting upon the Holy Spirit to show Quakers have established and maintained a number of the way, but the same search for a righteous answer ani­ community development enterprises. In fact, much of our mates the deliberations of a community nucleus. knowledge about this field can be credited to initiative of The commitment to find ways of reconciliation, even Friends. Most of these enterprises, however, are "mission­ in a time when persons find themselves polarized, is most ary" endeavors.

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1, 1970 583 Might it be possible for Friends Meetings in a similar way to become catalysts to the formation and continuance of community nuclei? One difficulty may be that the Quaker relationship often is one of advocacy rather than of reconciliation of conflicts. The support of pacifism, a concern for the dis­ inherited, the blacks, American Indians, Spanish-speak­ ing minorities, and so on, usually are part of the Friends witness. Would local Meetings instead want to become known as reconcilers of local conflict? Both functions need Quaker support. Some individuals naturally use the method of con­ frontation, but it inevitably stirs up conflict. Others are more likely to reconcile differences. It is unlikely that any person or Meeting could be advocate and reconciler. We would like to persuade individuals and Meetings to consider the catalytic role. We hope that they might be­ come a Quaker-inspired conscience in their communities. In this way, a consensus of service to the workable local common good might be achieved.

Health, the Person, Photographed by Peter Vandermark and the Community by such services generally are readily available and well met under our present care system. by Keith Hammond, M.D. Most unmet needs nowadays, especially in children, are preventive and demand some sort of favorable behavioral response upon the part of the patient or parent or both. NEARLY TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO Juvenal advised peo­ A common service needed in chronic diseases, for ex­ ple to pray for a sound mind in a sound body. Now more ample, is one that in some way helps the patient and those than ever we appreciate the importance of individual and about him to accept and live a life that is optimal within community health to community well-being, but many of the limits imposed by his disorder. This is something us fail to appreciate that health is not a commodity. health care workers cannot accomplish except as the pa­ Those who plan and administer health care services tient participates in plans and proposals for his own care may speak of purchasing them and imply thereby that and has the help of those around him. health itself can be bought-that one can purchase cure, There seems to be a consensus that health care in this alleviation, or prevention. The fact is that many of the country is poor when judged in the light of all that could services that may help us attain goals of health are like be accomplished if everything that is known in the tech­ salvation-they are free and are generally known. In the nological field of health were to be applied to a maxi­ interest of good health, one should not eat or drink too mum extent in the provision of services. This is particu­ much, should have some exercise, avoid sexual excesses, larly true in the fields of preventive care and chronic dis­ not use drugs, get enough sleep, love his neighbor, have orders in the areas of mental as well as physical health. a good image of himself but at the same time respect others, Good care in these requires continuity and reliable pro­ and not drive too fast. fessional guidance if all the potential benefits are to be re­ True, some health services-a smallpox vaccination or alized. The benefit of a newly developed operation or a a hernia operation, for exampl~an be purchased like recently discovered drug of proven value depends upon groceries, but many of the health care services an indi­ the services of a physician who is willing to assume the vidual purchases are of value only to the extent that he responsibility of continuing guidance of the patient in uses them. An hour of a psychiatrist's time is of little matters of health. He knows what is needed and where to value unless the patient puts it to some useful purpose. Of obtain it. course, a vaccination or an operation usually requires no Required also are responsibility and responsiveness on further action upon the part of the patient nor does an in­ the part of the patient. He will receive no benefit from jection of penicillin need his help in order to kill the strep­ services if he fails to keep appointments, does not listen tococci he is harboring. The health needs that are met to (or refuses to accept) the counsel of his physician or

584 November I , 1970 FRIENDS JOURNAL contributes to the discontinuity of his own care by chang­ ing from physician to physician in search of a profes­ sional opinion that is more to his liking. I· A Memorable Meeting The physician often is unable to provide the best that is available, even though he may be aware of what could be accomplished. Many recent health care service pro­ by Levinus K. Painter grams therefore include professional personnel other than physicians, particularly social workers and nurses with a THE ONE-HUNDRED-FIFTY-YEAR-old meeting house was re­ patient and service orientation rather than the usual dis­ splendently white. On the previous day more than forty ease orientation. Their efforts can make it possible for men and boys from the local Scout organization had given the patient to help himself get something better in health the building and fence a fresh coat of paint. care than he might otherwise obtain. It is apparent that the roles of these persons will be largely educational and Friends and their guests assembled for the hour of supportive. They will help make the patient understand worship. One family had brought as a guest a student in what he needs to do and will then provide or help him Kent State University. One of her friends had been the obtain the supports he needs to help him do this. victim of a National Guard bullet only a few days before. A young couple, both with Catholic background and one Members of a deprived community may contend that with an Asiatic cultural heritage, had had only limited good health care is not available. Often that is not true. experience among Friends and intended to ask the Meet­ Much depends on the services to which they are referring ing to assume oversight of their marriage. and their importance to health. If one means, for example, that there is no facility near the patient into which he can One family was feeling greatly relieved, assured that a go day or night and get services, it may be true. Life­ problem that had perplexed them for months was well on threatening emergencies are relatively rare, however, and its way to solution. Another worked in an industrial plant one can hardly expect that facilities adequate to cope with where a strike was threatened. Still another member had any eventuality along these lines should be available in spent a day in Washington the previous week. The oldest each neighborhood. This is not to say that there should member of the Meeting, now ninety-four and unable to be no such facilities available somewhere within a rea­ attend for some years, was in the hospital with a broken sonable distance; for the most part, they are, especially hip. in cities. As a matter of fact, most walk-in visits are for No one who spoke during the hour of worship could nonemergency services, even chronic disorders or trivial have known about all of these personal problems. Yet in acute conditions. It is impractical, unnecessary, and un­ a remarkable way much of what was shared in ministry economical to keep a full staff on duty around the clock seemed to be speaking to the condition of those present. in a neighborhood clinic to care for them. A high school youth spoke of inward spiritual renewal An aspect of health care services is that a physician in meeting personal and social problems. In simple Biblical may be almost overwhelmed by patients who want to language, he recounted the story of the spiritual rebirth consult him about minor, self-limited conditions. He would of Nicodemus. have time on his hands, however, if he were to limit his One speaker, who had recently visited several old meet­ efforts to attempts to meet the really important health inghouses near Philadelphia, emphasized the continuity, needs in prevention, chronic disorders, and, in children, stability, and the spiritual vitality evident in the Quaker developmental problems. While walk-in patients for the heritage. relatively unimportant conditions flood the facility, the Near the close of the hour, a rather new Friend, seated rate of broken appointments for services in connection with her children and grandchildren, expressed some with long-term problems much more important to health appropriate thoughts about Mother's Day. But one did not may approach one hundred percent. have to hear or remember her words, for all were aware To say that the deficit in health care services is due of a spiritual glow created by the tone of her voice. We only to a lack of numbers, skill, or interest of health knew where the words came from. This was like a bene­ care personnel or not enough facilities or too little money diction, a fitting conclusion to the hour of worship. After or an inadequate care system is far too simple an expla­ a satisfying silence, the two Friends on the facing seat nation. After all these have been corrected, there would shook hands, and the meeting concluded. still be problems. No problems were solved, no advice was given, but we Poor health, especially that which stems from or con­ were brought into living fellowship with a sense of tender, sists of inappropriate behavior (and much of it does) is loving care. Individuals received fresh inward assurance, probably only one of the many symptoms of an ailing a new sense of direction, and a confirming realization of society. Divine guidance.

FRIENDS JOURNAL November I , 1970 585 In contrasting these attitudes of youth and age, one is Wisdom and Prophecy inevitably reminded of the observations of Aristotle in the fourth century before Christ: "Youth is passionate, quick to anger, and quick to obey its impulses. Youth is by Everett Lee Hunt credulous because it has not often been deceived, and high minded because it has not yet been abased by life: They Where shall wisdom be found? do everything too much; they love too much; they hate And where is the place of understanding? too much; and so in all else. They think they know every­ Wisdom is with the aged, thing and are positive. They are lovers of laughter ... . " And understanding in the length of days. Now listen to his comments on age: "Elderly people, WISDOM, in the Old Testament, comes from the long ob­ as most things are disappointing, are positive about noth­ servation of the common experiences of life, and through ing, and do all things much too feebly. They neither like the centuries we continue to quote these maxims: nor hate strongly, but like as if they would afterwards A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, hate, and hate as if they would afterwards like. They are But a broken spirit drieth the bones. illiberal, for property is one of their necessaries. They are A wise son maketh a glad father, chilled while youth is hot, and so old age has prepared But a foolish son is a heaviness to his mother. the way for cowardice, since fear is a chill." A soft answer turneth away wrath, Cicero, disturbed by this contrast said, "As I approve But a grievous word stirreth up anger. of a youth who has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man who has some­ This kind of wisdom knows no bounds of race or na­ thing of youth." tion. It is not a product" of religious doctrines, but it gives us a sense of the unity of life. Such pithy sayings as we But youth and age we shall always have with us. Youth find in Proverbs are basic in all parts of the Bible. They will be on the side of the prophets, zealous, and even at are notable in the teachings of Jesus: times violent and destructive. And age today does not have the power and prestige of the ancient sages. The Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. increase in the number of old people does not seem to Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. enhance their influence; rather, it leads to the description Judge not, that ye be not judged. By their fruits ye shall know them. of them in a magazine as "the unwanted generation." If we look for an attitude that can seem to include In contrast to the wisdom literature, we have the some of the qualities of both youth and age, perhaps we literature of the prophets, which comes not so much from can find it in the history of the Quakers. In her book, earthly observation as from a heavenly vision: The Quiet R ebels, Margaret Bacon tells how the social "Thus saith the Lord," they declare. causes espoused by Quakers ·have grown out of periods The prophets frequently viewed a whole people as of quiet contemplation and have been controlled by con­ wicked and deserving of punishment. The wise men often cerns for specific projects rather than by inflammatory observed the evils of life in order to endure them. The attacks on society as a whole. prophets observed evils in order to cure them, and the Quakers have experimented with causes in a quiet way, method of curing often was to invite the wrath of God which has led to their support by governments and by to bring about utter destruction. organizations with great resources, and they have re­ The zealous utterances of the prophets have given us tained the union of action and contemplation. some of the loftiest concepts of our religion, but, with the For some of us, action is what gives life its meaning. impatience of youthful visionaries, they often allowed For others, it is only a disagreeable necessity to enable their zeal for righteousness to stifle their love for man­ us to achieve freedom to contemplate. As technological kind. Against all foreign nations they were fierce and in­ skills develop, action seems to become almost an exclusive tolerant. In speaking to their own Hebrews they often part of life. But ages ago Job explained that skill in min­ asserted wrathfully that all disasters came directly from ing silver and gold was no substitute for wisdom. God as a punishment for their sins. Sometimes there was an ecstatic joy in foretelling events never to happen. Those of us who have given most of our lives to action may find that in our later years we can add meaning to Today, as in ancient times, there are apparently ever­ our lives and to the lives of others by contemplation. We increasing evils that some denounce with prophetic zeal and some endure with the conservative wisdom of the shall agree that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of sages. Our modern prophets have the zeal of youth, and wisdom, but we shall realize that such a beginning needs they denounce our modern sages as armchair philosophers to be developed by a sympathetic understanding of the who have grown old. world. That requires experience and quiet reflection.

586 November 1, 1970 FRIENDS JOURNAL Merrily Danced the Sugar and spice and all things nice, And all things very good in it; Quaker•s Wife And then the miller sat down to play A tune upon the spinet. QUAKER CHILDREN, still learning to live the silence of Meeting, have always secretly enjoyed their own often Merrily danced the Quaker's wife, And merrily danced the Quaker; complicated games. But how often at Meetinghouse parties do children play the game that was pelpular when Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Merrily danced the Quaker. I was a child where we knew nothing of Quakers them­ MARY WHITEMAN, IN THE FRIEND. selves? We played it along with Nuts in May and In and Out the Windows. Sometimes it was Quaker Wedding and sometimes Quaker Meeting. The leader went round the circle twiddling his thumbs and saying to each child in turn: A Quaker Teacher "Obadiah, son of Jeremiah, sends thee greeting; in Visakhapatnam. "Wilt thou come to the Quaker Meeting?" "Yea, Friend, yea," we would answer (very cheeky by Stanley M. Ashton ones might say "Obadiah'd love to! "). "Then put thy finger on thy lip, So no word or smile can slip-­ WE HAVE HAD NO RAIN since long before Christmas. The And follow me!" hot days are almost unbearable. The temperature was 116 Sometimes he would speak gruffly or even with a degrees Fahrenheit yesterday. Our main topic is the water squeak to try to produce a giggle, but he always had to remain solemn himself. shortage. The earth is dry. We are dry except for the Soon a close line marched slowly down the room. wetness of sweat. We hear the awful words, famine, chol­ "Now, kneel on thy left knee behind me," was the next era. Cattle, birds, and trees droop visibly. order. The wobbly line would obey, balancing precari­ My neighbor is a Brahmin. Two days ago, hearing ously. Then: shouts and the noise of a tin being beaten, I looked toward "The spirit moves!" he would cry, and with a great the neighbor's land and saw him dancing with rage from push send the whole row toppling over like a pack of one mango tree to another. cards. I saw then a troop of monkeys, down from the hills, American children have long had their game of were making themselves comfortable in the mango trees Quaker Meeting. In this all the children prance around while the leader sings at the top of his voice: and enjoying the ripened fruits. They knew the juiciest. Quaker Meeting has begun, No wonder my neighbor was angry! He shouted and No more laughing, no more fun, threw stones at the intruding thieves. They paid no atten­ No more chewing chewing gum, tion to his angry carryings-on, except that now and then a Quaker Meeting has begun. monkey, out of kindness, would throw a half-eaten fruit Quaker! down to him. At the last word everyone has to be perfectly quiet, although the leader, as in our game, may try to provoke What to do? Would the monkeys' next move be to our a player to break the silence. One by one the "Meeting" mango trees? It would then be our turn to be very angry. succumbs to giggles and the child who holds out longest An idea came. The boys were told to bring two large with a straight face is then the next leader. earthen vats, like the ones used for dyeing, and set them These games undoubtedly grew out of the reputation of in the open space by the well and to fill them with water. Friends for soberness and quietness, for religion and We waited quite a time. politics and historic events are bound up in a good deal of nursery lore. This can even be read in an old alphabet First, an old grandfather monkey came to the water, rhyme: daintily tasted it and finally splashed his face with it. Evi­ P is for Parson who wore a black gown, dently he called the others of his peer group, and they, too, Q is for Quaker who would not bow down. came, saw, and tasted. Word was sent, and the whole troop There is one song, however--once popular in Scotland arrived, old and young, the babies clinging to their mothers. and the North-that seems to show some eighteenth­ We filled the vats several times. The monkeys showed no century Quakers in a more lighthearted mood : objection or fear as we did so. They seemed to have fun The Quaker's wife got up to bake, splashing one another after they had satisfied their thirst. Her children all about her; Our neighbor had retreated to his house, thankful, no She gave them everyone a cake, doubt, that the raiders had gone elsewhere. The monkeys And there the miller found her. at length went scampering away. He chased her up, he chased her down, Not one of our mangoes had been touched. As fast as he could make her; And merrily danced the Quaker's wife, We leave water ready for any thirsty animal. Our well And merrily danced the Quaker. has never failed.

FRIENDS JOURNAL November ] , 1970 587 Simplicity and a Sense of Relative Values by Dorothy K. Garner

THE QUESTION ARISES as to how one achieves simplicity in today's affluent society. My first thought is: I have done it all my life. My husband and I were brought up simply. Our Quaker families put values elsewhere and trained our wants to be simple. Our parents took care of our basic needs and provided the joys that really counted: Health through. proper food, acquaintance with nature through family trips and scouting, and toys and games of our own devising. We were taught politeness, courtesy, responsibil­ ity, resourcefulness, self-reliance, and trust in God. We were happy and never knew it if our clothes and food were simpler than those of our friends. I rode my (iwr'rJ:N.f , wh..w bike four miles to school every day; my friends rode the From Miracle Enough, by W allace Putnam bus. We went camping every summer to the mountains; (The Beacon Press) our friends stayed home in the city. We slept out under cate our lives with many concerns and much activity the stars in bedrolls made from our home blankets and and the greater is the awareness we need as to where to gathered firewood, which my father chopped up with a apply simplicity. We cannot go in all directions at once, double-bitted axe (and let me try when I was old enough). however. We must apply to our lives what Paul tells us in We lived experiences that would teach us eventually the I Corinthians, chapter 12. value and joy of one's own effort, ingenuity, initiative, and Also needed to achieve simplicity is love. Love is one accomplishment. thing that counteracts all lack of material affluence. Love This heritage of childhood years helps us now. Our life is the partner in our relationships to be called out and is quite different from the general lifestyle of today. We used. Use makes it grow. Love is one thing not to con­ live with the seasons. We enjoy the vegetables as they serve. ripen in the garden and store some for winter. Beef comes The richness of faith, hope, and love helps us to realize from our cull cows; our special treats are ham, pork, or the values of the testimonies of peace, simplicity, and turkey. brotherliness and to strengthen our efforts to achieve Simplicity can be complicated sometimes. Should one them. Simplicity should be tied in with a sense of relative have twenty shirts to last a long time or two or three plus values in order to determine where we can draw a line money to buy more? To be creative, one must have the between poverty and affluence. means-breadpans, butter churn, colored paper, drift­ After years of struggling to make ends meet on our wood, a bench saw, and space to store everything neatly. farm, I was feeling discouraged. I had always told our Simplicity requires neatness, or else the junk all around children that money is not everything- other values are wears on one's nervous energy. To quote Elizabeth Fry: more important. Living with the continuing burden of "It is very important ... to have outward things in order. debt is not easy. Then one day it came to me as I was I do not like to sit down in a room .. . without having it walking to the barn: "God, maybe I was meant to be this neat and things in their places. I think some people are way. Maybe I'm the kind of person who can demonstrate not sensible how greatly some of these smaller matters that this kind of life and struggle can be coped with, can conduce to the healthy state of the mind and the prosperity be joyous, and can generate faith, trust in God, and of the soul." obedience to Him." From that point, things began to im­ Simplicity requires a certain faith that one will have prove financially. I began to appreciate my surroundings resources, skills, materials, and money available when and my own energy, talents, and abilities with a new joy. one needs food, clothing, shelter, and recreation. Simplicity I am coming to perceive more and more that the sooner depends on singleness of purpose-the kind of life we we discover how to trust God and how to let Him guide want to demonstrate. The more fully human (and fully us, the more we shall find the deeper values in our indi­ divine) we are as persons, the more we tend to compli- vidual situations and be able to use them for good.

588 November 1, 1970 FRIENDS J OURNAL Reviews of Books The Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore. By recorded here. The closing acttvtty of FRANCES BLANSHARD. Edited, with a his career, the Commission on Palestine, Unspoiled preface by BRAND BLANSHARD. Wesleyan is particularly relevant to the present University Press. Middletown, Connect­ situation. Resort icut. 429 pages. $12.50 The personality of Frank Aydelotte, FRANK AYDELOTTE of Swarthmore was which shines through these pages, makes one of the most influential figures of his the volume much more humanly inter­ time in producing educational reforms esting. He always retained many of the based on higher academic standards and characteristics of his small-town, Hoo­ the selection of students with superior sier boyhood. He was warm, enthusiastic, abilities. He drew much of his approach self-confident, interested in others, bent from his experience as a Rhodes Scholar on activity, highly competitive, and not at Oxford, but he so adapted traditional given to philosophical dialectic. He did English procedures to American educa­ not see any necessary connection be­ tion that he made a small rural Quaker tween intellectualism and radicalism and college a nationally known exemplar of often said publicly that a college should his educational ideal-a program to re­ be ahead of its time intellectually, but deem democracy from mediocrity. in its attitudes and mores it was just as .MoMnk To achieve this, he had to attract well to be half a generation behind the MOUNTAIN HOUSE eminent scholars devoted to stimulating times socially. J.. S even thousand a cres o f un­ teaching. He had to increase endowment What was the influence of Quakers on TJ spoiled mountain beauty for funds for salaries and leaves of absence him, and how did he influence them? In your family to relax and play on, for study. He had to win the hearty sup­ a letter to John Nason, his successor as share nature's wonders. Congenial hospitality. All sports-golf on scenic port of his faculty and the cooperation president of Swarthmore, he said: course, tennis, boat, fish, swim in of a somewhat traditional Quaker board "The thing that impressed me most spring-fed lake. H ike forest trails, of managers, together with a still more about Swarthmore was the character of stroll lovely gardens. Movies, m usi­ conservative group of alumni with their the Quakers, about whom I had pre­ cales, variety of othe r en terta in­ pride in athletics. The students them­ viously known nothing. I gave a lecture ment. 300 room s. Also cottages. selves, although less rebell ious then than at Haverford about 1920 and while D elicious meals. See your Travel now, held meetings to make their voices there I met Rufus Jones ·and naively Agent, or call (212) 233-2244. heard and spoke so intelligently that asked whether any book had been MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE they attracted additional foundation sup­ written about the Quakers. He appeared 90 miles/rom N.Y.C., NYS Thruway Exit 18 port for the college. the next day with an armload of books, LAKE MOHON~ • NEW PALTZ, N.Y. 12561 All his inspiring accomplishments and the next day I learned that he him­ have needed to be described in detail by self had written another armload. My someone closely associated with him, a study of Quakerism began at that point." STUDENT LOANS AVAILABLE person who could also view them with Soon afterward, Frank Aydelotte in from the historical perspective. his annual reports was expounding and TOWE FOUNDATION Now, fifty years after Frank Ayde­ supporting Quaker beliefs. In J 937 his Preference given to Quakers lotte decided to accept the presidency of report presented what he regarded as a summary of Quakerism: Write to Swarthmore, the story that Frances Edward Towe, President Blanshard, long a dean and associate "The distinguishing characteristics of Circle, Montana 59215 and adviser of Aydelotte, had worked the Quaker 'way of life' are a belief on for years has been completed and in the spiritual light in every man, rever­ published. As the text neared its end, ence for individual opinion, love of Counseling Service Frances Blanshard was stricken by a freedom and friendly toleration of dif­ heart attack, and the last two chapters ferences, courage to face the social, Family Relations Committee were written by her husband, Brand economic, and racial problems which of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting For appointments call counselor~ Blanshard, who was one of the first of divide the modern world, a deep long­ or call Rachael Grou , WI 7-0855 the distinguished scholar-teachers Frank ing for peace, an abhorrence of force, Christopher Nicholson, A.C.S.W., Aydelotte attracted to Swarthmore. tenderness for minorities, a fundamental Philadelphia, Pa. 19144, call VI 4-7076 between 8 and 10 p.m. Brand has also written a warm and adherence to the great liberal tradition Annemargret L. Osterkamp, A.C.­ moving preface. It gives an insight into which brought freedom and peace to the S.W., 154 N. 15th St., Philadelphia, the life of the author and will be ap­ world in the Nineteenth Century, and GE 8-2329 between 8 and 10 p.m. preciated especially by the many who which is so gravely threatened in the Holland McSwain, Jr., A.C.S.W., were associated with her. twentieth." SH 7-1692. Although Frank Aydelotte regarded Frank Aydelotte once said lightly Ruth M. Scheibner, Ph.D., Ambler, his years at Swarthmore, with his estab­ that to "join Meeting" while president Pa., call between 7 and 9 p.m. lishment of the honors system, as the of a Quaker college would seem to be MI 6-3338. Ross Roby, M.D., Howard Page merely an act of professional piety, but climax of his career, his other achieve­ Wood, M.D., consultants. ments are worthy of study, and are fully his long and sympathetic connection

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Jews and Arabs state their point of view Understandable, yet profound. and the whole atmosphere of the time is BARCLAY'S APOLOGY IN reproduced with rare charm. The book on the Middle East crisis." MODERN ENGLISH has an intimacy that shows how Frank By a reasoned and reasonable ap­ Edited by Dean Freidoy Aydelotte and his charming wife, Marie, proach, it aims to convert passion into 3.50 paper $7.50 cloth cooperation and thus reduce tension in I At Friends bookstores. produced an enthusiastic unity in a ~ >» »> >» >» ))) ))) •))) ))) ))) o))) community with great potential for di­ the Holy Land. Friends may find it a versity. This volume of the Blanshards mine of useful material for study and will recall a great period, which may action. Brief, succinct statements are ' You will enjoy well be viewed with nostalgia. offered by scholars competent in their HARK BACK WITH LOVE EVERETT LEE H UNT field. by Frances Richardson I am tempted to write enthusiastically Dorrance & Company about each of the fourteen papers, but 1809 Callowhill Street God's First Love: Christians and Jews Philadelphia 19130 $4.95 Over Two Thousand Years. By FRIED­ I think every concerned Ameri<;an and at Friends Book Store RICK HEER. Weybright and Talley, New should read this material and thus find Everybody loves it! York. 530 pages. $15.00 ways of destroying the dangerous stereo­ types that often dominate American THIS GRIM BOOK details an almost un­ thinking on the situation in the Middle ending persecution of Jews by Christ­ East. ians, particularly since the fourth A. WILLARD JONES announcing a new book by century. The author, a Roman Catholic FLOYD SCHMOE and a professor in the University of The Contemporary American Poets: American Poetry Since 1940. Edited by WHAT IS MAN Vienna, levels his heaviest criticism at his own church and spares neither MARK STRAND. World Publishing Com­ that Thou art mindful of him priest nor pope. Protestants get off little pany. New York and Cleveland. 390 --another animal story, but better, nor do those Jews who turned pages. $8.95 this time the animal is us. collaborators with their persecutors. MARK STRAND says his primary goals as The frustrations of a Christianity editor were to show the variety and the $3.00 that divided and subdivided into the direction of recent American poetry. Order from the author. faithful and the heretics, together with These goals have been realized. 12016 87 Avenue Northeast the disappointments of a Second Com­ The variety is wide. There are rhymed Kirkland, Washington 98033 ing that did not come, found a scape­ quatrains, several sonnets, and poems so goat in the Jew, the "Christ Killer." open in form that one could label them Christians forgot that Jesus and all his prose. Some poems are surrealistic. disciples were Jews. They ignored his Others minutely describe the everyday "Father, forgive them." They · blindly world. Some are somber; others, funny. SANDY SPRING adopted the doctrine of collective guilt, A definite direction in the poetry is FRIENDS SCHOOL and for the better part of twenty cen­ indicated. The major trend is from turies they have vented their frus­ formal verse to looser forms. The chron­ SANDY SPRING, MD. 20860 trations on the Jews. ologically arranged selections by Robert Coeducational, Grades 10-12 Spain, eastern Europe, France, and Lowell and Louis Simpson illustrate this Boarding and Day the German states have offended most, shift. A uniquely diversified program de­ but everywhere the Jew suffered. In­ This anthology provides stimulating signed to demonstrate quisition, pogrom, and the "final so­ reading and is valuable for other reasons. • life itself as a religious experience; · lutions" stood out in degree only The main one is that it contains several against discrimination everywhere. fine poems by such leading poets as • individual growth to its greatest po­ tential; In destroying the Jew, Christians are Richard Wilbur, Theodore Roethke, and destroying their own souls and their William Stafford. • personal involvement in today's challenging environment; own selves. Genocide of one people I recommend this anthology, but I will lead to genocide for all people find two flaws. Despite the variety of­ • commitment to disciplined, service­ centered living. through nuclear weapons. fered by the best writers, a monotonous Salvation will come only when sameness is in the works by many of C. Thornton Brown, Jr., Christendom ceases to be exclusive and Headmaster the lesser poets. As Mark Strand himself when it finds the humanity it so ur­ suggests, the subject matter centers too "LET YOUR LIVES SPEAK" gently needs by facing Jesus the Jew obsessively on the poet's private self­ and when it plants its roots in the piety a feature that may tell us something im-

590 November 1, 1970 FRIENDS JOURNAL portant about our whole culture, in tyr, Tertullian, and Origen, thus draw­ (Justin) , as well as the constant advice which case the anthology is valuable for ing on thinkers from all centers of the to meet in worship often to renew love still another reason. early church, but his purpose leads him and fight demons. KENNETH JOHNSON to conflate their differences. He ends The book is made a fitting object for with Montanism and the shift from its purpose with many handsome red The Early Christians after the Death Gemeinde to Kirche-that is, from local and gold symbolic designs and a red of the Apostles. By EBERHARD ARNOLD. apostolic groups and the priesthood of linen cover. Those who wish to pursue Plough Publishing House, Rifton, New believers to episcopacy and set doctrine. Arnold's thought may wish to read his York. 470 pages. $10 His apparatus of annotations and in­ Salt and Light:Talks and Writings on EBERHARD ARNOLD (1883-1935), Ger­ dexes relates his introduction to his the Sermon on the Mount, which man philosopher-theologian, modeling rubrics until the book weaves a doctrine Plough published in 1967. himself after Kierkegaard and Tolstoy, that sharpens New Testament reading JOHN LINDBERG left the Lutherans and founded the So­ with the evangelical passion of precan­ ciety of Brothers, a commune inspired onical thought. The Legacy of Tom Dooley. By by the Sermon on the Mount and prim­ He includes the complete Didache LAWRENCE ELLIOTT. The World Pub­ itive Christian doctrine. Fleeing from and a long selection from the Shepherd lishing Co. New York and Cleveland. Hitler first to England and then to Par­ of Hermas, with shorter pieces chosen 238 pages. $5.50 aguay, the Brothers now practice their for expressiveness: "Christ is our true A GROUP of young people came under discipline in Rifton, New York, where Father, and our faith in Him is our the spell of one of God's noblemen. they have published this book. Mother" (Hierax); "God's milk mixes Their contact with this man gave birth Eberhard Arnold collects all docu­ ill with plaster" (Papias); "Where there to dedicated and inspired service to ments from the death of James, brother is one alone, I say: I am with him. Lift human beings whom most of the world of Christ, (63 A.D.) to the death of up the stone, and there you will find me; had forgotten. Marcus Aurelius (180 A.D.) that ex­ split the wood, and I am there" (Gospel The book is a well-written chronicle plain his reasons for living in radical of Thomas). of selflessness. It is not a story of splen­ simplicity. He arranges his patristic ex­ Of special interest to Quakers are the did young Americans; it is a story of cerpts under rubrics like "Confession of concept of prayer as a more effective splendid young people who do care. Faith and Scriptures," "Meetings and army than soldiers (Origen), the inner I commend its reading to people of Worship," "Proclamation and Proph­ voice as a guide in practical affairs­ all ages and hope it will inspire every­ ecy," with his own introduction and an­ "practical life will teach you, for we all one to help the helpless wherever we notations. have the Spirit of God" (Hippolytus), find them. He most frequently cites Justin Mar- and the primacy of faith over Scripture JOSEPH R. KARSNER

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FRIENDS JOURNAL November I, 1970 591 Cinema ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL b y Robert Steele DAY SCHOOL NURSERY THROUGH 12TH GRADE MOST MOVIES TODAY evidence the deg­ radation of our culture. Twenty years Coeducation is complete in the Lower School. Appli­ ago one movie in ten was worth look­ cations for boys entering high school in 1971-1972 are ing at. Ten years ago it was one in now being accepted. twenty. Now one has to hunt for that one in a hundred that is worth one's Established 1697 time; if one cares about his money, he ADELBERT MASON, Headmaster feels it is immoral to pump it into most Jenkintown, Pennsylvania 19046 886-4350 box offices. Despite the pillorying of some illms by capable critics, they make twenty to fifty times their cost. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, and Myra Breckenridge all have IT'S SO EASY TO OPEN AN INSURED made money. SAVINGS ACCOUNT BY MAIL One explanation for the quantity of drivel is the extent to which movies Send a check and your name and address; your account will be have been taken over by persons whose tastes have been formed by television. insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corpora­ Most of our directors began by making tion up to $20,000. Legal Investment for Trust Funds. television commercials. To them, a film is an attention-coercing charade. LANGHORNE FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Technical finesse is as commonplace 126 S. Bellevue Avenue, Langhorne, Pennsylvania in the cinema as a professional stage actor's ability to memorize lines. A. PAUL TOWNSEND, JR., Secretary SKyline 7-5138 For years we have thought that the best movies result from original screen­ plays. Because of the poverty of intel­ lects and imagination now, however, we realize that we have a better chance of having a passable film if it is based on a literary work. The novelist or play­ wright has to have more in his bag than production shenanigans. D. H. Lawrence has been discovered by movie-makers. Lady Chatterly's Lover, because of the hypocrisy in the manipulation of the novel, was a disas­ ter. The Fox was more honest but was coarsened. Women in Love was a string of pretentious episodes. The current Lawrence, The Virgin and the Gypsy, is not great, but it is good. It is honest and absorbing but simplistic in the treatment of its con­ flict. It is the story of two sisters, Yvette and Lucille, who return from school in France to their father's home in Eng­ land. The time is the midtwenties. The WORLD WIDE GAME5-UNIQUE GinS FOR FAMILIES tedium of middle-class life is suffocating Oak, walnut, maple, and cherry woods are made into games that are a rare combination to Yvette, who is befriended by an of durability, beauty, and fun. Adults and children will enjoy these games in your emancipated couple. She meets a mar­ meetinghouse or in your home. ried gypsy craftsman. Their attraction WARREN AND MARY LEA BAILEY, who are Friends, own and operate WORLD WIDE for each other opens the floodgates of GAMES, Incorporated, along with a staff of six others. Since 1953, they have been making good games for churches, recreation centers, camps, families, schools, and other Lawrence's themes of emancipation groups. from sexual frustration, damnation, and Se nd for free catalog of games and pc~z:r:les. salvation. The film has deficiencies in WORLD WIDE. GAMES, INCORPORATED timing, resolution, and plausibility, but comparatively it is entertaining and art­ BOX 450, DELAWARE, OHIO 43015 fully realized.

592 November 1, 1970 FRIENDS JOURNAL Then, my friends, ere you address it Letters to the Editor Boil it down. Boil out all the extra trimmings Boil it down. The Limits of Charity tiona! Student Association and join in Skim it well, and skim the skimmings PERHAPS we are finally bewailing the your struggle. Boil it down. arrogance of the blacks, the extrava­ Some may think of you as being When you're sure 'twould be a sin to gance of which was greatly induced by radicals or extremists. I imagine many Cut another sentence in two us kindly spirited whites. spoke of Jesus as being a radical also. Send it on, and we'll begin to Long ago, many of us realized that, I feel that you are divinely inspired. Boil it down. although charity is an admirable attri­ You have my prayers and best wishes The lines were a part of the writing bute of mankind, its humane practices in your effort to bring about a change instructions Mary Speakman gave to have limitations that must keep them in this old hypocritical nation of ours. the 1900 class of George School to be outside any conspiracy with the vast May God bless each one of you. copied in notebooks. This in the fall of uglinesses of life. LuciLLE G. MosBY 1897 when they first became members of her English class, of which I was one. GEORGE W. HAZARD Philadelphia Patchogue, New York Boll It Down ELIZABETH A. WOODMAN Newtown, Pennsylvania The Radical Young HAVING READ the item, "Letters tO I WAS IMPRESSED by Christopher N. the Editor," in Friends Journal for Quaker Power Diver's article, "A New Heaven and a September 15, I am sure you will ap­ WITH THE GROWTH of the peace move­ prove of the following lines: New Earth" in Friends Journal, July Cut It Short ment, we are getting more effective rep­ I /15. If you've got a thought that's happy resentation in the Congress. Yet the fact I always have loved and admired the Boil it down. that the Senate still cannot muster a young people of the United States for Make it short and crisp and snappy majority against the ABM correlates the difficult struggle that they are mak­ Boil it down. with public opinion polls that show a ing to bring about peace and freedom. When your brain its coin has minted majority supporting President Nixon's To young people of today, I say: I can Down the page your pen has sprinted conduct of foreign policy. There are remember when I was young and very If you want your effort printed, still many, however-about twenty per­ sincere. Like you, I felt disgusted and Boil it down. cent-who are not irretrievably com­ frustrated when I realized that demo­ Take out every surplus letter mitted to dove or hawk viewpoints. If Boil it down. cracy did not begin to practice all that Fewer syllables the better they could be converted to the cause of it so freely preached. Boil it down. peace, we should have a majority that I only wish I were young now so that Make your meaning plain, express it would bar future Vietnams and, per­ I could become a member of the Na- So you'll know, not merely guess it haps, avoid a nuclear holocaust. PENDLE HILL Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation

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FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1, 1970 593 The language and actions of militant A Sense of All Conditions Let them be reassured. This is a pro­ groups are turning the conservatives THE TERROR of a revolution is under_. blem that is self-rectifying. The auto­ strongly against all liberal and peace estimated by Theodore Benfey (Friends mobile is dissipating our mineral wealth candidates. By contrast, Quakers are re­ Journal, September 1.) The revolutions and fossil fells at such a rate that it spected by conservatives. of this century alone should have taught will disappear before it can suffocate Thus, Quakers have the potential us that any revolution is a catastrophe mankind. ability to sway enough voters to turn for the people involved. I do not feel Energy costs in time will obsolete the tide in the right direction by con­ any calling to support or to spiritualize the air conditioner before man loses his vincing enough conservative but un­ the revolution and the movement. I do ability to face the rigors of the atmo­ committed Americans that our foreign not believe that German Friends saw it sphere. A more interesting and alarm­ policy has been immoral, illegal, and as their function to spiritualize die ing thought is, "How will society adapt against our own interests. nationale Revolution and die Bewegung. to a world that moves on muscle tissue JOHN BURTON Perhaps as a Society German Friends fed by the sun's rays?" Cranford, New Jersey survived Hitler's Germany, but 52 R. NEIL DALTON million victims of his wars and his Boyertown, Pennsylvania revolution did not. Worahip RE-UPHOLSTERY and SLIP COVERS WILHELM STROLL WHENEVER I come upon the word more than 40 years' experience Mishawaka, Indiana "worship," my mind registers a large A Re&BBuring Note question mark. The term is used fre­ THOM SEREMBA • LUdlow 6-7592 quently but with little thought to its Will go any place within thirty-five miles of COMMUNICATIONS to Friends Journal connotation. To be sure, words have Center City Philadelphia (except New Jersey), indicate that sensitive Friends are con­ variety in meaning. "Worship" might cerned about the rape of the ecosphere. draw up a picture of one bowing or kneeling, out of admiration and adora­ TRAIL'S END tion. It could mean, also, expressing KEENE VALLEY, NEW YORK 11943 thanks or supplication-a lesser power A SMALL FAMILY INN appealing to a higher power. Such a IN THE HEART OF THE ADIRONDACKS gesture is appropriate to a monarchical The joys of nature, the comforts of home. age, not a democratic one. Hiking, bird-watching, skiing, snow shoeing, in season. If religion is to keep abreast of the Children welcomed and cared for-Send for folder times, then by all means abolish as ELIZABEm G. LEHMANN, Om~er obsolete that overworked word "wor­ ship." In its place I would make popu­ lar the word "commune": Places of communion, time for communion. It implies the idea of togetherness, of withness, of equality, which is of the essence of democracy. In communion, A friend is waiting. we meet with our Maker on an equal footing of friendship, good feeling, and Elizabeth Gray Vining, author of Windows for the Crown Prince, now love and not as suppliants begging for invites you to share her life. Through the pages of her autobiography favors. she leads you from a peaceful Philadelphia neighborhood at the turn EsTHER HAYEs REED of the century through college days at Bryn Mawr and an idyllic yet Great Falls, Montana tragic marriage, to the climax of her life when she was invited to tutor Advice Japan's Crown Prince Akihito. Mrs. WHEN did you last look at your meet­ Vining tells her story with disarming inghouse sign? What is its purpose? Is modesty; her words shine with wisdom it for the information of visiting and sparkle with humor. "This is a gentle Friends? Is it to attract and invite non­ and muted book that takes a quiet grip Friends to attend your worship service? on the reader and will give genuine Next time you are at meeting, take a pleasure to the author's many followers." look. Where is the sign located? What - Publishers' Weekly size is it? How large are the letters? Illustrated with photographs. Does it need repainting? Does it attract the eye? Is Quaker Meeting or Friends Meeting the description? Why? ELIZABETH Now, get in your car. Drive up and back in front of the meetinghouse. Can you read the words on the sign without GRAY VINING slowing down or straining your eyes? If you want visitors who are not Ouiet Pilgrimage Friends, check that sign. Third printing before publication. GREGG HIBBS Li •ncott West Falmouth, Massachusetts Pf;!!;pp;ov.:oll Company

594 November I, 1970 FRIENDS JOURNAL Friends and Their Friends 100 Around the World FRIENDSHIP STAMPS $1 as leaders of retreats for married couples under the auspices of Friends General Conference. Attenders were introduced to some of the techniques that can be used to deepen interpersonal relation­ young Friends The Meeting ships. School .•. Participants in the workshops came to offers boys and girls entering grades the realization that, although the func­ 10 and 11 the opportunity to develop tions of the two committees differ, their inner strength and direction. Community decisions by consensus ... concerns overlap in several ways. The Family living . • . lntersession trips and spiritual vitality of the meeting for projects . .. Farm . •. Work program worship depends greatly on the extent . . . Fine arts and crafts . .. College to which members and attenders prepare preparatory .. . Accredited NEACSS. True education comes from a way of themselves for worship. living together, as well as from aca­ George Bliss, of Friends Committee demic study. Write: on National Legislation, was the re­ JOEL HAYDEN, Director of Admissions source leader of a group that discussed mE MEETING SCHOOL concerns of peace and order, among Rindge, New Hampshire 03461. them a trend toward repression, as seen in the pending law-enforcement mea­ sures; the possibility of effective action by Friends in the areas of draft repeal Photographed by William Bliss and cuts in military spending; and the proposed new laws relating to drugs. Si11ging at Lake Erie Yearly Meeting. Guitarist, Betsy Cazden; above, from left; Ted Robinson, executive secretary of Lisa Cayard, Lenora Cayard. the Mid-Atlantic Regional Office of American Friends Service Committee, in an address presented rational and deeply Communication and felt views of life in the urban ghettos Community at Lake Erie and of black power. Stressing that Yearly Meeting ghettos are a product of American so­ ciety and are not self-generating, he by Martha Gay urged Friends to be aware of the racism that has permeated many institu­ IF THE ANNUAL SESSIONS OF Lake Erie tions and to be sensitive and open to Yearly Meeting, held on the secluded the needs and aspirations of black citi­ campus of Bluffton College, Bluffton, zens, even when they are expressed in Ohio, had a theme, it was communica­ a rhetoric we may find foreign. tion and community - as practiced Lake Erie Yearly Meeting in 1971 around the supper table, in workshops, will be at Bluffton College June 10 to in the business meeting, and in informal 13. The change of date, from August gatherings. 20-23 this year, was made to facilitate A great concern is felt for spiritual inter-visiting, which is hindered when renewal within this Yearly Meeting. This several Yearly Meetings hold sessions was perhaps expressed most urgently during the same week in August. After 1971 FRIENDS CALENDAR in the workshop on ministry and coun­ searching discussion, which showed deep sel, led by Gerald Vance. It dealt with concern for greater dialog with other A plain engagement and wall calendar, questions of how members of commit­ Friends, the Meeting approved appoint­ 7 0" by 7 3", with the numerical names tees on ministry and counsel can sensi­ ment of five delegates to a conference in of the months and the days of the week tize themselves to the needs of others St. Louis on the future of Quakerism. instead of those which for the most part and help develop a feeling of commun­ Howard and Flora McKinney and are in common use. ity in their Meeting. A helpful report to William M. Bliss, reporting on the this workshop was Betsy Cazden's ac­ Triennial Meeting in Sweden of the 40c each, postpaid count of how New Swarthmoor Com­ Friends World Committee for Consulta­ 35c each, postpaid, for 25 or more munity uses clearness committees to tion, emphasized that all Friends have labor through major decisions facing a role in the ongoing program of Fwcc, Tract Association of Friends members of the community. which seeks broader representation and Verne and Shirley Bechill guided the is beginning to implement ambitious 1515 Cherry Street workshop on religious education. The programs urged by the Fourth World Philadelphia, Pa. 19102 Bechills have worked with David Mace Conference of Friends. The audacity of

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1, 1970 595 Friends in believing that such a small suggested that the two Quarterly Meet­ The Sidwell Friends School group can accomplish so much reflects ings should consider laying themselves the same audacity and springs from the down; that the executive committee WASHINGTON, D. C. same faith that led the Valiant Sixty to handle much routine business, thus free­ A Quaker institution now in its 87th go forth from Swarthmoor more than ing the Yearly Meeting sessions for year, offering 14 years of coeducational three hundred years ago. study and discussion of serious problems instruction from Kindergarten through We had a fine children's program, facing the world; and that the Yearly Grade 12. Active concern for the Quaker spirit and young Friends made an enormous Meeting have a part-time executive stresses academic and personal excel­ contribution to the sessions. We felt secretary. The proposal was approved lence, in an environment enriched by especially close to a contingent from the with a few modifications. diversified points of view and back­ New Swarthmoor Community, whose In addition to the business sessions, grounds. We welcome applications of Friends and others who consider impor· members seem to be moving toward a Indiana Friends were stimulated by a tant our School's philosophy. radical concept of discipleship. Their varied program. presence and participation challenged One afternoon Friends from Waynes­ ROBERT L. SMITH, Headmaster us to strengthen and deepen our spiritual ville dramatized the historical reasons commitment. for which Friends journeyed from the Carolinas to the free Northwest ter­ FRIENDS' Sesquicentennial Sessions ritory, and the building of the present of Indiana Yearly Meeting meetinghouse, 1811-13. Yellow Springs CENTRAL SCHOOL Friends presented a play showing an OVERBROOK, PHILADELPHIA 19151 by Jane Morgan incident in the life of Joseph Coffin and A Coeducational Country the underground railroad. The high Day School INDIANA YEARLY MEETING (General school age group put on a marionette show. Four-year kindergarten through 12th Conference) celebrated its one-hundred­ Grade College Preparatory Curriculum fiftieth anniversary during this year's Joseph Engleberg talked on Gandhi's sessions at Waynesville, Ohio. Because principles and practices of nonviolence. Founded in 1845 by the Society of Friends, our school continues to em­ this was its sesquicentennial, an unusu­ Two women from NOW (National phasize integrity, freedom, simplic­ ally large number of Friends were in Organization of Women) and a few ity in education through concern for attendance in the oldest meetinghouse from Yearly Meeting formed a panel the individual student. in the Yearly Meeting August 20-23. A that discussed Women's Liberation. Er­ CLAYTON L. FARRADA Y sesquicentennial scrapbook, edited by rol Elliot addressed a session on "Origins Acting Headmaster Willard Heiss, was printed for this oc­ of the Indiana Yearly Meeting" that casion, and there were displays of mem­ showed the limited options open to orabilia. Friends and the courageous choices of Fifty youngsters, eighth grade and some of our forebearers. FRIENDS WORLD COLLEGE younger, under the able direction of A panel, "Crime and Treatment of the Peggy Champney, participated in a Offender," was moderated by Raymond ... Three- to four-year Bachelor of Arts program lively Junior program that followed the Braddock. One of the panelists, David theme of the adult meeting. Suggestions Hudson, gave a first-hand account of ... Independent study of the children for future Yearly Meet­ conditions in Lebanon Correctional ings, which they presented in a report Institute. Another panel discussion, ... Six foreign programs to an adult session, ranged from, "Let's "The Future of Quakerism," seemed, ... Quaker origins have less littering" to, "Let's spend a day rather, to deal with the present. living as the old-time Quakers did­ Friends also saw the movie, "Once ... Transnational their dress, no electricity or modern upon a War," and heard Larry Gara conveniences." Their most enthusiastic give an historical account of Friends Box D, Friends World College recommendation was, "Let's have Yearly application of the peace testimony. Westbury, New York 11590 Meeting and more of it." Following his address, Friends held a Capably led by Wilberta Eastman, meaningful silence, out of which Canby twenty-five to thirty highschoolers, rep­ Jones spoke, saying it is not enough for resenting most of the constituent Friends to take account of the past. We Monthly Meetings, spent their first must be about our Father's business. Personal Supervision three days getting the meetinghouse of a Firm Member ready for Yearly Meeting and getting acquainted. Bail Program Fyfe Auer They helped to make the "Coffee A COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT bas a Shop" evening a success with home­ been formed to provide bail to Delaware FUNERAL HOME made fresh donuts and cookies. For that County residents who are sent to prison 7047 GERMANTOWN AVE. occasion the Red Brick Meetinghouse because they have no money for bail or CHestnut Hill 7-8700 was transformed into a place of soft bondsmen. Eight homes, one church, lights, candles, conversation, and music. and six thousand dollars in cash are JamaE.FTfe Chade. L. Auer The main item of business for the available to be used as security. Friends Cremation service available adults was a proposal from the executive of the Meetings in Media, Pennsylvania, committee to hold three two-day ses­ are being asked to "donate" their homes sions of Yearly Meeting. The Committee in this way.

596 November 1, 1970 FRIENDS JOURNAL Fa.Dlily N ight of Pacific Yearly Meeting Bank by Mail by Richar d Manners at the

WE CAME TOGETHER and shared Our FIRST NATIONAL BANK gifts and spoke to one another. We Photographed by Roy W. Moger Circle, Montana 59215 shared gifts that came from across con­ Summit, New Jersey, Meetinghouse Highest allowable Interest tinents and across the centuries of time. remarks celebrating the opening of the In many cases they were prepared by NO SERVICE CHARGES new meetinghouse of Summit Monthly someone we shall never know, but such ON CHECKING ACCOUNTS is their nature that we can make them Meeting, New Jersey. Canby J~nes our own to give. The largest gathering talked mainly about extraordinary thmgs Postage paid both ways perhaps this year, and we were kept to­ that happen in Friends meetinghouses gether, very young to very old, and we and in meeting for worship, as the Lord Edward Towe, President listened and we gave. persists in breaking down the customary Our spirits were drawn together and decorum of Friends. warmed with joy by stories, children's Recalling the spirit of "lighthearted stories. Songs of today and yesterday reverence" he had sensed at a Passover Business & professional men: put a grin upon our faces and a new seder, he proclaimed: "Meeting i.s fun. IBM ACCOUNTING I never thought of it that way m my beat in our hearts. CAN SAVE YOU MONEY We stared in wonder at the miracle boyhood. Meeting is a gas. Meeting is No equipment to buy or lease of the human body with its stress and a celebration, because Christ has come to break down all barriers between man Complete monthly operating statements taking strain in the complex patterns Sales and payroll tax reports of massive interrelated movement, one and man." Federal and state tax returns body depending on another in a prayer He spoke to about one hundred Bank account reconciliation twenty-five from New Jersey, New Employee payroll records of tumbling. Rates as low as $30 per month We heard a fragment of Gregorian York, and Pennsylvania. As usual, he Write for details of free trial Chant, an evening prayer, in wh ich the delighted children as well as adults. One mother who had been working hard giver at least remembered a diffe re~t STAN LEY COBB time which drew itself together to th1s since dawn, confessed that she dozed 647 East Palm Street time. off during the afternoon occasion but Altadena, California 91001 insisted, "I enjoyed him even when I fell We listened quietly to gifts of music of the classical times and our spirit was asleep." brushed by messages without words. The new meetinghouse is halfway be­ And then a drum! A drum from the tween Summit and Morristown, a bit Sudan-the place of the unknown war south of Madison, New Jersey, at 158 BUY ANY BOOK Southern Boulevard, Chatham Town­ -the giver a refugee from this un­ ship. The meetingroom is spacious, known war, who asked us to lend our IN PRINT square with an octagonal ceiling. The attention to that war. But later, because Visit or Call there was a different message. And in unusually comfortable benches are .ar­ the drum, with guitar and flute and ranged in a square, and a s~all fac1.ng clerk's bench is flanked by p1cture wm­ FRIENDS BOOK STORE other instruments the message started dows. The interior arrangements are in­ 302 ARCH ST. like the beat of the human heart. Grad­ genious and deserve study by any Friends ually the beat took hold of us, and we PHILADELPHIA 19106 planning to build a meetinghouse. Espe­ joined that beat. We clapped and moved cially noteworthy is the literature table, Telephone: MA 7-3576 our feet and began to abandon our­ which is a long, deep, curving shelf that selves. And as for many of us that gift W e also sell peace kites. follows the curve of the corridor from became no longer a gift, but part of the meetingroom to the kitchen and as­ ourselves, we were moved in a wild sembly room (which is divisible into ecstatic frenzy of joy that was forgetful three classrooms). The architects, Cope of everything but our love that bound and Lippincott, of Philadelphia, deserve LONG ISLAND HOMES us together and reached out to the sky. BALDWIN & VICINITY "With these gifts have I blessed thee," congratulations. R. W. TucKER 1000 LISTINGS said the Lord. And so ended family • near Friends Meetings/ A Meeting in Texas night. • near Friends schools­ A NEW WORSHIP GROUP has been or­ nursery through college! A Harves t of Great Meeti ngs ganized in Amarillo, Texas, with class~s • convenient to NYC! "JUST THINK of the harvest of great for children and adults. Open worsh1p MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICE meetings you can have here!" is held Sunday afternoons at three These words by T. Canby Jones, pro­ o'clock at the home of Hershel Stanley, WILBUR L. LEW-Realtor fessor of religion and philosophy in lay leader, 3802 West Forty-fifth Street. 516·483-4423 Wilmington College and chairman of Interested Friends may write to him or 1082 Grand Avenue the Quaker Theological Discussion to Clara L. Locker, 1617 Goldenrod, North B aldwin, N.Y. 11510 G roup, seem to summarize his delightful Amarillo 79107. See our photo /ileal May we help your

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1, 1970 597 Trust in God in a the messages Friends had thought be­ Classified Television Studio forehand of giving: the Inner Light, Friends peace testimony, how Friends Advertisem.ents by Phyllis C . Byerly worship. After the last, we moved into silent worship. We waited expectantly in the silence, Small advertisements in various classifica­ OKLAHOMA CITY FRIENDS were diSCUS­ tions are accepted-positions vacant, em­ sing the suggestion of a local station to aware that viewers had been invited to ployment wanted, property for sale or rent, televise a worship service. We turned join us. We were separated by distance personnel notices, vacations, books and pub­ to a visiting Friend for suggestions to from the viewers we could not see; we lications, travel, schools, articles wanted or were separated also by time, for they for sale, and so on. Deadline is four weeks help us in planning. He was silent for in advance of date of publication. a time before he admitted he had never would not see the program until the The rate is 15 cents a word; minimum heard of Friends holding a meeting for following Sunday morning. charge, $3. 1f the same ad is repeated in worship on TV. We seemed to forget these barriers. three consecutive issues, the cost is $6; in His remark caused us to consider Two Friends were moved to speak. six consecutive issues, $10. A Friends Jour­ One speaker was cut off shortly after nal box number counts as three words. even more seriously what we hoped to Address Classified Department. Friends convey to the public about Friends and she began, for lack of time. How sur· Journal, 152-A North Fifteenth Street, how we could also give viewers an op­ prised we were to find how fast the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102. portunity to worship. As the discussion time went! Rather than worrying about went on, it became apparent that there the unplanned ~me, we found ourselves Wanted were about as many opinions of what wanting more time. PAINTINGS by Chester County Artist, George we should do as there were people At the rise of meeting, our hand­ Cope (18SS-1929), Landscapes or still Iiles. High­ shakes seemed to include our unseen est pnces paid. Write Gordon Whitcraft, 600 present. Price Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania 19380. "I believe the entire time should be friends, and we sensed that what we had done was in the right Spirit and LOCATION for 19n June Conference. In East­ given to a silent meeting for worship," em United States, for 1000 or more Friends, all one Friend offered, "since this is our that it was good. ages. Suggestions appreciated. Friends General Conference, 1S20 Race Street, Philadelphia 19102. way of worship." Another Friend asked, "Do you real­ A Service for Tax Refu-n1 Accommodations Abroad ize how long five minutes is? And how SAINT LOUIS Monthly Meeting, Missouri, LONDON? Stay at THE PENN CLUB, Bedford much longer would five minutes of is acting as a repository for moneys for Place, London W. C. 1 Friendly atmosphere. Cen­ silence be? Why! The station wouldn't members, attenders, and others who tral for Frienas1 House, West End, concerts, thea­ tres, British Museum.~ university, and excursions. permit so much silence; besides, the refuse to pay the Federal telephone tax Telephone 01-636 471B. viewers would turn off their sets!" for reasons of conscience. The Saint Available "I believe we should simulate a meet­ Louis Newsletter said: "The money will ing," suggested a third Friend. "We be kept in an escrow account, separate FREE SAMPLE COPY, Disarmament News and should plan carefully what will be said from the regular treasurer's account, in Views, biweekly newsletter. Address: 400 West 23rd Street, New York 10011. and rehearse until we are sure of what a different bank, and will be adminis­ we are doing." tered by someone chosen by the Meet­ HANDSOME AND UNIQUE CHRISTMAS CARDS. Special offer: Edward Hicks' famous Several Friends wished aloud for ing." "Peaceful Kingdom" reproduction now only ten someone to tell us what to do and how cents each for 100 or more. Prompt free delivery. Sleep-in Planned Parenthood Cards, Box CFJ, Newtown, to do it. Pennsylvania 18940. A new Friend asked: "If we trust the A WEEK-END "sleep-in" was held in the ROTTWEILER PUPPIES, AKC papers. Large Holy Spirit here in the meetinghouse, Rockland, New York, Meetinghouse. friendly companions and resourceful guard dogs. Need land and love. Call or write Alice Marshall why can't we trust Him in the television Three to six families participated at (Pittsburgh Meeting) 183 Gilkeson Road, Pitts­ various times "to the vast enjoyment of burgh 1S228, (412) S63().375. studio?" Several meetings were held. Little all," the Meeting Newsletter said. There SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS-Write fo r free were common meals, work, and play. sample Scriptural wall plaques: 4 x 61h" on Pine­ progress was made. We floundered craft card at five cents each. Fine gifts. The New around until three days before the tap­ Unexpected guests one evening were Christian Publishing Company, 5225 East Lee Street, Tucson, Arizona 8S712. ing date, when we selected several top­ Thomas Banyacya of the Hopi Indian ics we felt might convey an understand­ tribe and Coleen Evening Thunder of Services Offered ing of Friends beliefs and way of wor­ the Shoshoni tribe, who discussed the ship. Still, there were doubts about leav­ beliefs and predicaments of American RE-UPHOLSTER¥ and pinfitted slip covers. Please sec my display advertisement. Seremba. ing any silence during our half hour. Indians. Philadelphia and Suburbs. Since all Friends did not approve For Sale the venture and others could not at­ Ecology Bonds tend it, it was a small group that as­ ECOLOGY BONDS are being sold by a bank ALL-SEASON HOME IN FLORIDA, on citrus­ sembled in the studio for the taping. in Oakland, California. "These bonds," bearing lot banking large lake. Fairly new. Ex­ tra friendly, growing Quaker community. Home We felt some confusion and uncertainty reports the Berkeley Meeting News­ of the late Dwight Michener. Inquire: Ardis Michener, Route 1, Lake Wales, Florida 33853. as we were seated and voices were test­ letter, "earn five and three-quarters per­ ed. Then the program was on the air. cent over two years and are earmarked Position Wanted The announcer made his introduc­ for antipollution projects, municipal tion. Our first speaker rose. Calm set­ bonds for schools, water and sewer con­ ~~IOC~ GRAD\!ATE (Fr}e!'d), 28, seeks po­ Sition w1th educatJonal, reh81ous, medical or tled over the grout>--and something struction, student loans, small busi­ other social service organization. Creative ' ad­ ministrative experience (good follow-through) more. We were in a meeting for wor­ nesses, and housing loans to enable low­ excellent typist, gifted with children and adult~: ship. The brilliant lights began to lose income families to buy rehabilitated Box 0-489, Friends Journal. their intensity for us as we listened to homes."

598 November 1, 1970 FRIENDS JOURNAL tures on biology, contraceptives, natural from the affiliated school in Braun­ News of Schools childbirth, homosexuality, and abortion. schweig; Germany; and Jan G. Martin­ Committees to discuss policy matters dale, from Scotland. were appointed, and parents and recent alumni were written to. MERION FRIENDS NURSERY SCHOOL, The resulting material was collated Pennsylvania, has celebrated its twen­ and digested, and renewed discussion tieth anniversary. With an original en­ was initiated. In the end, however, the rollment of twenty-three children, taught present policy (no sexual intercourse by Mary Spiller, the principal, and one between students or between students other teacher, this school, which was and staff) was retained. Influential in started to fill a community need, has reaching this decision were letters from an enrollment of sixty-six children and some parents who would not initially a staff of nine teachers. Four or five send students to the school if its policy children from inner-city Philadelphia were changed, but other factors included are transported there daily by members Cope and Lippincott the consideration of potential aliena­ of the committee. Construction is underway 011 the top tion of students from the group and of floor of The Sidwell Friends School Mid­ dle School, the Zavitz Building, 3960-37th neighboring residents from the school. Street, N. W ., Washi11gton, D. C. Thus the effects of change of policy on individuals loomed as large as the policy CHALLENGING OPPORTUNITY SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL is planning or principle involved. John Stevenson, an additional floor for the Middle principal of the school, feels that the FOR FAMILY PHYSICIAN School building and a new facility on communications and understanding re­ Medical center in urban, black, the Lower School campus in Bethesda, sulting from the experience are more poverty area seeks general prac­ Maryland, to contain classrooms and important than the decision itself. meeting rooms. titioner interested in sharing di­ WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL began versified practice. Qualified appli­ THE POLICY of Argenta Friends School, its two hundred eighty-second year with cants should write to Dr. Charles in British Columbia, in regard to sex an enrollment of seven hundred twenty Vaclavik, Peoples' Neighborhood has been reviewed in meetings of stu­ students. Four from overseas are Feizel Medical Center, 1410 N. Twenty­ dents and staff. Discussions were pre­ Alazamel and Yousef Alatiqi, seniors first Street, Philadelphia 19121. ceded by a program of films, panels, sponsored by the Embassy of Kuwait; nonargumentative sharing sessions, lee- Torsten Wirlitsch, an exchange student

1799 WESTTOWN SCHOOL 1970 EARL G. HARRISON , JR., Headmaster

HONOR REGIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS AND GENERAL ADMISSIONS INFORMATION

Westtown each year offers 15 Competitive Region­ member) and be ready to enter Grade 10. There al Scholarships based on character, leadership, and will probably not be any vacancies in the 11th performance. Winners receive a minimum grant of grade in the Fall of 1971. $100. A larger sum, according to the need of the The Regional Winners will be determined by the applicant and the ability of the Scholarship Fund to results of the Secondary School Admission Test. meet this need, may be granted In sums up to The Secondary School Admission Test is now re­ $1 ,000 per year and in cases of extreme need $1,600 quired of all applicants to Westtown from the 7th a year. A scholarship form is supplied upon request, grade up. These examinations are given three or and an opportunity is given to state the amount four times during the year, but the date that is neces­ needed to send a boy or girl to Westtown. The sary for the Regional results and all other appl!ca­ deadline for scholarship requests Is January 15, tions is Saturday, December 12, 1970. SSAT applica­ 1971 . tion form for this must be received at Princeton by To be eligible, a student must be a member of the November 20, 1970, and are available from the Society of Friends (or have one parent who is a School.

For application forms and school catalogue, please address:

J. KIRK RUSSELL, Director ot Admissions Westtown School, Westtown, Pennsylvania 19395

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1, 1970 599 STORRs-Meeting for worship, 10:45, corner MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS North Eagleville and Hunting Lodge Roads. 429-4459. WATERTOWN-Meeting 9:30 a.m., Watertown Library, 470 Main Street. Phone 274-8598. WILTON-First-day School, 10:30. Meeting for Meetings that wish to be listed are en­ worship, 11:00 a.m ., 317 New Canaan Road, Wilton, Conn. Phone 966-3040. Margaret Pickett, couraged to send in to Friends Journal the Clerk. Phone 259-9451. place and time of meetings for worship, First-day School, and so on. The charge Delaware is 35 cents a line per insertion. CAMDEN-2 m iles south of Dover. Meeting and First-day School 10:45 a.m. CENTERVILLE-Center Meeting, one mile east Argentina of Route 52 at southern edge of town on Cen­ BUENOS AIREs-Worship and Monthly Meet­ t er Meeting Road. Meeting, First-day, 11 a.m. ing one Saturday each month in suburbs. HOCKESSIN-North of road from Yorklyn, at Vicente Lopez. Convenor: Hedwig Kantor. crossroad. Meeting for worship, 10:30 a.m ., First­ Phone 791-5880 (Buenos Aires). day School, 11:10 a.m. NEWARK-Meeting at Wesley Foundation, 192 S. College Ave., 10 a.m. Arizona ODESSA-Meeting f or worship, 11:00 a.m. WILMINGTON-Meeting for worship at Fourth FLAGSTAFF-Unprogrammed meeting, 11 a.m., and West Sts., 11:00 a.m.; at 101 School Rd., 408 S. Humphreys near campus. Mary Camp­ 9:15a.m. bell, Clerk, 310 E. Cherry Ave. 774-4298. PHOENIX-Sundays: 9:45 a.m ., adult study; 11 a.m., meeting for worship and First-day School. Cambridge Meeringhuuse, Massaclwsells District of Columbia 17th Street and Glendale Avenue. Chester W. WASHINGTON-Meeting, Sunday, 9 a.m . and 11 Emmons, Clerk. 9639 N. 17th Street, Phoenix. SAN FERNANDO-Unprogrammed w orship, 11 a.m . First -day School, 10:30 a.m., 2111 Florida TUCSON-Friends Meeting, 129 N. Warren: a.m. 15056 Bledsoe St . EM 7-5288. Avenue, N.W., one block from Connecticut Ave­ nue. Sunday School, 10 a.m.; worship (semi-pro­ SAN FRANCISCO-Meetings f or worship. First­ grammed) 11 a.m . Clerk, Harry Prevo, 297-0394. days, 11 a.m . 2160 Lake Street. WASHINGTON-Sidwell Friends Library-Meet­ ing, Sunday, 11:00, during school year, 3825 TUCSON-Pima Friends Meeting (Pacific Yearly SAN JOSE-Meeting, 11 a.m.; children's and Wisconsin Avenue, N. W. Meeting), 739 E. 5th Street, Worship, 10:00 a.m ., adults' classes, 10 a.m .; 1041 Morse Street. Barbara Fritts, Clerk, 5703 N. Lady Lane, 887· 7291. SAN PEDRO-Marloma Meeting and Sunday School, 10:30 a.m ., 131 N. Grand. GE 1-1100. florida SANTA BARBARA-800 Santa Barbara St., CLEARWATER-Meeting 10:30 am., Y.W.C.A., California {Neighborhood House), 10 a.m. Enter from De 222 S. Lincoln Ave. Phone 733·9315. La Guerra. Go to extreme rear. DAYTONA BEACH-Sunday, 10:30 a.m. 201 San BERKELEY-Unprogrammed meeting. First-days Juan Avenue. Phone 253-8890. 11 a.m ., 2151 Vine St., 843-9725. SANTA CRUZ-Meeting for worship, Sundays, 10:30 a.m. Discussion at 11:30 a.m., 303 Walnut GAINESVILLE-1921 N.W. 2nd Ave. Meeting and CLAREMONT-Meeting for worship 9:30 a.m. St . First-day School, 11 a.m. Discussion 11:00 a.m. Classes for children. SANTA MONICA-First-day School at 10, meet­ JACKSONVILLE-Meeting 10 a.m., Y.W.C.A. Clerk: Martha Dart, 421 West 8th Street, Clare­ Phone contact 389·4345. mont 91711. ing at 11. 1440 Harvard St. Call 451-3865. MIAMI-CORAL GABLE5-Meeting 10 a.m. 1185 COSTA MESA-Orange County Friends Meeting, VISTA-Palomar Worship Group, 10 a.m ., 720 Sunset Rd., Clerk: 261-3950, AFSC Peace Cen­ Rancho Mesa Pre-school, 15th and Orange. Alta Vista Drive. Call 724-4966 or 728-2666. ter: 443-9836. Meetin& for worship, 10:30 a.m. Call 548-8082 WESTWOOD {West Los Angeles)-Meeting 11 ORLANDO-WINTER PARK-Meeting, 10:30 a.m., or 833-0261. a.m ., University Y.W.C.A., 574 Hilgard (across 316 E. Marks St ., Orlando. Phone 241-6301. FRESNO-Meetings second, third, and fourth from U.C.L.A. bus stop). 472-7950. PALM BEACH-Meeting, 10:30 a.m.,-823 North A Sundays, 10 a.m. 847 Waterman Avenue. Phone St., Lake Worth. Phone 585-8060. 264-2919. WHITTIER- 12817 E. Hadley Street (YMCA). Meeting, 10 a.m.; discussion, 11 a.m . SARASOTA-Meeting, 11 a.m., College Hall, New HAYWARD-Worship group meets 11 a.m ., First · College campus. First-day School and adult dis· days In attenders' homes. Call 582·9632. cussion, 10 a.m. Phone 955-3293. LA JOLLA-Meeting, 11 a.m., 7380 Eads Ave­ Canada ST. PETERSBURG-Meeting 11 a.m . 130 19th nue. Visitors call 296-2264 or 454-7459. Avenue, S. E. HALIFAX-Nova Scot ia. Visitors welcome. En­ LOS ANGEL£5-Meeting, 11 a.m. 4167 So. Nor­ quire Cieri<, John Osborne, 18 Harbour Drive, mandle. VIsitors call AX 5-0262. Dartmouth, 469-8985. In Yarmouth, call Jean MARIN-Meeting for worship, Sunday 10 a.m., Morse. Georgia Mill Valley Community Church annex, Olive ATLANTA- Meeting for worship and First-day and Lovell. Phone (415) 388-9475. School, 10 a.m ., 1384 Fairview Road N.E., Colorado Atlanta 30306. Tom Kenworthy, Clerk. Phone MONTEREY PENINSULA-Friends Meeting for 288-1490. Quaker House. Telephone 373-7986. worship, Sundays, 10:30 a.m., 1057 Mescal Ave., BOULDER-Meeting for worship, 10 a.m .; First­ Seaside. Call 394-9991 or 375-1776. day School, 11 a.m. Margaret Ostrow, 443-0594. AUGUSTA- Meeting f or worship and First-day DENVER-Mountain View Friends Meeting, wor­ School, 10 a.m ., 340 Telfair Street. Lester PALO ALTO-Meetin& for worship, 11 a.m., Bow les, Clerk. Phone 733- 4220. First-day classes for children, 11:15, 957 Colo­ ship 10 to 11 a.m ., Adult Forum 11 to 12, 2280 rado. South Columbine Street. Phone 722·4125. PASADENA-526 E. Oran&e Grove (at Oakland). Hawaii Meetin& for worship, Sunday, 10:30 a.m. Connecticut REDLAND5-Meetln& and First-day School, 10 HONOLULU - Sundays, 2426 Oahu Avenue. a.m ., 114 W. Vine. Clerk: 792-9218. HARTFORD-Meeting and First-day School, 10 9:30, Hymn sing; 9:45, Worship; 11, Adult Study a.m ., discussion 11 a.m ., 144 South Quaker Group. Babysitting, 10 to 10:45. Phone: 988· SACRAMENT0-2620 21st St. Meetin& for wor­ Lane, West Hartford. Phone 232-3631. 2714. ship Sunday, 10 a.m .; discussion 11 a.m. Clerk: 455·6251. NEW HAVEN-Meeting, 9:45 a.m. Conn. Hall, Yale Old Campus. Phone 776-5584. Illinois NEW LONDON-Mitchell College Library, Pequot CHICAG0-57th Street. Worship, 11 a.m ., 5615 The Penington Ave. Meeting for worship at 10 a.m ., doscussion Woodlawn. Monthly Meeting every first Friday, 11 a.m . Clerk, Hobart Mitchell, RFD 1, Norwich 7:30 p.m . Phone: BU 8·3066. l15 E. 15TH ST., NEW YORK 3, N.Y. 06360. Phone 889-1924. CHICAGO-Chicago Monthly Meeting, 10749 S. The Quaker residence in a desirable NEW MILFORD-HOUSATONIC MEETING: Wor­ Artesian. HI 5-8949 or BE 3-2715. Worship 11 location of New York City-welcomes ship 11 a.m. Route 7 at Lanesville Road. a.m . Friends and friends of Friends. Write STAMFORD-GREENWICH-Meeting for worship and First-day School, 10 a.m. Westover and Rox­ DECATUR-Worship, 10 a.m. Phone Mrs. Charles or telephone for reservations. bury Roads, Stamford. Clerk, Peter Bentley, 4 Wright, 877-2914, for meeting location. Phone Code lll -GRamercy 5-9193 Cat Rock Road, Cos Cob, Connecticut. Tele­ DOWNERS GROVE-(west suburban Chicago)­ phone: 203·TO 9-5545. Worshlp and First-day School 10:30 a.m., 5710

600 November I , 1970 FRIENDS JOURNAL Lomond Ave. (3 blocks west of Belmont, 1 block WEST BRANCH-Scattergood School. Worship, OROND-(unprogramed) Coe Lounge, Memorial south of Maple). Phone 968-3 861 or 665.()864. 10:30 a.m. Phone 319-643-5636. Union. Worship, 10 a.m. EVANSTON-1010 Greenleaf, UN 4·8511. Wor· SOUTH CHINA-(programed) David van Streln, ship on First-day, 10 a.m. Kansas pastor. Worship, 10:30 a.m. LAKE FOREST-Worship 10 a.m. at Meeting WICHITA-University Friends Meeting, 1840 Uni· WINTHROP CENTER-(programed) Paul Cates, House. West Old Elm Road and Ridge Road. versity Avenue. Semi-Programmed Meeting for pastor. Worship, 11 a.m. Mail address Box 95, Lake Forest, Ill. 60045. Worship 8:30 a.m., First-day School 9:45 a.m., Phone area 312, 234-0366. Programed Meeting for Worship 11 a.m. Richard PEORIA-GALESBURG- In Peoria, telephone P. Newby and David W. Bills, Ministers. Phone Cecil Smith, Dunlap 243-7821. In Galesburg, 262-0471. Maryland telephone George D1mitroff, 342-0602. ADELPHI-Near University of Maryland, 2303 Metzerott Road. First-day School 11 a.m., wor­ QUINCY-Unprogrammed meeting, 10:30 a.m. Kentucky ship 10 a.m. George Bliss, Clerk. Phone 277- !'hone 223·3902 or 222·6704 for location. BEREA-Meeting for worship, 1:30 p.m., Sun­ 5138. ROCKFORD-Rock Valley Meeting. Classes and day, Woods-Penniman Parlor, Berea College ANNAPOLIS-Worship 11 a.m., at Y.W.C.A., on Adult Discussion 10:15 a.m. Worship 11 :15 a.m. Campus. Telephone: 986-8205. Booker T. Washington Center, 524 Kent St. State Circle. Phone 267-8415 or 268-2469. Phone 964-0716. LEXINGTON-Unprogrammed meeting. For time and place call 266-2653. BALTIMORE-Worship 11 a.m.: classes, 9:45. URBANA-CHAMPAIGN-Meeting for worship, Stony Run 5116 N. Charles St. ID 5·3773, Home· 11 a.m., 714 W. Green St., Urbana. Phone 344· LOUISVILLE-Adult First-day School 9:30 a.m. wood 3107 N. Charles St. 235-4438. 6510 or 367.0951. Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Children's classes H:OO a.m. 3050 Bon Air Avenue. 40205. BETHESDA-5idwell Friends Lower School, Phone 454-6812. Edgemoor Lane & Beverly Rd. Classes and wor­ ship 10:30 a.m. Phone 332·1156. Indiana Louisiana EASTON-Third Haven Meeting and First-day BLOOMINGTON-Meeting for worship 10:30 School, 11 a.m., South Washington St. a.m. Moores Pike at Smith Road. Clerk, Norris NEW ORLEANS-Meeting each Sunday, 10 a. Wentworth. Phone 336-3003. m., in Friends' homes. For Information, tele· SANDY SPRING-Meeting House Rd., at Rt. 108. phone UN 1·8022 or 891-2584. Classes 10:30 a.m.: worship 9:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m. INDIANAPOLIS-Lanthorn Meeting and Sugar and 11:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. Grove Unprogrammed worship, 10 a.m. Sugar Grove Meeting House. Willard Heiss, 257·1081 UNION BRIDGE-PIPE CREEK MEETING (near) or Albert Maxwell, 839-4649. Maine -Worship, 11 a.m. WEST LAFAYETTE-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. DAMARISCOTTA-(unprogramed) Public Li· 176 E. Stadium Avenue. Clerk, Elwood F. brary, Route 1, Worship 10 a.m. MassachuseHs Reber. Phone 743-1189. EAST VASSALBORO-(programed) Paul Cates, ACTON-Meeting for worship and First-day pastor. Worship, 9 a.m. School, Sunday, 10:00 a.m., Women's Club, Main MID-COAST AREA-Regular meetings for wor­ Street. Iowa ship. For Information telephone 882-7107 (Wis­ casset) or 236-3064 (Camden). AMHERST-NORTHAMPTON-GREENFIELD-Meet· DES MOINES-Meeting for worship 10 a.m., ing for worship and Frist-day School 10:30. Mt. classes. 11 a.m. Meeting House, 4211 .Grand NORTH FAIRFIELD-(programed) Lelia Taylor, Toby Meetinghouse, Route 63 in Leverett. Ave. Phone 274.()453. pastor. Worship, 10:30 a.m. Phone 549-0287. 1911 BRITISH ISlES T(JOR Especially Planned for Readers of FRIENDS JOURNAL, their families and friends Mt11 21 to .,,,. 11 to visit IRELAND SCOTLAND Under The Outstanding Leadership of WALES and ENGLAND DR. T. EUGENE COFFIN Currently Pastor of California's East Whittier Friends Included "HIGHLIGHTS!" 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FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1, 1970 601 BOSTON - VILLAGE STREET MEETING, 48 GALLUP-Sunday, 9 :15 a.m., worship at 102 Dwight Street . Worship and Fellowship Hour­ New Hampshire First-day 3:45 p.m. Viro Circle. Sylvia Abeyta, clerk. 863-4697. DOVER-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m., Friends LAS VEGAS--828-8th. Write for information. CAMBRIDGE-5 longfellow Park (near Harvard Meeting House, 141 Central Ave. Eleanor Dryer, Clerk. 868-9600. Square, just off Brattle Street). Two meetln&s for SANTA FE-Meetlna Sundays, 11 a.m., Olive worship each First-day, 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m . Rush Studio, 630 Canyon Road, Santa Fe. Telephone 876-6883. HANOVER-Meeting for worship, Sunday 10:45 a.m. Friends Meetlna House, 29 Rope Fet'ry LAWRENCE-45 Avon St., Bible School, 10 a.m., Road. Phone 643-4138. worship 11 a.m., Monthly Meeting first Wednes· New York day 7:30 p.m. Clerk, Mrs. Ruth Mellor, 189 MONADNOCK-Worship 10:45 a.m ., Library Hampshire St., Methuen, Mass. Phone 682--4677. Hall, Peterborough (Box 301). Enter off parking ALBANY-Worship and First-day School, 11 a.m., lot. Visitors welcome. 727 Madison Ave. Phone 465-9084. SOUTH YARMOUTH, CAPE COD-North Main :h~~fi~ip and First-day School, 10 a.m. Phone BUFFALO-Meeting and First-day School, 11 New Jersey a.m., 72 N. Parade. Phone TX 2-8645. CHAPPAQUA-Quaker Road (Rt. 120). First-day SPRINGFIELD-Meeting for worship 10:30, ATLANTIC CITY-Meetln& for worship, 11 a.m .; School, 9:45 a.m .; worship, 11 a.m. 914 CE 8- Council of Churches Building, 152 Sumner First-day School, 10:30 a.m., South Carolina and 9894 or 914·666-3926. Avenue. Phone: 567-0490. Pacific Avenues. CLINTON-Meeting, Sundays, 10:30 a.m., Kirk­ WELLESLEY-Meeting for worship and Sunday CROPWELL--Oid Marlton Pike, one mile west of land Art Center, On-the-Park. Ul 3·2243. School, 10:30 a.m., at 26 Benvenue Street. Marlton. Meeting for worship, 10:45 a.m. (Except Phone 235-9782. first First-day). CORNWALL-Meeting for worship, 11:00 a.m . Rt. 307, off 9W, Quaker Ave. 914-534-2217. WEST FALMOUTH, CAPE COD-Rt. 28 A, meet­ CROSSWICKS--Meeting and First-day School, in& for worship, Sunday 11 a.m. 10 a.m. ELMIRA-10:30 a.m. Sundays. 155 West 6th Street. WESTPORT-Meeting, Sunday, 10:45 a.m . Cen­ DOVER-First-day School, 10:45 a.m .; worship tral Village: Clerk, J . K. Stewart Kirkaldy. Phone 11:15 a.m. Quaker Church Rd., just off Rt. 10. FARMINGTON-Pastoral Friends meeting: Sun­ 636--4711. day School 10 a.m .; Mornin& worship, 11 a.m . GREENWICH-Friends meeting in historic Green­ Use New York State Thruway exit No. 43 or No. WORCESTER-Pleasant Street Friends Meeting, wich, six miles from Bridgeton. First-day School 44. Write for brochure. Pastor, Richard A. Hart· 901 Pleasant Street. Meeting for worship each 10:30 a.m., meetlna for worship 11:30 a.m . Vlsi· man, 140 Church Avenue, Macedon 14502. First-day, 11 a.m . Telephone Pl 4·3887. tors welcome. Phones: parsonaae. (315) 986·7881; church, 5559. HADDONFIELD-Friends Ave. lake St. Meeting HAMILTON-Meetin& for worship Sunday, 10 Michigan for worship 10 a.m. Nursery care. Special First· a.m. Chapel House, Colgate. day school proarams and/or social followln& ANN ARBOR- Adult discussion, children's worship, from October to June. Phone 428-6242 LONG ISLAND-Northern Blvd. at Shelter Rock classes, 10:00 a.m. Meetings for worship, 9:00 or 429-9186. and 11:15 a.m., Meeting House, 1420 Hill St. Rd., Manhasset. First-day School, 9 :45 a.m.; meetina, 11 a.m. (July, Aua. • 10 a.m.) Clerk, Mabel Hamm, 2122 Geddes Avenue. MANASQUAN-First-day School 10 a.m ., meet­ Phone: 663-5897. in&, 11:15 a.m ., Route 35 at Manasquan Circle. NEW YORK-First-day meetings for worship, DETROIT-Friends Church, 9640 Sorrento. Sun­ 9:45 a.m., 11a.m., 221 East 15th St., Manhat­ day School, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. Clerk, MEDFORD-Main St. First-day School, 10 a.m. tan. Others 11 a.m. only. William Kirk, 16790 Stanmoor, livonia, Michl· Union St., adult group, 10 a.m., meeting for 2 Washington Sq. N. gan, 48154. worship 10:45 a.m. Earl Hall, Columbia University 110 Schermerhorn St. Brooklyn DETROIT-Meeting, Sunday, 11 a.m., at Friends MICKLETON-Meetinf for worship, 10 a.m., 137-16 Northern Blvd. Flushing School in Detroit , 1100 St. Aubin Blvd. Phone First-day School, 1 a.m. Kinas Hl&hway, Phone 212·777-8866 (Mon.-Fri. 9-5) about First­ 962-6722. Mickleton, N.J. day Schools, Monthly Meetings, suppers, etc. EAST LANSING-Meeting for worship and First­ MONTCLAIR-Park Street & Gordonhurst Ave­ POUGHKEEPSIE-249 Hooker Ave., 454-2870. day school Sunday at 3:00 p.m . All Saints nue. First-day School and worship, 11 a.m. Silent meetin& and meeting school. 9:45 a.m ., Church library, 800 Abbot Road. Call ED 7-0241. Visitors welcome. proarammed meetin&. 11 a.m. (Summer: one meeting only, 10 a.m.) GRAND RAPIDS--Friends Meeting for worship. NEW BRUNSWICK-Meeting for worship and First-days 10 a.m. For particulars call (616) 363- First-day School, 11 a.m., Quaker House, 33 PURCHASE-Purchase Street (Route 120) at 2043 or (616) 868-6667. Remsen Ave. Phone 545-8283. Lake Street Purchase, New York. First-day KALAMAZOO-Meeting for worship, 10 a.m .; dis­ School, 10:45 a.m. Meeting, 11 a.m. Clerk, Rob­ cussion, 11 a.m., Friends' Meeting House, 508 PLAINFIELD-Adult class 10 a.m. Meeting for ert S. Schoomaker, Jr., 27 Ridgeway, White Denner. Call Fl 9·1754. worship and First-day School 11 a.m. Watchung Plains, New York 10605. 914-761·5237. Ave., at E. Third St., 757-5736. Open Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. QUAKER STREET-Worship and First-day School, 11 a.m., Quaker Street Meeting House, Route 7, Minnesota PRINCETON-Meeting for worship, 11 a.m., nr. Duanesbura, Schenectady County. Quaker Rd., near Mercer St. 921·7824. MINNEAPOLIS--Unprogrammed meetln& 9 a.m ., ROCHESTER-Meetin& and First-day School, 11 First-day School 10 a.m ., Programmed meeting QUAKERTOWN-Meetin& for worship, 11:00 a.m ., 41 Westminster Road. 11 a.m ., W. 44th Street and York Ave. So. Phone a.m., every First-day. Clerk, Doualas Meaker, 926-6159 or 332-5610. Box 464 Milford, N. J. 08848 Phone 995-2276. ROCKLAND-Meeting for worship and First-day School, 11 a.m ., 60 Leber Rd., Blauvelt. ST. PAUL-Twin Cities Friends Meeting, un­ RANCOCAS--First-day School, 10 a.m., meeting programmed worship, 10:15 a.m., Friends for worship, 11 a.m. SCARSDALE-Meeting for worship and First-day House, 295 Summit Ave., St. Paul. Call 222- School, 11 a.m ., 133 Popham Rd. Clerk, Caroline 3350. RIDGEWDOD-Meetin& for worship and First­ Malin, 180 East Hartsdale Ave., Hartsdale, N. Y. day School at 11:00 a.m., 224 Hi&hwood Ave. SYRACUSE-Meeting for worship at 821 Euclid Missouri SEAVILLE-Meetin& for worship, 11 a.m. Main Avenue, 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Shore Road, Route 9, Cape May County. Visitors KANSAS CITY-Penn Valley Meeting, 306 West welcome. WESTBURY, LONG ISLAND- Unprogrammed 39th Street, 10:00 a.m. Call HI 4-0888 or Cl 2- meetin& for worship, 11 a.m. Junior Meeting 6958. SHREWSBURY-First -day School, 10:30 a.m ., throuah High School, 10:45 to 12:15. Jericho meeting for worship, 11:00 a.m . (July, Auaust, Tpk. and Post Avenue. Phone 516 ED 3-3178. ST. LOUIS--Meeting, 2539 Rockford Ave., Rock 10:00 a.m.).Route 35 and Sycamore. Phone 671· Hill, 10:30 a.m. Phone PA 1·0915. 2651 or 431·0637. North Carolina SUMMIT-Meeting for worship, 11 a.m .; First­ day School. 11:15 a.m. 158 Southern Boulevard. ASHEVILLE-Meetln&, French Broad YWCA, Nebraska Chatham Township. Visitors welcome. Sunday, 10 a.m. Phone Phillip Neal, 298-0944. LINCOLN-3319 S. 46th. Phone 488--4178. Wor­ ship, 10 a.m.; Sunday Schools, 10:45. TRENTON-Meetln& for worship, 11 a.m., Han· CHAPEL HILL-Meeting for worship, 11 a.m. over and Montaomery Streets. Visitors welcome. Clerk, Adolphe Furth, Phone 544-2197 (Durham). WOODSTOWN- First·day School, 9:45 a.m . CHARLOTTE-Meeting for worship, 11 a.m. Nevada Meeting for worship, 11 a.m. N. Main St., Woods­ First-day education classes, 10 a.m. 2039 Vail town, N.J. Phone 358-2532. Avenue. Phone 525-2 501. LAS VEGAS--Unprogrammed meeting for wor­ ship, 10:30 a.m., 3451 Middlebury Avenue, DURHAM-Meeting 10:30 at 404 Alexander Phone 737·7040. Avenue. Contact David Smith 489-6029 or Don New Mexico Wells 489·7240. RENO-Meeting for worship 11 a.m., First-day School and discussion 10 a.m .. 1029 N. Vlrainia ALBUQUERQUE-Meeting and First-day School, GREENSBORO - Friendship Meeting (unpro­ Street. :relephone 322-3013. Mall address. P.O. 10:30 a.m., 815 Girard Blvd., N.E Richard grammed), Guilford College, Moon Room of Box 602, Reno 89504 Hicks, Clerk. Phone 877-0735. Dana Auditorium, 11:00, Mel Zuc k, Clerk.

602 November ] , 1970 FRIENDS JOURNAL GUILFORD COLLEGE, GREENSBORO- NEW LANSDOWNE-Lansdowne and Stewart Aves. VALLEY-West of King of Prussia; on Old Rt. GARDEN FRIENDS' MEETING: Unprogrammed Meeting for worship 11 a.m. 202 and Old Eagle School Road. First-day School meeting, 9:00 Church School, 9:45; meeting for ond Forum. 10:00 a.m.; meeting for worship worship, 11:00. Clyde Branson, Clark, Jack Kirk, LEHIGH VALLEY-BETHLEHEM- on Route 512 11:15 a.m . Monthly meeting on second Sunday Pastor. one·half mile north of route 22. Meeting and of each month at 12:1 5 p.m . First·day School, 10 a.m. RALEIGH-Meeting 10:00 a.m., 120 Woodburn WEST CHESTER-400 N. High St . First-day Road. Clark, Lloyd Tyler, 834-2223. School, 10:30 a.m ., worship, 10:45 a.m. LEWISBURG- Vaughn Literature Building Li· brary, Bucknell University. Meeting for worship WILKES-BARRE - Lackawanna-Wyoming Meet· 11 a.m. Sundays. Clerk: Eueil Gibbons, 658-8441. ing. Wyoming Seminary Day School, 1560 Wy­ Ohio Overseer: William Cooper, 523.0391. oming Avenue, Forty-Fort. Sunday School, 10:15 a.m.; Meeting, 11:00, through May. CINCINNATI-COMMUNITY FRIENDS MEETING MEDIA-125 West Third Street. Meeting for (United), FUM & FGC. Sunday School 9:45; Un· worship, 11 a.m. WILLISTOWN-Goshen and Warren Roads, New· programmed worship 11:00; 3960 Winding Way, town Square, R.D. # 1, Pa. Meeting for worship 45229. Phone (513) 861·4353. Edwin 0 . Moon, MEDIA-Providence Meeting. Providence Road, and First-day School, 10 a.m., Forum, 11 a.m. Clerk, (513) 321·2803. Media. 15 miles west of Phila. First -day School, YARDLEY-North Main St. Meeting for worship CLEVELAND-Community Meeting for worship 9:45 a.m .; meeting for worship, 11 a.m. 10 a.m ., First-day School follows meeting dur­ ing w inter months. 7:00 at the " Olive Tree" on Case·W.R.U. cam· MERION-Meetinshouse Lane at Montgomery. pus 283-0410; 268-4822. Meeting for worshig 11 a.m., First-day School CLEVELAND-Meetln& for worship and First-day 10:30, Adult class 1 :20. Baby sitting 10:15. Tennessee School, 11 a.m., 10916 Magnolia Dr., University Circle area. 791·2220 or 884·2695. MIDDLETOWN-Delaware Co., Route 352 N. of NASHVILLE-Meeting and First-day School, Sun­ Lima, Pa. Meetin& for worship, 11 a.m. days, 10:00 a.m ., Scarritt College. Phone AL 6· KENT- Meeting for worship and First-day 2544. School, 10:30 a.m., 1195 Fairchild Ave. Phone MIDDLETOWN-At Langhorne, 453 West Maple 673·5336. Avenue. First-day School 9:45 a.m ., meeting for WEST KNOXVILLE-First-day School, 10 a.m., worship, 11 a.m. worship, 11 a.m . D. W. Newton. Phone 588-0876. N. COLUMBUs-Unprogrammed maetln&, 10 a.m., 1954 Indianola Ave., AX 9·2728. MILLVILLE-Main Street, meetlns 10:00 a.m., Texas SALEM-Wilbur Friends, unprogrammed meet· First-day School, 11:00 a.m. H. Kester, 458-6006. ing, First-day School, 9:30 a.m .; meetin& 10:30 MUNCY at Pennsdale-Meeting for worship, 11 AMARILLO-Worship, Sundays, 3 p.m., 3802 W. a.m. Franklin D. Henderson, Clerk. 45th St. Hershel Stanley, lay leader. Classes f or a.m ., Mary Jo Kirk, Clerk. Phone 546·6252. children & adults. TOLEDO AREA-Downtown YWCA (11th and Jef· farson), 10 a.m. VIsitors welcome. First-day NEWTOWN-Bucks Co., near George School. AUSTIN-Worship and First -day School, 11 a.m., School for children. For Information call David Meeting, 11 a.m. First-day School, 10 a.m . Forum, 10 a.m., 3014 Washington Square, GL Taber, 878-6641. In BOWLING GREEN call Briant Monthly Meeting, first Fifth-day, 7:30 p.m . 2-1841. David J . Pine, Clerk, HO 5·6378. Lee, 352·5314. NORRISTOWN-Friends Meeting, Swede and Ja­ DALLA$-Sunday 10:30 a.m., Adventist Church. WILMINGTON-Campus Meeting of Wilmington coby Sts. Meeting for worship 10 a.m . 4009 N. Central Expressway. Clerk, George (F.U.M.) and Indiana (F.G.C.) Meetings. Unpro· Kenny, 2137 Siesta Dr., FE 1-1348. grammed worship, 10 a.m. First-day School, 11 OLD HAVERFORD MEETING-East Eagle Road HOUSTON-Live Oak Meeting, worship and a.m., in Thomas Kelly Center, Wilmington Col· at Saint Dennis Lane, Havertown. First-day First-Day School, Sunday 11 a.m., Peden Branch lege. Elizabeth H. MacNutt, Clerk. 513-382·3328. School 10 a.m., meetins for worship 11. YWCA, 11209 Clematis. Clerk, Allen D. Clark, 729-3756. WILMINGTON- Prosrammed meetins. 66 N. PHILADELPHIA-Meetinss, 10:30 a.m., unless Mulberry, 9:30 a.m . Church School; 10:45. meet­ specified; telephone LO 8·4111 for information LUBBOCK-Worship and First-day School, 10:30 in& for worship. about First-day Schools. a.m., 2412 13th, PO 3-4391. Dale Berry, Clerk, Byberry, one mile east of Roosevelt Boulevard 763-7284. Oregon at Southampton Road, 11 a.m. Central Philadelphia, Race St. west of 15th. Vermont PORTLAND·MULTNOMAH MONTHLY MEETING, 4312 S. E. Stark St. Worship 10 a.m ., discussions Cheltenham, Jeanes Hospital Grounds, Fox BENNINGTON-Meeting for worship, Sunday, 11 a.m. Same address, A.F.S.C., Phone 235·8954. Chase, 11:15 a.m. 10:30 a.m., Bennington Library, 101 Silver Chestnut Hill, 100 E. Mermaid La., 10 a.m. Street. BURLINGTON-Worship, 11 a.m. Sunday, back Pennsylvania Fa ir Hill, Germantown and Cambria, 10:15 a.m . of 179 No. Prospect. Phone 802-985-2 819. Fourth and Arch Sts. First- and Fifth-days. MIDDLEBURY- Meeting for worship, Sunday ABINGTON-Greenwood Ave. and Meetins House Frankford, Penn and Orthodox Sts., 11 a.m. 11 a.m., back of # 3 College Street. Road, Jenkintown. First-day School, 10 a.m .; meeting for worship, 11:15 a.m. Frankford, Unity and Wain Streets, 11 a.m. PUTNEY-Meeting for worship, Sunday, 10:30 Germantown Meeting, Coulter Street and Ger· a.m ., home of Peter and Phyllis Rees, West Hill BRISTOL-Meeting f or worship and First -day mantown Avenue. Road, two m iles from village. School, 11 a.m. Market & Wood. 639-6138. Green Street Meeting, 45 W. School House Lane. CHESTER-24th and Chestnut Streets. Meeting Virginia for worship, 11 a.m . Powelton, 3721 Lancaster Ave., 10 a.m. University City WorshiP, Group, 32 S. 40th St., CHARLOTTESVILLE- Meeting and First -day CONCORD-at Concordville, on Concord Road at the "Back Bench. ' 11 a.m. School, 10:30 a.m., Hope House, 201 E. Garrett one block south of Route 1. First-day School Street. 10 a.m.-11:15 a.m. Meetlns for worship 11:15 PHOENIXVILLE-SCHUYLKILL MEETING-East a.m. to 12. LINCOLN-Goose Creek United Meeting, First­ of Phoenixville and north of juncture of White­ day School 10:00 a.m., meeting for worship, DOLINGTON-Makefleld-East of Dolington on horse Road and Route 23. Worship, 10:15; 11:00 a.m. Mt. Eyre Road. Meeting f or worship 11:00-11:30. Forum, 11:15. First-day School 11:30-12:30. McLEAN-Langley Hill Meeting, Sunday, 10:30 PITTSBURGH-Meeting for worship and First· a.m, . Junction old Route 123 and Route 193. DOYLESTOWN-East Oakland Avenue. Meeting day School 10:30 a.m .; adult class 11:45 a.m., RICHMOND-First-day School, 9:45 a.m., meet­ for worship and First-day School, 11 a.m. 4836 Ellsworth Ave. ing 11 a.m ., 4500 Kensington Ave. Phone 359· 0697. DUNNINGS CREEK-At Fishertown, 10 miles PLYMOUTH MEETING-Germantown Pike and north of Bedford; First-day School, 9:30 a.m., Butler Pike. First·day School, 10:15 a.m.; meet· ROANOKE-BLACKSBURG-Meeting for worship meeting for worship, 10:30 a.m . ins for worship, 11:15 a.m . Sunday 10:30 a.m., 1st and 3rd Sunday of month, 202 Clay St. Blacksburg. 2nd and 4th FALLSINGTON (Bucks County)-Falls Meeting, QUAKERTOWN- Richland Monthly Meeting, Sunday Y.W.C.A. Salem. Phone Roanoke, 343· Main St., First-day School 10 a.m., meeting for 6769. worship, 11. No First-day School on first First· Main and Mill Streets. First-day School, 10 a.m., day of each month. Five miles from Pennsbury, meeting for worship, 10:30 a.m. reconstructed manor home of William Penn. Washington RADNOR-Conestoga and Sproul Rds., lthan. GWYNEDD-Sunneytown Pike and Route 202. Meeting for worship and First-day School, 10:30 SEATTLE-University Friends Meeting, 4001 9th First-day School, 10 a.m., except summer. Meet­ a.m. Forum 11:15 a.m. Avenue, N.E. Worship, 11 a.m.; discussion ing for worship 9 a.m., and 11.15 a.m. period and First-day School, 10 a.m . Telephone READING-First-day School, 10 a.m ., meeting, MElrose 2-7006. HARRISBURG-Meeting and First-day School, 11 a.m. 108 North Sixth Street. 10:30 a.m ., 6th and Herr Streets. STATE COLLEGE-318 South Atherton Street. Wisconsin HAVERFORD-Buck Lane, between Lancast er First-day School, 9:30a.m .; meeting for worship, Pike and Haverford Road. Meeting for worship 10:45 a.m. BELOIT-See Rockford, Illinois. 10:30 a.m . followed by Forum. MADISON-Sunday, 9 a.m . and 11 a.m., Friends HORSHAM- Route 611, Horsham. First·day SWARTHMORE-Whittier Place, College cam· House, 2002 Monroe St., 256·2249. School 10 a.m., meeting 11 a.m . pus. ~dult Forum, First-day School, 9:45 a.m. Worsh1p, 11:00 a.m. MILWAUKEE- Sunday, 10 a.m.; meeting and LANCASTER-Off U.S. 340, back of Wheatland First-day School, 3074 N. Maryland, 273·4945. Shopping Center, 1 'lz miles west of Lancaster. UNIONTOWN-Meeting, 11 a.m., 51 E. Main WAUSAU-Meetings In members' homes. Write Meetlns and First-day School, 10 a.m. Street. Phone 437-5936. 3320 N. 11th or telephone 842-1130.

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1, 1970 603 vived by her nieces, Esther H. Emory and Announcements Elizabeth M. Patterson; her nephews, Ed­ win W. Hicks and Robert J. Patterson; and R. LESUE CHRISMER a cousin, Ralph Hicks. KIRK-On September 15, LEWIS H. KI RK, Pharmacy Births a lawyer and a retired officer of Girard BARASH- On August 23, a son, ADAM Trust Bank, aged 84. He was a member of 361 Main Street, PeiiiiSinlrg, Pa. TIMOTHY BARASH, to Mahlon and Leah Lansdowne Monthly Meeting, Pennsyl­ Barash. The father and the paternal grand­ vania, a trustee of Philadelphia Yearly A pharmacy of integrity ••• one of the parents, Theodore and Elise Barash, are Meeting, a member of the board of Friends oldest in the country . • . now in members of Wrightstown Monthly Meeting, Central School, and a Mason. He is sur­ its vived by his widow, Laura; two sons: seventh decade of dependable service. Pennsylvania. INGERM AN-On July 6, a daughter, Lewis H., Jr., and F. Laurence; and four J ENIFER LYN INGERMAN, to Michael and grandchildren. Store Hours: Marie lngerman. The paternal grandfather, WISE-On September 12, CARL F . WISE, Daily, 10 a.m. to 8:30p.m. Charles Jngerman, is a member of Wrights­ a retired teacher of English and former Closed from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. town Monthly Meeting, Pennsylvania. acting editor of Friends Journal, aged 71. MYERs-On July 11 , in Rochester, New He had taught in Frankford High School, York, a son, THOMAS STEPHENS MYERS, to Philadelphia, and the University of Kana­ Mark and Anna Myers. The parents are zawa, Japan. A member of Reading members of Rochester Monthly Meeting, Monthly Meeting, Pennsylvania, he was New York. The paternal grandfather, president of the trustees of Friends Central INVESTMENT COUNSEUNG Glenn Myers, is a member of Winchester School and former clerk of the Philadel­ Monthly Meeting, Indiana. The maternal phia Yearly Meeting Committee on Wor­ in .. . grandparents, Frank and Helen Walton, ship and Ministry. "Non-defense" Security Accounts are members of London Grove Monthly "Growth" Accounts Meeting, Pennsylvania. "Growth with Income" Accounts Coming Events Marriages BRIGGS-SHULTz-On September 12, in the Personal and individual Account Methodist Church, Bangall, New York, November Supervision. Managed by Friends. MARY SHULTZ, daughter of Adelbert and 1-Nine Partners Quarterly Meeting, Phyllis Shultz, and THOMAS GILBERT Community Friends Church, Clinton Cor­ BRIGGS, son of Edward and Lois Coffin ners, New York. 11 A.M., pwgramed INVESTMENT ASSOCIATES Briggs. The bridegroom is a member of meeting; 12:30 P.M., carry-in luncheon; Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting, New 2 P.M. business session, including discus­ 129 GYPSY LANE, WYNNEWOOD, PA. York. sion on future of Quarterly Meeting. Phone: Ml 9-7530 GROSS-PHILBRICK-0n August 22, under 1- Adult Forum, Valley Meetinghouse, the care of Palo Alto Monthly Meeting, Old Eagle School Road, Strafford, near California SHARON CAROL GRoss and WIL­ King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 10 A.M. LIAM ALLEN PHILBRICK. The groom is a Elizabeth Gray Vining will speak on mini­ member of Palo Alto Monthly Meeting. stry in the meeting for worship. KIMBALL-COOPER-On September 26, at 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, December 7-"Creative 2 and under the care of Wrightstown Mon­ Quakerism," Kenneth Barnes. Public lec­ Ofllces thly Meeting, MARCIA CooPER, daughter of tures, 8 P.M., Pendle Hill, Wallingford, In Virginia and Richard Cooper, and KARL Pennsylvania. Dela-re KIMBALL. The bride and her parents are 4-6-"Rights of the Child," seminar, County members of Wrightstown Monthly Meeting. sponsored by United Society of Friends SMITH-TOMPKINs-On September 19, in Women. William Penn House, Washing­ Cambridge M assachusetts, Meetinghouse, ton, D. C. Write Helen Fuson, 325 Col­ LI NDEN VICTORIA TOMPKINS, daughter of lege Avenue, Richmond, Indiana 47374. Howard and Betsey Tompkins, and DAVID 7-.>\nnual public meeting, American HILLS SMITH . The bride is a member of Pur­ Friends Service Committee, Arch Street chase Monthly Meeting, New York. Meetinghouse, Philadelphia. 9:30A.M., "The TERZIAN-MIRKIL-On August 6, in New­ Struggle for Freedom": Winifred Green, Jay town Pennsylvania, H ELEN PEW MIRKIL, Westbrook, Charlotte Meacham. "What daughter of Mrs. Charles Hollerith, Jr., Makes Governments Move?": Margaret A SAVINGS CENTER and William Irwin Mirkil, Jr., and EDWARD Fay, Anthony Henry, Arthur Kanegis. 2 WHERE FRIENDS HAVE FREDERIC LEX TERZIAN. The bridegroom P.M., "United Nations and the M iddle MET FOR MORE THAN is a member of Radnor Monthly Meeting, East": Lord Hugh Caradon, Landrum THREE-QUARTERS OF !than, Pennsylvania. Bolling, Barrett Hollister; "In the Wake of A CENTURY. Battle": Kale Williams, Martin Teitel. Deaths 14-Burlington Quarterly Meeting, Bur­ lington Meetinghouse, Burlington, New DONOVAN-On September 7, FRANK P. Jersey. 10:30 A.M., worship and ministry, DoNOVAN, aged 60, tenderly laid t? rest followed by lunch; business session in af­ FRED A. WERNER, Pr.sid•nt at St. Barnabas Hospital, Mmneapohs, He ternoon. All Friends welcome. was a social worker and member of Minn­ 26-29-South Central Yearly Meeting, eapolis Friends Meeting. During the Second Houston, Texas. Information from Warner World War he did civilian public service Kloepfer, 3033 Louisiana Avenue Parkway, in Philadelphia State Hospital. He is sur­ New Orleans, Louisiana 70125. vived by his widow, Janice G., a son, Rob­ ert G., and a brother, Donald M, of Oak December Lyn, New Jersey. HICKs-On July 30, in the family home­ 6-Adult Forum, Valley Meetinghouse, Old Eagle School Road, Strafford, near Home Off~c : stead where she was born, in Westbury, 32 South Lanodowne New York, GRACE HICKS, aged 102. King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 10 A.M. Avenue, Lansdowne Starting prior to 1900, she was a clerk of Richmond P. Miller will speak on our Westbury Preparative Meeting for more spiritual heritage and its relevance in than forty consecutive years. She is sur- today's world.

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Who Cares about Nguyen Ba Sac? Her father was killed when ARVN Forces shelled their Vietnamese village At the same time her older brother lost a leg With her mother and five other children she lies in a makeshift hut in a refugee camp When it rains, the roof leaks There is never enough to eat Everyone is too busy to teach Ba Sac to read So that she can enter school next year

Who Cares? Because someone did, Ba Sac is now attending the Quang Ngai Day Care Center run by the American Friends Service Committee for the children of war widows. ·Here she is given a hot meal, a rest, and a bath each day while she learns not only to read and write, but also to play. Her brother has been fitted for a new leg at the Quaker Service Rehabilitation Center, and is learning new skills so he can help support the family. If you care too, won't you help us support the Quang Ngai Program? Send a check today to: The American Friends Service Committee, r---- 160 North 15th Street, ----, Philadelphia, Pa. 19102 or your nearest regional office Yes ... I want to support the AFSC program in Quang Ngai. Enclosed please find my check for.___ _

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