Gumbo ~ The Grail Connection ~

February 2008

MEMBER GIVING ANALYSIS 2007

The 2007 Member Giving figures are in. Here’s a snapshot of how we ended the year.

TOTAL 2007 MEMBER DONATIONS = $ 149,475 Reflects donations to: » The National Office » Grailville » Cornwall » Development Loan forgiveness » “Other” donations/in kind services through National Office Does not include $3,950 from U.S. members in other countries

# OF MEMBERS GIVING All member categories = 144 of 242 (59.5%) Active & Wider Grail = 125 of 201 (62%)

Emerita donations = $32,283

Development Loan Forgiveness = $ 22,375 Donated Salary / WIST training fees = $ 11,000 $ 33,375 MEMBER DONATIONS TO: National Office = $ 71,855 Grailville = $ 24,030 Cornwall = $ 19,240

A SPECIAL THANK YOU! TO ALL WHO FORGAVE THE LOANS THEY MADE TO THE GRAIL IN THE 1990S FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A DEVELOPMENT OFFICE!

1 GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2008: JUNE 23-29

SCENARIO PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE OF THE GRAIL

~ Judith Blackburn ~ for the Council

Preparation for this year’s General Assembly is now underway, and a packet of scenarios depicting the Grail of the future has been distributed to members. All of the scenarios are based on the simple fact that the Grail is not now operating on a sustainable model. Your job is to help discern how we might downsize or re-focus. Times have changed. We no longer recruit women who are able or willing to donate their working lives to the Grail. At the same time we have many ongoing obligations to each other, to our properties, and to the Grail itself. One of our strengths has been how comprehensive our programming has been, but at this juncture we MUST either simplify or scale back our operations. We have neither the womanpower nor the financial resources to continue as we are. The materials for GA preparation spell this situation out more specifically. Your job is to study the different scenarios depicting what the Grail might look like five years from now. Each scenario includes a focus and implications for membership, finances, and governance. Your job is to help with discerning which scenario to move forward with—or to design an alternative scenario for consideration. There will be several opportunities to alter and refine the scenarios before we meet in June. Please consider these scenarios with great care by yourself, and where possible, in groups. Work done before the GA may be even more important than what we do together once we gather in June at Grailville. Please see the prep process timeline below and schedule your regional meetings accordingly. The purpose of working from scenarios is to help us see the total picture graphically. It will be tempting to want the Grail to do everything in each of the scenarios, but noting the implications for membership, finances, and governance will add a note of reality. Keep your own life’s reality in mind as you tackle this discernment. Once we have decided on a future scenario, then we can build bridges to it from here.

h THE GA REGISTRATION FORM h PROPOSALS is enclosed. The focus of the 2008 GA is planning for the Grail’s future. To best maximize our time at Register early and save $25! the GA, if you are considering bringing a proposal before the Assembly, please call Marian Schwab or Beth Wasmer. h THE PREP PROCESS TIMELINE

FEBRUARY 8 GA Prep Packet I of scenarios to U.S. members FEBRUARY 29 Deadline for Responding to Scenario Packet I MARCH 14 Scenario Packet II to U.S. members APRIL 1 Town Hall Conference Call; 7:00 pm EST APRIL 4 Deadline for Responding to Scenario Packet II MAY 16 GA Packets mailed MAY 28 Town Hall Conference Call; 7:00 pm EST

US Grail Gumbo 2 February 2008 IN LOVING MEMORY: MARY (GABRIELLE) MINER

Mary Gabrielle Miner was born on November 11th, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, to Arthur C. Miner and Margaret Fitzgerald. She graduated in 1941with a Bachelor of Arts in Library Science from Rosary College, Forest, Illinois, and joined the Grail staff at Doddridge Farm in Libertyville, Illinois. She moved to Ohio when Grailville was started in 1944. There were a number of young women named Mary, and Jane O’Donnell suggested she adopt the name Gabrielle. She has written: “I loved it!” Following participation in the Year School, she served on the staff until 1950 in various capacities— librarian, assistant to the director, and practical social work in family service. Then followed two years of practical social work in Philadelphia. She was also assistant to the director of the Catholic Interracial Council and chairperson of the Youth Leadership Program for a neighborhood interracial 1955 center. From 1953 to 1958 she was responsible for the Grail Administration Center in Burlington, New Jersey, and assistant to Lydwine van Kersbergen, the national president of the Grail. In 1959 Gabrielle left for Southern Africa where she was Librarian and Dean of Women’s Residence at Pius XII College in Basutoland, now the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. Pius XII College was the first college for African students in Basutoland. Returning to the United States, Gabrielle was on the staff of the Grail Center in Philadelphia, and coordinator of a tutoring program for neighborhood children until in 1965 she became acquisitions librarian and librarian in charge of the African Studies Collection at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, and counselor to women students at the University. 1970 saw her again on the staff at Grailville, until the 1980s when she joined the library staff of Central State University in Xenia, Ohio. At her retirement she moved to New Mexico where she lived until her health indicated a move back to Ohio. While in New Mexico she edited Gumbo, and was an active volunteer with the Hemispheric Center for Peace and Justice. What a beautiful way to round out her deep care and interest in the marginalized of the world. Some will recall hearing that one of her last wonderful directives was, “Pray for all of humanity.” Christmas Day 2002

US Grail Gumbo 3 February 2008 IN LOVING MEMORY: GABRIELLE MINER

Gabrielle was a wonderful Truly Gabrielle was a Gabrielle joins the Angels... May she friend and role model. I gift to us, and now help us all in her marvelous way. My never once saw her lose her she is free at last. fondest memories of Gabrielle .... patience. She was cheerful Alice Dougan she would drive the red truck to the and eagerly helped anyone train station to bring my mother and who needed help. What a me to Grailville for Christmas or wonderful life! May we several weeks during the summer. follow in her footsteps. She was always so cheerful and treated us so warmly. Bless her. Priscilla Rivera Mechana Angele Smith Gabrielle was loving and generous. At no time, in my long friendship with her, was My memory has [Anne Mercier] and she ever judgmental, Gabrielle giving early leadership to negative, or complaining what later became the Liberation about anyone... or, for that Task Force/Network. Also Gabrielle matter, about any situation edited the GUMBO, almost single she found herself in because handed, when she lived in New of her generous heart. Her Mexico. Truly a great among us. identity with the black world Dorothy Rasenberger began with her years in Lesotho (then known as I will never forget Basutoland) and then as Gabrielle's I pray in thanksgiving for Gabrielle librarian at Lincoln University kindness to me in Miner's life and presence to all of us. in PA. At her death the black the late 1960's. May her attitude remain alive among us chaplain at the nursing home Today I have been pushing us towards a future of sang Amazing Grace, in praying to her more commitment and love. admiration for an amazing rather than for her. woman. Isabel Allegro Mary Hughes (Portugal) Anne Mercier

I knew Gabrielle and her beautiful Back what seems like a million years ago (before list singing. May God hold her in her arms serves and PDF downloads!), I was honored to for Eternal Peace and Joy. attempt to take over Gumbo for a bit when Gabrielle Ticha Vasconcelos decided she could no longer provide that service. (Portugal) Even though I only was able to do it for a few months, I was amazed at how much work she had done for so long to get Gumbo done and to Grail members. She Gabrielle's death is a loss to so many gave me all her "stuff," from staplers to wax people. The Barbato family feels it imprints...and the most help and advice she could. deeply. When we mention The Grail, I remember her as a marvelous, helpful, kind, caring we see Gabrielle. I passed on your woman who worked tirelessly for the Grail. I will message to them about how you were always honor her memory. She was and continues to gathered around her, praying and be a treasured Grail sister. Thanks to each of you singing and the laying of hands... one who were able to be there to help her on her final daughter said, "...what a way to die!!!" journey! To me, she was cradled by you all, just Thank you, Gabrielle. May you now be enjoying the the way she "cradled" all of us during rewards you so truly deserve! her lifetime. Cindy Everling Veronica Barbato

US Grail Gumbo 4 February 2008 IN LOVING MEMORY: GABRIELLE MINER

I knew Gabrielle before I went to Basutoland for 3 years, but there I got to know and love her as a sister. She was a God-send to our little family at the Pius XII University. She often took one or two of our children to spend the morning or evening at her apartment and play with them. She loved children, and they loved her. I have a wonderful picture of our Theresa, fascinated by her music box with a twirling ballerina, that Gabrielle took. She is indeed a GEM! I know that she is feasting on the face of Christ who has long awaited her simple and generous soul. May she rest in peace. Alexa Kane

LEAP NOW AS THE HART* Kate Twohy

Gabrielle, you mystery woman. The twinkling eye, the throaty giggle How many emperors have you seen without their clothes?

Constant and calm as cream A hint of mischief in the mix You could rally us. "Its hard, but lets laugh for now."

Do I guess your source? "Pride and grace n'eer dwell in the same place" You chose grace, making mountains level as you walked.

You have been a gift. Embracing ordinary virtue, Inviting giggles, warding evil off, Wise to non-worry and Belief in friendship spread about.

Could we treasure (and remember) more The eye without envy, the nod to mercy, A shrug to despair, with in sight A welcome to the promised day.

And so may you be surprised To see the twinkling eye of Christ. Now be dazzled and bewitched, Be home. BE for all beings here The humble heart, full throat, Who sings in chorus, tears of joy.

*deer

US Grail Gumbo 5 February 2008

IN LOVING MEMORY: MARGIE BURNS

Margery Marie Burns died Friday, January 25th, 2008, in Belair, Kansas, where she had lived in a retirement community near her family. Margie was born February 15th, 1929, in Webb City, Missouri. Her father, J.E. Burns was from England and her mother, Ruth Vivian Burns, was Irish. The family made their home in Wichita, Kansas. She earned a degree in elementary education from Wichita University. Her first contact with the Grail was in the summer of 1953. She participated in the Year School 1955-1956, and was on the team at Gabriel House in Cincinnati from 1956-1958. After four years in Louisiana, 1959-1963, she returned to Cincinnati where she worked as a Counselor of Nursing Students at Jewish Hospital. She was a lay member of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nurses, as well as a member of the Counseling and Guidance Association. In June, 1994 Margie was honored by her colleagues at the Barrett Center in Cincinnati. She was presented with a plaque that read: ‘Dedicated to Margery Burns In Appreciation for Her Personal Commitment and Outstanding Contribution to THE BARRETT CENTER CANCER EDUCATION VAN 1989-1994.’ The plaque was mounted in the Cancer Education Van, a tribute to Margery’s work in initiating this program. The Cancer Education Van traveled throughout greater Cincinnati, educating adults in cancer detection, prevention and treatment. Margie was a member of the Grail Professional Group. Later she met with groups or individuals, as counselor, often meeting in her own warm and welcoming apartment. In recent years, Margery, encouraged by her family, moved to Wichita, where her family provided loving support. She missed her many Bellarmine Chapel and Grail friends, but said she could not be happier with the loving family who surrounded her. Her own warm, generous presence was treasured by family members and her friends. Condolences may be sent to: Vivian Jewell, 10799 SW Meadowlark Road, Andover, KS 67002; [email protected].

Margie was faithful to the Prayer Hours we have had at the House of Prayer over the years. For many years, whenever she called me, she would ask me to sing a song or an antiphon for her. What a lovely request, to precede whatever business she had in mind! That 'practice' continued into early December, 2007. Fran Martin

August 2005

US Grail Gumbo 6 February 2008 IN LOVING MEMORY: MARGIE BURNS

~ Mary Gene Devlin ~

I think I met Margie before the 2003 GA, but I definitely met her then! In the last session when Lynn asked if there were people who wanted to work on spiritual diversity in the U.S. Grail, and 11 people stood up, Margie was one of them, and so was I. When we met for the first time in Tidings in December of that year, we started to be known as the Spirituality Team. We were a diverse group. We were diverse in age, experience, religious affiliation, temperament, who knows what else. We opened the weekend with a Friday night meeting, and it was hard to see how we would even begin to start to get a handle on this diversity we were united to study.

We decided to create a questionnaire about the U.S. Grail’s spirituality. The answers (about 70 of them) were difficult to summarize. A group of the Loveland/Cincinnati area team did the initial work of collating them – grouping similar answers – finding similarities and differences. In the summer of 04, before (and I hate to say it but during the National Retreat), we worked in pairs to summarize the groupings to create a report.

Margie and I were partners, and we struggled to keep to what the respondents were actually saying…not editorializing or putting forward our own “takes” on it. It was very good working with her. She loved words and saying things just right.

As the time went on in the next year as we continued to meet to work on the Spirituality part of the 2005 GA, Margie, who was very bright and wonderfully funny, found her memory slipping. The end of the sentence she had started often eluded her. This was not easy. Not for Margie who was so frustrated and let us know it...nor for us, who had a job to do. The team was walking the fine line of deep regard for Margie and the need to move ahead. I think that our struggle to walk that line was part of the whole point of working with the diversity that we were attempting to understand. The experience of those who have the mental ability to end a sentence and those who do not is an interesting example of diversity in general. We are different from each other. The point is...we worked very hard to love each other on our team and we continued to struggle to do the work we set out to do, and we did it.

I will leave it to others to tell the Margie stories before 2003, and I know there are many of them, but in my work with her, I found her to be amazingly straightforward and true to her beliefs and practice. She pulled no punches. She could act cute and play the clown, but there was great depth to her, and she was very very kind. She would stop us when we were having a struggle with different ideas and strong feelings and ask for a minute of silence and she would pray – yes pray and ask for help. Some of us were praying in a different way from Margie – but all of us became quiet and regained composure and peace.

Margie, bless us with your prayers now and forever. Help us continue the work begun long before the Spirituality Team of 03 started, and moving into the future long after the initial work ended. You embodied the spirit of the team. Stay with all of the Grail in the United States and indeed in the whole world, as we move on to articulate who it is we are – individually and collectively.

US Grail Gumbo 7 February 2008

WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT: EXPANDING OUR KNOWLEDGE, DISCOVERING OUR STRENGTHS ~ Simonetta Romano ~

The Women’s Institute for Social Transformation (WIST) has continued its educational activity in the past few months offering two new learning opportunities to Grail members and others, both in New York City and at the Cornwall Grail center.

On December 1, 2007, several women gathered in New York City for a one day program aimed at analyzing the present national socio-political scenario and envisioning what may be moments of political for change, in the year of the new presidential elections.

Carol Barton and elmira Nazombe, Grail members and popular educators, currently co-staff of the Racial Justice Program of the Women's Division-GBGM, United Methodist Church, generously offered to facilitate the program using a particular methodology known as “Naming the Moment” or “Conjunctural Analysis” (“cojuntura” in Spanish). This particular process focuses the attention of a group on the intersection of various social forces – people, power, money, etc. and their effect on a particular moment in history – in order to find new opportunities for action. elmira at Naming the Moment

It was extremely interesting to work together towards creating a visible scenario of the most important events and actors that have marked the socio-political environment in 2007, and to identify the emerging “contradictions” in the scenario we composed. “Contradictions” are situations in which forces in opposition share a common element, such as “Bush just vetoed S-CHIP for children yet massively increased the budget to continue the war” or “Democrats are better on environmental issues yet their major funding comes from high technology sector that is major global polluter,” and so on. Discovering a contradiction is a very important moment in the process of “Conjunctural analysis” because it allows insights on what personal and collective actions are needed to bring more justice in a particular situation.

The process continued with selecting the contradictions we thought had more impact on people’s lives. After that was accomplished, we had the task of identifying the people we would need to approach for amplifying the voices of all those who share a common vision of justice and peace, thus expanding the political debate at the grassroots level. Participants were all very inspired and re-energized by the whole process, and more aware of ways in which we can continue our struggle for justice involving others in our own local situations. continued next page

US Grail Gumbo 8 February 2008

Women’s Empowerment, continued

The following one-day program was held on January 12, at the Grail center in Cornwall. Grail members from the New York City region, all involved with developing Grail programming, attended a very special meeting, “Re-imagining Outreach & Collaboration - An Appreciative Gathering” led by Sandra Wells. Sandra is a psychologist and a coach who helps individuals and organizations find their strengths and envision new goals and ways to achieve them, through a participatory process called “Appreciative Inquiry (A.I.).”

A total opposite approach from the more commonly used “problem solving,” A.I. is - using Sandra’s words - “a dynamic philosophy of organization change . . . based on the simple idea that organizations move in the direction of what they ask questions about.” For example, when groups study human problems and conflicts, they often find that both the number and severity of these problems “grow.” In the same way, when groups study high human ideals and achievements, such as peak experiences, best practices and noble accomplishments, these phenomena tend to flourish. Appreciative Inquiry distinguishes itself from other change methodologies by deliberately asking positive questions to ignite constructive dialogue and inspired action within organizations.

And we did ask questions to ourselves and others, first to re-discover our common values and identify our strengths, later to dream about what we want to become, what we want to do together, finally to imagine how we can get where we would like to be and how we are going to sustain ourselves, keeping the energy going, learning, adjusting, and improvising to reach our best future.

The A.I. process gave us several insights on how we can strengthen the collaboration among the four major New York Grail programming entities: the Bronx Grail Center, the NY City Politics and Spirituality group, the Cornwall Grail Center and WIST, and continue our work of developing meaningful programs to foster the Grail mission in this region. “Naming the Moment” and “Appreciative Inquiry” are not methodologies for learning a content: the participatory process is their focus, and what we hopefully learn. As with other popular education tools, they represent a Naming the Moment participants with Carol (standing) particular way of looking at, thinking through, and co-creating our reality, in a collective context. The first one allows us to gather information and use critical thinking for understanding what is actually happening in our society and how to bring forward political actions; the second one offers the opportunity of re-energizing a group, tapping in its individual and collective resources, opening up to new, creative ideas, and working organically from what we value most in ourselves and others to create positive change.

A warm thanks to Carol, elmira and Sandra for supporting our ongoing collective empowerment by offering us their skills and competencies!

US Grail Gumbo 9 February 2008

WINTER CALLS FOR HOPE ~ Ann Steffy ~

As the winter cold sets in, we take heart in the lengthening daylight, yearning for warmth and growth. We hope, which leads to plans - our garden, our vacation, our gatherings - as we enjoy this time of looking inward. Making peace with winter makes sense, since this is what nature gives us now. Spring is coming, as is Summer.

We have cause to anticipate what is coming this Summer Solstice. Grailville will host a Sustaining Earth, Sustaining Spirit weekend, June 20-22, 2008, with Sr. Miriam Therese MacGillis. This retreat will surely inspire, empower and open us to transformation as we explore new ways of visioning our human role on this planet, our ever-giving Mother Earth. The weekend immediately precedes the GA, which we hope will make it easier for Grail members to attend.

Several of us from the Michigan Grail were fortunate to hear Sr. Miriam at a day- long talk in Monroe in December (see photo below). We are still awed by the spirit of love, compassion and hope for the future that we can be a part of. As Thomas Berry says… “we are not a collection of objects, but a community of subjects.” At the Grailville weekend, we will be invited to “reconstitute the world,” as we explore deep time, our 13.7 billion year history and the birth of our universe from stardust. We can open to a transforming vision and ask how will we live in sacred community and do the Great Work that needs doing.

The earth faces many threats: global warming, injustice, hunger, pollution, war…. We have the hope and the power to model something different than a slash and burn/ “winner”-gets-rich mentality. We can change our selves and our structures to live, rooted in a spirit of sacred place, with a regenerative earth. Grailville is a perfect place on the planet to ask these questions and seek the answers.

Registration for Sustaining Spirit / Sustaining Earth: A Weekend with Sr. Miriam Therese MacGillis will be available on Grailville’s website soon.

Visit www.grailville.org or call (513) 683-2340 for more information.

Shirley Beaupre, Miriam Therese MacGillis, Judy Markle, Carol Kerston-Burns

US Grail Gumbo 10 February 2008

SISTERS WRITE …

Dear Grail Sisters, Dear Grail Friends, My good friend Nancy Stautberg has sent It's so good to read the NLT news, me a copy of Bill Schickel’s book, WHAT A "Gumbo" and "Crossroads" and other WOMAN! It is Bill’s tribute to his beloved Grail communications! As I near the Mary, who died so suddenly on Holy end of my 78th year, I feel deeply Saturday, April 7, 2007. The book is a grateful to the Grail for enabling me wonderful memoir of their courtship and to believe in myself as God's beloved more than 50-year marriage, and includes child, unique, "called by name." You a picture album, and tributes to Mary from who have been especially close in family and friends. my life know who you are--I name you in my thoughts often, picturing For those of us who go back in the Grail to you vividly. But I love you each and the early 50’s, Mary and Bill have left an all! indelible mark on life at Grailville. Bill used to give lectures to us and designed our I feel blest to belong with Grail Oratory; Mary was part of our musical and women all over the world, who love liturgical life. A very personal note: When I God with heart, soul, mind and came to the Year School in 1951 Bill had strength, and their neighbors as just been diagnosed with cancer and had themselves. It's a blessing to be able been given two months to live. Shortly to read about you. thereafter, he embarked on the Gerson therapy. When, in 1988, I was diagnosed Welcome to all new Grail members! with breast cancer it was this memory of Your letters are inspiring. Bill – by then a healthy grandfather – that I spend much time with my husband inspired me to choose the Gerson therapy in the Friends Care Center in Yellow as my treatment. Springs, where he is a resident. And As their children have grown and matured I love to be in my home (I'm a born the Schickel influence on our lives contemplative), which is small continues: Joy France, their youngest, is compared to the big house we lived today a member of the Grailville staff, with in for 44 years in Dayton, but still Little Eva often a radiant accompanying able to welcome family members presence. Elizabeth (“Lebe”) Robinson is from afar for their visits. also very involved at Grailville. Come to see me! I don't travel easily As tribute from Grail groups all over the away from my husband. The village world testify, Mary and Bill, and their family, of Yellow Springs is charming, with remain forever an integral part of the folks who live with values of history of the Grail in the United States. friendliness, respect for diversity, We give thanks for their lives and for all learning, justice, and good care for they have given to us. (Bill’s book is of our earth. Much beauty of nature, course available from the Grailville preserved, welcoming to all, is here. bookstore.) In peace and solidarity, Ellen Duell Eva Fleischner, Pilgrim Place

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WINTER SOLSTICE IN PHILADELPHIA

Standing with the bread: Connie Pohl, front; Patricia Mellette, back

The Grail 932 O’Bannonville Road Loveland, OH 45140

GUMBO DEADLINE: February 29 Submissions: NLT@-us.org

INSIDE

2007 Member Giving Analysis p. 1 2008 General Assembly p. 2 In Loving Memory Gabrielle Miner p. 3-5 Margie Burns p. 6-7 Women’s Empowerment: Expanding Our Knowledge, Discovering Our Strengths p. 8-9 Winter Call for Hope p. 10 Sisters Write … Two Letters p. 11 Photo: Winter Solstice in Philadelphia back pg GA Registration Form

Gumbo Editor: Bonnie Hendricks

2008 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE U.S. GRAIL: SCENARIO PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE JUNE 23 (DINNER) – JUNE 29 (LUNCH)

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: June 13 ~ to take advantage of “early bird rate, POSTMARK BY MAY 9 SEND FORM TO: The National Grail Office, 932 O’Bannonville Road Loveland, OH 45140

**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 2008 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGISTRATION FORM

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