Among Friends Edltor·M•n•ger Vinton Deming Asslst•nt Editor Melissa Kay Elliott Art Director Making the Most of It Barbara Benton Or•phlc Designer Daniel Leisen Advertising M•n•ger got home from work one evening in late October and settled Tim Back myself on my front porch steps for a few relaxing minutes. The Clrcul•tlon M•n•ger late afternoon sun still had some warmth, and I rejoiced in the Carolyn Terrell I Advertising •nd Clrcul•tlon Asslst•nt abundant display of fall flowers on our block. Neighborhood children Gay Nicholson were playing a noisy game of street hockey. My own two boys-their Typesetting Services James Rice and Denise-Nanette Robinson discarded bikes blocking the sidewalk-busied themselves making Secret•rl•l Services mudpies near the front curb, eyeing the hockey game enviously, and Jeanne G. Beisel Bookkeeper dreaming of being old enough to play in the street. James Neveil The moment was too special to miss . I reached inside the front door, picked up the morning mail, and settled again on the step to Volunteers Jane Burgess, Frank Bjornsgaard, Emily Conlon, read. The results of the day's mail delivery, at first glance, were and Amy Weber discouraging-nothing but "junk mail": some coupons from a local supermarket, an announcement that my wife was an "instant Bo•rd of M•n•gers 1985-1988: Teresa J. Engeman (Secretary), Elizabeth winner" of a free gift (redeemable after a two-hour drive to view a B. Watson resort property); several appeals addressed to people who moved 1986-1989: JennieAllen, De!m Bratis, Helen Morgan from our house years ago; and seven (yes , full-color holiday Brooks, Mark Cary, Sol A. Jacobson, Leonard seven) Kenworthy, Mary Mangelsdorf, Linen McCurry catalogues. (Clerk), Janet Norton, Elizabeth S. Williams My first response was outrage. It isn't fair ... they have no right 1987-1990: Frank Bjornsgaard, Emily Conlon (Assistant Clerk), Mary Howarth, Marcia Paullin, to invade my privacy like this ... I didn't ask for any of these William D. Strong (Treasurer), Allen Terrell, catalogues ... what's the world coming to! (I also felt some Mary Wood sympathy for the poor postal worker who had to deliver all this Honor•ry M•n•gers clutter.) Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Mildred Binns Young I took some deep breaths, had a moment of Quaker silence, and in FRIENDS JOURNAL (ISSN 0016-1322) was a more positive mood began to leaf through the glossy catalogues. established in 1955 as the successor to The My mood began to elevate. In one entitled Herrington, The Friend (1827- 1955) and Friends l ntelligencer (1844- 1955). It is associated with the Religious Enthusiasts' Catalog I could order an "Instant-On Radar Detector" Society of Friends, and is a member of the for my car for $329 (just right for those nights when one has to Associated Church Press. make it to two committee meetings in different parts of town). • FRIENDS JOURNAL iS published monthly by Williams-Sonoma, A Catalog for Cooks, offered an electric Glacee Friends Publishing Corporation, 1501 Cherry St., Belgique for $275. (Can you imagine what a hit this would be at a Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. (215) 241-7277. Second-class postage paid at Philadelphia, PA. potluck supper: unlimited soft ice cream in flavors of one's choice!). • Subscriptions: one year $15, two years $29, And a real bargain (only $12.50) in a booklet called Solutions, three years $43. Add $6 per year for postage ''products that make life easier'' -an item called a Doze Alarm outside United States, its "possessions," Canada, and Mexico. Foreign remittances should Beeper, which "rests lightly behind either ear and sounds an alarm if be in U.S. dollars or adjusted for currency your head nods forward past a pre-set point. .. " (a great help on differential. Sample copies $1 each; back issues First-day mornings at meeting ... , need I say more?). $2 each. • Information on and assistance with As often happens, my reading was interrupted. Mike Ayres advertising is available on request. Appearance bounced a hockey puck off the back windshield of our car and I of any advertisement does not imply dashed over to assess the damages; and the mudpie chefs then needed endorsement by FRIENDS JouRNAL. Copyright © 1987 by Friends Publishing baths before dinner. In the rush of events I left the mail on the Corporation. Reprints of articles available at porch. nominal cost. Permission should be received Later, after the boys were in bed, I went out to collect their bikes before reprinting excerpts longer than 200 words. Available in microfilm from University and discovered that the holiday catalogues were gone. So much for the Microfilms International. opportunity to complete my Christmas shopping in October. Maybe I'll get another chance next year. And now, on the subject of important mail: please accept an apology from our printer for the late delivery of the October issue of Postm•ster: FRIENDS JouRNAL. Future issues (this one too, we trust) should arrive send 8ddress ch•nges to shortly before or close to the first of the month of our cover date. Friends Journ•l, 1501 Cherry St., Phll•delphl•, PA 19102·1497.

2 November 1987 F'IuENDS JOURNAL November 1987 FRIENDS Volume 33, No. 14 JOURNAL Features Departments 6 Friends and the Homeless 2 Among Friends Marjorie Hope and James Young In what special ways might Friends address the problem? 4 Forum 5 VIewpoint 10 No Room at the Inn Jennie Allen 29 Book Reviews Friends in Westchester County become involved with day-to-day needs. 34 News of Friends 12 On the Street: Seeking Solutions 34 Bulletin Board Clifton Gamble 36 Milestones How has public policy contributed to a growing problem of homelessness? 38 Calendar 16 Praying 38 Classified

Dorothy T. Samuel ~ How can we tell when God is listening to us? ~ a:~ 17 A Ufe Uved With Grace ..:! Caroline Cherry " A glimpse of a 19th-Century Friend, Ann Price Gibson 19 Some Enriching Readings on the Ufe of Jesus Leonard S. Kenworthy A bibliographic essay discussing 16 useful references for Friends Children's Books (see pages 26-28) 23 Stanley Ellln, Mysterious Friend The Homeless Chuck Fager (see pages 6-15) Reflections on a time spent with the Quaker mystery writer 26 Children's Books Give Us Hope Amy Weber Brief reviews of books that bring us laughter and lift our hearts

Cover photo by Daniel Leisen

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to doctors especially skillful with medica­ Back to the Light tion, and to effective support groups such Jonah's Dilemma as the National Alliance for the Mentally On April 22, the adult study group of Both Larry Miller's Ill (NAMI, 1901 N. Fort Myer Dr., Suite ll Jl IIU\IAI liI article "Spiritual 500, Arlington, VA 22209, [703] Atlanta (Ga.) Friends Meeting met to Aspects of Depression" share perceptions of the message each 524-7600), and its state and local received from reading the book of Jonah. and the two ac­ chapters. companying articles The Bible says that God asked Jonah to I learned these past two years that it is go to Nineveh, the capital of Assyria­ on suicide (FJ 9/1) possible, by the grace of God, to go were very interesting, Israel's deadly enemy-and "speak out through great darkness, and emerge back against it." Jonah tried to avoid deliver­ and I commend you into the Light. And having the Light of for publishing on the meeting as a constant beacon is vital. ing God's message because he was con­ these rather unpopular vinced God would not really destroy the subjects in such a forthright manner. I city. His efforts to avoid God's command Dimitri Mihalas were to no avail, and after he gets have struggled with depression most of Urbana, Ill. "swallowed by a large fish for three days my adult life. About two years ago I ex­ and three nights" he reluctantly goes to perienced a " major depressive episode" Just a quick note to tell you that the Nineveh and tells the inhabitants of -words that don't begin to communicate article "Through The Darkness, Back to God's intent to destroy that very large the unspeakable agony it is. The next The Light," has and continues to draw city in 40 days. The people believed what year was utter misery, during which the ·response from many people. Each day he told them and after they truly changed wish to simply die and be done with it all the mail brings letters from people who their evil ways, God did not punish them beca~e stronger and stronger. want to share a support group or form after all. During that year neither traditional one. I am overwhelmed. I had no idea The discussion finally focused on psychotherapy ("talk") nor medication that the issue of suicide was so prevalant Jonah's dilemma of whether or not to did much good, the latter because we had and widespread. follow the leading of the Spirit. Each of not yet discovered an effective tricyclic. I am in the process of gathering all the us has had occasions to determine Where I did get help was from the loving information I can to help the people who whether or not to follow God's command support of my wife, strong encouragement are writing in. I am also asking others to speak out when it would be unpopular and reassurance from my psychiatrist, and for help in obtaining information. to do so. Several members of the study uncanny spiritual support from our Thank you for caring enough to print group shared their experiences of Friends Meeting in Boulder. the article. If just one person who writes avoiding a strongly felt leading of the Finally, a year ago a different choice to me is helped, then the article served a Spirit. The dilemma of how to discern a of medication worked, and in the space purpose. true leading of the Spirit from that of of a few days I broke out of the depres­ one's own ego led to the suggestion that sion. In some sense I can't explain, the Carol Roth Friends use a clearness committee to help anger and grief that had dogged me since Pitman, N.J. them decide. A clearness committee can childhood had, in fact, burned away. be arranged by Ministry and Council or I could begin to accept my life for any other committee which the individual what it was/ is. Recently I have begun to On Praising Silence feels can best address the particular find Light: sometimes only a glimpse, concern. sometimes more clearly. I appreciated the article: "Let the Perhaps Jonah's "large fish" was his So I say this: a meeting can provide Silence Speak for Itself" in the way of allowing the clearness process to profound help, perhaps crucial to September 1I 15 issue. Sometimes at our work. A clearness committee gives one recovery, to a depressed Friend. Sharing meeting a sustained, spiritual silence is the time to focus, in a more spiritual at­ the awesome pain helps reduce the sense broken by a first-time attender, or a mosphere than we normally have of helplessness and hopelessness, and long-time weighty (?) Friend getting up available, on what is happening in our sharing thoughts and Quakerly witness and praising the silence! Silence should "wrestling matches with God." Friends can bring inspiration and bolster the de­ be praised silently. meetings have a similar way of swallowing pressed person's will to go on. In addition, However, to the early Friends the us up and empowering us to discover acceptance of his illness by the meeting silence was an extraordinarily complex what it is the Spirit wants us to do. "Let can help wipe away the sense of stigma thing. At New York Yearly Meeting this Thy will-not mine-be done " was how he feels from society at large. Finally, year I picked up a book on the subject, Jesus put it. Friends may be able to direct the sufferer by Richard Bauman, entitled: Let Your Free Polazzo Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking Atlanta, Ga. and Silence Among Seventeenth-Century FluENDS JOURNAL welcomes contri­ Quakers (Cambridge University Press, butions from readers. We reserve the 1983). Prof. Bauman studied the subject right to edit all letters. Submissions to from the point of view of the Hold the Balloons Viewpoint should be limited to 1,000 ethnography of speaking, symbolic an­ words. Submissions to Forum should be thropology, and the historical sociology I would like to ask Friends to use their no longer than 300 words. Although we of religion. Obviously there is more to gentle influence on their communities to would like to print all contributions we silence than meets the eye . . . , er, I affect our relationship with marine receive, space is limited, and we urge mean the ear. wildlife. Increasingly it is becoming Friends to be succinct. popular to celebrate public events by the Joseph Levenson release of thousands of helium-filled New York, N.Y. balloons. Unfortunately, these balloons,

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upon deflation, have a devastating effect on marine wildlife. Most of the balloons An Unusually Happy Group that are released in the eastern and My present life situation is one that Anxieties of this kind too often spoil the southern United States eventually drift gives occasion for some careful thinking: pleasure older people are able to take in ashore. There they are often mistaken by I live among several hundred people who their children's lives and expectations. marine mammals, birds, and fish for edi­ are all waiting to die. Our health too is in most cases better ble jellyfish and other marine life that Oh, certainly not any time soon. than average for our age group, because they feed upon. If you visit any shore Several of us have now been in this situ­ of our ability to get immediate care for area along the East Coast (especially in ation for 15 years and are not expecting anything that goes wrong and perhaps the mid-Atlantic and New England anything to happen in the near future. We head off what could develop into serious areas), you will see a large number of do not live in a hospital or (except to a trouble. In fact some early adjustments these deflated balloons as part of the very limited extent) a nursing home; we became necessary in the financial ar­ plastic debris washing up on the beaches. live in one of the modern life-care com­ rangements because we lived longer than Many people involved in marine environ­ munities. When I say that we are all the actuaries had expected from their data. mental work think that such debris is a waiting to die, the first thing I mean is about the population at large. (As a friend significant factor in the death of marine that for almost all of us, we know that of mine once whispered while a rise in wildlife, including some endangered the move we made to come here was our rates was being explained, "Maybe some species. last. People do die, of course. Our ages of us should volunteer?") If Friends are aware of a group in range from 65 to 101, and some of us are Yes, people die, and real pain is caused their community that is planning to no longer in the most robust health. We especially when the death wasn't expected celebrate some type of event, I ask them acccept that death will happen to some so soon. But one thing that has become to try to explain to event organizers why among us, though a few times lately it has very apparent to me in recent weeks is the balloon releases are harmful to the lives happened suddenly to members of the healing effect of living in a community of marine creatures. There must be other group who we strongly felt were not yet of this kind. One of a loving couple dies ways to celebrate public events that won't ready to go. and everybody shares the grief; but the harm the animal friends who share our What has caused me to embark upon momentum of daily Jiving sweeps on as planet. this train of thought is the observed fact before, and while we know that the Dennis J. Hartzell that we are an unusually happy group of bereaved survivor is truly suffering, he or Silver Spring, Md. people. This is not my observation alone; she seems to feel borne up and carried I have heard speculation upon it among along and loses that dreadful look of many fellow members of the community. unbearable strain. Not that we feel less­ There are many such communities but we have so much to help us bear it. nowadays, and we may not be correct in It occurs to me to wonder whether this our notion that ours is a particularly is a phenomenon common in some degree Walking along a narrow road in the happy one, but there is evidence to sug­ to any type of community in which people Black Forest region of West Germany gest that happiness in such groups of are brought closely together in circum­ recently I suddenly came upon a memorial older people is not anything which causes stances of some danger. We know that it stone topped by a cross on which hung surprise. I have found myself wondering happened in war time to those in the front the figure of Christ crucified. In a nearby why and wishing that one of my psy­ line. Does it happen in prisons? In field cows were peacefully grazing, and chiatrist or psychologist friends, former hospices? In small nations living under but for the music of the bells hanging colleagues, would come here, take a good threat from big, aggressive neighbors? from their necks, they might have gone look, and tell us. Here the example of Israel comes to unobserved. Overhead, two fighter jets Some answers spring immediately to mind. This is something I would dearly roared into the distance. Nearby, heavy mind. We have managed to get ourselves like to see given a thorough professional lorries sped along the motorway. into a life situation which is remarkably examination. People skilled in human Carved on the stone beneath the cross free of many of the commoner sources of interaction-come spend some time with were the words: "lch bin der Weg, die stress. For as long as we live, we are sure us and find out! Wahrheit und das Leben." (I am the of four walls and a roof, as many as three Quakers are prominent among the way, the truth and the life.) The good meals a day, and whatever we re­ church groups which sponsor com­ memorial had been placed there in 1949 quire in medical care. We are confident munities of this kind, though we certainly in memory of a German soldier killed in that this will continue even if something do not have the field to ourselves. What the East during World War II. The final catastrophic happens to the incomes we is the role of religious belief here? We caption read: "Ruhe sanft in fremder had when we came in (our reserve fund aren't all Quakers, of course, in fact some Erde." (Rest in peace in foreign soil.) for emergencies of this kind is pushing a are unchurched. But has Quakerism con­ Who was that war victim? Who had million dollars). Nothing in this life is cer­ tributed something special here? Again, remembered him so feelingly-his tain but the odds on this seem good. Free I'd like to see a study put in hand. Who mother, his wife, or his girlfriend? It of some major worries, we can plan travel will undertake it? makes no difference. and cultural stimulation to an extent that For me, the passerby, here was a moving comes as a good deal of a surprise. Norma Jacob reminder-quite unexpected and, Another source of contentment is the Kendal at Longwood/ therefore, all the more striking-that the continuation of good relationships with Kennett Square, Pa. way of the Lord is along the path of our grown children and their children. peace and no other, whatever the None of us wonders whether an uncom­ circumstances. fortable degree of dependency will Alex Bryan develop or how the bills will be paid. The Friend

FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1987 5 The Homeless Friends and the Homeless by Marjorie Hope and James Young

ith their long tradition of city commissioner of shelter services, meetinghouse; during the day guests seeking to bind the wounds of who agreed that the situation was often go to the Moravian Coffee Pot. W individuals in pain and at the deplorable. The city took no significant The pioneering aspects of the project same time work at the roots of social in­ action, however. live on. The listening, personal concern, justice, Quakers have something special Joni Ross, who headed the project, advocacy, and monitoring of public to offer the homeless. began focusing her energies on the shelters are very much a part of the Our own concern was spawned by a homeless or potentially homeless meeting's outreach. All these ideas, as unique project by Friends. Back in the mentally ill. When we first met them, we well as the patrols and drop-in center 1960s-some 20 years before what is did not know they were patients. Joni (two activities now dropped from the sometimes called ''the decade of the simply introduced them as friends. They program), have spread to other groups homeless"- the 15th Street Meeting in gathered four times a week for informal · working with the homeless. New York City established Toward activities followed by a potluck supper. In the 1980s the principal causes of Community. Volunteers patrolled the Anyone could come, and anyone could homelessness are lack of affordable streets at night looking for figures bring along other friends. Only gradual­ housing, inadequate social benefits, huddled on sidewalks, in doorways, on ly did we learn that they were men and unemployment, and the dearth of park benches, in the recesses of dark­ women who had once lived in state community-based services for the men­ ened buildings. The teams came with hospitals and now dwelt on the streets tally ill. Those caught in its web span the sandwiches, coffee, blankets, and, most or in dreary single-room occupancy human spectrum from throwaway youth importantly, a wish to listen. They saw hotels (SROs) and that many had been to sick elderly persons. Increasing num­ these "cast-asides" as fellow human be­ referred to Toward Community by social bers are single women and families. ings who needed not just physical workers who hoped the project could A search of history suggests Quakers sustenance, but the communication that somehow accomplish what the larger have a certain empathy with victims of comes from the exchange of a few society had not. homelessness. Quakers have known words, or simply from touch. Eventually the patrols were laid · what it means to be stigmatized as The patrol had no shelter, and it soon down. As Joni puts it, "Most of the "different." Displaced from their became evident that the municipal men's volunteers wore out." Yet some Toward homes- not by gentrification, to be shelter and many hotels could be more Community members-notably Joni sure, but by religious intolerance-they dangerous than the streets. Conscien­ and Ned-continued to press for action have journeyed in hopes of finding some tious objector Ned Towle spent some on the part of the city and to establish space where they might dwell in dignity. time with the homeless in the men's agencies, and one volunteer, John Tusa, When Quakers opened their own homes shelter and city-subsidized Bowery became head of the Bowery Residents' to slaves escaping from the South, they "hotels" (essentially flophouses) and Committee. At the same time, they per­ were establishing a bond of community. was interviewed by the New York sisted in reaching out to individuals. Today many homeless people are living World-Telegram about the violent and Volunteers and staff members main­ in prisons. In some locales, centuries-old sordid conditions. tained a drop-in center on 14th Street vagrancy laws have not been repealed; The story served to arouse some and ran a counseling office and potluck in others , there is simply no other place public indignation, but the condition of suppers in the meetinghouse. They met to house roofless single men. There are the shelters did not improve. Members new friends for "raps" on park benches, also homeless people incarcerated of Toward Community talked with the called on those who were hospitalized, because they engaged in petty crime. and after undergoing advocacy training, Too unskilled to find jobs and ineligi­ Marjorie Hope and James Young teach sociology helped them through the maze of wel­ ble for welfare benefits, there seemed no at Wilmington College. Marjorie is a member ofthe fare bureaucracies. way out but to live by their wits. Wider Quaker Fellowship, and James is a member ofMontclair (N.J.) Monthly Meeting. They are co­ Today the focus of the project has Through the years Quakers have authors of The Faces of Homelessness (reviewed changed. Four nights a week the meeting understood that prisons do little to deter in FJ 9/ 1-15). holds overnight hospitality in the violence, but instead tend to breed it.

6 November 1987 FRIENDS JouRNAL They have recognized that when they to vent their feelings and to join other a large sector-perhaps 30 or 40 per­ view their fellow human beings as en­ women in growing through community. cent-of our citizens who have no place dowed with "that of God," even socie­ They need more, of course: legal aid, to call their own. As much as their ty's outcasts can begin to view them­ welfare entitlements, child care, job counterparts two centuries ago, they selves differently. training-the vital supports requisite to need to be treated as human beings who In another sense, many mass shelters starting a new life, supports that should have the same need for roots that the are little more than prisons. At least one come from the wider community. rest of us do. True, some of our national city-sponsored shelter-in Greenpoint, In the 1790s, English Friends Esther leaders seem to believe that people on Brooklyn-is surrounded by barbed and Abraham Tuke founded York the street live there out of choice. But wire, and residents must get special per­ Retreat, the first institution for the given the paucity of community-based mission to attend meetings of the Na­ humane treatment of the mentally ill. services and the sordid conditions of so tional Union of the Homeless. Suc­ Their act of faith that there is that of many shelters, perhaps the question to cessors to Elizabeth Fry would surely see God in everyone influenced the attitude ask is: what choices have they had? And such places as examples of our society's toward mental disease throughout the then, what can be done to create a men­ violence. world. Friends Hospital, established in tal health system that is oriented to Quakers' historic involvement with Philadelphia during the following cen­ preventing the tragic waste we see on the the emancipation of women has in­ tury and modeled on the York Retreat, streets? fluenced creation of refuges for home­ is only one enterprise testifying to U.S. In other words, the current emphasis less battered women today. Friends Quakers' active concern for men and on emergency assistance should be ques­ know that these women need not only women beset by maladies of the mind. tioned. When individuals respond to the a physical refuge, but the opportunity As everyone knows, today they make up situation, they usually think of supporting

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1987 7 shelters and soup lines, either through others, has presented some excellent legislation once envisioned as covering funds or by volunteering their own time. proposals on the subject. the nation. Today, out of 2,000 centers When local, state, or federal govern­ eEmployment: We need to recognize originally planned, less than 900 are in ments respond, it is usually with short­ the reality behind Washington's rhetoric existence, and little or nothing has been term, grossly inadequate appropriations that the employment situation has vastly done for the severely mentally ill pa­ to organizations working on the front improved. Official unemployment tients who make up the hard core of the line. All these measures are absolutely statistics do not include the discouraged homeless. A mental health system essential. Desperate people cannot wait. jobless (estimated at more than a oriented to prevention would work not Yet at a certain point such measures can million)- people who have found pros­ only with these individuals but also become counterproductive: they can so pects so dim that they have given up those ordinary people who suffer from fill us with the glow of having done the looking for work. Moreover, the a variety of neurotic disorders. It would right thing that they blind us to the reality government counts as "employed" include programs of outreach and that little has been done to prevent those who work for one or more hours education that are better funded and homelessness. for profit during a survey period, even more effective than the halfhearted pro­ What kinds of measures are called if they wish to work much longer. In the grams that seem to be the rule today. It for? Space permits us to outline only a past five years there has been a tremen­ would also form an integral part of a few . dous growth in the number of people universal health care system. • Housing: As the National Coalition forced to take part-time positions, often • Welfare: It is easy to forget that for the Homeless points out, a three­ with low pay and no provision for "welfare" means "well-being." A tiered approach is needed: emergency medical insurance, sick time, or other humane, comprehensive social welfare shelter, transitional accommodations benefits that have become essential to system should be concerned with the offering services to help homeless peo­ dignified existence. The minimum wage well-being of all citizens. The lower in­ ple get back on their feet, and permanent has not been adjusted for inflation since cidence of homelessness in Western housing. Of these three, obviously, the 1981, and earnings from a full-time, European countries, even those with last represents a preventive approach. year-round minimum-wage job are high rates of unemployment, is largely Every year some 500,000 units are lost $4,000 below the poverty line for a fami­ due to the existence of more extensive, through abandonment, inflation, arson, ly of four. Today there are families with better coordinated safety nets. To cite and demolition. Yet in the United States both parents working who live in only one example: in Austria, low­ less than one household in 16 is living shelters because the minimum wage is so income families in danger of sliding in­ in housing directly assisted by the low and rents are so high. Such sober­ to homelessness because the breadwin­ federal government. This is the lowest ing facts-and many others- suggest ners have lost their jobs can get help proportion in so-called civilized coun­ that what is needed is a full employment through the social assistance (welfare) tries. Moreover, during the Reagan policy. To be comprehensive, preven­ office, which will pay the rent for a cer­ years, funds for public housing have tive, and relevant to the complex situa­ tain number of months. This procedure been cut more than 60 percent. Clearly, tion today, the concept should embrace helps preserve the family's dignity, and only the federal government has the not only jobs for those able to work, but in terms of the total cost to society it is power and financial resources to create jobs with decent pay and working con­ more economical than our more short­ more affordable housing for its citizens. ditions; training opportunities, education sighted approach. On the local level, however, there is for the employed and underemployed; In comparison with the United States, much that can be accomplished by con­ child care programs; health care and both Western and Eastern European cerned citizens. One reason European other benefits; and jobs that protect the countries spend a far greater proportion countries have a lower incidence of environment. The Hayes-Hawkins of the social budget on "universal" homelessness is that they have more con­ " Economic Bill of Rights" represents benefits. "Universal" here does not trols on the use of housing and land. It the many-pronged approach that is mean everyone receives each benefit; it is far more difficult, for example, for a needed. simply means everyone within a landlord to evict a family simply because • Mental Health: A comprehensive designated population group (children, he wants to convert the building into system would be based on the right to the aged, the unemployed, college luxury housing. In the United States, treatment and care. It would be based students, etc.) may receive a benefit too, there is a growing movement to on continuity of care: a range of graded without regard to income. Although pass legislation to control eviction pro­ treatment services (prehospital, in­ there are often gaps in actual services, cedures, rent levels, conversion, dem­ patient, aftercare, rehabilitation) and this means that more Europeans enjoy olition, and speculation that keeps land housing alternatives (from prehospital­ sickness allowances, maternity/ paternity and dwellings unused while awaiting a ization to quarterway house, halfway benefits, child care, family allowances, rise in value. At the same time, many house, hotel wards, group living, foster family planning services, low tuition church and other voluntary groups are care, and individual home living). The for higher education, and adequate sponsoring nonprofit housing in low in­ focus could be the network of Com­ unemployment insurance. As for come neighborhoods. The Friends Com­ munity Mental Health Centers health care, the United States is the on­ mittee on National Legislation, among (CMHCs), which planners of CMHC ly major industrial country with no plan

8 November 1987 FRIENDS JouRNAL for universal provision; 59 other na­ tions, including some poor ones, have made it a cornerstone of social policy. In the United States we still operate on the 19th century philosophy that the poor must be segregated from the rest of us. They must submit to means tests in order to be eligible for many services. As a result, the services they receive are often separate and of inferior quality. If we demonstrate the will, we can replace our social welfare system with one that meets the basic needs not of the poor alone, but of all citizens. At the same time, homelessness would begin to recede from our national scene. People who have sunk into that most humiliating of human conditions, the level where they have no space to call their own, need all these concrete means of support. People our society tends to treat as invisible need to be recognized. In our travels around the country, pick­ ing up homeless job-seekers in need of a ride and talking to others in shelters and parks, we encountered surprise that anyone would take an interest in them. Almost never did they ask for a hand­ out. But as we parted, almost always they would say, a bit wistfully, "Thanks for talking with us." Friends are constantly beset with ap­ peals to their sense of social justice. They cannot do everything. Still, most of us can find time and energy for one extra small step. On the other hand, we can bear in mind that homelessness is only a symp­ tom of problems that confront the whole society. Friends who are working for low­ income housing, or seeking more com­ prehensive and equitable mental health services, or pushing for a full employment policy, or pressing members of Congress to pass legislation that would at least assure national minimum standards for public assistance, or lobbying for a universal national health care system, are also working to prevent homelessness. One could cite dozens of other such ac­ tions on the local, state, and national levels. Friends need not be engaged in a project with the homeless to be of service to them. What we need is to rekindle that larger vision, the vision of a society based on fair shares, on a true sense of community. In that society every human being could have some place to call "home." 0

F'IuENDS JouRNAL November 1987 9 -The Homeless No RoiDm at the Inn by Jennie Allen

magine sleeping in a different place, terest payments on mortgages and real social worker who accompanies the men in your street clothes, every night. estate taxes). During the same period, each night. The county provides trans­ I Imagine carrying everything you the dollars given to the Pentagon have portation from a designated gathering own in one or two small tote bags. Im­ multiplied 2.5-fold, while the hungry place on the street to a given site each agine not being able to own more than and homeless population in the United night, and it supplies army cots. The site that because you have nowhere to put States steadily grows. (Congress has, provider supplies freshly laundered bed anything away. That's how the homeless however, appropriated $443 million in . linens, dinner, and breakfast. in Westchester County, N.Y., live. Laun­ emergency aid for the homeless in fiscal Scarsdale Meeting Friends contribute dry being a problem, they discard things year 1987 and $616 million for 1988. both money and food for feeding the and take replacements from the clothing These provisions were signed by Presi­ hungry. For a couple of years, our high collections made available to them. On dent Reagan in July 1987.) schoolers have made the collection their Wednesdays at 10:00 in the evening, The plight of the homeless under Mr. province. But when we took up in meet­ they are bused to the White Plains Reagan's policies has indeed, as he ing for business the possible use of our YMCA, where they are allowed 30 hoped, elicited a response among caring meetinghouse as a shelter, things did not minutes in the shower room. communities, including Scarsdale (N.Y.) go smoothly. The Scarsdale Meeting "If every church and synagogue in the Meeting. However, no meeting or other United States would average adopting religious unit I've heard of has adopted 10 poor families beneath the poverty 10 families. Houses of worship have level, . . . we could eliminate all govern­ been opened to provide overnight shel­ ment welfare in this country, federal, ter, and soup kitchens and food distri­ state and local." Such was President bution depots have been established, but Reagan's suggestion in January 1982. these emergency measures are not the Ronald Reagan further reasoned that same as affordable housing and decent "because [programs] would be manned jobs. by volunteers, the cost would be infinite­ In Westchester County in 1986, soup ly less and the actual help greater kitchens and food depots distributed because it would come from the heart." almost 1,030,000 meals, up from As we all know, the Reagan Adminis­ 650,000 in 1985, according to the local tration has annually whittled away at Coalition for the Homeless. Groups of federal social programs, and most of all 19 men sleep in houses of worship at dif­ at the Department of Housing and ferent locations each night. The limit is Urban Development (HUD), which in 19 because if 20 or more are taken in 1987 received a third of what it received there are government regulations to be in 1980. By various means which fit the complied with. The guests are male Reagan philosophy, the nation's stock because women are taken care of by the of subsidized housing available to the county: women with children in motels, poor is being depleted (middle- and single women at the Westchester Coun­ upper-class housing is subsidized by ty airport. means of income tax deductions for in- In White Plains, the city next door to Scarsdale, a volunteer organization Jennie H. Allen is a member of Scarsdale (N. Y.) called Sheltering the Homeless Is Our Meeting, where she is on the Peace and Social Con­ REsponsibility (SHORE) provides a cerns Committee. She is also a member of the framework for serving one such group FRIENDS JoURNAL Board of Managers and is retired from the publishing division ofthe United of men. It collects voluntary contribu­ Nations. tions with which to pay a professional

10 November 1987 FRIENDS JouRNAL nursery school uses our social room, kit­ SHORE thought that it was barely large Despite not using the meetinghouse, chen, and bathroom on Tuesday, Wed­ enough, and in the end it turned out that we are serving the homeless in another nesday, and Thursday mornings. Some other much larger congregations afford­ way. Some 40 of us have volunteered to First-day school parents as well as ed more space, and ours was not needed. help provide hospitality at other houses nursery school parents and staff We minuted that if in the future the of worship. Three or four people open members were concerned about the need were more acute and Friends felt up the building, set up as though for a possible danger of AIDS and other moved to open the door to the homeless, potluck, provide and serve dinner, and health risks involved in sheltering the meetinghouse would be used as a clean up afterwards. That stint is from derelict men in the meetinghouse. shelter. We informed parents of this about 6:30 to 11:00 p.m. Someone Several meetings for business were year's nursery school prospects of the comes in at 11 :00 (the men are usually devoted to discussion of the proposal. minute so that there would be no ques­ asleep by then}, to be present in case of At a specially called meeting, a world­ tion of something being "sprung" on an emergency, particularly to be able to renowned health expert who attends them after the fact. cover should the professional social meeting offered assurance that if the A number of Friends were upset that worker be called away. (One night he space were used Friday nights and pro­ there should have been any question did have to take to the hospital a guest fessional cleaners came in Saturday about whether to help the homeless, and with paranoid tendencies who had be­ mornings and applied hospital-grade several said reproachfully, " There was come too uncomfortable with his sur­ disinfectants, there would be nothing to no room at the inn." Some of the high roundings to tolerate them.) At 5:00 fear. schoolers who attended the December a.m. a new shift of helpers arrives, Although alarm was assuaged, some meeting for business seemed particularly bringing breakfast and making sack nursery school parents were still con­ hurt. The discussion was wounding, but lunches for the men to carry away when cerned about the introduction of a new in the end some members felt that by they leave at 7:30. The men themselves plan for use of the meetinghouse, which following the Quaker process of work­ set up and dismantle the cots. they felt represented a sudden change in ing through the problems till we reached The men appear to appreciate both the tacit contract between themselves unity we had experienced growth. Also, the food and the hospitality. Some are and the meeting. some attenders were interested and im­ taciturn; but some are talkative and tell Another problem remained: was the pressed to learn about the way we did the story of their lives; we get to know meetinghouse suitable? A director of things. and like them. One man commented on the contrast between our sumptuous menus and the peanut butter sandwich lunches and spaghetti dinners provided to a friend of his who pays $700 for room and board out of a $750 monthly income. Another man drew a beautiful portrait of one of the volunteers and presented it to her; he was a trained art­ ist, but an alcoholic. Some of the men obtain occasional work but cannot find housing they can afford. Thus we see the gamut of people who face homelessness-those without enough money and those without cop­ ing skills. Often in past generations, private groups that provided such ser­ vices made their clients attend religious services and comply with other rigid rules before allowing them to receive benefits. I have read of some conditions being imposed today by shelter oper­ ators, but fortunately have not observed them locally (except, of course, for common-sense rules of good behavior). The program ended for the summer ~ on May 31. Jim Carnavale, SHORE's ~,. skillful and insightful social worker, ~ says he helped all but two or three of the ~ men locate rooms, and those two or ~· three later found accommodations. The

FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1987 11 The Homeless

program is expected to resume on Oc­ tober 29, with other clients. Jim Car­ navale, who also works at the Grace Episcopal Church soup kitchen in White On the Stli Plains, reports that during the summer months the men of the SHORE group often came there at lunchtime, as much to look for their friends from the group as for the food. Seeking In the meantime, we as Friends look toward taking action that will address the problem, rather than only the symp­ by Clifton Gamble toms of homelessness. One First Day after meeting for worship, Scarsdale 8:00 a.m., Walnut Street in Phila­ In the whirl of moving from home to Meeting's Peace and Social Concerns delphia: The night's chill is slowly being home, the woman never felt homeless. Committee presented a panel discussion lifted by the morning sun. On the corner She realizes that she has not had a home about homelessness in Westchester, lies a succession of cardboard boxes, since she ran from her boyfriend's featuring professionals who have forming an enclosure that resembles a abode, frightened for her life. He, worked on the issues. The speakers coffin. The boxes become animated, and wilting from the unwanted responsibility described the bewildering difficulties of the makeshift lid tumbles to the ground. of a family, had abused her physically providing emergency and permanent Inside lies a man, shielded by the wine and sexually. The mother, frightened, housing for homeless people in West­ which protects him from the humiliation holds one child in her arms while the chester County. Friends agreed that it of being one of America's ignored. He other clings tightly to her hand. She is important to make our voices heard has graduated from many detoxification ascends the stairs thinking to herself that by· government. Locally, we hope to programs; he has lent his ear to many somehow her battering and homeless­ convince county legislators to lease a caseworkers. He has at times hoped he ness is her fault. building for use as a shelter, with pur­ might lift himself out of his rut, but chase or rental costs coming out of when he hits the street the feeling of amounts the county currently spends on helplessness grows. He confronts him­ emergency accommodations. Grace Epis­ self with the universal questions ofself­ copal Church in White Plains, which for worth. He asks himself if he is as much several years has sheltered the homeless of a person as the people who pass him in its basement and run the above­ daily. His doubts prevail, backed by the mentioned soup kitchen, is prepared to reality that surrounds him, and he takes he scenarios above are just a few operate a 24-hour-a-day social service the few pennies he has and limps into of the many facets of homeless­ program if the county will provide a the liquor store for his crutch. T ness. Stereotypes of homelessness subsidized building. On 33rd and Chestnut, looking up at have created confusion in the minds of We would also like to see local zon­ the sign that reads "Peoples Emergen­ the public and officials. The public ing ordinances revised to allow more cy Shelter," is a 21-year-o/d woman and seems to see only the street people who than two unrelated people to live to­ her two children. Bags and suitcases, sleep on grates and solicit funds from gether in existing one-family homes and worn from months of travel, contain all passersby. Hence, the historic reaction to allow rental rooms and apartments in her family's belongings. Her last few to homelessness has been to rid the one-family homes. This way owners of months are blurred. She has seen her streets of "eyesores." However, as the "empty nests" could use extra space for closest relatives lose interest in her ranks of homeless people have grown, income, and more living space would be plight. Initially, they were more than the ineffectiveness of placing them in available for those in need. At the state willing to lend a hand to someone in shelters to get them out of sight has level, we will encourage legislators to need. However, most of her friends and become apparent. Homeless people raise rent allowances to a realistic level relatives eventually succumbed to the generally fall into three categories: the for people on public assistance and to tensions of overcrowding. Small in­ mentally ill, the chronic substance index those amounts to reflect cost-of­ fringements on the host's privacy turned abusers, and the economically displaced. living increases. At present, people can­ into confrontations, and in the end the Each group contains unique causes and not locate apartments locally for the family found itself on the street again. problems. rents they are allowed. We are also en­ In the case of those mentally ill peo­ couraging legislators to work for con­ ple who are homeless, the attempt to struction of affordable housing on Clifton Gamble is a senior at DePauw Universi­ deal with one problem has caused ty, where he is majoring in economics and aspir­ available land. ing to be a journalist. The research for his article another. The process of deinstitu­ We must provide room at the inn for was done this past spring when he worked as a stu­ tionalization began some 25 years ago everyone. D dent intern for FRIENDS JOU'RNAL. as an effort to reduce the number of

12 November 1987 FRIENDS JouRNAL mentally ill patients who lived isolated existences in institutions. Isolation didn't cure them, but it did assure them of food, shelter, and mental care. Many patients never became well enough to live on their own, and they stayed in hospitals. As their numbers grew, federal and state governments faced a burgeoning financial difficulty to meet the needs for beds and care. Legislation in 1963 aimed at address­ ing that problem and at offering men­ tally ill people a chance for more stabili­ ty and self-sufficiency. Mentally ill peo­ ple became eligible to receive disability aid after their discharge from hospitals, and community mental health centers were supposed to have been built through-

FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1987 13 out the country to help ex-patients. tients in mental hospitals; in 1982 there categorize sufferers as mentally ill. A The theories behind these pieces of were 125,000. The deinstitutionalized person must be endangering the life of legislation were truly innovative, but patients, however, were not rehabili­ himself or others to be forcibly commit­ they will be remembered most for their tated; they were homeless. ted. In addition, due to ignorance on the inept application. Few mental health Mentally ill people comprise approx­ part of the public, a person who is centers materialized. There were sup­ imately 29 percent of the homeless labeled mentally ill is subject to posed to be 2,00) by 1984, but only about population, according to an estimate by economic discrimination or dismissal. 900 were built. Furthermore, the public the 1986 U.S. Conference of Mayors. "Mentally ill" is a label that should be wasn't willing to take the mentally ill in­ Other estimates place the figure far given carefully, if at all. to their neighborhoods. The assumption higher. Estimating the numbers of men­ Forcible commitment is not the that communities would allow people tally ill homeless and deciding what to answer, according to Dr. Richard who had visible or rumored mental pro­ do for them run into a common prob­ Scurles, administrator of the Phila­ blems to move into their neighborhoods lem: the line between being emotional­ delphia Office of Mental Health and was farfetched. ly disturbed and justifiably commitable Mental Retardation. He believes treat­ Yet those policies were followed well is a fine one. Anyone who sleeps out of ment is a better remedy. Because men­ into the seventies. It is estimated that the doors or in the unstable atmosphere of tally ill homeless people are afraid of be­ number of psychiatric hospitals de­ shelters is subject to some paranoia. ing locked up, their faith in the system creased by 75 percent from 1955 to the Those emotional disturbances should be must be-reestablished through personal present. In 1955, there were 558,922 pa- treated, but aren't severe enough to contact with caseworkers, he says. The goal is to get people to come in for treat­ ment regularly and to help resolve their economic situation as well. The percentage of substance abusers varies widely and overlaps with the other two categories. Some mentally ill and economically impoverished people are substance abusers. In the case of the chronic abuser the addiction must be treated before the homelessness, because until the abuser is able to push the drug aside, he or she cannot be helped. Mark Benciviengo of the Philadelphia Coor­ dinating Office for Drug and Alcohol Abuse states that treating abuse in the chronic abuser is very difficult because abusers often refuse extended help and must be persuaded to help themselves before they can be cured. The largest proportion of homeless people are poor. These people are com­ monly referred to as "displaced." The problem is cyclical: an increasing number of people grow up in shelters and never emerge. Children who live on or below the poverty level go to poor schools and receive inadequate educa­ tions. When of age, most will choose the immediate satisfaction of m1mmum wage work instead of the long-term uncertainty and high cost of higher education that could offer upward eco­ nomic mobility. Chris Sparowal, former victim of homelessness who now runs a shelter, names lack of stability as the initial cause of homelessness. The people he sees are barely literate and not equipped for the current job market. These peo-

14 November 1987 FRIENDS JouRNAL pie at one time got by on minimum wage jobs, but for some reason or another find themselves on their own looking for a place to live. In 1987 the possibility of finding a home, be it renting or buying, on little more than minimum wage in­ come is impossible. Chris Sparowal says that the amount of job training these people have is at a minimum, while jobs which require training are at a maximum. Also alarming is the number of home­ less young women with children. The Conference of Mayors estimated that 28 percent of the homeless are families, at least half of which are headed by a single parent. Some professionals believe there · is a link between the increase in domestic violence and the increase in homeless women with children. Casper Morris of the People's Emergency Center in Philadelphia, says the average family that enters the center, which specializes in dealing with displaced women and children, is headed by a woman of 21 who has two children. Typically, this woman has been recently abandoned by friends or is fleeing from a boyfriend or family members who abused her sexual­ ly or physically. Many people are homeless because they cannot find housing they can af­ ford. In almost every city with housing projects for low-income families, there are waiting lists of six months to a year. A swift and economically feasible solu­ tion still eludes federal officials. The lack of low-income housing must be placed among top priority domestic prob­ lems in the United States today. The problems of homelessness are complex and require more than politically tainted promises. There will not be an all-encompassing solution. However, some progress is being made. Diane Allen, a Friend and anchor­ woman for KYW-TV in Philadelphia, has distinguished herself by her devotion to the subject. She aired an in-depth report on the subject in 1983 that focused on the unfortunate human be­ ings on the street. She stresses the im­ portance of involvement. She explains that giving a homeless person a dollar to alleviate the giver's guilt is not a solu­ tion. Instead, we need to give our time and money to solutions that help solve the underlying problems. 0

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1987 15 PRAYNG by Dorothy T. Samuel

Me: Dear God, tell me what to Me: I really want to do what's Me: And the people around- do, God-only don't make it right-for everybody. everybody-none of them too difficult. God: Do you? liked it very much- Silence Me: Well, of course! followers, Jews, Romans ... God! God! Can't you hear Long silence Silence me? All right. I get it. It's got to But that's why I'm here ask- God: Umm. be best for me-and good ing, isn't it? If it had really Me: Everything's a mess. I don't for everybody else too. been a mess-up, why would know what to do. You're God: Ah! all those people ever since supposed to help me! Me: Will you stop saying "Ah"! keep praying to you to show God: I am helping you. Silence them what to do? Me: You are? That's nice. That's But I've got to be good to God: AHH! very nice. Why don't you let me, don't I? That's what all Me: I'm going to sleep on this, me in on it? the psychologists say-even God. I don't think I'm ready God: You're very much in on it. in church, they say ... for any more answers yet. Me: Then what should I do? God: Do you know what's good God: Ah! God: You're doing it. for you? Me: (whispering) Thank you. Me: What is that supposed to Silence 0 mean? Me: Oh, brother! God: You're asking. God: Oh, sister. Me: Then why aren't you Me: You're supposed to know answering? what's best for me-and God: Oh, but I am. everybody else, too! Me: (crying) Why can't I hear God: Umm. ~~ you? Me: I don't like your track God: You're trying too hard. record, I'll admit. Jesus ~ · ? Me: I've got to try hard. I don't didn't do so well ... ~ have much time left ... God: Ah! L Silence I can't afford to make the wrong decision. I'll have to Jive with it all my life ... God: See, you heard something! Me: But I just knew that- everybody knows that! God: Ah! Me: What do you mean "Ah"? God: Anybody could know that. You'd be surprised how many people don't listen enough to hear it-really hear it. Me: It's scary. Silence You're scary! God: Ah!

Dorothy T. Samuel is a member of St. Cloud (Minn.) Preparative Meeting, which is under the care of Minneapolis Meeting. She is a semi-retired speaker and writer, with broad experience work­ ing with Quaker groups.

16 he loss of loved ones, the grief and loneliness while caring for her testimonies are singular I think from any waywardness of children, the children and running the farm on her I have ever heard, but the excellent T challenges of single parenthood, own. At this time she also felt called to Father hath told me that he would open the pain of illness, the tensions of career, the vocal ministry in meeting, which his mouth in parables, that he would ut­ divisiveness within and among religious meant not an occasional message in her ter things which have been kept secret groups: in the face of such trials, it is home meeting (Darby, Pa.), but atten­ from the foundation of the world" tempting to look nostalgically to an dance several times a week at many area (June 23, 1822). That message could not earlier time when life was easier and meetings, and visits to everyone from be denied; she had to share it as fre­ there were fewer obstacles to simple and the inmates of the Philadelphia Alms­ quently as possible. faithful living. Recently I read some house to President and Mrs. Polk in the At the age of 41 she married Halliday diaries and letters that put that nostalgic White House. In other words, like many Jackson, an old friend and recent earlier time in clearer perspective. They widower, bearing him a son after a dif­ were written by Ann Price Gibson, the ficult pregnancy only to lose both son daughter of a Quaker farm couple who and husband shortly thereafter within lived in the Kingsessing district of Phila­ the same year. These losses were com­ delphia County in the 18th century. pounded by her own poor health, Born in 1792, Ann Gibson was an or­ frightening illnesses in her two remain­ dinary woman, typical of many others ing children, and the eventual loss of her of her day whose names have not come A Life son, a daughter-in-law, several grand­ down to us through history. She mar­ children, and many friends. At one ried twice, was widowed twice, bore point she noted that "it seems to me three children, and was active in the hardly living enough to bury the dead" Society of Friends at every level from (Nov. 30, 1834). In addition, on a larger preparative to yearly meeting, engaging Lived scale there were the heartbreaks of the in a vigorous public ministry. In this she 1828 separation within the Society of was no different from numerous other Friends, her deep and often frustrating Quaker women, many of whom were engagement in the causes of abolition better known for their activism or and Indian rights, and the anguish and rhetorical skill. With anxiety of the Civil War. But Ann Gibson's very obscurity has When all of these burdens are lumped made reading the record of her life together, they seem overwhelming. This valuable for me, for it reveals what life is certainly not the simple life of was like for an ordinary person-some­ nostalgic daydreams. And yet what one like most of us-and how she dealt Grace struck me in reading Ann Gibson's with it. The pattern that emerges is one diaries and letters was not pain or of a life filled with as many challenges resentment or despair, but acceptance, and strains as any modern person could quiet courage, resilience-even joy. I ever face, but sustained by habits and was moved to search the written record resources that we might benefit from for the source of this strength. cultivating. The first answer, not surprisingly, was The challenges of her life were indeed by Caroline Cherry a deep sense of God's presence and con­ great. Her mother died when she was 13; cern. This faith was not an effortless she was sent away to Westtown School; modern people, she was experiencing the gift, however, but was sought for and she made a love match with a neighbor­ stresses of single parenthood and the at­ nourished by a rigorous and disciplined ing farmer, Thomas Paschall, at age 18, tempt to combine family and career. program of daily Bible reading; in­ marrying out of meeting. By the time Stress was inescapable. Obviously her violable twice-daily periods of prayer, she was 23 she was managing a busy children came first -and they were not meditation and self-examination which household of ten, including her own two an easy responsibility, as she raised them she called her "quiets"; and frequent at­ infants, a foster child, a farm appren­ without the help of a husband. Like tendance at meeting, which in turn was tice, and four live-in teen-aged servants, many modern parents, she was dis­ carefully prepared for. She often de­ as well as assorted farmhands to feed at tressed by their language (they persisted scribes the process in her diaries; one harvest time. By age 26 she was a in saying "you"), their resistance to at­ such description reads: "Before I leave widow, attempting to deal with her own tending meeting, their bouts of quarrel­ home to go to Meeting I endeavor to someness and disobedience. She worried have my mind rightly centered, and I Caroline Cherry is a member of Radnor (Pa.) about them and the safety of the home commend all to the Lord . . . and after Meeting and is a professor of English literature every time her "dear Father" sent her I take my seat I examine myself and see at Eastern College, St. Davids, in Pennsylvania. "abroad on his service." whether the materials are in order for She has published a book, The Most Unvaluedst Purchase: Women in the Plays of Thomas Mid­ But the call to the ministry was ir­ the building, and if they be so, the bless­ dleton, and recently received an award for dis­ resistible; she confessed to Letitia Ware, ed spirit comes down and as an eagle tinguished teaching. an older minister and mentor, "My stirreth up in his nest, so he taketh me

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1987 17 on his wings and beareth me, and it dreams in her journal made them more face-to-face contact with people who seems as if I was soaring aloft among vivid, more permanent, and more close­ cared for her and toward whom she felt the spirits above all earthly things" ly related to her waking life. The dreams responsibility. (March 31, 1821). Such transcendence were another powerful source of Besides social and religious visits, was immensely comforting, but was a­ strength, and fed into and blended with Ann Gibson was frequently called upon chieved only with conscious preparation. her daily "quiets," her private experience for her medical skills, or for help in Her spiritual discipline was matched in meeting, and her vocal ministry. quilting, spinning, or other tasks. There by physical rigor. She was wary of sloth­ was always someone who needed her, fulness and of indulgence or luxury. For someone to care for, someone to think instance, it was her practice to get up about other than herself. Even the between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m., and she domestic animals were part of this com­ berated herself if she returned to bed munity, requiring care and thriving after that; "by much slothfulness the under attention. building decayeth," she remarked (Dec. This discipline and purposefulness left 28, 1820). In diet as well she was ab­ room, despite Quaker austerity, for joy stemious, not for reasons of vanity or and beauty. Though not given to frivoli­ even health but as a spiritual discipline ty in the serious business of her journal, and a resistance to using the products of Ann records the shimmer of ice on slavery (in this case, especially, sugar). winter trees and the peacefulness of sit­ She was as scrupulous in her self­ ting with her young son after a busy day: examination as any modern dieter: "I "Baking in the oven and cleaning east was not faithful on 7th day. I eat two parlor, cellar, and sewing. I feel happy ginger cakes and on 1st I eat a piece of my little son sitting beside me" (May 20, white cake and yesterday a piece of fresh 1814). meat" (May 7, 1822). Sustained by the rewards of spiritual Part of this discipline was the daily discipline and community through the keeping of a journal. This was of course difficulties of a long life, Ann-by now a frequent Quaker practice, in Ann Gib­ Ann Price Gibson Paschall Jackson­ son's case influenced by the habit of her wrote shortly before her death at the age first husband, a man of Quaker ancestry, of 81: " Not well, but abundantly who also kept a daily journal. As he favored with peace of mind." On the wrote at the start of a diary begun in next day: " Jane Price here. We enjoyed 1811: "This is kept as a memento that sweet communion together. A Sabbath I am still alive & have my senses serving day, a day of rest. Very comfortable in­ to shew the employment of every day deed." And her final entry on February and some of the knowledge acquired." 9, 1872, two days before her death: There was a larger element of account­ "Pretty busy. Sent my carpet strips to ability than of self-expression in the George Johnson. Sent the skins to keeping of a diary; for Ann Gibson, it Lucius Price to prepare for use. Samuel had the effect of focusing her attention brought me some lozenges. Ann Paschall on the responsible use of resources, in­ working at my velvet pieces. Hannah cluding time. Darlington brought a dozen oranges. But benefits extended beyond account­ The spread is finished and I think it as ability. The diary served also as an aid handsome as any one I ever had made. to meditation, a stimulus to spiritual The squares were arranged into a dif­ growth, and a vehicle for relieving grief ferent pattern and bordered with Ann's and anxiety, which she could not fully pink calico and Sarah Sharples' chintz­ expose to her children. In addition, since a very striking contrast." she wrote every day, it was natural to That last entry seems to sum up im­ record particularly forceful dreams, These spiritual resources were sup­ portant elements of her life. At the age many of which she regarded as divine plemented by a sense of community. of 81 she was still busy with useful ac­ messages to be interpreted and heeded. Again, this was not achieved without ef­ tivities and a network of friendly, re­ For instance, on january 17, 1821, she fort; it might require a carriage or horse ciprocal relationships. She enjoyed the wrote: "How great did my confidence ride of an hour or so, but she visited or Sabbath peace of sweet communion. feel this morning . . . it seems as though was visited by Friends nearly every day. The spread-useful, beautiful, incor­ I had been brought before my Dear These visits may sometimes have had a porating contributions from friends and Master in the spirit to be examined to practical purpose-the exchange of kin-seems a fitting emblem of an ordi­ see whereupon my faith was founded news, services, or goods-but there was nary life lived with extraordinary grace. and ... I saw clearly that it was found­ also a conscious sense of mutual support Her life was no easier than ours, but her ed on the rock." Recording these and encouragement. There was daily resources for living it were great. 0

18 November 1987 FRIENDS JOURNAL A Bibliographic Essay

~~.. , Some Enriching R on the Lite of Jesus by Leonard S. Kenworthy

lthough many modern liberal Two Recent, questions so many of us have long Quakers concede the centrality of Provocative Books on Jesus wanted to ask. It depicts Jesus as ever AJesus in world history and so human, though also divine. acknowledge his importance in the an­ The arresting title of a relatively re­ We learn about Jesus' love for Joseph nals of the Religious Society of Friends, cent book by Albert Nolan of South and the loss he suffered at Joseph's early they tend personally and as a group to Africa is Jesus Before Christianity (Or­ death; of his reliance on prayer, his deemphasize him. Consequently many his Books, Maryknoll, N.Y., 1978. 156 laughter and his camaraderie with the First-day school courses place Jesus at pages), and the contents are almost as disciples; and his stress on learning to the periphery of their programs, Quaker arresting as the title. wait for messages from God-one of the publications on him are rare, and Attempting to remove the accretions great tests of faith. references to him in meetings for wor­ of the centuries and to restore the There is a dramatic portrayal of the ship are infrequent. original human being named Jesus, confrontation of Jesus and Satan on the Such a situation is understandable, as Nolan pictures him as a man of "extra­ Mount of Temptations and vivid vignettes many present-day Friends have been ordinary independence, immense cour­ of the disciples. turned off by their early experiences age, and unparalleled authenticity-a The motif is an imaginative and daring with the figure of Jesus. The intolerance man whose insight defies explanation." one, fraught with dangers. But Hodges and injustices perpetrated in his name He firmly believes that "To deprive this accomplishes his purpose admirably. may have alienated them. The current man of his humanity is to deprive him The author knows his Bible and his interpretations of "born again" television of his greatness." Nolan's picture of psychiatry, but does not overdo his preachers and others may repel them. Jesus is of a member of the middle class reliance on that discipline. Furthermore, Friends are often aware of who identified with the poor and op­ the divisive nature of discussions about pressed members of the lower class. To Four Publications on Jesus Jesus in some groups. Nolan, Jesus was one who spurned the As a consequence of such experiences, exclusiveness of the Hebrew faith of his bJ Quakers however, many individuals may have day and championed inclusiveness. He Books and pamphlets by so-called been deprived of a rich resource in their was indeed a man of sorrows and ac­ liberal Friends on Jesus are not numer­ lives, becoming spiritual pygmies when quainted with grief, but he was also a ous, but there are a few such interpreta­ they could have become spiritual giants. man of glad tidings, good cheer and joy. tions, and they contain much for modem This bibliographical essay is an at­ Jesus rejected the fatalism of many Jews Quakers. tempt to call attention to 16 references and called for a faith which could over­ The most recent Quaker writing about which present graphic and enriching ac­ come evil. He was one who spurned the Jesus is a pamphlet by John Lampen, counts of Jesus that should be generally hatred of one's enemies and preached a prominent English Friend, Twenty acceptable to present-day liberal Friends. about love as the center of religion, even Questions About Jesus (Quaker Home love of one's enemies. His faith was ap­ Service, London, 1985. 97 pages). In it plicable to the turbulent times in which Lampen confronts the most commonly he lived-and to our turbulent times asked questions today about Jesus and today. answers them briefly and cogently, often Andrew B. Hodges's Jesus: An Inter­ presenting a variety of views. Those Leonard S. Kenworthy is a frequent contributor view Across Time: A Psychiatrist Looks questions range from "Did he exist?" to FRIENDS JOURNAL, a much-published author of at His Humanity (Village Publishers, and "How reliable are the stories about books, and a member of the FRIENDS Jou RNAL 1986. 307 pages) is filled with even more him?" to " What did the first Friends Board of Managers. He lives at Kendal at Long­ wood in Kennett Square, Pa., and attends Ken­ insights into the humanness of Jesus. It believe about him?" and "What do dal Meeting. He is a retired professor of social is written as if readers could hear Friends believe about him today?" The science education. Hodges talking with Jesus, posing the booklet is comprehensive, clear, and

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1987 19 Jesus at the house of Martha and Mary

challenging-well worth reading and pondering. Very different in length, organization, and purpose is the recent volume by Eric Johnson, An Introduction to Jesus of Nazareth: A Book of Information and a Harmony of the Gospels (Independent School Press, Wellesley Hills, Massa­ chusetts, 1981. 512 pages). In the past, Eric Johnson has written about a wide range of topics. Now he has turned his talents to the Bible and the figure of Jesus. Much of this volume is devoted to a harmony of Gospel accounts of Jesus. But it also contains a wealth of related information, ranging from material about the Jewish religion and about Palestine in the time of Jesus to lists of his principal parables and miracles and a brief discussion of the relationships between religion and public education. The author has said, ''Perhaps the best result this book can have is to lead you to further thought and study." In 1981 Roger C. Wilson, a well­ known English Friend, delivered the Backhouse Lecture at the Australia Yearly Meeting, and his talk was entitled "What Jesus Means to Me: Jesus the Liberator." The booklet based on that lecture is a personal account of Wilson's search for the meaning of Jesus in his life. His search resulted from encounters with a Roman Catholic abbot and a young Quaker radio-astronomer, as well as the tragic deaths of Dag Hammar­ skjold, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John and Robert Kennedy. Primarily it is a plea that each of us find his or her own answer to the significance of Jesus and "our own pathway to the footstool of God." Some idea of his own personal testa­ ment is contained in the powerful passage in which he says,

Jesus showed us what it means to live as in the presence of God. The Godless cosmos can be entered, purified, and sanc­ tified by us as we commit ourselves to the guidance of God as love, transforming the temporal into the eternal. . .. This is the Jesus who in rejoining the disciples and re­ habilitating them after the shattering epi­ sode of the desertion, filters through to us no more of the harsh reality of the cosmos than we can bear, liberating us from the

20 November 1987 FRIENDS J ouRNAL otherwise paralyzing burden of member­ and all-inclusive, undiscouragable diant, virile. He follows Jesus through ship in a human society with God left out. love." fields, into homes of friends and ad­ Mary Morrison, known to many mirers, and up hillsides to pray. A few years earlier John R. Yungblut Friends for her courses about the To Toyohiko Kagawa, Jesus spoke attempted, and for many people suc­ Gospels at Pendle Hill, sketches Jesus little of sin but much of forgiveness and ceeded, in reconciling the widely-h~ld as a human being, a guide, a healer, a love. Where John the Baptist saw into beliefs of many Christians about Jesus teacher, a humorist, an antagonist, a the minds of men and women, Jesus saw Christ with their present world view in conformist, an includer, a forgiver, a into their hearts. There is much about the post Darwinian and post-Freudian foreteller, an organizer, a leader, a beauty, too, in this novel, as when Jesus period. His conclusions are contained in revealer, and a stranger. Her sketches is reported to have said to his disciples, a volume called Rediscovering the Christ are drawn with skill and sensitivity, "Go and study by the side of the road, (Seabury Press, New York, 1974. 180 often with a provocative turn of phrase. listen for the wind at nightfall and the pages). In Jesus: The Son of Man, Kahlil sound of children's steps. Make a holiday This book is not always easy to read Gibran records descriptions of Jesus in the field with the grass to whisper to but it should be provocative and reward­ made by individuals years after the you. Take a flower from the mountain ing to study, especially to those who crucifixion. Many of these descriptions and breathe its fragrance." deny many of the long-held beliefs of are gems, often couched in poetic prose Especially human are his sketches of Christians but are nevertheless drawn to and magnificent imagery. For instance, the disciples-of Judas and his yen for the person of Jesus. In this volume John Joseph of Arimathea reflects on Jesus' money, or Peter and his dislike of Yungblut separates the figure of the departure 10 years afterward: "It is long crowds and his desire for the dramatic. historic Jesus and the Christ myth and since the cedar tree has fallen but its calls for a myth which asserts that "The fragrance endures!" The Lighter Side Christ within Jesus was the same Christ within us, but released to him for a Two Novels of the Life of Jesus richer, more abundant life." For those who have been turned off on the Life of Jesus by the portrayals of Jesus as a meek and Frequently one can gain a better mild man, acquainted with sorrow and Books on How understanding of a person, institution, burdened with grief, there are a few ac­ the Contemporaries of Jesus or country through the medium of fic­ counts which stress the lighthearted side tion. Such is the case with our of his life and his joy. Might Have Seen Him understanding of Jesus. Two novels My favorite account is a leaflet by A. Three of the most thought-provoking which have meant much to me over the Barrett Brown called Man of Joys books on the life and teachings of Jesus years are Sholem Asch's The Nazarene (Pennsbury Leaflets, Philadelphia, un­ have been written from the same ap­ (Putnam, New York, 1939. 698 pages.) dated. 8 pages) in which he speaks of the proach-as the authors think that vari­ and Toyohiko Kagawa's Behold the gospel as "good news" and "glad tidings ous contemporaries might have seen Man (Harper, New York, 1941. 346 of great joy.'' He writes of the Kingdom him. One of those volumes is Harry pages). From both of those books of God as one of "justice, peace, and Emerson Fosdick's The Man From readers can gain much insight into the joy in the Holy Spirit." The author Nazareth: As His Contemporaries Saw life and teachings of Jesus. grants that Jesus was a man of sorrows Him (Harper, New York, 1949. 282 Because he was born and raised as a and acquainted with grief, but then cap­ pages. Paperback). The second is Mary Jew, Sholem Asch was able to provide tures Jesus' lighter side by remarking C. Morrison's Jesus: Sketches for A a great deal of authentic background for about "His sheer joy-joy in life, His Portrait (World, Cleveland, 1968 and his novel to help readers understand the delight in nature, and His love of human 1979. 145 pages). The third is Kahlil setting for the life of Jesus. With rare fellowship." Gibran's Jesus: The Son of Man: His beauty and deep insight, the author Elton Trueblood delved even deeper Words and Deeds as Told and Recorded presents the power and overwhelming into this aspect of the life of Jesus in his by Those Who Knew Him (Knopf, attraction of Jesus to a member of the book The Humor of Christ (Harper, N.Y., 1928. 216 pages). inner circle of Roman oppressors. New York, 1964. 125 pages). In it he In Jesus of Nazareth, Harry Emerson Toyohiko Kagawa was one of the writes of the universality of Christ's Fosdick portrays Jesus as seen by the great Christians of this century who lived humor, his use of irony, his strategy of crowds, scribes, and pharisees, the self­ and worked with the poor and laughter, and the many humorous complacent, the religious and moral out­ downtrodden in his native Japan. He parables he told (citing 30 of them). casts, women and children, the first had an unusual talent in writing, which Among the better known examples of disciples, the militant nationalists, and he used to spread the Christian gospel his humor are the incidents where Jesus Jews with a world outlook. The figure far and wide. asserts it is easier for a camel to go that emerges is not a meek and mild His account in Behold the Man con­ through a needle's eye than for a rich Jesus, but an exciting, uncompromising, centrates on Jesus' life and teachings as man to enter the kingdom of God; his vital, dynamic, and exuberant Jesus. He seen by his disciples and the common account of the man who was so deeply is a transformer and a transmitter, a people with whom he associated. In concerned about the speck in another teacher, prophet, and savior, a reformer vivid phraseology 'lind dramatic in­ person's eye that he was unconscious of with a passion for the poor and disin­ cidents, Toyohiko Kagawa helps his the fact his own eye had a beam in it; herited who concentrates on "inward readers see the strikingly attractive and or the blind guides who strained out the transformation, spiritual rebirth, persuasive figure of Jesus-tall, lean, ra- gnat and swallowed the camel.

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1987 21 Three Other Valuable Accounts ol Jesus NkR-Notes presents a view of Nicaragua substantially different from that found in most Space precludes many more sum­ contemporary accounts. maries of the host of helpful books and pamphlets about Jesus. Brief references Written by a Quaker to three must suffice. volunteer with Witness Many readers have puzzled about the For Peace during his 8 years of Jesus' life between his ap­ mo nths there in 1986, it pearance at the temple in Jerusalem at is an intensely personal the age of 12 and his baptism by John day-by-day account of the Baptist. All we know from the living in the war zones. Gospel of Luke is that "Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and men." Foreword by Ernest The most enticing account we have of Callen bach that unrecorded period is the classic Paper, 5lh x 8lh, 204 written by John Oxenham, The Hidden pages, 27 photographs, Years (MacKay, New York, 1935 edi­ 2 maps, glossary, tion. 244 pages) based upon what that perfect bound. writer thought might have occurred. $9.95 postpaid That attempt to recreate those many years is told by a lad who Jived next door to Jesus and therefore knew him well. Another volume which is well worth Friendsview Press, P.O. Box 1348, Nevada City, CA 95959 reading is Howard Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited (Abingdon Press, Nash­ ville, 1969. 112 pages/paperback). Writ­ ten by a well-known and much-loved black clergyman, it is a powerful, pro­ vocative, and penetrating account of the Spirit at work in the Jives and hearts of people, which enables them to overcome 3 Great Quaker Themes discrimination. This is a personal testa­ ment, written with deep conviction and 3 Great Quaker Books persuasive power based on the testimony of Jesus that hate is harmful both to the Can you match them? hated and the hater. Thurman's belief 0 HISTORY is that only through adherence to the 0 CONVICTION teachings of Jesus will people learn to 0 DEVafiON Jive in peace and justice together. Then there is the remarkable compen­ Now check your answers. dium brought together by Cynthia Pearl In addition to being a valued resource of Quaker HISTORY, The Rich Maus called Christ and the Fine Arts Heritage of Quakerism tells a story of courage, faith. and sacrifice. The author. Walter R. Williams. covers the Society of Friends from Fox to the (Harper, New York, 1959 edition. 813 1960s. This new sewn softcover edition adds an epilogue by Paul Anderson pages). It is the most complete collection that addresses t he 25 years since the book was first published. $13.95 I have ever seen of poetry, prose, pic­ Jack L. Willcuts addresses some core Quaker CO NVICTIONS in his book Why Friends Are Friends. Topics include worship. spiritual sacraments. Friends con­ tures, and stories connected with the life cept of ministry. peacemaking, and decision making. The Christian basis for of Jesus. It is invaluable reading and an these Quaker testimonies is presented in a way that is enlightening for new­ excellent reference. Several indexes comers to the Society of Friends and an encouragement to those more familiar with Quaker concerns. $3.95 should enable people to find the type of Daily DEVOTIONAL readings written by Friends have been compiled in a special material they want. Meeting libraries 366-day edition of Fruit of the Vine. This book was produced by selecting spe­ can serve many by having this volume cial readings from 25 years of publishing the quarterly devotional guide by the same name that has had a ministry to thousands of people. $5.95 available. Through these and other books and ,IP- Order from: Barclay Press. P.O. Box 232. Newberg. OR 97132 pamphlets like them, the lives of many J!..J Free Barclay Press catalog available upon request. people should be enriched with more meaningful portrayals of the personality and teachings of Jesus than many peo­ ple have met in the past. 0

22 November 1987 FRIENDS JoURNAL Stanley Ellin: Mysterious Friend by Chuck Fager

utside Brooklyn, New York, lifelong Brooklynite, Stanley had not it was ultimately published by The Stanley Ellin was known as a known there was a Quaker meeting in Mysterious Press, a small operation run I writer, the much-honored the borough, and had never experienced by a New York detective story bookshop author of many novels and stories, Quaker worship before. His own re­ owner. It received favorable reviews and especially in the suspense-mystery ligious background mixed Catholicism good sales. genres. Yet while he earned his living by and Judaism, out of which he and There was irony aplenty in this writing for almost 40 years and was Jeanne had done much quiet seeking. development, both internal and ex­ highly respected by his peers, Stanley After the meeting, the Ellins took a ternal. Within its pages, The Dark Fan­ EUin was not exactly famous. His novels long walk. At one point during the walk tastic does indeed feature as one main were translated into more than 20 they turned to each other and said, character a bigoted and murderous languages and provided the basis for almost simultaneously, "This is it." white Brooklyn landlord who, dying of half a dozen movies; but he never had "We felt as if we had come home," cancer, plans to blow up his apartment a bestseller in the United States, and Stanley told me later. They began building and its black tenants, whom he referred to himself somewhat wryly as reading everything about Quakerism hates. Yet to think that Ellin made his a "cult writer." they could lay their hands on, and by racist landlord realistic and believable, His work came to my attention, as it November of 1969 they had applied for as he did, out of sympathy for the man's has to many Friends, through his 1974 membership. pathological racism rather than the novel, Stronghold. This tale centers on Thereafter Stan Ellin was a stalwart demands of quality writing boggles the the behavior of a group of Quakers in member of Brooklyn Meeting, as Jeanne imagination. Furthermore, in counter­ upstate New York when a family in their still is. They served on a slew of com­ point to this is a sensitive and convincing midst is taken hostage by a band of mittees, and both pleaded overcommit­ account of an interracial romance murderous thugs. ment as a reason for turning down re­ between the detective hero and a woman Many of the Quaker characters in the quests to be nominated as clerk. whose family lives in the targeted novel seemed very familiar to me, as "I based many of the characters in building. Nonetheless, it was all too they have to other Quaker readers. For Stronghold on people in Brooklyn much for 11 of the biggest houses in the that matter, their varied reactions to the Meeting," Stanley told me. "But sur­ publishing business, the wimps. crisis they face in the story also seemed prisingly enough, no one ever recognized Externally, the thought of Ellin as a both recognizable and plausible. themselves." This may be because many racist is even more ludicrous. When his This authenticity, it turns out, was of these characters seem recognizable to Brooklyn neighborhood changed in the neither an accident, nor simply another Quaker readers who have never been to late 1960s from all-white to nearly all­ example of Stanley Ellin's careful Brooklyn; Ellin evoked an ambiance black, he and Jeanne were among the research. Rather, these people and their and limned types that are familiar in un­ few whites who did not flee to the responses were drawn from life, life in programmed Quaker culture. suburbs; the only move they made was Brooklyn Friends Meeting, of which From reading Stronghold I went to to another apartment across the street. Stanley and his wife were members. what is perhaps the other pole of Ellin's It was in this apartment that (met The Ellins were not birthright work, a terrifying thriller called Mirror, Stan Ellin in 1981 to interview him for Friends. To the contrary, they ex­ Mirror On The Wall. This novel mixed A Friendly Letter. I asked him why a emplified a major strain of contem­ sex, murder, and madness into a brew presumably peace-loving Quaker would porary convinced Quakerism. Even their that left me unsettled for days after focus his creative work on evil and discovery of the Society was emblematic finishing it. From this I could see why crime. His answer was reflective: crime of the type: he was named a Grand Master by the fiction presumes that there is a moral One Sunday toward the end of the Mystery Writers of America; it was a order in human existence, even if it 1960s, they attended worship at the dark masterpiece indeed. focuses on aberrations from this order. venerable Brooklyn, New York, meeting­ Stanley's writing, it turns out, not And for that matter, he noted, a number house on Schermerhorn Street at the in­ only could terrify readers, but could on of famous mystery writers have had vitation of an American Friends Service occasion unnerve publishers as well. Quaker connections: Rex Stout and Committee staff member. Although a One of his last novels, The Dark Fan­ Raymond Chandler to name only two. tastic, was rejected by his longtime While we talked, I couldn't help but A member of Langley Hill (Va.) Meeting, Chuck publisher for fear the book would be notice that for all Stanley's success as an Fager is editor and publisher ofA Friendly Letter, called racist. Ten other major publishers author, the Ellins lived very simply. an independent monthly Quaker newsletter. similarly shied away from the story, and Their apartment was small, furnished

F RIEND S JouRNAL November 1987 23 more with bookcases than anything else. subway, and thought Brooklyn was a Partly because of these letters, partly Even his three Edgars, little hand­ distant, foreign country. from reading his books, and partly by painted ceramic statuettes of Edgar With this outlook, it is no wonder that reflecting on his example, I looked for­ Allan Poe which are the mystery writer's he was popular with his neighbors, who ward to visiting him again and talking equivalent of the Oscar, were huddled remembered him as unassuming and further about many notions: the mystery unobtrusively on the corner of a shelf. helpful. "He didn't look like a writer," story as a metaphor for life, or at least He wrote on a venerable portable one acquaintance told a local reporter. religion; some ideas of my own for typewriter; they never owned a car. And indeed he didn't: when he walked mystery fiction (I imagine doing a series Jeanne later told me of filling out me to the subway after our interview in with a Quaker detective, who knows estate ·tax forms which demanded a 1981, he wore a black knit sailor's cap, about crime and criminals because he is complete inventory listing of all large dark sunglasses, and a seedy plaid a prison visitor ...); and certainly more Stanley's jewelry; she was, she realized, raincoat. about his thoughts on Quakerism, seen wearing his entire collection: a Timex Unfortunately, after that one visit I from his vantage point in Brooklyn. watch with a leatherette band. Yet they never saw Stanley Ellin again. But I There was a good article to be writ­ were not poor; nor was Stanley, Jeanne heard from him several times, in ten about this last, I suspected. Stanley insisted, an ascetic denying himself the response to one or another of my reports was mainly a local Friend, working in things he wanted. In this, as in other in A Friendly Letter. He seemed to like Brooklyn Meeting and in New York ways, he seems to have been a natural the newsletter, and I took the regard of Quarter, but not active much at other Quaker, simple in tastes and plain by such an accomplished professional as a organizational levels. Once, however, in temperament. high compliment indeed. 1975, he did attempt to speak to a wider Quaker audience. Pained by an increase in tensions within New York Yearly Meeting between strongly Christian and strongly Universalist Friends, he col­ lected two representative statements of these respective positions. These, He was in together with his own "Open Letter To All Friends,'' he had printed up and manvwavsa mai.led across New York Yearly Meeting at his own expense. A few sentences from his Open Letter express his own •tural Quaker, standpoint very well: "Like death and taxes, the theological simple in taste and philosophical differences among Quakers are always with us. . . . I believe that in Quakerism we have a coin and plain by of rare value but one which, like all coins, has two sides. To be insensitive temperament. to this or to close one's eyes to it will only tarnish that coin. It is only through the tender and sympathetic understand­ ing of each other's beliefs that we give it its true worth ... . In that way lies understanding and the loving coming­ .together of us all." This plea for careful listening and tolerance sounded eminently reasonable For that matter, while a self-support­ and Friendly to me. But Stanley wrote ing professional writer for almost 40 of it with some regret, indicating that years, Stanley never became part of many responses to his letter bad been what he called "the literary swim." rather harsh; several weighty Friends "Especially the socializing," he said, "is had even rebuked him, not for his view­ so tempting it cuts your writing time." point as such, but for having pointed up The one exception he made to this rule the theological diversity in the first was for the annual convention of the place. Like sex to a Victorian, some felt Mystery Writers Association. For these that these things were simply better left occasions he and Jeanne took a room in unmentioned. Stanley felt burned by a Manhattan hotel. Why do that, when these responses, and made no additional it was but a subway ride away from efforts to promote this wider dialogue. home? For fun, no doubt; but Stanley Yes, I figured there was a good article also chuckled at the question, and said to be written about this incident and the it made things easier: too many of his issues it involved, plus Stanley's more fellow authors were afraid to ride the Stanley Ellin recent reflections on Quaker develop-

24 November 1987 FRIENDS Jou RNAL ments, drawing on his wide reading in Friends thought and history as well as WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 the many fields he had explored in Kindergarten research for his books. Three Centuries of Quaker Education Through Twelfth Grade In this research, Stanley came to feel that "We Quakers get a very dirty end Penn Charter's coeducational, preparatory environment stresses excellence in of the stick from many American his­ academics, arts and athletics. Penn Charter is committed to nurturing girls and boys torians," he told me. "Many have no of diversified economic and social backgrounds in an atmosphere designed to real understanding of the religious stimulate each student to work to his or her fullest potential. motivation of early Quakers in the col­ Applications from Quaker students and teachers are invited. onies." He felt the spirit of this pioneer Quakerism was antithetical to the domi­ Earl J. Ball III 3000 W. School House Lane nant U.S. expansionist and exploitative Headmaster Philadelphia, PA 19144 outlook. One reason he had written Stronghold, he said, was to bring to a wide readership something of this much misunderstood and maligned Quaker approach to living in the world. CONCERNED? I asked him once to write an article about this mistreatment of Quakers by historians, but he begged off, pleading the pressure of his novel-writing. So I looked forward to talking with him further about it at some point. Now, of Consider course, it is too late for that. Stanley suf­ fered a stroke during the summer of 1986 while watching a baseball game on A Peace Oriented Portfolio television and died a few days later on July 31. His ashes were interred in the small, ancient Friends Cemetery that is hidden in a corner of Brooklyn's huge Prospect Park. As he wished, the grave PAX WORLD FUND, INC. is marked in traditional Friends fashion, "The Fund endeavors through Its Investment objectives to by a small flat stone, bearing only his make a contribution to world peace."- from the Prospectus name and dates. Having missed my chance at a second interview, this brief tribute will have to by investing in: suffice. And there is one last point in • non-war related industries this connection that I want to make: • companies exercising pollution control Most of the Friends I admire seem, as • firms with fair employment practices Penn said of Fox, to be "no man's • international development copy." They are unique individuals, Pax World is a no-load. diversified mutual fund designed for those who wish to following their personal measure of a develop income and to invest in life-supporti ve products and services. IRA and common Inner Light. As such, they Keogh plans available. Minimum investment: $250. serve as sources of inspiration rather ThiS is not a solicitation 1n those states where the secunt1es have not been qualified. than as models for imitation. I hope to follow my measure of Light as faithfully ------~A prospectus containing more complete Information about Pax World Fund, as they, but normally do not expect this including all charges and expenses, will be sent upon receipt of this coupon. to mean I would live as they did. Read It carefully before you Invest. Send no money. But for me, Stanley Ellin is an ex­ ception to this rule. To be sure, like Fox To: he was certainly no man's copy; but PAX WORLD FUND, INC. 0 Send IRA Packet 224 State Street perhaps because I am also a writer, my Portsmouth, N.H. 03801 admiration for his example is not only Please send me a free prospectus and Information on Pax World Fund. general, but quite specific: if I could be Name ______as dedicated and productive in my craft as he; as devoted to wife and family; as Addrns ______unafraid in the face of drastic change in City, State, Zip------­ my world; as useful a member of my meeting; and as unassumingly plain in Occupation ------my manner of living-that would be Telephone No. 0 Day· ______0 Evening------~ something, no, it is something to strive FJ8 for. 0

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1987 25 Children's Books Give Us Hope by Amy Weber n a world full of violence, dishonesty, in several categories. School librarians lapse a little into lecture, but the end greed, and despair, the gentle inno­ will tell you of lots more. But browse on becomes fun again. Serious but short. Ac­ Icence of children's books and their your own. You will have your own tivists will surely want to read it to their visual images-the pictures and draw­ favorites. children. ings that often stir us to laughter and lift our hearts-can remind us of the need Hiroshima No Pika to see the positive, to maintain hope, to Books for the Very Young Words and pictures by Toshi Maruki. believe the best. (K-3) Lothrop, Lee, & Shephard Books, New We remember with pleasure some of York, 1980. $12.50. Bright images splash the Quaker books from the past-Thee, Nicholas, Where Have You Been? across the pages-the Flash, the fire, Hannah; Obadiah the Bold; Benjamin By Leo Lionni. Knopf, New York, 1987. Japanese people in blue, bodies by the West and His Cat Grimalkin; and $11.95. Wonderful color drawings of a river, Mii and her mother, strange Elizabeth Gray (Vining)'s Penn. The mouse, kidnapped by a bird and dropped silhouettes, the city in rubble-to tell the good news is that some of these have in a strange nest. Of course he gets out, story of August 6, 1945. Again the il­ recently been reprinted. But delightful and the mes.sage is: "One bad bird lustrations make the horror bearable, but new children's books are coming out all doesn't make a flock." unforgettable as well. the time, as librarians and book store For all those who believe that the hor­ managers can tell you-not only books Nobody Wants a Nuclear War ror must be known so that " the Flash on Quaker values and Quaker concerns, Story and pictures by Judith Vigna. (will) never happen again, anywhere." but on difficult situations that Quaker Albert Whitman and Co., Niles, Ill., children as well as any others might 1986. $10.75. The fears of nuclear war are Being Born face. somehow dispelled by the lighthearted By Sheila Kitzinger. Photographs by I have chosen a sampling of two or mood of the pictures. The secret cave is Lennart Nilsson. Grosset and Dunlap, three that have struck me as outstanding every child's delight. The middle pages New York, 1986. 64 pages. $14.95. This beautiful book of color photographs and Amy Weber is a member of lovely text tell how a baby is first con­ Haddonfield (N .J.) Meeting. ceived, then grows in its mother's womb, She is retired f rom teaching and finally emerges at birth itself. high school English, and, among many other activities, Leaving nothing unsaid, both pictures sometimes reads to her grand­ and text present in a tender, beautiful, children. She often takes on and intensely personal way what was at volunteer projects at FRIENDS one time an " unmentionable" subject. It JoURNAL, where her book tells how "when you had been inside your reviews have previously appeared. mother's body for six months, you could hear her voice. . . . " or later "Every time the uterus tightened it squeezed you. It felt like a big hug." Undoubtedly this book will fill a long­ felt need by many parents, but most will wish to judge for themselves the readiness of their own children.

Adoption Is for Always By Linda Walvoord Girard. Illustrated by Judith Friedman. Albert Whitman and Co., Niles, Ill., 1986. $10.25. Celia is a little girl whose parents and a teacher help her through the process and pain of learn­ ing that she is adopted. Realization is slow, but inevitably dismay and questions about her birth-

26 November 1987 FRIENDS JouRNAL and Indians. This one is based on the ex­ periences of a Quaker family in the set­ tlement of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1812. It begins with the children scaring their mother by pretending to be Indians on the warpath. The mother reminds them that New Titles their family believes in being friends with the Indians. " Guns don't talk our for Fal\1987 · · · language," she says. When neighboring settlers move to Fort Harrison for pro­ tection, the children's father gives the neighbors his gun, so when the Indians come he can show them there are no guns in his house. Mother feeds the Indians biscuits, and they depart leaving a white feather over the door as a sign that they are friends. It is an old story to many of us, but every generation needs to hear it anew. Glimpses of Glory For the Upper Grades The Thirty-Year Story of (4-6) Reba Place Fellowship mother and herself creep in. She feels By Dave and Neta Jackson unhappy, insecure. She misbehaves. But Winnie Mandela: The Soul of A frank and sensitive encounter with her parents and teacher are open and South Africa the gospel at work in the life of a understanding at every new step, and By- Milton Meltzer. Illustrated by community of believers. Must read­ quick to know just what kind of Stephen Marchesi. Viking Penguin ing for those searching for authen­ reassurance is needed. " I fell in love with Children's Books, New York, 1986. 54 ticity in their Christian lives. October. you the day I met you," says Daddy, pages. $9.95. Not only a book about a $14.95 "when you were four days old." woman, but a book about South Africa This book will be sought after by a and a remarkable black woman tied to Albert Schweitzer special audience-parents of adopted the struggle against apartheid. It reviews On Nuclear War and Peace children-but can be appreciated by the history of how the Afrikaners came edited by Homer A. Jack many. Sensitive black-and-white drawings to power and established "apart hate," A collection of all of Schweitzer's aid in the telling. For ages five through as it is pronounced. It tells the love story known writings on nuclear war and eight. of Winnie and Nelson Mandela, the disarmament. November. $9.95 leader of the black resistance, and how Dinosaurs Divorce they lived apart more than they lived My Sister Tatiana, My By Laurene Kresny Brown and Marc together because he was almost always Brother Ivan Brown. Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, in hiding and is now in prison. Winnie edited by Helen Bailey New York, 1986. $13.95. Wonderful, also experienced prison, banning, forced A people-to-people look at life in the cartoon-style drawings of funny green removal of her home, and innumerable Soviet Union from the perspective of dinosaur people are used to illustrate this indignities often suffered by blacks in American visitors. These stories por­ tray face-to-face encounters on the book of explanations and advice for her country. Yet she has remained a critical issues of faith and peacemak­ children of divorce. Unspoken fears, spirited and tireless spokeswoman for ing. November. $6.95 tears, and problem situations are faced her cause. The book is part of the and dealt with one at a time in a factual, biographical series "Face to Face With The Fullness of Christ straightforward way. Divorce is difficult Women of Our Time." Other books in by John Howard Yoder but nothing to be ashamed of. It happens the series are about Nobel prizewinner An examination of Paul's vision of to ·lots of people. You can cope. . Mother Teresa, Mary McLeod Bethune, "universal ministry." This book The book does a good job of getting Margaret Mead, Martina Navritalova, serves as a timely catalyst for discus­ its message across to these special, un­ and other women who have made their sion as the church faces increasing comfortable children. Parents should ap­ marks. challenges in leadership. preciate the help as well. Includes a good September. $6.95. glossary of divorce terms-from Come a Stranger Order toll-free 1-800-323-8039 "lawyer" to "stepsister" -but this might By Cynthia Voight. Athaneum, New better have come at the end. York, 1986. 220 pages. $14.95. An Brethren Press unusual narrative about a 13-year-old Dept. FRJ The White Feather black girl growing up. From a first 1451 Dundee Avenue By Alan Eitner. Herald Press, Kitchener, idyllic summer at a camp for ballet Elgin, IL 60120 Ontario, 1987. 63 pages. $9.95. This is a dancing, through disappointments, different and expanded version of the old family crises, prejudice of teachers and White Feather story about Quaker settlers schoolmates, new friendships, and final-

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1987 27 ly graduation from high school, Mina water and our health, and closes with a Small classes. strong persists and survives. Because the emo­ chapter on the future, "Beyond Land­ Friends, academics in a tions in each situation are so real and the fills ." Environmentalists will applaud. supportive, caring dialogue is so well done, the story is For grades six and older. Select environment empha­ hard to put down. Readers may feel they sizing Quaker values. have made a new friend. Grades five and Peace Porridge One: A dynamic setting for older. Kids as Peacemakers School grades K-12 in the heart By Teddy Milne. Pittenbruach Press, of Philadelphia. Water Sky Northampton, Mass., 1987. 290 pages. 17th and the Parkway, Philadelphia By Jean Craighead George. Harper & $10.95. The author offers a potpourri (215) 561-5900 Row, New York, 1987. 208 pages. of things to do for peace-from first Richard L Mandel, $11.89. This is a story about Alaska, the steps, such as how to get your mind clear Headmaster Stuart Land intensity of the cold, the life and tradi­ on issues, to making the peace ribbon Director of Admissions tions of the Eskimos, the whales they or quilting for peace. There is a chapter hunt, and a young boy who goes there about television violence and what kids to search for his uncle. Eventually he can do about it, on war toys, a collection .- -=- · ·._ EDUCATION FOR A faces a struggle between his desire to of quotes about war, lists of books, SMALL PLANET ·-=4-{:-.,.= =-=: help his new Eskimo friends find meat films, games, songs, summer camps, "":....- ~E!f ), ' ( Jill,ll PI \\()P ,j and his own revulsion at the killing of and odds and ends. A wonderful, up­ _:-· t • I , \ ( • a whale. Beautiful descriptions of the beat, hopeful " porridge" of ideas every Accredited B.A. Degree - "Visiting" Student Programs U.S. • Costa Rica • England • Israel whales and the Eskimos' feelings about Quaker peace group could use. As much Kenya • .India • japan • China them. For grades six and older. for adults as for kids, but written in Language - Independent Study - Field Internships lighthearted kids' terms. FRIENDS WORLD COLLE GE Nonfiction for Older Box F, Huntington. NY 1174; Ttlephone (516)549-1102 Young People

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FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1987 29 Book Reviews continued are his essays on "The Call to Minister," Eyes on the Prize presents a detailed narrative about the period which reflects on the vocal ministry and its from 1954, initiated by the Supreme Court nurture, and "Making Decisions," which By Juan Williams. Viking, New York, N. Y., ruling against school segregation, through reflects on meeting for business as a meeting 1987. 305 pages. $24.95. the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. for worship for discerning the will of God. Although later civil rights acts provided for In the last group of essays called "Beyond For me, reading Eyes on the Prize was not fair housing, fair jury selection, and punish­ the Quaker Meeting," he reflects on the con­ only like taking an exciting trip through re­ ment for offenses against a person's civil tributions Friends can make to other Chris­ cent history, it was taking a trip through re­ rights, the 11-year period covered in this tian churches. cent memories as well. Even though most of book was the time of greatest legal and social This book is helpful for people who wish the events described happened 20 and 30 activism and the greatest legal victories for to deepen their own spiritual life and that of years ago, they came alive in my memory. the civil rights movement. After this, the their meetings. His essay, " Starting to Wor­ Many of the memories were exciting; others limitations of the civil rights approach ship with Words," is directed to new at­ were painful. became increasingly obvious, and the ex­ tenders. The book is intended for Friends Eyes on the Prize is the companion volume traordinary unity which had enabled its from both unprogrammed and programmed to the PBS television series of the same greatest victories to occur began to splinter. traditions. Traditional Friends who feel that name, which aired earlier this year. The book Beyond the more visible activities of the we need to still the human faculties to listen vibrates with authenticity. Writing it was ob­ better-known civil rights leadership, the to God may find some difficulties with parts viously a labor of love for the author. author recreates the roles and contributions of the book. In his introduction, Juan Williams notes of many lesser known figures. These include Virginia Schurman the earliest beginnings of the movement hun­ many people who were not thought of as dreds of years ago in the first Black slave leaders at all, but provided the heart, soul, resistance struggles and protests and the ef­ and sinew of what was truly a peoples' forts by Quakers and others to assist in the movement. Virginia Schurman is a member of Homewood fight against slavery. After the Civil War, As I read Eyes on the Prize, I relived the Meeting in Baltimore. She is the convenor of the this became a struggle against the legacies of memory of that very special time when it Silent Weekend Retreats at Sadsbury (Pa.) Meeting­ slavery and racism: segregation and seemed our country had finally found its house, and is a member ofthe Tract Association, discrimination. conscience. It seemed then that the high walls which publishes Friends tracts, books, and calendor. Following this introduction, the author of racism would finally come tumbling down

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30 November 1987 FRIENDS JOURNAL Laugh your way through the first new book of Quaker humor in 20 years. under the rising soul force of an aroused people. That was before the big disappoint­ QUAKERS ARE FUNNY! ments, the assasination of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, and the Kennedys, and the swing back from freedom towards more racism and repression. As a Black American in 1987, I wonder whether I will ever again sense the ex­ uberance that I remember so well from those days. We knew history was changing fast. I remember the slogan "Free by '63" and the time when an elder in my church came up to me and said "What I wouldn't give to be a young Negro living today!" In many ways, today's times seem much worse. But the thing that hurts most is that it seems hope has died. Eyes on the Prize brings back a time when hope was very much alive, a time when the hand of God was seen moving. It is a time we need to remember well, to keep hope alive as we continue the struggle. I hope Friends will read and treasure this book.

James Fletcher

James Fletcher serves on the American Friends Service Committee Corporation and is a member Quakers Are Funny was collected by Chuck Fager, who has of Ann Arbor (Mich.) Meeting. been making Friends laugh every month since 1981 in the ''Quaker Chuckles'' section of A Fnendly Letter. Going Out of Our Minds Quakers Are Funny is hilariously full of Friendly jokes, quips, quotes, anecdotes, cartoons, puns and poetry from sources old By Sonia Johnson. The CrossinK Press, Free­ dom, Calif., 1987. 359 pages. $10.95/paper­ and new. It offers more Friendly smiles, giggles, chuckles and back. all-out belly laughs than any other book around.

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FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1987 31 MOVING? Book Reviews continued Please let us know 8 weeks in advance. Send us your address label If possible. I know some will agree with me. But no of human life, crippling of human potential, Otherwise, be sure to include doubt others will be infuriated at this uppity and destruction of the environment. Because your name and old zip code woman speaking such inflammatory stuff. our government's role is important in deter­ as well as your new address. And I admit, she does go on and on in some mining what is done or not done in the Middle of her chapters, but please bear with her. East, we need to do more than grieve. We Friends Journal .t<'v) She has been involved in all kinds of ac­ need to do more than pour money and military 1501 Cherry Street • • ~ ceptable and non-acceptable protest, and has resources into the region or to blame Arabs Phila., PA 19102 come out on the other side, realizing the and Jews. Our task is to see how we can (215) 241-7277 futility of protest. She calls on women to avoid missing any more opportunities for come out of their internalized oppression in­ peace in the Middle East. to new feelings of worth that can help us all Ron Young limits his study of U.S. Middle build a new heaven and earth. East policy to the recent past, 1981-86. The Our time is short. Many are yearning for Lebanese War and its disasterous results are OLNEY a better life with a little hope. We all know described. Chapters on the Reagan initiative the imminent dangers with which we live. for peace in the area and its failure are FRIENDS Everyone should read Sonia's book and learn followed by a look at new opportunities for from it, and read it to the end and find out peace in 1984-86 and the question, "What's SCHOOL that she is not condemning men or women wrong with U.S. policy?" or any living things. 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As a result of this polarized thinking, tion as essential and major parts of in­ we fail to take into account the needs of tellect." regional and ethnic groups. Lastly, as usual, Going out of our Minds is a liberating we must stop ignoring multinational efforts challenge to us all. and trying to impose peace by force. You Are Alice Walton Underlying all of this is the need to stir our leaders to make a commitment to securing Not Alone Alice Walton,Jrom Lake Forest (J/1.) Meeting, is a peace in the Middle East. lifelong Quaker. She has worked widely among I recommend that you read this book and Friends, and is a devoted feminist. send a copy to your representative and There's an ecumenical senators. Then talk with them. A copy to Christian magazine your local newspaper editorial page editor, that shares Missed Opportunities for' along with a friendly visit, would be a good your investment. 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A medal for excellence went to Laura said. College costs have risen an average of Jackson, a member of Newtown (Pa.) 9 percent a year nationwide since I980, and Meeting, for her video '"After Our War, Earlham is among those that have done the The Joint Principals, Drs. Margaret and How Will Love Speak?" Veterans for Peace, best to keep quality up and prices down, ac­ Michael Bailey, have decided to leave The Inc., gave the award for Laura's video for cording to those polled for the article. Friends' School at the end of 1988. The Board of Governors invites enquiries from "the exemplary manner in which it serves to Respondents included education associa­ suitably qualified persons who may be interested educate the general public on the human tions, high school guidance counselors, and in taking up the position from the beginning of costs of war." The video explores Lady Bor­ professors of higher education. The article 1989 and maintaining that special combination of academic excellence, concern for the in­ ton's experiences in working with Vietnamese also cited as Earlham's strong points an em­ dividual and service to the community on which boat people and the experiences of seven phasis on teaching over publishing by its the reputation of the School has been built. others whose work exposed them to the Viet­ faculty members, its internationalist approach The School was established in 1887 and is under the care of the Australian Yearly Meeting nam war (FJ 3/ 15187). derived from its Quaker heritage, and of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It strengths in Japanese studies and natural is, however, nondenominational, and, while the For a good deal on your education dollar, sciences. Board would like to appoint a member of the Society, it will oonsider applications from persons Earlham College has a lot to offer, accord­ in sympathy with the Society. ing to Money magazine. Earlham has one The new editor of Quaker Life magazine is The School is a co-educational day school for of the highest percentages of students J . Stanley Banker. Orginally a member of ages 4-18. Enrollment is currently nearly 400 boys and over 300 girls distributed between the graduating with doctoral degrees in the Upland Meeting of Indiana Yearly Meeting, Junior School, the High School and the Matricu­ United States (second only to Harvey Mudd he has served as pastor of three other lation Centre. College in California), reflecting "an unof­ meetings. He is a graduate of Taylor Univer­ Further details of the appointment, the School and its staffing may be obtained by writing, in con­ ficial tenet that the best students will become sity and received a master of divinity degree fidence, to: scholars," the September magazine article in 1976 from Earlham School of Religion. The Presiding Member Colin Wendell Smith The Frtenda' School 23 Commercial Road North Hobart 7002 Taamanla, Auatralla Bulletin Board Applications close initially on 30th November, 1987 but late applications may be considered. All enquiries will be treated in the strictest confidence. • A catalogue listing films and reading published by T. Wistar Brown Fellows. Ap­ The School is an equal opportunity employer. materials for the International Year of plicants must fill out an application form and Shelter for the Homeless is available from submit transcripts and letters of recommenda­ Martha Martinelli, UNCHS, United Nations tion to the provost's office by December 31, Room DC2-0946, New York, NY IOOI7. I987. The fellow will be selected by February I, 1988. For information, write to Curator • Volunteers are needed to send their ex­ of the Quaker Collection, Haverford College, Bringing Friends' Concerns periences with religious and mental in­ Haverford, PA 1904I-1392. for Peace & Justice to Congress Since 1943 fluences on quiet moments to Juha Wnte. or can (202)547-4343 Eskelinen, Lakeissuentie IOBI4 70420, • Quakers who are working with political tor acoon suggestiOn !ape Kuopio 42, Finland. Juha would like to refugees at U.S. Immigration and Naturali­ ~w~ receive Friends' perceptions on these matters: zation Service detention centers throughout .!,1'1\,.Y.!!.~ the country are asked to get in touch with ,_MOSC:o.rrTU 011 MAmMAl UUSLATIOM I) quiet moments and dreams, 2) quiet 245 Second 51 N'f W~ton DC 20002 moments and relaxed laughter, 3) Bible New England Yearly Meeting's Committee points that come to mind during quiet on Refugees and Immigration, at P .O. Box moments, 4) quiet moments and building 645, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Members of friendships, 5) quiet moments giving force the committee would like to form a network to science and art, 6) quiet moments' help­ of Friends with similar concerns. The com­ ing to make better decisions and, 7) quiet mittee works with detainees at the INS deten­ WE CAN DO IT! moments' influence on conquering fears. tion center in Boston's North End. About A peace book for kids or all ages 14 Quakers from local meetings visit the de­ • Applications are being accepted for the T. tainees weekly, attend their judicial hearings, EmftWII'S ell ..... Wistar Brown Fellowship at Haverford Col­ and act as their advocates. 1111 slllws - 11111 lege. It is a post-doctoral fellowship for do­ .. Cllllllll ing research in the Quaker Collection of the • The Peace Garden Project, Inc., is plan­ ...... college's library. It is usually awarded to a ning a garden in Washington, D.C., to help ...... mature scholar and carries a stipend of offset the domination of war memorials. The 31NIIS, $IO,OOO, which may be used during the space is meant to provide an area for con­ ,.,,~1 ~ fill Clllr course of one or two semesters. The recipient templation and a feeling of unity with is provided work space in the Quaker collec­ humanity and nature. The U.S. Senate $3.00 EACH, POST PAID tion, with assistance from staff members in passed a bill in June authorizing the park, BULK RATES AVAILABLE learning to find and use materials. Fellows which is to be designed and built with usually work on one major project, although donated money. Ideas and contributions may Namchl United Enterprl... , P.O. Box 33852 Station 0, Vancouver, B.C., canada V6J 4L6 some have worked on several shorter ones. be mailed to Elizabeth Ratcliff, Peace Five books, several Pendle Hill pamphlets, Garden Project, Box 5282, Elmwood Sta­ and a number of journal articles have been tion, Berkeley, CA 94705.

34 November 1987 fRIENDS JouRNAL 0 ~ OF CABBAGES He has written often for Quaker Life dur­ ~AND KIDS ... ing the past 10 years, including a column en­ Fun music for kids and adults • ~c;e ce~CtF1cates titled "The Good Word." Promotes thoughtful responses • atOalZ05 •1t1SC~100S • To ~ and the earth •e1~ announcemencs • Publishing contracts in the Soviet Union and • 0~111

FRIENDS JOURNAL November /987 35 telligence, generosity, and intellectual curiosity made for those qualities that define great teachers, Milestones and this was her chosen profession before retir­ ing to Miami from Ohio. She was a member of Miami (Fla.) Meeting, where she is remembered for her willingness to be of service, and for her strength of character, serenity, compassion, and Births her love, which encompassed and encouraged ABINGTON FRIENDS Gomez- Chelsey Marie Gomez on January 7 to everyone in the young meeting. She is survived by SCHOOL Alfredo Jose and Lisa Michele Gomez in Miami, her husband of 53 years, Walter Booher; two sons, founded 1697 Florida. Her mother and grandfather, Donald Dean and Don; and four grandchildren. K-4 through Grade 12 Calhoun, are members of Miami (Fla.) Meeting. Clark-Eleanor Meanor Clark, 69, on August 12 with Preschool Kettenring- Frank Walter Kettenring on J uly 28 in Rockport, Maine. On graduation from Antioch and Extended Day Programs to Esther Schiedel and Charles Kettenring. His College in 1941, she married her classmate, Bron­ College Preparatory mother, father and sisters Emma and Lucie attend son P. Clark. T rained in preschool education, she Co-educational Memphis (Tenn.) Meeting. His mother is a was a teacher and administrator in many areas, member of Lincoln (Neb.) Meeting. codirector of one of the first Head Start programs, Preschool, Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools and teacher in Freedom Schools in the early Civil Norlin-Anthony Libert Norlin on July 28 to Jana with a committment to academic excellence sup­ Rights movement. In 1%1 the American Friends Cox Norlin and Wayne Libert Norlin. The parents ported by Quaker values. Students come from all Service Committee appointed Eleanor and her hus­ are members of Grand Rapids (Mich.) Meeting; racial and religious backgrounds; Quaker family band to work in the United Nations refugee pro­ Anthony's sister, Laura Grace, is an associate applications are particularly welcome. grams, first in Morocco, then in Algeria. Other member. 575 Was hington Lane A.FSC service followed in Vietnam and Cambodia, Jenkintown, PA 19046 Pancoe-Stefan Craig Sines Pancoe on July 29 to leading to an invitation to visit the People's For Information, call 886-4350 Deborra Sines Pancoe and Craig A. Pancoe. His Republic of China in 1971, well before such travel Bruce Stewart, Headmaster parents and his sisters, Adrienne and Alycia, are was open to tourists. Later the Clarks visited of­ Carol Frieder, Director of Admissions members of Plymouth (Pa.) Meeting; his grand­ ficials in the Middle East o n behalf o f AFSC to mother, Dorothea C. Sines, is a member of Hor­ assess possiblities for resumption of the peace pro­ sham (Pa.) Meeting. cess, and Eleanor visited the AFSC day care pro­ Rector-Emily Charlotte Rector on June I to gram in the Gaza strip. Along the way, Eleanor Wayne and Gretchen Rector. Emily is a birthright served on the boards of Pendle Hill and Morris member of Moorestown (N.J) Meeting. Arboretum, both near Philadelphia, and has been Fyfe & Miller active with Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Mid­ FUNERAL SERVICE Swihart-Jessica Arlene Swihart on Dec. 17, 1986, Coast Forum on Foreign Affairs, Vinalhaven to Thomas and Susan Keil Swihart in Tallahassee, Garden Club, Mid-Coast Audubon Society, Rock­ Florida. Her mother is a member of Miami (Fla.) 7047 Germantown Ave. port Garden Club, and Merry Spring Park, all in Meeting. Philadelphia, P A 19119 Maine. She is survived by her husband , Bronson; (215) 247-8700 Van Meter-Lucas Paine Van Meter on November daughters Mallory Waldman, Jennifer Kahn, 13, 1986, to Laurence and Margaret Van De Water Melissa Scheffey, and Alison Stephens; nine grand­ James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller Van Meter in West Lebanon, N.H. His father is children; and two sisters, Elizabeth Ann Kennedy, Simple earth burial a member of Moorestown (N.J.) Meeting. and Frances DuBon. and cremation service Copitborne-Josephine H. B. Copithorne, 85, on available at reasonable cost. June 26 in Honey Brook, Pa. She was a member Marriages of Germantown (Pa.) Meeting. Born in Canada, Connell-Smith-Kenneth Smith and Ann Connell she graduated from the University of Toronto and on August 9 under the care of South Berkshire once served as executive secretary to a Canadian (Mass.) Meeting. Both Ann and Kenneth attend Parliament member. She and her late husband the meeting. Shaun were codirectors of the AFSC German re­ Social Conscience location center at Scattergood, Iowa, from Dickey-File- Nelson Finney File and Lisa Maria 1941-1943. Later Josephine managed the Friends Dickey on August 9 under the care of Byberry Investing Book Store in Philadelphia, then joined the staff (Pa.) Meeting. Nelson, his parents, John T. and of the Friends Free Library of Germantown, Pa. If you would like to make Helen J. File, his sister Dona, and his grand­ After retirement, she was a volunteer at the Paoli, mother, Edna T. Finney, are members of Byberry investments that are Pa., library for nine years. She is survived by two Meeting. • Nuclear-Free daughters, Mary Susan Robinson and Elizabeth Seaman-Hartford-David Newton Hartford and Garvey, and two grandchildren. • Weapons-Free Meredith Pierce Seaman on August 8 under the Hartsock-Edna Deatherage Hartsock, 9!, on • South Africa-Free care of Manhasset (N.Y.) Meeting. Meredith, her August I in Waynesville, Ohio. She was an active father, Albertson H. Seaman, and her grand­ . . . in companies which deal fairly member of Miami (Fla.) Meeting for many years . mother, Eda Hicks Seaman, are members of Man­ She was the widow of Ross Hartsock. She is sur­ with workers, consumers and com­ hasset Meeting. vived by two sons, Wilton and Owen; two munity; investments w hich present Sekbon-Cronk-Aian Richard Cronk and Jotinder daughters, Jean Palmer and Jane McCulloch; four the opportunity for high returns con­ Sekhon on August 15 under the care of grandchildren, Brian and Deborah Palmer, and sistent with prudent risk; investments Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting. Alan is a resident of Stuart and Timothy McCulloch; and one step­ of modest as well as larger size, Winston-Salem, N.C., Jotinder of Waterloo, Ont. great-grandchild, Leanne Hartsock. contact: The groom and his parents, Joy and Elwood Macon-Hershal Macon, 86, in Atlanta, Ga. He Cronk, are members of Wrightstown Meeting. The Robert Turoff was a member of Holly Springs (N.C.) Meeting bride's parents, Harbans and Harsharan Sekhon, in his youth and attended Providence (N.C.) Versailles Capital Corp. live in Chandigarh, India. 19 Rector St., Suite 1116-20 Meeting as an adult until he helped found West New York, NY 10006 Knoxville (Tenn.) Meeting. For many years he served as treasurer or as clerk. He was on the Phone 1-800-323-8206 toll free Deaths original editorial board of Southern Appalachian Booher-Katherine Marian Booher, 80, on Nov. Friend and a founder of Southern Appalachian Calvert Group 20, 1986. She was born in Chicora, Pa., daughter Yearly Meeting Association. He held degrees from of an Evangelical Lutheran minister. Her in- Guilford College and Haverford College and a

36 November 1987 FRIENDS JouRNAL You Could GoTo College WithEvetybody.

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Pennant for UXIVing. Eyes blcodshcl from straining Also for remembering the tc see blackboard from back name of the school. of lecture auditcrium.

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Official Lemming Stale Sneakers. Perfect for folkJwing the crowd and jumping tc conclusions.

~. But if you would rather be on the p ng field than on the sidelines - if you would rather be in the cast than in the audience-if would rather be an active participant in your education than a bystander, then Wilmington is your kind of school. For more information, write tc: Office of Admission/ Wilmington College/ Wilmington, OH 45177.

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1987 37 Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and BclciQ-Queker eplrltull cleAic:l, history, biography, and was recognized as an authority on taxation. He current Quaker experience published by Friends United taught at Auburn University before going to work Press, 101-A Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, IN 47374. Write for the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1935. He ClassHied for free catalogue. was also an expert wildflower photographer. He Golden Rule: 1958 Nuclear Tests Voyage, Micronesia. Minimum charge $8. $.40 per word. Pacific Peacemaker crewmate (1984) seeks books. Box is survived by his wife, Lalah; a son, Edwin J .; Classified/display ads are also available-$25 for 171, Stevenson, MD 21153. and five grandchildren. 1", $45 for 2" . Please send payment with order. (A FRIENOS JOURNAL box number counts as three words.) Wented- George Fox and the Valiant Sixty by Elfrida Vi· Milgram-Lorna Riggs Scheide Milgram, 74, of Add 10% if boxed. 10% discount for pont Foulds. Ottawa Friends Meeting Library, 91A Fourth Newtown, Pa., and Lake Dunmore, Vt., of cancer three consecutive insertions, 25% for six. Avenue, Ottawa, Canada K1S 2L1. on August 24 in Burlington, Vt. She attended Mid­ Appearance of any advertisement does not imply Do You Reed endorsement by FRIENDS JOURNAL. dlebury (Vt.) Meeting and was the daughter of A Friendly Letter Francis Behn Riggs and Valerie Hadden, who were Copy deadline: 35 days before publication. Every Month? members of Cambridge (Mass.) Meeting. Born in If not, maybe you should. Few Quaker publications have New York, she was raised in Lakeville, Conn., caused as much talk and controversy per page as A where her father was founder and headmaster of Accommod• tlons Friendly Letter since it first appeared in 1981. That's because it has brought a growing number of readers a Indi.an Mountain School. She lived for many years One bedroom epertment for rent in downtown In· unique series of searching, crisply written reports on in Princeton, N.J., where she was a social activist, dianapolis (unprogrammed) Friends Meetinghouse. Re­ today's key Quaker issues and events, in a convenient a one-time board member of the Princeton quires compatabllity with Friends' principles, philosophy, newsletter format. Many of these reports have been the YWCA, and a founder of the Princeton Fellowship practices. $300 month (inc. utilities). Contact: North first and some the only coverage of these important Meadow Circle of Friends, 1710 N. Talbott, Indianapolis, of Reconciliation. She was a prison volunteer topics. A year's subscription (12 issues) is $13.95; sam­ IN 46202, (317) 926-7657. ple copies free from A Friendly Letter, P.O. Box 1361, escort in New Jersey and more recently a tutor in CMa Hlberto Seln Frlendl Center. Reasonable dormitory Dept. FJ1 4, Falls Church, VA 22041 Pennsylvania prisons, for which she received a ser­ accommodations. Reservations. Asociacion Sonorense de vice award from the City of Philadelphia. She was los Amigos, Felipe Salido 32, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico Friend• of Truth publications: Faith and Practice of the Friends Meeting, Sundays 11 a.m. Phone: (011·52·621) a graduate of Goddard College and an active Friends d Truth ($1); ()) Cotrespcwld!wJCe among Christians 7-{)1-42. member of the First United Methodist Church of ($1.25). 16 Huber St., Glenside, PA 19038. Germantown, Pa. She is survived by her husband, WaNngton, D.C., Accommodations for sojoumers/seminar Morris; two daughters, Louise Marshall and Bar­ groups. Capitol Hill location, Reservations advisable. William Penn House, 515 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, Communities bara Breger; a son, John R. 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Cost $9 per cassette plus $1.50 St., New York, NY 10003. Friendly lodging at reasonable postage and handling. Send orders and checks to Susan rates. Single and double occupancy, includes delicious Stark Music, PO Box 339, Rindge, NH 03461 (603) NOVEMBER breakfast and evening meal. A country inn in the heart of 899-6060. Manhattan. Call ahead for reservations: (212) 673-1730. 2-4-"National Service: Is it for Us?" Gathering Quiet Chrietmee cerde from Hollyberrlee: of religious and voluntary service leaders. Spon­ London? Stay at the Penn Club, Bedford Place, London WC1B SJH. Friendly atmosphere. Central for Friends 1. Peace Be With You (world peace message-strong) sored by National Interreligious Service Board for House, West End, concerts, theater, British Museum, 2. Four Calling Bears (three French bears, etc.- fun) Conscientious Objectors. For information, contact university. and excursions. Telephone: 01-636-4718. 3. 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Yesterbooks, 402 Bedford, Neturell Brend Product• for people who care about their Whitman, MA 02382 44709. environment and the animals in it. A liquid laundry detergent 6·9-West Coast Quaker Lesbians annual gather­ In Prel11 of Lew, Betty Stone's peace primer. Fellowship free of dyes, perfumes, alcohols and phosphates. Other ing, focusing on the theme " Body and Soul," at reports, " a quality that makes it hard to put down ... home care products. All cruelty free. Send for free Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, near Santa Cruz, educational. ..wel~researched ... great anecdotes." $7.95 catalogue: Naturall, P.O. Box 28, FJ, Walled Lake. Ml ppd. Waterway Press R2, Supply, NC 28462. Calif.. Cost is $25 to $60, including food and lodg­ 48088. Limited edition of glowing reproduction of Edward Hicks's ing. For more information, call Aeden at (408) Taste and Tales from Greenwich Friends famous Peaceable Kingdom. Handsome 20-by-24-inch print 688-1333 or write to her at 7198 Mesa Drive, Ap­ This is a delightful collection of for your home, school. public library, or meetinghouse. $15 tos, CA 95003. historic family recipes and postpaid. Send check to: Planned Parenthood Auxiliary, 7-Annual meeting of the American Friends Ser­ stories from Greenwich, New Box 342, Newtown, PA 18940. vice Committee at the Arch Street Meeting House, Jersey. The 200 page book in· Join the Towhee (Quaker) Community in the Sierra eludes lovely sketches and his· 4th and Arch streets, Philadelphia. The aU-day foothills. 2000 sq. ft. house: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, den, on tories of many local places. It is 5 acres of undeveloped land. 60 miles north of Sacramen­ public meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m. and will produced by a group of friends feature talks by Vincent Harding, historian and to, 60 miles west of Lake Tahoe, Outstanding views all , with a centuries-old tradition of sides. $150,000. Miriam Swift, 15834 Sunnyvale Lane, activist, and Asia Bennett, AFSC executive excellent food and friendly hos­ Grass Valley, CA 95949, phone (916) 272·2017. secretary, at 2:45 p.m. Greenwich Friends pitality. Sales benefit Friends Meeting, Box 18 concerns. Price is $10, postage Leether Altemetlvea. Quality selection of leather-free 14-Single Friends in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Greenwich, NJ 08323 included. wallets, belts, shoes, and other accessories. Men's and area meet for potluck and shared activities at 5 women's styles. Avoid using animal skins. Free catalogue. p.m. at London Grove (Pa.) Meeting. For infor­ Aesop Unlimited, Dept. 903, P.O. Box 315, Cambridge, MA 02140. mation and schedule of monthly events, call Amy Exciting 111ectlon of bookl, cooperative games, other Traganza at (609) 235-0013. All welcome. resources for ethical, ecological, stimulating teaching Peece Fleec-The Soviet American Wool- skeins and kits. 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38 November /987 FRIENDS JoURNAL Apprentice Poalllon We are a small business specializing Older couple needs companion, cook and housekeeper. in Lotus cars. We are looking for a cooperative person with Will provide good home and compensation. Car is the desire and in-depth interest to learn and fit into all as­ desirable. North Chicago suburb. Russell M. Lawall, 711 pects of our operation. Responsibimies will be varied. The at· Greenleaf Avenue, Wilmette, IL 60091. (312) 251·6620. rnosphere is pleasant and casual but the work is demanding. The Lotus Workshop Inc. Call (215) 646-neo tor II!'POintment. Schools Military Counselor/Peace Education to live at Quaker House of Fayetteville, North Carolina. Person familiar with The Friends Schoola In Ramallah, north of Jerusalem on Quakerism. Two-year renewable commitment. Lodging, the West Bank, are seeking several expatriate teachers for car, health insurance, and $8,400 /year. Send resume and a two-year teaching assignment beginning August 1988. inquiries to: John Cardarelli, 1014 Lakewood Ave., Durham, This assignment provides teaching experience in historically Centre For Adults. Winter Course NC 2n01. (919) 489-4561. significant Friends Schools and opportunity to live in a special year in your life: new impulses, new ideas, VIrginia Beach Friends Meeting seeks Quaker couple Palestine community. If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please write the World Ministries Commission, into•rnotir•n•l issues, residential life and studies with adults who feel led to be foster parents to four or five children. other cultures, personal spiritual growth. Students and Free home. Live-in aid. Other volunteer help available. 101 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374; (317) 962-7573. are from different countries. Official languages are Fin­ Father willing to work, mother willing to stay home with Application deadline January 10, 1988. and English, translation accordingly. For all ages from children. For more information call Julie Shubert (804) The Meeting School, a challenge to creative living and the retired and old ages. Course tee of 8500 Fmk (ap­ 481-1300 or Louise Wilson (804) 425-1000. learning. A Quaker high school that encourages individual U.S. $1700, subject to change) includes tuition, board Pizzazz, A Philadelphia Center City, worker-owned gourmet growth through strong academics and an equally demand­ For further information and application forms: pizza restaurant-Best of Phllly 1987-seeks two members ing emphasis on community cooperation. Students live in 14700 Hauho, Finland. for expansion: (1) business, marketing, managerial or per­ faculty homes. Art and farm programs. Coed, boarding, sonnel management background, and (2) catering, kitchen grades 9-12 and post grad, college prep. Founded in 1957. or restaurant experience. Owners draw healih benefits and Rindge, NH 03461 . (603) 899-3366. ownership share in exchange for hard work and $15,000 Quaker School at Horsham, 318 Meetinghouse Rd., Hor­ investment payable over 3 years. Resume and cover letter sham, PA 19044. (215) 674-2875. A friendly, caring environ­ stating reasons for interest to: 107 Oak Hill South, Narberth, ment where children with learning disabilities can grow in PA 19072. skills and self-esteem. Small classes. Grades 1·6.

Program Coordinator, Adult Services Offered Religious Education, Rellgloua Education Committee, Phlledelphle Calligraphy: Certificates, Quotes, Sayings, Poems, Prayers Yearly Meeting. Full time. Provides and Protests. Please call Leslie Talon 332-8120. support, education and resources to We will live In and maintain your home during your ex­ ;v ~ monthly meetings for adults. Can- tended vacation or sabbatical. References available. didates should be practicing Friends with knowledge of Daytime telephone (215) 925-3655. Singles Newsletter links compatible singles Bible, Christian tradition, and religious philosophy of Profeseional couple seek to lovingly care for home in peace, justice, environment. Free sam­ Friends. Experience in teaching, group leadership, rural/quiet setting starting January 1988. Excellent MA 01262. writing and speaking important. For application infor­ references. (413) 229-2938 home. Ask for Najda or Joe. mation write: Religious Education Committee. PYM, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102. Applica­ Fruatretecl by paper clutter? Office and household records custom organized. Filing systems designed, work spaces tion deadline: February 1, 1988. Position begins July 1, 1 planned. Horwitz Information Services, (215) 544-8376. Reference Services end Collection Invest ethically because peace, social justice, and a clean IDe•vellop•mtmt. Provides leadership in the formulation and environment matter. Free information: Skip Londos, A.G. limnlA,mFtnt••tir•n of a strong and evolving program of public Help Wanted Aaeoclate Development Secretary (Fund· Edwards & Sons, Inc. (Member, SIPC), 4800 Lakewood, general reference, bibliographic instruc- raiser) for Friends Committee on National Legislation. Full­ Waco, TX 76710. (800) m-8410 or (81 7) nS-8410. Thanks nnv"'n"''"n' documents, data base searching, cir· time position interpreting the work of FCNL to individuals for your interest! l'"'''"''''" ' ''"q,"rv" and interlibrary loan. Participates in a full and organizations and seeking contributions from them. Re­ activities. Coordinates policies relating quires 50-60% travel from our Washington office. Previous General Contractor. Repairs or alterations on old or de·vet.oornelnt. use, and management of the collection. fundraising or sales experience highly desirable, as is historical buildings. Storm and fire damage restored. John familiarity with the Religious Society of Friends and its in­ ''""'m''""'"q and conducts assessment studies. Collaborates File, 1147 Bloomdale Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19115. (215) Technical Services Coordinator in planning for the stitutions. Call David Boynton at (202) 547-6000 for more 464-2207. (a project involving Bryn Mawr, Haver­ information and an application Moving to North Caroline? Maybe David Brown, a Quaker Swarthmore colleges). Fosters cooperative public real estate broker, can help. Contact him at 1208 Pinewood and the sharing of resources with area academic Ever cooked for a big family? Our House of Hospitality Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. (919) 294-2095. Functions as part of the library management-team serves over 200 homeless folks nightly and needs a cook to carry us through the holiday season . Three month in- Family Relatione Committee's Counseling Service with the Technical Services Coordinator in the (PYM) provides confidential professional counseling to in· and in the maintenance and upgrading of terns hip or longer commitment available; room & board provided. A biblically based, communally focused dividuals, couples in most geographic areas of Phil ad~tlphia plant. Reports to the Librarian of the College. Yearly Meeting. All counselors are Quakers. All Friends, acredited MLS; comprehensive knowledge volunteer opportunity! Freedom House, P.O.Box 12144, Richmond, VA 23241. (804) 649-9791. Ask for Christine. regular attenders, and employees of Friends organizations services, collection development, on-line data are eligible. Sliding tees. Further information or brochure­ of information formats, and automated ser­ Center For Teaching Non-VIolence seeks full-time staff contact Arlene Kelly, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA public services experience in an academic 19102. (215) 988-0140. of continuing professional development, with a minimum one-year commitment. Lodging and Need Typesetting? FRIEN DS JOURNAL'S typesetting service and resourcefulness in past activities; excellent $8,000/yr. We do public interest activism, research publishing on aggression, work against can give your newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, int•"'"""~·n•ll skills and strong commitment to staff develop- war toys, and manuscripts, etc., a clear, clean, professional format that Additional advanced degree(s) in a humanities or operate the National Coalition on Television Violence (TV is easily read. We provide fast, friendly typesetting service sciences discipline is highly desirable. Salary: and film violence, war toys, sports violence, pornography, at reasonable rates. Call (215) 241·7116. minimum, generous fringe benefits. Application etc.). We are located three blocks from the Univ. of Illinois November 13, 1987. Please send letter of applica­ and Quaker Meeting. (217) 384-1920. Resume to Thomas transcripts, and three letters of recommen­ Radecki. M.D., Box 2157, Champaign IL 61820. Vacation Opportunities S. Freeman, Librarian of the College, PA 19041-1392. EOEIAA. Wanted: a Director, Oakwood School, to begin July 1, Maine Island vacation rental: Mostly off-season openings. 1988. We are seeking an individual who has shown creative $500/week negotiable. 8 bedrooms, 3 baths, fully equipped leadership in education, consistent with Friends' principles. on 14 acre peninsula, Vinalhaven. Phone (215) 843-4034. Oakwood School is a 170-student coeducational secondary Cuernavaca, Mexico: Small seminars, large families, or boarding and day school under the care of the New York friends find "Casa Rose" a delightful place for study, reun­ Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Please ions, or holidays. Our staff provides friendly Mexican spirit, send resumes and applications to: Joan Oltman, Clerk, concern tor guests, excellent meals. Seven double Search Committee, 157 Mercer Ave., Hartsdale, NY 10530. bedrooms with baths and small single; large d ining and liv­ Live-In Director, Beacon Hill Friends House, to start on ing rooms with fireplaces; long verandah for outdoor living, or about February 25, 1988. BHFH is a Quaker-sponsored quiet porch and upstairs terrace; large garden, garage and community of 20 people interested in spiritual growth, the parking area: 40' X 25' heated filtered pool; mountain discipline of community living, and peace and social con­ views; near central plaza, buses and taxis. Good language cerns; it is also a center for public programs and home of schools available in Cuernavaca; day excursions to ar­ a Friends Meeting. Director's duties include administration, chaeological sites, colonial conventos, haciendas, attrac­ Field Secretary tor Friends Committee on Na­ program planning, and acting as a "Friendly presence" tive villages, and much natural beauty, including the great Legislation. Interpret work and financial needs of among residents. Applications received by December 5 will volcanoes of lxpaccihuatl and Popocatepetl. Cuernavaca to constituents in the Northeast. Send inquiries or receive preference. 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