October 1992 Quaker Thought and Life T< day

UNDOING COLUMBUS FLYING THROUGH CLOUDS INTO THE 21st CENTURY: SEAT BELTS SUGGESTED HIV POSITIVE: SIX YEARS AND COUNTING /

Among Friends Edltor-Meneger Vinton Deming Assoclete Editor Melissa Kay Elliot! Widening My Circle ArtDI...ctor Barbara Benton Advertising Meneger s I rushed to gather my things at the end of the conference, turn in my room Catherine Frost key, and connect with my ride into Portland, a young Friend waved and Clrculetlon end Promotion and stopped me to say goodbye. Nagendran Gulendran A Typesetting Services " I'm really glad you came to the Western Gathering," she said. "You're not at James Rice and Susan Jordhamo all the way I thought you'd look-the editor of FRIENDS JouRNAL. I'll now have a Secretertel Services Edward Sargent different picture when I read your column each month." Bookkeeper "Oh, really? What did you think I'd look like?" James Neveil "Well ," she said, smiling, looking at my sport shirt, shorts, backpack, and Edltorlel Asslstent Timothy Drake Phillies cap, "I thought you'd be a CEO wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase." Volunteers So much for misconceptions. I had a few of my own before attending the Jane Burgess, Anders Hansen, Emily Conlon gathering at Lewis and Clark College in early July. (See Bob Vogel's fine Boerd of Mene gers 1990-1993: Clement Alexandre, Marguerite conference review on page 26.) For one thing, I didn't know there were many Clark, Lee Neff, Mary Ellen Singsen Quakers out there in the great Northwest. And as far as those really "different" 1991-1994: Frank Bjornsgaard, Emily Conlon, Barbara Dinhofer, Sam Legg (Clerk), Parry Quakers-you know, the ones who read the Bible, talk a lot about Jesus, do Jones, Richard Moses (Treasurer), Harry Scou, missions work, and have PASTORS-well, I knew they were bound to look Larry Spears, Robert Suuon, Carolyn Terrell 1992-1995: Phoebe Couingham, Richard different, talk different, maybe even eat different. Eldridge (Assistant Clerk), Deborah Fisch, Kiuy To get a better "sense of the West," I decided to add an extra ten days to my Harrison, Bernard Haviland, Paul Jolly, Eric Larson, Marcia Mason, Marjorie Rubin, David trip following the Western Gathering. I welcomed the chance to stay in Friends' Samuel, Carolyn Sprogell, Wilmer Tjossem, Alice Wiser (Secretary) homes, visit informally, and attend meetings. Honorery M enegers Well, nine days, seven potluck suppers, two monthly meetings, a couple Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Mildred Binns Young hundred people, and about seven hundred miles later, I feel ready to report. For FRIENDS JOURN AL (ISSN 0016-I322) was established in I955 as the successor to The one thing, I learned that Western Friends are alive and well. There are meetings Friend ( 1827- 1955) and Friends lntelligencer and worship groups popping up all over the landscape. Friends are excited to ( 1844- 1955). It is associated with the Reli gious Society of Friends, and is a member of the discuss Quakerism, meet visitors, and learn from one another. More than once, Associated Church Press. people drove great distances to meet with me, returning home late at night after ° FRIENDS JOURNAL is published monthly by evening meetings. In another case, Friends called from the coast to send regrets Friends Publishing Corporation, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102- 1497. Telephone (215) for not being able to attend a potluck where I was to speak. I was amazed on a 241-7277. Accepted as second-class postage at Saturday night in July to see 28 Friends show up for an evening potluck at the Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing offices. • Subscriptions: one year $18, two years $34. Hubbes' in Eugene. (That same week in Philadelphia I'd have been lucky to find Add $6 per year for postage to countries outside six people who were not in Maine or away on vacation!) the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. 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Permission should be received Friend that "I'll be holding you in the Light." And what a joy to spend a night before reprinting excerpts longer than 200 with editor Paul Anderson and his family, also to join Paul and his colleagues words. Available in microfilm from University Microfilms International. from the Evangelical Friend for breakfast the next morning. He and five others traded stories with me about the joys and challenges of publishing, and we PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER discovered much common ground. I look forward to continuing this friendship and building closer ties. Among unprogrammed meeting Friends in the West I was struck by the sense of Moving? community that exists within meetings and worship groups, touched by people's warmth, and impressed by how much work gets done within yearly meetings Let us update without any paid staff. 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2 October 1992 FRIEN D S Jou RNAL October 1992 FRIENDS Volume 38, No. 10 JOURNAL Features Departments 7 Not In Admonition 2 Among Friends Diane Bonner Zarowin A transformed and transforming corporate witness is needed 4 Forum in the world today. 5 VIewpoint 8 Flying Through Clouds Into the 21st 25 AFSC Notes Century: Seat Belts Suggested Amy Weber 26 Reports We cannot see anything that lies ahead, so we must proceed 29 Parents' Corner on faith. 30 News of Friends 10 For Generations Yet to Come Severn Suzuki 32 Bulletin Board A 12 year old speaks her mind at the Earth Summit in Rio. 33 Calendar 12 Undoing Columbus 34 Books Damon D. Hickey We have to be willing to return to paradise, rather than to 38 Milestones live under a curse of our own making. 40 Classified 15 The Freedom to See and the Power 42 Meetings to Change Bill Taber Are Friends being. called to an opening of consciousness such Poetry as the one experienced by early Quakers? 11 Who Discovered 16 HIV Positive-Six Years and America? Counting Carolyn Cutler Dan Estes 19 At the Names This story deals with beginnings and endings and being pres- ent for the moment. Project Keith Snyder 20 Consensus and Quaker Education Aaron Barlow In a school, making quick decisions is sometimes imperative. 23 It's Friendly-But Is It Quaker? Betty Renshaw A Friends school works at ways to keep Quaker values in the forefront.

Cover art: A Caraval Under Sail in Columbus's time, courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1992 3 Forum " Spiritual aliveness I am responding to the remarks on Kali made by Stacey Klaman and Charlotte Condia-Williams (Forum, July). To those who think as Friend Klaman does, I say that if the Feminine Aspect oJ Divinity embodied in the term "goddess worship" as used by Friends " does not belong in the canon of the Religious Society of Friends," then women do not belong in the Religious Society of Friends either. If humankind was made "in the image of God," then that image cannot exclude half of humanity in its ""'~ manifestations. ...: And to those of Friend Condia­ ~ Williams's persuasion, I say it is curious ~ she blames only the negative 6 L------~~·('1'=nLJ-----~------_J characteristics of the Old Testament God on "writers who created God in their But the experiences of Diana Wells, a expression or concept. It is a dynamic own image"; perhaps the human image "nice little English girl" who remembers center made of paradoxical accounts for God's positive characteristics a childhood in Palestine, broke down the understandings to be held in creative as well. Be that as it may, if Friends may walls of objectivity. For me (was it also tension ... in wideness of heart above the redeem the image of Yahweh as Condia­ for her?), the turtle shell "incident" is a limitations of words and ideologies and Williams suggests, rather than wastefully metaphor for what the British Mandate systems." and arrogantly denying this revelation of did to Palestine and Palestinians. I would like to share my personalized God because of its negative aspects, chart, thanks to the Tabers, of my own surely we may do likewise with the image May Mansoor Munn ·" understandings to hold in creative of Kali, and the many other forms Houston, Tex. tension." It is how I view some emphases through which the Divine has revealed I have experienced as Friend and as itself. Is it not wasteful and arrogant to United Church of Christ member, but limit the revelations of God to a single none exclusively one or the other. written scripture, a single religious Insightful reports tradition? FRIEND vee My thanks to Henry Freeman for his Meeting Church As a Quaker, I believe I am free to human and insightful reports on El as a gathering as a congregation find holiness wherever the holy chooses Salvador. As I did with his first article, I Quietness Liturgy to reveal itself, so far as my human will share the March article "Lives of to listen and to tell and direct limitations permit, and I need not further Faith; Lives of Suffering" with a friend share narrow those innate limits with artificial who has visited El Salvador several times. strictures of creeds, canons, and cultural Inner Word Biblical Word gives articulation traditions. We are members of the Beverly England Williams gives revelation Light Within God Out There Religious, not the Monolithic, Society of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Friends. Our differences may make us received obtained uncomfortable, but they are proof and Guidance Doctrine source of much of our spiritual aliveness, instills composure expects and should not tempt us to abandon our Discovering the center compliance Openings Options Society, or to treat one another with Thanks for "Discovering the Center of disrespect. create ventures keep uniformity Quakerism" (FJ July). My lifelong Diversity Commonality Carolyn W. Mallison affiliation has been with the United Sackets Harbor, N.Y. inter-cultural supportive Church of Christ (UCC). My Quaker stimulation identity experiences include attendance at three Action Mission Friends General Conference gatherings, a open-ended familiar A metaphor "Consultation on Quaker Treasure" at witness affirmation Richmond, Ind., and weekly worship. I commend you for the variety of These gatherings frequently dealt with the John Preston essays on the Middle East in both your distinctions and differences among Grand Forks, N.D. June and July issues. Friends. As a seeker, I have received Stephen Zunes's article moved me with insights and truths right amid the its message of an essential truth that expressions of differences that seemed to shatters stereotypes, and gives Friends dismay Quakers in search of unity. The Released from prison concerned with Palestinian-Israeli encounters that enlivened me seemed to reconciliation queries that challenge us to be unsolvable burdens to the participating Last fall I called the attention of grapple with the truth. Friends. And there were times when deep Friends to the arrest and detention of Jonathan Torop gives us a bird's-eye communion was reached. Livia Cordero Gene, a former view of the passion of Jewish settlers that This excerpt from the July articles coordinator of the Friends Peace Center can sometimes blind one to the humanity sums up my experience of truth in in San Jose, Costa Rica, on a charge of of the other. The pictorial images with diversity: " The center of the Religious " illicit association" in connection with the essay were especially poignant. Society of Friends is more than one the tossing of a grenade under a bus in

4 October 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL front of the U.S. embassy. On July 9, after 29 months in the women's prison, she was released on bail Monteverde Friends Reply and presumably will stand trial before the end of the year if the government persists he article on Monteverde in the Monteverde Quakers. In fact, over the in bringing charges to court. The failure July issue of FRIENDS JOURNAL years, a great deal of the work and leader­ initially of the Costa Rican government T serves to teach us residents of Mon­ ship has come forth from non-Quakers, to bring her to trial within the six-month teverde a lesson. We have been negligent both Spanish-speaking and English-speak­ time limit set by the penal code prompted in writing our own story, and perhaps ing. Costa Ricans built schools and church­ many human rights advocates to call for even reluctant to take time to talk about es in nearby communities while Montever­ her release. Among these were members it with others, leaving visitors to try to dians were building the Friends School. of the Quaker Peace Center and meeting, figure it out for themselves. The result: Also, it is important to note the many and Amnesty International, Women's an article on Monteverde with many fac­ varied contributions by North American International League for Peace and tual errors, misinterpretations, and omis­ biologists to Monteverde in the past 20 Freedom, and the Commission for the sions. We promise to mend our ways and years, most notably in the establishment Defense of Human Rights in Central to write the story from our own perspec­ of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve, America. tive. At present, we will address only the in the formation of both the Monteverde Upon her release she told the press, "I most fundamental misperceptions of the Conservation League and the Monteverde will always work in human rights. I am article. Institute. Since most of our problems are going to keep fighting for peace, but What is Monteverde? The 12 Quaker confronted by forming a committee, it is peace with social justice. That is the families who settled here in I951 chose the misleading to single out any individual for reason I'm here. name Monteverde for the piece of land his or her contributions. Robert S. Vogel that they had purchased. Since then, more Diversity brings challenges as well as Pasadena, Calif. than 13 communities, with a total popula­ advantages. The disparity between urban tion of more than 3,000, consider them­ and rural development becomes magni­ selves part of a larger Monteverde. The fied when played out on the local scale. phrase Monteverde community can refer For instance, it is becoming more difficult No apologies to the Monteverde Friends Meeting, or to to maintain the small family farm as mem­ I don't use alcoholic beverages for the the large group of people living in the or­ bers are attracted to better-paying jobs following two reasons: I) I don't want to iginal Monteverde, or to all the people liv­ elsewhere. Tourism brings not only pros­ become an alcoholic, and there is no ing in the broader region. We who live perity and new opportunities to the area, other way to prevent it. The belief that here often understand the use of Monte­ but also problems of overtaxing natural moderate drinking will avoid alcoholism verde by the context in which it is used, resources and infrastructures, increasing is a sad mistake; 2) I wish to share my but it can be confusing to a visitor. crime, and a higher cost of living. In an support and concern with the 10,000,000 We do not consider Monteverde to be attempt to address these and other prob­ people in the U.S. who suffer from a ".utopian community." In the early days, lems, many people (Quakers and non­ alcoholism-people who, if they are to the settlement would more accurately be Quakers, but largely Spanish speakers) recover and stay well, must never again described as a n immigrant community of have worked hard to establish Monteverde drink alcohol in any form. homesteaders, tightly bound to each other 2020, a planning and coordinating organi­ Several Friends have made it clear to by family ties, the hardships of the move, zation for the entire zone. We find in­ me that my decision not to drink alcohol a common religion, language, and culture, creasingly that problems in the smaller is irrational. I have no intention to say or in a foreign land. The group shared many Monteverde can be solved only when ad­ imply what others should or should not values and aspirations, although it never dressed as problems affecting the larger do, but I do ask Friends to respect my had any formal requirements to live here. Monteverde. We find great strength in decision as rational and responsible for At present, the population of Monteverde learning from each other in a multicultural me, and not queer. includes Quakers, Catholics, Adventists, situation, including our misunderstand­ I have actually chosen the easy way, and people of other religions or no organ­ ings, differences, and challenges of daily because I never need to decide when I ized religion. It is a diverse community of living. Perhaps this is a lesson that Monte­ have had enough. I never need to think people who like this remote piece of the verde can share with others. whether it is safe for me to drive. I know Earth and who work to live together in Finally, Monteverde is not a paradise. that alcohol \Viii never destroy my brain harmony. Many visitors seem to have a great need cells or my liver cells. I will never take People do not fit easily into categories. to make, in their minds, a vision of Mon­ the risk of serving alcohol to an When the Quaker group came to Monte­ teverde: "There is the Garden of Eden. unrecognized alcoholic. No one will ever verde 41 years ago, the Costa Rican neigh­ If only I could get up the courage to leave leave my home unsafe to drive because of bors were also homesteaders who had, at where I am and go there, I will have found alcohol. It's an easy position to take, and most, lived here for one generation. Cur­ paradise." Those of us who have moved I make no apologies for it. rently, the Spanish-speaking community here from elsewhere find that, whatever is as diverse as the English-speaking com­ troubles or disappointments we had in our Francis W. Helfrick, M.D. munity. Both share common interests, previous residence, we find similar prob­ Manchester, Conn. have similar diversities of opinion, and lems here. Whatever our joys where we work together on many projects. There is lived before, we find similar delight here. also a gradual mixing and blending of The Garden of Eden exists, but don't look Costa Ricans and North Americans for it in Monteverde; look within. Ecclesiastes through marriage, naturalization, adop­ Thanks to Arthur Rifkin for his tion, a nd children who have dual written by members beautifully sensitive, enlightening, and citizenship. of Monteverde Meeting inspiring essay, "Ecclesiastes: Skeptic or The July article lists a large number of Spiritual Master?" (FJ August). It comes local institutions and attributes their at a propitious time for Gainesville (Fla.) founding and/ or success exclusively to Meeting. Our Bible seminar is scheduled

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1992 5 to look at post-exilic writings when Quakers can say that the Nicene Creed is are desperate for what Friends can offer. I sessions resume in the fall. We're glad to not a scientific document but a religious agree-but how do we respond, or how have this Rifkin paper as resource. truth that speaks to that of God in every could we? University Meeting in Seattle person. When confronted by a skeptic was originally begun (by an evangelical John Lepke who asks, "Who was Jesus that we Friends church) as an outreach program to Gainesville, Fla. should follow the Sermon on the the University of Washington. Is this a Mount?" a Quaker can keep silence, transferable model? What other models Reading Arthur Rifkin's splendid piece, relying on faith that that of God in the for outreach are there? l was struck once more by how jarring l questioner will some day hear the truth. Second, if there are really successful find the "revised" versions of the Bible. Quakers who work to feed the hungry, to First-day school programs somewhere­ There is even a debased version of the educate the youth, and to alleviate ones that really grab and hold the kids, 23rd Psalm . suffering can also maintain silence when and where they really learn something-! 'd How many others regret the passing of questioned whether they expect a reward like to hear and see the details. I'm our the King James version? in the afterlife for their good works. meeting's Religious Education Committee Elizabeth T. Feazel clerk. In trying to find successful models, Pagosa Springs, Colo. Minoru Fukuhara I've so far come up with a consistent Honolulu, Hawaii experience of frustration ~cross the country. IIolrnesrernernbered Should we consider laying down the Abandon the term First-day school idea and return to our Thank you for printing T. Noel Stern's older tradition of incorporating children article about Jesse Holmes (FJ June). l For some time I've been uncomfortable full-time into worship from their earliest was a student in his required class in with the term "Old Testament" used so years? Successful (or unsuccessful) comparative religion at Swarthmore easily by most Christians. A friend, accounts of that could be illuminating. College in 1920. As l approach my 90th Rabbi Elliot Oertel in Chicago, And a related subject: should we/can we birthday this month, I can say very confirmed that it is a term seen as really expect our children to stay in the simply he was one of the handful of demeaning by many if not most Jews. Society of Friends? If so, personal people who influenced my life for the· Yes, it is not the worst anti-Semitism accounts or meeting accounts of conditions best. that Jews encounter from Christians, but or programs that have helped that happen Collecting memorabilia is not "my it is a totally unnecessary affront. would be welcome. thing," but I have kept a yellowed copy A modest suggestion: Let Friends use a Thanks for asking for ideas, and for of his booklet, What Is Truth? correct term "Hebrew Scriptures" in your attention. place of the belittling term "Old Warren Ostrom Alice Schrack Batteiger Testament." Ask your Jewish friends, Seattle, Wash. Kennett Square, Pa. especially rabbis, how they feel about this. fGood suggestions. We invite articles on all May I comment on the letter of Jesse Phil Meighan of these subjects! Eds.) Holmes. The importance of the Nicene Chicago, Ill. Creed, promulgated by the Nicene Council in 325 A.D., is due to the use of We are one deductive reasoning, which the Christians learned from the Greeks. George Fox wrote in his journal of how Deductive reasoning requires a premise, a person "may receive the Word of the stronger the better, in order to wisdom that opens all things, and come to deduce more conclusions, which, in the know the hidden unity in the Eternal case of a religion, becomes its doctrines. Being." Among all religions, Christianity has the "Eternal Being" is this: to experience strongest premise. Not only did God that unifying wisdom that enables us to do create the universe, but also took on justice, love mercy, and live in creative human form in Jesus Christ. With this interdependence. Eternal Beiog is to premise, Christians have spread the experience the freedom to be, the integrity Gospel, built schools, hospitals, and of the humane mind, and unity in peace. other social institutions throughout the Let us say to one another: I am who I am, world, unmatched by any other religion. you are loved , we are one in peace. It is Nowadays everything, even religion, is then that we may be still and know that we judged by the scientific method and are the HOLY ONE WHO IS. discarded if it doesn't meet its objective standards. The Christian, 20th century Robert Upton Nelson philosopher Gabriel Marcel has met the Ideas for articles Bangor, Maine challenge as follows: "Intellectual and moral confusion results when primary Since the JouRNAL editor's visit in July reflection becomes imperialistic and to the Pacific Northwest, when he invited F'Iu.ENos JoURNAL welcomes contri­ claims the right to judge all knowledge suggestions for future articles for the butions from readers. Submissions and truth by criteria appropriate only to magazine, I've come up with several ideas: the realm of the objective and the First, I would really like to see an issue to Forum should be no longer than problematic." on outreach. Why do we do so little/ how 300 words, Viewpoint 1,000 words. Quakers have a unique doctrine not do we do it when we do? What works? Jan Space is limited, so we urge Friends found in other Christian denominations: Wood mentioned at the Western Gathering to be succinct. "There is that of God in every person." of Friends, July 6-10, that those around us

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This, I have been led to believe, can your God with a ll your heart, and with all be done only through turning inward, your soul, and with all your might. And these through those practices and disciplines words, which I command you this day, shall that empower us to detach from the op­ be upon your heart; and you shall teach them tions/assumptions/values of the world diligently to your children, a nd shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when and to rely totally on our Inward you walk by the way, and when you lie Teacher. down, and when you rise up. For this, as I understand it, is the crux (Deut. 6:4-7) of Quakerism: Our total reliance on Divine Providence, our absolute depen­ We have been led to the path/ tradi­ dence on our Inward Teacher. tion known as Quakerism. Most of us It cannot possibly be our task to in­ come as refugees from other traditions. vite our Inward Teacher into our lives Have we examined corporately why we and tell it what we want, as if calling a have left the traditions of our birth, be 1-800 number. they secular or fundamental? Have we Be still, and know God. examined corporately what there is in I believe we are called as a corporate Quakerism that called us? body to enter into the dark places of this Many of us also come terribly wound­ world and to witness-literally to see, ed and have received or are receiving and to weep, and to wait (the hardest healing in psychotherapy and in 12-step part of all). programs. What does this tell us about And to trust. modern Quakerism? What tools are be­ We will be led corporately. ing offered to us to further our witness We are not alone. as Quakers? We do not bear the burden. Why are we here? Surely not merely The burden bears us. to make political witness in a thoroughly But I believe we have not-corporate­ politicized world. In times of crises so ly-reached far enough down into the great, to do anything less than trans­ ground of our being, where we are held form the world is to fail utterly. in the one hand of divinity. We must I believe we must be still to know learn to pray together-to enhance each God, that we are being called to be a other's efforts at faithfulness. corporate witness through which the I believe we have become too much Divine can irrupt into the world. o f the world, in the world. But to I believe we have the capacity and the eloved Teacher, Friend-: You withdraw into pastoral quiet is simply calling to surrender because of love­ awaken me at dawn with this not possible or appropriate. not a secondhand, stale, only heard­ lesson: I believe we must define Quakerism about love. But a life-transforming, all­ B or-nothing experiential love. amid the noise, the pollution, the pover­ Not in admonition, but invitation; ty, the oppression-all manufactured­ I do not believe we have to do IT Not Quakerism in my life, but my life of the world. (whatever that IT may turn out to be) in Quakerism. I believe we must make our witness in as individuals. It is too large a task for You do not mean to rebuke, to raise the marketplace, in the boardroom, in individuals or for committees. automatic defenses, rationalizations, ex­ the schoolhouse, in the home, in the I believe we can do it corporately. But cuses: the task is too big and I am too church. I do not know what form this we must learn to live corporately. In afraid. witness will take. But I suspect it will be community. We must learn how to cre­ You tell me that it is not my task to a transformed, transforming corporate ate church in today's world. fit Quakerism into small pockets of my witness. Not fragmented, token ·gestures I believe we have been led so far. Let life, but to enter Quakerism with the of overcommitted individuals. us not despair now. Let us go ali the totality of my being. 0, dear Friends, I do not intend this way. To wholeness. To authenticity. To And to invite others to enter Quaker­ as rebuke. As admonition. For then you that single voice that is silent in the ism with the totality of their beings. will not hear. Will not ponder. But as presence of God so that we can hear invitation. As challen!!e. what God is saying to us. We already Diane Zarowin is a member ofStaten Island (N. Y.) know what we are telling God. Meeting and recently completed the course "On Being a Spiritual Nurturer" in The School of the Hear, 0 Israel: The Lord is our God, the We are being led . Let us learn how to Spirit. She is the mother of two sons. Lord is One. And you shall love the Lord follow. 0

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1992 7 FlyingThro Clouds INTO THE 21st CENTURY by Amy Weber n the eve of the quincentennial- the same pattern. Although some 500 years after Columbus first may disagree on the timing, most scien­ O sailed tentatively across the At­ tists believe it will only get faster. lantic Ocean to "discover" America­ What will be the effect on Quaker we traveled from Philadelphia, Pa., to meetings? Reassuringly, some of our San Francisco, Calif., in seven hours by 200-year-old meetinghouses in the East jet. We surveyed from the air a contour seem ready to stay the same forever. But map of the 3,000-mile-wide continent there are very few that have not been Columbus found, now marked by roads, quietly modified already, with indoor towns, cities, and squared-off flat fields, plumbing, electric wiring, central heat­ as well as the natural features of rivers, ing, telephones, paved parking lots, and valleys, lakes, ·and snow-capped In the next even dishwashers. In the future, will mountains. computers control the heat and light and A week later, on the return flight, 50 years send out our meeting newsletters? We more snow had fallen in the Rockies and could probably adapt to that, as long as across the plains. When we neared Phil­ the world may we could still meet in silence on First adelphia, we were advised to put on our Day. seat belts, bring our seats to an upright change as much Some changes, however, may not be position, and return our tray tables. We welcome. Global warming could mean were about to land. Of course all passen­ as it has in the that in New Jersey we may be sitting gers complied. We would have fastened through meeting for worship in 95 o and our seat belts even on a perfectly clear last 500, since 100 ° temperatures for five to six months day. Columbus. of the year from May to October. Some But this was the first time I had ever members may decide to move north. landed at Philadelphia through clouds. In other places, our Midwest grain We simply sank into the fog bank. It was belt may become a permanent dust bowl, like driving through an unlighted tunnel increasing at a dizzying pace. with the grain belt moving into Canada. -nothing but white mist on either side. The invention of the compass enabled U.S. farmers could lose their farms. Mid­ Nevertheless, none of us had any real Columbus to navigate the Atlantic Ocean. west meetings, already declining in rural doubts that we would land safely. We It was several hundred years before bet­ areas, could close entirely for lack of were sure the pilot must be flying by ter sailing ships were designed and 350 people. radar or on automatic pilot. years before steam-powered, ocean-going Half of California could be a Death And, in a matter of minutes, our faith vessels appeared. Yet, in the last 150 Valley. Friends General Conference gath­ was confirmed. We touched down on years, inventions have burst forth like erings and meetings of Friends World the runway, taxied to the gate, and were Fourth of July fireworks: railroads, elec­ Committee might be held in Alaska or permitted to unfasten our seat belts. We tric lights, telephones, automobiles, air Hudson Bay. had landed safely. planes, radio, television, computers! One For another reason (the thinning of Sometimes I think that is how we of the latest: Satellite position finders the ozone layer, not the greenhouse ef­ Quakers are approaching the 21st Cen­ are now available for sailboats at sea or fect and global warming), skin cancer tury: We cannot see anything that lies simply hikers in the wilderness. deaths and eye cataracts could increase . ahead, yet we proceed through the thick In 1492, the population of the whole fog, on faith. The difference is that we world was less than half a billion peo­ are not even thinking about the possi­ ple (500 million) and it took 300 more ble need for seat belts. years to reach one billion. But in only If we did look ahead, we might realize the last 60 years, it has grown by more that in the next 50 years the world may than three billion (to 5.5 billion in 1990). change as much as it has in the last 500 By the year 2040 the world population sin2e Columbus. And the acceleration is is expected to be at least 10 billion! The exponential growth of air pollu­ A member of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting, Amy tion, water pollution, toxic waste, and­ Weber serves on the FCUN steering commillee. most dramatically-global warming fol-

8 among Friends. Even if chlorofluorocar­ Quaker schools may mean that conflicts environmental victims. bons are reduced by 1997, we may have will be handled by conflict resolution Many Friends would rather not think to wear sunscreen year round. teams of the United Nations. Racial con­ about it, and say, "Let the Sierra Club These would not be the only environ­ flicts may be greatly reduced. Prison re­ and the government do something about mental changes. Acid rain has already forms may include preventive measures it." Others are deeply concerned about eaten away some of the stones of our in the schools, better teaching of life the spiritual damage that loss of trees buildings. Air pollution might make it skills, and control of anger. The old pris­ and fields and farms, and the health unpleasant to open the windows. Water on warehouses may be replaced by smal­ dangers of pollution will cause. They could be so scarce that we might have ler units with psychiatric care instead of want Friends to be aware of the impend­ to put in coins to turn on the faucet. punishment. ing danger and do something about it. It is possible that in 50 years other By the year 2040, the major remain­ So it is not surprising that a commit­ concerns of Friends in the 20th century ing concern of social concerns commit­ tee has already been formed! may have been corrected. The devoted tees may be the victims of environmen­ Inspired by Marshall Massey, the guru work of our peace committees, race rela­ tal pollution. And if we do not begin of Quaker environmentalism, at the tions committees, prison workers, and working now, we ourselves may be the Oberlin gathering of Friends General • • • Belts Suggested

FRIENDS JouRNAL October /992 9 Conference (FGC) in 1987, a small group world that God has created and to live Meeting, is to "develop a testimony for met. After passing the hat, not knowing simply to preserve it. an earth restored, as clear as that held what would ever come of it, their first ef­ Michael Dunn, a Quaker chemist and by Friends for peace and justice," and fort was to select a name and to start biochemist from Riverside, Calif., and to add "conscientious protection of our a newsletter to communicate among the recording clerk of the group, says, planet ... to the testimony of conscien­ Friends. They became the Friends Com­ "We are all assembled from the same tious objection to war." mittee on Unity with Nature (FCUN) and star dust, the same subatomic particles Although there is disagreement about the newsletter is now a delightful monthly from which the Universe is made .... the timing of global warming and other publication called BeFriending Creation. We share common genetic codes with all potential environmental disasters-from Now, five years later, FCUN is shap­ life on Earth.... To heal the Earth is nuclear waste to the spotted owl­ ing into an organization of considerable to heal ourselves and to restore our spir­ FCUN believes we must nevertheless stature. Having begun with publications ituality." take precautions. Like the passengers on for Friends and presentations at FGC FCUN also wants more Friends to a plane who unfailingly buckle their seat and meetings of Friends World Commit­ know that this fledgling Quaker organi­ belts before landing, the supporters of tee for Consultation, they look to ex­ zation exists so that when someone asks FCUN feel Friends must do what they pand their program. why Friends aren't doing anything about can (and there is much to be done) to Basically, FCUN wishes to encourage the environment, they can say "Oh, but preserve God's continuing creation, as yearly meetings, individual meetings, we are." the world moves into the suspected per­ and Friends as individuals to recognize Their hope, expressed by Isabel Bliss, ils and the greatly hoped-for rewards of their spiritual connections with the FCUN's clerk from Ann Arbor (Mich.) the unknown 21st century. 0 For Generations Yet to Come by Severn Suzuki

The author, who is 12 years old, ad­ jungles, and rainforests full of birds child, yet I am not afraid to tell the dressed a plenary session of the United and butterflies, but now I wonder if world how I feel. Two days ago here Nations Conference on Environment they will even exist for my children to in Brazil, we were shocked when we and Development at the Earth Summit see. All this is happening before our spent time with some children living on in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, on June 11. eyes, and yet we act as if we have all the streets. One child told us: "I wish She spoke on behalf of the Environ­ the time we want and all the solutions. I was rich, and if I were, I would give mental Children's Organization of I'm only a child, and I don't have all the street children food, clothes, Vancouver, British Columbia. -Eds. all the solutions, but I want you to medicine, shelter, and love and affec­ realize, neither do you! You don' t tion." If a child on the street who has e raised all the money our­ know how to fix the holes in the ozone nothing is willing to share, why are we selves to come 5,000 miles layer, how to bring salmon back up a who have everything still so greedy? Wto tell you adults you must dead stream, how to bring back an I can't stop thinking that it makes change your ways. Coming here today animal now extinct, or forests that a tremendous difference where you are I have no hidden agenda. I am fighting once grew where there is now desert. born, that I could be one of these chil­ for my future. Losing my future is not If you don't know how to fix it, please dren living in the favelas of Rio; I like losing an election or a few points stop breaking it! could be a child starving in Somalia, off the stock market. Here, you may be delegates of your a victim of war in the Middle East, a I am here to speak for all genera­ governments, business organizers, re­ beggar in India. tions yet to come, for the starving porters, or politicians-but really you At school, even in kindergarten, you children around the world whose cries are mothers and fathers, brothers and teach us to behave in the world. You go unheard, for the countless animals sisters, aunts and uncles-and all of teach us not to fight with others, to dying across this planet-because they you are somebody's child. work things out, to respect others, to have nowhere left to go. I'm only a child, yet I know we are clean up our mess, not to hurt other We can't afford not to be heard. I all part of a family, five billion strong; creatures, to share and not be greedy. am afraid to go out in the sun now in fact, 30 million species strong, and Then why do you go out and do those because of the holes in the ozone. I am we all share the same air, water, and things you teach us not to do? Do not afraid to breathe the air because I soil-borders and governments will forget why you are attending these don't know what chemicals are in it. never change that. I'm only a child, yet conferences, who you're doing this I used to go fishing in Vancouver with I know we are all in this together and for-we are your own children. my dad until just a few years ago we should act as one single world towards Are we even on your list of priorities? found the fish full of cancers. And one single goal. 0 now we hear about animals and plants In Canada we live the privileged life, going extinct everyday-vanishing for­ with plenty of food, water, and shel­ This article is reprinted, with permission, from ever. In my life I have dreamt of see­ ter. We have watches, bicycles, com­ 1he Clearwater Navigator, July / August 1992. ing the great herds of wild animals, puters, and television sets. I'm only a

10 October 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL .... . - -.:::;. ·- -~- ·. ····• by Carolyn Cutler The trilobites who swam In the sky; the annelids who skimmed and burrowed in the slime that would become dirt when the giant plates shifted and shed the sea. Drifting brachiopods, colonies of coral, and algae; nameless soft bodied creatures neglected In the fossil record. The mammoths who lumbered across the land, the birds and insects who skimmed the sky. The trees who clung to their needles year round and trees who shed their leaves each fall. Fish who found their homes In fresh-water streams and lakes. The glaciers who crept their few Inches each year pushing rubble across land, flattening land Into plains. The mountains who pushed their way upward, then eroded In the wind and rain, shedding rocks into the lowlands, still shrinking Into flatness. The small bands of people, long forgotten, who walked In the cold, fanned outward from a narrow stretch of land­ who became many people and then many peoples across plains and In the forests, who built mounds of earth and left stone tools and earthen bowls In their own memory. Carolyn Cutler is a member of North And one white man from Spain, whose name Is remembered. Columbus (Ohio) Meeting.

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1992 II Undoing Columbus by Damon D. Hickey he evening was cool and rainy, umbus called out, "I give up." One by turned into a suburban development, unusually so for east-central Ohio one, the slain ones returned to life. connected to Montreal by a bridge that T on the summer solstice. A group Members of the audience were invited soars heedlessly across the lovely, love­ of people were gathered on the hillside to come forward to be embraced in the ly river. overlooking a pond. Between them and arms of Mother Earth, while everyone The French monks converting the the bridge to a small island in the mid­ sang, " This Land is Your Land; This "savages," his father converting the dle of the pond, a great cloth disk, ten Land is My Land." "papists," and the developers bulldoz­ feet or more in diameter, was erected, This pageant, written by Judy and ing the land for their houses and bridge painted to resemble the blue planet with Tom Robb and performed at Olney all represent, to Martin, a terrible cultur­ its familiar, dark-green continents. al wrong turn that created history itself Stretched in front of it was a long cloth, as the record of the deeds of humans painted to resemble a river that was bor­ and their missions in time. Do historians dered by cardboard bushes and trees. A A young people's sing of the connectedness among all young woman, wearing a cardboard hat natural things in their natural cycles and made in the shape of a tree, announced reenactment of the rhythms, as hunter-gatherer people did? that the children were about to present Or do they tell of the isolated human a pageant entitled, "America Discovers Columbus discovery enterprise, disconnected from all of Columbus." nature except where nature has served As she led the assembled audience in raises deeper, more humans' economic ends or provided singing, " Here are the flowers, the love­ obstacles to their " progress"? ly, lovely flowers," small children with troubling questions The hunter-gatherers' myths reassured cardboard flower faces walked down the them that they were connected to every­ hill to the pond. The " flowers" were about the future of thing around them. They went on vision followed by "butterflies," "creatures," quests in which they communicated with and an " Indian" with a large, papier­ our Earth. spirits who often appeared to them in mache head and a cardboard "canoe" animal shapes. When they killed, they suspended from his shoulders. Each was did so with courtesy, asking the animal celebrated with its own verse of the Friends Boarding School in Barnesville, spirit's permission to take its body for song, as were the water and the land Ohio, on June 20, was part of the chil­ food. They took only what they need­ itself: "Here is our land, our lovely, dren's program at Lake Erie Yearly ed, used all that they took, saw their tak­ lovely land." Meeting. On one level, it could be seen ing as a uniting with their animal and Then three canoes with large, square as merely a young people's play written plant providers, and limited their own sails rounded the island into view. In the to present an alternative to the many populations so as not to take more than prow of the first stood "Columbus," Columbus Quincentennial celebrations was needful. with a head even larger than the Indian's, this year. But coming at the summer When humans no longer saw them­ and a sword in his hand. Columbus solstice, it felt to me more like a mythic selves as part of the earth, they invented stepped ashore and, swinging his sword, rite, especially because of a book I was for themselves "sky gods" who would struck down every living thing. The reading: In the Spirit of the Earth: Re­ give them historical errands to perform, crowd booed, and sang, "Mean old Co­ thinking History and Time, by Calvin so that their own human story would lumbus, nasty, nasty Columbus." The Luther Martin (Baltimore: Johns Hop­ have meaning apart from the earth. narrator appealed to the audience to·call kins University Press, 1992). Calvin Shamans, with their spiritual sensitivi­ to the earth for help. In response to the Martin grew up in Quebec, where his ty to the world of spirits around them, cries, two large "eyes" on the big blue Protestant minister-father devoted his were replaced by priests with their insti­ disk opened wide, and a large, colorful life to "saving" from Roman Catholi­ tutionalized intercessions. Moses, Jesus, "fish" made of soft foam rubber (in­ cism people whose ancestors had been and Mohammed, along with their suc­ habited by several children) emerged "saved" from " heathenism" by French cessors, are equally guilty, in Calvin from behind the " earth" to chase Co­ Catholic monks. Both Calvin's father Luther Martin's book, of substituting lumbus. Simultaneously, two long, cloth and his Catholic predecessors were total­ the long, sad, arrogant chronicles of arms with large cardboard hands were ly preoccupied with their " historic" mis­ chosen people and historic destinies for unfurled from either side of the planet sion arising from their sense of divine the songs of earthly kinships that the to capture (embrace?) him. Finally, Col- calling. But young Calvin was preoccu­ hunter-gatherers sang. Humanity's new pied with the natural world around him role, heralded by the historians, was to Damon D. Hickey is a member of Wooster (Ohio) Meeting and formerly a member of Friendship in the beautiful spot on the Ottawa subdue and subject, in pain and sorrow, (N.C.) Meeting. He is director ofthe library at the River where his family and the French whatever is not-1, whether it be the CoUege of Wooster. monks lived. Today, that spot has been earth, its vegetation, its animals, or its

12 October /992 FRIEN DS Jou RNAL other people. their needs. meaning of " Eden"), there is no con­ As a Friend and historian who stands To me, that sounds strikingly like the flict between humans and the rest of cre­ in the Judeo-Christian tradition of the book of Genesis. If Martin is correct in ation. Death does not hold sway over West, I found Martin's insights deeply seeing the transition from hunter-gath­ the imagination. The body is not shame­ troubling. In the sessions of yearly erer to agricultural societies as a revolu­ ful. Man and woman need only to pluck meeting, I listened with new ears to tion of the human mind, any product of (gather) whatever they need. "History" familiar phrases about not being "earth­ the new mentality would necessarily does not exist. All this may sound mere­ ly-minded" and about looking beyond bear its marks. Thus, Genesis would of ly idyllic, but to traditional hunter­ ''this world.'' Was this not the very way course see humanity as a special crea­ gatherer peoples it would seem an ac­ of thinking that led Columbus and all tion, distinct from the plants and ani­ curate description of reality. of us who have come after him in this mals, fashioned in the image of God. Then, in Genesis, woman and man eat lovely, lovely land to see it and its in­ And God would appear as the one god the forbidden fruit of the tree of the habitants as less important than our own of Moses, a man-like god who walks in knowledge of good and evil, their eyes spiritual errands? If so, whence came the garden in the cool of the day' not are opened, and evil enters their world. this attitude? as the many gods and spirits of hunter­ What is so wrong about knowing the Calvin Luther Martin says that it gatherers. Genesis would view the aHen­ difference between good and evil? Is came from fear. Hunter-gatherer cul­ ation of agricultural and urban life as that not what we try to teach our chil­ tures that have survived into historic God's just punishment for human trans­ -dren? Is that not the crux of human re­ times do not show anxiety about in­ gression, rather than as an unholy sponsibility? The serpent says that God dividual or group survival, assuming human creation. knows the difference between good and rather that the earth will feed them. But But there are also in Genesis grief­ evil, but humans do not. Eat of the fruit, many hunter-gatherer societies, in dif­ tinged memories of the world as seen in and you will be like God! But the ser­ ferent parts of the world and at different the mythological imagination of hunter­ pent, "wiliest of all the creatures," is a times, made the transition to settled ag­ gatherers. Man ("Adam") is made trickster. Evil comes into being only ricultural, and then urban, societies, literally "of the earth" ("adamah "). when trust fails. It is not disobedience complete with agricultural surpluses, Animals, humans, and God speak direct­ that alienates men and women from overpopulation, sky gods, detachment ly to one another. This sense of kinship themselves, their own bodies, each from nature, and history. Somehow fear of all life is reminiscent of many Native other, the creatures, the earth, and God. entered the lives of these people-a American myths, but rare in the rest of It is lack of faith, fear that something failure of faith in the earth to supply the Bible. In the garden of delight (the needful is being withheld. Hunting and

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1992 13 gathering are not enough; we must plow pie today countenance and even encour­ people come into subjection to the spirit of the fields, raise our crops, and build up age the destruction of the earth, its God, and grow up in the image and power surpluses in ever-bigger barns. We must peoples, and its species in order to of the Almighty, they may receive the Word herd and breed livestock. We must build hasten the day when all will be destroyed o f wisdom, that opens all things, and come cities. We must have more money and and the kingdom of heaven will come to to know the hidden unity in the Eternal Be­ more goods. And we must have govern­ take its place. But for Calvin Luther ing. [Journal, Nickalls ed., pp 27-28] ments, police, and armies to protect our Martin, we never left paradise; it is still Paradise was neither closed nor unattain­ money, goods, barns, farms, livestock, within and around us to rediscover. To able. Anyone "who was faithful to and all the rest. do so, we have to be willing to give up [Christ] in the power and light of Christ, "And their eyes were opened" and our linear-historical, human-centered, should come up into that state in which they saw-what? That what had been non-repetitive, time-bound, power-seek­ Adam was before he fell, in which the right a moment before seemed sudden­ ing, individualistic, fragmented, fearful admirable works of the creation, and the ly wrong. That they were naked, and world view. We have to be willing to virtues thereof, may be known." Any­ ashamed! And so all the rest followed: return to paradise rather than to live one, in effect, could become a shaman. expulsion from the garden, agriculture under a curse of our own making. All the curses that followed the Fall visited on a resisting earth, estrangement would be lifted, and "the hidden unity of humans from the divine, enmity be­ in the Eternal Being" would be revealed. tween them and the other animals, dot'l'k Are we willing, Fox's vision was certainly at work in inance of men over women, pain in the li fe of John Woolman. For Wool­ childbirth, fear of death, and time itself. Calvin Martin asks, man, kinship with all of creation in a Genesis seems to say, ' 'The garden is • tender sympathy and fellow-feeling that · gone forever; you cannot go back." It to gtve up an embraced slaves, the rich, apprentice concludes the story with God ordering sailors, Native Americans, robins, and an angel to stand guard with a flaming individualistic, horses indiscriminately, was the product sword at the entrance to the garden so of a life of conscious and painful refusal that man and woman can never go back, fearful world to be caught up in the fear, greed, and and never eat of the tree of life in order ambition that were-and still are-the to live forever. But what did Columbus view and 'return driving force of our culture. His atten­ see when he made landfall? Shameless, tiveness to the inward life of the soul naked people- men and women who to paradise'? brought him finally a vision in which his seemed not to have fallen from grace at own identity fe ll away and he became all. No wonder these natives were so one wi th the undifferentiated mass of threatening to the Europeans! Their ap­ That was also the vision of George his fellow creatures, and with Christ. parent innocence called into question the Fox: Almost alone of his generation, he went Europeans' philosophy, religion, his­ out into the wilderness in the midst of tory, and culture-their entire way of Now was I come up in spirit through the war between the natives and the Euro­ life. As long as Europeans could assume flaming sword into the paradise of God. All peans, not to kill, cheat, or evangelize that all human beings were "fallen"­ things were new, and a ll the creation gave the natives, but to learn from them about another smell unto me than before, beyond that the curse of Adam and Eve was ir­ what words can utter. I knew nothing but their experience of God. reversible and applicable to every hu­ pureness, and innocency, and righteousness, For a few minutes, the Friends gath­ man being- they could justify the mani­ being renewed up into the image of God by ered in the rain by the pond at Lake Erie fold evils of their society as the in­ Christ Jesus, so that I say I was come up to Yearly Meeting also had an opportuni­ evitable consequences of original sin, the state of Adam which he was in before ty to step back through the flaming even as necessary to the containment of he fe ll. The creation was opened to me, a nd sword into paradise. In that mythical re­ sin. Only the Christian religion and the it was showed me how all things had their enactment of the Columbus discovery, church could save humanity, but they names given them according to their nature history was turned on its head. Time could not bring back Eden. That para­ and virtue. And I was at a stand in my mind stopped. Five hundred years were fro­ dise was forever lost to this world, and whether I should practice physic for the good zen. The flower people, the butterfly of mankind, seeing the nature and virtues of only God could restore it in the world people, the creature people, the native the creatures were so opened to me by the to come. Such a self-justifying world Lord. But I was immediately taken up in people, the water, and the lovely land view had to be sustained at all costs, and spirit, to see into another or more steadfast were sung into being, slain, and reborn. good Christians would not be allowed state than Adam's in innocency, even into The earth came to the aid of her chil­ to succumb to the ultimate heresy, the a state in Christ Jesus, that should never fall. dren, as she has always done. A great temptation to "go native." And the Lord showed me that such as were fish of the deep- ancient symbol of life, Much of the Christian world today faithful to him in the power and light of and of Christ-defeated the arrogance still believes that paradise is unattain­ Christ, should come up into that state in of fallen humanity, and redeemed it to able, lying beyond this world and this which Adam was before he fell, in which the celebrate and to help mend the world. life. At the other end of the Bible from admirable works of the creation, and the vir­ The earth embraced all her children, and tues thereof, may be known, through the Genesis, the Book of Revelation sees, in openings of that divine Word of wisdom and Woody Guthrie's song took on new the coming of the heavenly city beyond power by which they were made. Great meaning when sung by flowers, butter­ the destruction of the earth, the return things did the Lord lead me into, and flies, creatures, natives, Europeans, and of the garden with its tree of life. And wonderful depths were opened unto me be­ the great fish: "This land is your land; so, paradoxically, many Christian peo- yond what can by words be declared; but as this land is my land." 0

14 October 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL to See which gives us the power to change. And change we must if we are to help our planet through the coming ecological and social trauma. Looked at from one perspective, the required changes in our daily li fe and thought patterns may seem enormous or heroic or sacrificial. Looked by Bill Taber to Change at from the standpoint of our Friend John Woolman, they are simply ad­ here do we go from here? tion and pain and much human disaster. j ustments to the harmony of the Divine If, through deep listening, I believe in miracles, and I believe God Will. As many women and men before W we allow the miracle of love is calling us to take part in this one. This us have demonstrated, dwelling in har­ and unity to continue to grow among us, miracle-which is already beginning­ mony with that Will brings deep and then we will have the united power to will occur when enough people through­ profound peace, no matter what the ap­ see that the crisis before our planet is out the world begin to say " let the mir­ parent outward cost. very great. It is not my purpose to scare acle begin with me; let the miracle (that In that Living Center, in that ocean us with the facts and scientific projec­ is the change) begin with me." of Light, is all the power for change we tions about probable ecological disaster What does this mean for the Society as a community will ever need. And we and the disruption of human society as of Friends? If the miracle is to begin can stay in that deep center only as we we know it, for fear will not give the with me, with us (as it has already begun listen with deep love to one another, to power to change until it is too late. with many other individuals and groups all creation, in that unity underlying all The only thing that will give us the across our planet), it begins in this deep our diversity. power to change is a massive shift in level shift of consciousness, a resting n that center we also experience the human consciousness comparable to that more profoundly and totally in the unity unity underlying all Quaker testimo­ which transformed the lives of George of the Divine Presence, a unity so em­ I nies and concerns, so that they need Fox, Elizabeth Hooten, Margaret Fell, bracing that it teaches us to celebrate not compete with one another for our and Mary Dyer. I am not speaking meta­ and use our diversity as a gift of God, dollars, our attention, and our energy, phorically: I believe we are being called so that we can develop a love powerful but we can wait in that ocean of Light to a real opening of the aperture of con­ enough to let the world be healed. to unite them and harmonize and organ­ sciousness-a profound expansion of ut of this deep unity a two-fold ize them all so that they are truly em­ awareness which is like discovering a power will emerge just as it has powered with. the unity of the whole whole new part of the mind, a whole 0 before in the Society of Friends. body; each of our traditional and still­ new part of the body, or finding new First, this power gives us new eyes to see emerging testimonies has a place and a senses. It is like discovering- it is dis­ our situation as it is (without fear or role in the healing of our·planet. covering-that we are a part of a vast anxiety) in all its naked ugliness. But we As we dwell together in dynamic, body, or, as the mystics and prophets don't need to be mesmerized by that ugli­ ever-changing unity, we become renew­ long ago told us, discovering we are ness; we can confront it in a way to do edly aware at this critical time in history members one of another and of creation. something about it only if we are dwelling that testimonies and concerns are not . This shift will be made possible as we in the beauty and harmony of the Light something just to be carried out through let go of the illusion of the separateness that wants to transform us all. At this our money and our committees-impor­ of the parties and "isms" and theologies point, deep-seated assumptions about tant as they are; they must be a part of within Quakerism, and as we learn to lis­ the very nature of reality, which we have the fabric of our lives if we are to be part ten ever more deeply to one another and taken for granted, will be seen as of the healing of our planet. to God-and if we can each find our se­ needing to be changed. For example, we As we, as a Society of Friends, dwell curity not merely in a system of thought will probably discover that we must re­ in this unity, we will of course need (important as rigorous thinking may examine our deep-seated assumptions spirit-guided committees and think tanks be), but in a deep resting in the ever­ about the "reality" of the laws of eco­ and scholars to explore these issues­ renewing Divine Reality. nomics, about our nation's dream, and but the committees and the think tanks We are at a time when only miracles about individualism and personal psycho­ will save neither huma n society nor the can save our planet from serious disrup- logical fulfillment, to name just a few. planet unless I allow the power at the And with the power of this new see­ center of the unity underlying our diver­ Bill Taber, a member and recorded minister of ing comes that other power of the Light, sity to affect the way I see, and the way Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative), is a teacher of Quakerism at Pendle Hill. His article is a short­ that power which early Friends spoke of I think, and to allow that transforming ened version of his presentation in March 1992 ro as the Inward Work of Christ, that power to affect the very fabric of my life Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. inward flow of transforming energy, and my lifestyle. 0

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1992 15 HIV Positive­ Six Years and

aking up scuba diving was for me positive, I believe I had not met another one of the most powerful immune person who admitted to testing positive; T boosters possible. At 45-plus years it was those with ARC {AIDS Related of age, I went diving! What an exhil­ Complex, a term no longer in wide use), arating experience of control over one's or fulkblown AIDS, who were left to be fate. With depth and pressure gauges in the spokespersons for those with HIV hand, air tank on my back, and my disease. I felt very isolated, and at times knife strapped securely to my leg, I took felt I had made a real mistake in taking regulator in mouth and jumped into a the test and in being open about the re­ new world. On my final check-out dive sults. When one old-time gay activist in an abandoned quarry in some God­ friend asked how I was getting along, I forsaken place in the Pennsylvania spoke of my fears and doubts. His curt boondocks, I submerged myself in frigid non-supportive reply was basically, "Peo­ waters, which felt like ice-despite the ple were told not to get tested." It seemed wet suit I had rented to keep me warm. he was saying that I had made my own In early November, the weather turned bed and would thus have to lie in it­ sharply cold, with a wind-chill factor of by myself. So much for supporting free­ 25 degrees below zero! I looked like a dom to choose or to think for oneself! cross between potbellied stove and wild I sought the opinions of members of by space creature with my mask, air tank, a gay men's support group, which I led, and flippers. When my mask froze to as to whether or not I should accept the my face and I nearly broke my neck slip­ invitation to appear on a TV show as an ping on an icy entrance ramp, I knew openly HIV -positive gay man. It is one I was a diver ready for the Caribbean. thing to write about the experience for My need to feel more in control of my a gay newspaper, another thing to be life began in October 1985 when, flying seen by thousands of local residents. I in the face of the advice of the "ex­ wanted to get the facts about HIV out perts," I went for my HIV antibody and perhaps put some hysteria to rest, test. (At that time it was HTLV 3.) The yet I also feared loss of clients and thus wisdom of the day was, "Why get tested my earnings. How would my neighbors when you can do nothing but worry; and people in my office building react? such emotional strain will only result in Wisely the group arrived at the thought further stress on the immune system. that I would both lose and win support Better to wait and act when you become and clients; basically, it would balance symptomatic or there are interventions out. I appeared on the show with the that justify the emotional strain of men's group in theTV studio cheering learning you are positive." How­ me on. The makeup woman did my face ever, I wanted to know, despite the last of all the guests, including a what the wisdom of the day dic­ heterosexual man with AIDS; she put on tated. How I would lead my life plastic gloves when she got to me. The would partially depend on my an­ next day, when I went for a haircut from tibody status. As a psychotherapist my barber of several years, he donned with a practice comprised mostly of plastic gloves. I have a new barber. gay men and as a gay man whose Does anyone listen to the facts about ~.. sexual past put me at high risk, l contagion? ~ Informing clients of my health status ~ felt compelled to know my HIV status . has been important for me as a profes­ .~ !::: One year after my testing HIV sional counselor. I have felt that since ~ ~ the counseling relationship is a very ,...... ,.. ---'~.,. Trained as a psychodramatist, Dan Estes has "' special, an almost sacred relationship, .~ traveled widely to lead workshops on AIDS • f or professional and lay groups. He is an at· I could not work with a client for any ~ tender of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. length of time without apprising him or

16 October 1992 FRIEND S Jou RN AL ounting her of my health status. I feel strongly of her life. She went out fight-ing, ask­ that if I should suddenly become ill or ing that all measures be taken to keep die from HIV, the person who put such her alive. Although my belief is far dif­ trust in our relationshp has a right to ferent on the issues of life quality and know the situation. The client also has modern medical procedures, Mother was the right to find another therapist if my fully in charge. She opted for a feeding illness gets in the way of therapy. This tube inserted directly into her stomach concern for clients knowing my HIV in a minor surgical procedure. She was status obviously has nothing to do with clear that she wanted any and all pro­ any risk of HIV contagion. cedures necessary to sustain her life­ Openness has been an important as­ despite the quality of that life. I Q pect of my dealing with HIV, and it car­ never questioned her on this. ~ 'I ried over into ~y part-time employment I had a really remarkable last ~ at the hospital, where I conducted a few visit with Mother. We spent the ,#J'";..;.'41 J group therapy sessions weekly. One of afternoon chatting, drink- ,.,. # the first persons with whom I shared was ing coffee, and half cy" dear Clair of the Sisters of Mercy. As watching the TV, she had a chronic and life-threatening which she al­ illness of her own with which she had ways kept on. been dealing for years, this was a very She gave me special relationship at a difficult time. her final As the years have passed, I felt some gift, a genuine concern and support from my key to colleagues at the hospital. At a time five the years ago, when length of survival was simply an unknown and I feared a quick progression of the illness, I was told I could rearrange my group schedule if I missed a session due to illness. The im­ portance of this support from even a very part-time employer cannot be over­ went to my estimated. However, the )1ospital was car. It struck not pleased with my publicized associa­ me that this was tion with the Hemlock Society and its last time I would be philosophy of the right to die with digni­ with my mother. I stopped, ty. It was made clear to me that further the house, and we talked of our relation­ publicity would end in the plug being ship in a straightforward manner. I asked pulled on my employment. her for her "blessing" in that I hoped From my family in Maine I received she understood that I had chosen to live a clear message. I held my nephew's new­ my life as I saw fit and as an openly gay born daughter in their living room. man. She hoped that she had been "a There were no paper plates or cups; the good mother." We did not cry; we did usual hugs and kisses were there. Even allow one another to be who we were. my sister, from whom I remain es­ We reaffirmed one another. And, yes, tranged, was present. I thanked her for giving to me the abili­ My mother, who died two years ago ty to be totally awestruck at sunsets, au­ in the cigarette, lung cancer epidemic, tumn leaves, green, growing bulbs, and was pained by the knowledge that I was a hundred other of life's important ex­ infected. However, in keeping with the periences. Mom died two months after family attitude that life goes on, I did our visit. Oddly, after spending years not hold from her a major piece of my overly concerned about her inevitable life. She remained active until the end death, my actual experience of her pass-

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1992 17 ing was anticlimactic. I am relieved that in two years. I held major credit cards dozen dives in a week, I finally realized, the "natural" order of parent dying be­ with life insurance on each with which as I emerged from an undersea cave, fore child was played out. I had feared my debts would be paid when I died that the colorful fairy basslet, for which the effect of my death on a woman in from AIDS. The good news is I am alive; I had looked all week, was six inches her mid-eighties. the bad news is that I am alive and I am from my face . I cried silently as I en­ Death is on my mind a lot these days. in the midst of bankruptcy. I made a countered this tiny, two-inch, living My good friend John died of his non­ real financial error. Now that I must beauty on my final dive at Roatan. AIDS-related, malignant melanoma. dramatically reduce my income and take The moment of panic I had previously My two best friends have both died disability payments, I cannot meet the experienced when I cut my finger slight­ within the past six years of non-AIDS­ monthly credit card payments. I haven't ly on coral passed quickly. The scratch related causes. A half-dozen men from yet collected my life insurance! Until healed quickly, with the application of my asymptomatic HIV -positive support forced by HIV to cut back my work, my an antibiotic ointment. My immune sys­ group have died in the last two years. income was adequate. I made the deci­ tem still functioned, and perhaps the A few years ago a loose accounting of sion to go bankrupt so I could go on thrill of diving really was boosting my my clients of the past decade indicated with my life. I do not do so without feel­ T cells. more than 35 who had been exposed to ings of guilt and failure. I will not, how­ With all my fears of disease and ill­ HIV. Many are alive and well; too many ever, get stuck in these feelings. The ness, I shall never face the lack of basic are dead at young ages. quality of life I have led in the presence medical care that the local islanders live In the past year, I have been humbled of an eventually fatal disease may well and die with on a daily basis. I quickly to deliver eulogies at the memorial serv­ have helped my body combat the dis­ blocked their condition from my mind ices for two client-friends. I am in the ease. If not, then I've had one damned­ as I glimpsed the squalor on the way to frightful position of personally gaining good time! and from the primitive airport in our so much from the human interaction of With American Express, Visa, and four-wheel-drive vehicle. This blindness this epidemic, and I am uncomfortable MasterCards, I stormed Roatan off the to the condition of self and others is a earning my living from human suffer­ shores of Honduras and became that sheltering defense and a damnation ing-even though I realize my vocation dream of a Caribbean diver. Amidst the sometimes seeming to come and go on supports personal growth and quality squalor of a small island, which came its own. I charged more on a one-week living. Those who survive this devasta­ with Peace Corps volunteers and a real dive vacation than most citizens of tion may suffer in common with soldiers live Protestant missionary, I was en­ Roatan make in a lifetime. from a curse of those returning from sconced in a wooden, thatched-roof hut A similar blindness to that which I ex­ battle. For the rest of their lives they in a compound equipped with modern perienced in the poverty of Roatan may never again feel the human bonding luxuries. The video of me diving amid makes me outraged here at home. When that occurred in the face of death in bat­ the splendor of tropical reefs starts with I see people blinding themselves to the tle. In my life before AIDS, I had never the launching of my pot-belly into the social problems that confront us on encountered the degree of human suf­ sea with a sound track of whale calls in every street, when I am confronted with fering and the amount of love that has the background. A strange juxtaposition the view of HIV disease as a deserved come about in this epidemic. And not for a socially concerned, somewhat rad­ gay plague from which heterosexuals are for an instant do I believe there is a ical gay male with HIV: charge cards largely immune, I am sickened. I have positive purpose in this epidemic. and scuba in the midst of bone-crushing given up scuba diving. My T-cells and My personal struggle goes on in my poverty! the way I feel physically tell me that it mind and in my body. My first T-cell Diving doesn't have to be explained is no longer a wise thing for me to do. count several years ago was 847. After to anyone who has taken part in an in­ The realization of what I tried not to see no major AIDS-related illness, at the tense sporting experience. My tears of on Roatan has also influenced this end of October 1991 I had lost more joy and awe when I experienced the decision. than half of my T cells. In the denial of tropical reefs could not be detected on When I gave myself a 45th birthday the day, I remained "asymptomatic" my already salty diving mask. After a party, I never thought I'd reach 50. Now until then; we treat the loss ofT-cell s as I have, and it brings new issues to be something other than a symptom. As a worked through. My living will, durable result of my lower T-cell count, and im­ power of attorney, and last will and tes­ possible feeling of fatigue that comes tament are ready. Who am I now that and goes along with other assorted prob­ I no longer can work at the profession lems, in October 1991 I started taking that has meant so much to me? What AZT. For several weeks I couldn't shake should I do with the rest of my life? the fantasy of comic disaster, which ran Since working more than a few hours through my mind. I kept asking when per week as a psychotherapist is too my left testicle would drop off. This is much of an energy drain, what will be my own way of denial: I will make light my contribution? I find myself already of what for me is a major turning point tiring of caring for plants and am not in my experience of HIV. What will doing the reading I thought would be so happen to me next? And when? rewarding. Simply keeping busy is not I have been excessive in my standard a sufficient challenge. of living, and it has caught up to me. Another beginning? What do I do In 1985 I really thought I would be dead now? 0

18 October 1992 FRI ENDS JoURNAL AT THE NAMES PROJECT (for Howard Segars)

by Keith Snyder

The quilts cover the floor, hang flat from the walls of the gym, like flags patched together In a pageant celebrating Bones, that old caricature with a scythe you come across in books and museums. People walk up and down the aisles, gaze into the open rooms decorated with medals, toys, rings, teddybears, more memorabilia than I could ever remember. Next to the box of Kleenex at the door, an attendant hands me a map, but I've already lost the thread of whatever brought me to this place: the hope, maybe, of finding a friend again. I wander through the maze crowded with strangers looking for a name. Finally I give your address to a guide in this city of the dead: No vacancies on the floor, I'm told, so your block's been stored in back. When they bring It out to unfold, your face emerges from your things: The red suspenders, stlched in an arch over two bright ties, and in the middle your bluejean vest inscribed with the Russian poem-trappings of your gay and singular soul, the scholar and communist holding out one good hand for the good of all, who never gave your dying self away until someone called us to your bedside. We spoke to you as machinery hummed and you lay suspended from tubes and wires. As If words could connect the body you were leaving behind with the spirit that harangued, inspired. The Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt will be displayed in its entirety in Presidents' Park, near Years after we scattered your ashes, the grounds of the Washington Monument in found new homes for your books, Washington, D.C., on Oct. 9-11. Quaker contacts you've become more public, who will be there to explore opportunities for more private than ever. worship, mutual support, and fun are Neil and Joanne Clapp/Fullagar, (510) 865-8058, and John A therapist in Cambridge, Mass., Keith Snyder attends Beacon Hill (Mass.) Meeting, of which Howard Segars was an active Meyer, (202) 745-5916. member until his death in /985.

FRIENDS J ouRNAL October 1992 19 Consensus and Quaker Education

by Aaron Barlow

s I was growing up, I occasional­ ship itself is a compact between the in­ viewpoint would make it impossible for ly heard disparaging remarks di­ dividual and the group that includes re­ me to write an essay of reasonable A rected toward us birthright spect for the consensus process. It works length. I have to cut things out, to set Friends. One had to be convinced, some when a spirit of listening and understand­ limits. People who hesitate in business said, to really be a Quaker. As I grow ing, of consideration and compromise make no deals. When a school stops older, I'm beginning to see that, in some is present and when the community is teaching to talk about it, it stops being areas, convinced Friends have a harder honestly and finally a community of a school and neglects the students. The time being Quakers than those who were equals. ideals of consensus must sometimes bow raised to it. Coming to terms with con­ Of course, the ideals of consensus to the pressures of practicality. sensus, certainly, is harder for those who philosophy can be carried into areas be­ ait, you say. I simplify a mud­ became Friends partially through ad­ yond meeting. But not always consensus dled, confusing situation. Dis­ miration of the consensus ideal. For itself. This we birthright Friends learned W cussions open minds; discus­ Quaker consensus, in practice, is quite in childhood. We were not invited to sions themselves are educational and different from its idealized image as a participate in its process. Consensus did that is what striving for consensus is all constant coming together, as a reaching not always include us. about. Sure, consensus has its draw­ of complete agreement. A monthly meeting, with limited mem­ backs, given the world we live in, but, No matter how we act, the ideal of bership and responsibility, has plenty of had early atomic scientists been forced really hearing and giving loving con­ time for decision-making. A commercial to talk, they might have seen something sideration to the views of others, even enterprise often does not. Opportunity beyond advance of "knowledge," might those far different from our own, is ex­ rarely waits on accord. In a school, chil­ have learned to understand the repercus­ tremely enticing to most Quakers. As is dren grow older, making quick decisions sions of what they were attempting. the idea that, if we believe strongly sometimes imperative. Sharp limits have Good point. enough against some communal action, to be placed on the consensus process in The consensus ideal should never be we can stop it alone. There's a vitality both situations, abrogating it. Time lim­ forgotten. A good Quaker businessper­ rising out of such belief that helps sus­ its can make discussion destructive. Re­ son or school administrator-or anyone tain the Society of Friends, even if the sponsibility for time becomes a hallmark else who understands the advantages of ideals cannot always be lived up to. of effective leadership, often moving consensus- will always make sure that Within meeting, certainly, consensus consensus to secondary importance. avenues of communication are open, can work. It works when members under­ Few Quakers, loving consensus and that employees, or teachers and students stand the virtue and necessity of some­ respecting that of God in everyone, like can make themselves heard. But when times standing aside, and when member­ to tell others what to do. Yet pressure debate becomes destructive, one indi­ Aaron Barlow is dean of the upper school at to get on with things is always with us , vidual must take responsibility for limit­ Brooklyn (N. Y.) Friends School. limiting us. Serious discussions of every ing it. At some point, faith has to be

20 October 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL placed in that individual and not in the sponsors and parents. The school's spon­ this, those left out often resent it. As the collective. sors are enabled by the power of giving. reasons for exclusion are rarely clear to Consensus works best in circles of They created the school and usually still the excluded, and because those doing equals, where needs are noncompetitive finance it to some degree, either collec­ the excluding in Quaker schools are gen­ or, at least, non-conflicting. It is, there­ tively, as individuals, or both. They also erally people who profess to believe in fore, a difficult process to successfully assume legal responsibility for the school. inclusiveness and consensus, we too of­ use in schools or in many other arenas The parents, on the other hand, are en­ ten end up facing an emotion-charged in the real world. One cannot be every­ abled by their power of withholding. mess. thing to everyone; different needs and They don't have to place their kids in "You say one thing and do another. interests arise from differing circum­ the school. If they are not satisfied they You don't live up to your ideals." stances. Legitimate conflicts do occur. will not. "We are part of this community, too. In developing countries the price of Though they are creatures of the We want to be part of the decision­ bread can be kept low by subsidies to sponsors and are directly accountable to making process, as well." farmers. But what happens when the them, the administrators also respond Resentments can build to the point of government can no longer afford the directly to the parents. And to the explosion-and education screeches to subsidies? Raise bread prices- and face teachers. And to the students. Every­ a halt. Energy is expended, but with no riots? Or keep prices low by force, bank­ thing balances on the administration's positive results; guidance, direction, and rupting the farmers? Discussion might actions, and this seems to give it a great authority disappear. lead to compromise but, in the mean­ deal of power. But the administration's Authority. Isn't it contradictory, in time, someone is going to starve or lose ability to wield that power rests solely some way, to consensus? We often think their farm. on its ability to satisfy all of the other of authority as oppression, or oppres­ Practical limits often keep us from estates. sive. But an accurate printed text is con­ reaching our ideals. Quaker education he day-to-day activities of the sidered "authoritative" not because operates within its own milieu of limita­ school, of course, center on the in­ some weighty critic approves it and forc­ tion, ones forced on it by necessary inte­ T teractions between teachers and es people to read it, but because it had gration with the greater American edu­ students. This is the core of education; been established as exactly as possible cational system, by financial considera­ from it comes the power of both groups. what the author intended. In trying to tions, and by the unstoppable growth of If either is not enthusiastic about school create an authoritative text, one at­ children. Unfortunately, the easiest activities, nothing any of the other tempts to return "control" to the au­ thing (often the only thing) to sacrifice thor-proof positive that all authority to keep within these limits is the un­ need not be negative. wieldy process of consensus decision­ Consensus works As I write, I have authority over my making. essay. You may not like it, but it is here, A Quaker school encompasses five dis­ best in circles and you cannot change it. My authori­ tinct "estates" -none attaining real par­ ty doesn't harm the consensus process ity with the others. These five are the stu­ of equals, where or make dissenting opinions any less im­ dents, the teachers, the administrators, portant. My authority has no moral the parents, and the sponsors (normal­ needs are value, positive or negative. By virtue of ly the school committee, as representa­ the structure of writing and reading, and tive of the sponsoring meeting). Each non-competitive publishing, it is immutable and morally has differing needs and expectations­ neutral. Moral value rests only in things and responsibilities. None will consis­ or, at least, that can be changed. Authority itself tently and easily find consensus with any never becomes a problem. Only misuse of the others, certainly not within neces­ non-conflicting. of authority does. sary time limits. Just as authority for my writing rests A hierarchy of decision-making needs It's a difficult with me-the creator-school authority to be established that does not disen­ rests with the sponsors, for they created franchise any of these groups and that process to use the school. If others don't like certain retains the spirit, at least, of consensus. results of this authority, they are free to But there are so many differences and in schools. try to change the minds of the sponsors decisions, so many divergent needs, and -just as they are free to cut connection so little time. Any way we look at it, we with the school. But they are not free to are faced with emergence of a decision­ groups do will lead to improvement­ take authority away from the sponsors making structure that is not completely unless that action leads to increased (or, by extension, from their agent, the consensus oriented. Otherwise the enthusiasm. administrator). To do so would be to school, quite simply, will fail. It will Each of the five estates has a unique create a new school, just as taking away show no movement, will not provide the relationship with the school. Each thinks my control over my essay would create "education" expected , and will close. -with some justification-that its own a different essay. Authority would be Due to the differing powers and needs needs are most important. Each should transferred to others. These things can of each "estate," any private Quaker be heard and understood. occur, but they are external, do not hap­ school operating in the United States has But each estate cannot be brought in­ pen within the confines of my essay or a well-defined prima facie structure. At to every decision-making situation. Nat­ within the sponsors' school without de­ its top sits a dynamic struggle between urally enough, even when they know stroying the original. And it is that

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1992 21 ''original" and that "within" that con­ its responsibility, it has the authority. bility very seriously. In itself this is a cerns me. The administrator should know this, good thing-until their decisions differ Of all the estates involved, only the should never assume that he or she has from those of the people with the real sponsors cannot walk away from the a right to be part of that process. power. Then, the powerless will often school. They cannot walk away, that is, The administrator's own authority react rather strongly to discover they leaving it as the school it was. Other stems directly from the school commit­ have been, in effect, lied to. estates may be more important to the tee, is defined and confined by the com­ s I see it, this is the major prob­ operating school, but they do not pro­ mittee. In some very important senses, lem in Quaker education today: vide its underpinnings. In legal senses the administrator is merely an agent of A We Quakers tend to be suspi­ and as the continuity, the sponsors are the committee and does not participate cious of authority, so when it must be the school-they are responsible for its in its decisions. present (as in a school, where temporal very existence. Their authority is even Often, administrators attempt to reach constraints and power imbalances be­ stronger than an author's, for the au­ decisions in faculty meetings on a con­ tween adult and child require it), we try thor cannot pull back a published work. sensus basis. They (or the school commit­ to hide it, to pretend to consensus. This The sponsor can close an open school. tee, acting through them) have decided is a deceit, ultimately a worse authori­ They have, therefore, a power denied they want to operate in a consensus man­ tarianism than that of people who open­ the other estates-unless, of course, the ner- but they are able to change their ly try to run the lives of others. And it's others open their own school, thus be­ minds and make decisions on other bas­ a deceit always finally discovered, alien­ coming sponsors themselves. es. The faculty should be aware of this. ating the deceived from the positive of­ hough we may like the idea of Students, too, can be allowed to par­ ferings of the deceivers. consensus, though we strive to ticipate in a community consensus-seek­ In school situations, we would do best T make it a part of our Jives, we ing group-but only on the sufferance to drop the pretense of consensus where have to come to terms, individually and of authority. Somehow, this should be consensus cannot exist. This need not collectively, with authority, perogative, clear to them. bring about the dropping of any estate and limitation as unmovable parts of Because authority rests elsewhere, the from the decision-making process, but our schools. They are there, as irrevo­ consensus process cannot be real in any makes clear its role and the role's limits. cable as an author's power over her or of these situations, but is a fiction allow­ On the other hand, there are times, his text. This should be made clear to ing an approximation of consensus, pro­ even in schools, for letting the various everyone, from students to members of moting stronger discussion before de­ estates decide. Decision-making, after the school community, who becomes in­ cision-making. In all three of the cases all, ought to be as inclusive as possible volved in our schools. · mentioned, the bringing of someone if the Light is to be followed. Recogni­ A school committee may want to in­ really lacking in authority into the tion of authority assumes a certain ex­ volve its chosen administrator in the decision-making process can be danger­ clusion. It should never also mean the committee's own decision-making proc­ ous-especially if their position is not denial of respect for another's concerns ess. But that's the committee's own made clear, if they are given the sem­ and desires. choice, and one always subject to change. blance of authority. For never are they As I write, I try to respect you as read­ If, at any time, the committee wants to really enfranchised. Unfortunately, those er, to present my ideas in a way that withdraw the administrator from such in these groups don't often realize this, allows you to understand why I've made involvement, it may do so. By virtue of and take their new power and responsi- the choices I have. I recognize that debate will continue after my writing is finished, and that you can be a part of it. I am also open to being convinced. I am not bound in the future by what I've written in the past. If schools will do what I have tried to do here-that is, accept their authority but keep open to change- some of the problems they en­ counter may just simply disappear. One advantage we birthright Friends have is that we experienced exclusion coupled with respect as children in the meeting. Our position outside the con­ sensus process was presented frankly and we did not resent it. When a deci­ sion concerned us, we were asked to con­ tribute. We learned both consensus and limitation in the Light. We learned to respect the Inner Light of others by the respect paid to us and our opinions by elders who did not need to pay any at­ tention at all to our feelings. May we & At George School, Advisory Board members met separately with faculty, pass this knowledge on, also in the students, and parents to discuss school life. Light. 0

22 October 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL IT'S FRIENDLY- BUT IS IT ua by Betty Renshaw ow can a Quaker school be sure looked at several of the other Quaker Regular worship, it is truly a Quaker school and testimonies, inviting another seasoned Hthat it continues to be one? Striv­ member of the meeting to lead that ing toward that goal is the charge of the workshop. This attention to the testimo­ the value of Quaker Life Committee of Friends nies led us to spend several months de­ Community School (K-6), under the veloping a set of "guidelines for a Quak­ Friends' care of Friends Meeting of Adelphi, er school" based on the testimonies. The Maryland. dialogue and sharing, as we struggled to Our Quaker Life Committee was agree on the wording of this important testimonies, formed at the request of the school's di­ document, proved revealing and enrich­ rector, Jane Manring, soon after Friends ing-and bonding-to us as a commit­ effective use Community School (FCS) opened its tee. The guidelines then became material doors in fall 1986. At that time the for the next workshop. School Committee, serving as the board As we worked on what we sometimes of the Bible, .of directors for FCS, found itself total­ referred to as "the spiritual guidelines," ly immersed in the infinite details of we realized we needed to look at how to starting a new school. Jane was eager use the Bible at FCS. We talked about an experiential that the Spirit not get lost in mechanics various stories that might be appropri­ and logistics-and so a group called the ate, from both the Old and New approach: Quaker Life Committee was gathered. Testaments, and developed questions With time to focus on Quakerism in about selected stories our teachers might Friends Community School, our commit­ use with the chi ldren. The resulting Friends tee was soon engaged in dialogue about study sheets were then shared and dis­ how best to fulfill our mission. We cussed in a staff workshop, during Community School knew, for instance, that we wanted to which we also gave eacb teacher a copy offer workshops to the staff, but we of The Friendly Seed worksheets on were not exactly sure how we wanted to teaching the Old Testament. works to instill go about that. The committee's consideration of An interesting process emerged. We Bible stories showed us, with somewhat Quaker values. found that these in-service offerings de­ painful clarity, that we needed a better veloped most effectively if we first set understanding of what in the Bible is ourselves a topic to be explored within likely to be meaningful to children of the committee. This internal dialogue different ages. Asking ourselves that about spiritual matters, often quite in­ question led us to a study of spiritual in our dialogue-in-committee, we are tense and meaningful to each of us as growth and development, a topic we convinced the process of working with individuals, tended to evolve quite nat­ have found elusive at best. Recognizing the questions is, in itself, very useful in urally into content for workshops. And, that children necessarily begin with an keeping us on track as we explore Quak­ serendipitously, one topic would some­ anthropomorphic God, we have wrestled erism and its presence at FCS. We are how lead into the next. with how to verbalize for them an comforted by the fact this spirit of ex­ Our first discussion, and subsequent abstraction like the Spirit. Despite the ploration is, after all, quite consistent workshop, was on the Friends Peace Tes­ difficulties, we are planning a workshop with Quaker ideas about continuing rev­ timony, focusing on nonviolence through on the spiritual growth and development elation. And we strive to engage our two children's stories about early Friends of children-focusing on how knowl­ teachers in this same mode of thinking and Native Americans, movingly told by edge of that might broaden the pursuit and talking and reflecting during our two members of the meeting. Next we of Quaker values in the classroom and workshops. on the playground, as well as deepening Staff workshops occur twice a year: Betty Renshaw is the immediate past clerk of the Quaker Life Committee for Friends Community school meeting for worship. in late August, when we begin with a wel­ School. She is a member of Adelphi (Md.) Although we sometimes cannot fully coming breakfast, and in January. A Meeting. resolve the questions we ask ourselves meeting for worship is held each time.

FRIENDS JOURNAL October 1992 23 school and to the meeting. School Committee and Quaker Life Committee meet together once a year, currently in late fall, and the two com­ mittees go on retreat together, with the staff, in March. Having two separate committees, one to attend to practical matters and the other to focus on FCS as a Quaker school, seems to be contin­ uing to serve Friends Community School quite well. And now we ask you: How does your school keep itself a Quaker school? How o does it maintain the life of the Spirit in ~_, its day-to-day existence? The Quaker ·~ Life Committee of Friends Community Ee: School invites sharing from the exper­ 8 ience of others, based, perhaps, on such j s pecific queries as these: .:: ~ • What Quaker questions do you ask - yourselves? ~ ~: • What evidence of Quaker values do 2 you look for in the day-to-day life of ~ your school? • What do you do to deepen and The committee is also available on re­ help FCS make room for and encourage strengthen the grounding of your school quest to meet with staff for more infor­ the former. The committee recognizes, in Quakerism? mal "Quaker education" during week­ with Jane, that this process requires ly staff meetings. Other ways in which careful, conscious, and continuing at­ Is your school Quaker, as well as Quaker Life Committee serves staff in­ tention in a culture where logic is more Friendly? 0 clude individual orientation of new valued than intuition. teachers- especially important with non­ The heart of such nurturing of the in­ Quaker teachers-during the summer; tuitive, of the life of the Spirit, at a ongoing individual nurturing through Quaker school is, of course, meeting for specific support in times of crisis; ac­ worship. At FCS, each school day starts knowledgment of birthdays and other with staff gathered for meeting for wor­ RESOURCES special occasions; and making available ship. Every classroom holds a quiet time • These Guidelines for a Quaker to them, as needed, the Quaker clearness each day, and schoolwide meeting for School are available on request process. worship occurs weekly. The Quaker Life from Friends Community School, Quaker Life Committee also takes Committee often finds itself responding 4601 Calvert Road, College Park care to keep itself available to our school to specific queries from Jane about how MD 20740; (301) 699-6086. director. A standing agenda item reads to make these periods of spiritual center­ • The Friendly Seed worksheet "Jane's concerns/request of the commit­ ing even more meaningful. packets, prepared by the Religious tee." Jane reports on deepening and Our committee also feels a responsi­ Education Committee of Philadel­ training she and her staff pursue beyond bility to help our school families under­ phia Yearly Meeting, are available the school- at Pendle Hill, at seminars stand and appreciate FCS as a Quaker from Friends General Conference, and workshops with other Quaker school. At the May welcoming of new 1216 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA schools, and the like. She tells us about families, the Quaker Life clerk high­ 19107. (Specify packet on teaching how the life of the Spirit manifests itself lights our guidelines for a Quaker school the Old Testament.) from day to day at FCS, and brings us and speaks about FCS as a spiritual • About spiritual growth and her concerns when she feels the Spirit is community. Plans are underway to pre­ development: Helen Bee, less present. Jane also looks to us for sent to each new family a basic book "Psychology's Journey toward spiritual support for herself, often about Quakerism and to offer the meet­ Spirituality" (a summary article), speaking of Quaker Life meetings as ' 'a ing's adult education series "What Is The American Theosophist, Fall place for refreshment of my spirit." Quakerism?" to school parents. Special Issue, 1986; James W . And Jane, a long-time Friend and her- · Seasoned Friends are sought to serve Fowler, The Stages of Faith, self a product of Quaker schools, is a on Quaker Life Committee. Member­ 1981; William Damon, The Moral source of spiritual nourishment for the ship consists of the director, a teacher, Child, 1988. (See also reviews of committee as well. a parent, and usually three or four other newer books in "How Do Jane, reminding us that "Quakerism persons. Monthly committee meetings Children Grow Spiritually?,'' is largely intuitive and experiential while are lively; we laugh a lot together, and FRIENDS JOURNAL, June 1992.) education is largely intellectual and ver­ members often speak of their delight in bal," sometimes asks our committee to this particular avenue of service to the

24 October 1992 FRIEND S JouRNAL AFSC Notes The Religious Freedon1 Restoration Act

The following is the wrillen testimony sub­ amples in the evolution o f United States legal mitted in June 1992 by the American Friends a nd social history. Service Commillee to the Civil and Constitu­ Friends' conviction that freedom of relig­ tional Rights Subcommittee ofthe House Ju­ ion means more tha n freedom to worship diciary Committee on the Religious Freedom without interference in the quiet of our meet­ Restoration Act. -Eds. inghouses continues to create occasional ten­ sions between the practice of our faith and he American Friends Service Commit­ the constraints or demands of civil law. tee (AFSC) fully supports the Relig­ For the American Friends Service Com­ T ious Freedom Restoration Act (HR mittee, and we expect for many religious 2797). Grounded in the beliefs and practices bodies, the cornerstone principle of religious of the Religious Society of Friends, the freedom is fundamentally violated by legal American Friends Service Committee is a distinctions between religious worship and 75-year-old Quaker organization that carries religious practice. Indeed, for Friends, re­ o ut activities to promote peace, develop­ ligious worship and practice are inseparable. ment, and justice in this country and around The AFSC believes that the process of ju­ the world. While not representing all Friends, dicial balanci ng bet.ween the principle of free AFSC is supported by many Quakers and exercise of religion and the interests of the people of other faiths who share Friends' be­ state provides a necessary safeguard for the lief that religious faith must lead to actions rights of all religious groups, as it also pro­ that address human suffering and injustice. i Undocumented workers are held In tects the interests of the state and the wider It is this commitment to fa ith-based action t his detention center In Florida. society. that was recognized in 1947 when AFSC (with T he Religious Freedom Restoration Act, its British counterpart organization, Quaker basis o f their documentation. as written , represents an essential means for Peace and Service) was awarded the Nobel The AFSC case was initially dismissed reestablishing that balancing process in the Peace Prize. without trial by the U.S. District Court for wake of the Smith decision . The AFSC is one o f the religious bodies the Central District of California prior to the As an agency of a small religious body, the that has been denied judicial consideration Supreme Court ruling in Oregon v. Smith. AFSC is a lso aware of the social, political, of a free exercise of religion confli ct in the It then was appealed to the Ninth Circuit and legal pressures on other religious bodies aftermath of the Oregon v. Smith case. In Court of Appeals. There, on Aug. 2, 1991 , outside o f the mainstream. The firmness of AFSC v. Thornburgh, the courts not only the court upheld the district court ruling. It this nation's guarantees of freedom is o ften applied the Smith precedent, but expanded noted, however: tested precisely by the level of its commit­ upon it. The court ruled that the AFSC had ment to respect the rights of those who hold no right to a trial even when a law required Had we reviewed this case immediately after beliefs that are different from others, mis­ A FSC to take new actions that violate its re­ the d istrict court's ruling, we would have ap­ understood, or opposed by the majority. ligious principles. As a result, the AFSC has plied the balancing test articulated in Sherbert AFSC's 50 years of work with Native Ameri­ been forced to choose between taking gov­ v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398 ( 1963), a nd EEOC cans has led us to be particularly concerned ernment-imposed actions t hat violate its re­ v. Pacific Press Publishers Ass'n, 676 F.2d about the continuing pressure on those In­ ligious principles and facing the possibility 1272 (9th Cir. 1982). But after AFSC filed dian people who seek to practice traditional o f severe penalities for remaining true to this appeal, the Supreme Court handed down religions. Their rights were frequently abused, those principles. its decision in Employment Division, Dep't even prior to the Smith decision, and their The case, in brief, grows out of the Immi­ of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith . ... rights will likely require protections that go gration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and That case dramatically altered the manner in beyond the remedies provided in HR 2797. its requirements that all employers inspect which we must evaluate free exercise com­ documentation of employees hired after plaints like that of AFSC, and required that UPDATE: As this goes to press, the church November 1986 a nd deny employment to we affirm the district court's dismissal. coalition working in support of the Religious those who cannot provide the required docu­ Freedom Restoration Act is urging that the ments. For more than seven decades, AFSC In the early years of the Religious Society bill be brought to the floor of the House and has been led by religious faith to provide sup­ of Friends, individual Friends frequently suf­ Senate for votes before the session ends. If port to people displaced by war, poverty, and fered fo r their religious beliefs and form of this effort fails, the religious community will repression and to defend the legal rights of worship. Even after they were guaranteed the be challenged to press for the bill again in immigrants. Our commitment in this work freedom to worship in their own way, the next session of Congress. grows out of the Quaker belief in the sancti­ Friends' insistence that religious teachings In the current session, the bill has become ty of all human life and a long Quaker tradi­ must be practiced on a daily basis occasional­ tangled in the politics of abortion, with the tion of providing humanitarian assistance ly led to conflict with the law. Mary Dyer, Roman Catholic Church asserting that the across all lines of religion, politics, and na­ who was hanged for preaching Quaker teach­ bi ll would provide a basis for a religious tionality. It is strengthened by the biblical call ings in Massachusetts in the 17th century, claim for abortions. Nonetheless, many anti­ to welcome the stranger. That faith tradition Friends who were prosecuted for their role abortion members of Congress, such as Orin has placed AFSC in conflict with the 1986 in the undergro und railroad in the 19th cen­ Hatch of Utah, have continued to support government requirement that, as an employ­ tury, and young Quakers prosecuted for their the bill. er, it act on the government's behalf in de­ religious o bjection to participation in war in by Warren Witte, nying livelihoods to a class of people on the the 19th and 20th centuries are prominent ex- on behalf of the AFSC

FRIENDS J ouRNAL October /992 25 Reports

ing examination of schisms, realignment, worship services that featured hymns, scrip­ Western diversity, and Quaker distinctives? ture readings, prayers, and messages. North­ The 245 Friends who gathered at Lewis & west Yearly Meeting's gift was a message on Clark College on July 6-10 came from all "Friendship: Human and Divine." Inter­ Gathering eight Western yearly meetings in North mountain Yearly Meeting offered queries re­ America. They came away with a greater un­ flecting their meeting's growing pains, joys, derstanding of our common Quaker heritage, sorrows, hopes, and vision. Pacific Yearly of Friends as well as the diverse paths that have been Meeting presented state of society reports followed by our various branches. A certain and ended with a skit of the creation story, family resemblance was noted as each year­ concluding that the job is not finished. Was the fi rst-ever Western Gathering of ly meeting shared its historical roots, distinc­ Douglas Gwyn, pastor of the Berkeley Friends the beginning of a movement for ser­ tive cultures, and present concerns, and as Friends C hurch, Southwest Yearly Meeting, ious dialogue among and between liberal and each described what it felt was the central gave the keynote address, " Renewing Our evangelical Friends? Or was it part of a grow- Quaker witness. All the pastoral meetings led Covenant: Can Our Branches Be Olive A Vital Reason for Dialogue by John Punshon camps or perhaps are in Central or South Both these movements to work in their dif­ America doing mission work. They prefer ferent ways tend to plane down denomin­ This material is taken from remarks the that kind of action to the more introspec­ ational differences. It seems to me the Re­ author made at the closing plenary session tive activity that concerns liberal Friends. ligious Society of Friends stands for some­ of the Western Gathering of Friends on That raises a question that has been in thing unique in both its branches, and to ex­ July 10. -Eds. Christian history from the very beginning. plore that denominationalism and strength­ As Tertullian asked in the third century: Can en it against the forces eroding it is the pri­ manuel Kant bequeathed three ques­ Athens speak to Jerusalem? What are the mary reason I see for the different branch­ tions to the children of the Enlighten­ prospects for dialogue between the children es to come together. E ment. He said, I want to know the of the Enlightenment and the children of the As Ben Franklin said, if we don't all hang answer to three questions: What can I great awakening? Because the dialogue be­ together, we will all hang separately. I think know? What may I believe? What ought I tween Evangelical Friends and liberal Friends Quakerism is much too important for us to to do? T hese are questions of the Enlighten­ can be put that way. allow this to happen. There is enough ment, and they are questions that exercise It seems to me there are two ways to ap­ strength of feeling in the Evangelical tradi­ the liberal branch of Quakerism. proach this questions. The first is to simply tion to balance the concern in the liberal But Evangelical Friends tend to start at get to know the other group, to experience tradition. What we need is a joint exercise a different point. They ask: Where will I the similarities and differences. This is an im­ of exploration about common interests. Be­ spend eternity? Underlying this is the con­ portant thing to do, but of itself is a stronger fore that can happen there has to be equali­ viction that we shall all come face to face reason, a more fundamental reason, a more ty. As we look to the future, we have to pay with the Truth in Christ and be called upon vital reason for dialogue between the two attention to evangelical concerns. We have to give an account of whether or not we branches of the Religious Society of Friends. certain presuppositions we need to examine. have lived our lives according to that Truth My conviction comes from two considera­ And I'm speaking to liberal Friends now. all our lives. Therefore, the impulse is dif­ tions. First, the center of Quakerism was The first presupposition is that diversity ferent, and it leads to a different character once London, England. Then the center is desirable, that diversity is beneficial. The and a different spirituality. shifted to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and counter argument is that you spend all your Liberal Friends are not altogether sure then to Richmond, Indiana. Now, with time talking among yourselves and can nev­ they are Christians, and so they spend a fair growth of Evangelical Quakers outside the er tell us what you corporately think- or amount of their time going to meetings, at United States and stimulated by growth of whether you can have a corporate view be­ which they search for an authentic Quak­ missions by Southwest Yearly Meeting and yond limited diversity. That is an important erism. It is sometimes strange to grasp that Northwest Yearly Meeting, it is conceivable question arising from this conference, which Evangelical Friends are quite sure they are that the crossroads of world Quakerism is liberal Friends have to ask themselves. C hristian, and therefore the quest for an on the West Coast of this continent. The second is an instinctive a ttitude that authentic Quakerism is of considerably less Therefore, the future of the Society lies in if there are two opposing theological views, urgency in their lives. Because of this, some the hands of those who are active in the there must be a third that transcends and of the Friends whom we would dearly have Western yearly meetings, those meetings reconciles them. However, the instinct of loved to have sit at places at this table are that were involved in convening the Western Evangelicals is to quote the biblical com­ teaching vacation Bible school or in summer Gathering. That, in fact, may be the histor­ mand: "I have set before you life and death, ical significance of what we are doing. ... therefore, choose life." (Deut. 30: 19) The second reason is that there are two That is a call for existential commitment, not John Punshon, a Friend from Britain, is a pro­ forces at work that may be inimical to the a call for intellectual reconciliation. We have fessor at Earlham School of Religion. He pre­ Society of Friends. T hey are, on the Evan­ to think, if we are liberal Friends, about the viously was a visiting professor for one year at gelical side, the movement called the new way we think before we can come to terms George Fox College, and before that taught at Evangelism, and the other is the ecumenical with the way our brothers and sisters think Woodbrooke, a Quaker study center in England. movement among liberals in the churches. in the other tradition. If we can get beyond

26 October 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL and honor the deep evangelical concern for traditional family relations and values. Evan­ gelical Friends were challenged to understand and respect the liberal reverence for nature, both human nature and the environment, to join Quaker groups that are finding new ways to hallow the Earth, and to simply ac­ cept that some liberal meetings bless same­ gender unions when the couple is willing to live out their relationship under the nurture and guidance of their home meeting. John Punshon, a professor at Earlham School of Religion, urged both liberal and evangelical Friends to pay attention to each other's concerns and presuppositions. (See John Punshon's remarks in sidebar.) Asia Bennett, general secretary of Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas, underscored the need tore­ spect one another, experience real knowledge of beliefs and languages, to open ourselves that, then the way is clear for dialogue. Branches?" He reviewed the struggle of the to hurt, pain, and frustration, to study the We also have to be clear about preoccupa­ early Christian church between Jewish and Bible and Quaker history, and to risk ask­ tions of Evangelical Friends. First is the Gentile Christians, who achieved a bipolar ing questions. She noted some opportunities question of missions both to other shores unity as they reached a covenant around their to continue the dialogue through Youth­ and to the marginal, the alienated, and the disagreements. Gwyn called for a similar quake!, through Quaker Youth Pilgrimages, unchurched in U.S. society. Second is the kind of covenant renewal among Friends: work opportunities, regional gatherings, question of how Christ is experienced in the "Not the hard-hearted renunciations of one women's theological conferences, missions, . church, the order and government, and our another, nor soft-headed declarations of service consultations, international meetings discipline in the traditional Quaker sense of 'peace, peace when there is no peace'; but of FWCC, Evangelical Friends International, that word. Third, what is the basis of our soft-hearted, hard-headed covenant-cutting Friends United Meeting, meetings of clerks commitment. Have we had a conversion ex­ faithfulness with one another in the presence and superintendents, and publications. perience, or only an adjustment experience? of God. Such a covenant would acknowledge Daily worship groups provided an oppor­ And does it matter? And what is the basis that we have different experiences, based in tunity for participants to tell their personal for holiness and the quest for perfection that personal history and different subcultural stories about God, to share their religious ex­ relies on that experience? backgrounds; but it would work to bind us periences, and to ask hard questions. In one In the field of youth and children, how can together in the care of a transcendent God group, participants were reminded that at we enable our children to cope with society who is more than the sum of our parts, times we put down others and build extreme and to stand out against destructive and whose love is greater than our imperfect stereotypes based on aberrations of Christian­ harmful influences coming to them from all loves, and whose interest is in all creation, ity, such as the Inquisition, the Crusades, directions? nor our self-centered hopes and desires." and ex-ploitation of native peoples. These These are evengelical preoccupations, but Douglas Gwyn called on all Friends to rec­ worship groups received high commenda­ in form and vocabulary, these are matters ognize and honor each other's sense of the tions on participants' evaluations of the on which we can come into dialogue with sacred. To help bridge gulfs of misunder­ gathering. a common history, based on common vo­ standing, he urged liberal Friends to redis­ Thematic groups met daily, focusing on cabulary and common experience. cover the Bible and the prophetic vision that these questions: How do we discern the will There is a controversy among one of the informed Quakerism, and to take seriously of God? What are we as individuals and as yearly meetings that is part of this gather­ ing. It is about introducing the outward At the Western elements of baptism and holy communion, Getherlng of permitting Friends to use water and wine Friends: Top, left to and bread. This seems to me to symbolize right: Speekers the erosion of the Quaker principle of in­ Asle BenneH, Doug wardness, which is the basis of our denomi­ Gwyn, end John national independence. It is this which is the Punshon confer. basis of our whole life, from our form of Left: Friends reheerse for • ministry, our commitment to equality, our Southweste rn church governance, and our peace testimony. Yeerly Meeting There is much we have in common. What presentation. we have to do is uncover the presuppositions that stand in the way of understanding each other. I hope we will find ways to continue, not necessarily in a formal way, the process that began here this week. 1 pray to God that we do. 0

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1992 27 the Religious Society of Friends called to be? What are we called to do? WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 What of the future? Planners of the gath­ Kindergarten through 303 Years of Quaker Education Twelfth Grade ering did not plan for follow-up meetings or the creation of a new Friends institution. But Operated under Charter issued by William Penn. The William Penn Charter in their evaluations, a very large number of School is a Quaker college-preparatory school committed to nurturing in girls participants called for another such gather­ and boys the education of the mind , the quickening of the spirit, and the ing in five or more years. It was hoped that development of the body. Penn Charter stresses high standards in academics, more evangelical Friends could participate the arts, and athletics. and that a more balanced agenda be offered. Friends are encouraged to apply both as students and as teachers. In the meantime, Friends committed them­ selves to personal intervisitation and local Earl J. Ball III, Headmaster dialogue among churches and meetings. One 3000 W. School House lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 person's reflection perhaps summarizes it all: (215) 844-3460 "The fellowship, sharing, and even confron­ tation of evangelical and unprogrammed Friends should be continued as long as the Spirit moves or compels us, which I hope will be forever in this world and conceivably in the next. I pon't feel moved to expect at this FRIENDS HOME AT WOODSTOWN time that we will ever be completely A Quaker-Sponsored Retirement Facility homogenized, but we can all grow in grace."

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28 October 1992 F RI END S JoU RNAL Parents' Corner Small classes, strong FRIENDS academics in a SELECT supportive, caring environment Keeping the Dialogue Open SCHOOL emphasizing Quaker by Harriet Heath night. His father felt he was past the age of values. needing to go "cruising." But as we talked, • Pre·K thru 12th hen I get old enough, I am going he realized that in the dark car, not looking ' ' Day School to go work with Mother Theresa. face to face, he and his son were discussing • After School Program It just is not right our having so the issues with wh ich the younger person was e W • Summer Day Camp much and others having nothing at all," an­ struggling. nounced 14-year-old Patty, as she dropped And the discussions go on and on and on. 17th & the Parkway her school bag on the floor and went to the How often professionals have said that par­ Philadelphia, PA refrigerator looking for an after-school snack. ental influence is over when kids reach ado­ (215) 561-5900 " You 're feeling the unfair discrepancy bet­ lescence! However, experience and research ween what we have compared to others," re­ do not support this conclusion. Report after flected her mother as she looked around at report of children who have made it through the pleasant, well-furnished kitchen. adolescence, ones who are able to move in­ THE HICKMAN " I sure am. We were talking about sim­ to the adult tasks of providing for themselves OF CONCORD QUARTERLY MEETING plicity today in Quakerism and then had an and becoming contributing members of soci­ assembly movie on world poverty. It all came ety, have had parents or long-term mentors ··.1 ..... together. We're not doing anything to help upon whom they could depend. r.. ... _ J!!!!!IIt i ~-~~ , others." As with this father, our children do not ·= ~ "We do have a lot," agreed her mother. choose the most convenient or even the most 100 Year History " It's wrong. It should bother you," pushed expected time. My training in counseling led A Personal Care Home Patty. me to expect a child to want to sit face to • Reasonable Rates "Well , it does bother me in a way," re­ face for such a serious talk. My experience • Not-for-profit sponded her mother slowly. " I guess I've has taught me that even students in school • Quaker Tradition worked out what.! see as balances, but one may prefer less direct situations, such as a In Town Location convenient is never sure what's right. To give up all our telephone conversation or a visit while work­ to Shops and Businesses wealth would mean you children wouldn't ing at a common task. Parents wanting to (215) 696-1536 I be in private school. Is living in poverty go­ keep the communication open become at­ West Chester, PA ing to help others in the long run? On the tuned to the situation that makes it easiest other end of the continuum, we don't buy for a particular child to share her or his the most expensive models of what is avail­ issues. able, and we could afford either." For the parent, the discussion is not easy. "Well , I just don't think it is right we have It is so easy to point out the inconsistencies so much. Think how many poor people could of the adolescent. Patty's mother could have be fed if we had donated the money we paid sarcastically pointed out, "Well, you wanted for the microwave oven." your signature jeans and GAP jacket. Ones ''Or the signature jeans,' ' her mother add­ from Sears would have been just as good and ed, with a smile. much cheaper." But that would have stopped "Yeah." the discussion. If the goal is to help one's chil­ dren search for their own resolution to a di­ As children get older their questions come lemma, the parent must focus on keeping the closer to our own and are, therefore, often dialogue open, accepting inconsistencies more threatening. Adolescents in their seek­ while suggesting other points-of-view and ing do not hesitate to question parents' val­ possible consequences. ues and standards. In the process, parents find the adolescent 110 Etit Main Street, Moorestown, NJ For parents, this can be an opportunity to becoming a young adult and joining them in 609-235-2900 ext. 227 be part of the dialogue. By being open and their search for the Way. 0 non-judgmental, parents can help their young Harriet Heath, a Friend in the Philadelphia, Pa., people be aware of the options available and area, is director ofth e Parent Center at Bryn Mawr be able to explore the consequences of those College. She is also a consultant and a licensed psy­ Iml!l1l1 options, as this mother was trying to do in chologist. She writes regularly for Parents' Corner. A QUAKER CENTER a gentle way. Undoubtedly, this discussion was but the first of what would be returned \--;::2(::3;!;-;-Jfor Rest, Reflection, & References for this article were: \ Renewal on 110 acres to many times. Keeping the dialogue open is often the chal­ • Problem Behavior and Psychosocial IJ.oolMAI'I ~,...... of farm & woodlands. lenge. I remember talking about adolescents' Development: A Longitudinal Study Ideal for personal, group, search with a group of parents once. A of Youth, by R. and S. Jessor. & Friends Meeting Retreats father, who shared the custody of his son, Academic Press: New York, 1977 !A !NiliJJ~'ii' liJJ ~OINl® ~INIVO~©INI~ ~ INI 'ii' started grinning. He picked up the theme and • Vulnerable but In vincible: A U@U m 'iW©©~ WJ1!1IJ,; said, with surprise in his voice, something to Longitudinal Study of Resilienf the effect, "You know, that is what we are Children and Youth, by E. Werner write~ Keets Road doing when we cruise around the city late at and R. Smith. McGraw-Hill Book or .. Deerfield, MA 01342 night." Turns out his 16-year-old son loved Co., New York, 1982. call · -· (413) 774-3431 to have him drive him around the city at

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30 October 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL meeting will be held outside the continental contributions to where they are needed. Es­ United States. It is part of a continuing ef­ pecially helpful to receive would be clothing fort to be more inclusive of Latin American for infants and small children, cloth diapers, Friends in Section activities. It will offer a cloth remnants and sewing supplies, and per­ chance for more local Friends to participate, sonal hygiene kits. as well as enabling Friends from the United The hygiene kits should contain a small States and Canada to experience Latin bath towel, bar of soap, toothbrush, comb American culture and sharing. There will be or brush, a small, sturdy, plastic zip bag or pre- and post-conference activities for those soap dish. All items should be new. Other who wish to extend their stays. The annual useful items for the hygiene kit would be nail meeting is open to all Friends. For informa­ clippers; toothpaste; barrettes, hair elastics, tion, contact the office of FWCC, Section and hair pins; and a cloth or mesh drawstring of the Americas, 1506 Race St., Philadel­ bag to hold the items. Also needed are ex­ phia, PA 19102, telephone (215) 241-7250. tra, loose items for kit assemblage in Philadelphia. Relief supplies are needed for drought vic­ Volunteers are needed to help prepare the tims in Africa. The rains that usually begin shipments, as is money to purchase items and in November and December started on sched­ pay shipping costs. Organizers suggest $1 per ule last year and then stopped abruptly in personal hygiene kit or set of clothing; checks January 1992. The maize crop had not yet may be made out to AFSC Material Aids. formed kernels. Crop failure estimates range Money is also needed for AFSC' s relief and from 50 percent to 90 percent. The effects development programs in Somalia and from Wesleyan University and a master's of the drought will be felt until next spring, Mozambique. degree in anthropology from the University even if the rains return this November. For information, or to contribute in any of Chicago. He has been a member of Mid­ The Material Aids Program of the Ameri­ way, contact AFSC Material Aids Program, dletown (Conn.) and 57th Street (Ill.) meet­ can Friends Service Committee is coordi­ 1515 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102, ings and now belongs to Central Philadephia nating a collection effort and will channel telephone (21 5) 241-7041. (Pa.) Meeting, where he is clerk of the Over­ seers Committee. He brings skills in writing, fundraising, public speaking, and group dy­ namics to his new job. His articles have ap­ peared in FluENDS JOURNAL, Fellowship, and A Quaker Sponsored Nuclear Times. He was co-editor of the book, The Sun Never Sets (1991). 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• Quaker House, the seat of Friends peace Public Broadcasting. A former dean of job descriptions and requirements of the witness in Fayetteville, N.C., is in danger of women at Kentucky State College and above positions, as well as information about closing due to lack of money. The house was Tuskegee Institute, she was the first African the clearness process are available from the fo unded in 1969 in response to the Vietnam American to go to Europe for the Service Volunteer Service Support Committee, War, and established a peace witness in prox­ Committee, when she worked in Austria Friends Meeting of Austin, 3014 Washington imity to the largest military concentration in from 1946 to 1948. She also worked in the Square, Austin, TX 78705. the nation: Fort Bragg, Pope Air Force Base, South with AFSC's school desegration ef­ and Camp Lejeune. It became the site of forts. The annual gathering will begin with • The Tax Resisters' Penalty Fund provides counseling men and women on matters of a welcome at 12:30 p.m., followed at 1:15 financial and moral support for people who conscience, helping young men who were p.m. with "By Word of Mouth-AFSC resist paying taxes for military purposes. facing the draft, presenting alternatives to Stories of the Major Moments and When a request for assistance comes in, the military solutions, and providing a quiet, Movements of the 20th Century.'' The committee that oversees the fund takes it un­ non-authoritarian environment for military stories will tell of AFSC programs in der consideration, then notifies people who personnel. Founding of Quaker House also response to the Depression, World War II, have agreed to participate of the amount made possible the formation of Fayetteville the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the each would need to contribute to cover the Meeting. Quaker House runs on an annual anti-Vietnam War movement, and current tax resister's penalty and interest debt. Con­ budget of $30,000. Following a burglary of struggles for economic and social justice. tributions are not used to cover the tax liabili­ Quaker House two years ago, many contri­ Jean Fairfax will speak at the 4 p.m. plenary ty itself. The fund is administered in coopera­ butions were received, but support has since session, followed by birthday cake cutting at tion with the North Manchester (Ind.) Fel­ dwindled. However, to this trend, the local 5 p.m. and a dinner at 6 p.m. (reservations lowship of Reconciliation. To become in­ military establishment is expanding, rather are required). A youth program will run volved, write to the Tax Resisters' Penalty than cutting back, particularly Fort Bragg. throughout the afternoon, and child care for Fund, North Manchester FOR, P.O. Box 25, Those who work at Quaker House have been younger children will be available. For in­ North Manchester, IN 46962. concerned about the continuing and increas­ formation, call (215) 241-7053. ing military penetration of high schools, • A Friend from Southern Appalachian where students are seen as prime candidates • FRmNos JoURNAL would like to thank all Yearly Meeting and Association (SA YMA) for recruiting. In addition, the military pro­ those meetings who have started sending us is traveling under a concern to Belfast, vides high schools with career evaluation their newsletters, in response to our request Ireland. Clare Hanrahan, who will also tools and other services that mold acceptance in the June issue. We invite others who do receive travel assistance from Celo (N.C.) of military solutions. A recent thrust of not have us on their newsletter mailing list Meeting, will work with the Ulster Quaker Quaker House programs is to empower to put us there. We are interested in hearing Service Committee. She will be in a one-year parents and students to challenge this indoc­ from all branches of Friends and value the voluntary placement with Quaker Cottage, trination process. Quaker House runs out of connections we make by getting your news. a cross-cultural family support center for an old house with one staff person, with no Our address is F'RmNDS JoURNAL, 1501 women and children of West Belfast. Clar~ large fund-raising organization or large en­ Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. also hopes to work with the Community of dowment. It has traditionally depended on the Peace People, who publish the journal contributions from Friends Meetings and in­ • A Volunteer Service Support Committee to Peace by Peace, and she will go to learn from dividual supporters. To offer support, write help Friends with full-time volunteer place­ grassroots programs for nonviolent justice or call Quaker House, 223 Hillside Ave., ments has been established by South Central and peace in Ireland. Clare has been editor Fayetteville, NC 28301, telephone (919) Yearly Meeting. The committee uses a set of for the last three years of the regional jour­ 323-3912. queries to establish clearness in preparation nal Rural Southern Voice for Peace. With for volunteer service. It also has information her daughter Jessica MacManus, she co­ • Storytelling, music, and dinner will high­ on volunteer opportunities offered by other founded a homeless emergency shelter and light the annual public gathering of the groups. They are currently trying to place advocacy center in St. Petersburg, Florida. American Friends Service Committee on people in two volunteer positions: During her year in Belfast, she will publish Nov. 7 at Friends Center in Philadelphia, Pa. A woman is sought to be assistant coordin­ a monthly newsletter, and she will be avail­ This year, the event will celebrate the AFSC's ator of the women's program at Monteverde able for speaking engagements upon her re­ 75th anniversary. Featured speaker will be Institute in Costa Rica for one or more years. turn. She may be reached at Quaker Cottage, Jean Fairfax, who has a long and distin­ The program serves rural women in the Mon­ Ulster Quaker Service Committee, Bally Go guished career in civil rights with the AFSC teverde area. The volunteer needs to be fluent Martin Road 295A, Belfast, Ireland. and the NAACP. She has served as consul­ in Spanish, among other requirements. tant to the board of the Corporation for Deadline for application is Nov. l. • A 42-day People's Fast for Justice and Volunteers to sojourn with faculty mem­ Peace in the Americas began September 1st bers and students and to teach English at in Washington, D.C. Participants include Colegio Jorge Fox have been requested by Brian Willson, Karen Fogliatti, Jack Ryan, Honduras Yearly Meeting. Volunteers may Scott Rutherford, Theresa Fitzgibbon, Dan commit to one or more of each year's three Cunningham, Marie Dennis, Dave Dellinger, six-week sessions of study. and Vic Scutari. The fast is scheduled to For all positions, volunteers must have conclude October 12, "Columbus Day." their own money, but the committee can pro­ Throughout the fast there are daily planned vide help with fund-raising and access to a and spontaneous events at the Capitol steps: small loan fund. The committee can also pro­ speakers, music, readings, centering for re­ vide help with the volunteer's re-entry to the flection. The public is invited to participate. United States, logistical assistance with news­ For more information, call (202) 546-7937. letter distribution, and speaking engagements when the volunteer returns. More detailed

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OCTOBER Pendle-Hill-on-the-Road. For information, con­ tact Patty O'Hara, PHOR, Pendle Hill , 338 Plush In October-Mid India Yearly Meeting, at George Mill Road, Wallingford, PA 19086. Fox Hall, Itarsi, India. Contact P .C. Masih, DAILY Asfabad, P.O. ltarsi, Hoshangabad, MP, India. 30-Nov.I-Conference on Quaker Women and Overseas Ministry, at Friends Church and Friends 1- 4-Germany Yearly Meeting, at Schloss Eringer­ READINGS Meeting, West Branch, Iowa. Margaret Hope feld , Nr. Paderborn, Germany. Contact Lore From Bacon will be resource person, telling stories of Horn, Wikinger Ufer 5, DW-1000 Berlin 21, Quaker women who traveled in the ministry 250 Quakerm-itings Germany. years ago. Sponsored by Friends World Commit­ GAncient s-CModem 2- 3-International Conference on Servant-Lead­ tee for Consultation. Registration before Oct. 9 ership, sponsored by the Robert K. Greenleaf is $15, and $20 after that date. Children will be Center, to be held at University Place Conference admitted free, and child care will be provided. Center, 850 W. Michigan St., Indianapolis, Ind. Contact Joan Tucker, 1600 Prairie Du Chien Preconference workshop on Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 Road, Iowa City, lA 52245. p.m.; cost of $200-$225 is addition to conference fee of $2()()..$250. Contact the Robert K. Greenleaf NOVEMBER Center, 1100 W. 42nd St., Suite 321, Indianapolis, 1-Ciosing Reunion Dinner of the Pacific Moun­ 1N 46208, telephone (317) 925-2677. tain Region of the American Friends Service Com­ 2- 12- Healing Global Wounds forum and cere­ mittee, to be held in San Francisco, Calif., as part mony at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, Las Vegas, of the AFSC's 75th anniversary. Contact Stephen Nevada. Purpose is to seek an end to 500 years McNeil, AFSC/ PMR, 2160 Lake St., San Fran­ of injustice to Native Americans and an end to cisco, CA 94121 , or call (415) 752-7766. " .. .a special collectiolt--{ee/ it will do well 011 nuclear testing on native lands. Contact Western 6- 14-Peace Brigades International training ses­ Shoshone National Council, Box 140 11 5, Duck­ both silks of the Atlalllic & elsewhere i11 the sion in Montreal, Quebec, for the team going to water, NY 89314. Quaur world. ---4 qualily productio11." Guatemala in January 1993. Peace teams serve as 3-10-Mysticism a nd Creation Spirituality: international observers, accompanying threatened -London, England Retreat and Workshop, on the island of tona, west activists, writing monthly bulletins, and offering "Daily Readings has rapidly become a Quak£r of Scotland. Contact Harry Underhill, 73 Winchel­ workshops on peace education. Cost is $50 for or­ sea Lane, Hastings, TN35 4LG. ientation, $160 for the entire training session. Con­ classic. .. We expect this excelle/11 work to be in tact Peace Brigades International, 333 Valencia St., demand for years to come." 15-18-"SRI in the Rockies, " the third annual Suite 330, San Francisco, CA 94103, or call (415) conference of the First Affirmative Financial Net­ -Quaker Bookstore manager 864-7242. work, Inc., a national group of financial profes: " .. .a high circulatio11 book." sionals specializing in socially responsible invest­ 7- American Friends Service Committee's 75th -County Librarian ments. To be held at The Nature Place in Floris­ Anniversary Celebration, at its Annual Public sant, Colo. Contact George Gay or Scott Flora at Gathering at Friends Center, 150 I Cherry St., Phil­ Consisting of significant passages of writings (800) 422-7284 or (7 19) 636-1045. adelphia, Pa. {See brief in Bulletin Board.) of more than 150 Friends, DAILY READINGS 17-"International Economic Sanctions," a one­ 7-8- Japan Yearly Meeting, in Tokyo . FROM QUAKER WRITINGS ANCIENT & day consultation at Friends Center, 150 1 Cherry --14. MODERN is a 384-page anthology of Quaker St., Philadelphia, Pa. Sponsored by the Peace .. Education Division of the American Friends Serv­ literature, ranging from contemporary favorites ice Committee, this will take a look at the histo ry to the Valiant Sixty, including George Fox, o f AFSC's experience with sanctions. Contact Thomas Kelly, Elfrida Vipont Foulds, John Bruce.Birchard, (215) 241 -7018. Woolman, Isaac Penington, Elizabeth Watson, 23-25-200th Anniversary celebration of Home­ Rufus Jones, Christopher Holdsworth, John wood and Stony Run Monthly Meetings of Balti­ Wilbur,EliasHicks,JosephJohnGurney,Douglas more, Md. Features music, a display of Quaker Steere, Margaret Hope Bacon, Elizabeth Gray memorabilia, a dinner, a bus tour o f Quaker sites Vining, and many more. in Baltimore, a lect ure by Elizabeth Watson , and meeting for worship. Ffi,o Passages are typically one page in length, and !NiC~ each page headed by calendar date, such as "1st 23- 25-Friends Committee on Unity with Nature, 7- 14-Friends Witness in Nicaragua, hosted by El Month, 23~" Writings vary from inspirational, annual meeting, in Cedar Glen, Bolton, Ontario, Centro de los Amigos en Nicaragua. Trip features Canada. Contact FCUN, 7700 Clarks Lake Road, autobiographical tohistorical accounts ofccurage , visits to programs and projects in Nicaragua with Chelsa, Ml 4811 8. from the wide family of Friends. which Quakers are involved. Emphasis will be on This 384-page volume is printed on non­ 24- United Nations Day, featuring world-wide understanding current conditions and issues. Cost: events promoting global cooperation. For informa­ $300, including food, lodging, and transportation yellowing, acid-free paper and is a clOlh-covered tion, contact Michele Peppers, 7 Diane tlill, Hunt­ within Nicaragua. Space limited to ten partici­ hardback, with an attached ribbon bookmarlc. ington, NY 11 743 . pants. Contact Pro-Nica, 130 19th Ave., S.E., St. For your copy, send with check@ $26.Sl5 plus$3.00 Petersburg, FL 33705. 30- Nov. 1-Southeast Area Meeting of Friends s&h. Gifts may be shipped directly to recipient World Committee for Consultation, at St. Colum­ 7-21-Travel/study trip to South Africa to explore with your message enclosed ba Episcopal Center, 4577 Billy Mahar Rd., Mem­ current dynamics after 40 years of apartheid. For phis, TN 38134. Theme is " Peace Makers in the information, contact Center for Global Education, Mail to: SERENITY PRESS; Dept. F6 Power of the Lord." Speakers will be Arum Augsburg College, 73 1 21st Ave., S., Minneapolis, 131 Meadow Lane Gandhi and T. Canby Jones. Registration fee: $25, MN. TO:N"ameGrants ______Pass, Ore. 97526 USA _ may be sent to Mina Johnson, 705 Cypress Dr., 13-15-" Beyond Boundaries," led by Many Memphis, TN 3811 2. Walton, in Seattle, Wash., in a weekend workshop 30-Nov. )-"Conflict Resolution," led by Arlene by Pendle-Hill-on-the-Road. Contact Patty Adru~------­ Kelly, at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Sponsored by Nine O'Hara, PHOR, Pendle Hill, 338 Plush Mill City, State, ZIP Partners Quarterly Meeting of New York and Road , Wallingford, PA 19086.

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34 October 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL The book, which is the report of the Fifth portunity for repeated renections on how World Conference of Friends, is organized (and whether) our actions derive from, and in five chapters, the central three given over help bring people to, the living water. Some to detailed accounts of each of the confer­ of the most touching responses to the con­ ences, held in Kenya, Honduras, and the ferences are searching examinations of why Netherlands. Here we find the texts of ma­ so much of the social and political action of jor addresses bracketed by brief vignettes, re­ liberal, Northern Friends seems joyless and nections, and reports by conference partici­ why the faith of evangelical Friends in pants. The addresses, generally rich in in­ Africa, and Central and South America can sight, gain more depth in company with these be both so relevant and assured in hope. brief personal accounts of the conference ex­ The book is full of wonderful stories of perience. Pleas for greater understanding how individuals came to their faith, how they among Friends, for listening to unfamiliar live it in difficult and dangerous settings, and uncongenial expressions of faith, stand where they turn for help, and meditations on next to poignant confessions of how hard it tions, puzzling reassessments of what peo­ biblical and other stories. The story of the has been to hear a cherished image for God ple had taken for granted, it gives us the feel Samaritan woman, in particular, takes on disparaged, or how thin one's own form of of being in a huge room, hearing many over­ multi-faceted, multi-layered meanings as a worship seems after encountering the rich­ lapping voices. Each voice speaks earnestly, number of speakers bring their own li ves in­ ness of programmed or unprogrammed wor­ sincerely, but in unfamiliar, contradictory to dialogue with it. But many themes and ship for the first time. languages. The whole book may give us as texts emerge from the li fe-experiences of the "Encounters" is an inspired introduction many as a hundred different voices. Some­ participants-drought, heat, mud, hunger to the book. We hear from at least 25 differ­ how, as in a gathered meeting for worship, and thirst, suspicion, hurt, misunderstand­ ent voices on such topics as worship tradi­ disparate and contradictory messages begin ing, encounter a nd dialogue. And the prob­ tions and experiences, diversity and unity, to connect, to create a complex and more sig­ lems of language: saying what one knows, prayer and vision, substantiated by descrip­ nificant whole. hearing the words and images of others in tions of worship groups, music, and other The conferences had both a theme and a translation, trying (or not bothering) to listen nonverbal activities. This chapter is not easy biblical text. The theme, "faith in action," for where the words come from. "When you to follow at first, but that is one of its was especially appropriate, and the text, the interpret ... you empty yourself of words strengths. In its impressionistic, kaleidoscop­ story of the Samaritan woman's encounter and thoughts, and then you fill yourself with ic picture of encounters across worship tradi- with Jesus at the well, gave Friends the op- others' ideas and move them to your re-

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FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1992 35 ceivers' ears as quickly as possible." That service to another's attempt to speak authen­ tically must have its effect on how carefully one speaks one's own words, we feel. It must lead to greater respect for even the words and images which seem at odds with one's own experience. Needing interpretation so much made Friends aware of how words can hurt, but the book also shows us real people, like Scattergood Friends School is a co-educational, college ourselves, trying to listen well but not always preparatory, boarding and day high school for 55 students succeeding. We read examples of inability to escape from hurtful stereotypes, inability to hear respectfully others' images or words for • Excellent success in placing graduates in colleges and universities the Divine, willingness to dismiss as "gobble­ dygook" others' attempts to speak truthful­ • 4: I student to faculty ratio ly, treating one's own prejudices as though • Small classes and attention to the needs and interests of individuals they are an expression of the highest princi­ • Extensive outdo or and farm experiences ple. We are continually reminded that our human limitations provide the metaphors for • Caring and supportive community life our spiritual life just as readily as our human • Emphasis upon cooperation rather than competition possibilities do. • Affordable tuition with extensive financial assistance How might this book be used? Meeting discussion groups might examine the major addresses together; individuals might be asked to report on the tone and content of For additional information, or to arrange a visit, various parts of the book; meeting commit­ call or write, Director of Admissions, Scattergood Friends School, tees might examine the appropriate " Reports Route 1, Box 32, West Branch, /A 52358-9715 (3 19) 643-7600 on Quaker Concerns" in the final chapter. But this is a book for individual Friends, as well. Each o f us will find ourselves repre­ sented here-not always to our pleasure. Each o f us will also find voices with which to enter into dialogue, fa ithfu l adversaries whose wit­ ness tests our own, whose fidelity strengthens ours. The book's compilers show us that you didn't have to be there, you were there. STTOWN Paul A. Lacey C H 0 0 L Paul Lacey is professor of English literature at Earlham College, author of several Pendle Hill Westtown, Pennsylvania- Founded In 1799 pamphlets, and a member of Clear Creek (Ind.) Meeting. Westtown is a Quaker school of 600 students in Pre-K through 12th grade, co-educational, college preparatory, day and boarding 'The Power of the Lord is Over All' • Excellent academic programs Introduced and edited by T. Canby • Individual attention within a caring community Jones. Friends United Press, Richmond, Ind. 1989. 515 pages. $28.95. • Before and after school day care programs T. Canby Jones is professor emeritus of • Performing and fine arts religion and philosophy at Wilmington Col­ lege in Ohio. The book he has edited con­ • 600-acre campus with lakes and woods sists of 410 letters of George Fox which were in a collection printed in 1698 and reprinted • Outstanding facilities (science center, arts center verbatim in 1831. fieldhouse, 25-meter indoor pool) In these editions the letters are numbered, but numbers 322-333 are unaccountably mis­ sing. Jones has retained this numbering, in­ cluding the omission. However, he has sup­ For more information and to arrange to visit classes, plied or changed titles; modernized the lan­ please call Henry Horne, director of admissions, Westtown School guage, capitalization, and punctuation; and Westtown , PA 19395 (2151399-0123) supplied paragraph divisions. Furthermore, he has shortened the longer letters sometimes

36 October /992 FRIENDS JouRNAL 0 0 by half, indicating the omissions by dots. guises, link up. What does surprise me is the Also he has inserted subtitles in the lengthier extent to which these two disparate subjects letters. run parallel most of the way. Of course, one A preface states that this edition is of the of the authors, Fritjof Capra, had earlier published letters of Fox, but there are many produced a beautiful amalgamation of the • mat2}213.Ci<= ceRc1pcaces in Fox's Journal, none of which are in the New Physics and eastern mysticism in The • 3.W3.}205 • 1flSCJ21PCtOnS • 1831 collection or in Jones's. For example, Tao of Physics. But now we have a broaden­ • 61}2C12 armooncemencs • the controversial letter to the governor of ing of the base to include the whole scien­ • Cil2eeC1nQ catzb beS1Cins • Barbadoes (1671) is in John L. Nickalls's edi­ tific panorama placed beside a universalist • 1nV1C"aC10f25 • SC}20ll5 tion of Fox's Journal (1985), but not in Christian theology expounded by two Bene­ Jones's work. Thousands of Fox's unpub­ dictine monks. .:Hanzt:f§rresr lished letters exist; in an appendix, T. Canby The presentation is in the form of a dia­ Jones includes a sample. The 410 letters are logue with Capra giving a clear exposition 609-7St5-JSZ+ to Friends (usually meetings) in the British of the new paradigm in science and David 0 Isles, West Indies, North America, the Steindi-Rust, supported most faithfully by Netherlands, Germany, and Danzig (then in his colleague Thomas Matus, responding Poland). with the parallel themes in theology-a the­ George Fox's life and writings are fascin­ ology shorn of its Scholastic rigidity, and Friends' ating, though many of the letters may seem often going back to the earliest days of C E N T R A L overly lengthy to present-day readers. Here Christianity. are some gems from the 410 letters: "To The new paradigm in science, which has 'Learn Among Friends' Friends beyond Sea, that have Blacks and In­ replaced the mechanistic, dualistic frame­ Fou11ded in/845 dian Slaves"; "all , of what trade or calling work of Newton, Descartes, and Bacon, is soever, keep out of debt"; " Friends, all take holistic, ecological or systemic; synthetic o Record enrollment heed of sleeping in meetings"; "A paper to rather than analytic. The properties of mat­ o 2 spacious campuses be read to the Emperor and his thirty kings ter, as parts of a structure, are best under­ o Community outreach under him of the Tuscaroras" [Indians in the stood from their relation to the whole, which programs Carolinas]; Friends should serve as watch­ is in turn a dynamic web of relationships o Small classes men against thieves "without carrying about which we will never have a complete arms"; "Christ has enlightened ... Turks, understanding-only many partial glimpses For injimntltitJ/1: (liS) 649-7 44(7 Jews, and Moors ... that all in the Light of the truth. Friends' Central School might know God and Christ"; and, "Friends And similarly for theology: the old ration­ 110 1 City Avenue, Wynnewood, PA 19096 who marry and provide great dinners, that alistic Scholastic thinking has been replaced instead thereof ... [should] give something by a holistic, ecumenical, or transcendental to the poor.'' approach ... the parallel continues. But the One might desire, for each of the 410 let­ most striking aspect of the Benedictines' ex­ Claiming Our Past: ters, a reference to the 1831 version in order position is their emphasis on religious ex­ to learn what changes had been made. Some perience as being primary. They refer to in­ items in the glossary seem unnecessary. tuitive, mystic, peak experiences in which one "Danzig" is there, but " Macqueness" is not, gets a sense of connectedness to the cosmos, and my curiosity about its location remains hence the title, Belonging to the Universe. unsatisfied. However, T . Canby Jones pro­ And out of this there may emerge the spir­ vides us, in a convenient volume with good itual, loving person, active in the world. One print, the gist of 410 of Fox's letters to of these activities will be reflecting on and Friends, which admonished, advised, in­ sharing the transforming and often joyful formed, and comforted them over nearly five experience: hence theology and organized decades. They tell us much about his confi­ religion. dence in himself and in God, his brushes with The key doctrines of Christianity such as the law, his imprisonments, and his other salvation and revelation are given a new look sufferings. which makes them relevant for today. This Ralph H. Pickett is done through the sharp but sympathetic questioning of Capra leading to an amazing­ Assuring the Future Ralph Pickett is a retired history professor and is ly constructive dialogue. This alone makes a member of Providence (Pa.) Meeting. the book well worth reading. The monks do What better way to give expression to not acknowledge their indeptedness to Quak­ your Quaker values? By leaving a por­ er thinking, even though much of what they tion of your estate to FRIENDS say could be included in Faith and Practice. JOURNAL, you assure the growth of Belonging to the Universe Perhaps Quakerism and the new theology are Quaker thought and life long into the both a revival from a more fundamental future. Won't you consider a provision By Fritjof Capra and David Steindi-Rast, source-primitive Christianity! in your will for FRIENDS JOURNAL? with Thomas Matus. Harper, San For more information, contact: Francisco, Calif., 1991. 218 pages. Jack Mongar $18.95. FRIENDS JOURNAL All is connected. This is one of the basics Jack Mongar, a member of Lancaster (Pa.) Meet­ ISO I Cherry Street of the new world paradigm expounded in this ing, is a retired scientist who has recently become Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 book. So it is not surprising t hat the edges absorbed in woodcarving and the philosophy of (215) 241 -7280 of science and of theology in their new religion.

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Deaths ister for Deep River (N.C.) Meeting, and was re­ corded as a Friends minister by North Carolina Saker-Hermione Baker, 74, on Feb. 6, in Yucca Yearly Meeting. He worked in Chatauqua in the 851 Buck lane Pre-School-Grade VI Valley, Calif. She gave many hours to the meetings South arranging for meetings and appearances of Haverford, PA Coeducational to which she belonged: Orange Grove (Calif.) well-known speakers such as William Jennings (215}-042-{)354 Extended Day Meeting, Long Beach (Calif.) Friends Church, Bryan. In 1921 he became pastor of the Friends Marloma (Calif.) Meeting, Whittier (Calif.) Meeting in West Branch, Iowa, and later in Friends Church, and Claremont (Calif.) Meeting, Worcester, Mass. He married Winnifred Allee in and, in the last few years, Morongo Basin (Calif.) 1924. He later taught high school history and in­ Friends School is devoted exdusively to Worship Group. She carried the clerkship of ternational relations while working as a Unitarian elementary education w~h an emphasis on Quarterly Meeting, with devotion and strength. minister and then as a Congregational minister. academic excellence and Quaker values Her work with AFSC for years expressed her belief In 1944, he became general secretary of the New in service as worship. As a school administrator, England Region of the American Friends Service she helped guide teachers and helped develop in­ Committee. He and his wife bought a farm, Brin.ging Friends' Concerns novative curricula. She encouraged school children remodeled the buildings, and developed a con­ lor Peace & Justice to to find their own strengths, to trust, and develop ference center and hostel, known as "Friendly Congress Since 1943 pride in any special skills, and to grow in con­ Crossways," in Littleton, Mass. They helped Wr1te or call !2021547·4343 fidence as people. She also worked with prisoners, found Acton (Mass.) Meeting, and, in 1963, went tor actiOn suggest10n tape and her own faith seemed stro ng enough to move to Kenya, where he became headmaster of Lugulu mountains of human pain . Camping when her Friends Girls School. They were later appointed family was young, and with many physical bar­ by Friends World College to lead study tours to riers later, was her way of renewal. She is survived Africa and around the world. Winnifred died in by her children, Stannard Baker, Jane Franklin, 1976. He married Margaret Ware Gardner, who and Linda Rowe; her brother, Phil Allen; and survives him. He is also survived by his children, three grandsons. Paul H. Barrett and Amy Barrett Cooper; nine Fyfe & Miller Balassa-Leslie L. Balassa, 88, on July 2, in Clare­ grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. mont, Calif., of pneumonia. He was an anender Brick-A. Robert Brick, 75, on April 2, at his FUNERAL SERVICE at Cornwall (N.Y.) Meeting and previously at home in Crosswicks, N.J. A member of Cross­ 7047 Germantown Ave. Scarsdale (N.Y.) Meeting. A chemist and inven­ wicks Meeting, he operated a family meat business Philadelphia, PA 19119 tor, he founded a company, under which he de­ in partnership with his brother, Kenneth Brick. He veloped a paper product for fire control and water was active in many community concerns. Prede­ (215) 247-8700 retention. He was the inventor or co-inventor of ceased by his wife, Helen Holmes Brick, he is sur­ James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller numerous devices, including a process used 10 vived by a son, R. Philip Brick; a daughter, Linda manufacture time-released medications. Born in Brick Woytsk; and three grandchildren. Simple earth burial Hungary, he later became a U.S. citizen, worked Crouse-Beatrice Shipley Crouse, 85, on Feb. 28, and cremation service as a research chemist with E.l. du Pont for 15 at Mercer Island, Washington. She did more than available at reasonable cost. years, co-founded several companies for the pro­ any other one person to start the development of duction and marketing of his inventions, and was unprogrammed Friends meetings in the Northwest. a member of numerous professional organizations. In 1937, she was recruited from Philadelphia by ---GFS--- He was long active in the nuclear-freeze movement members of Friends Memorial Church, who and a member of several peace groups. A long­ wanted to reach out to students at the University time resident of Blooming Grove, N.Y., he and of Washington through a Friends center and an "Behold I have set before thee his wife of 60 years moved to California last unprogrammed meeting. She worked tirelessly, an open door.. ." J anuary. He is survived by his wife, Alice M. making contacts in Seattle and among Friends in Hussey Balassa; a son, John Paul; five grand­ the East. She arranged for speakers such as children; seven great-grandchildren; and a niece Howard Brinton, Douglas Steere, and Rufus Jones GERMANTOWN FRIENDS and nephew. to lecture. She set up classes and collected materials SCHOOL Barrett-Leslie H. Barrett, 95, on May 19, in for a Quaker library. In December 1940, Univer­ Greensboro, N.C., after a short illness. He entered sity Meeting in Seattle moved from preparative Philadelphia, PA Guilford College in 1916, served as a Friends min- status under Friends Memorial Church to become

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38 October 1992 FRIENDS J OUR a full monthly meeting. She helped establish · Pacific Yearly Meeting from the Pacific Coast Association of Friends and influenced the choice of Seattle as a branch office of the American i Pendle Hill balances Friends Service Committee. She and her husband, solitude and community, Paton Crouse, became members of Eastside contemplation and action (Wash.) Meeting in 1962, transferring from San Francisco (Calif.) Meeting. Although in 1972_she so gracefully that all withdrew her membership because she found her who come can be needs better met through Subud, she continued in refreshed. ~ fellowship with Friends and was faithful to Quaker principles. She is survived by her sister, Jeannette - Elise Boulding S. Michener; and her step-daughter, Miranda McLaughlin. Darneii-Emerson L. Darnell, 73 , on July 13, in Medford Leas, N.J., after a long bout with cancer. Born to Quaker parents, his law studies were in­ terrupted by World War II , which he spent work­ PENDLE HILL ing in Civilian Public Service camps. There he met A Q UAK ER CENTER FOR his first wife, Barbara Russell. He graduated from STUDY A ND CONTEMPLATION law school after the war, worked for the American Friends Service Committee in post-war Europe, I and later opened his own law office. In 1960 he married Marguerite Cooper Hassrick; they lived Quakers and non-Quakers alike come to Pen die Hill for spiritual enrichment in Moorestown, N.J. until her death in 1975. As and study. The Pendle Hill comm unity welcomes you whether for an a lawyer, he worked tirelessly for civil liberties, evening lecture, a short-term sojourn, a weekend conference, or a ten-week equal rights, and equal protection and fairness residential term. For more information call or write: under the law. He championed the rights of minorities, conscientious objectors, gays and les­ Pendle Hill, Box F, 338 Plush Mill Road, bians. He was a founding member of the New Jersey American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Wa llingford, PA 19086 • (215) 566-4507 a long-time board member and co-counsel of the New toll-free number 1-800-742-3150 Central Committee fo r Conscientious Objectors (CCCO), and one of the founding members of the National Organization for the Reform of Mari­ juana Laws. He remains widely known, loved and respected by members of the New Jersey Bar Association, countless civil rights attorneys, and advocates across the country. He enriched the lives of thousands of people. He is survived by his son, Chris Darnell ; and his step-children, Philip Hassrick and Robin Giardi. Kirkman-Steven Thomas Kirkman, 43, on July 19, at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after a six-year battle with AIDS. He was active in Fort Lauderdale Worship Group and held joint mem­ Newtown, PA 18940 bership at Palm Beach (Fla.) Meeting and Morn­ ingside (N.Y.) Meeting. He was active in Friends for Lesbian and Gay Concerns and edited and pro­ duced an anthology of lesbian and gay Quaker poetry, In the Manner of Friends. His lively and varied career started with two years in the mer­ chant marines and ended with two years as cook at Pendle Hill. After he discovered he was infected with the A IDS virus, he moved to Fort Lauder­ dale, where he became act ive with Palm Beach Meeting and revived the nearly dormant Fort Lauderdale Worship Group. He volunteered with the Coalition Of People With AIDS, and he worked until his death for Peace Place, a group promoting peace in local public schools and libraries. Meyer-Isaiah Simeon Meyer, 79, on Nov. 19, Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, George School is a co­ 1991, at his home in Berkeley, California. He grew educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9- 12. up in New York City, became a civil engineer and The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values & includes: teacher, and moved to Northern Cali fornia in the 1940s. In his teens, he discovered Theosophy and • Courses on 4 levels of dlfftculty • International Baccalaureate (IB) subscribed to it throughout his life. In the 1950s • Advanced Placement (AP) • International workcamps he became a member of the Religious Society of • EngUsh as a Second Language (ESL) • Required community service Friends, was active in the peace movement, and • Foreign study • Required full-year courses In the arts served in numerous positions of leadership in Davis • 131nterscholastic sports for boys It girls and Berkeley (Calif.) meetings, including clerk of For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 215/968-3811 Berkeley Meeting and of its Ministry and Over- fRIENDS J OURNAL October 1992 39 For information call (215) 241-7279. 55' per word. Minimum charge is $11. Catholics, he enlisted in the Navy medical corps sight Committee. He was treasurer of College Park Add 10% if boxed. 10% discount for Quarterly Meeting and chair of the Finance Com­ in +967, but he eventuall y came to the conclusion three consecutive insertions, 25% for six. mittee of Pacific Yearly Meeting. It is a tribute to he could not serve in the military in any capacity. Appearance of any advertisement does not imply his sense of humor that his financial reports are While a Marine Corps medic in Vietnam, his ap­ endorsement by FRIENDS JOURNAL. still remembered by many, because he strived to peal for discharge as a conscientious objector was make them interesting. He was a founding member granted. He joined San Francisco (Calif.) Meeting, Classified Ad Deadlines: and clerk o f Friends Committee on Legislation in serving as a teacher for First-day school and work­ For December: October t 2 California and a founding member of John ing on the Ministry and Oversight Committee. His For January 1993: November 9 Woolman School. He was an enthusiastic folk spirit and exuberant sense of fun were contagious. Submit your ad to: dancer and led folk dancing at yearly and quarterly His wit and zest for life gave strength and perspec­ Advertising Manager, Friends Journal meetings. In the last four years of his life, he tive through the long years of his illness. With in­ 1501 Cherry Street returned to Judaism, the faith of his birth, but he genuity and a difficult patience he learned new Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 Fax: (215) 568-1377 subscribed to the universalist aspect of all religions skills and enthusiasms: for the beauty and peace and was, above all, a man who valued love, truth of his garden; for his animals; for needlework, and justice. He died as he had lived, consciously, which included making finger puppets for meeting Accommodations calmly, and joyfully. He is survived by his wife, children. He cooked for his friends as long as he Mairin Malarka-Meyer; his children, Dana, Enid, could. Minor disasters became a source of Ann Arbor Friends Meeting has a small, residential com­ Evan, and Sybil Meyer; sister, Prevah Meyer Perls­ laughter. He was a man around whom stories munity. Applications for singles or couples accepted for fall 1992/spring 1993. Contact director: t 416 Hill Street, Ann tein; step-children , Marina, Una, Youseef and, flourished. As long as he was able, he held Arbor, Ml 48t04; (3t3) 76t-7435. Broheen Elias; four grandchildren; and two great­ meetings for worship at his home. He said that B&B, North Ft. Myers. S.W. Florida, hacienda-style pool grand-children. hopeless was the last word he would use to home on canal to Gulf. Near everything. Alcohol-free. Con­ Musgrave-John Knox Musgrave, 77, on June 22, descri be his illness, and told a Friend, "I have tinental breakfast. Pantry, refrigerator privileges. All faiths in Ann Arbor, Mich. During graduate school he never thought that having AIDS was the worst welcome; adults. Sorry, no pets. Call (207) 766-23t2 or (8t3) 955-1234. joined Friends Meeting in Cambridge, Mass., and thing that could happen to me. How can I not be Ocala, Florida Meetinghouse: Two twin-bedded rooms, became a conscientious objector. He married happy? Life has brought me so many blessings." He is survived by his parents, John and Alice split plan, private baths, spacious living areas. Reasonable. Elizabeth Cadbury in 1942 and did CPS work dur­ George Newkirk, Correspondent, 49t0 Northeast 16th ing the war years. Afterward, he worked as an ar­ Saporito; his sister, Denise, and her husband, Street, Ocala, FL 32671. (904) 236-2839. chivist for the American Friends Service Commit­ Robert Susulka; their children, Stephen and Cambridge, England, B&B. Historic Old Rectory. Ensuite tee. He later did graduate study in cultural an­ Richard; his brother, Joseph , and his wife, Nicki; rooms. Peaceful surroundings. Log fires. Easy access. Also thropology, with travels to Rangoon, Burma, and their children, John, Peter, Nickie, and Joseph, self-catering, short and long lets. (44) 223-86t507. Fax: (44) Tokyo, Japan, where he and his wife helped run Jr.; and by his long-time companion, Owen Killian. 223·44 t 276. an AFSC International Relations Seminar. He Smith- L. Ivins Smith, Jr., 76, on June 3, at his Nicaragua Friends Center. Refuge for socially concerned travelers. Apartado 5391. Managua, Nicaragua. Phone became a librarian , specializing in the field of home in Upper Makefield, Pa. He was born in his (Ott -505-2) 663216 or 660984. Southeast Asia. Pursuing an interest in Central residence and lived there throughout his life, the Tidioute Friendly Eagle B&B. Peaceful oil rush town, N.W. American Friends, he We nt on a study tour of sixth generation at "Centennial Farm," part of Pa., Allegheny River, forests, chamber music; children Costa Rica, attended the 1985 FWCC Triennial a William Penn grant. Educated in forestry, he welcome. Box 222 Tidioute, PA 16351 . (814) 484-7130. in Mexico, and the 1987 International Friends Con­ spent his life as a dairy farmer and was supervisor Montego Bay-Unity Hall. Stunning view. Bed and ference in Guatemala. He served his meeting in and treasurer of Upper Makefield Township. He breakfast accommodation with single Quaker woman. Cou­ many capacities, including clerk and treasurer. He also was past treasurer of Wrightstown (Pa.) Meet­ ple or two women to share room. Hot and cold water. Con­ tact Alice Rhodd, Radio Waves, Montego Bay, Jamaica. participated in business meetings with thoughtful ing and was active in many civic groups, such as concern, and was, in the words of a long-time the Grange, the 4-H club, and the International Hawaii-Island of Kauai. Cozy housekeeping cottages. Peace, palms, privacy. $75/2 nightly. 147 Royal Drive, friend, a "connecter," bringing people, ideas, and Farm Youth Exchange. He helped many people Kapaa, HI 96746. (808) 822-2321. from foreign countries start their own farming ca­ the printed word together. He is survived by his The Berkshires, Massachusetts. Baldwin Hill Farm Bed wife, Elizabeth Cadbury; two children, Dorothea reers in the United States. He is survived by his & Breakfast. Box 125. RD3, Great Barrington, MA 01230, and Anthony; his brother, Homer; and his sister, wife, Esther R. Antrobus Smith; two sons, Larry (413) 528-4092. A Friends Victorian farm homestead of 450 Louise Jueng. M. Smith and L. Ivins Smith III; a daughter, Betty acres on a Berkshire mountaintop. Spectacular views all Lou Painter; a sister, Rebecca Titus; and six around with warm hospitality and full country breakfasts. Preston-Ches/ye Ann Preston, 69, on April 28. Close to golf, skiing, concerts, drama, museums, shops, She was a member of Nottingham (Pa.) Meeting grandchildren. trails, and restaurants. Open all year. Pool, hiking, maps for most of her ad ult life. She served on the Whittington- Louise Pendry Whittington, 82, on and menus. Religious Education, Scholarship Fund, and Fi­ Feb. I, in Richmond, Va. She was a member of NYC-Greenwich Village Bed & Breakfast. Walk to 15th nance committees, among others. She was not Richmond (Va.) Meeting and attended Midlothian Street Meeting. 1-4 people; children welcome. (Two cats afraid to share her idc:as and feelings. When the (Va.) Preparative Meeting with her son, Juan, and in house.) Reservations: (212) 924-6520. meeting struggled with a problem, she often came his family. She was raised as a Christian Scien­ NYC midtown B&B bargain! Charming, one-bedroom up with a suggestion that helped people find a solu­ tist, then attended the Unitarian Church, and later apartments of your own in historic, Eastside neighborhood. $70-$125 double, plus $15 per additional guest. From sim­ tion. With her great gift for cooking, and her train­ became a Friend. She donated 75 acres of wood­ ple to sublime. (212) 228-4645. ing as a dietitian, she was often found in the meet­ land to Richmond (Va.) Meeting. The acreage has A homely base in the heart of London? Short-, medium-, inghouse kitchen , helping with food for hospitali­ become a Friends retreat center, known as The and long-term accommodation available with excellent ty. She was head cook at Camp Catoctin for many Clearing. A practical and intelligent woman , she whole-food meals. Also meeting rooms for workshops, lec­ years, and later served on the Camping Commit­ was dedicated to her vision of T he Clearing as a tures, and conferences. Contact: Quaker International Cen­ tee. She is survived by her husband, Forest Preston / place of spiritual growth and fellowship "to help tre, 1 Byng Place, London WC1 E 7JH; Tel: 071-387 5648. II ; her children, Frances P. Schutz, Nora Preston, humanity make it through the 21st century." Her Simple low-cost lodging for individuals and groups. Seminar planning available. Quaker center on Capitol Hill. Forest Preston Ill, Elizabeth P. Engle, and Vernon roles throughout her lifespan included editing for William Penn House, 515 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, H . Preston. Readers Digest, making a home for her young DC 20003. (202) 543-5560. Saporito-Frederick Saporito, 44, on June 19, of family in Argentina, founding Amelia Headstart London? Stay at the Penn Club, Bedford Place, London complications due to AIDS, at his home in Oak­ during desegregation struggles, managing the fami­ WC1B SJH. Friendly atmosphere. Central for Friends land, Calif. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., his family ly farm in Virginia with her teenage sons after her House, West End, concerts, theater, British Museum, university, and excursions. Telephone: 071-636-4718. was devoutly Catholic, and at 13 he entered husband's sudden death, opening the farm to hos­ Capuchin Franciscan Seminary, where he lived for pitality for spiritual retreats, and pursuing "the Washington, D.C., sojourners welcome in Friends' home unfettered inner search." She is survived by her in pleasant suburb nearby. By day, week, or month. For five years. He loved the monastic life, with its com­ details call: (301) 270-5258. sons, DeWitt, Juan, and Rankin; and four grand­ munity, discipline, silence, and fun, but he was Looking for a creative living alternative in New York City? unsure about continuing without exploring the out­ children. Her granddaughter, Jill Whittington, Penington Friends House may be the place for you! We are side world. After counseling with Quakers and preceded her in death. looking for people of all ages who want to make a serious

40 October 1992 FRI ENDS J ouRNAL commitment to a community lifestyle based on Quaker prin­ Friends Journal on tape! Seven FJ articles on spiritual Head of School: Friends School in Detroit seeks a new ciples. For information call (212) 673-1730. We also have groWlh and self-realization are being produced on a Head to begin July, 1993. FSD serves 120 students, pre-K overnight accommodations. 90-minute audio cassette tape, available Sept. 11 . Special through grade 8, who reflect Detroit's cultural, religious, Mexico City Friends Center. Reasonable accommoda­ price for this experiment: $8.75, includes postage and racial, and economic diversity. Send resumes by October tions. Reservations recommended. Casa de los Amigos, handling. Send check and mailing address to FJ. 30, 1992 to the Head Search Committee, Friends School Ignacio Mariscal 132, 06030 Mexico D.F. 705-0521 . in Detroit, 1100 St. Aubin Boulevard, Detroit, Ml 48207. Casa Heberto Sein Friends Center. Reasonable accom­ Opportunities modations. Reservations. Asociacion Sonorense de los Hockessin Friends Pre-School seeks head teacher Amigos, Felipe Salido 32, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Consider a Costa Rican study tour. February 4-15, 1993. starting summer of 1993. The preschool (ages three­ Friends Meeting, Sundays 11 a.m. Phone: (011-52-621) Call or write Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey, 1182 Hornbeam five), 46 enrollment, under the care of Hockessin Friends 7-01-42. Road, Sabina, OH 45169. Phone: (513) 584-2900. Meeting, Hockessin, Delaware, was established in 1962. Housing Scholarship for foreign exchange student from We maintain three classes, a five-day morning class and Books and Publications Latin America wishing to study in USA. Write: P.O. Box two three-day morning classes. Current staff consists of 3956, Oak Park, IL 60303. three teachers and one assistant. The head teacher A multicultural gift for Christmas! Wishing on Daruma is would be expected to teach one class and direct the the true story of a Japanese boy and his American pen pal, school. Applicants should have a firm grounding in Visit Guatemala, " land of eternal spring and eternal told via their 35-year correspondence. For ages 9 through Quaker tenets, experience in teaching and/or parenting, tyranny." Study tours in January, February, and April adult. $9.95 (plus $1 .75 shipping). Biddle Publishing, P .0. and a broad background in developmental theories of led by Quaker anthropologist with 30 years experience Box 1305, Brunswick, ME 04011 . Royalties donated to early childhood education. Send letters of application or in Guatemala. Write: Robert Hinshaw, 5603 Rockhill organizations promoting international understanding. nomination including a statement of your philosophy of Road, Kansas City, MO 6411 0. Book about Jesus by Jewish layman who explains 436 early childhood education to Richard Bernard, Clerk, reasons why his ancestors rejected Jesus. Send stamp for Hockessin Friends Pre-School Committee, 521 Cabot sample cover plus free 20-page pamphlet about the book. Drive, Hockessin, DE 19707. Application deadline: Gloger Family Books, 630G Empire Blvd., Brooklyn, NY Personals November 1, 1992. 11213. Single Booklovers gets cultured, single, widowed, or Sharing Our Lives: A Children's Global Connection, an divorced persons acquainted. Nationwide, run by Friends. George Fox's volume Works (1831 edition) are back Established 1970. Write Box 117, Gradyville, PA 19039, or alive, on-going project of The Quaker U.S./USSR Commit­ tee, presently involving 10 elementary schools in the U.S. in print-at a great price. New introductions by Douglas call (215) 358-5049. and 10 in Russia who have been cultivating connections Gwyn and others. Library bound, acid-free paper. Priced Classical Music Lovers ' Exchange-Nationwide link be­ at $167.50 for 8 volumes. Sets may be ordered with $40 between each other through letters, gifts, photographs, tween unattached music lovers. 1 (800) 233-CMLS, Box 31 , visits, and special projects, needs a volunteer facilitator. deposit with balance due upon safe arrival. This set Pelham, NY 10803. would be a wonderful, lasting gift for your favorite meet­ The program is entering its third year and has boundless ing library. Prospectus available. Orders: George Fox possibilities. The children and the school communities are Fund, Inc., c/o Dan Davenport, P.O . Box 15142, Concerned Singles Newsletter links compatible singles deeply affected by heart-felt connections and we seek to Portland, OR 97215. who care about peace, social justice, and the environ­ further enrich the program and to deepen and sustain their ment. National and international membership. All ages. experiences. Contact Nadya Spassenko at (914) 297-2850. Since 1984. Free sample: Box 555-F, Stockbridge, MA Don't subscribe to A Friendly Letter, the independent, 01262. Quaker, monthly newsletter by Chuck Fager. You Positions Wanted can' t- it's on sabbatical. Instead, send for a free Back Creative, multi-talented, hard-working Friend seeks Issue List and order all the searching, often controver­ Positions Vacant career change from point-of-purchase display industry to sial, reports you missed. Special reduced rates. AFL, Administrative Associate, Friends World Committee for a more congenial and responsible work milieu. This ex­ Dept. Bll , P.O. Box 1361 , Falls Church, VA 22041. Consultation, Section of the Americas. Oversee financial perienced design-samplemaker can offer your enterprise matters: budgeting and budget control, work with accoun­ a craftsperson's eye, a planner's mind, a writer's pen , a Books-Quaker spiritual classics, htstory, btography, and ting service; manage systems between Philadelphia, field, Friend' s heart. Willing to relocate. Write: John Edminster, current Quaker experience, published by Friends United and London offices; with executive secretary, provide sup­ 626 Washington St. , 2A, New York, NY 10014. Press, 101-A Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond; IN 47374. Write port for field staff; with administrative secretary, arrange Quaker woman, single parent with two small children for free catalogue. committee meetings and conferences. Demonstrated seeks employment with housing. Skills include cooking, Humorous children's book, Life is a Drag, for those under management and computer skills, Spanish useful. Begin­ gardening, housekeeping, public relations, graphic design, 13, clever illustrations; all proceeds to AFSC Pasadena. ning salary in low 20's, good benefits. Starting date Dec. typesetting, editing, plus secretarial skills. Excellent Quaker author, Jean Michener Nicholson, 1268 Sunny 15, 1992. Contact: Asia Bennett, FWCC, 1506 Race Street, references. Will relocate. Write Friends Journal, Box 130, Oaks Circle, Altadena, CA 91001 . ($6.00 includes mailing.) Philadelphia, PA 19102. (215) 241-7250. 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Buckingham Friends School is seeking a Principal to begin July, 1993. BFS is a 198-year-old, co-educational, Socially Responsible Travel. Experience other cultures semi-rural, day school with 175 students in grades K-8. For and lifestyles. Learn about the ideas, values. and Rentals & Retreats more information, or an application form, write: Search perspectives that are shaping a new world. $1816 issues Committee, BFS, Box 158, Lahaska, PA 18931 . Applica­ Brooksville, Florida, home for lease. Beautiful, spacious, plus FREE Guide to Overseas Opportunities. Sample tion deadline, October 17, 1992. comfortable 3 bdrm., 3 bthrm. Huge trees, garden, pool. $4.50. Transitions Abroad magazine, Box 344-3888, 45 minutes from Gulf. $850/month. (813) 371-7343. Amherst, MA 01004-0344. Friend's farm needs sharing with Friendly adults. AIM­ Goshen School seeks Head starting summer 1993. silent, spirit-led community. Canton, Texas. (903) 848-0440. The pre-school through grade 5, 185 enrollment, is under the care of Goshen Monthly Meeting. Applicants should For Sale have a firm grounding in Quaker tenets, experience in Retirement Living teaching, administration. Send letters of application or Bath Deepwater: 15-room sailor's estate, 3800 sq. ft., near­ nomination to: Search Committee, Goshen Friends Foxdale Village, a Quaker life-care community. Thoughtful­ new, including guest apt., shop, docks, 100% custom, School, 814 N. Chester Road, West Chester, PA 19380. ly designed cottages complemented by attractive dining magnificent. D. Romberger, Bath, NC 27808. (919) Application deadline: November 7. facilities, auditorium, library, and full medical protection. 923-9111 (brochure). $395 K. Setting is a wonderful combination of rural and university Biblical Greek. Easy, non-academic way. Send for five­ environment. Entry fees from $38,000-$120,000; monthly hour videotape seminar, 224-page textbook and catalog. fees from $1 ,110-$2,040. 500 East Marylyn Avenue, Depart­ $29.95. Greek Bible Institute, 547-A N.W. Coast Street, FRIENDS JOURNAL ment F, State College, PA 16801. Telephone: (800) Newport, OR 97365. (503) 265-2170. 253-4951 . Peace Fleece. New yarn colors, sweater kits, Russian and Israeli painted, wooden needles and buttons. Felt ball kits ON TAPE! for kids. Russian ceramic sheep. Catalogue/sample card: Schools $2.00. Joanna B. Sadler, Yarn Shop on the Farm, 1235 Red Six Fri('ll.l:< }<1111'11111 articles on spiritual United Friends School: coed; K-6; emphasizing integrated, Run Ad., Stevens, PA 17578. growth and self-realization are being pro­ developmentally appropriate curriculum, including whole language and manipulative math; serving upper Bucks 193 acres near Huntingdon, Tennessee. One hundred duced on a 90-minute audio cassette tape, acres under cultivation. Forty acres of heavy forest. Small County. 20 South 10th Street, Quakertown, PA 18951. (215) river on northern boundary. Asking $95,000. Write: A. available mid-September. II. Special price 538-1733. Jensen, P.O. Box 970, Port Townsend, WA 98368; (206) for this experiment: $8.75, includes The Meeting School celebrates the transition from youth 385-5189. to adulthood by encouraging students to make decisions postage and handling. For further infor­ in their own lives in a Friends (Quaker) boarding high school mation, or to order, write to: in southern New Hampshire. We emphasize experiential Who are Quakers? New Video! VHS, 27 Fri('ll.l:' ]<1111'1111/. education, striving for innovative and challenging aca­ min .. by Claire Simon. Lively, informative, demics while working with consensus and equality regard­ for outreach and education. $26.50 plus 1501 Cftcn)J Sln·l'l less of age. 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FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1992 41 trust and respect, and care for the earth. Admissions: The McNEAL-Cochise Friends Meeting at Friends Southwest Meeting School, Rindge, NH 03461. (603) 899-3366. Center, 7112 miles south of Elfrida. Worship 11 a.m. Phone: (602) 642-3894 or (602) 642-3547. PHOENIX-Worship and First-day school tO a.m. 1702 E. Junior high boarding school for grades 7, 8, 9. Small, A partial listing Glendale, Phoenix, 85020. 943-5831 or 955-1878. academic classes, challenging outdoor experiences, of Friends meetings TEMPE-Unprogrammed, First Days, 10 a.m., child care community service, daily work projects in a small, car­ provided. 318 East 15th Street, 85281. Phone: 968-3966. ing, community environment. Arthur Morgan School, In the United States TUCSON-Pima Friends Meeting (unprogrammed). 10 1901 Hannah Branch Ad., Burnsville, NC 28714; (704) a.m. 931 N. 5th Ave. Information: 325-3029. 675-4262. and abroad. MEETING NOTICE RATES: $13.50 per line per year. Stratford Friends School provides a warm, supportive, Payable a year in advance. No discount Changes: $8 each. Arkansas ungraded setting for children ages 5 to 13 who learn dif­ LITTLE ROCK- Unprogrammed meeting, First-day school ferently. Small classes and an enriched curriculum answer and adult discussion at 9:45 a.m., worship at 11 a.m. at the needs of the whole child. An at-risk program for 5-year­ Quapaw Quarter Methodist Church, 1601 S. l ouisiana. olds is available. Information: Stratford Friends School, 5 Phone (501) 224-5267. Llandillo Road, Havertown, PA 19083. (215) 446-3144. BOTSWANA A value-centered school for learning disabled elementary students. Small, remedial classes; qualified staff serving GABORONE-Kagisong Centre. 373624 or 353552. California Philadelphia and nort hern suburbs. The Quaker School at CANADA ARCATA-11 a.m. 1920 Zehndner. (707) 677-0461. Horsham, 318 Meeting House Road, Horsham, PA 19044. BERKELEY- Unprogrammed meeting. Worship 11 a.m., (215) 674-2875. EDMONTON-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. First Day. 2151 Vine St. at Walnut 843-9725. For location and other information, contact David Millar (403) 988-9335. BERKELEY- Strawberry Creek, 1600 Sacramento. P.O. Box 5065. Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. Services Offered HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA-469-8985 or 477-3690. CHIC0-10 a.m. singing; 10:30 unprogrammed worship, Electrical Contractor. Residential and commercial installa­ OTTAWA-Worship and First-day school10:30 a.m. 91A children's class. 2603 Mariposa Ave. 345-3429. tion and repairs. (Phila., Pa., suburbs.) Call Paul Teitman: Fourth Ave. (613) 232-9923. CLAREMONT-Worsh ip 9:30 a.m. Classes for children. (215) 663-0279. TORONTO, ONTARIO- Worship and First-day school11 727 W. Harrison Ave., Claremont. Loans are available for building or improving Friends a.m. 60 Lowther Ave. (North from cor. Bloor and Bedford). DAVIS-Meeting for worship, First Days, 9:45a.m. 345 L. meetinghouses, schools, and related facilities. We are St. Visitors call 753-5924. Friends helping Friends to grow! For information contact COSTA RICA FRESNO- Unprogrammed meeting. Sunday 10 a.m. Child Katheryn E. Williams, Friends Extension Corporation, 101 MONTEVEADE-Phone 61-09-56 or 61-26-56. care. University Religious Center, 2311 E. Shaw Ave., Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. Phone: (317) SAN JOSE-Unprogrammed meeting, 11 a.m. Sunday. 962-7573. (Affiliated with Friends United Meeting.) Fresno, CA 9371 0. (209) 222-3796. Phone 24-43-76 or 33-61 -68. GRASS VALLEY-Singing 9:30a.m., meeting for worship Painting Contractor. Conscientious work at Friendly 9:45 a.m., discussion/sharing 11 a.m. John Woolman prices. Wallpaper removal, drywall repairs. Main Line, EGYPT School campus, 12585 Jones Bar Road. Phone 273-6485. Philadelphia, and western suburbs. Michael O'Neill, (215) CAIRO-First, third, and fifth Saturday evenings, August HEMET-Meet ing for worship 9:30a.m., 26665 Chestnut 978-0843. through June. Call: Stan Way, 352 4979. Dr. Visitors call: (714) 925-2818 or 927-7678. Personalized meditation tapes. Quaker hypnotherapistl LA JOLLA-Meeting 10 a.m. 7380 Eads Ave. Visitors call Reiki practitioner. Please send description of problem. FRANCE 459-9800 or 456-1 020. $25.00.JoyWeaver, Tranquility, Box 14, E. Islip, NY 11730. PARIS-Worship Sundays 11 a.m. Centre Quaker, 114, rue LONG BEACH- 10 a.m. Orizaba at Spaulding. 434-1004. de Vaugirard. LOS ANGELES-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. Sun., Quaker Genealogy-Discover your Quaker ancestors GERMANY 7:30p.m. Wed. 4167 So. Normandie Ave. (213) 296-0733. through prompt, professional research. Ann W. Upton, MARIN COUNTY- t O a.m. 177 East Blithedale Ave., Mill 1406 Fox Place. West Chester, PA 19382. HEIDELBERG-Unprogrammed meeting 11 :00 a.m. Sun­ Valley, CA. Phone: (415) 382-1226. days Hauptstrasse 133 (Junior year). Phone 06223-1386. MONTEREY PENINSULA-Friends meeting for worship, Quaker Universalist Fellowship is a fellowship of seekers GUATEMALA Sundays, 10:00 a.m. Call (408) 649-8615 or (408) 373-5003. wishing to enrich and expand Friends' perspectives. We NAPA-10 a.m., 1777 l aurel. (707) 226-2064. GUATEMALA- First and third Sunday. 324740 evenings. meet, publish, and correspond to share thoughts, insights, OJAI- Unprogrammed worship. First Days 9 a.m. Call and information. We seek to follow the promptings of the 646-4497 or 646-3200. Spirit Inquiries welcome! Write QUF, Box 201 AD 1, MEXICO Landenberg, PA 19350. ORANGE COUNTY- Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Harbor MEXICO CITY- Unprogrammed meeting. Sundays, 11 Area Adult Day Care Center, 661 Hamilton St., Costa Mesa. a.m. Casa de los Amigos, Ignacio Mariscal 132, 06030, Wedding Certificates, birth testimonials, poetry, gifts all CA 92627. (714) 786-7691 . Mexico 1, D.F. 705-0521 . done in beautiful calligraphy and watercolor illumination. PALO ALTO- Meeting for worship and First-day classes Book early for spring weddings. Write or call Leslie Mitchell, for children 11 a.m. 957 Colorado. 2840 Bristol Ad., Bensalem, PA 19020, (215) 752-5554. NICARAGUA MANAGUA- Unprogrammed Worship 10 a.m. each Sun­ PASADENA- Orange Grove Monthly Meeting, 520 E. Orange Grove Blvd. First-day school tO a.m., meeting for day at Centro de los Amigos, APTDO 539 1 Managua, worship 11 a.m. Phone: 792-6223. Socially Responsible Investing Nicaragua. 66-3216 or 66-0984. Using client-specified social criteria, I screen in­ REDLAND5-RIVERSIDE-SAN BERNARDINO- Inland Val­ vestments. I use a financial planning appro11ch to port­ SWITZERLAND ley Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed. Call (714) 682-5364 or 792-7766. folio management by identifying individual objectives and GENEVA-Meeting for worship and First-day school 10:30 designing an investment strategy. I work with individuals a.m., mid-week meeting 12:30 p.m. Wednesdays. 13 av. SACRAMENTO- Meeting 10 a.m. Stanford Settlement, 450 W. El Camino near Nort hgate. Phone: (916) 452-9317. and business. Call: Sacha Millstone; Ferris, Baker Watts; Mervelet, Quaker House, Petit-Saconnex. member NYSE, SIPC. (202) 429-3632 in Washington, SAN DIEGO- Unprogrammed worship, First Days, 10:30 D.C., area, or (800) 227-0308. UNITED STATES a.m. 4848 Seminole Dr. (619) 583-132 4. SAN FERNANDO VALLEY- Unprogrammed worship, First General Contractor. Repairs or alterations on old or Alabama Days, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; 15056 Bledsoe. Sylmar. historical buildings. Storm and fire damage restored. John BIRMINGHAM-Unprogrammed meeting. 10 a.m. Sun­ 360-7635. File, 1147 Bloomdale Rd., Philadelphia, PA 1911 5. (215) days. Creative Montessori School, 1650 28th Court South, SAN FRANCISCO-Meeting for worship, First Days, 11 464-2207. Homewood. (205) 933-7906 or 328-2062. a.m. 2160 Lake St. Phone: 752-7440. FAIRHOPE- Unprogrammed meeting 9 a.m. Sundays at SAN JOSE- Worship and First-day school 10 a.m., Friends Meetinghouse, 1.2 mi. east on Fairhope Ave. Ext discussion 11 :30 a.m. 1041 Morse St. (408) 251-0408. Celo Valley Books will professionally produce your Write: P.O. Box 319, Fairhope, AL 36533. SANTA BARBARA-Marymount School (above the book- 50 copies or more-on time, with personal atten­ HUNTSVILLE- Unprogrammed meeting 10:00 a.m. Sun­ Mission), 10 a.m. Children's program and child care. P.O. tion, economically. 1% of profits to charity. Write: 346 days in various homes. Call (205) 837-6327 or write P.O. Box 40120, Santa Barbara, CA 93140-0120. Phone: Seven Mile Ridge Road, Burnsville, NC 28714. Box 3530, Huntsville, Al 35810. 965-5302. SANTA CRUZ- Monthly Meeting 10:00 a.m., Louden Moving to North Carolina? Maybe David Brown, a Quaker Alaska Nelson Community Center. Clerk: Eleanor Foster, real estate broker, can help. Contact him at 1208 Pinewood ANCHORAGE- Unprogrammed. Call for time & directions. 423-2605. Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. (919) 294-2095. (907) 248-6888 or 345-1379. SANTA MONICA-First-day school and meeting at10 a.m. Family Relations Committee's Counseling Service FAIRBANKS- Unprogrammed, First Day, 10 a.m. Hidden 1440 Harvard St. Phone: 828-4069. (PYM) provides confidential professional counseling to in­ Hill Friends Center, 2682 Gold Hill Rd. Phone: 479-3796. SANTA ROSA- Redwood Forest Meeting. Worship 10 dividuals, couples in most geographic areas of Philadelphia JUNEAU- Unprogrammed. First Day 9 a.m. 592 Seatter a.m. Phone: (707) 542-1571 for location. Yearly Meeting. All counselors are Quakers. All Friends, Street Phone (907) 586-4409 for information. VISALIA-Worship 10:30 a.m. 17208 Ave. 296, Visalia. regular attenders, and employees of Friends organizations (209) 739-7776. are eligible. Sliding fees. Further inform ation or brochure­ Arizona WESTWOOD (West Los Angeles)- Meeting 10:30 a.m.; contact Arlene Kelly, 1501 Cherry St. , Philadelphia, PA FLAGSTAFF- Unprogrammed meeting and First-day University Religious Conference, 900 Hilgard (across from 19102. (215) 988-0140. school 10 a.m. 402 S. Beaver, 86001. SE corner UCLA campus). Phone: (213) 208-2113.

42 October 1992 FRI ENDS J ouRNAL WHITTIER-Whitleaf Monthly Meeting, Administration TACOMA PARK-Worship group, worship third First Illinois Building, corner Painter and Philadelphia. Worship 9:30 Day in members' homes. Contact Nancy Alexander BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL-Unprogrammed Sun. 10:30 a.m. P.O. Box 122. Phone: 698·7538. (301) 891 -2084. a.m. Sept.-May, Campus Religious Center, 210 W. YUCCA VALLEY-Worship 2 p.m. Church of Religious WILLIAM PENN HOUSE-515 E. Capitol St. Worship Mulberry, Normal. Summer-homes. (309) 454-1328. at 11 a.m. 543-5560. Science, 7434 Bannock Trail, Yucca Valley. (619) 365-1135. CHICAG0-57th St., 5615 Woodlawn. Worship 10:30 a.m. Colorado Monthly meeting follows on third Sunday. Phone: 288-3066. Florida CHICAGO-Chicago Monthly Meeting, 10749 S. Artesian. BOULDER-Meeting and First-day school10 a.m. Phone: Worship 11 a.m. Phones: 445-8949 or 233-2715. 449-4060 or 494-2982. CLEARWATER-Worship 10 a.m. St. Paul's School, Oct.­ May (homes June-Sept.) Co-Clerks: Paul and Priscilla COLORADO SPRINGS-Meeting Sunday at 10 a.m. at 19 CHICAGO-Northside (unprogrammed). Worship 10:30 Blanshard. 8333 Seminole Blvd #439, Seminole, FL 34642. a.m. For location call (312) 929-4245. N. Tejon, basement level, Colorado Springs, CO. Tel: (719) (813) 397-8707. 685-5548, shared answering machine. Address: Colorado DECATUR-Worship 10 a.m. Mildred Protzman, clerk. Springs Friends Meeting, P. 0 . Box 2514, Colorado Springs, DAYTONA BEACH-Sunday 10:30 a.m. in homes. Please Phone 422-9116 or 877-0296 for meeting location. co 80901 -2514. call (904) 677-6094 or 672-6885 for information. DEKALB-Meeting 10:30 a.m. Please call for location. DENVER-Mountain View Friends Meeting, 2280 South FT. LAUDERDALE-Worship group. (305) 360-7165. (815) 895-5379, (815) 758-1985. Columbine St. Worship and adult religious education 9 a.m. FT. MYERS-Worship 12 noon. Contact (813) 334-3533 or DOWNERS GROVE-(West Suburban Chicago) Worship Worship and First-day school, 10:30 a.m. Worship at 12100 in Naples, (813) 455-8924. and First-day school 10:30 a.m. 5710 Lomond Ave. (3 W. Alameda, Lakewood 10 a.m. Phone: 777-3799. GAINESVILLE-Meeting and First-day school 11 a.m. 1921 blocks west of Belmont, 1 block south of Maple). Phone: DURANGO-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m., First-day N.W. 2nd Ave. 462-3201 . 968-3861 or 852-5812. school and adult discussion 11 a.m. Call for location, JACKSONVILLE- Meeting for worship, First Days. For EVANSTON-Worship 10 a.m .. 1010 Greenleaf, 864-8511 . 247-4550 or 884-9434. location and time phone (904) 768-3648 or 733-3573. GALESBURG-Peoria-Galesburg Meeting. 10 a.m. in ESTES PARK- Friends/Unitarian Fellowship. Unpro­ KEY WEST-Worship group Sunday 10:30. 618 Grinnell homes. (309) 343-7097 for location. grammed worship 10 a.m. Phone: 586-2686. Street in garden. Phone: Sheridan Crumlish, 294-1523. LAKE FOREST-Worship 10:30 a.m. at meetinghouse. FORT COLLINs-Meeting for worship and First-day school LAKE WALES-Worship group, (813) 676-2199. . West Old Elm and Ridge Ads. Mail: Box 95, Lake Forest. 10 a.m. 493-9278. LAKE WORTH-Palm Beach Meeting, 823 North A St. 60045. Phone: (708) 234-8410. TRINIDAD AREA-Worship 10 a.m. every First Day, 3 Elm 10:30 a.m. Phone: (407) 585-8060. McHENRY COUNTY-Worship 10 a.m. (815) 385-8512. St., Cokedale. Clerk: Bill Durland (719) 847-7480. MELBOURNE- 10:30 a.m. Call (407) 777-1221 , 724-1 162, McNABB-Clear Creek Meeting. Unprogrammed worship or 676-5077. 11 a.m., First-day school 10 a.m. Meetinghouse 2 miles MIAMI-CORAL GABLES-Meeting tO a.m. 1185 Sunset south, 1 mile east of McNabb. Phone: (815) 882-2214. Connecticut Dr., 661-7374. Clerk: Eduardo Diaz, 13625 S.W. 82 Ct., OAK PARK-Worship 10 a.m. , First-day school and child HARTFORD- Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m., Miami, FL 33158. (305) 255-5817. care 10 a.m., Oak Park Art League, 720 Chicago Ave. discussion 11 a.m. 144 South Quaker Lane, West Hartford. OCALA-Sundays 10 a.m. 1010 N.E. 44 Ave., 32671 . Phone: (708) 386-8391 . Phone: 232-3631 . · George Newkirk, correspondent, (904) 236-2839. QUINCY-Friends Hill Meeting. Unprogrammed worship tO MIDDLETOWN-Worship 10 a.m. Center for Humanities, ORLANDO- Meeting and First-day school tO a.m. 316 E. a.m. 223-3902 or 222-6704 for location. 10 Pearl St. Phone: 347-0866. Marks St., Orlando, 32803. (407) 425-5125. ROCKFORD-Mejlting for worship, First Days, 10:30 a.m., NEW HAVEN-Meeting and First-day school, Sundays, ST. PETERSBURG-Meeting, First-day school, and Teen Friends House, 326 N. Avon. (815) 962-7373, 963-7448, or 9:45a.m. At Connecticut Hall on the Old Campus of Yale Group 10:30 a.m. 130 19th Ave. S.E. Phone: (813) 964-0716. University. Clerk: Bonnie Mueller, 25 Tuttle Ave., Hamden, 896-0310. SPRINGFIELD-Meeting in Friends' homes, unpro­ CT 06518, (203) 228-0579. SARASOTA-Worship 11 a.m., discussion 10 a.m. grammed 10 a.m. Eve Fischberg and Steven Staley, Route NEW LONDON-Meeting for worship and First-day school Women's Resource Center, 340 South Tuttle Ave. Clerk: #1, Box 83, Loami, IL 62661. (217) 624-4961 . 10 a.m., discussion 11 a.m. Friends Meeting House, Ann Stillman, 355-8193 or 359-2207. URBANA-CHAMPAIGN-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. 714 Oswegatchie Rd., off the Niantic River Rd., Waterford, w. Green St. , Urbana. Phone: (217) 328-5853 or 344-6510. Conn. 536-7245 or 889-1924. STUART - Worship group. (407) 286-3052 or 335-0281. May through October (407) 287-0545. NEW MILFORD-Housatonic Meeting. Rte. 7 at Lanesville Ad. Worship 10 a.m. Phone: (203) 746-6329. TALLAHASSEE-Worship Sunday 4 p.m. United Church, 1834 Mahan Dr. (US 90 E). Unprogrammed. Potluck first POMFRET-1st and 3rd First Days of each month. 10:30 Sunday. (904) 878-3620. a.m. 928-6356 or 928-5050 for more information. Indiana TAMPA-Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m.; BLOOMINGTON- Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Moores STAMFORD-GREENWICH-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Hillsborough Developmental Center, 14219 Bruce B. Pike at Smith Road. (812) 336-5576. 572 Roxbury Rd. (corner of Westover), Stamford. (203) Downs Blvd. Phone contacts: 238-8879 & 977-4022. 637-4601 or 869-0445. EVANSVILLE-Worship 11 a.m. Sundays at Patchwork WINTER PARK- Meeting 10 a.m. Alumni House. Rollins Central, tOO Washington Ave. STORRS-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Corner North College. Phone: (407) 894-8998. Eagleville and Hunting Lodge Rds. Phone: 429-4459. FORT WAYNE- Maple Grove Meeting, unprogrammed worship. Phone Julia Dunn, (21 9) 489-9342, for time and WILTON-Worship and First-day school tO a.m. 317 New Canaan Rd., Rte. 106. (203) 762-5669. Georgia place. HOPEWELL-Unprogrammed worship 9:30 a.m., WOODBURY-Litchfield Hills Meeting (formerly Water­ ATHENS-Worship 10 to 11 a.m. Sunday; 11 to 12 town). Woodbury Community House, Mountain Rd. at Main discussion. Athens Montessori School, Barnett Shoals Rd. discussion 10:30 a.m. 20 mi. W. Richmond; between 1-70, St. Worship and First-day school10 a.m. Phone: 263-3627. (404) 548-9394 or (404) 353-2856. US 40; 1-70 exit Wilbur Wright Rd., 1V• mi. S., 1 mi. W. 478-4218. ATLANTA-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. 701 W. Howard Ave., Decatur, GA 30030. Perry Treadwell, (404) INDIANAPOLIS- North Meadow Circ le of Friends, 1710 Delaware 377-2474. N. Talbott. Unprogrammed, worship 10 a.m. Children welcome. 926-7657. CAMDEN-Worship 11 a.m., First-day school 10 a.m. 2 mi. AUGUSTA- Worship 10:30 a.m. at Meetinghouse, 340 Telfair St. (404) 736-8036 or 863-7684. PLAINFIELD-Unprogrammed worship 8:30a.m., meeting S. of Dover. 122 Camden-Wyo Ave. (Rte. 10). 284-4745, for study and discussion 9:30a.m., programmed meeting 697-7725. CARROLLTON- Worship first and third Sundays. 114 Oak for worship 10:40 a.m. 105 S. East St. at the corner of U.S. CENTRE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. 1 mile east of Ave., Carrollton, GA 30117. Contact Marylu (404) 832-3637. 40 and East St. David Hadley, clerk; Keith Kirk, pastoral Centreville on the Centre Meeting Rd . at Adams Dam Rd. MONTICELLO- Contact Franklin Lynch. 468-8978. minister. (317) 839-9840. HOCKESSIN-First-day school 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m. ST. SIMONS ISLAND-Weekly meeting for worship in RICHMOND-Clear Creek, Stout Memorial Meetinghouse, N.W. from Hockessin-Yorklyn Rd. at first crossroad. homes, 10:30 a.m. Call (912) 638-1200 or 437-4708. Visitors Earlham College, unprogrammed, 9:15 a.m. Clerks: NEWARK- First-day school 9:30 a.m., worship 10:30 a.m. welcome. Laurence Strong, 966-2455; Margaret Lechner. Newark Center for Creative Learning, 401 Phillips Ave. STATESBORO-Worship at 11 a.m. with child care. (912) SOUTH BEND-Worship 10:30 a.m. (219) 232-5729, (302) 368-7505. 764-6036 or 764-5810. Visitors welcome. 256-0635. ODESSA-Worship, first Sundays, 11 a.m. VALPARAtSO-Duneland Friends Meeting. Singing 11 :00 WILMINGTON-Worship 9:15a.m., First-day school10:30 Hawaii a.m., unprogrammed worship 11 :15 a.m. First United a.m. Alapocas, Friends School. Methodist Church, Wesley Hall, 103 N. Franklin St., 46383. BIG ISLAND-tO a.m. Sunday. Unprogrammed worship, Information: (219) 462-4107 or 462-9997. WILMINGTON-Worship and First-day school10:30 a.m. potluck lunch follows. Location rotates. Call: (808) 4th & West Sts. Phone: 652-4491. 322-3116, 775-9780, 962-6957. WEST LAFAYETTE-Unprogrammed worship at 10 a.m. at 176 E. Stadium Ave., West Lafayette. HONOLULU-Sundays, 9:45a.m. hymn singing; 10 a.m. worship and First-day school. 2426 Oahu Ave. Overnight District of Columbia inquiries welcomed. Phone: 988-2714. WASHINGTON- Friends Meeting, 2111 Florida Ave. NW MAUl-Friends Worship Group. Contact: John Dart (808) (north of Dupont Circle Metro, near Conn. Ave.). 483-3310. 878-2190, 107-D Kamnui Place, Kula, HI 96790; or (808) Iowa Unprogrammed meetings for worship are held on First Day 572-9205 (Witarellis). AMES- Worship 10 a.m. Ames Meetinghouse, 427 at: Hawthorne Ave. Information: (515) 292-1459, 292-2081 . FLORIDA AVE. MEETINGHOUSE-Worship at 9 a.m. Idaho DES MOINES-Meeting for worship 10 a.m., classes 11 :30 and "11 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Wed. Discussion at 9:30 a.m. Meetinghouse, 4211 Grand Ave. Phone: 274-4851. a.m. on First Days. First-day school at 11 :20 a.m. MOSCOW-Moscow-Pullman Meeting, Campus Christian "Interpreter for the hearing impaired at 11 a.m. Center, 822 Elm St., Moscow. Unprogrammed worship 11 IOWA CITY-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 a.m. QUAKER HOUSE-2121 Decatur, adjacent a.m. Sunday. Childcare. (509) 334-4343. 311 N. Linn St. Call351-2234 or Selma Conner, 338-2914. meetinghouse. Worship at 10 a.m. SANDPOINT -Unprogrammed worship group at Gardenia WEST BRANCH-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m., SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL-3825 Wisconsin Ave. Center, 4 p.m. Sundays. Various homes in summer. Call discussion 9:45a.m. except 2nd Sunday. 317 N. 6th St. NW, in the Arts Center. Worship at 11 :00 a.m. Elizabeth Willey 263-4290. Call: (319) 643-5639.

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1992 43 Kansas FREDERICK-Worship and First-day school1 0 a.m. 22 S. Minnesota LAWRENCE-Oread Friends Meeting, 1146 Oregon. Market St., Frederick. 293-1151 . Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. 749-1316, 843-4895. SALISBURY-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. First-day DULUTH-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school, 9:30 MANHATTAN- Unprogrammed. Baptist Campus Center, school and adult class 10 a.m. Carey Ave. at Glen. (301) a.m. Sundays, 1730 E. Superior Street. Robert Turner, 1801 Anderson, Manhattan, KS 66502. School year: 10 543-4343, or 289-6893. clerk, (21 B) 724-6216. a.m. silence, 11 a.m. discussion. June/July: members' SANDY SPRING-Worship 9:30 and 11 a.m., first Sundays MINNEAPOLIS-Minneapolis Friends Meeting, 3125 W. homes, 9:30 a.m. 539-2636, 539-2046. 9:30 only. Classes 10:30 a.m. Meetinghouse Rd. at Rte. 108. 44th St., Mpls., MN 55410. Unprogrammed worship, 8:30 TOPEKA- Unprogrammed worship 4 p.m. followed by SOUTHERN MARYLAND-Patuxent Preparative Meeting. a.m.; First-day school and Forum, 10 a.m.; Semi­ discussion. Phone: (913) 233-1698, 233-5455, or 273-6791 . Worship 10 a.m. Call Ann Trentman 884-4048 or Peter ,programmed worship 11:15 a.m. Summer worship schedule is 9:00 and 10:30. (612) 926-6159. WICHITA-Heartland Meeting, unprogrammed worship Rabenold 586-1199. 11 :00 a.m., First Days. Room 113, St. Paul's United UNION BRIDGE-Pipe Creek Meeting. Worship 11 a.m. NORTHFIELD-SOGN-CANNON FALLS TWP.-Cannon Methodist Church, 13th and Topeka. (316) 262-8331. Carry­ Margaret Stambaugh, clerk, (301) 271-2789. Valley Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. in lunch and business following worship on last First Day Child care. (507) 663-7969. of month. Massachusetts ROCHESTER-Unprogrammed meeting. Call (507) 282-4565 or 282-331 o. WICHITA-University Friends Meeting, 1840 University. ACTON-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. Harvey Sunday school 9:30a.m., Meeting for worship 10:45 a.m. Wheeler Community Center, corner Main and Church Sts., ST. CLOUD-Unprogrammed meeting 3:00p.m. followed Gene Maynard and Shelli Kadel, pastors. Phone: (316) West Concord (during summer in homes). Clerk: Edith by second hour discussion. First United Methodist Church, 262-0471 . Gilmore, 371 -1619. 302 S. 5th Ave. AMESBURY-Worship 10 a.m. ; 120 Friend St. Call ST. PAUL-Twin Cities Friends Meeting, 1725 Grand Ave., Kentucky 948-2265 or 388-3293. St. Paul. Unprogrammed worship, 10:30 a.m., Weyer­ hauser Chapel, Macalester College two blocks east. Call BEREA-Meeting Sunday 9 a.m. Berea College: (606) AMHERST-NORTHAMPTON-GREENFIELD-Worship (612) 699-6995. 986-1745. and First-day school10 a.m. Mt. Toby Meetinghouse, Rte. 63, leverett. 548-91 88; if no answer 584-2788 or 549-4845. STILLWATER-St. Croix Valley Friends. Unprogrammed LEXINGTON- Meeting for worship and First-day school 10 worship at 10 a.m. Phone (612) 777-1698, 777-5651 . a.m. Sundays. 1504 Bryan Ave., Lexington, KY 40505. BOSTON-Worship 10:30 a.m. First Day. Beacon Hill Phone: (606) 223-4176. Friends House, 6 Chestnut St. , Boston, 02108. Phone: LOUISVILLE-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. 3050 Bon 227-9118. Mississippi Air Ave. , 40205. Phone: 452-6812. CAMBRIDGE-Meetings, Sundays, 9:30 and 11 a.m. HATTIESBURG- Unprogrammed worship, each Sunday During July and Aug., Sundays, 10 a.m. 5longfellow Pk. 10 a.m., Wesley Foundation, 210 N. 32nd St.; child care Louisiana (near Harvard Sq. , off Brattle St.). Phone: 876-6883. available. (601) 261-1150. BATON ROUGE- Unprogrammed meeting for worship 3 DEERFIELD-GREENFIELD-Worship group Thursday 5:30 p.m. 333 E. Chimes St. Clerk: Marshall Vidrine, (504) p.m. at Woolman Hill Conference Center, Keels Road, 629-5362. Deerfield, MA 01342. (413) 774-3431. All are welcome. Missouri NEW ORLEANS- Unprogrammed meeting for worship, FRAMINGHAM-Worship 10 a.m. First-day school. 841 COLUMBIA-Discussion and First-day school 9:30, Sundays 10 a.m. 7102 Ferrel St. (504) 885-1223 or Edmands Rd. (2 mi. W of Nobscot). Visitors welcome. worship 10:30 a.m. 6408 Locust Grove Dr. Call (314) 861-8022. Phone: 877-0481. 442-8328 for information. GREAT BARRINGTON-South Berkshire Meeting, Blodgett KANSAS CITY-Penn Valley Meeting, 4405 Gillham Rd. Maine House, Simon's Rock College, Alford Rd. Unprogrammed 10 a.m. Call (816) 931-5256. 10:30 a.m. Phone: (413) 528-1847 or (413) 243-1575. BAR HARBOR-Acadia. Unprogrammed meeting for ROLLA-Preparative meeting 10:30 a.m. On Soest Rd. worship 6 p.m. (7 p.m. June, July, Aug.). 288-3888 or MARTHA'S VINEYARD-Visitors Welcome! Worship 10:30 opposite Rolla Jr. High School. Phone: (314) 341-2464 or 288-4941. a.m. Location varies, call 693-0512 or 693-0040. 265-3725. BELFAST AREA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, NANTUCKET-U nprogrammed meeting 10 a.m., June ST. LOUIS-Meeting 10:30 a.m. 2539 Rockford Ave ., Rock 9 a.m. Phone: (207) 338-4476. 15- Sept. 15., Fair Street Meeting House. After Sept. 15, Hill. Phone: 962-3061 . 15 Maria Mitchell library, Vestal Street, 228-1690, SPRINGFIELD-Preparative Meeting. Worship and First­ BRUNSWICK-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. 333 Maine 228-0136, 228-1002. St. 833-5016 or 725-8216. day school 3 p.m. each First Day at the Ecumenical Center, NORTH EASTON-Worship 10:30 a.m. First Days. Place: SMSU campus, 680 S. Florence Ave. Contact Louis Cox: EAST VASSALBORO-Unprogrammed meeting for wor­ call Thomas Monego, (508) 339-6053. Mail: P.O. Box 500, ship 10 a.m. (9 a.m. summer). Child care. Friends meeting­ (417) 882-3963. N. Easton, MA 02356. house, China Road, Gerald Robbins, clerk. (207) 923-3088. NORTH SHORE-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. MID-COAST AREA- Unprogrammed meeting for worship Glen Urquhart School, Beverly Farms, Mass. Clerk: Bruce Montana at former Computer Barn, Biscay Road, 10 a.m. Nevin, 281 -5683. Damariscotta, First Day provided, 563-3464 or 563-1 701 . BILLINGS-Unprogrammed worship, 10:30 a.m., Meeting NORTHAMPTON- Worship 11 a.m., discussion 9:30; child for Learning 11 :15 a.m. Child care. 2032 Central Avenue ORONO-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 a.m. care. Smith College, Seelye Hall 28. (413) 584-2788. or call (406) 656-2163 or (406) 252-5065. Orono Community Center. 989-1366. SANDWICH-East Sandwich Meeting House, Quaker HELENA-Call (406) 449-6663 or (406) 449-4732. PORTLAND- Unprogrammed worship, First-day school, Meeting House Rd. just north of Rte. 6A. Meeting for 10:30 a.m. 1845 Forest Ave. (Rte. 302). Call (207) 797-4720. MISSOULA- Unprogrammed 10 a.m. Sundays. 432 E. worship Sunday 11 a.m. (508) 747-0761 . Pine. (406) 543-8497. WATERBORO-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school SOUTH YARMOUTH-CAPE COD- Unprogrammed wor­ 9 a.m. Conant Chapel, Alfred. (207) 324-4134, 625-8034. ship 10 a.m. 58 N. Main St. 362-6633. WHITING-Cobscook Friends Meeting. Meeting for WELLESLEY- Meeting for worship and Sunday school Nebraska worship, First Days, 10:00 a.m. Walter Plaut, clerk. (207) 10:30 a.m. at 26 Benvenue St. Phone: 237-0268. LINCOLN-Discussion 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m. 3319 S. 133-2191 . WEST FALMOUTH-CAPE COD-Meeting for worship, 46th. Phone: 488-4178. Maryland Sunday, 11 a.m. Rte. 2BA. OMAH A- Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m.; University WESTPORT-Meeting , Sundays, 10:45 a.m. Central Relig. Ctr., 101 N. Happy Hollow. 289-4156, 558-9162. ADELPHI- Worship 8:30 and 10 a.m. Sunday. Sunday Village. Clerk: Frances Kirkaldy, 636-4711. school 10:20 a.m. (10 a.m. fourth Sun). Adult 2nd hour 11:30 a.m. 1st/3rd/5th Sun. Nursery, 2303 Metzerott, near WORCESTER- Unprogrammed meeting for worship 11 Nevada a.m. 901 Pleasant St. Phone: 754-3887. U. of Md. (301) 445-1114. RENO-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m. Youth Center ANNAPOLIS- Worship 11 a.m. Ed. Bldg., First Baptist next to YMCA, 1300 Foster Drive. 747-4623. Church of Eastport, 208 Chesapeake Ave. Box 3142, Michigan Annapolis, MD 21403. Call Jean Christianson, clerk, ALMA-MT. PLEASANT -Unprogrammed meeting 11 a.m.; 544-1912. discussion 10 a.m. First-day school. Clerk: Don Nagler, New Hampshire BALTIMORE- Stony Run: worship 9:30 and 11 a.m. except (517) 772-2941. CONCORD-Worship 10 a.m. Children welcomed and 10 a.m. July and August. 511 6 N. Charles St. 435-3773. ANN ARBOR- Meeting 10 a.m., adult discussion 11:30 cared for. Merrimack Valley Day Care Center, 19 N. Fruit Homewood: worship and First-day school11 a.m. 3107 N. a.m. Meetinghouse, 1420 Hill St.: guest room reservations, St. Phone: 783-4743. Charles St. 235-4438. (313) 761-7435. Clerk: Walt Scheider, (313) 663-3846. DOVER-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m., sharing at BALTIMO REISPARKS- Gunpowder Meeting. Worship BIRMINGHAM- Meeting 10:30 a.m. Brookside School noon. 141 Central Ave. Clerk: Chip Neal, (603) 742-0263, every First Day, 11 a.m. Call for directions. Phone: (41 0) library. N.E. corner lone Pine & Cranbrook, Bloomfield or write P.O. Box 243, Dover, NH 03820. 472-4583. Hills. Summer: Springdale Park, Strathmore Rd. (313) GONIC- Programmed Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays. BETHESDA-Classes and worship 11 a.m. (year round) 377-8811. Clerk: Margaret Kanost, (313) 373-6608: 10:30 a.m. Maple St. Clerk: Evelyn Lang. Phone (603) Sidwell Friends Lower School, Edgemoor l ane and Beverly DETROIT-First Day meeting 10:30 a.m. Call 341-9404, 895-9877. Rd. 986-8681. or write 4011 Norfolk, Detroit, Ml 48221 , for information. HANOVER-Worship and First-day school, Sundays, 10 CHESTERTOWN-Chester River Meeting, 124 Philoso­ EAST LANSING-Unprogrammed Worship and First-day a.m. Friends Meetinghouse, 43 lebanon St. (next to phers Terrace. Worship 11 a.m. Clerk: Joseph Whitehill, school, 12:30 p.m. All Saints Episcopal Church lounge, 800 Hanover H.S.). Clerk: Erica Brinton. P.O. Box 1020, Chestertown, MD 21620. (301) 778-1130. Abbott Road. Accessible. Call 371-1754 or 351-3094. LANCASTER-Unprogrammed meeting at the Episcopal DARLINGTON-Deer Creek Meeting. Worship 10:30 ; Clerk GRAND RAPIDS-Worship and First-day school10 'a.m. Rectory nearly every Sunday evening at 5:30. Check for Anne Gregory, (410) 457-9188. 25 Sheldon St. SE. (616) 942-4713 or 454-7701. time. (802) 962-5290. EASTON- Third Haven Meeting, 405 S. Washington St. KALAMAZOO- Meeting for worship and First-day school NORTH SANDWICH-10:30 a.m. Contact: Webb, (603) 10 a.m. Kenneth Carroll, clerk, (301) 820-8347, 820-7952. 10 a.m., discussion and child care 11 a.m. Friends 284-6215. FALLSTON-little Falls Meeting, Old Fallston Rd. Worship Meetinghouse, 508 Denner. Phone: 349-1754. PETERBOROUGH-Monadnock, Meeting at Peterborough/ 10:30 a.m. Clerk, Hunter C. Sutherland, phone (301) KEWEENAW-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school. Jaffrey line on Rt. 202. 10:30. (603) 924-6150, or Stine, 877-1635. Rt. 1, Box 114a, Atlantic Mine, 49905. (906) 296-0560. 878-4768.

44 October 1992 FRIENDS JouRN AL WEARE-10:30 a.m., Quaker St., Henniker. Contact: Baker New Mexico ST. JAMES-CONSCIENCE BAY-Friends Way, off (603) 478-3230. Moriches Rd. Adult discussion, FDS. and singing. (516) ALBUQUERQUE- Meeting, First-day school 10:30 a.m. 862-621 3. WEST EPPING-Unprogrammed. 10 a.m. on 1st and 3rd 1600 5th St. N.W. Clerk: Avis Vermilya, (505) 897-7093. First Days. Friend St. directly off Rt. 27. Clerk: Fritz Bell SHELTER ISLAND EXECUTIVE MEETING-10:30 a.m. (603) 895-2437. GALLUP-Friends Worship Group, First Day 10:30 a.m. Summers: Circle at Quaker Martyr's Monument, For information, call: 722-9004. Sylvester Manor. (516) 749-0555. Winters: 96 Hepstead LAS CRUCE5-10 a.m. Sunday, worship, First-day school. St., Sag Harbor. (516) 324-8557. New Jersey 2610 S. Solano. 522-0672 or 526-4625. WESTBURY- 550 Post Ave., just south of Jericho Tpke. ATLANTIC CITY AREA-Worship 11 a.m., 437A, S. Pitney SANTA FE-Meeting for worship, Sundays 9 and 11 a.m. at Exit 32-N, Northern State Pkwy. (516) 333-3178. Rd. Near Absecon. Clerk: Robert L. Barnett: (609) Olive Rush Studio, 630 Canyon Rd. Phone: 983-7241. 965-5347. Chamisa Friends Preparative Meeting at Brunn School. MT. KISCO-Croton Valley Meeting. Meetinghouse Road, BARNEGAT-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. Left side of East Worship and First-day school, 4 p.m. (5 p.m. Daylight opposite Stanwood. Worship 11 a.m. Sunday (914) 666-8602. Bay'Ave. , traveling east from Rte. 9. Savings). (505) 473-9110. SILVER CITY AREA-Gila Friends Meeting. 10 a.m. Call NEW PALTZ-Worship, First-day school and child care CAMDEN-Newton Friends Meeting. Worship First Day 10:30 a.m. 8 N. Manheim. (914) 255-5678. 10:30 a.m. Cooper & bth Sts. (by Haddon Ave.). 388-3388, 536-9565, or 535-4137 for location. Information: (609) 964-9649. SOCORRO-Worship group, first, third, fifth Sundays, 10 NEW YORK CITY-At 15 Rutherford Place (15th Street), a.m. Call 835-0013 or 835-0277. Manhattan; unprogrammed worship every First Day at 9:30 CAPE MAY- Beach meeting mid-June through Sept. , 8:45 a.m. and 11 a.m.; programmed worship at 10 a.m. on the a.m. , beach north of first-aid station. (609) 624-1165. first First Day of every month. Earl Hall, Columbia Universi­ CINNAMINSON-Westfield Friends Meeting, Rte. 130 at ty: unprogrammed worship every First Day at 11 a.m. At Riverton-Moorestown Rd. Meeting for worship 11 a.m., New York 110 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn: unprogrammed worship First-day school 10 a.m. at ALBANY-Worship and First-day school 11 a.m. 727 11 a.m. every First Day. Phone (212) 777-8866 (Mon.­ CROPWELL-Meeting for worship 10:45 a.m. Old Marlton Madison Ave. Phone: 436-8812. Fri., 9-5) about First-day schools, monthly business Pike, one mile west of Marlton. meetings, and other information. ALFRED-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. each First Day CROSSWICKS-Meeting and First-day school 9:30 a.m. in The Parish House, West University St. OLD CHATHAM-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. Powell (609) 298-4362. House, Rte. 13. Phone 794-8811 . AMAWALK-Worship 10:30 a.m. Quaker Church Rd., N. DOVER-RANDOLPH-Worship and First-day school 11 of Rte. 202-35, Yorktown Heights. (914) 271-4074 or ONEONTA-Butternuts Monthly Meeting. Worship 10:30 a.m. Randolph Friends Meeting House, Quaker Church Rd. 962-3045. a.m. first Sunday. (607) 432-9395. Other Sundays: Coopers­ and Quaker Ave. between Center Grove Rd. and Millbrook town, 547-5450; Delhi, 829-6702; Norwich, 334-9433. Ave., Randolph. (201) 627-3987. AUBURN-Unprogrammed meeting 1 p.m. Seventh-day worship. By appointment only. Auburn Prison, 135 State ORCHARD PARK-Worship and First-day school 11 a.m. HADDONFIELD-Worship 10 a.m.; First-day school St., Auburn NY 13021 . Requests must be processed East Quaker St. at Freeman Rd. 662-5749. follows, except summer. Babysitting provided during both. through Ruth Stewart, 46 Grant Ave., Auburn NY 13021. POPLAR RIDGE-Worship 10 a.m. (315) 364-7244. Friends Ave. and Lake St. Phone: 428-6242 or 428-5779. Phone: (315) 253-6559. POUGHKEEPSIE-Meeting for worship and Sunday school MANASQUAN-First-day school10 a.m., meeting 11:15 BROOKLYN-Worship and First-day school 11 a.m. (child 10 a.m. 249 Hooker Ave., 12603. (914) 454-2870. a.m. Rte. 35 at Manasquan Circle. care provided). 110 Schermerhorn St. For information call PURCHASE-Meeting for worship and First-day school MARLTON -See CROPWELL. (212) 777-8866 (Mon.-Fri. 9-5). Mailing address: Box 730, 11 a.m., Purchase Street (Rt. 120) at Lake St. Meeting MEDFORD-Worship 10 a.m. First-day school10:30 a.m. Brooklyn, NY 11201 . telephone: (914) 949-0206 (answering machine). Union St. Meetinghouse. (609) 953-8914 for information. BUFFALO-Worship and First-day school, 11 a.m. 72 N. QUAKER STREET - Worship 11 a.m. Rte. 7 Quaker Street, MICKLETON-Worship 10 a.m., First-day school11 a.m. Parade near Science Museum. Call for summer hours. New York 12141 . Phone (518) 895-8169. (609) 848-7449 or 423-5618. 892-8645. ROCHESTER-Labor Day to May 31 , Meeting for Worship MONTCLAIR- Meeting and First-day school 11 a.m. BULLS HEAD RD.-Worship 10:30 a.m. Sundays. N. 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. First-day school 11 a.m. June 1 to Labor except July and Aug. 10 a.m. Park St. and Gordonhurst Dutchess Co., •;, mile E. Taconic Pky. (914) 266-3223. Day worship at 10 a.m. with babysitting available. 41 Ave. Phone: (201) 746-0940. Visitors welcome. CANTON-St. Lawrence Valley Friends Meeting, (315) Westminster Rd .• 14607, (7 16) 271-0900. MOORESTOWN-Meeting for worship 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., 386-4648. ROCKLAND-Meeting for worship and First-day school 11 except 10 a.m. second Sunday Sept., last Sunday Dec., CENTRAL FINGER LAKES-Penn Van, Sundays, Sept. a.m . 60 Leber Rd., Blauvelt. (914) 623-8473. and third Sunday June. First-day school 10 a.m. Oct. to through June, 160 Main St. rear, adult and child's study RYE-Unprogrammed meeting fo r worship 9 a.m., 624 May, Main St. (Rte. 537) and Chester Ave. (Rte.) 603. 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m. July through Aug., worship in Milton Road. Phone (914) 967-0539. Worship also at Mt. Laurel Meetinghouse, June through homes. Phone (315) 789-2910. SARANAC LAKE-Meeting for worship and First-day Sept. 10:30 a.m., Moorestown-MI. Laurel Rd. (Rte. 603) and CHAPPAQUA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and school; (518) 523-1899 or (518) 523-3548. Hainesport Rd. (Rte. 674). Call (609) 235-1561 . First-day school 10:30 a.m. Rte. 120 Quaker Rd. (914) SARATOGA SPRINGS-Worship and First-day school11 MOUNT HOLLY-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. High and 737-9089 or 238-9202. a.m. Phone: (518) 399-5013. Garden Sts. Visitors welcome. Call (609) 261 -7575. CLINTON-Meeting, Sundays, 10:30 a.m. Kirkland Art SCARSDALE-Meeting for worship, second Sunday in MULLICA HILL-Main St. Sept.-May FDS 9:45, meeting Center, On-the-Park. Phone: 853-2243. Sept. through June, 11 a.m.; July through first Sunday in for worship 11 a.m. Meeting only, June, July and Aug., 10 a.m. CORNWALL-Meeting for worship and Sunday school Sept. 10 a.m. First-day school, third Sunday in Sept. NEW BRUNSWICK-Meeting and First-day school 10:30 10:30 a.m. Rte. 107, off 9W, Quaker Ave. Phone: 496-4463. through second Sunday in June, 11 a.m. 133 Popham Rd. a.m. Meeting only July and Aug., 9:30a.m. 109 Nichol Ave. EASTON-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school SCHENECTADY-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Albany (201) 846-8969. 11 a.m. Rte. 40. (518) 664-6567, 692-9227, or 677-3693. Street United Methodist Church, 924 Albany Street. (518) PLAINFIELD-Meeting for worship and First-day school ELMIRA-10:30 a.m. Sundays. 155 West 6th St. Phone: 377-4912. 10:00 a.m. Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. 225 Watchung Ave. (607) 733-7972. STATEN ISLAND-Meeting for worship Sundays at 11 at E. Third St. 757-5736. FREDONIA-Unprogrammed meeting 10:30 a.m. Call a.m. Information: (718) 816-1364. PRINCETON-Worship 9 and 11 a.m. First-day school11 (716) 672-4427 or (716) 672-4518. SYRACUSE-Worship 10:30 a.m. 821 Euclid Ave. a.m. Oct.-May. Quaker Rd. near Mercer St. (609) 924-7034. HAMILTON -Meeting for worship t 0 a.m. Chapel House, QUAKERTOWN-Worship and First-day school10:30 a.m. Colgate University. Phone: Joel Plotkin, (315) 684-9320. Box 502, Quakertown, 08868. (201) 782-0953. HUDSON-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. first and third North Carolina RANCOCAS-First-day school 10 a.m., meeting for Sundays. 343 Union St. (518) 851-7954, 966-8940, or ASHEVILLE-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and worship 11 a.m. 329-0401. First-day school10 a.m., forum and child care 11 a.m. 227 RIDGEWOOD-Meeting for worship and First-day school ITHACA-Worship 11 a.m., Anabel Taylor Hall, Oct.- May, Edgewood Rd. (704) 258-0974. 11 a.m. 224 Highwood Ave. worship 10:30 a.m., Hector Meeting House, Perry City Rd., BOONE-Unprogrammed worship 10:30, Catholic Campus SALEM- Meeting for worship 11 a.m., First-day school June-Sept. Phone: 273-5421 . Ministries Build., 901 Faculty St. For into., call: (919) 9:45a.m. July and Aug. worship 10 a.m. East Broadway. LONG ISLAND (QUEENS, NASSAU, SUFFOLK 877-4663. Michael Harless. clerk. SEAVILLE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. (July/Aug. 10 COUNTIES)-Unprogrammed meetings tor worship, 11 BREVARD-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, 11 a.m. a.m.) Main Shore Rd., Rte. 9, Seaville. (609) 624-1165. a.m. First Days, unless otherwise noted. Oakdale and Duckworth Aves. (704) 884-7000. SHREWSBURY-Meeting for worship and First-day school CELO-Meeting 10:45 a.m., near Burnsville, off Rt. 80S, 10:30a.m. Rte. 35and Sycamore. Phone: (908) 741-4138. 455 Hannah Branch Rd., (704) 675-4456. SOMERSET/MORRIS COUNTIES-Somerset Hills Meet­ EASTERN LONG ISLAND (3 worship groups) CHAPEL HILL-Meeting for worship 9 a.m. and 11 :15 a.m. ing, Community Club, E. Main St., Brookside. Worship 10 Sag Harbor: 96 Hempstead St., Sag Harbor. (516) First-day school 11 :15 a.m. Child care. During June, July a.m. Sept.-May. (908) 234-2486 or (201) 543-7477. 725-2547. and August, worship at 10 a.m. Clerk: Marnie Clark, (919) SUMMIT-Meeting for worship and First-day school 11 a.m. Southampton: Administration Building, Southampton 967-9342. (July, Aug., 10 a.m.). 158 Southern Blvd., Chatham Town­ College. (516) 287-1713. CHARLOTTE-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and ship. Visitors welcome. Southold: 2060 Leeward Drive. (516) 765-1132. First-day school10 a.m., forum and child care 11 a.m. 2327 TRENTON-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Hanover and FLUSHING-Discussion 10 a.m.; FDS 11 a.m. 137-16 Remount Rd. (704) 399-8465 or 537-5808. Montgomery Sts. Visitors welcome. Child care. Northern Blvd. (718) 358-9636. DURHAM-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school TUCKERTON-Little Egg Harbor Meeting. Left side of Rte HUNTINGTON-LLOYD HARBOR-Friends World 10 a.m. 404 Alexander Ave. Contact Alice Keighton, (919) 9 traveling north. Worship 10:30 a.m. College, Plover Ln. (516) 261-4924 (eves.). 489-6652. WOODBURY-First-day school 10 a.m., meeting for JERICHO-Old Jericho Tpke., off Rte. 25, just east of FAYETTEVILLE-Unprogrammed. Phone 485-5720. worship 11 :15 a.m. 140 North Broad St. Telphone (609) intersection with Rtes. 106 and 107. GREENSBORO-Friendship Meeting (unprogrammed) 845-5080, it no answer call 848-1990. LOCUST VALLEY-MATINECOCK-10 a.m. all year, 1103 New Garden Rd. Worship 10:30 a.m. Call (919) WOODSTOWN-First-day school 9:45 a.m., worship 11 a.m. FDS Sept.-June. Duck Pond and Piping Rock Rds. 294-2095 or 854-5155. July and Aug., worship 10 a.m. N. Main St. Phone (609) MANHASSET-Adult class 10 a.m., FDS 11 a.m., GREENVILLE-Unprogrammed worship and First-day 358-3528. Winter. (Worship 10 a.m. June - August). (516) 365-51 42. school. 355-7230 or 758-6789.

FRIENDS J ouRNAL October 1992 45 GUILFORD COLLEGE, GREENSBORO-New Garden Oregon LEWISBURG-Worship 10:30 a.m. Sundays. Vaughan Lit. Friends Meeting. Meeting for worship: unprogrammed 9 ASHLAND-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Sunday. 1150 Bldg. Library, Bucknell University. Clerk: (717) 524·01 91 . a.m.; semi-programmed 11 a.m. First-day school 9:45a.m. Ashland St. (503) 482-4335. LONDON GROVE-Friends meeting Sunday 10 a.m., child Gary C. Dent, clerk; David W. Bills, pastoral minister. 801 care/First-day school 11 a.m. Newark Rd. and Rte. 926. New Garden Road, 27410. (919) 292-5487. CORVALLIS-Meeting for worship 9:30a.m. 3311 N.W. Polk Ave. Phone: 752-3569. MARSHALLTON - Bradford Meeting (unprogrammed), HICKORY- Unprogrammed worship, First-day school Rte. 162, 4 mi. west of West Chester. 11 a.m. 696·6538. 10:15, forum 11:30.328 N. Center St. , (704) 324-5343. EUGENE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. Sunday. 2274 Onyx St. Phone: 343-3840. MEDIA-Worship 11 a.m. {10 a.m. July-Aug.) Joint First­ RALEIGH-Unprogrammed. Worship 10 a.m. 625 Tower FLORENCE-Central Coast Meeting for worship 11 a.m .• day school 9:30 a.m. at Media, Sept.-Jan., and at Street. Providence, Feb.- June., 125 W. Third St. second and fourth Sundays. (503) 997-4237 or 997-7024. WENTWORTH/REIDSVILLE-Open worship and child MEDIA- Providence Meeting, 105 N. Providence Rd. (215) care 10:30 a.m. Call (919) 349-5727 or (919) 427-3188. PORTLAND-Multnomah Monthly Meeting, 4312 S.E. Stark. Worship 10 a.m. Phone: 232-2822. 566-1308. Worship 11 a.m. Joint First-day school 9:30 at WILMINGTON- Unprogrammed worship 11:00 a.m., Providence, Feb.-June and at Media, Sept.-Jan. discussion 10:00 a.m. , 313 Castle St. SALEM-Meeting for worship 10 a.m., Forum 11 a.m. YWCA, 768 State St., 399-1908. Call for summer schedule. MERION-Meeting for worship 11 a.m., First-day school WOODLAND-Cedar Grove Meeting. Sabbath school10 10:15 except summer months. Babysitting provided. a.m., meeting for worship 11 a.m. Bill Remmes, clerk. (919) Meetinghouse Lane at Montgomery. 587-9981. MIDDLETOWN-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. First-day school 10:30·11 :30 a.m. Adult education 10:30-11 a.m. Pennsylvania Delaware County, Rte. 352 N. of Lima. 358-3212. North Dakota MIDDLETOWN- First-day school 9:30 a.m., meeting for ABINGTON-First-day school (summer-outdoor meeting) FARGO-Unprogrammed meeting, 10:30 a.m. Sundays, worship 11 a.m. Seventh and eighth months worship 10-11 9:45a.m., worship 11 :15 a.m. Child care. Meetinghouse a.m. At Langhorne, 453 W. Maple Ave. 1239 12th St. N. 234-0974. Rd./Greenwood Ave., Jenkintown. (E. of York Rd., N. of Philadelphia.) 884-2865. MILLVILLE-Worship 10 a.m., First-day school 11 a.m. Main St. Dean Girton, (717) 458-6431. BIRMINGHAM- First-day school 10 a.m., worship 10:15 Ohio a.m. 1245 Birmingham Rd. S. of West Chester on Rte. 202 NEWTOWN (Bucks Co.}--W:lrship 11 a.m., First-day school 9:45a.m. Summer worship only. 968-5143 or 968-2217. AKRON-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school. toRte. 926, turn W. to Birmingham Rd., turnS. v. mile. 119 Augusta Ave. Zip: 44302. (216) 867-4968 (H) or BUCKINGHAM-Meeting for worship 11 a.m.-12. First-day NEWTOWN SQUARE (Del. Co.)-Meeting 10 a.m. Rte. 253-7151 (AFSC). school, beginning with worship at 11 a.m. Lahaska, Rtes. 252 N. of Rte. 3. (215) 566-4808. ATHENS-10 a.m. 18 N. College St. (614) 592-5789. 202-263. (215) 794-7299. NORRISTOWN- Meeting for worship and First-day school BOWLING GREEN-Broadmead Friends Meeting FGC. CARLISLE-First-day school (Sept.-May). Worship 10 a.m. 10 a.m. on First Day at Swede and Jacoby Sts. Phone: Unprogrammed worship groups meet at: 163 E. Pomfret St., 249-2411. 279-3765. Mail: P.O. Box 823, Norristown, PA 19404. OXFORD- First-day school 10 a.m., Meeting for worship BLUFFTON-Sally Weaver Sommer, clerk, (419) 358- CHAMBERSBURG-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. (717) 5411 . 263-5517. 11 a.m. 260 S. 3rd St. (215) 932-8572. Janet P. Eaby, clerk. (717) 786-7810. FINDLAY- Joe Davis, (419) 422-7668 CHELTENHAM-See Philadelphia listing. TOLEDO-Rilma Buckman, (41 9) 385-1718 PENNSBURG-Unami Monthly Meeting meets First Days CHESTER-Meeting for worship 11 a.m., Sunday. 24th and at 11 a.m. Meetinghouse at 5th and Macoby Sts. Bruce CINCINNATI-Eastern Hills Friends Meeting (previously Chestnut Sts., (215) 874-5860. Clifton Friends Meeting), 1671 Nagel Road, Sunday 10 a.m. Grimes, clerk, 234-8424. 793-9242. CONCORD-Worship and First-day school 11:15 a.m. At PHILADELPHIA-Meetings 10:30 a.m. unless specified; Concordville, on Concord Rd. one block south of Rte. 1. phone 241-7221 for information about First-day schools. CINCINNATI-Community Meeting (United FGC and DARBY-Meeting for worship and First-day school1 1 a.m. FUM), 3960 Winding Way, 45229. Worship from silence and Main at 10th St. First-day school 10 a.m. Quaker-house phone: (513) 861-4353. Byron Branson, clerk. DOLINGTON-MAKEFIELD- Worship 11-11 :30 a.m. First­ BYBERRY-one mile east of Roosevelt Boulevard at day school 11 :30-12.30. East of Dolington on Mt. Eyre Rd. CLEVELAND-Meeting lor worship and First-day school Southampton Rd. , 11 a.m. 11 a.m. 10916 Magnolia Dr. (216) 791 -2220. DOWNINGTOWN- First-day school (except summer CENTRAL PHILADELPHIA-Meeting for worship 11 months) and worship 10:30 a.m. 800 E. Lancaster Ave. a.m. (10 a.m. July and August). 15th and Cherry Sts. COLUMBUS-Unprogrammed meeting 10:30 a.m. 1954 (south side old Rte. 30, '12 mile east of town). 269-2899. Indianola Ave. Call the Meetinghouse at (614) 291-2331 or CHEL TENHAM- Jeanes Hospital grounds, Fox Gerry Brevoort at (614) 268-2002. DOYLESTOWN-Meeting for worship and First-day school Chase, 11 :30 a.m. July and Aug. 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. East Oakland Ave. DAYTON-Friends meeting FGC. Unprogrammed worship CHESTNUT HILL- 100 E. Mermaid Lane. DUNNINGS CREEK-First-day school/Meeting for worship and First-day school 10 a.m. 1516 Salem Ave., Rm. 236. FOURTH AND ARCH STS.-10 a.m. on Thursdays. Phone: (513) 426-9875. begins 10 a.m. NW Bedford at Fishertown. 623-5350. FRANKFORD-Penn and Orthodox Sts., 10:30 a.m. DELAWARE-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day ERIE- Unprogrammed worship. Call (814) 866-0682. FRANKFORD- Unity and Wain Sts .• Friday eve. 7:30 school, 11 :00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., room 311 of the Hamilton­ FALLSfNGTON (Bucks County)- Falls Meeting, Main St. Williams Campus Center at Ohio Wesleyan University. First-day school1 0 a.m. , meeting for worship 11 a.m. Five p.m. (614) 369-0947. miles from Pennsbury reconstructed manor home of GERMANTOWN MEETING-Coulter St. and German­ town Ave. GRANVILLE-Area worship group meets second and William Penn. fourth Sundays 10 a.m. For information. call Mike Fuson: GLENSIDE-Unprogrammed, Christ-centered worship. GREEN STREET MEETING-45 W. School House (614) 587-4756. First-day 10:30 a.m., Fourth-day, 7:30p.m. 16 Huber St., Lane. KENT- Meeting for worship and First-day school 10:30 Glenside (near Railroad Station) Ph. 576-1450. a.m. United Christian Ministries Chapel, 1435 East Main GOSHEN-First-day school 10 a.m., worship 10:45 Street. Phone 673-5336. Goshenville, intersection of Rte. 352 and Paoli Pike. PHOENIXVILLE-Schuylkill Meeting. East of Phoenixville MANSFIELD- Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m. , first and GWYNEDD-First-day school 9:45a.m., except summer. and north of juncture of Whitehorse Rd. and Rte. 23. third Sundays. (419) 756-4441 or 289-8335. Worship 11 :15 a.m. Sumneytown Pike and Rte. 202. Worship 10 a.m., forum 11 :15. MARIETTA- Mid-Ohio Valley Friends unprogrammed HARRISBURG- Worship 11 a.m. , First-day school and PITTSBURGH-Meeting for worship and school 10:30 worship First Day mornings at 10:30 o' clock. Betsey Mills adult education (Sept. to May) 9:45a.m. Sixth and Herr Sts. a.m.; 4836 Ellsworth Ave., (412) 683-2669. Club, 4th and Putnam Sts. Phone: (614) 373-2466. Phone: (717) 232-7282 or 232-1326. PLYMOUTH MEETING- Worship, First-day school 11 :15 OBERLIN- Unprogrammed meeting, First Days: (216) HAVERFORD-First-day school 10:30 a.m., meeting for a.m. Germantown Pike and Butler Pike. 775-2368 or (216) 774-3292. worship 10:30 a.m., fifth-day meeting for worship 10 a.m. POCONOs-Sterling-Newfoundland. Worship group under WAYNESVILLE-Friends meeting, First-day school 9:30 during college year. Buck Lane, between Lancaster Pike the care of North Branch (Wilkes-Barre) Meeting. (717) a.m., unprogrammed worship 10:45 a.m. 4th and Hight Sts. and Haverford Rd. 689-2353 or 689-7552. (513) 885-7276, 897-8959. HAVERTOWN-Old Haverford Meeting. East Eagle Rd. at POTTSTOWN-READING AREA-Exeter Meeting. Meet­ WILMINGTON-Campus Meeting (United FUM and FGC), Saint Dennis Lane, Havertown, First-day school and adult inghouse Rd. off 562, 1 and 6/10 miles W. of 662 and 562 College Kelly Center. Unprogrammed worship 10:15 a.m. forum, 10 a.m., meeting for worship 11 a.m. intersection and Yellow House. Worship 10:30 a.m. Barbara Olmsted, clerk, (513) 382-4118. HORSHAM-First-day school, meeting 11 a.m. Rte. 611 . QUAKERTOWN-Richland Monthly Meeting, 244 S. Main WOOSTER-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school HUNTINGDON-Worship 10 a.m. 1715 Mifflin St. (814) Street, First-day school and meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. S.W. corner College and Pine Sts. (216) 643-1842 or 669-4038. RADNOR-Radnor Meeting for worship and First-day 345-8664 or 262-7650. INDIANA- Unprogrammed meeting for worship, 10:30 school 10 a.m. Conestoga and Sproul Roads, lthan, Pa. YELLOW SPRINGS-Unprogrammed worship, FGC, 10 a.m., first and third Sundays. United Ministry, 828 Grant (215) 688-9205. a.m. Rockford Meetinghouse, President St. (Antioch St. (412) 349-3338. READING-First-day school10 a.m., meeting 11 a.m. 108 campus). Clerk, John Eastman: (513) 767-7919. KENDAL-Worship 10:30 a.m. Rte. 1, 1 mi. N. of Long­ North Sixth St. (215) 372-5345. ZANESVILLE-Area worship group meets first and third wood Gardens. SOLEBURY-Worship 10 a.m., First-day school10:45 a.m. Sundays 10 a.m. For information, call Ginger Swank: (614) KENNETI SQUARE-First-day school t 0 a.m., worship 11 Sugan Rd., 2 miles N.W. of New Hope. 297-5054. 455-3841. a.m. Union & Sickles. Betsy McKinistry, clerk, (215) SOUTHAMPTON (Bucks Co.)-Worship and First-day 444-4449. school 10 a.m., Adult forum 11 a.m. Street and Gravel Hill LANCASTER-Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m. 110 Rds. (215) 364-0581. Oklahoma Tulane Terr. 392-2762. SPRINGFIELD- Meeting and First-day school, 11 a.m., W. OKLAHOMA CITY-Friends Meetinghouse, 312 S.E. 25th. LANSDOWNE-First-day school and activities 10 a.m. Springfield and Old Sproul Rds. Del. Co. 328-2425. Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 a.m. Quaker study Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Lansdowne and Stewart Aves. STATE COLLEGE-First-day school and adult discussion group, midweek. (405) 632-7574, 631-4174. LEHIGH VALLEY-BETHLEHEM-Worship and First-day 10 a.m. worship 11 a.m. 611 E. Prospect Ave. 16801 . STILLWATER- Unprogrammed meeting for worship 11 school 9:30a.m. Programs for all ages 10:45 a.m. On rte. SWARTHMORE-Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m., a.m. For information call (405) 372-5892 or 372-4839. 512, 112 mile north of rte. 22. forum 11 a.m. Whittier Place. college campus.

46 October 1992 FRIENDS JOURNAL UPPER DUBLIN-Worship and First-day school 11 a.m. HILL COUNTRY-Unprogrammed worship 10:40 a.m., dis­ OLYMPIA-Worship 10 a.m. 219 B Street S.w.• Tumwater. Ft. Washington Ave. and Meetinghouse Rd. , near Ambler. cussion 10 a.m. Kerrville, TX. Clerk: Sue Rosier (512) First Sunday each month; potluck breakfast at 9 a.m. VALLEY-First-day school and forum 10 a.m. (except 698-2592. Address: P.O. Box 334, Olympia, WA 98507. Phone: summer), Worship 11 :15 (summer, 10). Monthly meeting HOUSTON-Live Oak Meeting, 1003 Alexander. Meeting 943-3818 or 357-3855. during forum time 2nd Sunday of each month. West of King for worship 11 a.m. year round. Discussion 9:30a.m. except PULLMAN-See Moscow, Idaho. of Prussia on old Ate. 202 and Old Eagle School Rd. summer. Phone: clerk, Dee Rogers: (713) 358-3711 or SEATTLE-University Friends Meeting 4001 9th Ave. NE. WEST CHESTER-First-day school 10:30 a.m., worship Meetinghouse: (713) 862-6685 for details. Quiet worship First Days 9:30 & 11 a.m .• Weds. 7 p.m. 10:45. 425 N. Hight St. Carolyn Helmuth, 696-0491 . LUBBOCK-Unprogrammed worship, Sunday morning 547-6449. Accommodations: 632-9839. WEST GROVE-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. 153 E. 10:45-11 :45 a.m. United Campus Ministries Building, 2412 SPOKANE-Unprogrammed worship. 747-7275 or 536-6622. 13th St. (806) 745-8921 . Harmony Road. P.O. Box 7. TACOMA-Tacoma Friends Meeting, 3019 N. 21st St. WESTTOWN-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday. MIDLAND-Worship 5 p.m. Sundays. Clerk, Mike Gray, Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m.• First-day discussion 11 a.m. Westtown School campus, Westtown, PA 19395. (915) 699-5512. Phone: 759-1910. WILKES-BARRE-North Branch Monthly Meeting. RIO GRANDE VALLEY-Winter worship group Sunday WALLA WALLA-10 a.m. Sundays. 522-0399. Wyoming Seminary Lower School, 1560 Wyoming Ave., mornings. For location call Carol J. Brown 686-4855. Forty Fort. Sunday school 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m., For SAN ANTONIO- Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. Discus­ West VIrginia summer and vacations, phone: (717) 675-2438 or (717) sion 11 a.m. at Methodist Student Center, 102 Belknap, San MORGANTOWN-Monongalia Friends Meeting. Every 825-0675. Antonio, TX 78212. Third First Days Meeting for Business Sunday 11 a.m. Phone: Lurline Squire (304) 599-3109. with potluck at the rise of business; Lori Ratcliff, clerk. WILLISTOWN- Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. PARKERSBURG- Mid-Ohio Valley Friends. Phone (304) Goshen and Warren Ads .• Newtown Square, A.D. 1. 13647 High Chapel, San Antonio, TX 78231 . (512) 493-1054. 422-5299 or (304) 428-1320. WRIGHTSTOWN-Ate. 413. Gathering 9:30a.m. Meeting for Worship 10 a.m. First-day school, children 10:15 a.m., Wisconsin adults 11 a.m. Utah BELOIT-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. Sundays, 811 YARDLEY-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. First-day school Clary St. Phone: (608) 365-5858. follows meeting during winter months. North Main St. LOGAN-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school. Sundays. 10:30 a.m. 220 N. 100 E. Call 563-3345, or EAU CLAIRE-Menomonie Friends Meeting for worship and 752-2702. First-day school at the Meetinghouse (1718 10th Street, Rhode Island SALT LAKE CITY-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day Menomonie. 235-6366) or in Eau Claire. Call 235-5686 or 832-0721 for schedule. PROVIDENCE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. each First school10 a.m. Friends Meeting House. 161 E. Second Ave. Day. 99 Morris Ave .• corner of Olney St. Phone (801) 359-1 506, or 582-0719. GREEN BAY/APPLETON-Meeting for worship and First­ day school 11 a.m. Contact Peri Aldrich, clerk: (414) SAYLESVILLE-Worship 10:30 a.m. each First Day. 865-7148. Lincoln-Great Rd. (Ate. 126) at River Rd. Vermont MADISON-Meeting House, 1704 Roberts Ct., (608) WESTERLY -Unprogrammed worship and First-day school 256-2249. Unprogrammed worship Sunday at 9:00 & 11 :00 10:30 a.m. 57 Elm St. (401) 596-0034. BENNINGTON-Worship, Sundays, 10 a.m. Old First Church barn on Monument Circle at the obelisk. (802) a.m .. Wednesday at 7:00a.m., 12:00 noon, 5:15 & 8:30p.m. WOONSOCKET-Smithfield Friends Meeting, 108 447-7980 or (802) 442-4859. Children's Classes at 11 :00 a.m. Sunday. Smithfield Road, (Ate 146-A). Unprogrammed worship 9:30; MILWAUKEE-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. 3224 N. pastoral worship 11 a.m. (401) 762-5726. BURLINGTON-Worship 11 a.m. Sunday. 173 North Prospect St. Phone: (802) 660-9221 . Gordon Pl. Phone (414) 332-9846 or 263-2111 . MIDDLEBURY-Worship 10 a.m. at ParenUChild Center. South Carolina 11 Monroe Street. Middlebury. (802) 388-7684. Wyoming BEAUFORT/FRIPP ISLAND-Unprogrammed meeting, 11 PLAINFIELD-Each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Call Hathaway, JACKSON-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school. a.m. First Day, in homes. Call Diane or Ash Kesler: (803) (802) 223-6480 or Gilson. (802) 684-2261 . Information. phone: (307) 733-5660 or (307) 733-9438. 838-2983. PUTNEY-Worship, Sunday, 10:00 a.m. Ate. 5, north of CHARLESTON- Worship 9:45 a.m. Sundays. The Chris­ village, Putney. tian Family Y. 21 George St. (803) 723-5820. WILDERNESS-Sunday meeting lor worship at 10 a.m. in COLUMBIA-worship 10 a.m. Presbyterian Student Center, Wallingford. Rotary Building, N. Main St. Phone Kate 1702 Greene St.. 29201 . Phone: (803) 256-7073. Brinton, (602) 228-8942. or Leo Cadwallader, (802) 446-2565. GREENVILLE-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school 5:00 p.m. Third Presbyterian Church, 900 SUBSCRIBE! Buncombe Street. (803) 233-0837. VIrginia HOARY-Worship Sundays, 10:30 a.m. (unprogrammed), ALEXANDRIA-Worship every First Day 11 a.m., unpro­ Grace Gifford, inland, (803) 365-6654. grammed worship and First-day school. Woodlawn Meeting TO FRIENDS JOURNAL House. 8 miles S. of Alexandria, near US 1. Call (703) South Dakota 765·6404 or 455-0194. Please enter a subscription to Friends CHARLOTTESVILLE-Discussion 10 a.m., Worship 8:45 journal, payment for which is enclosed. SIOUX FALLS-Unprogrammed meeting 11 a.m. 2311 S. and 11 a.m. (childcare available) except summer, Worship Center Ave., 57105. Phone: (605) 338·5744. only 8:45 and 10 a.m. 1104 Forest St. Phone: (804) 0 One year $18 971-8859. 0 Two years $34 Tennessee FARMVILLE-Worship 10 a.m.. discussion 11 a.m. (Add $6 per year for postage outside 223-4160. CHATTANOOGA-Worship 10 a.m .• discussion 11 :30 a.m. U.S. , Canada, Mexico.) 335 Crestway Drive. Co-clerks: Becky Ingle, (615) HARRISONBURG-Unprogrammed worship, 4:30 p.m. 629-5914; Judy Merchant, (615) 825-6048. Sundays, Ate. 33 West. (703) 828-3066 or 885-7973. XINGTON-Maury River Meeting, First-day school and 0 Enroll me as a Fri ends journal JOHNSON CITY- Tri-cities, 11 a.m. Sunday; Clerk, Betsy LE Hurst. Home: (615) 743-6975. Work: (615) 743-5281 . unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. Discussion 11 a.m. Phone Associate. My contribution of$ ___ (703) 463-9422. Catholic-Episcopal Center, 734 West Locust St. is in addition to the subscription price LINCOLN-Goose Creek United Meeting for worship and MEMPHIS-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school First-day school 10 a.m. and is tax-deductible. 11 a.m.. year round. S.E. corner Poplar & E. Parkway. (901) 323-3196. McLEAN-Langley Hill Meeting. June. old Ate. 123 and My Name NASHVILLE-Meeting and First-d ay school10 a.m. 2804 Ate. 193. 10 a.m. First-day school, adult forum 11 a.m. Acklen Ave., (615) 269-0225. Penny Wright, clerk. NORFOLK-Worship and First-day school at 10 a.m. Phone (804) 627-6317 or (804) 489-4965 for information. WEST KNOXVILLE-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. Address ------D.W. Newton, 693-8540. RICHMOND-Worship 11 a.m., children's First-day school 11 :20 a.m. 4500 Kensington Ave. 358-6185. RICHMOND-Midlothian Meeting. Worship 11 . a.m .• Texas children's First-day school 11 :15 a.m. (804) 379-8506. 0 This is a gift subscription in my name ALPINE-Meeting for worship, Sunday, 10:30-11 :30 a.m. ROANOKE-Blacksburg/Roanoke Monthly Meetings. Roa· for: in the home of George and Martha Floro. Call (915) noke: call Genevieve Waring, (703) 343-6769. Blacksburg: 837-2930 for information. call Sandra Harold, (703) 382-6185. Name ______AUSTIN-Forum 10 a.m., unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. VIRGINIA BEACH-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. (based on Supervised activities and First-day school for young silence). 1537 Laskin Rad., Virginia Beach, VA 23451. Address ______Friends. 3014 Washington Square. Paul Stucky, clerk. WILLIAMSBURG-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 4 DALLAS-Sunday 10 a.m. 5828 Worth St. Clerk, Ward p.m. Sundays, First-day school 5 p.m. 1333 Jamestown Elmendorf, 826-2071 ; or call 821-6543. Road, (804) 229-6693. EL PASO-Meeting at 10 a.m. Sunday. 2821 Idalia, El WINCHESTER-Hopewell Meeting. 7 mi. N. on Ate. 11 Send renewal notice Paso, TX 79930. Please use the back door. Phone: (915) (Clearbrook). Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10:15 534-8203. Please leave a message. a.m., First-day school 11 a.m. Clerk: (703) 667-1018. 0 to me. 0 to recipient. FORT WORTH- Unprogrammed meeting at Wesley Foundation, 2750 West Lowden, 11 a.m. Discussion follows Friends journal, 1501 Cherry Street worship. (817) 428-9941 . Washington Philadelphia, PA 191 02-1497 GALVESTON-Meeting for worship, First Day 10 a.m.; BELLEVUE-Eastside Friends. 4160 158th Ave. SE. Wor­ 1501 Post Office Street. (409) 762-1785. ship 10 a.m., study 11 a.m. (206) 747-4722 or. 587-6449.

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