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Get a feel for Friends School life. Observe classes and talk with students, teachers and current parents. Then enjoy a light bite while hearing from Friends’ Head of School Matt Micciche. A benefit for the community-building ADMISSION LATTE AND LEARN ADMISSION LUNCH AND LEARN work of Stony Run Friends (Quaker) Meeting Tues., November 10, Thurs., December 3, 9 to 11 a.m. 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Sat., Oct. 24 7:30p.m. BALTIMORE• 1784 e world needs what our children can do. Stony Run Friends Meetinghouse 5116 N. Charles St. 410.649.3211 • friendsbalt.org/admission Baltimore, MD 21210

32 1 Supporters of Stony Run Friends Meeting’s Community-Building Work The Performers Michael and Amy Aquilino Deborah Bedwell Greetings, Friends! You are about to hear the Adrian Bishop and Rosalie Dance unforgettable power and beauty of the Todd Marcus Meg Boyd Meyer and Arthur Meyer Boyd Jazz Quintet’s music. Frank and Barbara Brocato John and Sue Carnell ODD MARCUS has brought together a jazz quintet Bruce and Becky Copeland that Baltimore music fans rank on a par with the best Johanna and Bob deRose T performers in New Orleans. One of the few jazz artists Norm, Kathy and Ned Forbush in the world who uses the bass clarinet as his exclusive solo Lillian Freudenberger instrument, Todd was inspired by jazz great artists such as Fred Hinze and Georgia Coleman Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Julie Craft and Blaine Keener John Coltrane. He and his jazz quintet delight appreciative Jen Hobbins audiences with their special brand of what he calls “modern Bob and Ann Marie Ketron straight-ahead jazz” that’s both fiery and intense, but also Wendell and Sally Leimbach with “a strong lyrical sensitivity.” David Macfarlane Barbara and Chuck Mallonee Though not a native Baltimorean, Todd studied at Loyola Fred and Diana Motz College while also volunteering for Habitat for Humanity in Myles Perkins and Christina Lindgren West Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester community. He later Diane Proctor moved into that troubled neighborhood, running Newborn Marjorie and Roberta Scott Holistic Ministries, serving the area's many needs. Says Harrison and Ruthanne Smith Marcus, “Being a part of my community has allowed me to Joan and Eric Thompson specifically deal with ongoing issues that stem from systemic Ann and Jim Venable racism and poverty. And at the same time, my music has Janet Shepler and Michael Vermehren-Shepler allowed me to try to create some beauty that hopefully unites people across all races....”

2 31 Stony Run’s Community-Building Work includes Direct Support for these Organi - zations and Initiatives This Evening’s Program Central Maryland Ecumenical Council Right Sharing of World Resources 7:30 - 8:15 GEDCO • CARES Food Bank McKim Center Music Clay Pots Ministry Amazing Grace Ministries 8:15 - 8:30 Brief Intermission Stony Run Supports these Quaker Affiliates 8:30 - 9:15 that Work to Build Strong Communities Music American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Baltimore Yearly Meeting/BYM Camping Program 9:15 - 10:00 Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) Sweet & Savory Reception Friends General Conference (FGC) Friends World Committee on Consultation (FWCC) Friends Council on Education (FCE) PERFORMANCE IN THE MEETING ROOM Quaker United Nations Program (QUNO) RECEPTION IN THE DINING ROOM—LOWER LEVEL Friends Journal Friends Center in Ramallah Friends Peace Teams Quaker Earthcare Witness This concert was organized by the Friends of Stony Run’s Event Planning Subcommittee: Margaret Allen (Clerk), Deborah Bedwell, Adrian Bishop, Marcie Jones Brennan, Alice Cherbonnier, Betsy Forbush, Lynn Jordan, John Merrill, Sandra Morton, Phil Perkins, Rebecca Snyder. The committee thanks everyone who supported this effort.

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4 29 Be a Partner with Oregon Ridge Nature Center! or over 190 years, Stony Run Friends Meeting has supported o you have great family memories of hiking through the McKim woods or strolling through the meadows at Oregon the McKim Free School and now F Ridge? Do you still enjoy the natural resources that the the McKim Community Center . That means that over D Park offers? Do you see yourself as a protector of the Park and 10,000 children’s lives are better because a cheerleader for environmental education and wellness? If of YOU. your answer is “YES,” we have great opportunities for you. When McKim opened at 1120 E. Baltimore Currently, there are a number of Committee Chair openings on Street in 1833 it was the first such school in the Council board. We are looking for people whose talents and Baltimore City and one of the first in the U.S. interests match the committees’ responsibilities. Please contact The idea for the school originated with a Council President Pat Gingher for more information via email at Quaker merchant, John McKim, who wanted [email protected] or by phone at 410-887-1615. to help Baltimore's poor youths. If you enjoy writing and trolling the Internet, and have a vision Today, with support from such sources as the Abell, Annie E. Casey for what other resources could be available in this wonderful and Weinberg Foundations, United Way, Presbyterian Churches of park, you may enjoy working on one of two committees: Baltimore, and Stony Run Friends Meeting, McKim offers community fundraising and grant writing. Enthusiasm is a must educational and constructive activities for young people who live in for fundraising, and an interest in writing and research is needed the area. Volunteers and interns assist with the after-school program for grant writing. Funds and grants can come from a variety of and summer camp, lead enrichment workshops and help with sports places: foundations, businesses, and/or private individuals. If you practices and competitions. McKim is also a site for the Senior have a few hours a month to donate to help on one of these Citizen Eating Together Program and a chapter of Narcotics committees by seeking out funding and grant sources, please Anonymous. email or call the Nature Center. The McKim School is near the Old Town Friends Meeting House at OREGON RIDGE NATURE CENTER 1201 East Fayette St., Baltimore's oldest religious building. Its members 13555 Beaver Dam Road • Cockeysville, MD 21030 included such influential Quakers as Philip E. Thomas, first President (410)887-1815 • oregonridgenaturecenter.org of the B&O Railroad, and Johns Hopkins. This building and the [email protected] McKim School are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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28 5 The International Rescue Committee (IRC) Each year, thousands of refugees are invited by our government to seek safety and freedom. Forced to flee Thanks Madison Bell and MOUNT VERNON ASSOCIATES, INC. conflict or persecution, many have the members of Stony Run A Quaker-owned business survived for years against incredible odds. They step off the plane with next Friends Meeting 575 S. Charles Street #401 to nothing but their dignity, hope, and for their support in helping Baltimore, MD 21201 determination. In Baltimore, the IRC us reach at-risk (410) 377-9780 helps rebuild their lives. populations in Southwest Located at the Baltimore and beyond. Baltimore Resettlement Center

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22 11 THANK YOU for Supporting Community-Building Stony Run Friends Meeting thanks everyone who has helped make possible this successful fall fundraiser supporting our theme of “Community- Building.” Our program sponsors include Quaker business owners, Stony Byron and Betsy Forbush Run Friends Meeting members and attenders, and a wider circle of friends of Stony Run. are pleased to support

The need for Community-Building resonated with our Meeting this year the community-building efforts after the sad death in April of Sandtown-Winchester resident Freddie Gray while in police custody. Spontaneous protests and civil unrest erupted in Baltimore City, and a State of Emergency was declared. Elsewhere in the of U.S., fatal police shootings of unarmed African-American males has turned many other names into household words: Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Stony Run Friends Meeting Eric Garner, Walter Scott, and Tamir Rice. Then came the mass killing of nine people in Charleston, SC, during a prayer service at one of the coun - try’s oldest African-American churches. The gunman was a white suprema - cist hoping to incite a “race war.” “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, Like people of all faiths and denominations, Friends here at Stony Run have been dispirited and outraged by this senseless violence and have sought or acts to improve the lot of others, or ways to heal our society’s wounds. We Quakers do not have quick or easy answers to these shocking events, or to other human rights abuses around strikes out against injustice, he sends the world. We look to our faith to guide us as we strivet to live life in the spirit of love and truth and peace, answering "that of God” in everyone. forth a tiny ripple of hope.” We are delighted that the leader of this year's jazz quintet, Todd Marcus, is co-leader of Newborn Holistic Ministries, which is involved with the ROBERT F. KENNEDY revitalization and renovation of Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester and Upton neighborhoods.

Concert proceeds will benefit Stony Run Friends Meeting’s continued work in the community.

12 21 Welcome, Martha’s Place is a program of the 501(c)3 nonprofit Thanks! Visitors! Newborn Holistic Ministries which was founded in 1996 by Please join Stony Run Friends life-long community resident Elder C.W. Harris. Newborn Stony Run Friends Meeting is follows a mission to preserve and enrich life in its Meeting in thanking these two communities by providing services that will enable residents delighted that you have joined companies for their wonderful to meet their material, social, and spiritual needs. us for this concert tonight. in-kind support of this concert: RUTLAND BEARD Please join us for Meeting for Worship FLORIST on First Days (Sundays) Martha’s Place 7627 Bellona Avenue at 9:30 a.m. Ruxton, Maryland 21204 Martha’s Place is a Maryland state-certified recovery program for 800-410-6330• 410-321-1737 or 11 a.m. women overcoming drug addiction and homelessness. Martha’s Place Baltimore Monthly Meeting borders Baltimore’s communities of Sandtown-Winchester and Upton of Friends, Stony Run SERIOUS GRIP and offers both six-month transitional housing as well as long-term & ELECTRIC 5116 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21210 Single Room Occupancy (SRO) housing. Sound System (443) 703-2590 The transitional housing program teaches women the skills necessary to (410) 242-6124 stony run friends meeting overcome their drug-dependency while simultaneously developing the skills necessary for independent living. Residents participate in individual and group counseling, attend daily Narcotics Anonymous meetings, obtain employment, participate in money management training, pay modest rent, Amy Rakusin complete house chores, and obtain a sponsor. Those who complete the Phil Fratesi transitional program can apply for residency at one of Martha’s Place’s four long-term SRO homes. presenting Compassionate Listening workshops for individuals, groups and organizations While national recovery rates from drug addiction are commonly listed at a 30% success rate, Martha’s Place has operated its six-month transitional phase with a successful recovery rate of nearly 50% since opening in 2000 “An enemy is one whose story we have not heard.” and its long-term SRO phase with a successful recovery rate of 75% since —Gene Knudsen Hoffman opening in 2005. Quaker and co-founder of Compassionate Listening Volunteers are critical to the success of Martha’s Place. To volunteer, email [email protected] . 410.472.3060 410.472.9957 [email protected] [email protected] To support Martha’s Place with a donation, please make checks to: “Newborn iHolistic Ministries” with “Martha’s Place” in the memo section and mail to: We are pleased to support Stony Run Friends Meeting Martha’s Place, P.O. Box 12764, Baltimore, MD 21217.

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18 15 About the Society of Friends As early as 1795, Baltimore Quakers were working to secure full rights for Native Americans. Philip E. Thomas assisted the Iroquois and Six and the Role of Friends in Baltimore Nations Tribes in securing 52,000 acres in New York State in 1839. Quakers likewise sought to ameliorate injustices done to Africans he Religious Society of Friends was founded by George Fox in brought to America as slaves. Elisha Tyson was tireless in his work to England in 1652. Early Friends, also called Quakers, were free and assist Blacks. (At his death in 1824, it was reported that 10,000 Tpersecuted as nonconformists by the Church of England. Many Blacks walked behind the hearse as his body was taken to Friends of them sailed to America in quest of religious freedom, with some Burial Ground on Aisquith Street.) Today’s Quakers continue to work landing in Maryland in 1656. By 1700, there were 3,000 Friends in for the civil rights and human rights of all people. Maryland. Meetinghouses, as we Quakers call our places of worship, In response to a concern that there should be a means to vouchsafe a sprang up first on the waterways of the Eastern and Western shores of “guarded education” of all children, male and female, Friends School Chesapeake Bay. of Baltimore was established in 1784. McKim's School, the first free Though early Quakers worshipped in silence, they did not withdraw school in Baltimore to educate indigent youth, was opened in 1821. from the world; instead, they made their livelihood in the hustle and Martha Ellicott Tyson was a founder of Swarthmore College in bustle of a booming port city. Early Quaker names in this region Swarthmore, Pa. M. Carey Thomas founded Bryn Mawr School in include Ellicott (flour mills in what would become Ellicott City), Baltimore and became the first female president of Bryn Mawr College McKim (cotton mill), Tyson (grist mills), Hopkins (university and in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Because women were refused degrees from Johns hospital founder) and Sheppard (hospital founder). Philip E. Thomas Hopkins University, she and four other Baltimore women pledged to and his brother Evan were among the founders of the Baltimore and raise $500,000 for Hopkins if the medical school would agree to admit Ohio Railroad. Other Quakers, such as the Fell brothers, Randolph women on an equal basis to men. They raised the money, and the Winslow, M.D., and Benjamin Lundy, established shipping and women were admitted. These institutions survive today, and we importing companies, counting houses, medical practices, printing Quakers continue to be active in their operations. houses, banks, and insurance companies. There were manufacturers We have also long been active in opposing war and striving to and craftsmen too: the potter Maulden Perine, the cabinetmakers John eliminate the causes of war. We urged conscientious objection and Needles and Gerrard Hopkins, and the silversmith Samuel Kirk. alternative service in both World Wars and during the Korean and Early Quakers were guided by a set of religious principles and Vietnam conflicts, and also organized relief services. Through the work practices that included strictures against activities such as betting and of Friends Committee on National Legislation and the American gambling, capital punishment, slavery, and all forms of war. They Friends Service Committee, we seek to influence the political process stood for integrity in business, penal reform, plainness of dress and toward peace and social justice. We also bear witness on behalf of these language, relief of suffering, social order, and temperance. In their goals by participating in vigils and peaceful demonstrations, meeting earliest business meetings (and through their wills), Friends expressed with political leaders, and speaking out publicly. a concern for education, the orphaned, the ill, the elderly, and the poor. We Quakers believe that we can experience God directly in our lives Forty Quaker women founded the Baltimore branch of the Y.W.C.A. In without relying on paid clergy. We seek to adhere to the authority of 1840, Quaker women started the Association of Female Friends for the conscience over creed or law. We worship together in silence, seeking Relief of the Sick and Helpless Poor. From the estates of Jonathan K. divine guidance; when we are moved to do so, we stand to break the Taylor and Joseph C. Town send came money to establish homes for the silence and speak. elderly that preceded Broadmead, a flourishing retirement community established by Stony Run Friends Meeting in Cockeysville, Maryland, We welcome visitors to Meeting for Worship at Stony Run Friends in 1979. Meeting, 5116 North Charles Street, on First Days (Sundays) at 9:30 a.m. or 11:00 a.m. Please visit www.stonyrunfriends.org for more information .

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