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Selective nonviolence is not our testimony. Quakers have chosen to struggle with an ideal of absolute, radical nonviolence. • ...., .. _.., Among Friends Vinton Deming AMoolete ldltor Melissa Kay Elliott Art DINotor ...._...... Barbara Benton ...... No Strain, No Gain Catherine Frost t's the sort of thing I try not to think about. Never. It's simply too scary ClrcM.IItlon ..... Promotion Nagendran Gulendran and upsetting, every bit as bad as driving to pick up the kids at their ...... I friend's house and suddenly realizing you don't know the right James Rice and Susan Jordhamo hoNtertal ..,._. address or even the kid's last name, only that he's in your son's class at Jeanne G. Beisel school and his name is Shawn (or Shaun) and his dad's name is Bill. So you ~ stop and find a pay phone and you call home to ask your wife for the James Neveil correct street address and all you get after four rings is your own voice on Yolunteera Jane Burgess, Anders Hansen, the answering machine telling you that your message is "very important to Emily Conlon, Catherine McCulley, Becky Young us" and "please speak clearly right after the beep"-and you hang up the ...... __.,. phone in disgust and realize you don't have another quarter and it wouldn't 1988-1991: Nancy Cocks Culleton, Barbara Dinhofer, Sam Legg (Clerk), Parry Jones, solve the problem even if you did. The situation is every bit that bad. Richard Moses (Treosurer), Harry Scott, Larry It's even as mind boggling as having to get to work early one morning, Spears, Judith Randall, Alan Walker, Ellie White and your wife (or husband) does too, and you hurry the kids to get them 1989-1992: Jennie Allen (Secretary), Richard ready in time to catch the school bus because they have to make it because Eldridge (Assistant Clerk), Bernard Haviland, Eric Larsen, Marcia Mason, Janet Norton, the car is in the shop for repairs and there's no other way to get to school, David Samuel, Carolyn Sprogell, Wilmer and who wants to take them to work with you for the day? And when Tjossem, Elizabeth S. Williams, Alice Wiser 1990-1993: Clement Alexandre, Marguerite everyone's ready with lunches packed and hair combed and jackets zipped, Clark, Peter Eccles, Leonard Kenworthy, Lee wouldn't you know it-the school bus doesn't come. No bus! Zip. The Neff, Mary Ellen Singsen dispatcher explains on the phone that Mona didn't come to work this llonotwy .....__ Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Mildred Binns Young morning and the substitute driver started out late and probably got lost. FluBNDs JOUllNAL (ISSN 0016-1322) was Look for Mona tomorrow. established in 1955 as the successor to The It wakes me up at night sometimes in terror. My palms are sweaty even Friend (1827-1955) and Friends lntelligencer (1844-1955). It is associated with the Religious now as I think about it. It's called, "What happens when there's a Society of Friends, and is a member of the magazine deadline and the issue is ready to go to the printer and the editor Associated Church Press. hasn't written his (or her) column yet?" • FluBNDs JOURNAL is published monthly by Friends Publishing Corporation, 1501 Cherry The actual situation is even worse than that. The editor doesn't even St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. Telephone know what he wants to write about. 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2 May 1991 FluENDs JoURNAL May 1991 FRIENDS Volume :n, No. 5 JOURNAL Features Departments 7 This Is Not Your Father's War 2 Among Friends Mary Rose O'Reilley Forum For this generation ofyoung people, whether to go to war is 4 a fresh question. 30 Reports 9 Campus VIews 32 FCNLNotes Jude O'Reilley Geisheker, Rebecca A. Grunko, 34 News of Friends David Ludwig, Evan Manvel Four college students face the dilemmas of war and pacifism. 36 Bulletin Board/ Calendar 13 There's No Way I'd Go Vinton Deming 38 Notes Between A Colorado man seeks sanctuary from the military with Measures Boulder (Colo.) Meeting. 40 Books 15 The Dilemma of Teaching about War 42 Resources William C. Kashatus This teacher finds that the students are the ones who ask the 42 Milestones tough questions. 46 ClassHied 16 Children at War Dorothea E. Woods Poetry Throughout the world, wars are being fought by children. 23 Where Clouds and 18 A Time to Heal . Eagles Soar Lerma Mae Gara Alice Mackenzie Swaim The "Hinshaw years" of William Penn College call back memories of idealism and hope. Pause 24 Elisa the EH Star Code Daniel Nign III Richard Eldridge When an elf breaks a wing, the spirit breaks along with it. 26 Incomplete Moon 27 Worship as Adventure to Full William D. Turner Emily Sargent Councilman Acceptance ofthe invitation is thefirst step into spiritual growth. A Meadow Cover art: "Christ Breaks the Gun, , by Otto Pankok Terence Y. Mullins

FluENDs JoURNAL May 1991 3 Worth considering The process we at RFM are now embarking on is that some of us who Friends with concerns about pacifism have editing skills are offering to sit with and the peace witness should read would-be opinion makers (that's all of Guenter Lewy's Peace & Revolution: The us, from time to time) every First Day Moral Crisis of American Pacifism after meeting for worship. We discuss (Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1988). and edit and type letters that will be sent While Lewy deals with groups besides the that week to the local paper. We hope Society of Friends, and has an agenda of that a steady stream of letters signed by his own, thoughtful members of the different people will emerge from this Society need to consider his arguments process, and that this will illuminate and test them against their own public discussion from the standpoint of experiences and perceptions. Friends testimonies. Might other Friends meetings see this Vinton M. Prince, Jr. as a fitting activity and do the same? Wilmington, Ohio Robert Schutz Santa Rosa, Calif. No heirs apparent I agree with Lorraine Cleveland in her Native Greens article "How Much Is Enough?" (FJ January): The institution of inheritance Thank you for Elizabeth Bronson's ·does perpetuate inequalities; inheritance is article on the Green movement (FJ Willing to share a mote in our own eye. In addition, the March). One issue that has drawn Friends Perhaps Friends will be interested to institution is a power of elders over and Greens together here in Northern see the sign (above) on the door of others not always exercised with wisdom Yearly Meeting country is the struggle of Lehigh Valley (Pa.) Meetinghouse. The or kindness. our Chippewa neighbors to re-establish meeting approved its placement there at In my own case, I am past 65 and their treaty-guaranteed right to traditional its meeting for business January 6. blessed with three children and five hunting and fishing activities. There have grandchildren. These heirs are not the been ugly confrontations with crowds of Joe Osborn least disturbed by the knowledge that white sportsmen and local resort owners. Bethlehem, Pa. they may not receive an inheritance. This "Spear an Indian, Not a Fish" bumper may be easier for me than for some. My stickers have appeared along back roads children will all command more wealth in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. What about AIDS? than I. Both Greens and Friends have been among William M. Alexander those who volunteered to serve as observers My husband and I have been long-time San Luis Obispo, Calif. and peacemakers while tribal people subscribers to F'RIENDS JOURNAL, and conduct spearfishing on designated lakes. each month we look forward to the new Far from advocating unrestrained issue. Though not members, we have Letters are important exploitation of wild life, Indians have attended Friends meetings for almost 20 strengthened their cause by associating years, and treasure many friendships We have a unique historical moment themselves firmly with environmentalists. among Friends. Our interests in peace before us now the war is stopped and the Walter Bresette, a member of the Red issues, women's rights, and United States is in a position of singular Cliff Reservation and a treaty rights environmental concerns are often power and influence. Friends will be led activist, is also a leading spokesman for mirrored in your pages, and we value the to say their peace (piece) as widely as the Green movement in the Lake Superior JoURNAL's insights. possible in this moment. We exhort each region. In fact, he delivered the keynote However, our lives were irrevocably other to write letters, and we often feel address at the national Green meeting changed in July 1987 with the news that the effort is futile-that our labors hit held last fall in Boulder, Colorado. my husband was HIV + , i.e., he had the the circular files in the offices of Of course, it is not only in defending AIDS antibodies within his blood. By Congress or are ignored by editors. the rights of Native Americans that March 1990, with a small lesion of I believe we can do better than we Friends find common ground with Kaposi Sarcoma discovered and treated, presently do in this department. Greens. We also meet at peace his diagnosis changed to AIDS. I suspect Congresspersons read the letters that are demonstrations and while working for that I sero-converted myself this past fall published in the local paper. These letters other human rights causes. Commitment (1990), but will not have repeat blood­ also become the subjects of editorials and to consensus decision-making is strong work done until I finish my master's op-ed pieces. Quality counts, as well as within the Green movement, and as a degree this spring-a goal I have set for numbers. But the letter-writing table at Friend I have found myself called upon myself. my own meeting-Redwood Forest at more than one meeting to explain When the March 1991 issue of your (Calif.)-draws only a few dedicated "how the Quakers do it." In fact, with magazine arrived, I made it a point to souls, who labor in their lonely process some limitations, the Ten Key Values of glance through the 1990 Index to see if once a month. Many of us fmd the task the Greens might almost be read as a there had been any coverage of AIDS. I too difficult. So we keep our thoughts Quaker manifesto. remembered puzzling this past year about and ideas to ourselves, or we spill them Rhoda Gilman the lack of Friends commentary on the only in meeting. St. Paul, Minn. subject, but thought maybe I had just

4 May 1991 F'RlENDs JoURNAL missed the articles, somehow, somewhere. weapons (a point Skip did not make). are other challenges today as well-the In the 1990 Index, under "Subjects," I Truly, this is an area where acting environment, housing, the homeless, the do not see even a single reference to this locally can be acting globally. I pray plight of the poor, and our schools, to devastating disease. Friends can incorporate a witness against name but a few. Also, there's the idea Dear Friends, this type of silence hurts. the automotive culture as a social concern that our country knows what is best for Why is there no outcry, no concern, no soon. Thanks for the inspiration, Skip! other countries. support among Friends for those of us The work to be done today is different suffering its impact? At times, the Marc A. Lambert from the 1940s, but it can be just as isolation and public apathy are Oakland, Calif. challenging. overwhelming and lead to increased bouts Emmett McCracken of depression and despair. Somehow, I very much agree with Skip Londos. Purdy, Mo. from Friends I expected better. The As an American who has ended up, more articles in the March issue speak so well or less by accident, in Great Britain, I of the struggle of women's rights, and feel lucky to live in a country where the articles on the green movement and sidewalks (though not by that name) are Atheism and Friends our stewardship of the earth were a still the norm. pleasure to read. But where, I ask Skip is undoubtedly right about their In reference to Eric Johnson's article myself, are Friends' voices raised for importance. The philosopher John "Why I Am an Atheist" (FJ January), I people like us? Macmurray reached the conclusion that can happily say that I am one Friend I am not able to be open about our atheism is the denial of the reality of the who welcomes him into our circle of health status at work, for fear of losing personal. To build neighborhoods for worship. The desire to mandate my job and the all-important health machines and not for people is an conformity with regard to faith/ belief insurance-the life-line keeping my atheistic action. It creates an impersonal should always be vigorously resisted. My husband alive. We have not told either of environment in which community cannot neighbor Orlando Husckavara often our families, and only a few, trusted flourish. accompanies us on fishing trips, though friends have been told. This core of 5-6 Jeanne Warren he doesn't fish. He's a vegetarian. He people, and support from gay groups Oxford, England enjoys the outdoors, conversation, open where we live, are our mainstay. It water, hot coffee and sandwiches, and we saddens me that our "church" of choice, are happy to have him with us. (He talks and the journal that has come to be A continuing challenge too much in the boat, however, though representative of Friends for so many of we do not like to mention this.) us, seems to feel that those of us living On June 24-29, 1990, I attended the with AIDS are invisible, or not worthy of reunion of those who were at William David Rhodes comment. Please review your editorial Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, in the Wonemoc, Wis. position on this issue. 1940s during Cecil Hinshaw's presidency. Wilmer Tjossem was the keynote speaker. I found Eric Johnson's article A Concerned Reader He told of Penn College, a small Friends disconcerting and quite inappropriate for college with a strong pacifist president, a the pages of F'RIENDs JoURNAL. While (What are Friends thinking and doing mixed race faculty and student body of Quakers have always tolerated other about the AIDS crisis? We invite COs as well as veterans. It sat in a beliefs, not every belief can be Quaker. thoughtful contributions from our readers sometimes hostile surrounding community Historically, God has always been the and will publish material on this and within a yearly meeting in which central focus of the Quaker religion. In important subject in the coming months. many did not approve of what was going 1652, Fox and his followers established -Eds.) on. [See article on page 18. -Eds.] the Children of Light to represent a Wilmer mentioned that the uniqueness return of the true primitive Christian of the situation at Penn then and now church. Johnson's arguments that God The automotive culture were different in many ways. The would not allow evil can be answered thought occurred to me, however, that that God doesn't and will ultimately I was much moved by Skip Londos's the challenges of today can be just as destroy it. Who are humans to question article, "Where Are the Sidewalks?" (FJ great if one only cares to accept them. the ways of God? Also, the theory of February). I think it says much to our Why can't a grassroots nonviolent evolution is still a theory that has never testimonies of simplicity and community: movement of Friends and other peace been proven to be true. The Bible tells us each time we use our cars we perform an groups, for instance, bring about changes not to be equally yoked with unbelievers. act of idolatry. Even though the public in the military dynasty holding this If Eric Johnson wants a framework of transportation system in my area is more country! values, there are many ethical humanist sophisticated than in Waco, Texas, it still It seems that holding down the price of societies he could join. For him to belittle would take me an hour and a half to get oil in order to keep down the cost of faith as irresponsible, I can only reply, to meeting on First Days rather than 20 living in this country is more important "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no minutes by car. My neighborhood is than the lives of Arabs and Palestinians. God' " (Ps. 14:1). There is no place in fairly high-density and we have several The lives of people in our country, in Quakerism for atheism. contacts with neighbors each day, but the other words, are more important than the members of my meeting are scattered to lives of others. Andrew Anthony the four winds; we all have to drive to The idea, held by many, that this is Wakefield, R.I. committee meetings. In so doing, we God's country and we are doing what make a contribution to those like Saddam God wants us to do makes it difficult to Hussein to buy ever more deadly make changes-but we must try. There (continued on next page)

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WHY lAMAN ATHEIST. If I could only define God as narrowly ~£oil- FJ art director, others in the belief they will find the as Eric Johnson does, I would be an Barbara · same comfort and satisfaction-but it atheist too. God, who exists in and Benton, doesn't work that way. Satisfaction and beyond the physical realm, cannot be with tongue-in­ fulfillment is something that comes from "proven" or "disproven" in physical cheek, had a person's own exploration and struggle, terms any more than solids can be originally not something given to or forced upon an defined in liquid terms. My faith presented this individual. certainly doesn't hinge on whether or not layout for Eric John Ball the solar system is a "miracle" or Johnson's Atlanta, Ga. whether we are all subject to the article. -Eds. evolutionary process. Neither do I In reading Eric Johnson's article, I was confine the concepts of " faith," "evil," reminded of the theological debates two and "omni-benevolence" to the small Creation (or evolution) and the task of decades ago revolving around Anglican definitions offered by the dictionary or eliminating evil as we can. The church Bishop John Robinson's book, George Smith (as quoted in the article). I Resurrection promises an ultimate Honest to God. Heavily influenced by the also wonder how a person can call triumph over unfathomable evil. writings of theologian Paul Tillich, himself a seeker who then closes the door Do atheistic seekers belong in the Robinson called for a radical recasting of on so much to be sought. Isn't this the Society of Friends? Certainly. How could religious thought, in the process of same as calling oneself a geologist while any meeting turn away a person such as which, he stated, our most fundamental refusing to study any rocks but those Eric Johnson, who believes in the "light categories of thinking-of God, of the found in one's own yard? of reason," acts on the values of the supernatural, of religion itself-must go Finally, I'm still not sure why Eric Society, and admires "the amazing things into the melting. Johnson attends meeting for worship, Quakers have done and do to make the Eric Johnson, in his own search, would when for him it isn't. An atheist can find world better"? His allegiance to the appear to be going beyond this process, love, joy, stimulation, meditation, etc. in Society offers hope that the light of God rejecting any reality to which the name, many other places. Why pursue them in a will soon be joined with his light of God, might be attached. He says, "I religious setting? But perhaps my reason. know there is no God." Certainly there definition of atheism is as constrained as William McCord are other Friends who share his basic Johnson's concept of God. Atheism, Middletown, Conn. doubt, if not his conclusion, and I am after all, may not be a rejection of God, glad they feel welcome in Quaker but ultimately a person's most mysterious It is refreshing to read a positive, meetings for worship. path toward God. informative, and thought-provoking I find the thinking of Tillich Grace P. Tazewell article about atheism in a religious meaningful and helpful. He focuses on Norfolk, Va. magazine. I have always been of the what he describes as the infinite and opinion there are many more critical inexhaustible depth and ground of all In his frank and provocative statement, issues that confront us as a family, a being. This depth, this God, is not some Eric Johnson outlines basic issues which community, and a society than whether abstract and impersonal principle of life. all Friends must face: What is the there is or is not a God. It is profoundly personal because, as evidence for God? How do we explain To me the concept of God has been Robinson has put it, personhood itself evil? Do atheists have a role in the elusive. I hear there are people who talk "is of ultimate significance in the Society of Friends? I, like many other to God, others walk with God, and there constitution of the universe. In personal Friends, have struggled with these issues. are those who believe God is relationships we touch the final meaning With Johnson, I eschew the word faith watching/ influencing them, but I have of existence as nowhere else." And it is as a call for suspension of reason, if not never talked to anyone who admits to precisely in this field of personal obscurantism. For me, the evidence for seeing God. Thus, my reasoning leads me relationships that Eric Johnson, as God comes from three sources: order in to believe that whatever "vision" a teacher, writer, and counselor, has made the universe, the testimony of Jesus person has of God it must be a mental an important contribution. verified by his disciples, and those brief construct. Is it any wonder then there are Larry Miller moments of luminosity or "clearness" so many different ideas of God? And New Britain, Pa. that I have experienced in and out of who is to say that one is more valid than meeting. If simple men, even a doubting another? It may be a God wearing a In January you published my article, Thomas, in despair over the Crucifixion crown and sitting on a throne in heaven, "Why I Am an Atheist." The article has of Jesus, changed their minds about the or that God is an emotion like love. resulted in a vast number of responses Resurrection-and were willing to die for There are people who see God as some from FJ readers, all over the USA and in their convictions-what better evidence undefined force that controls all life the UK-responses in writing and in could we demand? activities, while some think God is the conversation. These have been so The existence of evil in the universe­ goodness in each of us, yet others do not profound, witty, and intelligent that I malfogned babies, earthquakes, cancer­ have a need for God. I have to wonder hereby tell you that I have been lovingly cannot be ignored or blamed on humans. why it is so important how others and powerfully and nonviolently forced I think there .can be only one reasonable perceive of God, if at all, but in some to modify my state of mind: I hereby answer: God created an orderly universe, circles it does give rise to controversy. declare that I am no longer an atheist; I with all of its pains and suffering, and There are times when it seems to me have become an agnostic. refrains from disrupting the laws of the controversy about God is a problem Thank you, FJ and FJ readers, for nature for reasons unknown to mortals. of definition, but I submit instead it may advancing my thinking! The task left open to us, particularly as be a problem of arrogance-people Eric W. Johnson Quakers, is the unfinished business of wanting to force their definition on Philadelphia, Pa.

6 May 1991 FluENDs JoURNAL This Is Not Your Father's War by Mary Rose O'Reilley And I told him, Listen father, I will never kill another.. .. "The Great Mandala"

o we sang one Sunday in the Cath­ olic church I was attending in Our young people S1972, and I started to cry. The want their lives song was about a struggle between father and son over the Vietnam war; I to mean had had (though I am a daughter) such something. a struggle, and I was pregnant with my first child. At that time, in that place, !he service· the Catholic church was not making a priority of nonviolence-except for sing­ represents ing about it-so, the following week, I for many began to attend Quaker meeting. A short time ago, my son told me he an ideal of self­ ·was thinking pretty seriously about join­ transcendance. ing the army. [Jude O'Reilley Geisheker shares his views on page 9.] He had an unimpeachable reason: it's not fair the privileged white people sit on the side­ lines, he told me, while poor people fight. I teach in a Catholic university, so I'm aware that a lot of 18-year-olds look on the Vietnam generation with dis­ dain. They hate our hair, our politics, and our music: who can figure it? No taste .. "Are you for the war?" I hear over and over as returning students greet each other after a January spent glued to CNN. I never hear no. Not a lot of en­ thusiastic, gung-ho yeses. Just the occa­ sional subdued and cautious yes. My students have studied Just War theory, and, working from the government's latest public relations spin, they find (er­ roneously, I believe) the Gulf War to be within its guidelines. This is not your father's war, they perceive: this is your grandfather's war. Young people-and I speak now for the rather conservative but thoughtful ones I teach-seem to be looking for moral regeneration. First it was preppy

Mary Rose O'Reilley teaches in the English depart­ ment at St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minne­ sota, and is clerk of Ministry and Counsel, Twin Cities Friends Meeting.

7 haircuts, now it's the retro war: a war that reclaims a sense of national moral purpose. One mother's story catches the absurd­ ity of some of this: "My son went to vis­ it his high school buddy in the army­ he saw that drawer full of underwear, all folded in triangles-and he enlisted.'' I have always That's a short poem, it seems to me, had particular about the longing for order and disci­ pline that pulls the strings of our young. reverence for They want their lives to mean some­ thing; they want someone to make them the generation clean their drawers. At an even higher of Quakers level than housekeeping, "the service" represents for many an ideal of self­ who resisted transcendence. active duty in In the middle of this, I have to rethink fists, as well as generals, tend to fight the austere and lonely terrain of our World War D. the the last war. peace testimony. Quakers have chosen ·good war:' Today's young have many reasons to to struggle with an ideal of absolute, go to war that were not listed in my radical nonviolence, just as a monastic handbook for conscientious objectors­ community might choose poverty, chas­ solidarity, self-purification, the desire, tity, and obedience. In a certain sense, sus formed around the idea of selectivi­ post-feminism, to reclaim a traditional Just War theory has no more to say to ty, uniting Quaker, Catholic, Jew, and sense of manhood. Even a need to care us than a theology of marriage has to atheist. And all of us Vietnam-genera­ for and cherish. The other day I saw one say to a celibate monk. My students are tion Quakers have developed our analy­ of my ROTC students, in black beret telling me that it's possible to serve in sis to some extent in light of it. Now we and camouflage, cradling gently what I this war with a good (though, I think, need to remember that selective non­ thought was a puppy. As he came near­ media-perverted) conscience. I am try­ violence is not our testimony; our testi­ er, I could see that it was the American ing to listen fairly to their position, and mony is much more radical, difficult, flag. How I wish we could give our it calls me to reexamine my own. and scary. young people something even more holy Why? I keep asking my friends in My son tells me that being raised to care for. meeting. Why do we profess nonvio­ Quaker is kind of like being baptized as I understand my son's desire to share lence? Because Jesus lived this testi­ an infant. At some point, you have to the burden; if he went to war, I would mony? Because violence inevitably re­ make your own choice. "Win or lose want to go, too. I have always had par­ duces us to the level of the opposition? now, you must choose now . . . '' the ticular reverence for the generation of Because, as Mammy Yoakam used to song goes on. Quakers who resisted active service in say, good is better than evil because it's One fine day in 1972, I became a World War II, the "good war." Many nicer? Quaker-at least in part-so that my of them did alternative service, which I hate the war, but I like this question, son would never have to go to war. means bearing witness-being present, "Why?" M~ny of us who came into That's not a good reason-or, if it is a sharing the pain-in a way that college Quakerism in the Vietnam era are used good reason, it's not one that in any way deferment does not. I think they are the to a context of selective nonviolence: binds him. We create ourselves, Kier­ ones we need to talk to now-because that is, the notion that some wars are kegaard says, by our choices. I wrote the war movie the government is mak­ good and some bad, and you have to that down in my college philosophy ing this year stars June Allyson and Jim­ make a decision about which kind is be­ class, and so did my son. He, along with my Stewart: this is your grandfather's ing proposed. In the '60s, social consen- my students, is warning me that paci- war. My favorite photo of my father sits before me as I write. He is 20. He wears his air force cap and earphones, his My students have brown leather pilot's jacket. My father studied Just War is in his 70s now, in rather poor health, and coming into the tenderness that theory. This is not often grows on men late in life. He your father's war, they called me long distance the other night, and I could hear the emotion in his perceive: this is your voice. He wanted to talk to his grand­ son, who had gone back to college. He grandfather's war. told me, "I've been watching all this on TV, the bombing raids and all, and I was remembering-I just wanted to tell him-don't enlist." 0

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FJ invited articles from a man who fought in World War II. students expressing their I am not a pacifist despite my Quaker views on the Gulf War. When Called, mother, nor am I in any way a hawk. Three of the following I believe strongly in conscientious objec­ statements are from students I Will Go tion and the peaceful witness it repre­ at Quaker colleges, one from sents. If I am an heir in any way to the an Oberlin College student. '60s, I have inherited a kind of Kennedy We invite subsequent articles pragmatism. I am not naive about the as well from young people by Jude O'Reilley roots and reasons of war. I don't believe on subjects of militarism, Geisheker the Gulf War to be some kind of modern education, the environment, battle of good versus evil, despite the and other concerns. -Eds. am not going to pretend by any best efforts of the nightly news to paint means that I am some sort of con­ it as such. This is a war of economics, l science of my generation. For if the like Vietnam was a war of economics. 1970s and '80s had a conscience, I would If I could change the leaders and the cir­ certainly not volunteer to articulate it. cumstances that got us into this war I I'm merely attempting to articulate my would, but for now I must think of them own feelings on our nation's war in the as history. I am forced by the choices Middle East as the son of a man who of our leaders to restrict my forthcom­ avoided Vietnam and the grandson of ing conclusions to the situation they have created, however blindly. As a student of history and war and a citizen, I have committed to rote mem­ ory the ways and means this country uses to go into conflicts. In the Vietnam era, government institutions decided who would dictate policy and who would die for it. As was often the case, white middle- and ruling-class kids hid at Har­ vard and Yale, Swarthmore and Am­ herst; minorities and "poor white trash" died by the cargo plane in the Mekong Delta and the jungles of Laos and Cam­ bodia. I don't believe the blood of these men and women has ever fully been honored by our country and I think most of us know why. World War Two is perceived as a war fought for honor and freedom; Vietnam was a war for ideology and politics. Men sign up for wars that seem inherently just; men are generally forced by eco­ nomic oppression or the Selective Serv­ ice to fight for ideology and politics. In this country it most certainly tends to be the case that this burden falls upon the most easily accessible, the most econom­ ically oppressed. Idealists and politicians would argue that when the educational deferment was lifted, equality was guaranteed. But one need only wander the streets of the urban Philadelphia poor to see that Selective Service is but one way our government decides who dies. There is no recruitment center in the high rent ~ borough of Swarthmore; recruitment ~ ~ billboards line the streets in low income -.:~ neighborhoods. On afternoon televi­ ~~------~ sion, commercials offer education, job FRIENDS JOURNAL May 1991 9 CAMPUS VIEWS training, and a chance to escape ghetto dealt with only one symptom of a com­ life. Economic enslavement makes poor plex issue. It has done nothing to dis­ people easy targets for government mili­ Violence cover the roots of the problem and re­ tary manhunts. Government social re­ solve them. I firmly believe that at every sponsibilities become a carrot on a stick Is Not escalation of this crisis there was a clear for people who have been denied them opportunity to resolve it through negotia­ and see precious few other opportunities. tion. It would have meant some give­ Institutional racism and economics al­ the Way and-take on the part of all leaders, but so plays a large part in the options of­ it would have left us with a far more fered to whites and blacks in our socie­ by Rebecca A. Grunko stable situation in the region. It also ty. Either directly or indirectly, educa­ would have left us with the lives of all tion is the result of money and oppor­ cease-fire has been declared, the the Iraqis, Kuwaitis, allied, and U.S. tunity. Talk of conscientious objection prisoners of war are being ex­ soldiers who are dead as a result of this and less legal means of avoiding war is A changed. It looks as though the failure to negotiate. the stuff of college campuses and dorm war in the Persian Gulf is coming to a Expediency is one issue, morality is rooms; it isn't talked about on after­ close. I have a great need to feel joy at another. I believe that any human life noon T.V. Those denied education are these developments because the last two is infinitely more valuable than the trou­ also denied the opportunity to fully ap­ months have been dismal, but I am un­ ble of negotiation and the possibility of preciate their options. Thus, getting rid able to feel any joy. The way this crisis losing face. Most of the people who died of educational deferments didn't re­ has been handled from the beginning to were drastically different from me, but move the inequality inherent in our sys­ this present moment has made me feel despite vast differences I refuse to ac­ tem; educational reform might. more hopelessness than I ever have in cept that they are any less a part of God Thirty percent of the U.S. army is my life. than I am. I am unable to make a distinc­ black. Half of the women enlisted in the I see this cease-fire as a temporary tion between the lives of civilians and army are black. Obviously, these statis­ slow-down in a war that continues all those of soldiers. None of those people tics do not reflect the population of over the world. So long as people view wanted to die. African Americans in the entire popula­ violence as an acceptable means of solv­ The men and women who fought this tion. Blacks are over-represented in our ing problems, this war will not end. I war were placed in a horrible position. ground military. Blacks are over-repre­ refuse to accept violence as a way of re­ My concern for them is deep, but my be­ sented in the ground casualties. And in solving conflicts. It was not acceptable lief is that no amount of support from this time of homecoming, some will re­ for me to hit my brother for taking my home can remedy the terrors of war. In turn home to fight the same battles they Valentine's Day candy. It is not accept­ order for them to be safe and healthy fought after Vietnam. They fight wars able for the United States and its allies we must bring them home. I believe that against injustice and poverty and lack to kill hundreds of thousands of people to be against a war is the only way to of opportunity. In these wars, too, Af­ to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait. support those who are forced to fight it. rican Americans are over-represented. I hold this belief for two separate rea­ It has been a deep concern of my fel­ I know in my heart that if this war sons. First, I do not believe violence is low students and of mine that the media had lasted two years instead of one an expedient way to deal with problems coverage has been entirely one-sided. As month and the casualities thousands and in the long term. Iraq is out of Kuwait, soon as the bombing started, all cover­ not tens, I still would not have had to but now what? What kind of havoc has age of dissenting opinions stopped. The die. As a middle-class white I could have been wreaked on an already tense and television gave absolutely minimal cover­ escaped this war, but to do so would re­ hostile situation? How many more con­ age of protests here and completely ig­ affirm this racist and classist system. To flicts will arise out of this one? nored those taking place around the avoid this war would be tantamount to Operation Desert Shield/ Storm has wodd. Every bit of news was censored saying that the color of my skin and a college sweatshirt entitles me to a bet­ ter life than those who fought and died in Iraq and Kuwait. I fought against this war and I will continue to fight against future wars like it-but until the in­ equality of our system is corrected, I will go when called. 0

Jude O'Reilley Geisheker is a freshman at S warth­ more College and a member ofTwin Cities (Minn.) Meeting.

10 May 1991 F RIENDS JoURNAL by the military. While I realize secrecy I decided I would not go to this war is needed to carry on a war, the muting or support it in any way. My hope has of dissenting voices is going way too far. been that my family, friends, and other What ever happened to the freedom of citizens wouldn't either. 0 the press? On campus we have sought to educate A member of Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting, David people about the Middle East. There has Ludwig is a freshman at Oberlin College. been much concern about the draft and -~ about how to prepare a C.O. file. The ~ thing that frightens me most about peo- ~ pie's response to this war is their will- ~ The Struggle jngnesss not to think, to simply "stand ~ ~ behind the president." Not only is it in- § herently undemocratic to suppress one's ~ Must own dissent, but to stop thinking is to ~ stop being human. Therefore I have sought to educate others and force them acteristic of this country's belief that it Continue to think. has a duty to play policeman to the I was raised Quaker, and the peace tes­ Third World: Grenada, Panama, Nica­ by Evan Manvel timony tremendously affects my response ragua, etc. But now we are involved in to violence. It states clearly and forceful- something that is much more than play­ o nos abandonen.... " said ly my opposition to war in any form. ing bully-of-the-block. Juan Guillermo Cano, a pub­ However, the testimony uses Christ as Quakerism is inherently a religion of Nlisher in Colombia who had just the prime reason for this opposition. peace. It stresses peace with one's con- lost his father to the violence of the drug While this is becoming a more power­ . science, life, environment, and brother lords: "Don't abandon us." Themes­ ful force in my life, I feel more comfor­ and sister. This is why I became a mem­ sage that first appeared in On Beyond table using both secular and religious ber of a Friends meeting when I was War (June 1989) has particular signifi­ arguments. My religious reasons usual- seven. Still, until recently, I didn't think cance today. We must not abandon ly refer to ''that of God in everyone,'' I would have to put my religion before Cano, and we must not abandon the because this speaks more clearly to my me to keep me from going to war. It hope of peace, of justice, and of experience. seemed inconceivable to me that there freedom that he represents. The Gulf My opposition to any war is absolute. would be a war like this in my lifetime. War had tens of thousands of casualties, I work to educate and inform people. I I thought the United States had grasped mostly in Iraq. What remains to be seen seek to introduce peace as a rational way the magnitude of the needless destruc­ is if the future of peace through non­ to resolve conflict, both in my own life tion in Vietnam. violent means is a casualty of this war, and in the international scene. Personally Nothing is worth more than human as the 90 percent approval ratings of the I try to remain hopeful, because without life. A piece of land is not. Control of war indicate. hope we can accomplish nothing. 0 gasoline pices is not. The interests of the It is times like these that I say to rich oil developers is not. George Bush myself, "no nos abandonen." Quickly Rebecca Grunko, from Somerville, Mass., is a has put so many lives on the line that it is dismissed that between 100,000 and sophomore at Guilford College majoring in he has to justify his war by saying Sad­ 300,000 Iraqis died in this war. Quickly religious studies. A member ofCambridge (Mass.) dam Hussein is a mad tyrant, an evil it is forgotten that five former secre­ Meeting, she will be a representative of New England Yearly Meeting at this summer's World despot comparable only to Hitler. This taries of defense testified in January that Gathering of Friends in Honduras. is ridiculous. The United States sup­ sanctions were working, and that those ported dictators from Duvallier to Mar­ were historically the most powerful and cos to Noriega and still supports many complete sanctions ever enforced upon others. a country (especially a country so depen­ There is a lot of talk on campus about dent on outside sources for revenue). The Value of the war. We all are deeply concerned Slowly it must be reasserted that peace, about the huge number of men and not war, is the way to a New World women in the Middle East who have Order based on peace, justice, and in­ Hun1an Life risked their lives in this needless battle. ternational harmony. Many students have spent their time These were my thoughts in hearing of by David Ludwig glued to the TV watching CNN for any the cease-fire. I was simultaneously re­ developments in the war. The possibili­ lieved and depressed. Relieved that the have known about war as far back ty of a draft looms large. A lot of peo­ slaughter had stopped, and depressed as I can remember, but never thought ple here, like me, would much rather go because of the lesson people will learn I I would be directly involved in one. to jail than carry a gun or even do alter­ from this war. I felt that the burden of Sure, there were those "undeclared" native service. We can only hope that this war that lay on the back of all peace wars in my lifetime that have been char- this madness will end soon. activists had been removed. Unfortun-

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ately the burden of working for peace must be stopped. In the past six months ready to live a life where the world while there is no war had grown; we now at Haverford College, I have felt alter­ learned to deal with conflicts through must work against the status quo that nately desperate, depressed, resolved, understanding rather than power. That sees war as a quick and easy fix to in­ and hopeful. dream of ours had been shattered, and ternational problems. In September when ten students turned I for one felt powerless to do much The burden that lies on our shoulders out for a rally I had hoped would be a about it. Hugs helped, yet there was now has been added to because the spec­ hundred strong, I felt desperate. I felt nothing to counter the knowledge that tre of Vietnam is outdated. The Gulf that we had a chance to stop this war, our money and our friends were being war, the most current U.S. war, has but we would soon lose that chance (in­ used to kill other humans. Over 130 been built up in people's minds as a dications were that the war would start students from Haverford attended the villain-victim-hero war. Such simplicity in November). October was a quiet January 26th march in Washington. The is due to the desire of people to have month, a month where I felt depressed, realism of war had not brainwashed us some hero to cheer for, without getting stuck in the mud of apathy about peace yet. too much into the deep historical prob­ during peacetime. The 150,000 new Things were relatively quiet after that, lems, without admitting that the enemy troops ordered in November had a big although tense, until the ground war we're confronting might have something effect-the peace movement started roll­ started. Within half an hour of hearing valid to say. Such simplicity is contrary ing again. We began a chain fast and of its beginning, we had called a mid­ to effective conflict management, and to had a vigil and a march. December night vigil and the beginning of the the Quaker belief in consensus. Such brought grim resolve, and desperation peace camp. The vigil went well, with simplicity is the great injustice; the once again. It was likely the war would dozens of people coming by and shar­ means that can justify the ends of war. be stopped or would start over our win­ ing in our pain. A half-hour hug I got Having one side be absolutely right and ter break. We had letter writing tables at the vigil was perhaps the greatest mo­ another absolutely wrong allows destruc­ well attended, people reaching out to ment in my five years of activism-it tion of wrong by right to be justified. people at the train station, a phone-a­ was the reassurance that peace was pos­ Oversimplification has also unfor­ than to Washington, and many other sible, the affirmation of idealism, the tunately been picked up by some seg­ things including a packet for action over embodiment of hope. It reminded me ments of the peace movement, in their break. Yet as I stood drenched in the that I was important, and, as I had said "No Blood for Oil" chants. Although rain where a rally was supposed to be, at a vigil earlier, I was going to let my oil was undoubtedly one of the reasons two days before I would leave this coun­ little light shine. this war came about, this war was much try for winter break, I felt helpless, com­ The peace camp consisted of a group more than a fight for oil. It was about pletely ignored by the grand scheme of of six tents on our main quad reminding self-righteousness, power, and politics. war. people of the war and the hopes for It was fought because we live in a coun­ Our fears that the war would start peace, and we had people sleep out dur­ try where the military is more valued during break were confirmed. When we ing the war and after it was over. I saw than the education system, where being returned in January the war was a few it as the refusal of many to pull behind a bully is more important than being a days old. We had 500 people come to the nation as it crushed people in the vulnerable individual. This war hap­ talk about the war in a collection. Ban­ name of justice. It was a hopeful ending pened because those in power could not ners were made, posters painted, letters to the six months of protest against this believe in the possibilities of peaceful written, vigils held, prayers prayed. A war. A hopeful ending that this may be conflict resolution. lot of it, I think, was because we were the last time we would have to protest So I have protested this war, urging the generation that had never seen war. war. people to see that war is the crime that We were the young innocents, the youth What I want now is to give every per­ son I meet a half-hour hug. I feel like sharing the hope, the beauty, the ideal­ ism for the future that I have inside of me. I want to reach out to everyone, and to start building the society that will not allow our children to know the horrors of war; to reaffirm that hope will not be a casualty of this war; to spread the ideals of peace and justice, of hope and .!';! freedom; to call out "No nos aban­ ~ donen" and have people hear. I want to, ~ and I will. Please join me. Together, we ~ can find a better way. 0 t: 2 !!: Evan Manvel is a sophomore at Haverford _Col­ :!! lege. He grew up as a Unitarian-Universalist, and " has been an activist involved in peace issues, ~ animal rights, environmentalism, and development ~ twv since 1986.

12 May 1991 FluENDs JoURNAL Boulder Friends Provide Sanctuary There's No Way I'd Go! by Vinton Deming uring this academic year, 26-year­ F.J: Tell me a little about yourself, Jim, old Jim Harrington has been a and why you decided to join the reserves Dstudent of religious studies at the initially. University of Colorado (Boulder), where .JH: Well, I grew up in the mountains he's worked at the planetarium. Since of Colorado. I'm from a small town in 1986 he has been a member of the U.S. the Nederland area. I joined the reserves Navy Reserves. When his unit was called a little over four years ago pretty much Jim Harrington to active duty and shipped to the Per­ because I wanted to return to school and ty. There were no openings in the pro­ sian Gulf last year, Jim decided not to was having problems with financial aid gram, however, so I ended up taking my report for duty. He began volunteering and with the jobs I was working at. I second choice-the hospital corpsman at the Rocky Mountain Peace Center in just needed that extra paycheck and program-being told it would be pretty Boulder, and has continued to pursue wanted to get back into school. The pro­ much the same time commitment. I his religious studies. While speaking out gram that appealed the most to me in agreed to the standard enlistment con­ widely against the Gulf War, Jim has the reserves was religious program tract of eight years-six years in the lived this winter in sanctuary among specialist-defined to me as a chaplain's reserves starting with an initial period of Friends of Boulder Meeting. He agreed assistant. I thought that would be pret­ boot camp training followed by week­ to speak in late January with FRIENDS ty neat. I wanted to have the chance to end drills once a month and time in the JoURNAL editor Vinton Deming. see chaplains at work in a closer capaci- summer.

FRIENDS JouRNAL May 1991 13 F.l: When did you first start to question once my enlistment term is up. I would .IH: This past August as things in the your participation in the reserves? get out, which I thought at the time was Middle East were starting to happen, I .IH: The process started shortly after my what my dream was really speaking got in touch with the AFSC office here. initial training. In my studies at the uni­ about-another two years or so, then My only other connection earlier was versity I got confronted by the philoso­ I'd get out. through a girlfriend who was a Quaker. phy of liberation theology, especially in F.l: Were there other things that con­ I met people from Boulder Meeting Latin America. Early on I took a winter tributed to your decision, religious train­ through the Rocky Mountain Peace break vacation in Cuernavaca, Mexico, ing as a child or such? Center where I started helping out and with a program called CID. I was con­ .IH: I didn't grow up being raised in any was doing some organizing about the fronted by what U.S. foreign policy has particular church or anything. I had a Middle East. meant in very negative ways in Latin very important near-death experience as F.l: How has the meeting been helping America. I began to make some impor­ a boy, however, which forced me to think you out? tant connections. A certain tension has very deeply. As a teenager I sought out .IH: In a whole lot of ways. They've always been there since I began my re­ some form of meditation-yoga medita­ been offering me sanctuary in members' ligious studies. tion. Meditating has been important to houses and at the meetinghouse. There's Then last summer, in July, I had a me ever since. been a lot of uncertainty, for sure. It's powerful dream that this country was F.l: When did you get connected with not been easy for me. All the emotions headed toward war-that I would need Quakers and other peace people? are certainly there. My outer life has to take a stand against it. Part of the been really hectic. It's been really help­ dream was that I'd be able to draw a cer­ ful, though, to be able to talk and spend tain amount of moral courage to take EDITOR'S UPDATE time with people in Boulder Meeting the necessary steps. In a way-as I think through all this. Also, Dave Dellinger about it now-this sort of freaks me out! On March 14, Jim Harrington [long-time peace activist and pacifist] Dreams have played a very important turned himself in to military has been an inspiration to me. He was role in my life, but I'm not in the habit authorities at Great Lakes Navy visiting in Boulder recently and I had a of waking up and immediately acting on Base in Illinois. Three Friends chance to talk with him. This was real­ them. There's usually a feeling of an im­ accompanied him. At last report ly helpful. mediate need to listen to it, and th~ stuff (3/ 27/91) he is restricted to the F.l: What do you think Quakers must with it will eventually play itself out. base and is awaiting a decision be doing at this time to confront the That's been really important to me. from the Navy on his request war. Are there areas in particular where F.l: Were you able to talk about this ex­ for discharge. Lake Forest (Ill.) people should be placing their energies? perience with any of your friends? Friends are visiting him and .IH: I definitely think the issue of con­ .IH: I was able to talk to my shipmates offering support. Friends may scientious objection is important -getting as we were engaging in training. I sort write to Jim at the following that message across on college campuses of made it plain that there was no way address: and at high schools. The powers that be I could continue being in the reserves HM3 Harrington, James L. in the military will not be too receptive 523-25-1670 to this, but we have to try. The military TPU Barrack 177 - is not set up to help people with CO 3rd Deck, Class 2 claims. Military personnel need to know GOD DWELLS Great Lakes, IL 60088-5132 it is a legal right which is set up. That's one kind of information we should be WITHIN US getting across. F.l: What do you expect is coming down I know individuals to be but crys­ too often look upon people as being for you at this point? What are you tallized embodiments of divinity. "only human." We become anticipating? God dwells not in the temples, mechanical in our killing of a non­ ..JH: Well, it's difficult to say exactly mosques, and churches of the world being. The truth remains that hu­ what they're going to do. What I am an­ but in the depths of the hearts of us manity and its incarnate divinity re­ ticipating is arrest. [Jim shares the fact all. God dwells within us as us. With mains within those we would kill. I he has a lawyer working closely with courage and humility, seekers of must not, cannot, and will not par­ him-also that he has heard of cases knowledge enter into the tender ticipate in the destruction and killing where lawyers have been unable to pre­ richness of their own hearts and come of the temple or body that holds this vent young people claiming CO status to see this is true. Life viewed divinity. To do so would be to for­ being placed in handcuffs and shipped through the eyeglasses of humanity sake my vision of God within myself off to the Persian Gulf.] needs a new prescription of incarnate and others. In forsaking such a vision F..J: Any final thoughts you would like divinity. When we can see God in I would betray my own eternally to share with our readers? each other only then do we truly ex­ sacred soul for the sake of temporal ..JH: I hope Quakers will share their perience God within our-Selfs. profanity. perspective about peace and conscien­ A good way to start seeing the tious objection with the wider communi­ divine in others is to refrain from kill­ James Lawrence Harrington ty. It's really important, especially in ing them. Because we are not prac­ Opening Statement, CO Discharge these times, to be more active in discuss­ ticed in the seeing of the sacred, we Application, December 25, 1990 ing exactly what "peace" means. Quak­ ers really must get that message out! 0

14 May 1991 F'IuENDs JoURNAL THE DILEMMA OF

by William C. Kashatus question of all: "What do you think?" lished my own position on the funda­ Having taught adolescents for nearly a mental dilemma of war-pitting the sac­ hen I first learned that our decade, I am aware of their idealism. I redness of human life against the respon­ military forces had launched realize they are eager to debate the mor­ sibility we have to our country as U.S. W Operation Desert Storm my ality of war and that their arguments citizens-let alone a strategy on how to immediate concern was what to say to must be treated seriously. But that teach it. Christopher and Alex. doesn't make my position as a teacher It may be easy for some to adopt an For weeks before the initial assault, any easier. unyielding pacifism in this conflict based their seemingly endless questions had Like all educators, I have a moral ob­ on the position that human life is sacred, forced me to re-examine my own con­ ligation to my students that goes beyond whether it be American, Arab, or Israeli. victions as a United States citizen and the ability to convey academic knowledge My own religious society has elevated my personal feelings as a member of the or skills. It involves engaging their this position to a fundamental tenet of Society of Friends: "Can you justify minds as well as their souls, preparing faith. And yet I wonder, at times, how U.S. presence in the Persian Gulf?" them to become active, committed much the most vocal pacifists appreciate "Would you go to war if you were draft­ members of a free society. And so, in the fact that others fought and died to ed?" "Will this be another Vietnam?" the classroom, I've tried to teach the protect the freedom of speech they them­ Repeatedly, I fell short of offering some reponsibility of U.S. citizenship and, on selves enjoy today. On those occasions, kind of consolation to two adolescents the athletic field, the necessity of men­ I can't help from feeling that life for whom I care very deeply. My an­ tal discipline and physical toughness. wouldn't be worth living if I couldn't be swers were half-truths at best. I was con­ Above all, I hope I have taught my stu­ a member of a free society. On the other fused and they knew it. dents to be intelligent and caring human hand, it may be easy for others to justify No, Chris and Alex are not my sons; beings since, one day, they may be com­ war based on the responsibility that each they are two of my former students. pelled to make decisions that will in­ citizen has to serve this nation, particu­ Both of them are seniors in one of the fluence the lives of others. Because of larly in a time of crisis. And I am left nation's more prestigious secondary that potential, they represent whatever to wonder just how sacred human life schools; both of them plan to attend an future our country has. is for them. Does it become as dispensi­ undergraduate institution next year­ But for all the idealistic hopes I enter­ ble when a father, son, or brother is an aspiration that could be dashed by a tain for my students, there is no escap­ killed? selective service system that will refuse ing the hard realities that the cockpit of The dilemma of teaching about war to grant college deferments if activated; an F-15 bomber is not an American his­ is that there are no "right" or "wrong" and both of them are very concerned tory classroom, and the Perisan Gulf answers. Instead, the issue challenges about their futures. I am concerned, too. certainly isn't a soccer field. Nor will our judgment, our ability to discern fact I've listened to child psychologists their decisions make my conscience any from conjecture, to question rather than who tell us that the most constructive less burdened for the fact that once I get accept, blindly, the stereotypes of our approach to take with youth in teaching beyond all the rhetoric, the alleged society and, ultimately, to teach us how them about war is to get them actively "blood for oil" motives and the "Hitler­ to respond to future crises. Under these engaged with the issue: to conduct de­ Hussein" analogies, I am, quite simply, circumstances, perhaps the best thing I bates and encourage classroom discus­ confused. And my confusion results pri­ can do for Christopher and Alex-and sions. Still, their strategies fail to pro­ marily from the fact that I haven't estab- for any of my students-is to teach them vide much advice on how to respond the importance of taking a stand and when students ask the most difficult adhering to it regardless of what others William C. Kashatus, formerly a teacher at Ab­ think, because, in the end, they will have ington Friends School and the Episcopal Academy, to live with the consequences of their is a member of Plymouth (Pa.) Meeting. A doc­ decisions. After all, that's what my toral candidate in the History ofEducation at the teachers tried to do for me . . . and University of Pennsylvania, he is the author of Conffict of Conviction: A Reappraisal of Quaker Operation Desert Storm has made it Involvement in the American Revolution (Univer­ painfully clear that I'm still trying to sity Press of America, 1990). learn. 0

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mala, Kurdistan, Kuwait-Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Mozambique, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Uganda, and the Western Sahara. In Children many countries their presence on the battlefield is not of their own choosing, such as in the governmental troops of Afghanistan, El Salvador, and Ethiopia; in both the governmental and resistance at War armies in Cambodia; in the different militias of Lebanon; in the National Resistance Army of Mozambique; and in the armed bands fighting the rebel army in south Sudan. The problem of the child soldier, which became a concern of Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) in 1979, the International Year of the Child, is still with us, In Geneva, the by Religious Society of Friends and the Quaker Office at the United Nations,co­ Dorothea E. operated throughout the decade in mak­ Woods ing the problem known, in setting inter­ national standards for protecting chil­ dren from being used in war, and in meeting the needs of a few youth who do not want to be caught up in the life of child soldiers. The Quaker Office at the UN was present at the Working Group on the Rights of the Child to encourage in­ cluding an article on the right not to be a soldier. The final text of article 38 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, accepted by the UN General As­ sembly in New York in 1989, reads: States Parties undertake to respect and to ensure respect for rules of international humantarian law applicable to them in armed conflicts which are relevant to the child. States Parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that persons who have not attained the age of fifteen years do not take a direct part in hostilities. States Parties shall refrain from recruiting any person who has not attained the age of fifteen years into their armed forces. In recruiting among those persons who have at­ tained the age of fifteen years but have not attained the age of eighteen years, States par­ he Iraqi government lowered the Fourteen-year-olds have been among the ties shall endeavour to give priority to those age of conscription from 18 to 17, resistance fighters in Kuwait City since who are the oldest. Tand school boys as well as out-of­ last August. So it is clear that even a war school youth were required to report for to implement United Nations resolutions After agreement on the inclusion of the duty before March 20, 1991. Stories ap­ does not avoid using soldiers who have Article, Friends urged that the minimum peared in the British press about 17-year­ not reached the age of majority. age for recruitment be raised to 18, but old soldiers being sent for duty in the At present, children under 15 are governments were not willing to change army and the navy to liberate Kuwait. In­ fighting in at least 23 so-called regional the standard set in 1977 at the Diplo­ quiries are being quietly made to see wars-in Afghanistan, Angola, Burma, matic Conference on International Hu­ whether the French and U. S. military Cambodia, Chad, Colombia, East Timor, manitarian Law, held in Geneva. organizations have the same practice. El Salvador, Ethiopia-Eritrea, Guate- Some U.S. Friends, including Betty A member of Geneva (Switzerland) Meeting, Dorothea E. Woods has worked for UNESCO, the world Stone of Wilmington (N.C.) Meeting, YWCA, and the UN. She served a year as European director of Quaker International Voluntary Service. helped advance the setting of standards. A writer and educator, she currently is a free-lance consultant to international organizations. From time to time, consultation took

16 May 1991 F'RIENDs JoURNAL place with Friends Committee on Na­ The Social Order Committee of tional Legislation concerning stands of Geneva Meeting is in contact with those the U.S. government". The problem who are working on the AFSC study on The other UN forum in which Friends youth and militarism, the Columbia have incited action on children bearing of the child University Project on Children and War, military arms is the Working Group on and the Center on War and the Child. Contemporary Forms of Slavery. The soldier is still The committee handles correspondence FWCC has brought to each of the ses­ on questions such as the refusal of refu­ sions a paper for debate, including such with us. gee status for the ex-child soldiers of the issues as: how children are conscripted Khmer Rouge army in Cambodia, and for use in war, whether children are sold on the situation of children in the un­ for use in war, and whether child soldier­ At present, speakably cruel war in Mozambique. ing is a form of child labor. Questions Telephone broadcasts and interviews with were also raised about extra-legal con­ children are U.S. journalists have taken place. scription of children, conditions for Cooperation with the AFSC, Mexican training and the employment of child fighting in at Friends Service Committee, Costa Rica soldiers, and use of children as spies in Yearly Meeting, and the Salvador Relief wartime. The 1987 paper, presented to least 23 wars. Fund (started by Quaker Charles Cle­ a UN press conference, resulted in a ment) has been necessary to discover spate of news articles in at least 50 coun­ projects that could provide alternatives tries. As a result of the deliberations of to military action and medical aid to this working group, the question of wounded child soldiers. Regular contri­ child soldiers will appear on the agenda neva, the boy was allowed to stay, not butions are made by Geneva Meeting to of the Sub-Commission on the Preven­ as a refugee, not on a humanitarian per­ Defence of Children/International and tion of Discrimination and the Protec­ mit, but by special arrangement. Terre des Hommes International, which tion of Minorities in August 1991. For a five-week period in autumn have sponsored educational projects for QUNO has briefed the UN Special 1989, the Religious Society of Friends child prisoners of war and have launched Rapporteur on Afghanistan about child in Geneva offered a weekly afternoon campaigns focusing on children in con­ soldiers being rounded up by the govern­ of hospitality, friendship, and recreation flict. D ment. It has given experts a fact sheet for asylum-seekers who were temporari­ on children bearing arms in El Salvador; ly housed in air raid shelters. They were the fact sheet is for use in their debates expected to leave the shelters at 9 a.m. RESOURCES on gross violations of human rights. It and not return until 5 p.m. Among them has offered information to members of were Lebanese boys who had been forced Organizations active in the the Human Rights Committee on chil­ . to join the militia at age 16. With Chris­ struggle against child soldiering: dren at war in Sri Lanka. A study on tian fighting Christian and Muslim fight­ Bureau International Catholique children bearing military arms in Latin ing Muslim, they could not see much de l'Enfance (International Catholic America was forwarded to the regional, point in the civil war, and they left the Office for Child Welfare) conference on the rights of the child held country. 65 Rue de Lausanne in Buenos Aires. Information has been The meeting also took up letter writ­ CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland furnished to Camille Lataste-Dorolle and ing to press for better treatment of child Jane Droutman at UNESCO for the soldiers and to speed peacemaking. Let­ Defence of Children International NGO group on Children in Conflict, ters were sent to James Carter, negotiator 1-3 Varembe and to the UNICEF regional meeting in in the Ethiopia-Eritrean war, to urge lib­ 1211 Geneva, Switzerland east Africa. eration of Ethiopian child prisoners of International Committtee of the Geneva Friends Meeting has acted war. The Ethiopian government earlier Red Cross locally as well as internationally. Dur­ denied that thol.!sands of their boy sol­ 17 Avenue de la Paix ing the Iran-Iraq War, Iranian school diers were taken captive by Eritrea. The 1202 Geneva, Switzerland boys, both Christian and Muslim, came clerk wrote to the U.S Department of to G~neva to escape pressures to join the Defense to ask whether anything could International Federation of paramilitary forces. The meeting made be done about the training of 13-year­ Terre des Hommes, a contribution to a short vacation for old soldiers in Honduras by U.S. military 22 Rue Michel Chauvet one of the boys who was staying in a officers. A letter went to the government 1208 Geneva, Switzerland hostel. When the Swiss government of El Salvador concerning the gap bet­ International Fellowship of ordered one of the boys to go back to ween current practices of recruiting Reconciliation Iran, since in their view he was not in minors and the ideals of humanitarian Kanistratt 5 danger of being conscripted until he was law as ratified by the Salvadoran govern­ Alkmaar NL 1811 GJ 18, Friends provided information about ment. The meeting also expressed grate­ Netherlands the pressures Iranian children were fac­ fulness to the United Nations for de-in­ ing to sign up for action with paramili­ ternationalizing the war in Afghanistan, International Save the Children tary units at the front. With the com­ sometimes called the war against children Alliance, 147 Rue de Lausanne bined action of school mates, teachers, because of the high civilian tolls and 1202 Geneva, Switzerland and the educational authorities of Ge- land mines that looked like toys.

F'RIENDs JouRNAL May 1991 17 Right: Students in Meditation Inset: Cecil B. Hinshaw Both photos from 1946 yearbook

A TIME TO HEAL

by Lenna ·Mae Gara

18 sturdy Ford Escort took us Wilmer Tjossem, class of '49, gave dards with the social gospel, gave him across Indiana and Illinois in the opening address. He had known the the opportunity to lead the college into A June 1990 through blowing rain, Hinshaw years as both a student and the postwar world. past flooded cornfields. But it might staff member, returning to college from Tjossem recalled some of that history have been a time machine, moving back Civilian Public Service camp to study and the shoestring budget of the develop­ 40 years to the Great Penn College Re­ and work part-time as a development of­ ment office. He reminded us of events union in Oskaloosa, Iowa. It is always ficer. From that perspective he recog­ both humorous and sad, and we chuckled, disorienting to take one's past-middle­ nized the increasingly difficult position for after 45 years even melancholy age body to a place where the mind from which Cecil Hinshaw had to oper­ memories can be funny. thinks it is still a teenager. That ex­ ate. A young, dynamic, persuasive leader, "Would we do it all again?" he asked. perience was even more jolting, because Cecil brought to the campus students " Yes!" we roared. most of us brought feelings of alienation and faculty who shared his ideals of His words set the stage for the rest of and anger to a campus where once we Christian pacifism and racial justice, the weekend. Wilmer had been wrong had known such camaraderie and joy. people who welcomed the chance to help about one thing: he concluded that since The occasion brought together about 160 of those who had been associated with William Penn College during the " Hinshaw years" -1943-1949-when Cecil E. Hinshaw had been there, first as dean, then for five years as president. Those years were marked by idealism and optimism, a willingness to try new ideas and test the old ones. They were also marked by financial troubles and town-gown conflict. They ended with Hinshaw's resignation under great pres­ sure in March 1949. No one who exper­ ienced them directly was unaffected by the Hinshaw years. Martha Graham Hampton, class of '50, and her husband, Roy Hampton, ::1 provided inspiration and months of care- ~ ful planning to bring the reunion to re- ' ality. They had help from a committee .. of alumni, as well as encouragement and 'c­ help from Marsha Riordan, alumni di­ ~ rector, and President John D. Wagoner, ! who attended several of the sessions. In­ Reunion attenders share a picnic, 1990 deed, his presence and warmth melted any remaining suspicion in our hearts. build a new order, and who expected to the students were " self-selected" -peo­ When Hinshaw left the college a great get started right away. Yet he also had ple who had chosen the college because many students and faculty left too. The to forge a coalition of alumni, Iowa of Hinshaw's leadership and vision­ dream was dead, we thought, and the Quakers, and local community leaders their outlook and future actions may not dreamers would have to make do in an during the grim days of World War II have been much changed by their years imperfect world. The campus changed, and the early Cold War years that fol­ at Penn College. But many of them had and Oskaloosa got what it wanted, a lowed. His attempts to come to terms arrived on campus for reasons that had bland little community college. For years with those pressures sometimes sparked nothing to do with Hinshaw. The one I there was little mention of the Hinshaw disillusionment in the very people who know best , for instance, enrolled know­ years in college publications, and the should have been most loyal, for the ing nothing of Quakers, choosing the lit­ gallery of presidential portraits did not young and idealistic can be brutally tle college because of high school con­ include a picture of Cecil Hinshaw. It unforgiving. tacts and its proximity to her home. Ar­ was as if those years had been dropped During World War II William Penn riving at Penn on D-Day, June 6, 1944, into a memory hole. Now, as the present College, unlike most of its sister institu­ the Iowa girl was astounded that the administration welcomed us, we looked tions-including some of the Quaker Quakers took no notice of the momen­ back at the past 40 years and began to persuasion-had not accepted military tous event, though church bells rang in feel whole again. Our youthful experi­ units on campus. Without them it oper­ Oskaloosa and flags blossomed from ences had been given back to us. ated far below enrollment capacity, an every porch. A few months later, as the uneconomical use of resources that, Roosevelt-Dewey campaign picked up, a Lenna Mae Gara is a homemaker and writer in Wil­ following hard on the Great Depression, straw vote on campus elected Norman mington, Ohio, where she and her husband are called for fiscal management bordering Thomas! She began to suspect there was members ofCampus Meeting and Larry is a facul­ ty member at Wilmington College. Both are gradu­ on the miraculous. The board, recogniz­ something unique about William Penn ates of William Penn College. They have two grown ing Cecil's leadership abilities and his vi­ College and Cecil Hinshaw. children. sion of combining high academic stan- A native of Kansas, with degrees from

FluENDs JouRNAL May 1991 19 Friends University in Wichita and Iliff years brought him back to tell the School of Theology in Denver, Hinshaw gathering: had pastored churches in Kansas and "The people at William Penn were far New England yearly meetings before ahead of the world in every avenue of becoming professor of religion and social justice in the '40s. They espoused philosophy at Friends University. In concepts of human dignity, caring, and 1943 he became dean at William Penn sharing, standing for Christian beliefs in College, and a year later was named the face of overwhelming odds-all of president, at 33 the youngest college these, I have learned to understand and president in the United States. Though to embrace as my own." small of stature, Cecil had a vibrant per­ Welcoming black students was bad sonality and electrifying speaking abili­ enough, thought some in the local com­ ty. His intensity sparked a parallel re­ munity. When Hinshaw hired Madeline sponse in students, faculty, and board Foreman to teach biology, she became members. He even found time to teach · the first black college professor in Iowa, an occasional class, where he brought and there was outrage. Pauline Hinshaw immediacy and humor to Bible study or took her as a guest to a meeting of the Oskaloosa Women's Club, where it was clear that Mrs. Foreman would not be accepted as a member. Even worse, Cecil Kazuko Terada, 1946 was threatened by a Klan-like mob that frightened young Nisei girl who had left warned of harm to his children if Made­ her parents in a Wyoming relocation line Foreman remained. She moved from camp. Cecil Hinshaw and AFSC hadar­ a house near the campus to an apartment ranged for her and other Nisei youth to in a college building, but she did not study at Penn College, and Cecil was at resign. The furor subsided, but the the station to meet her bus. Traveling anger simmered. from her home in Los Angeles to the As they had espoused racial equality, reunion, Kazuko brought a unique per­ Iowa Friends also supported conscien­ spective. She told us what it had meant tious objection to war. Many young to be welcomed so warmly and to have Iowa men served in CPS camps or went a home in those depressing years. She to prison as nonregistrants. While most may never have realized what an impact of the young, male population was away her presence made on other students. -either fighting a war, or fighting the Many of us had not questioned the idea of war-the Penn campus remained racism and wartime hysteria that made a quiet oasis for Quaker pacifists. It was the camps possible. Having her in our when the war ended and the young men Julian Winston, 1946 midst gave it a meaning we would never returned to campus life that the strain forget. Kazuko announced that when of conflicting ideologies became appar­ rarified philosophical arguments. His she received the compensation promised ent. By the fall of 1946 the enrollment mark on the college and those who knew by Congress to all survivors of those had doubled, with students from 23 him was indelible. disgraceful camps, she would donate states and four foreign countries, and When Cecil Hinshaw left William Penn half to William Penn College. for the first time in years there were College he traveled, lectured, built Iowa Yearly Meeting and the college more men than women on campus. Most houses-he had many practical skills­ had already welcomed minority students, of the men were veterans of some kind and was for 17 years on the staff of and Cecil Hinshaw continued the policy, of wartime service, yet military veterans AFSC in both Des Moines and Denver. actively recruiting blacks from the com­ and conscientious objectors mingled He and Pauline Hinshaw retired to their munity and other states. Some returned socially and in class with little friction. Colorado home in 1972, where they con­ to the reunion to recount their exper­ Cecil Hinshaw welcomed them all, chal­ tinued with many activities until heart iences in a town that, in the '40s, still lenging the entire student body to work and pulmonary disease caused Cecil's embraced Jim Crow attitudes and prac­ for justice and peace. death in 1982. Their son Robert attend­ tices. Julian Winston grew up on an Reunion participants learned just how ed the opening session of the reunion, Iowa farm, enrolled at the college in that mix had affected the veterans. Ches­ bringing greetings from the familiy and 1941, was drafted into the army, and ter Ryan recalled the formation of a cam­ sharing his own memories of growing up returned to the college after Hinshaw pus veterans' club, and of the group's on the Penn campus. His sister, Eleanor had become president. Despite the cam­ efforts to choose a faculty sponsor. Hinshaw Mullendore, detailed in a long pus atmosphere of concern for social Name after name was mentioned and letter to the group her impressions as a justice, unwritten social restrictions made discarded because, said someone: "He's small child in the midst of such exciting it a lonely life for a young black man. a C.O." Bewildered, one of the veterans events. He compensated by becoming success­ finally asked: "What have these guys Each of us also brought memories to oriented, moving to the nation's capital got against commanding officers?" share. Kazuko Terada Arakaki, for in­ to become an attorney and government Another, returning depressed and sick­ stance, arrived at the college in 1944, a employee. Yet memories of the Hinshaw ened by his wartime experiences, found

20 May 1991 FRIENDS JoURNAL the Penn campus a place to think speakers and artists whom Cecil brought in an uncompromising pacifist family through his beliefs and find positive to the campus. and was denied a diploma from a Brook­ goals for the years ahead. The veterans John Griffith learned of Cecil Hin­ lyn high school when he refused to sign were not greeted as returning heroes but shaw and his "Holy Experiment" while a loyalty oath. Hinshaw and Penn Col­ as members of the college community an inmate in federal prison, where lege welcomed him without the diploma, who had important contributions to fellow inmate Larry Gara encouraged and Seymour entered gratefully into an make. him to apply to Penn College. Hinshaw atmosphere where his pacifist views While the Friends college readily ac­ was delighted to welcome them both, were commonplace. Returning to the cepted veterans, Cecil Hinshaw active­ and many others from prison and camp. campus in 1990, he said, was like going ly recruited conscientious objectors. For He even found modest scholarship home. And so it was for us all. men who had spent the war years in CPS funds to help balance the GI Bill, which One of Cecil Hinshaw's goals was to camps or prison, the campus offered a was then underwriting veterans' educa­ build a truly democratic governance welcome sanctuary. The war had been tion. Nor did the end of the war mean system at William Penn College, surely won, and most citizens felt entirely satis­ an end to the draft. In 1946 Bill Taber, a radical notion when most colleges were fied with their country's part in that vic­ Dave Jensen, and Jim Holmes went to hierarchical structures with little input tory. Questions of ends and means or the prison for draft resistance; by January from faculty and none from students. limits of personal responsibility were sel­ 1949 six more followed, with 12 others He and a committee drew up a plan for dom argued at the local barber shop. Yet awaiting trial. The campus may have College Community Council in which they were the subjects of passionate dis­ been a sanctuary for pacifists, but for every part of campus life was cussion in class, in informal groups, and many townspeople it was a hotbed of represented. Members were chosen by at convocations. Francis Hall, Marion subversion. proportional representation, and serving Anderson, and presidential candidate It was sanctuary for Seymour Eichel, on the council was a unique learning ex­ Henry Wallace were but three of the a shy, Jewish youth, who had grown up perience. Students began to understand We Won't Be Embarrassed The following editorial by Donald constant within his mind and his heart, the peace of Penn after weeks of strife, Norberg appeared in The Monroe he went to plant the idea somewhere delivered the most sensible and schol­ County News, Albia, Iowa, on Mon­ else. But probably not in Oskaloosa, arly speech on the progress of political day, April 4, 1949. -Eds. or Albia, or Chariton, or Centerville, democracy heard through the entire or Ottumwa-nowhere close where it presidential campaign was, naturally, Neither Oskaloosa, nor Albia, nor will bother us. overlooked. What proved important in the rest of Iowa will be embarrassed by The whole Hinshaw philosophy Iowa was not what Wallace said, but Penn College any more. didn't make sense. He welcomed the simply that Hinshaw allowed him to We can chase money, fight wars, poor to college, and professors who say anything. Hadn't the democratical­ hate minorities, be holy, and just have didn't wear neckties, and the black ly-supported free public institutions ourselves a wonderful time-because people and the brown people and the thumbed Wallace out, unheard? the little school won't be sitting there yellow people and the white people. With his mixture of black and white, pricking away at our conscience. And once he got them there, he insisted yellow and brown and, "friends of the Physically, of course, it will be on they live in equal dignity. reds,'' Hinshaw was producing Penn the edge of Oskaloosa-probably with He welcomed the war veterans, and in technicolor, and many of us either a fair to middling football team. The the conscientious objectors, and he closed our eyes or wanted the curtain ivy will grow on the familiar old build­ was so blind he couldn't distinguish pulled. ings again, unsinged by the fire of between them- he thought they were The curtain has dropped. The pro­ evangelism. Good old Penn will be all boys, Cecil Hinshaw did. ducer is gone. Penn, again, like Simpson, like Par­ He had quaint thoughts, like it be­ But if man is to be saved for some­ sons, like Wesleyan, like all the rest. ing more essential to subsidize a thing other than sizzling to his death The only thing missing from Penn scholar than a tackle. under the bomb, the Penn idea must today that's been there for the last five Cecil Hinshaw figured that the pur­ bloom again-in schools, in churches, years is an idea. It was the idea that pose of education is to teach people in government-wherever men and bothered us-that made us hesitate how to live, as well as how to make a women and children live. sometimes as we chased money, fought living, and there was a thought pro­ However, when the idea returns to hot and cold wars, hated minorities, pelled through Penn that the philoso­ Iowa, we want it to slip in quietly, and had ourselves a wonderful time. phy of Jesus Christ is just as impor­ through the rear door. We would like But now we can damn the torpedoes, tant in learning how to live as the dai­ to have it, Cecil Hinshaw, but please and make full speed ahead. ly livestock and market reports. put it in small capsule form so we can The idea went away last week with He had rather unusual outlooks on swallow it silently without choking in­ a little Quaker preacher, name of Cecil Democracy, too. He allowed Henry to the face of the status quo. 0 Hinshaw. He resigned the Penn presi­ Wallace to speak on the Penn campus. dency and, since the growing season is The fact that Wallace, calmed down by

FRIENDS JoURNAL May 1991 21 the limits of such governance, of course. Hinshaw in 1947, "especially the last coaching skills to Penn College. In col­ The council had no voice in hiring and two, have been most richly rewarding to legiate sports, he said, "the value is in firing, or in setting salaries. Yet there me because I have seen spiritual seed the playing, not the winning." He were many issues on which it was possi­ producing harvest that will help to feed taught integrity and good sportsman­ ble to reach consensus, and ways in the religious hunger of the world." In ship, and sometimes a team won a game. which the council helped make the cam­ 1990 we looked at the ways in which that He had the loyalty and affection of the pus more cohesive and responsive to seed had indeed produced harvests: of athletes, but not of local football fans. individuals. those who responded to notice of the Pressures to oust Cecil Hinshaw grew. Throughout the weekend we relived gathering, 32 hold master's degrees, Under those pressures, Hinshaw turned those times in laughter and song. A eight have Ph.D.s, three are lawyers, to his board of trustees, hoping through candlelight memorial service for those one a physician. Eleven colleges and restructuring to build stronger support who had died gave an opportunity to ap­ universities-including several Friends for his administration. The college was preciate persons and events whose im­ institutions-have Penn graduates on acquiring a national constituency, he portance only time has made clear. We their faculties, and there are farmers, pointed out, and he needed more time recalled Mabel Driscoll Bailey, blind pastors, social workers, artists, teachers to develop it. But the tide had turned, from birth, who had almost despaired at every level, scientists, writers, and a money was bleeding away, and in March of finding a teaching position until Cecil state representative. Those who went to 1949 a majority of the board refused to Hinshaw hired her to bring literature prison or worked in other ways for peace accept his plan. His dream shattered, and writing courses to vibrant life for have never lost Cecil's vision of a world Cecil Hinshaw resigned. Penn students. We remembered Paull. without war. Several observed that Penn At the last chapel service before he Miller, whose history classes led several in the '40s was ahead of its time. We had left the campus-he did not even remain students to choose that profession, and beatniks and hippies before the words through commencement-Cecil asked ~ who challenged everyone to think, some­ had entered the language; we worried the college community to sing ''That "" thing most of us had not yet learned to about conserving the earth's fragile en­ Cahuse c_an Neithher Be Lost ~or Stayedh," ~ do. We remembered our contemporaries vironment when the watchword was a auntmg ant em to persistence m t e , who are gone, the victims of accidents "consume!" We went in inter-racial face of diversity. Tears flowed in the ::: and disease, at least one of AIDS. groups to be served at a local ice cream chapel that morning. At the opening "These years at Penn," wrote Cecil parlor (with uneven success) 15 years event of the reunion, and again as we prepared to say our goodbyes, we sang that hymn, and again there were tears. On Sunday, the last day of the re­ union, there were two religious services, just as we remembered from our student days: a meeting for worship "after the ancient manner of Friends,'' followed by a programmed service with singing and a message given by Edna Hadley Smith, Class of '47. The seeds Cecil wrote about grew from both those tradi­ tions, and have nurtured thousands in the years since. The final scheduled event was a noon banquet with more reminiscing, singing, and laughter. It was as if we could not bear to leave. We heard of plans to establish a Hinshaw scholarship fund, and quickly approved a suggestion to plant a tree in memory of the Hinshaw years. With planes to catch or long before the Greensboro sit-ins. And we drives ahead, we gathered as Martha had draft card destroyers long before Graham Hampton, John Wagoner, and Vietnam had become a household word. Eves Cadwallader planted a young ash Many reunion participants recalled tree on an expanse of lawn between the Penn sports program, the subject of Atkins Memorial Union and Penn Hall, much disapproval in Oskaloosa because the original structure we all remem­ Cecil Hinshaw would not use the col­ bered. We stood in a circle to watch this lege's scarce resources for athletic schol­ act of tribute to the past and faith in the arships. In 1946 he brought Roland L. future, and we sang one last song: Ortmayer to the campus as athletic direc­ "When I'm on my journey/Don't you tor and coach of everything. From a weep after me./I don't want you to Church of the Brethren background, weep after me.'' And then we wept, and and after nearly four years in CPS hugged, and said goodbye, healed at Reunion tree planting camps, Ortmayer brought more than last. []

22 May 1991 FluENos JoURNAL Where Clouds and Eagles Soar Here, where the track ends and the moor begins, Where rain-washed air is scented gold with gorse, We can keep promises. forget old sins, Wash spirits free of failure and remorse. Pause Here, where the mountain shapes its curve to sky, 1be activities Where clouds and eagles soar above the lake, oftheday We meet again, without wherefore or why, ceased Only the reaching out, the thirst to slake. fora moment Beyond the town, so far away and small, while blessinp We buDd strong battlements of memory were counted. On this bare slope that never dreamed a wall. Here we are all we have been and can be. -Daniel Nign Ill

-Alice Mackenzie Swaim

• Star Code Each star is a dot or dash iii a cosmic Morse code. When we decipher the message, it will lead us to God.

-Daniel Nign Ill Alice Mackenzie Swaim, a notive of Scotlllnd, lives in Harrisburg, Pa. Daniel Nign III lives in Pasodma, Calif.

F'IuENDs JoURNAL May 1991 23 by Richard Eldridge

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Richard Eldridge wrote this tole in memory ofElisa Rose Watson (1941-1989), o member of Wrights­ town (Po.) Meeting, for her children Kerry, Christopher, and Whitney.

24 May 1991 FluENDs JoURNAL owl hunted. He felt bold and gentle, "I don't known," Elisa said. "Maybe in shapes nearly as beautiful as Elisa's always, except on the one night, during the Queen Elf can tell us.' ' still wings; in the spring, when the the full moon, when she left him in MacArthur hopped to the deepest warming ground kept the mist close to order to sing and dance with the other part of the forest and waited. He was his fur; and in the early summer, when elves in the center of the forest. Then, frightened. He didn't feel bold and gen­ the streams filled so high that new water­ he felt alone and afraid, and even his tle. He wanted to return to his burrow falls tumbled into the moss-all these tunnel felt alive with dangerous things where even the crawling things in the drops of water MacArthur let fall onto that scraped and whispered in the earth were more comforting than these Elisa's wing. And while Elisa found the ground. But she would always return oaks telling tales to each other in their water soothing, it left her wing frozen before the sun cleared the ground of strange language. As soon as the sun re­ and still. shadow, and he would feel bold and leased the shadows to the forest, there At last he came to a river. The water gentle under her protection, once again. came a glow among the roots, and the rushed past him, spattering. "Could this And so MacArthur grew furry and Queen Elf floated before them. " Elisa," be the magic water?" he asked. "What strong, and, for a rabbit, he was happy. she said, "the closest thing to death for should I do?" ne day he was in the meadow, nib­ an elf is a broken wing, because the "The best thing to do," Elisa said, "is bling on the lowest part of the spirit breaks along with it." to try." O. grasses. Elisa floated lazily in the Elisa asked from the fur on Mac­ And so MacArthur, who had never autumn air and watched the first of the Arthur's back, "How can I fix it?" been on water before, crept up to a log yellow birch leaves scatter to the ground " Only a magic drop of water can hollowed out in the middle. He leapt beyond the fence. Some say that elves make you whole again," said the Queen toward the log, and as he landed, it can see all danger before animals can, Elf. " Only the one who caused you pushed slowly into the river. It caught but even elves can't see everything, so harm can provide the magic drop of him up and hurtled him past rocks and Elisa didn't see the hawk's shadow on water.'' over wing dams. It rocked him back and the grass, and MacArthur didn't hear MacArthur felt they were talking forth so violently he thought he would it drown, for he didn't know if rabbits ...... -::::-.,..-, about him. "Me?" he said. "But was the hawk that caused her harm." could swim, and he knew for sure that The Queen Elf looked kindly at the elves didn't like water any more than he ~~ff~%c~~ ~~ rabbit, who only had a rabbit's under­ ( .... "'! ~ ,.~ " tr ;./II~' · standing. "The one she saved caused her C. I. ~ L ~ harm, for if she hadn't tried to save you, the wings fold into a dive. Elisa felt the she would not have been harmed. That some say humans have air shudder beneath the hawk's claws, is the sad obligation of love." and she darted between the hawk and MacArthur shivered in the cooling the rabbit just as the hawk struck. It is air. "But where can I find the magic guardian af{5e~, but impossible to hold on to an elf, and an water? How do I know if it's magic?" elf has powers we could never fathom, The Queen Elf again smiled. " If I told so when the hawk hit, it screeched you, MacArthur, then it wouldn't be animals have guardian against the pain in one of its talons and magic. Search deeply, and the magic will swept back into the sky, wondering why be there." elves. The elves he~ a rabbit could feel so much like sting­ if he had blinked, the Queen Elf ing thistles. disappeared, and only the soft MacArthur bounded to the fence's A glow of Elisa remained, patiently keey the animals out ~ edge and cried, " Elisa! Did you see that waiting for MacArthur. " What .do I hawk almost grab me? Elisa?" He do?" pleaded MacArthur. "Tell me looked around and over him, but Elisa what to do." dtut_qer, and when out wasn't there. "Elisa?" he called. Her voice was fainter than the faintest Something told him to return to the whisper, and only a rabbit would be able field. So growing in his fright, he scur­ to hear her. "The best thing to do," she ~ dtutqer, he~ keey ried back to where the hawk hit. There said, "is to begin." he found Elisa lying among the grasses, MacArthur wasn't one to feel sorry and her wing was broken. Not even rab­ for himself, but he felt woeful as he first them kind. bits have seen the wings of elves. They hopped to the edge of the spring and let quiver so rapidly that you know wings a drop of the purest water from the crest did. "What should I do?" he shouted are there only by the hum. They are of the pool fall on her wing. Nothing to Elisa. spun as delicately as a spider's web, and happened. "Oh dear," he said, "what Elisa held on to his soggy fur, and her it looks as though sunlight spans the do I do now?" voice shook in fright. "The best thing webbing. But now one of Elisa's wings "The best thing to do," she said, "is to do," she said, " is to hold on." was broken, nearly in half, and she lay to continue." So MacArthur held on to the log with in the meadow, patiently waiting for And so MacArthur journeyed to all claws that were not meant for holding, MacArthur to return. the places where the magic drop of water and soon the river widened, and calmed, "How can I make you well?" Mac­ might be found. In the morning, when and moved into the salt marshes on the Arthur asked, while he waited for her the dew had collected on the raspberry way to the sea. MacArthur was getting to crawl up into his fur. leaves; in the winter, when the snow fell hungry, and he was cold with wet, and

FllmNDs JOU RNAL May 1991 25 the salt stung his eyes. "Oh, I am so to the sandy shore ahead, which he and deep and at the beginning of things, miserable. What should I do?" could see each time a wave lifted him up. that poured onto her, and her wings "The best thing to do," said Elisa, "is A mighty wave broke over him and sent grew to wholeness before his eyes. She to laugh." him crashing into the foam. This, glowed the way she had glowed before, ome say that rabbits never laugh, thought MacArthur, is the magic water when she was sent from the forest to butMacArthurlaughed,oratleast the Queen Elf told me about. protect him. "The best thing to do," she She laughed the way a rabbit might But it wasn't. He found Elisa in the said in a voice as clear as the spring, ''is laugh, with a kind of light chuckle. He sand, clinging to a sea-stone, and her to fly home." didn't hear the waves breaking in upon wing-oh dear, her other wing, too­ Some say ants are the strongest crea­ the river's current, because he was try­ was broken. "Elisa, Elisa," he cried. tures on earth, but Elisa held the tips of ing so hard to laugh, but at the moment "What have I done? What do I do MacArthur's ears and lifted him straight when he had laughed his loudest, a wave now?" into the air. Normally, he would have curled up over him and sent him and Elisa said nothing, for her spirit was feared flying as much as he did swim­ Elisa into the sea, where the land ends broken twice. ming, but at that moment he felt par­ and all things return to their beginnings. Some say rabbits can't cry, but ticularly bold and gentle, so he let her ''This is terrifying,'' MacArthur shout­ MacArthur did. He leaned over the still carry him back to the deepest part of the ed. "What do I do now?" body of Elisa, and out of one of his forest, just at sunset when the full moon "The best thing to do," Elisa said, "is eyes, down the side of his nose, rolled was rising on the other side of the oaks. to swim." one teardrop. It fell onto Elisa's wings, Elisa let him down on a special tuft of MacArthur didn't know he could and MacArthur then knew the source of grass, so he could watch her dance and swim, but something told him he could the magic drop of water. sing with the other elves in their circle paddle with his feet through the waves It was the ocean inside of him, salty of light. D

Incomplete Moon to Full "Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us." -Rainer Maria Rilke Perhaps I am dragon and the pl'incess, I am frog and the prince. There are no they. I am thou, I am we, and free to own all living cells, bring to birth new bealfng cells within the blooclstream of humanity.

-Emily Sargent Councilman

A Meadow I touch the silken web of peace with just enough vibration to alert the waiting spider that there is another watcher come. 1be sun extends i1s finger with my own and delkately takes away the jewelled dew without breaking the sD'Vel' sentience. Sensation is the selfs encounter with the edge of some disguised reality. Emily Sorgent Councilmlln lives in Burlington, N.C. -Terence Y. Mullins Terence Y. MuUi!JS lives in Philllde/pllill, Pa.

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~ 0 ~ .______. · Once we came by William D. Turner asked me what I really believed of super­ to trust one natural elements of the Presbyterian or many years I found myself un­ faith. When I said, "Nothing," and another, we were able to derive spiritual help from when their further questions confirmed no longer trying Fsupernatural sources. I had also that I really meant, "Nothing," I could developed a growing respect for Jesus feel the shock wave coursing through the and his values, so when the pastor of the mutual trust we had developed. The next to convince each Presbyterian church I attend in Laurel, day, when the church secretary said, other. We were Maryland, asked me to lead a discussion "Bill, you upset your class," I said, group, I began the series by focusing on "Yes, it was not avoidable if some of us listening. the emergence of the early church from are to change and grow spiritually. We Jesus' ministry. My co-leader, iane have to get shaken up a bit to change Martin Pennington, and I realized there at all. As long as we like each other, as would be theological differences in the I think we do, the shakeup can help us Twenty-five years ago I had come to group and that we would have to accept . really learn." feel that profession of creeds did not all group members as persons. Through Next Sunday, three couples did not represent effective religion, and that our acceptance and the candor of our show up. They never came back. I told changed relations of oneself to every­ words and actions, we encouraged the the surviving majority that I had been thing else were the heart of the matter. group to trust us and themselves. doing most of the talking, and that now I still thought now that my idea was a Over the course of several meetings, it was their turn. What did they believe? new one. But when the group members most of us came to respect, accept, and They responded more and more freely began bringing in excerpts of their trust each other. At that point the group until we had what I suppose was some­ reading and writing for discussion, I thing like a Quaker gathered meeting. found otherwise. Everyone seemed to be William D. Turner is a retired psychologist and dean of the University ofPennsylvania School of We were no longer trying to convince writing about what we were calling spiri­ Social Work. He lives in Friends House, Sandy one another. We were listening to each tual growth. My further reading of Spring, Md. other. Lewis Browne and others on the history

F'IuENDS JouRNAL May 1991 27 of religion disclosed that Lao-Tzu, the The Laurel group ranges in age from predictable and creative as are the lives Hindus, Buddha, Jeremiah, Job, the the twenties to the sixties. They have met of the group members. Gnostics, Jesus, the Disciples at Pente­ almost every Sunday for over three years. Membership in a half dozen liberal cost, Paul the Apostle, Luther, George They discuss problems of belief, prayer, Protestant denominations has declined Fox, and Paul Tillich had been teaching worship, responsibility, marriage, par­ during the past several decades, as I spiritual growth over the past 2,500 enthood, work, gender, race, and current understand to be happening also to years. These leaders usually experienced affairs which impinge on them as per­ Quakerism. Recent commentators have growth in relation to an "Other" which sons. I recently started a second weekly ascribed the Protestant decline to the accepted them but confronted them with discussion group of six residents of churches' telling their members to be­ an emotion-arousing concern, and invit­ Friends House in Sandy Spring, Mary­ have without helping them learn how to ed their awareness and courage to face land. Ages in this second group range do it. A similar problem is implied by the problem and do something about it. from seventies to the nineties. Their vital several articles in the November 1990 The different Others had almost as discussions concern aging, approaching issue of FRIENDS JoURNAL. In one arti­ many different names and qualities as death, and enrichment and adventure in cle, "A God Beyond Words," John A. there were leaders. There were the Tao, their life that is now. Hermann finds spoken words getting in Brahman, Jahweh, a transcendent heav­ Attendance at both Spiritual Adven­ the way of worship. But in another ar­ enly God, an immanent and loving ture group meetings is optional. Over ticle, "I Wish Friends Would ... ," Father God, the Spirit, a personal the past summer the Laurel group tri­ Leonard S. Kenworthy wishes that theistic God, an Inner Light, and a God­ pled in size to 25, and their discussions Friends would experiment with ways of above-God, or Being-itself. Some lead­ became more intense. The greater varie­ helping Quakers and non-Quakers wor­ ers (Buddha, for one) experienced no ty of perspectives on problems, provid­ ship more effectively in silence. Actual­ Other, but still grew spiritually. ed by the larger group of younger per­ ly, worship might be effective for more Similarly, we found ourselves being sons, may account for the group's at­ people if it used both words and silence shaken by each other's challenging ex­ traction and value to its members. The differently. For many persons, Spiritual periences and views, but also supported spiritual resources of both groups seem Adventure discussions may be a better by our mutual acceptance. From the inexhaustible. That may be partly be­ resource than passive listening to ser­ challenge and support together we gained cause the discussions are as varied, un- mons, reciting prescribed liturgies, or try­ the courage to grow. We had stumbled ing to invite change principally through onto an ancient and durable teaching, receptive silence. Active discussion arous­ basic to personal religion. Feeling ac­ es our assertive feelings. But if we also cepted and loved when we suffer chal­ We found feel accepted, we can more easily with­ lenge or misfortune, we can accept the draw our will, listen to our inner Other, pain and just let it flow over us. When ourselves being change our attitude, and begin to use all we could accept the pain in this way, its our resources to enrich our own and causes and feeling remained real but shaken by each others' lives because we become whole quickly lost their sting. We commonly again. This is (spiritual) adventure in­ felt immediate relief and renewed whole­ other's challeng­ ducing (spiritual) growth into (spiritual) ness. We could then see things in a new abundance. In the cited issue of FRIENDs light, and experience and express new ing experiences JoURNAL, the report, " Feminine Aspects relations with others and ourselves. Re­ of Divine Challenge New York YM," de­ inforced acceptance of painful circum­ and views, but scribes a yearly meeting that could have stance and feeling re-emerged for us as involved spiritual adventure. a way to spiritual abundance. also supported Spiritual growth includes mystical ex­ periences that resist formulation in by our mutual logically coherent prose. But we can still say more about these experiences today acceptance. because we have psychological concepts and words that the ancients did not have. Thus, we can identify our painful feeling as a result largely of our threat­ ened seirs effort to protect itself by rais­ _.· ,«e \-? ~:~ ~ ' ing a rigid structure against the intrusive \ .. · . .. .. 'T· problem and its feeling. But this defen­ · ' "'-n l / /\· · · sive structure actually threatens our per­ ,,,""- .. -· - \ sonal unity and heightens our anxiety / I ·. ..• ! '·~ and suffering because it isolates our self j from the rest of our person. ' ,{ \ \ Especially if we feel loved and accept­ ed, we can let our total feeling flow _,;\_ r \l. throughout our self where it loosens and u \ .. .,( . 1 I . . displaces the self's rigid structure. Then - · ' ""\ ~ & :'i we may continue to feel the emotion, 0 .. ( ~ ~ ~------~t~-~,·-~------· ------~ but within a ground of inner peace and 28 May 1991 FluENDs JoURNAL wholeness. Our personal world and crea­ tive subconscious can again function as an "other." We not only feel whole, but we also function as a whole person. The circumstances of our personal world, the fluid creativity of our subconscious, and the disciplined organizing power of our conscious self all work together. Such personal wholeness (holiness) gives us new perspectives and the courage to act on them. Spiritual growth is sometimes difficult in solitary meditation or personal prayer, but it is still quite possible there. The set­ GOD'S ting and process of silent meeting make WORK it even easier. Spiritual Adventure discus­ sion appears to re-enforce it strongly. A REQUIRES member of the Friends House group ob­ GOD'S served that the above analysis of spiritu­ MOST ality in matter-of-fact naturalistic words violates something that is deeply person­ GIFTED al and sacred. I agreed with this obser­ PERSONS vation and said that the violation is in­ tended to enrich the meaning of worship, FOR LEADERSHIP and was a by-product of my effort to. help especially those who are unable to Earlham School of Religion In'\uiries are welcome! use supernatural terms as spiritual re­ A fully accredited Quaker Seminary Wnte or call all Christian denominations sources. These persons need first to un­ derstand spirituality in naturalistic terms. In other persons besides myself I have found that once spirituality begins to be grasped at least in familiar naturalistic terms, then spiritual meanings of super­ natural scriptures become clearer. Since developing a naturalistic view of spiritu­ al growth, I have understood a number of the Bible's spiritual messages for the first time. If this seems like a puzzling mixture of logic and mysticism, that is the mean­ ing I wish to convey. Humans are able Newtown, PA 18940 to reconcile fact and fiction, logic and feeling, intellectuality and experience, knowledge and wisdom. Each of these forms of knowing has significant values for life. We get into real trouble mostly when we confuse different forms of knowing, or assume they are absolutely and mutually exclusive in all respects. Intellectually, supernatural and natural­ istic accounts of spiritual growth are in- . compatible. Spiritually, they do not ex­ clude each other, but rather supplement each other. Their challenge to an intel­ lectual person lies in their intellectually Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, Qeorge School is a co­ elusive spiritual message. Their chal­ educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9 - 12. lenge to a mystic lies in their need for The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values & includes: supplementation by fact and logic. 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Learning to build a 't..'~!i!!Y• Quaker Youth better world Exchange We lived together in a house that belonged to a Swiss trust and was situated less than five minutes' walk from the Palais des Na- .l! tions. It had dormitory-like rooms which -.;~ were shared by six to eight people, and a cou- ~ pit! of two-bed rooms. There was no lounge ~ '<;> as such, but every night a number of the ~ young people would gather and talk, late into ~ the night, about the day's sessions, their 8 lives, the world's problems, and how to solve them. The warden and her husband made us cheap, efficient, and easily maintained, for For information on this year's summer feel very much at home, serving us delicious use in developing countries. Waclaw's group school, contact Alma Harding, Personnel freshly-made coffee, tea, and hot chocolate approaches the governments of countries in Dept., at Friends House, Euston Rd., Lon­ every morning for our breakfast, besides difficulties-Haiti for example, where the don NWI 2BJ, U.K. answering all our requests at other times. group consults with poor people in a heavi- During the 12 days of the school, we ly polluted area. · studied the following topics: the work of the As well as demonstrating simple tools, Youth exchange builds Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva Waclaw also showed how the burden of draft international understanding (QUNO Geneva), the role of non-govern­ animals can be lightened by simplifying their mental organizations, human rights, devel­ harnesses. He stressed that well-treated In summer 1990 Gwynedd (Pa.) Meeting opment, disarmament, the environment animals perform best. His final message was was involved in a youth exchange program (UNEP- the United Nations Environment clear and strong: "Save energy, and the with British and Welsh Friends from Chester Programme) and the General Agreement on quality of women's lives will improve by Meeting in the United Kingdom. The ex­ Tariffs and Trade (GAm. At first some felt lessening their search for fuel. This will change was set up several years earlier with the pace was too intense, and the heat, par­ preserve forests and improve the chances for the help of individuals from both sides of the ticularly when walking back uphill to Quaker the survival of our planet." I am now won­ Atlantic. The connections between U.S., House after a sessi.on at the UN, made it dering how I can incorporate a hay-box in English, and Welsh young people developed seem harder. However, it soon became ob­ my tiny and already packed kitchen, for the an even more international flavor with ad­ vious to everyone that this number of topics message was addressed to us all-whether we dition of a group of Polish students from a could not have been covered thoroughly had belonged to the developed or the developing peace group known as Mothers for World less time been given to them. world. Peace. The atmosphere of the school was studious, We were introduced to the work of QUNO The exchange consisted of young people yet a sense of fun was never far away. It Geneva by Joel McClellan, QUNO director. traveling to England and Wales for three showed up in some of the tongue-in-cheek QUNO's role is to monitor what is happen­ weeks in August, visiting meetings. The trip questions asked at sessions and in the way ing and represent coocerns, while establish­ included a week of traveling the country, a the group coped with those whose personal­ ing relations of trust and confidence with week of home stays, with English and Welsh ities were a little too strong. Everyone mix­ diplomats. The QUNO staff strive to give families hosting U.S. and Polish participants, ed well, assisting one another when there diplomats space to relate to each other as in­ and a week of camping, in which kids and were language difficulties, giving a helping dividuals and to explore ideas away from the families spent time together in North Wales. hand when it was needed to complete the as­ public arena. Staff members also give dip­ This was to be a time of strengthening new cent of one or the other of the mountain lomats encouragement for work that the ties and promoting Quaker ideas of learn­ peaks we climbed. During the late afternoon public does not always appreciate. ing and understanding new cultures. free-times, some chose to go to the UN beach At the Geneva Summer School, a group The people from Gwynedd Meeting who of Lac Leman, some sat around and discussed of young people met and shared their lives participated were James Snyder, Rachel the previous session or other topics, while for nearly two weeks. As well as learning Snyder, Jessie Levitski, and the author, others watched Rick, the clown/ juggler, en­ about the work of the UN and about one Rachel Hubbs. Ranging in age from 15 to tertain the children of QUNO's staff-the another's different ways of life, they learned 21, the group was accompanied by Janet presence of the children made us feel like a to live together and shared their concerns Henderson, who gave guidance as a chaperon big family, as well as reminding us of the about alcoholism, drugs, disarmament, and and helped the exchange become a success. future for all the world's children. Times for the arms trade. This led one participant to Before embarking on our adventure, we worship were deep and invigorating, partic­ write: "There are no borders between you all got together one warm Sunday to discuss ularly the last one on the day before we and me. In life the most important thing is our objectives for the trip. Some of them parted. improving the opportunity of every moment. were met before we got on the plane, and One of the highlights of the summer school Of course the way is easier if we go with peo­ some have been fully reached only months was our session with Waclaw Micuta, a re­ ple who give their hand when we fall . . . and later. Although we were interested in de­ tired Polish scientist who has spent many I know we can build a different world." ciding what places we were going to visit dur­ years working for various UN agencies. ing our limited amount of time there, we also Waclaw explained how he had gathered a Claude Julien- Waring were concerned about the overall focus and group of retired scientists to work on ideas in QPS Reporter meaning of this youth exchange. to save energy and to develop tools that are Winter, 1990 Since Jessie and I have never been out of

30 May 1991 FRIENDs JoURNAL ~WOODS COURT______~ One bedroom apartments available for people age 60 and above. Applications to be put on waiting list the country before, one of our personal goals are being accepted. was to travel to places we'd never been to previously. During our trip, all of us covered a Jot of territory, from the bustling activity Robert L. Hawthorne, Administrator of London, to the green loveliness of the Friends Home at Woodstown Yorkshire Dales, to the striking beauty of the q Woodstown, NJ 08098 Telephone (609) 769-1500 Wales coastline. My home stay was with a WOCOSTOWN Welsh family on Anglesey Island, where I got ! a taste of the culture of the Welsh people and experienced the island's rugged mountains and its picturesque beaches. In our desire to become more aware of other cultures, we were also excited to learn WHAT KIND OF A WORLD about Poland and its people's history, cul­ ture, and current events. During my home DO YOU WANT? stay, I got to know Monica, my host fami­ ly's Polish exchange person. She was a kind and thoughtful individual. Although communication was sometimes slow going (I don't know any Polish, and she was quickly improving her English), it was fascinating to Jearn about her life in Warsaw: what she was studying, the overwhelming changes experi­ enced by her and her family as the effects of the recent break-up of the communist government continue, her involvement in Mothers for Peace, and her hopes for her Environmentally Sound? Peaceful? country's future. All of us had a greater With Equal Opportunity? understanding of the turmoil these Polish Concerned About World Development? people felt by getting to know them as individuals. Then Consider Another objective of our trip was to Jearn about the roots of Quakerism and how it developed into what we know it to be today. PAX WORLD FUND* Sleeping in meetinghouses that were built 20 A mutual fund that invests in companies: or 200 years ago gave us a sense of history. ___ exercising pollution control Exploring George Fox country, visiting _ __ producing life-supporting goods and services Swarthmore Hall, and climbing Pendle Hill ___ not involved in weapons production gave all of us a greater sense of immediacy ___ with fair employment practices and insight for George Fox's vision. The realization that George Fox experienced his ___ promoting some international development vision when he was my age had quite an im­ Pax World is a no-load, diversified mutual fund designed for those who wish to develop pact on my personal response to this spiritual income and to invest in life-supportive products and services. IRA and Keogh plans pilgrimage. available. Minimum investment $250. In the process of our journey we met in­ • Pax World· Fund is the only mutual fund in the nation affiliated with a Foundation that, dividuals from various meetings, some of for eight years, has supported tree planting in areas of the deforested Third World. them caretakers, some of them members, This is not a solicitation in those states where the securities have not 'been qualified. some of them fellow creatures we encoun­ tered along the way. All were extremely kind A prospectus containing more complete information about PAX WORLD FUND, including and helpful. During our exchange we were all charges and expenses, will be sent upon receipt of this coupon. Read it carefully before conscious of getting to know other Quakers you invest. Send no money. 0 Regular Account and were eager to create friendships, not only To: PAX WORLD FUND, INC. 0 Send IRA Packet among other participants and their families, 224 State Street 1-800-767-1729 0 Simplified Employer Pension Plan but also among Quakers from meeting to Portsmouth, N.H. 03801 0 403 (b) Pension Plan meeting and country to country. Please send me a free prospectus and information on Pax World Fund. Our final objective was to have this youth exchange be a focus for Gwynedd Meeting Name ------and a chance for us to get to know each other Address ------on a deeper level. We have all become closer City, Zip ------to one another by sharing our impressions and experiences and have grown together and Occupation------in spirit. Telephone No. 0 Day·______o Eveniny______Rachel Hubbs FJJ8

FRIENDS JoURNAL May 1991 31 WD..LIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 FCNL Notes Kindergarten through 302 Years of Quaker Education Twelfth Grade Operated under Charter issued by William Penn. The William Penn Charter School is a Quaker college-preparatory school committed to nurturing in ~~~:!.. The Second C girls and boys the education of the mind, the quickening of the spirit, and the development of the body. Penn Charter stresses high standards in f, as seems obvious, truth is the first academics, the arts, and athletics. casualty of war, then dissent is the next Friends are encouraged to apply both as students and as teachers. I to fall. Friends and other peace folk were dismayed at how many people jumped on the Earl J . Ball III, Headmaster war-support bandwagon right after January 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 16-even many who had previously opposed (215) 844-3460 the Gulf War. Those who continued to dis­ sent, whether policy-makers or ordinary citizens, were branded as unfair to the troops, spineless, or even traitorous. Follow­ ing the war, with most public commentary chorusing praise and vindication for the ad­ Don't leave home with ministration's decision to go to war, the at­ tacks on those who advocated nonviolent the Friends Journal alternatives have become even more ugly and strident. Meeting Directory! Sadly, this phenomenon is not at all un­ familiar to readers of U.S. history. It is no coincidence that those periods in our history when dissent was most repressed and con­ formity most rigidly demanded have often followed major wars. The red-baiting and McCarthyism of the 1920s and 1950s are ob­ A gift of rene~al ... vious examples. Now that the public no longer perceives the "Soviet threat" as a seri­ PENDLE HILL invites you to ous danger, anti-communism may be re­ [oin its learning community placed by support for George Bush's new for a resident term, enjoy a world order-as the litmus test for accept­ short stay, a weekend able points of view. conference, or a retreat. Fortunately, freedom of speech and opin­ Current catalog and timely ion still have constitutional protection in the bulletins ore available free United States, and there is a strong current upon request. of support even in popular culture for a per­ son's right to express divergent views. Never­ Writeor coll : theless, we will need to be vigilant in the Pendle Hill months ahead to resist attempts to punish Box F politicians, community leaders, or other citi­ Wallingford, PA 19086 zens for their opposition to the war. Whether (215) 566-4507 subtle or blatant, such efforts always depend I on the silent acquiescence of the community. So the most effective antidote will be the clear, firm voices of individuals who speak out publicly to defend the rights of dissenters. But the traditional defense of the right to free speech, hugely important though that is, Subscribe to Friends Journal! is not enough. Independent thought and di­ PleliSe enter a subscription to Friends Journal, payment for which is enclosed. versity of opinion are not mere luxuries, nice gifts for a benign government to grant to its 0 Enroll me as a Friends Journal Associate. 0 1 year $18 0 2 years $34 fortunate citizens. Rather, they are absolute­ My contribution of$___ is in addition to ly essential for the health, perhaps survival, the subscription price and is tax-deductible. 0 This is a gift subscription in my name for: of our society. MyName ______Name Differences of opinion and vigorous public Address ______Address ______debate are taken for granted when the sub­ ject is domestic policy. People expect and benefit from a wide range of views on such Send renewal notice 0 to me. 0 to recipient. 0 $6 per year for postage outside North America. things as education, taxes, health care, trans­ portation~ crime, and the environment. But when it comes to foreign and military policy, Friends Journal, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 suddenly conformity becomes a virtue, and dissent is dangerous and highly suspect. The

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Witness for Peace A Story of Resistance Ed Griffin-Nolan Graphic and thought-provoking, this book shows how a simple concept of having unarmed U.S. World War II dictum that "politics stops at the water's edge" has been revived in the citizens on Nicaraguan soil deterred form of a so-called "bipartisan foreign poli­ cy" that has become sacrosanct and immune attacks by the Honduran-based from credible challenge. We need to restore the honorable tradition contras. Griffin-Nolan describes how witness of the loyal opposition. In democratic soci­ participants labored to bring stories of the war back to eties it should be perfectly acceptable and patriotic to advocate a different course of ac­ the United States, and how their efforts saved lives and tion from that of the ruling party. Those who demand conformity, in wartime or any time, quite possibly prevented "another Vietnam" from would leave the country's leaders blind to the developing in Central America. Paper $14.95 possible pitfalls of a given course of action. Only the most self-deluded and arrogant of leaders can feel sure they are always right. It is i~onic that some of the angriest critics of the U.S. peace movement are the same Justice and Mercy people who for years pointed out-correct­ UEI\IIHI U ly- that the Soviet Union's demands on its Reinhold Niebuhr citizens for ideological conformity ·were fatally undermining its economy and its sci­ \IF Hill: "In justice and Mercy, one of entific research. Dissenters perform a service America's most prominent practical by offering policy-makers potentially valu­ \ 1 l_ · able perspectives and options that may have ' I. , Ij .. I and applied theologians reminds been overlooked. In medieval times, even some of the most religious activists of the need to be tyrannical rulers tolerated the court jester or better pastors and priests precisely fool, and not just for amusement. Protected 1\\ll~ Hl by the cloak of humor and nonsense, the jest­ . ' . because they are engaged in a er served the indispensable function of warn­ ing the king of impending trouble, of self­ prophetic role and sacred mission." delusion, of mistaken policies. In modern democracies, that is what the loyal opposi­ -Rev. jesse L. jackson tion is supposed to do-not to censor itself Paper $7.95 and reluctantly recite the required patriotic slogans. Those who advocate nonviolence and op­ Available from your local bookstore or direct from the publisher. pose war, even in the face of overwhelming (Please include $ 1.50 per book for posrage and handling.) public disapproval and contempt, are not on­ ly defending their legitimate rights. Like the WESTMINSTER/jOHN KNOX PRESS court jester and the dissident scientists, they 100 Witherspoon Street, Louisville, KY 40202-1396 may also be protecting the nation from its own folly. Alison D. Oldham

F'luENDS JOURNAL May 1991 33 ~ Expand your horizons News of Friends at Mohonk.~ The U.S. Post Office returned the peace tinued exposure to Quakerism reinforced his For comfort and hospitality in an cards made by children in Des Moines, Iowa, conviction that he could not participate in unspoiled natural setting. come to. with the notation "Service Temporarily war. The Committee on Sufferings of New Mohonk, in the heart of the. Suspended." The cards carne back on March England Yearly Meeting has agreed to pay Shawangunk Mountains. Our lake. 14, nearly three months after they were up to $2,000 toward his legal expenses, and cliffs and miles of mountain trails are Durham Meeting will continue to help him perfect for activities like golf. tennis, mailed. In addition to the official notation, swimming, riding. hiking and old­ the package also bore an obscene scrawling, in other ways. The committee's fund con­ fashioned carriage rides. too.Hearty with an arrow pointing to the word Iraq. The tains only $1,243 and needs replenishment. meals. And special theme programs peace cards included drawings and words, To contribute, make checks payable to that let you learn while enjoying the translated into Arabic, expressing concern NEYM-Sufferings, and addressed to Henry peaceful surroundings. We're .not for peace, friendship, and understanding (FJ W. Stokes, Treasurer, NEYM, 153 Otis St., artificial. just down-to-earth. In the March). The activity was organized by Ed Hingham, MA 02043. Hudson River Valley. Exit 18. N.Y. Fallon, director of the Campaign for Nuclear State Thruway. Disarmament, who commented, "I find it " Growing in Radical Faith, Living the Ques­ Here's what's happening at Mohonk: terribly upsetting that government employees tions, Seeking tbe Answers," is the theme of feel they have the right to vandalize a piece the 1991 Gathering of Friends General Con­ Birding and Spdns Nature of private property with violent, racist graf­ ference, to be held June 29-July 6 at Ap­ May 10-12 . fiti. Our effort to send a message of peace palachian State University in Boone, North Hillen' HoUday Carolina. May 12-17 and reconciliation has been greeted by a re­ sponse of hatred and insensitivity_ " Ed may The gathering will feature an array of Summer Nature May 31-)une 2 be reached at 1321 8th St., Des Moines, lA speakers, workshops, interest groups, music, 50314. and fellowship. There will also be a Junior Gathering, providing care, recreation, and Mohonk Sketches are being accepted for the creation worship for youngsters up to ninth grade. MOUNTAIN HOUSE of standard meetinghouse signs, to be made High school Friends will stay in a dormitory A National Historic Landmark available through Friends General Confer­ together with counselors and will have a pro­ New Paltz, (2 12) 233-2244 ence. The signs will be 24-by-30-inches, with gram of separate activities from which to space for the meeting's name and time of choose, in addition to the general Gathering N.Y. "'" \..0 ...~ ~")25>0000 worship on both sides. The standard size and program. There will be centers for men, format is intended to make meetinghouses women, and single Friends, presentations by easily identifiable from the road, more ac­ Quaker organizations, a bookstore, craft ...... _..... cessible to newcomers, and more of a notice­ shop, and films. Plenary speakers will be Asia Bennett and r------~ able presence in communities. The project Where diversity is a long-standing tradition is being organized through FGC's Advance­ Scott Simon, speaking on "Experimental Grades 9-12 Boarding/Day Quaker education in New York State since 1796 ment and Outreach Committee. Designs are Peacemaking: Distinguishing Justice and sought that can be readily recognized at a Mercy;" Christine Snyder, on " Seeking Sim­ distance as being Quaker. Sketches may be ple Truth;" musicians and storytellers from submitted to Sally Rickerman, Box 201, North Carolina, presenting ''An Appala­ RD1, Landenberg, PA 19350. chian Evening;" Sonia Sanchez, reading her OaKwood poetry for the Henry Cadbury Event, spon­ School, Swarthmore College's new president will be sored by FRIENDS JoURNAL; and Nancy Nye Contact Brian Fry Alfred H. Bloom, executive vice president and Mubarak A wad, who will reflect on the / Director or Admissions Oakwood School and dean of faculty at Pitzer College. He will testimony of harmony as it relates to their !115 South Road succeed David W. Fraser, a public health experiences in the Middle East. Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 specialist who has served as president since For information, contact FGC, 1216 Arch (914)462-4200 1982. Alfred Bloom, 44, has served previous­ St., No. 2B, Phila., PA 19107, telephone ly at Swarthmore as associate provost, assis­ (215) 561-1700. tant professor and associate professor of psychology and linguistics, director of the The new executive secretary of Pendle Hill linguistics program, and coordinator of will be Daniel A. Seeger. He is currently ex­ Asian studies. He is a graduate of Princeton ecutive secretary of the New York Metropoli­ Fyfe & Miller University, with a doctorate from Harvard tan Regional Office of the American Friends in psychology and social relations. He was Service Committee. At Pendle Hill, he will FUNERAL SERVICE chosen from a list of 600 candidates. succeed Mar~ry Walker, current director. 7047 Germantown Ave. Dan Seeger has long been involved with the Philadelphia, PA 19119 A conscientious objector has turned to Dur­ AFSC, leaving a career as a physicist in 1962 ham (Maine) Meeting for counseling and to work for the AFSC in New York. During (215) 247-8700 support in facing the legal ramifications of the Korean War, he was the subject of a U.S. James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller refusing to report to a ship leaving for the Supreme Court case that broadened the basis Simple earth burial Persian Gulf in January. As an attender of for religious conscientious objection to mili­ and cremation service the meeting, he applied a year ago for dis­ tary service. Margery and her husband Alan available at reasonable cost. charge from the U.S. Navy as a conscientious Walker will retire to a cabin they've recent­ objector. His application was denied. Con- ly built in Vermont. Her contributions to

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Pendle Hill in the past five years were both practical and conceptual and were central to a time of growth and accomplishment, ac­ cording to Oliver Rodgers, clerk of the Ex­ POWELL HOUSE CALENDAR ecutive Board. Summer 1991 Lesbian pastor Bet Hannon was forced out of her job by Iowa Yearly Meeting on March July 16-20: THE FRIENDS' BIBLE INSTITUTE: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING 31, three months before her contract was to TO THE WOMEN. Led by Elizabeth Watson. Participants will study the expire at West Branch Friends Church. Del evidence in the four Gospels that there were women among the disciples of Coppinger, superintendent of IYM, said the Jesus and speculate about their stories. Also examined will be Jesus' attitudes action was necessary because Bet failed to toward women in the historical context of their times, and the ways in which inform the monthly meeting or yearly meet­ Jesus broke the taboos of his culture. The format will be discussion, study ing of her sexual orientation when she was and role playing. $250. being considered for the position. She was not asked about her sexual orientation dur­ August 2-4: MAN TO WOMAN-WOMAN TO MAN: QUAKER PEACEMAK­ ing the interview. She began as pastor in July ING IN "THE WAR BETWEEN THE SEXES". Led by Pat Ireland and Terry 1989. When asked in August 1990 by a mem­ Gleeson, both faculty members of Neumann College in the Communication ber of her meeting, she answered honestly. Arts Department. Current research on gender-related communication has The member withdrew her membership and shown that men and women often have very different verbal and non-verbal shared her dilemma with others. patterns which can be misinterpreted by those of the opposite sex. This After much intense searching and discus­ workshop will offer opportunities for dialogue and resolution of these dif­ sion, the meeting decided to have Bet stay, ficulties. $120. at least through the period of her contract. August 16-18: JOURNALING: BEGINNING AN INTENSIVE PERSONAL In a sermon she gave on Sept. 30, 1990, Bet JOURNAL. Mary Louise Cox will lead the internationally renowned Dialogue acknowledged the struggle the meeting had House Life Experience Workshop. Participants will be led through exercises been through, the courage the decision had that help them to see the movement of their lives in relation to their bodies, required, the way it drew members together, work, personal relationships, and events. It will include dreams and twilight and her own gratitude and hope: "It begins imagery, drawing together the history of one's spiritual life to prepare for to overwhelm me when I think about the ongoing Journal work. $150. risks that you have taken-decisions that you have made in faith, in the directions you have August 18-21: DEEPENING THE SPIRITUAL LIFE. Individualized programs felt the Spirit to be leading us. There are very for journaling in Quaker Meeting and in personal spaces in our house ·and few churches who would or could do what countryside. This may serve as an extension of the Journaling weekend or you have done. It gives me renewed hope that as an independent opportunity for retreat. $150. the church is a place where all people can September 13-15: HELPING WITHOUT HURTING. Led by John Calvi, cer­ come to know God." tified massage therapist and a Friend with an acknowledged gift for healing. However, in October the yearly meeting Caregiving for others and ourselves is an increasing aspect of our lives. How became involved, and officials hearkened to give one's best and avoid burnout will be the focus of this weekend. The back to a 1977 IYM statement condemning tone will be slow and tender; using a blend of ideas, small groups, some touch homosexuality, as well as a recent statement and music, energies will be renewed. $120. by Friends United Meeting prohibiting the Quaker Volunteer Witness program from Conference cost includes meals, room and board, and childcare (by arrange­ hiring practicing homosexuals. In November ment). Family discounts and camping (at a reduced rate) are available. the yearly meeting decided to terminate Bet's Powell House provides an ideal setting for a Meeting retreat, family reunion, contract as of March 31. The monthly meet­ wedding or conference for groups of 25 to 80 people. Powell House also has ing decided to pay her through June. an active program for young people in grades four through twelve. In The Christian Century on Jan. 30, Del Coppinger said response to the yearly meet­ Powell House is located between Albany, N.Y. and Pittsfied, Mass. It is set in ing's action was " overwhelmingly positive," rural Columbia County, on 57 acres of open fields, woods and ponds. We are with only a few scattered objections. Al­ three hours from New York and Boston, and six hours from Philadelphia. though many people's perception of Quakers Plane, bus and train pickup are available by arrangement. is that they are quite liberal, he said, the For more information, or to register for a conference, call or write: debate over Bet's appointment proved many RD 1 Box 160, Old Chatham, NY 12136, Telephone (!H8) 794-8811 Quakers are theologically conservative.

FluENDs JouRNAL May 1991 35 Small classes. strong Friends academics in a Bulletin Board supportive, caring Select environment empha­ sizing Quaker values. A dynamic setting for • " A Natural Fire: Patience and Passion on For information, contact Fellowship of School grades K-12 in the heart the Spiritual Journey," the 49th annual Reconciliation, 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz, of Philadelphia. Friends Conference on Religion and Psychol­ CA 95060, telephone (408) 423-1626. 17th and the Parkway, ogy, will take place May 24-27 at Lebanon Philadelphia Valley College in Annville, Pa. David Whyte, • Bread for the World is launching an offer­ (215) 561-5900 poet, lecturer, naturalist, and workshop lead­ ing of letters campaign on behalf of millions Richard L. Mandel. Headmaster er, will be plenary speaker. He uses poetry of people who are starving in Ethiopia, Stuart Land and storytelling to explore what it means to Sudan, and Somalia. In the campaign, church Director of Admissions be human and truly alive. The conference congregations are urged to collect letters to traditionally focuses on the spiritual life and senators and congressional representatives, Jungian psychology, balancing large plenary instead of collecting money during worship sessions with small group sessions. This year, services. The letters are intended to urge co­ l]!lJl1I!. small groups will focus on dreams, dance, sponsorship and support of the Horn of clay, feminine rituals, the shadow, medita­ Africa Recovery Act, which addresses long­ A QUAKER CENTER tion, journaling, and drumming. Cost ranges term hunger and development needs in the \:-~f:~:t:-Jfor Rest, Reflection, & from $100 to $195 and includes room, board, countries involved. The legislation asks the Renewal on 110 acres and membership in the organization. Schol­ United States to provide food aid immediate­ 11-ootiiiAN "'''"" of farm & woodlands. arship help is available. To register, contact ly, to increase aid to local grassroots organ­ Ideal for personal, group, Marge Meyer, Rt. 3, Box 188, Warrenton, izations and projects, and to seek peaceful & Friends Meeting Retreats VA 22186, telephone (703) 788-4388. For in­ solutions to the conflicts in those areas. To lA IMI!DI?l'ii'I!DI?lOINJ@ ~IMVOI?l© IM~~IM'ii' formation, call Dorothy Reichardt, (215) receive an Offering of Letters kit, send $7 566-7649. to Bread for the World, Attn: Katherine g@(T m 'IW©©~ rnriiu.u. Smith, 802 Rhode Island Ave., N.E., Wash., Keets Road • "The War on Drugs: Are We Winning?" DC 20018, or call (202) 269-0200. write~or .. Deerfield, MA 01342 is the topic of a four-day Quaker Youth call · . ·· (413) 774-3431 seminar at the William Penn House in • The Soviet city of Suzdal is the site of a Washington, D.C., on June 19-23. Open to work camp for young Friends to be held July high school juniors and seniors, the seminar 11-Aug. 4. Archeological digs, trips to other cities, hikes, and meetings with youth groups A coeducation will offer evaluations of the national drug will highlight the camp, which is sponsored boarding/day strategy, offered from different points of view. Participants will also meet with peo­ by Pacific Yearly Meeting's East-West Rela­ school for 24 ple whose lives are connected with the drug tions Committee and Volunteers for Peace. students in 7th-9th problem, with drug counselors, and with Cost is $1,990, including meals, lodging, and grades. Students plane fare from New York City. Reservations are involved in working, studying, people they help. Participants will get are limited; if interested, contact Anthony hiking, caring, coping; learning volunteer experience at a facility for children Manousos, 1445 E. Ralston Avenue, San and living in a small community in born addicted to crack cocaine. Participants will also have chances to speak with their Bernardino, CA 92404, or call (714) 883-1310. the Black Mtns. of North Carolina. senators and congressional representatives, Arthur Morgan School as well as for worship-sharing and for explor­ • The 1991 International Workcamp Direc­ 1901 Hannah Branch Road ing Washington, D .C . Cost is $35, which tory, now available from Volunteers For Burnsville, NC 28714 covers the program, room, and all breakfasts Peace, lists more than 700 opportunities to (704) 675-4262 and dinners. For information, call Pete Fair­ travel and work in Europe, the USSR, Africa, man or Leah Langworthy at the William Asia, and the Americas. The two- to three­ Penn House, (202) 543-5560. week programs are an inexpensive (most cost $100, plus travel) way to learn about other cultures and to experience cooperative in­ BARCLAY volvement in environment and social prob­ • Fellowship of Reconciliation is offering lems. The directory is $10, postpaid from COLLEGE summer programs in Latin America for study VFP International Workcamps, P .0. Box an accredited four-year of peace and justice movements. A delega­ 202, Belmont, VT 05730. For information, degree-granting college. tion to Nicaragua and Panama will take call (802) 259-2759. place July 22-Aug. 9 to explore the impact of U.S. military and economic intervention • Young people across the country are organ­ Producing pastors and and the actions of grassroots movements. izing a 4,000-rnile bike ride to draw attention Christian leaders for this Cost is $1,225, with participants responsible to reproductive rights and health. Called the time in history. for providing their own transportation to Reproductive Freedom Ride, the ten-week Mexico City. journey will begin June 3 from New York A second delegation to countries from City and will end in Seattle, Wash. Bikers Panama to Brazil will take place July will average 50 miles per day and will speak Box 288 27-Aug. 18 and will explore the work of Ser­ and present workshops at college campuses, Haviland, KS 67059 vicio Paz y Justicia and other nonviolent religious organizations, summer camps, - movements. Cost is $1,300 from Miami, plus community centers, women's groups, and (316) 862-5252 costs for food and lodging in Latin America. other places they are invited. Organizers ex-

36 May 1991 FluENDs JoURNAL in Holland). To submit a nomination, write Los Amigos, the Quaker hospitality center to the Awards Coordinator, FOR, Box 271, in Mexico, is collecting back issues of the Nyack, NY 10960, telephone (914) 358-4601, magazine to have them bound and kept in or FAX (914) 358-4924. its reference library. The two issues in ques­ tion are depleted from FRIENDS JouRNAL • Do you have copies of the December 1990 supplies. Responses may be addressed to and October 1989 FRIENDS JouRNAL you Ellen Gonzalez, Casa de Los Amigos, Ig­ could spare for wider readership? Casa de nacio Mariscal 132, 06030, Mexico. pect a core of ten to twenty bicyclists, with others welcome to join for a day, a week, or a longer segment of the route. People are also needed to help raise money and arrange Calendar speaking engagements. For information, contact Andrea Rose Askowitz, Students Organizing Students, 1600 Broadway, Suite MAY 404, New York, NY 10019, or call (212) 3-5-Denmark Yearly Meeting, at Copenhagen. 24-27-" A Natural Fire: Patience and Passion on 977-6710. the Spiritual Journey," the 49th annual Friends 3-5-The Netherlands Yearly Meeting, at Conference on Religion and Psychology, at Woudschoten, Zeist. • The Fellowship of Reconciliation is accept­ Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pa. (For details, ing nominations for the Martin Luther King 9-10-"Governance with Foresight," a seminar see announcement, this page.) on changes in values and institutions, to be held Award. The award recognizes individuals or 24-27-Gay Quaker Men's Weekend, at Beaver in Wash., D.C. Sponsored by the World Future groups working in the United States for ra­ Conference Farm, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Cost: Society. For information, contact Susan Echard, cial, economic, and social justice in the tradi­ $115. For information or to register, contact Chuck World Future Society, 4916 St. Elmo Ave. , McCorkle at (617) 269-3831, or John Calvi at (802) tion of nonviolence exemplified by Martin Bethesda, MD 20814, or call (301) 646-8274. Luther King, Jr. Nominations of women, 387-4789. 9-12-Sweden/ Finland Yearly Meeting, at Fristads African-Americans, Native Americans, and 24-27-London Yearly Meeting, at Friends House, Folkhogskola. others are especially welcome. The deadline London, England. For information, contact Donald is Oct. 1. Nominations should be sent to 10-12-"What's News to Use," an annual con­ H. Southall, Friends House, Euston Road, Lon­ Awards Coordinator, Fellowship of Recon­ ference for newsletter editors at Pendle Hill, led don, NWI 2BJ England, telephone 071-387-3601. by Vinton Deming, editor-manager, and Melissa ciliation, Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960; or via 30-June !-Nebraska Yearly Meeting, at Central Kay Elliott, associate editor of Friends Journal. FAX (914) 358-4924. City Meeting, Central City, Neb. Contact Dean Cost: $125. For information or to register, con­ Young, 253 S. Lorraine, Wichita, KS 67211, tele­ tact Peter Crysdale, Extension Secretary, Pendle phone (316) 682-8735. • Dreaming Humanity's Path is the proposed Hill, Wallingford, PA 19086, telephone (215) title of a book of dreams and visions that 566-4507. 30-June 2-Northern Yearly Meeting, at Camp carry messages regarding how, when, and in Lucerne, Wise. Contact Laura Fraser, 3078 Lake lO-ll-Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting, at what direction humanity is moving. Accounts Elmo Ave., N., Lake Elmo, MN 55042, telephone Hiwassee College, Madisonville, Tenn. Contact of dreams or trance state experiences (not (612) 777-4948. Steve Meredith, P.O. Box 125, Alvaton, KY ideas, wishes, or affirmations) are being col­ 42122, or call (502) 622-6175 . 31-June 2-Norway Yearly Meeting, at Dvergsnes­ lected for the publication. To send material tangen Senter. and also for more information about the proj­ 12-"Quakers and Photography: An Untold Story," at 2 p.m., at George School Meetinghouse, ect, write or call Lightspeak, Cucumber Alley, Newtown, Pa. Speaker: William Earle Williams, JUNE Schenectady, NY 12305, (518) 374-4388. professor of fine arts, Haverford College. Richard 7-9-"Women and Quakerism," at Woolman Hill Moses will also present "The Traveling Trusses: Conference Center, co-sponsored by Pendle Hill­ • Opportunities for young adult Friends­ The Story of the Twelfth Street Meetinghouse." on-the-Road. Discussion will focus on finding role work projects, volunteer positions, gather­ Sponsored by Friends Historical Association. models and sharing support. Led by Elizabeth ings, and other things-are listed by the In­ Watson, Quaker writer and lecturer, who has a 12-14-"Harmony Amidst Diversity: A Multi­ special interest in feminist theology. Cost: $70. For ternational Young Quakers program. For a religious Vision for Today," a conference spon­ information, contact Woolman Hill, Deerfield, copy send a self-addressed, stamped envelope sored by North Atlantic Region Interfaith Forum. MA 01342, telephone (413) 774-3431. to Katharine Lee Clark, Resource Secretary, To be held at Hyatt Regency Hotel in Buffalo, International Young Quakers, 14 Walcott N.Y., it will feature speakers from many religious 14-16-Unity with Nature Conference, Pacific St., Maynard, MA 01754. traditions, displays from 12 faiths, discussion Yearly Meeting, Ben Lomond, Calif. Contact groups, and celebrations. Contact Mary Great­ Chuck Orr, 1915 Montgomery Ave., Cardiff, CA • Nominations are open for the Leo and batch, Conference Coordinator, BAMM, 775 92007; or Dana Abell, 625 N. Fifth St., Dixon, Freda Pfeffer Peace Prize of 1991. The prize Main St., Suite No. 405, Buffalo, NY 14203-1310, CA 95620 or call (716) 854-0822. is given to an individual or organization that 14-18-Friends Association for Higher Education has dedicated its energies to building struc­ 17-20-Aotearoa/ New Zealand Yearly Meeting, annual conference at Wilmington College. Theme: tures of peace and eradicating injustices. at Dunedin. "Consider the Connection of Things." Keynote speaker will be Stephen G. Cary, recently retired Nominees may be from any country in the 19-Switzerland Yearly Meeting, at the Reformierte clerk of the AFSC Board and Corporation and world. Deadline for nominations is July 1. Heimstatte. former vice president of Haverford College. For The panel of judges will make its decision 24-26-Piedmont Friends Fellowship, at Quaker information, contact Ron Rembert, Wilmington by Oct. 15 . The panel is selected by the U.S. Lake Conference Center, Climax, N.C. Contact College, Wilmington, OH 45177, telephone (513) Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Inter­ Peirce Hammond, 718 Lake Boone Trail, Raleigh, 382-6661. national Fellowship of Reconciliation (based N.C., telephone (919) 783-8781.

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•m~<\c;e ce~ctFtcaces Samplings • awatZOs ·msc~tpctons • • al~C12 <\nnouncemencs. • (j~e&:lt2Cj ca£0 Oest(jns • by Rebecca Martin Young • mvtcactons • sc~oLts • nd now, for something completely different for this column, I would :Hanz~!l:T""esr A like to review music from two quite 609-786-JSZ+ different publishing houses: Windham Hill Records and Music for Little People. From Windham Hill (P.O. Box 9388, Stan­ ford, CA 94309, telephone 415-329-0647), TROPICAL ECO·ACTION comes a two-disc set called Windham Hill: The First Ten Years, by various artists Jotn CARIBBEAN ADVENnJRES ($21-$25/compact disc, $16.98/cassette tape). In PUERTO RICO and ST. JOHN Included is a booklet describing the enter­ 22 Students 3 or 4 wks. taining and lesson-fllled evolution of the • Marine and Mountain recording company. Windham Hill started Eco Service out as two people storing recordings of their • Spanish Life friends' music in two drawers in a corner of • Watersports their living room. It is now, according to this booklet, a 50-employee, 30-million-dollar-a­ Contact · Biff Houldin, year corporation. Huntingdon, PA 16652 The booklet also contains brief interviews (814) 667-2411 with early Windham Hill artists and tips from pianist Nan Story about taking musical criticism in stride. The music in this collec­ DELAWARE VALLEY FRIENDS SCHOOL tion is wonderful and includes William a secondary school for students Ackerman, Alex de Grassi, Shadowfax, Liz " with unique learning needs. Story, Daniel Hecht, Bill Quist, David ~ The full college preparatory curriculum has in­ Qualey, Michael Hedges, Robbie Basho, ~ tellectually challenging courses supported by Scott Cossu, Mark Isham, Montreux, and ~ explicit teaching of organizational skills. Nightnoise, to name a few. L------1 Teacher student ratio is 1 to 5. Fine arts as well Also from Windham Hill is Winter Sols­ G'night Wolfgang ($12.98/ compact disc, as· outdoot education are integral to the program. tice III ($12-$15/ compact disc, $9.98/ cassette $9.98/ cassette tape) presents eight classical tape). This disc contains some Christmas piano solos sensitively interpreted as Julia­ For information call: (215) 526-9595 music, but the selections are good listening byes by Ric Louchard. On the campus of Harcum Junior College any time of the year. Also included are Liz Peace is the World Smiling ($12.98/com­ in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Story's "Pavanne," Nightnoise's "Snow Is pact disc, $9.98/ cassette tape) is a collection Irene McHenry, Head Lightly Falling," Tim Story's "Of the by concerned musicians, poets, and story­ Father's Love Begotten," and the Modern tellers. Included are works by Taj Mahal, Mandolin Quartet's "Trepak." Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Sweet Honey in the A third good choice from Windham Hill Rock, Tickle Tune Typhoon, Peter Alsop, FRIENDS CAMP is The Parting Tide, by Nightnoise ($12-$15/ and others. From each sale of this recording, South China, Maine compact disc, $9.98/cassette tape). The four $1 .30 goes to One Percent for Peace, a group musicians use vocals, piano, guitar, key­ that urges the U.S. government to direct one * Ages 7-17 boards, whistle, pan pipes, accordion, flutes, percent of its defense budget to peace and * Coed - Residential violin, and viola to produce their magic. education groups. * Non competitive Three songs on this disc form a suite "in­ The catalog for Music for Little People is * $400.00 for 2 weeks spired by the long and arduous struggle of entertaining all by itself. Grown-ups will find A unique camp program which in­ the immigrants as they crossed from the old many ways in it to share music with their cludes international campers, Quaker to the new world." favorite youngsters- and many tempting of­ community living, decision making, From Music for Little People comes a ferings for themselves as well. In addition to peace communications center, crafts, wide variety of tapes and CDs geared to the the recordings cited here, the company of­ drama, sports, water activities, and younger set. All include copies of the lyrics. fers recordings of stories, music, and games other creative programs. The award for the catchiest title, Dirt from all over the world, as well as musical Made My Lunch ($9.98/cassette), goes to the instruments in all sizes; videos of music; Call or write: Banana Slug String Band, a group of song­ dances, games, and exercises; songbooks; a Susan Morris, Director writers, musicians, and educators who use few educational toys; and even recordings of P.O. Box84 music to teach science. They do stage pro­ bird calls. E. Vassalboro, ME 04935 ductions, school assemblies, and teacher To get a copy, write to Music for Little (207) 923-3975 workshops, as well as making recordings and · People, P.O. Box 1460, 1144 Redway Drive, song books. Redway, CA 95560, telephone 1-800-3464445.

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We must be grateful to Cynthia Grant Prophetic Sisterhood Tucker for her careful scholarship in reviv­ By Cynthia Grant Tucker. Beacon Press, ing these lives. Of all the books recently Boston, Mass., 1990. 288 pages. $24.95. published about women in the ministry, this seems to me the most comprehensive and Aside from Quakers, Shakers, and the challenging. Quaker readers will identify Holiness movement, few Protestant groups with these women, and perhaps be sensitized permitted women to preach before the 20th to some of the insidious forms of gender century. Exceptions were the Unitarians and discrimination which have crept into our own the Universalists, who ordained Olympia society. Brown and Augusta Chapin in 1863, and Margaret Hope Bacon Phebe Ann Hanaford (a former Quaker) in 1868. The liberal orientation of these two denominations and the legacy of the Margaret Hope Bacon is a widely published author of books and articles on Quaker history. In 1989 Transcendentalists, who saw the divine as an­ she traveled among Friends sharing her research drogynous, make one expect them to have on early traveling Quaker women ministers. She welcomed women ministers from the first as is a member ofCentral Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. enthusiastically as they do today. In fact, however, the Unitarian leadership in Boston feared women's ministry, as they Talking about Death sought to build a "manlier" image of Uni­ tarianism. They were only ready to welcome By Earl A . Grollman. Beacon Press, Boston, Mass., 1990. 118 pages. $14.95. women on the frontier, where it was impossi­ reactions children may have. A resources sec­ ble to find men willing to accept the small How can anyone explain death? It is as tion at the end of the book lists a variety of salaries and adverse working conditions of much a mystery as life. When a child experi­ support groups. A bibliography of children's the widely stretched parishes. ences a loved one's death, a parent is thrown literature dealing with death is categorized Cynthia Tucker has written an inspiring in the position of answering questions the by age. story of 21 liberal women ministers who child may have. How well a parent does this Catherine McCulley served in Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska, can help or hinder the child's acceptance of and other plains states from 1880 to 1930. death and gradual return to everyday life. Catherine McCulley is a graduate of Swarthmore There they struggled to assert their right to Earl A. Grollman has written several College, studio manager for a photographer, and be ministers and to move their congregations books that discuss loss and recovery. His ap­ is interested in family life and traditional values. toward the liberal reforms of the day, chief­ proach to explaining death to children is ly women's sufferage, municipal reform, and honest and open. The temptation to tell chil­ Intimacy Between Men the peace movement. The bonding between dren someone has "gone away," or to use these women, whether they became life-long other euphemisms for death, only confuses By John H. Driggs and Stephen E. Finn. passionate friends, or simply supported each them. Letting them know the truth-that the Dutton, New York, N.Y., 1990. 272 other as sisters in the face of adverse attitudes person is gone forever-will enable the proc­ pages. $18.95. on the part of the public and Eastern church ess of acceptance to begin. Understanding Out of their experience as counselors with authorities, is touchingly portrayed. the permanence of the loss will be difficult Gay and Lesbian Community Services in Rather than aping their male counterparts, for children. If the parent as well as the child Minneapolis, Minn., the authors have writ­ these women brought to their parish work is grieving for the loved one, the situation ten a wise and compassionate book, full of some of their concepts of gender role, em­ may be even more emotionally stressful. The practical advice, which should prove invalu­ phasizing the development of the church author emphasizes that a parent should not able to their readers. Although it is addressed family and of better municipal housekeep­ hide feelings of pain and grief; showing these to gay men, the wisdom is universal, and this ing. While feminists a generation later tend­ emotions and admitting that even adults do reader learned much from it. ed to assert themselves to be as good as men, not completely understand death can be help­ It is not a how-to sex manual, but a com­ this generation was closer in thought to the ful for the child. By not giving easy answers, prehensive survey of intimacy, setting it in feminists of today who seek to bring authen­ a parent can encourage a child to begin for­ its wider context, including spirituality. I tic women's experience to bear on their en­ mulating personal ideas. found the section on meditation, for exam­ larged role. The book is organized in three sections. ple, especially well done. Other subjects I Toward the end of the century, the church A "Children's Read-Along" may be used as thought helpful included those on express­ leadership began to turn away from women a dialogue between parent and child. The ing anger, " responsible selfishness," the use ministers, who were increasingly unable to author introduces death slowly, beginning of affirmations and rituals. The section on get parishes. From 1906 to 1917 not a single with the familiar role of death in nature shame is also worthy of mention. The authors woman was ordained. Many of the pioneers (leaves and flowers dying in winter) and gent­ have illustrated their points with helpful ex­ turned instead to the settlement house move­ ly discusses the death of a person. The child amples, carefully disguised to protect their ment or to other forms of social outreach to is encouraged to share feelings. Illustrations clients. The cases make clear and real to the continue their ministry. In their old age they accompany this dialogue. reader the authors' points. suffered humiliations and rebuff as they tried The second section, "Parents' Guide to Toward the end of the book, John writes, to record their story for history. Tragically, Explaining Death," should be read by the "As a straight man, what am I doing writing some of them accepted the low status which parent before the Read-Along. This section a book about gay relationships?" And I, a the church seemed intent on enforcing upon provides in-depth, helpful information pre­ woman who has recently celebrated the 53rd them. paring the parent for the many questions and anniversary of a monogamous marriage,

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wonder what I am doing reviewing it. For Births years I have been forthright in my stand for Byler-Lucas Benjamin Stucky Byler, on Oct. 16, gay rights in my speaking and in my writing. 1990, to Carol Byler and Paul Stucky. Both are This did not go unnoticed by the gay com­ members of Austin (Tex.) Meeting. munity among Friends. At times in my life Detert-Moriarty-Dylan Joseph Moriarty, on Oct. of difficulty and ill health, the gay commun­ 22, 1990, in Janesville, Wise., to Judith Detert­ ity has poured out its love and support to me Moriarty and Patrick Moriarty. Judith is a member in healing ways. A man who has since died of Beloit (Wise.) Meeting. of AIDS once said to me, "You are one of Dix-Emily Louise Dix, on July 19, 1989, to Mary us." And so it is. I feel privileged to have Ellen Isaacs and Ted Dix. Mary Ellen is a member read this book and to recommend it. of Durham (N.C.) Meeting. Farquhar-Aiken Sebastian Farquhar, on Jan. 17, Elizabeth G. Watson to Angela Dappert Farquhar and Adam Farquhar. Angela is an attender of Austin (Tex.) Meeting. lkard-Jack lkard, on Sept. 16, 1989, to Kate Elizabeth Watson is a freelance writer and speaker instead of using one of the commercial cold and is author of Sexuality, a Part of Wholeness. Cronkite and Bill Ikard. Both are members ofAustin medicines that can give unpleasant side ef­ (Tex.) Meeting. fects. Neal's Yard Apothecary in London has Kelly-Mahaffey-Kevin Patrick Kelly-Mahaffey, been a source for herbal remedies for many on Aug. 30, 1990, to Barbara and Larry Kelly­ In Brief years. In Neal's Yard Natural Remedies, Mahaffey. Both are members of Austin (Tex.) several types (herbs, homeopathy, aroma­ Meeting. therapy, and Bach Flower Remedies) of al­ McCarthy-Matthew McCarthy, on Sept. 26, 1989, Neal's Yard Natural Remedies ternative methods of treating illness are to Mary and Frank McCarthy. Mary is a member of By Susan Curtis, Romy Fraser, and Irene given. The hope of the authors is to "offer Austin (Tex.) Meeting, where Frank is an attender. Kohler. Arkana!Penguin Group, London, you the opportunity to take greater respon­ MacDonald-Co/in Blake MacDonald, on Aug. 22, · England, 1988. 182 pages. $9.95/paperback. sibility for your own discomfort or ill health 1989, to Ann Blake and Ian MacDonald. Ann is an If cold, wet weather has given you the flu, in a way that is safe and effective." A attender and Ian is a member of Austin (Tex.) you may wish to consider sipping a tea made bibliography is included for further study, Meeting. from boneset, elderflower, and peppermint, as well as a list of suppliers. Randolph- Clifford Favian Randolph, on Dec. II, 1990, toStephanieFlanikanandMark "Mort" Ran­ dolph. Both are members of Austin (Tex.) Meeting. Stanfield S.-Emilia Ruth Stanfield S. on March 12, in Seattle, Wash., to Stephanie Stiickwisch and D. Resources Pablo Stanfield. Stephanie is a member of Boise Valley (Idaho) Meeting. Pablo is a member of University (Wash.) Meeting. Both parents are active Put your money . . . in Salmon Bay (Wash.) Preparative Meeting. TrudeU-Stephen Joseph Trudell, on Oct. 28, 1990, Each time we make a purchase we are for a Healthy Planet." Energy-efficient to Rachel Berry and Terry Trudell. Terry is a member using our money to support a wide range light bulbs, cloth diapers, and non-toxic of Austin (Tex.) Meeting, where Rachel is an of practices in the marketplace. We may cleaning products are a few items from attender. be supporting a company that discrimi­ this catalog which tells its customers to Young-Rebecca !rene Young, on Feb. 20, to Asja nates in the workplace or one that pollutes buy only what they need and gives 1 per­ (Abigail) Margulis Young and David Young, both the environment. Several mail order cent_of sales to organizations working for members of Madison (Wise.) Meeting. catalogs have emerged that provide prod­ a healthier planet. Address is Colchester, ucts oriented toward a healthy environ­ VT 05446--1672, or call call800-456-1177. Marriages ment and a more cooperative society. If you are interested in alternative en­ Johnson-Bostrom-David Bostrom and Marilyn R. Co-op America offers products from ergy or energy efficiency, Real Goods Johnson, onJan.l9, underthecareofMinneapolis socially and environmentally responsible will keep you busy for hours. This dense (Minn.) Meeting, where David is a member and groups that practice a spirit of coopera­ catalog contains products and informa­ Marilyn is an attender. tion in the workplace. Yearly membership tion for the true conservation enthusiast. Lagerquist-Colthurst-Lawrence J. Co/thurst lll of $20 includes catalog discounts, sub­ Composting toilets, photovoltaic panels, and Desiree Lagerquist, on Sept. 29, 1990, in Des scription to Building Economic Alter­ and battery rechargers are available. Ad­ Moines, Iowa, under the care of First Friends natives (an excellent guide to alternative dress is 966 Mazzoni St., Ukiah, CA Church. He is a member of Somerset Hills (N.J.) sources, services, and economic informa­ 95482, or call 800-762-7325. Meeting, and she is a member of Des Moines (Iowa) tion), the Socially Responsible Financial Parents may be pleased to find Animal First Friends Church. Planning Guide, and the Boycott Action Town, a catalog containing children's News. Products in the catalog include games and toys based on cooperative Deaths handmade crafts, clothing, toys, books, rather than competitive principles. Books Anderson- HenrikArthurAnderson, 72, on Nov. and furniture. Address is 2100 M St., and tapes are also available. Address is 26, 1990, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Born in Hartford, N.W., Suite 403, Wash., DC 20036, or P.O. Box 485, Healdsburg, CA 95448, or Conn., to Swedish parents, he spent his early years call 202-232-1881. call 800-445-8642 in Sweden. Swedish was his first language, and he Seventh Generation sells "Products enjoyed reading and speaking Swedish all his life. When his father died, the family moved to Arizona, where they lived on the Salt River Indian Reserva-

42 May 1991 F'RmNDs JoURNAL The future is brighter than ever at William Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa! With over 730 tion. While a student at the University of Arizona, students this spring, enrollment is he joined the Student Peace Council and Wider at its highest since spring, 1973. Quaker Fellowship. Classified 4-F because he was a socialist and a conscientious objector, he worked Education is the top priority at for the Fellowship of Reconciliation and taught William Penn College. An exten­ European refugees to speak English. He was later sive review of our curriculum sent to a Civilian Public Service camp in North Fork, Calif. In 1945, he married Virginia Kinnesten over the past year has pro­ Walters in Pasadena, Calif. With their two sons, duced exciting new challenges Keith and Carl, they moved to Arizona, where their for our students. daughter Linnea was born. He worked with a Phoenix architect for 36 years. Rick's interest never Forward In Faith , our new re­ ceased in helping foreign refugees, and his door was source development cam­ always open to friends and strangers. paign, is helping to make Andresen-Bent Andresen, 83, on Feb. II, at change a byword on campus. Chandler Hall Nursing Home in Newtown, Pa. A long-time peace activist, consumer advocate, and en­ New faculty positions. new furni­ vironmentalist, he spent the last half of his life in ture in our students' rooms and Bucks County, Pa., and was well-known for his renovation in nearly every area volunteer work in recycling and for his civic con­ WIWAM PENN COLLEGE on campus are a visible result of cerns. When he was small, his family emigrated from the support of alumni and Copenhagen to Canada, on to Minneapolis, Minn., 01 Trueblood A venue andfinallytotheEastCoast.ln 1934hewenttoCol­ Oskaloosa. Iowa 52577 . friends. umbia University, but left after two years and started labor organizing in Massachusetts. He married Office of Admissions Come visit William Penn College Frances Louise (Taddy) White in 1936, and they 1-800-779-PENN and discover the opportunities moved to New Hope, Pa., where he assisted in (515) 673-1012 on our campus! managing the Co-op Store. He then went to Med­ ford, Mass., where he managed another co-op. As a conscientious objector during World War II, he was sent to a civilian public service camp and later spent eight years in prison. After being released, he worked with the War Resisters League and the Central Com­ mittee for Conscientious Objectors in Philadelphia. He was an active member ofSolebury (Pa.) Meeting. He was a great supporter of the Peace Fair and the quarter's peace committee. In 1981 they moved to Friends Village in Newtown, Pa. Taddy died in June 1985. In later years he lectured on the work of the group, Concern for the Dying, and their interest in living wills. His last years were greatly enriched by the help and caring companionship of Anna Morris, who shared his causes and convictions. He is survived by his sister, Else Badrow; brother, LeifAndresen; and two nephews. Crosman-Winifred Wildman Crosman, 91, on Nov. 5, 1990, in Phoenix, Ariz. Born in Selma, Ohio, the daughter of Quaker parents, she graduated from Earlham College in 1922. She held positions of re~ sponsibility with the YWCA in Tucson, Ariz., in Muncie and Richmond, Ind., and at the Philadelphia office of the American Friends Service Committee. When Pendle Hill opened in 1929, she became one of the charter students. She returned to Ohio to care for her mother so her sister, Eleanor, could embark on her first job. In 1933, through AFSC, she organ­ ized and conducted a child feeding program during a coal strike. Later, she and a friend opened a retreat center near Jackson, Mich. ThenewCommunityDy­ narnics program at Earlham gave her responsibilities with foreign students at the U Diversity of Michigan until her marriage in 1959 to Hurford Crosman. Together they were called by the American Friends Board of Foreign Missions to go to Kenya as book­ keepers at the mission in Kaimosi. They chose Arizona for their retirement, and she was loved by Friends in Pima, Flagstaff, and Phoenix meetings. She is survived by her sister, Eleanor Wildman Lippincott. Hill- Ruth M . Hill, 73, on Feb. 6, of esophageal

F'RIENDs JouRNAL May 1991 43 cancer, in Fort Myers, Fla. She was born in Roslyn, knitting, and cooking. She was an expert in solving THE HICKMAN Long Island, N.Y., and graduated from Swarthmore cryptograms and anacrostic puzzles and in assembl­ OF CONCORD QUARTERLY MEETING College. She wasassociatedirectorofFriends World ing jigsaw puzzles. As a frrst resident of Friends Institute, foundedinEastNorwich, Long Island, in Crossing, the Quaker solar community in Easton, 1965 as a four-year experimental program. It later she was a leader in afternoon tea gatherings and became Friends World College and moved to Hun­ served a midweek dinner for those who wanted to get tington, Long Island. There she worked as a teacher away from their own kitchens. She is survived by her and a vice president. In the 1970s, she founded the husband, Irven; sons, Kenneth, David, and Richard; 100 Year History Lower Bay School in the West Indies. Earlier in her daughters, Barbara Scattergood and Rosalie Walz; A Personal Care Home career, she worked with Edward R. Murrow during and eight grandchildren. • Reasonable Rates the 1950s, editing his radio scripts. She is survived Smith-Isabel Fothergill Smith, 99, on Sept. 16, • Not-for-profit by her husband, James; sons, Lewis and Emory Hill; 1990. Born in Colorado, she received her bachelor's, • Quaker Tradition daughters, Julia Hill and Carolyn Lewis; and eight master's, and doctoral degrees in geology from Bryn In Town Location convenient grandchildren. Mawr College. She studied under Florence Bascom to Shops and Businesses Huff-AnnaCocksHuff, 81, on Nov. 18,1990, in and later wrote about her in The Stone Lady, pub­ Stockton, Calif., after a lingering illness. A birth­ lished in 1981. She spent most of her professional I (215) 696-t536 right Friend, she was the daughter of Isaac M. and career at Scripps College, where she served several West Chester, PA Elizabeth C. Cocks. She graduated from Cornwall­ years as dean. During this time she wrote the words on-Hudson High School in 1926, from George andmusicforthecollege'salmamater.Inlateryears, Brirtging Friends' Concerns School in 1927, and from New Paltz Normal School she became professor of geology and history of lor Peace & Justice to and New Paltz State University. Later, she received science. Scripps College honored her in 1979 by Congress Since 1943 a master's degree in social work from the University establishing the Isabel Fothergill Smith Scholarship Wr•te or caM1202154 7· 4343 of Buffalo. She was a member ofthe National Asso­ Fund. Her early experience was in the Unitarian lor acttOn suggestiOn tape ciation of Social Workers. She married J. Wesley Church, but in her mid-forties she joined the Huff in 1933. He died in 1950. She worked for the Religious Society of Friends. In 1941, she and two State of New Mexico's IndianAffairsofNew Mex­ other Friends founded a Wider Quaker Fellowship ico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada until her retirement, in Claremont, Calif., which, in 1953, became Clare­ when she moved to Stockton, Calif., to live with her mont Meeting. When it built its meetinghouse, she daughter. She attended Albuquerque and Santa Fe planned the landscaping, selected the plants, and CREMATION meetings in New Mexico and Delta (Calif.), serving cared for them. She was an active member of the Friends are reminded that the as recorder of each of these meetings. She is survived Property Committee for many years and served fre­ AnnaT. Jeanes Fund by her daughter, Elizabeth Huling; brother, Anthony quently on the Committee for Ministry and Counsel. will reimburse cremation costs. R. Cocks; sisters, Dorothy C. Pennell, Edith C. She loved the outdoors and the natural world with (Applicable to members of Decker, and Florence C. Daniels; and three acontinuingsenseofwonder. Her desire to be close Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) grandchildren. to it stimulated many expeditions with friends, events For larormolloa write or toloplloDO she celebrated by writing a verse for each occasion. RICHARD F. BETTS Noyes-Richard W. Noyes, 86, on Feb. 4, after a 500-B Gin Ecllo Rood short illness, in Syracuse, N.Y. Born in Omaha, She was known as a person who lived her beliefs on P~Uodolplllo, PA 19119 Neb., he attended Sherrill High School in New York a day-to-day basis, saying little, but demonstrating (115) 247-3354 and graduated as a mechanical engineer from her spirit in action. She did not seek leadership roles, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1928. He mar­ but with joy, humor, and unfailing good cheer, she ried Eula L. Croissant in 1930. His first job after col­ looked for what needed to be done and did what she lege was with the National Advisory Committee for could. She aged with grace, discipline, and a contin­ Just Call Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va., and he later uing zest and love for life in all its many forms. worked many years asanengineerforOneida, Ltd. Stubbs-Evan L. Stubbs, I 0 I, on Jan. 3, at Kendal He enjoyed a lifetime interest in flying and gliding, at Longwood in Kennett Square, Pa. He was a aswellasrockandmountainclimbing,stampcoUect­ pioneer researcher in avian pathology. He was born ing, geology, and working with the Literacy Volun­ and reared on the family farm near Oxford, Pa. In teers. He especially liked sharing his interests with 1907, he graduated from the Veterinary School of young people. He served on the Sherrill School the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation, Board and was an active Rotarian. In 1972 he led a he practiced for two years, using his father's horse family expedition to Mount Noyes in Alaska, named andcarriagetomakecalls.ln 1923, hebegan research for his brother. He and his wife joined Buffalo(N. Y .) on poultry, and he identified the first case of fowl Meeting in 196l,later transferring their membership plague in the United States. In 1927, he resigned his toMohawkValley(N.Y.)Meetingwhentheymoved. position as director of the Pennsylvania State For many years his skill and accuracy in charting that Laboratory and accepted an appointment to the meeting's finances were much appreciated. He is sur­ University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary vived by his wife, Eula; sons, Paul, Richard, David, Medicine. He helped establish a laboratory ofclinical Friends Journal can help you produce and Edward; sister, Margaret Goldsmith; and four pathology at the veterinary school and helped form your poster, brochure, newsletter, or grandchildren. the School ofAnimal Pathology. In 1930, he was ap­ pointed professor of pathology and head of the book. 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We'll set type from N.J.; Radnor, Pa.; and Hartford, Conn. While in member of Nottingham (Pa.) Meeting. He married hard copy, IBM compatible diskette(s), Connecticut, she received an award for performing Mary Carothers in 1932, and in their later years they or from files sent via modem. more than 1,000 hours of volunteer hospital service. were founding residents of Kendal. Although he retired in 1960, recognition for his achievements con­ Just call us at (215) 241-7282 for more Moving to Hingham, Mass., in 1972, she helped with housekeeping and cooking at the Friends Home tinued, and in 1988 the Stubbs Laboratory, which information or write: Frlealls Je~raal there. Always thinking of others before herself, she is used for research of infectious organisms, was Tlflllllttlllg Senlces, 1501 Cherry Street, was admired for her patience, her quiet, unselfish dedicated in his honor. He is survived by his sister, Philadelphia, PA 19102. ways, her skills in making her own clothes and Elma Stubbs Mason; daughter, Ruth Stubbs Den­ beautiful quilts, and for her crocheting, embroidery, linger; and seven nieces and nephews.

44 May 1991 FRIENDs JoURNAL ar? TbeOtberStde. For example, shortly before jean-Bertrand Aris­ ~\~ AR," wrote Daniel Benigan Novem­ ber 1990 issue, "is always ln-and everywhere a demonic tide launched his successful candidacy for the presidency of assault on God. • Strong words. But important words. Haiti, we treated readers to his passionate, autobiographical For if we are to respond as followers of jesus to our world's narrative, "In the Parish of the Poor. • A few months before that, unending tide of blood and tears, we must ask the primary Roberta Nobleman had shared the power of faith in healing the questions, the moral questions. lingering hurts of childhood sexual abuse. At TbeOtberStde, our concern is not with Since 1965, TbeOtberSide has been a which bombs are dropping most accurately or magazine of hope and vision ... for Chris­ whose bunkers are can withstand what. Our tians whose courage and compassion can't be only concern is with living jesus' command to stopped With voices like Henri Nouwen, Wal­ love our enemies. 1bat evil must be overcome ter Brueggemann, Bernice johnson Reagon, with good is manifest from both Scripture and bell hooks, Vrrginia Ramey Mollenkott, history. We know beyond a shadow of doubt Gustavo Gutierrez, Ella Mitchell, and David that all war is immoral. Hayden, we've become one of the most ex­ Long before the fighting and bullying be­ citing publications around. Refreshingly per­ gan in the Persian Gulf, columnist john Alexander predicted sonal, devotedly biblical, passionately radical, for more than 25 trouble. This nation, he said, has a fundamental need for "mon­ years we've been a leader in calling Christians to live the em­ sters,• enemies we can hate with a passion. With the "com­ powering, liberating vision of jesus. munist threat" fading in validity, he suggested the Washington power elite would soon divert attention from its own failings SSUE after issue, we stand on the side of the poor and by mounting a crusade against some despicable • Arab." oppressed. With eloquence and conviction, we speak As the crisis developed, Vicki Tamoush, one of our frequent I out against war and prisons and national borders, wher­ contributors, traveled to Baghdad to meet with Iraqi officials. ever they rear their ugly heads. We challenge greed and arro­ In articles before and after her trip, she shared her insights, gance and the devastating tendency toward Christian tri­ fears, and prayers as an Arab, a pacifist, and a Christian. umphalism. We embrace the despised and rejected, whether Later, when the killing began (antiseptically hidden by the they be women, racial minorities, gay and lesbian Christians, tightest controls on war reporting in the history of the Penta­ or the latest "evil empire. • We abhor political rationalizing and gon), we offered our readers first-person reports from the Mid­ the social posturing of the right and left. dle East: john Hubers, a Protestant pastor in Oman, on our All this is woven together with refreshing artwork, award­ •dance toward death," and jeremy Milgrom, a rabbi from jeru­ winning articles, powerful poetry, and some of the best fiction salem, on the terrible effects of the war on his children. around. You'll find in TbeOtberSide a mix that nurtures and uplifts, probes and challenges-not available anywhere else. ESPONDING TO the merciless slaughter, Daniel Berri­ And now, with the coupon below, you can save up to 50 gan probed the war-torn Book of Joel and called read­ percent on an introductory subscription. You'll also get our ers to a "liturgy of grief." In this war, as in every war, unqualified money-back guarantee, in which, if we ever fail to mhe said, "the burden of mourning falls on believers." meet your expectations, you get back the full cost of every un­ Alongside was a portrait of Agnes Bauerlein, one of our mailed issue. But act now. We think you'll find TbeOtberSide former staff members who was camped out in a tent just inside the kind of magazine you won't want to be without. Iraq when George Bush launched the heaviest bombing raids in the history of humanity against the land in which God called r------~ Abraham. The land in which Ezekiel had his vision of the dry I ~ , I'd like to give TbeOiberSUie a try. I bones. 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F RIENDS JOURNAL May 1991 ~------~ 45 Assistance Needed Hlatorlc Germantown twin home. Sunny simplicity defines this 5 bedroom, 1'h bath, renovated gem near Ger­ mantown Friends School and the Germantown Meeting. Classified Children'• home and low-tech,.,.., N8ke volunteere Only $82,500. Call Lorena C. Wit1 at Wissahickon Realty. and/or donations. Simple, challenging, community liv­ (215) 844-2211. ing. Dean Weaver, Apt. 31 , Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Place your ad today. SoW~ 2600 sq. ft., adjoining 1,850 sq. ft. build­ For information call (215) 241-7279. ing. 31f.t BR home, barn, outbuilding, 2 A. Secluded valley. 50t per word. Minimum charge is $10. Civilian Public Service -. wanted for upcoming scenic river, waterfalls. $89,000 owner financad. H. Black, Add 10% if boxed. 10% discount for CPS reunion. Please send information on existing col­ Rou1e 14, Cookeville, TN 38501 . (615) 268-9889. three consecutive insertions, 25% for six. lec11ons or the words and music themselves. Received information will be John and Ann Michener, 2616 Appearance of any advertisement does not imply shared. Cn:lnM: ~., SdwQualrw endorsement by FRIENDS JOURNAL. Talbot Rd., Baltimore, MD 21216. (301) 664-2473. Women: V.H.S. video by Claire Simon, Copy deadline: 6 weeks before publication. $18.50 postpaid. Also, the trilogy Soviet etudent of Quaker hletory needs financial Woman and Her Symbols, $135/set, aasistance to visit U.S. If you can help, please send con­ $50(eech part. Poslpaid. P.O. Box 292, tributions to the Svetlana Morozovna Fund, c/o Kay Ander­ Mapl-ood, NJ 07040. son, P.Y.M. East-West Commit1ee, 2025 Broderick 116, San Get things Francisco, CA 94115. Quaker computer gamee-Quaker Counselor, Fractured A wiN lnvMtment. Student loan needed due to ineligibility Friends, Mary Dyer (Hangperson), Quaker Trivia, Love hopping! for Federal aid. Agreeable terms. Contact Joe Volk, (202) Bombs, Quaker Scorecard, Meetinghouse Adventure 383-2747. (CGA). Teenage humor; unconditional money back Advertise in guarantee. Send $10 to: Matt Cary, 515 Scott Lane, Wall­ ingford, PA 19086. IBM & compalibles only. Specify 5V• Friends Books and Publlc•tlona or 31f.t size d isk. Journal. Sale: 50 + ecre farm (with Quaker neighbors), north­ Oeofge Fox'e volume Worlre (1831 edition) are back central Pennsylvania. (Wellsboro). Good bam. Small house. in print-at a great price. N-introdue1ions by Douglas Pond, woods, pasture, $60,000? Contact Bryn (717) Gwyn and others. Library bound, ac~free paper. Pricad 376-5176. at $167.50 for 8 volumes. Sets may be ordered with $40 deposit with balance due upon safe arrival. This set They're Herel1~ Cotton StJ1ng would be a wonderful, lasting gift for your favorite Bap from Frence. Assorted sizes meeting library. Prospectus available. Order: George Accommodations and colors. RetaiVWholesale. The Fox Fund, Inc., c/o Douglas Garren, 324 5. Atherton St., Environmental Bag Co., Box 786, N8na'e a.d & BrMkfat. Comfortable, country, Quaker State College, PA 16801 . home. One to 4 people; children welcome. Theater, moun­ Pl. Jefferson, NY 11777. Two for tains, horseback riding, swimming. Call (914) 255-5678. $8.00. Let Jnana 'ellwly, Inventive novel, Subway Hlfchhlk818, Nlclngua Frlenda Center. Refuge for socially concerned be your colorful token to the American Underground. $11.45 travelers. Apartado 5391 , Managua, Nicaragua. Phone postpaid, Fifthlan Press, Box 1525, Santa Barbara, CA VIctorian houM overlooking Norrietown (Pa.) Meeting. (011-505-2) 683216 or 660984. 93102. 1-SOo-862-8351 . Recently painted eX1erlor. Contemporary eat-in kitchen with The Berkahii'H, M...achuMtta. Baldwin Hill Farm Bed solar greenhouse and coal stove. Three full bathrooms, 5 & Breakfast. Box 125, RD/13, Great Barrington, Maas. bedrooms, den, livingroom, diningroom, parlor, laundry. Subecrtbe to A Friendly Letter 01230. (413) 528-4092. Friends farm homestead in Hardwood floors. Gas heat. Well insulated. Many restora­ Berkshlres on 450 acres. One mile from Route 71, two miles Get ten exciting back laeuee-freel tion improvements. Walk to bus, train, trolley, library. Now, with a subscription to A Friendly Letter, you can from Rte. 23, and 2'h miles from Rte. 7. Near all fall, winter, $92,000. Call (215) 278-8875. summer attractions and activities. Dining nearby. have ten of its 1oo-plus searching, crisply writ1en reports Marvelous views, pool, country breakfast. on key Quaker issues and events-a $15 value-free. Pick from the back issue list sent with your first issue. Opportunities Greater Boaton Hoapltallty, a bed and breakfast reser­ Many of these reports have been the first-and some Fifth Quaker ,._Tour Soviet Union and vation service offers modest to luxury homes, inns, and the only-coverage of these important topics. Few Annual to the unhosted condominiums throughout the greater Boston CSCE Human Rights Conference in Pacific Yearly Quaker publications have caused as much talk and con­ Moscow. Meeting offers a unique opportunity to Moscow, area. Many include parking. Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Water­ troversy per page as A Friendly Letter since it first ap­ see K'IBV, Leningrad and Riga; meet the people in their homes, work front, South End, and suburbs. Breakfast included. Write: peared in 1981 . Read it andseewhy. A year's subscrip­ Greater Boston Hospitality, P.O. Box 1142, Brookline, MA with graasroots groups. August 28-September 17, 1991. tion (12 issues) is $17.95; sample copies free from A 02146. Or call (617) 277-5430 (24 hours/day). Contact Julie Harlow, 1163Aubum Drive, Davis, CA 95616; Friendly Letter, P.O. Box 1361, Dept. FJ-8, Falls Church, (918) 753-8826. Community Living in Quaker-sponsored house of 20 in­ VA 22041 . terested In spiritual grOW1h, peace, and social justice. All Quaker RMident Opportunity-Orlando Friends Meeting faiths welcome. Preference to applications completed by (unprogrammed) seeks individual or couple to aasist and 4/1 for June opening, 7/1 for September. For application, FI'H Catalogue nurture our meeting community. Cottage and stipend pro­ information: Beacon Hill Friends House, 6 Chestnu1 Street, The Friendly Boobhfif vided. Please respond to: Search Commit1ee, Orlando Boston, MA 02108. Telephone: (617) 227-9118. There's a unique collection of Quaker and Quaker­ Monthly Meeting, 318 E. Marks Street, Orlando, Fl32803. Simple low-coat lodging for individuals and groups. related books, tee shirts, music and audio tapes, but­ Ohio Yearly Meeting, Coneervetlve, lnvftM you to a Seminar planning available. Quaker center on Capitol Hill. tons, postcards, and other items offered in The Friendly gathering of Conservative Friends and those of like mind, William Penn House, 515 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, Bookshelf, plus free gifts with every order. Write for your at Stillwater Meetinghouse and Olney Friends School, near DC 20003. (202) 543-5560. copy today: The Friendly Bookshelf, Dept. J6, P.O. Box Barnesville, Ohio; the seventh, eighth and ninth days of NYC-OI'Hnwlch VIllage a.d & Breakfaat. Walk to Fif­ 1361, Falls Church, VA 22041. Sixth Month, 1991 . Our expectation is to gather under one teenth Street Meeting. 1-4 people; children welcome. (Two Spirit In Christ Jesus, waiting under his Holy Covering and cats in house.) Reservations: (212) 924-6520. ~ eplrttual claeelce, history, biography, and giving ministry prompted by His Holy Unction, having our hearts and minds tendered, ren-ed with His peace that London? Stay at the Penn Club, Bedford Place, London current Quaker experience, published by Friends United Preas, 101-A Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, IN 47374. Write surpaases understanding. For reservations, write: WFCF, WC1B 5JH. Friendly atmosphere. Central for Friends 409 S. Walnut St., Ravenna, OH 44266. House, West End, concerts, theater, British Museum, for free catalogue. . university, and excursions. Telephone: 071-636-4718. Study Spanleh In Guatemala. Family living. CASA, Box 40146, Albuquerque, NM 87198. (505) 242-3194. Wahlngton, D.C., sojourners welcome in Friends' horne For Sale Workcamp for Young Frtenda In the Soviet Union, spon­ In pleasant suburb nearby. By day, week, or month. For Half-interest in community land $23,000. Share Sale: trust. sored by Pacific Yearly Meeting. If you are sixteen or older, details call: (301) 270.5258. retreat Bill & Genie Durland. 22 rural houM with rooms, Col­ you are eligible to join a team of young Soviets and Looking living 111temat1ve in York City7 orado, Quaker Meeting. (719) 846-7480. for a creative New American Friends who will be excavating a monastery in Penington Friends House may be the place for youl We are Luther Alternative. Quality selec1ion of leather-free Suzdal, an ancient Russian city, from July 11-August 4. The looking for of all who want to make a serious people ages wallets, bags, belts, shoes, and other accessories. Men's program includes a twcH!ay trip to Moscow, visits to commitment to a community lifestyle based on Quaker prin­ and women's styles. Avoid using animal skins. Free schools, musical events, swimming, hiking, and pellies. Ap­ ciples. For information call (212) 673-1730. We also have catalog. Aeeop Unlimited, Dept. 903, Box 315, Cambridge, proximate cost: $1,990 to and from JFK airport. For more overnight accommodations. MA02140. information, contact: Anthony Manousos, 1446 E. Ralston Mexico City Frlenda Center. Reasonable accommoda­ Ave., San Bernardino, CA 92404. (712) 883-1310. tions. Reservations recommended. Casa de los Amigos, HouM for aale. Philadelphia-Historic Overbrook Ignacio Mariscal 132, 06030 Mexico D.F. 705-0521 . Farms. Slightly mixed neighborhood. Lovely home, CeN Heberto Seln Frlenda Center. Reasonable accom­ stone/stucco, eX1ensive mill work and large rooms. Six Peraon•l• modations. Reservations. Asociacion Sonorense de los bedrooms and three full baths. Kitchen with dishwasher, Intelligent Optlone for singies who esch- hyperbole. Amigos, Felipe Salido 32, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico microwave and beautiful cabinets. Security system. Member newsletter provides self~riptions, interests and Friends Meeting, Sundays 11 a.m. Phone: (011-52-821) Wrap around front porch. Well maintained home with photos. Quaker run. P.O. Box 4458, Kingston, NY 12401 . turn of the century charm. Call owner: (215) 878-8821 . 7~1-42 . Single Booklovera gets cultured, single, widowed, or

.46 May 1991 FluENDs JoURNAL divorced persons acquainted. Nationwide, run by Friends. DC 20003. Applications due by May 15. less of age. Teenagers live on campus in faculty homes. Established 1970. Write Box 117, Gradyville, PA 19039, or Aa8ldant Carataar/Phlledalphle. " The Crossing," a The school is based on simplicity, honesty, the peaceful call (215) 358-5049. small, lively, conference and hospitality center for social resolution of conflict, the dignity of physical labor, mutual CIMelcalllualc Lovers' Exchllnge-Nationwide link be­ change activists, seeks 2 enthusiastic, commmed, part-time trust and respect, and care for the earth. Admissions: The ._, unattached music lovers. 1 (800) 233-CMLS, Box 31 , caretakers. One year minimum commitment. Starting im­ Meeting School, Rindge, NH 03461. (603) 899-3366. Pelham, NY 10803. medialely and In July. Compensation: room, possibly board. A velue-centaracl achool for learning disabled elementary Write: The Crossing, 906 S. 49th St., Philadelphia, PA students. Small, remedial classes; qualified stall serving 19143. Philadelphia and northern suburbs. The Quaker School at Concerned SlngiM Newelettet links compatible singles Horsham, 318 Meeting House Road, Horsham, PA 19044. who care about peace, social justice, and the environ­ Naad cou""lors, cook, and nurM lor small Quaker-led (215) 674-2875. ment. National and international membership. All ages. farm camp. Skills in lifeguardlng, nature, pottery, shop, Since 1984. Free sample: Box 55S.F, Stockbridge, MA farming are useful. Younger children . Emphasize non· 01262. violence, simplicity, environmental awareness. Carl and Services Offered Tim Curtis, Journey's End Farm Camp, Box 136, N-· foundland, PA 18445. (711) 689-2353. Positions V•c•nt Typaaattlng by Frlendl Publishing Corporetlon. Positions W•nted Our organizatio n offers you professional typesetting at Amertclln Frlenda Service Commltt" seeks regional ex· friendly rates. We typeset books, manuscripts, n-slet· ecutive secretary lor Pacific Mountain region, based In San Houaa sitting altuetlon naadad. Pets okay. U.S. and tars, brochures, posters, ads, and every Issue of Friend$ Francisco, CA. Responsible lor overall administration, pro­ Canada. Reinhold Schroader, 405 Meadowhurst Ln., Jouma/. We also produce quality type via modem gram operation, personnel and budget administration, pub­ Media, PA 19063. (215) 874-3889. transmission. Call (215) 241·7282, or 241·7116 for more lic Interpretation of AFSC activity. Requires: compatibility Mlrrled couple, with children, aaaklng poaltlona in a Information. w~h principles, philosophy of Friends and AFSC; demon­ Northeast Friends School. Anson teaches music and strated experience providing stall support and supervision; Spanish. Emily teaches English and psychology. Both have Elec:trlc* Contrlctor. Residential and commercial installa­ demonstrated administrative experience including financial B.A.s and many life experiences to share with young peo­ tion and repairs. (Phila. • suburbs.) Call Paul Teitman: management, budgeting; strong communication skills; or· ple. Contact Anson and Emily Olds, Box 27, Star Route 62, 663-0279. ganizing experience w~ social change, religious, advocacy Great Barrington, MA 01230. {413) 528-2683. or community groups. Contact: Search Cornmmee, AFSC, 2160 Lake Street, San Francisco, CA 94121. AFSC is an Ganaaloglcll RaMan:h-Oua ker and non-Quaker affirmative action employer. ancestry. Write lor free brochure. Gordon Remington, Mother's tt.lper. Quaker family seeking Mother's Helper Adlrondlcka-housekeeping cabins on quiet, unspoiled Box 11 685, Salt Lake City, UT 84147. to live in suburban Philadelphia home to lova and care lor lake; fireplaces, fully equipped; June thru September. (609) two children. Chlldcare experience required. Miriam 654-3659, or write: Dreby, Cranberry Lake, NY 12927. Calo Velley Books will professionally produce your Schaefer, 7 Golf View Road, Ardmore, PA 19003. (215) Explore Oeorva Fox's tarrltory. Lake District, Yorkshire book-50 copias or more-on time with personal attention 446-1514. Dales. Friend welcomes paying guests at her small hill farm. and economically. 1% of profits to charity. Write 346 Seven Compllnlon tor hNcl Injured lldult male. Position Excellent food. Peacocke, Dummah Hill, N. Stainmore, Mile Ridge Road, Burnsville, NC 28714. available immediately. Duties include: driving, meal plan· Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria CA17 4DZ England. Phone: 093 Soler Archhacture: save the environment and energy. ning and preparation, housekeeping, arranging leisure ac· 04 218. Your solar dream home designed by Robert Bennett, Ar· t~les . Live-In position providing living expenses and salary Prt~ Edwlrclllllnd, Clnlda. Secluded seaside cottage. cMect & Engineer. Pennsylvania, N-Jersey, Delaware. of $2,400 per month. Prefer male, age 3s.45, w~h imegina· Private beach, warm swimming, excellent birding, bicycling, (215) 667·7365. lion, ln~latlve, enthusiasm, cheerful disposition, and strong fiShing. Regain contact with the natural world. Completely educational background. Send complete resume of educa­ equipped. $350/week. Available late June and July. {215) Chiropractic Care: Health Is optimal physical, mental, tion and work experience Including dates and type of ac· 399-0432. social, and spiritual well being. The Inner Light of our tivity; Include personal interests and background. Reply to spirit and the Innate Intelligence of our body are equally Box 100, Friends Journal, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102·1497. Short or long-term rant11- Small, furnished apartment essential if health is to be attained. Offering chiroprac· in lour-season recreational area. 30 miles south of tic care with this concept In mind, Frank Lichtner DC, Arthur Morgen School - Houseparents sought lor small Albany, N.Y.; 2'h hours north of N.Y.C. Reasonable. Call and stall: Southampton (Lower Bucks Co.), Pa. {215) (24 students) alternative Junior high boarding school in Liberty Goodwin, (317) 93s.2607. 322·1 860. mountains of North Carolina. Job would also Include a mix of other responsibilities-teaching, maintenance, book· keeping, cooking, hiking, gardening, electives, and/or field Quiet retreat in Pennsylvania's beautiful Pine Creek Valley. Cadbury and Stevana Construction Complny, General trips. Contact Johno ZakeiJ, AMS, 1901 Hannah Branch 3BR, 2 baths. By week or month. (301) 27().()()86; or write Contractors specializing In residential renovations and Rd., Burnsville, NC 28714. (704) 67s.4262. Rosalie Dance, 7406 Jackson Ave., Takoma Park, MD restorations. (215) 664-2766. FWCC Aaaoc:IMa Sacmary. Based in FWCC World Of. 20912. Quekar unw-llst Fellowship is a fellowship of seekers lice in London, UK, beginning early 1992. Requires sen­ Mlckoaat Maine. Spacious modern house, deck overtook· wishing to enrich and expand Friends' perspectives. We sitivity to Friends of different cultures around the world, ing pond, sail-water cove, beautiful woods. Two double meet, publish, and correspond to share thoughts, insights, fluency in spoken and wrmen English. Duties Include bedroorns, dormitory. Furnished except linens. Near and information. We seek to follow the promptings of the responsibility for FWCC World Office publications, con­ beaches, Friends meetings. $600/Week up to four people. Spirit. Inquiries welcome! Write QUF, Box 201 RD 1, ference administration and travel with specific emphasis $50/Week each additional. David and Nancy Hall, PO Box Landenberg, PA 19350. on interpretation of FWCC. Details from the letter of applica­ 235, Bath, ME 04530. (207) 443-94'46. Wedding Cartltlcat", birth testimonials, invitations, an­ tion to: Search Cornmmee, FWCC, Drayton House, 30 Gor· H-ell-llllnd of Kaual. Cozy housekeeping cottages. nouncements, addressing, poetry, gilts all done in beautiful don Street, London, WC1 H OAX, United Kingdom. Include Peace, palms, privacy. $7512 nightly. 147 Royal Drive, calligraphy and watercolor illumination. Book early lor curriculum vitae and names, addresses, and telephone Kapaa, HI 96746. (808) 822·2321. spring waddings. Write or call Leslie Mitchell, 2840 Bristol Rd., Bensalem, PA 19020, (215) 752·5554. numbers of two references. Closing date to receive applic· Montago Bay-Unity Hall. Stunning vi-. Bed and lions is May 25, 1991 . breakfast accommodation w~h single Quaker woman. Cou­ Small the pi"" and feel the cold water at Friends Camp, ple or two women to share room. Hot and cold water. Con­ Soclelly Aaeponalble lnvaatlng South China, Maine. We are seeking counselors with at tact Allee Rhodd, Radio Waves, Montego Bay, Jamaica. Using client-specified social criteria, I screen in­ least one year of college and skills In one or more of these Vermont. Comfortable housekeeping cabins In Mt. Holly vestments. I use a financial planning approach to port· specialties: amateur radio, music, crafts, ceramics, sports, near Appalachian Trail. Simple, secluded, swimming, folio manegernent by identifying Individual obJactlvas and drama, sewing, maintenance. We also need a cook, assis­ boating. Molly Duplisea, 193 Essex St., Bangor, ME 04401 . designing an Investment strategy. I work w~ individuals tant cook, nurse, W.S.I. Write or call Susan Morris, Dirac· (207) 942·7255. and business. Call: Sacha Millstone; Ferris, Baker Watts; tor, P.O. Box 84, East Vassalboro, ME 04935. (207) member NYSE, SIPC. (202) 429-3632 In Washington, 923-3975. D.C. area, or (800) 227.0308. The Maatlng School ...tea fllculty. Unique opportunity Retirement Uvlng at The Meeiing School to be of service at a Friends board­ Foxdlle Vllllga, part of the tradition of fine Quaker lif&­ Ganarll Contractor. Repairs or &iterations on old or ing high school in rural N- Hampshire. Enjoy a family care communities. Thoughtfully designed apartments are historical buildings. Storm and fire damage restored. John setting with teenagers where learning and living are in­ complemented by attractive dining facilities, auditorium, File, 11 47 Bloomdale Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19115. (215) tegrated and Friends faith is practiced. We are seeking library, and full medical protection. Setting is a wonderful 464-2207. three faculty members to help In the following areas: math, combination of rural and university environment. For inlor· Moving to North Carolina? Maybe David Brown, a Quaker biology, houaeparentlng, administration, secretarial skills, mation write: 500 Marylyn Avenue, Department F, State real estate broker, can help. Contact him at 1208 Pi~ maintenance, music and arts. Experience in Quakerism, College, PA 18601. Telepllone: {814) 238-3322. secondary teaching, and community living is desired. Ex· Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. {919) 294-2095. plore w~ us. Openings available for the 1991-1992 school Femlly Aalatlona Commltt"'a Counaallng Service year. Contact Jacqueline Stillwell, The Meeting School, Schools (PYM) provides confidential professional counseling to in­ Thomas Road, Rindge, NH 03461 . (603) 899-6216. The Meeting School, celebrates the transition from youth dividuals, couples in most geographic arees of Philadelphia Intern. Spend a year In Washington living at William Penn to adulthood by encouraging students to make decisions Yearly Meeting. All counselors are Quakers. All Friends, House, dividing work between WPH and issue-oriented in their own lives In a Friends (Quaker) boarding high school regular attenders, and employees of Friends organizations organization. Stipend, room and board included. One year in southern N- Hampshire. We emphasize experiential are eligible. Sliding fees. Further Information or brochure­ commitment beginning In September. Contact Director, education, striving lor Innovative and challenging aca· contact Arlene Kelly, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA William Penn House, 515 East Capitol Street, Washington, demlcs while working with consensus and equality regard- 19102. (215) 988.()140.

FluENDs JoURNAL May 1991 47 FRIENDLY FACTS ABOUT RETIREMENT LIVING AT STAPELEY What our residents and others say about us Retirement communities aren't for everyone. Nor are they all alike. But if you're pondering a retirement move, study your options and consider the advantages of living at Stapeley.

Stapeley residents are happy that we offer continuing care. Whether they live independently, need a little assistance or skilled nursing care, Stapeley 1. can serve them today and into the future.

Stapeley residents know they can rely on the health care that we offer, and area hospitals and doctors who treat our residents agree. Stapeley staff ;!. cares for residents with respect and affection with a regard for dignity, self­ confidence and independence.

Stapeley residents appreciate our Friendly service, which is synonymous with our Quaker tradition. One of our residents summed it up this way: "I a. know that when I have needs, Stapeley will meet those needs." Stapeley residents like the family atmosphere and nostalgic charm of Stapeley Hall, our turn-of-the century building. We've added traditional t:. touches to Stapeley West, our bright, modern apartments and health care center.

Stapeley residents are pleased that we're experienced. We've offered a homelike atmosphere to retirees at this spot since 1904. Stapeley's I. reputation for excellence is built on that experience.

Stapeley residents like being in historic Germantown, a location which provides them with opportunities for cultural and recreational activities. 8. Public transportation and the Stapeley van make libraries, stores and downtown Philadelphia easily accessible. Residents have created a prize-winning garden in our urban oasis.

Stapeley residents know that we're moderately priced. Retirement communities can be expensive. Stapeley is comparatively affordable.

Stapeley, the in-town Quaker alternative. 6300 Greene Street Philadelphia, PA 19144

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