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Yearbook • New York Yearly Meeting • 2015–2016 Yearbook Proceedings Appointments and Religious Society Friends of New York Yearly Meeting Yearly York New Yearbook • New York Yearly Meeting • 2015–2016 New York Yearly Meeting Religious Society of Friends Corporate office Yearly Meeting Staff 15 Rutherford Place Gabrielle Savory Bailey New York NY 10003 Young Adult Field Secretary • Meeting Yearly York • New Yearbook Telephone 212-673-5750 [email protected] Fax 212-673-2285 607-749-0088 Email [email protected] Steven Davison New York Yearly Meeting Clerk Communications Director Lucinda Antrim [email protected] [email protected] 609-915-1572 Walter Naegle Alternatives to Violence Administrative Associate Project [email protected] PO Box 6851 212-673-5750 Ithaca NY 14851-6851 800-909-8920 Christopher Sammond [email protected] General Secretary [email protected] Oakwood Friends School 607-753-0444 22 Spackenkill Road Poughkeepsie NY 12603 Helen Garay Toppins 845-462-4200 Associate Secretary www.oakwoodfriends.org [email protected] 212-673-5750 Powell House 524 Pitt Hall Road ARCH Old Chatham NY 12136 Callie Janoff 518-794-8811 ARCH Director [email protected] [email protected] 2015–2016 347-249-8470 NYYM Sessions Dates Anita Paul Summer Sessions ARCH Specialist July 24–30, 2016 [email protected] Summer Sessions 518-374-2166 July 23–29, 2017 For complete Sessions dates see inside back cover New York Yearly Meeting Sessions 2015 Fall Sessions November 6–8 Powell House Old Chatham, NY Doane Stuart School Renssalaer, NY 2016 Spring Sessions April 1–3 First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens Somerset, NJ Summer Sessions July 24–30 Silver Bay, NY Fall Sessions November 11–13 Host: Purchase Quarter 2017 Spring Sessions March 31–April 2 Host: Long Island Quarter Summer Sessions July 23–29 Silver Bay, NY Fall Sessions November 10–12 Host: All Friends FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE YEARLY MEETING Through your meeting’s covenant donation, your financial support funds a broad range of ministries in the Yearly Meeting that benefit individual Friends and meetings, keep us connected to the wider Quaker community, and bring Quaker witness to issues of our times. Because meetings often struggle to meet their covenant commitments, we pray that you will consider giving an individual donation to the Yearly Meeting, as well. You can do that by sending a check to NYYM at 15 Rutherford Place, New York, NY 10003, or by using the Yearly Meeting’s online donation account at www.nyym.org/?q=donate. And thank you! Continuing Support By Bequest For Friends who wish to make a lasting contribution to the Yearly Meeting, we encourage you to include New York Yearly Meeting in your will. We suggest using the following sentence for this kind of giving (and thanks!): I give and bequeath the sum of $ to New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, having its principal office at 15 Rutherford Place, New York, NY 10003. By Gifts of Shares Friends who wish to support the Yearly Meeting with gifts of shares of stock should call or write the Treasurer of the Trustees (page 200). For further information about present or deferred giving, call or write the NYYM Development Committee, care of the Yearly Meeting Office. 2015 – 2016 New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Published October 2015 CONTENTS November 2014 Fall Sessions Minutes . 1 April 2015 Spring Sessions Minutes . .21 July 2015 Summer Sessions Minutes . 30 Epistle . 67 Yearly Meeting Finances 2015 Operating Budget . 70 Treasurer’s Accounts . 75 Funds Reports . 79 Reports of Committees and Organizations Ministry Section . 82 State of the Society Report . 82 General Services Section . 97 Nurture Section . .127 Witness Section . 144 Liaison Committee . 179 Friends Under Appointment to Yearly Meeting Meetings for Discernment . .181 Ministry Section . 185 General Services Section . 188 Nurture Section . 195 Witness Section . 202 Spring and Fall Sessions representatives . 210 Members of the Yearly Meeting Recorded in the Ministry & Members serving as Pastors . 213 Statistical Report . 214 Local Meeting Information & Appointments with Calendars & Appointments of Quarterly, Half-Yearly, and other Regional Meetings . 219 Alphabetical Listing of Friends under Appointment to Yearly Meeting . 250 Index . 270 NEW YORK YEARLY MEETING FALL SESSIONS November 15–16, 2014 Fifteenth Street Meetinghouse, New York, NY Saturday, November 15, 2014, 9:30 a.m. Jeffrey L. Hitchcock (Rahway & Plainfield), clerk Lucinda Antrim (Scarsdale), Assistant clerk Roger Dreisbach-Williams (Rahway & Plainfield), Recording clerk Karen Snare (Bulls Head-Oswego), Reading clerk 2014-11-01. The clerk spoke of the deep worship we shared this morning. The Yearly Meeting has faced difficult times with a troubled economy and declining numbers. He has heard a sense of despair and cynicism as he travels around the Yearly Meeting. The ministry we heard this morning may be a step in a new direction, a sense of guarded optimism. He invited Friends to enter the work before us with joy. The clerk introduced those at the clerks’ table and reviewed the agenda. 2014-11-02. Friends were asked to stand as their region was called. All nine regions, quarters and half-yearly meetings are present. The clerk asked Friends to identify their home meeting and role when speaking to the body. 2014-11-03. Carol Summar (15th Street) and Emily Provance (15th Street) spoke for the host committee welcoming us and going over access issues since the elevator is not working. Special thanks were extended to Friends Seminary, Yearly and Quarterly Meeting staff for their efforts in preparing for these sessions. 2014-11-04. The clerk reported interim items approved by the clerk and general secretary and not reported previously. November, 2012 — signed on to a statement from Britain Yearly Meeting and AFSC calling for the end of the use of force in Gaza. December, 2012 — signed on at the request of the NYYM Committee on Conscientious Objection to Paying for War as official co-sponsors of the next International Conference of War Tax Resisters and Peace Tax Campaigns. 1 December, 2012 — signed on to a letter from FCNL for The Climate Summit 2013 coalition, of which FCNL is a charter member, supporting President Obama in following through on his commitment to host a national summit on climate change. The President was particularly looking for religious groups to show support for this initiative. January, 2013 — signed on to a letter to Governor Cuomo from many organizations applauding his commitment to address climate change after hurricane Sandy, and challenging his ongoing support for hydrofracking as being inconsistent with that stance, due to its large impact on greenhouse gas emissions. September 2014 — signed a shared statement by Quaker groups titled “Facing the Challenge of Climate Change.” A list of all interim items approved by the clerk and general secretary since 2010 was made available to Friends. 2014-11-05. Friends heard the 2014 epistle from Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting. 2014-11-06. Friends heard a report from the general secre- tary which he entitled “Community, Communion and Living in Truth.” There was ministry of appreciation and expansion of the general secretary’s report. Notes for the oral report are attached (page 11). A separate written report on the work of the general secretary is also attached (page 14). Friends received the general secretary’s oral report. 2014-11-07. Minutes 2014-11-01 to -06 were approved. 2014-11-08. John Cooley (Finger Lakes), serving as clerk of General Services, spoke on Friends’ commitment to follow the law when possible and to break it when necessary and to act with integrity and transparency. 2014-11-09. Susan Bingham (Montclair), serving as Treasurer, presented her report. Last year the closing balance was $18,000 less than the opening balance, this year it is $26,000 less. In the context of the total budget, this is not a serious concern. Friends received the report (page 18). 2014-11-10. Matt Scanlon (Scarsdale and Sing-Sing Worship Group) presented the first part of the budget for 2015. The 2 budget now considers volunteer efforts and trust fund expendi- tures, which effectively doubles the size of the budget. Meeting income is about the same (this number had been decreasing). Most meetings are able to increase what they contribute, several have indicated that they must reduce their contributions, and it balances. Christopher Sammond spoke on the work of the Develop- ment Committee (see page 18); about asking for our passion, and the funds that go with it. He expressed gratitude for automatic donations, multi-year donations, and the member of a prison worship group who gave $5 on an income of a few cents an hour. Concerns that Development efforts will take funds from Covenant Donations are not supported by the experience of New England Yearly Meeting that has been doing this for several years. Matt Scanlon resumed his presentation of the budget, which now includes a consolidated audit to include Trust Funds, Development Contributions, Covenant Donations and Program Revenue, highlighting the changes from last year, and notes on how the budget reflects the Statement of Leadings and Priori- ties. This will come most forcefully from the work of the commit- tees and should be reflected in the 2016 budget. Yearly Meeting Staff, Powell House and Trustees are already reporting on their work in the context of the Leadings and Priorities. The covenant donations should reflect what meetings can do. Some will be able to do more and some won’t. The institutional structure that we support in this budget enables Friends to respond to callings. The example of a Friend who was able to replace college courses in prisons when the State of New York ended the program was cited. Timothy Johnson (Schenectady), serving as clerk of the Audit Committee, spoke to the increased cost of the audit, which is being paid for by Trustees.
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