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September 2001 September 2001 An Among Friends independent magazine serving the Thanks Are in Order Religious n the past couple of years, I have used this space in the magazine to reflect on the Society of articles we are presenting to you, to share a bit about our excitement over new Friends I projects and challenges, and to introduce new staff and volunteers. This column is written to say thank you. Editorial For me, one of the very best parts of working for Friends organizations is the Susan Corson-Finnerty (Publish~r and Ex~cutiv~ EditQr), Kenneth Surron (Smior Editor}, Robert opportuniry to meet and work with extraordinary individuals. As I think back over Dockhorn (Assistant Editor), Judirh Brown (Pomy the years at Powell House, Princeton Friends School, and FRIENDS JouRNAL, so many Editor}, Ellen Michaud (Book Rroiew Editor}, wonderful people come to mind-Board members, staff, and constituents of those ]. Brenr Bill (Assistant Book Rroi= Editor), Joan Overman (Book Rroi= Assistant}, Christine Rusch Friendly entities. What a privilege it is to have known and worked alongside of and (Mikstones Editor}, Julie Gochenour, Robert Marks, with these remarkable, dedicated folks! What a huge reservoir of wisdom and what a Cameron McWhirter (N=s Editors), Kara Newdl spirit of joyful service we have in the Religious Society of Friends! (Columnist), Lisa Rand, Marjorie Schier (Copyeditors}, Sarah Gray (Inurn) As you read these words, here at the JouRNAL we will be coming to the end of Production Kenneth Sutton's eight years of service on our staff, as he leaves Philadelphia to move Barbara Benron (Art Dir~ctor}, Alia Podolsky to Boston. Kenneth came to us in 1993 when our art director, Barbara Benton, (Assistant Art Director), Marrin Kell ey (W~b Managu) mentioned to him that we were looking for a typesetter to help our with the Circulation and Advertising production side of the magazine. Fortunately for the JoURNAL, Kenneth was intrigued Nagendran Gulendran (Markuing and Advmising by the position and took to it with enthusiasm and talent. It wasn't long before my Manag~r), Nicole Hackel (Circulation Assistant}, Kay predecessor, Vim Deming, noticed that Kenneth's copyediting instincts and Bacon, Ruth Peterson, Robert Sutton {Volunteers) suggestions were superb. In the due course of time, Kenneth became Associate Editor, Administration Marianne De Lange (Offic~ Managu), Pamela and then Senior Editor of the magazine-a position he alone has held. Nelson (Dro~lopmmt Assistant), Tom McPeak In our years of working together, I have found Kenneth not only to be talented, (Accounting Services}, Tom Hartmann (Volunteu) but a true joy. His thoughtful responses to the manuscripts we receive, his insightful Board of Trustees Barbara Andrews, Lucinda Antrim, Paul Buckley, suggestions to authors on improving their work, and his wonderful sensibilities about TylaAnn Burger (Treasum), Katharine Clark, Linda balancing the articles in each issue have been a great service to all of us, staff and Coffin, John Darnell, William Deursch, Mary Ann readers alike. As a staff member, he has been willing to speak his mind forthrightly Downey, Walter Evans, Marsha Green (R~cording and to share his personal journey with us. Perhaps what I have loved most about Ckrk), Dan Hewitt, Linda Lyman, Barbara Mays, Larry Miller, Julian O'Reilley, Ruth Peterson, David working with Kenneth has been his deep sense of calling to do God's work and Runkel, Larry D. Spears, Jonathan Tamez, Wilmer watching him discern how best to follow that leading. We all will miss his infectious Tjossem, Elizabeth Years (Ckrk), Anne-Marie Zilliacus sense of humor and hearty laughter! And I will deeply miss his companionship in FRIENDS j OURNAL (ISSN 00 16-1322) was established thinking about how FRIENDS JouRNAL can best serve the Religious Society of Friends. in 1955 as the successor to Th~ Frimd (1827-1955) I wanted to share these reflections with our readers in the issue closest to Kenneth's and Frimds lntelligmm (1844-1955). leaving. His name will stay on the masthead for a few more months, as he will be • FRIENDS j OURNAL is published monthly by Friends Publishing Corporation, 1216 Arch Street, working on the January issue just prior to his departure at the end of the September. 2A, Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835. Telephone We wish him great joy and many blessings in his journey and his new life among (215) 563-8629. E-mail [email protected]. Friends in New England. Periodicals postage paid ar Philadelphia, Pa., and additional mailing offices. Another word of thanks is due in this issue. It has been ten years since FRIENDS • Subscriptions: one year $29, rwo years $54. Add JouRNAL has conducted a survey of its readers. Our Board member Paul Buckley, who $6 per year for postage ro counrri es ourside rhe U.S., is completing his second term of service and who also will soon be leaving us, has 18 Canada, and Mexico. Individual copies $3 each. years of experience as a survey professional. In addition to the many other ways in • Advertising information and assistance is available on request. Appearance of anyadverrisemenr does which he served FRIENDS JOURNAL, Paul was willing to work closely with our staff to nor implye ndorsemenr by FRIENDS j OURNAL. design a survey instrument that would provide unambiguous information about who • Postmaster: send address changes ro FRIENDS our readers are and how they feel about various aspects of the magazine. It was a jOURNAL, 121 6 Arch Srreer, 2A, Philadelphia, PA remarkable learning experience to work with Paul on this project, and I am pleased to 19107-2835. repott that the results appear in this issue on page 20. Peggy Spohr, Paul's wife, joined • Copyright© 2001 by Friends Publishing Corporation. Permission should be received before him in working with readers' responses. While Paul analyzed the data, Peggy reprinting excerprs longer than 200 words. transcribed and synthesized the numerous comments added by respondents. We are Available on microfilm from Bell and Howell Information and Learning. very grateful to both of them for the many hours of work they have given to this PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER project-and we are very grateful to the Friends who took the time to help us better Min. 20% post-consumer understand our readership by responding to this survey. I encourage you to read the results for yoursel£ Moving? Let us update your To these three Friends who have served FRIENDS JouRNAL so generously we offer subscription and address. our gratitude and our hopes for God's blessing on their continuing work among FRIENDS j OURNAL, m6 Arch Sr., 2A Philadelphia, Friends. PA 19107-2835 • (215) 563-8629 • Fax (215) 568-1377 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.friendsjournal.org 2 September 2001 FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2001 FRIENDS Volume 4 7, No. 9 OURNAL Features Departments 6 Testimony in Iraq ~If Birch woocl.- l-lej~ Among Friends David Morse S-forrs, C I 04JOl(,i Visitors ofconscience report on the suffering ofpeople 4 Forum under sanctions. 5 Viewpoint 10 On West~~ Po+ash 1-},·JI Rd... An open letter from an Israeli Quaker Wynne Busby Cummi'lA lu7'J, f..1 A 0 I 0d ~ 27 Quaker Profiles The author reflects on her rk with dementia patients. Tom Ewell 14 Stories from the Line: Reflections 29 Quaker Organizations on Protesting the U.S. Army The social testimonies at Pendle Hill School of the Americas 32 Witness Barbara Luetke-Stahlman bafb@ inCDmnd. ne-t Pray for whom? Thousands ofprotesters return annu If to t. Benning, Georgia. KS33 Life in the Meeting m State ofthe meeting reports 18 Christ and Jesus in Early 36 Books Quakerism J30q Ordway .Sf. David K. Leonard 'Berl<(!/ty 1 CA q&+1D~-JI ~3 38 News The Quaker understanding ofChrist jesus hilS always been distinct. 40 Bulletin Board 20 Staying in Touch LIJ-4.1 South 4-th Sf. 41 Milestones Paul Buckley and Peggy Spohr~{chrp_ond,IN 473"7145 Classified Here are the results ofthe 2001 RJENDS OURNAL readership survey. Poetry 13 Wedding Album Right: Wynne Busby Iraqi mother with her child diagnosed with a congenital heart malformation requiring urgent surgery. Under conditions caused by U.S ­ led sanctions, successfol Cover photo by Richard McCutcheon: operations on small WdSte water in a street ofdowntown children are currently Baghdad, Iraq, September 2000 impossible in Iraq. FruENDS JouRNAL September 2001 3 Forum pedagogical philosophy, foreign policy, and ]ROTC should not be in even the way we conceive of our own worth, Keep right on our public schools writing as if an economy were a scientific Cheers for carrying advenisements of the given, like biology. But an economy is Hemlock Society! I first learned of issues Many have argued that cigarene created by the people who live and work related to population, birth, death, and advenising targeting our children is wrong, within it: we decide what is good, useful, individuals and society at Woodbrooke and we have moved as a society ro limit ir. and therefore valuable. Quaker Study Centre, then later at the Yet we allow the military to target our If Friends think we roo often educate Friends General Conference Gathering. children ro join the military through consumers rather than citizens, train Hemlock Society readings were part of that ]ROTC Gunior Reserve Officer Training warriors rather than neighbors, and see theme. Please keep right on. Corps), which is now in over 2,700 public ourselves as demographics rather than high schools according ro American Friends democrats, we can learn from a growing Thoreau Raymond Service Comminee, a past recipient of the movement within the economics profession. Concord, N.H. Nobel Peace Prize. JROTCs are one of the Amarrya Sen, a Nobel laureate in Economic most prevalent intrusions of advertising into Science, memorably defines economic .
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