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. 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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.
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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.
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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 . the school setting. Like other youth Devefopmen_t'M FreedOm in the very. atle' · -.··May Friends continue to be advertisers, ]ROTC sells a hip, glossy, but ofhis 1999 book. Freedom from war, . • false picture about available training and famine, fear, disease, infant mornil.i'ty, 'child · ·involved in their promotional opportunities in the military, labor. Freedom to choose lives we have governments! failing ro mention war crimes, civilian reason to value. massacres, racism, sexism, and homophobia. Dr. Sen and many of his colleagues are ...• ·If.Was very sood to read Rob Callard's In my opinion, ]ROTC is an overpriced members of Economists Allied for _Arrr{s · : · account of liis 21 years of government sales pitch that the public pays for in both Reduction, a nongovernmental • servicef\~erving God and Caesar" FJ dollars and the miseducation of our children organization arguing for human, and Aug.) for two reasons, one personal and one rowards violence as a solution ro problems. humane, security and peace. To learn more, more general. ]ROTCs should not be allowed in our please visit our website at
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raqi children are dying in appalling A defiant Saddam Hussein remains in What have U.S. cmzens of con numbers, as most Friends know. The power, insulated in his palaces from the science- Quakers among them--done to U.S. bombing of"infrastructure" tar privations inflicted on ordinary Iraqis. The address the suffering inflicted by our gov gets during the GulfWar-power gen Iraqi strongman, who has personally ex ernment? Ierati on plants, water purification and sew One response has been Campaign of ecuted enemies and used gas against age treatment plants-was not nearly as Kurdish minorities, is excoriated in the Conscience, a project undertaken jointly benign as it was portrayed by the elder United States for his cynical use of the by American Friends Service Committee Bush administration ten years ago. The civilian population. The U.S. government and Fellowship of Reconciliation aimed U.S. public was told the destruction of has behaved scarcely less hypocritically, at challenging the sanctions by installing these sites would bring pressure on Saddam both in its 1990 military action-avow four small water-chlorinators that would Hussein, with the object of removing him edly to liberate Kuwait, but obviously provide sterilized water for at least a few from power. What we were not told was driven by strategic oil interests in the hundred Iraqis. Because the purifiers use the calculated cost of that "pressure" in Middle East-and in its continuing pur chlorine, they fall under the UN sanctions the form of human suffering. suit of a failed policy that brutalizes the against "dual use" chemicals that could Ten years of UN sanctions, enforced innocent: the poor, the elderly, and the conceivably be used by the Iraqi military, under the Clinton administration and now very young. and they consequently violate U.S. law. the younger Bush administration, have According to a 1998 UNICEF report, As of this writing, some 85 Quaker meet extended this war against civilians, claim a million Iraqi deaths have resulted di ings in the U.S. have joined in this act of ing more lives than the original bombing. rectly from the sanctions. Children ac collective civil disobedience, theoretically count for half the fatalities, succumbing to risking U.S. Treasury Dept. fines up to $1 waterborne diseases such as cholera, ty million. The action is largely symbolic; David Morse is a member of Stom (Conn.) Meeting. He is the author ofa novel, The Iron phoid, and dysentery, and from lack of the chlorinators are not yet in operation, Bridge, and most recently a pamphlet entitled medical facilities for treating birth de but the campaign has raised awareness Testimony: John Woolman and the Global fects-which are reportedly on the rise in and helped-along with world opinion Economy. David Morse can be contacted at his areas contaminated by spent uranium and to force the present administration to re website:
6 September 2001 FRIENDS JoURNAL Despite these efforts, most of the U.S. tions. He is typical of those leading the Mairead Corrigan Maguire's burning ques public remains oblivious to the continu delegations into Iraq, whose compassion tion, "In 50 years, the next generation will ing casualties. transcends the boundaries of any particu ask: 'What were you doing when the chil "Those children die quietly," says Doug lar religious faith. dren oflraq were dying?"' Hostetter, who has helped coordinate From his first visit in 1990, just before Another activist drawn to Iraq and par Campaign ofConsc ience. "No media. No the GulfWar, Hostetter recalls a highly ticularly to the plight of the children is Jim outrage." industrialized Iraq with the best educa Jennings, founder of a group called Con The media's blindness tO the suffering tional and medical system in the Arab science International. Asked what was his in Iraq is all too typical. At best it is a case world. It had a large middle class and most moving experience during the dozen ofvio lence "done at great distance and by beautiful cities. "We have destroyed it," visits he had made, delivering medical other hands," as John Woolman wrote he says, "and we have kept it destroyed." supplies to pediatric hospitals and sup 240 years ago about the kidnapping of The systematic bombing ofelectric gener porting other types of relief, he said it was Africans. Surely, in the present case, there ating plants alone deprived Iraq of basic "putting my hand on a dying baby, whose is an element of racism behind the media's sanitation, since treatment plants all run body was just starting to chill." demonization of Arab leaders. And im on electricity. Jennings, a 62-year-old professor of plicit in the silence is denial: nobody wants Hostetter repeats Nobel Peace laureate archaeology and Middle Eastern history, to believe that 5,000 Iraqi children are dying every month at our hands, Page 6: Kathy Kelly, even as the world--especially the founder of Voices in Arab world, including Kuwait the Wilderness, calls for the sanctions to end. visits an Iraqi family, Hostetter is international/inter 1998. Left: Jim Jennings (center) and faith secretary ofFellowship ofRec a Belgian cardiologist onciliation, based in Nyack, New listen to an Iraqi ~"' York. He had spoken to my meet surgeon tell about ;{; ing last winter and was among those difficulties faced by ~ I interviewed later by telephone in doctors in a Baghdad ·il an effort to get a sense of what hospital. Below: ~ motivated him and others like him Michael carley, ~ whose organization ..; to make the trek to Iraq. rebuilt a water .~ I had intended tO go to Iraq purification plant, ·- myselfbut for various reasons opted with an Iraqi worker ~ not to, at least for the present. In d the course of networking, I discov ered that nearly a dozen organizations and a Baptist, looks to Christ for his have been sending delegations to Iraq, so I model. As I write, he is leading a del decided instead to report on their experi egation of religious leaders to Iraq. For ences for readers of FRIENDS JouRNAL. I him the relief effort is "a must-do kind wanted to know what individuals were of thing-not something I can shrink observing, what they were accomplishing, from. The children oflraq are on the and what they were carrying away spiritu conscience of America." ally from the experience. The work also has rich rewards, as What I heard inspired me. It confirmed Michael Carley discovered during a my feeling that when we engage the great trip last March to the southeastern issues of our time-recognize and locate corner of Iraq, the area hit hardest by them on the map of our consciousness, the Gulf War. Carley describes his and translate our faith into action-we elation when the bus pulled up to the are ourselves transformed. Listening to Labanni water-purification plant that their stories helped me to understand the his organization, Veterans for Peace movement against sanctions in terms of a (VFP), had rebuilt in partnership with faith broader than Quakerism and also to a Michigan-based group called Life consider Quakerism in a different light. for Relief and Development. Seeing Hostetter, 54, is a Mennonite. But he the fresh paint with his own eyes and says he has found his own spirituality hearing the pumps humming, Carley deepened and enriched through coopera says "It just wallops you-the fact that tive work with people of various faiths. it's working and is saving thousands of He married into a Jewish family, took in children's lives!" He broke into tears. ~ two Bosnian Muslim students during the VFP's rebuilding of the Labanni 2:: war in Bosnia, and has also worked with water plant is a large-scale project, re- _§ Methodist as well as Quaker organiza- storing filtered and purified water to ~ FRIENDS JoURNAL September 2001 7 tens of thousands of people. In contrast, something else, she told me before the bombings the Air Force is using National theAFSC-FOR water chlorinators are rela trip. She was looking for forgiveness for Guard reservists. They're up there at tively token, able to provide sterilized wa her participation in the war. Her dream 30,000 feet and have little sense ofconse ter to only a few hundred people-if they came true, she told me afterward, when quences. That's why we think it's so im can be gotten to function. The chlorina the delegation traveled to the city ofBasra. portant to have these people-to-people tors have run into technical problems, There they met a mother who had lost a encounters with Iraq." owing partly to their having been de child to a U.S. bomb in 1999. Lovett The media's unwillingness to focus on signed for less demanding conditions; the asked her for forgiveness. The mother, Iraq is a source of anguish for Kelly. "If reason for using a product manufactured Fartous Iqbal, knelt by Lovett's wheel people in the U.S. knew the plight of in Pennsylvania was to challenge the law chair and said in English, "Of course you these parents, if they could see the faces of against such exportS. In contrast, the VFP are forgiven." those children-gorgeous children- then project employs Iraqi engineers using hard Lovett felt "a big weight come off [her] they would stop seeing Iraq as the per ware familiar to the region and is compa- shoulders." sonification of one demonized person, Saddam Hussein; they'd be seeing people Right: Gulf War just like you and me. Then I don't think veteran Candy the sanctions could stand the light of Lovett asks for and receives another day. forgiveness from "If the media presented this with the Fartous Iqbal, an same attention they devoted to Elian Iraqi mother Gonzales, people would be outraged. In whose child died stead, they get the daily diet of 'What in U.S. bombing in about Saddam?' and 'Shouldn't we be 1999. Page 9: An afraid ofSaddam?' This country has by far English class in Baghdad at one of the most weapons of mass destruction. nine schools later And yet it's easy to frighten people in the rehabilitated by an l!.S. into thinking ,~omeone is going to ~ AFSC/Mennonite rum a weapon at us. , Central Kelly is Catholic. Growing up in a big o;; Committee project family, she had read with fascination about ~ the lives of the saints, about the nuns who rable to projects undertaken by groups Carley has found the work similarly founded orders. She might have taken from Germany and elsewhere. rewarding. "Ifl never do anything for the vows herself, but the church was changing These sometimes divergent concerns rest of my life, I will always know I had and she ended up in college, where she the legal challenge, on the one hand, and this project." He does not consider him learned about Dorothy Day and the direct humanitarian relief on the other self a religious person. "But I am blessed," Catholic Worker. tend to characterize the effortS respectively he says. "I am surrounded by deeply moti Kelly pays no taxes, not wanting to of AFSC and Mennonite Central Com vated people who are powerfully led by support weapons and prisons. She lives in mittee, Hostetter says, although he sees their spiritual beliefs. And ifthere is some voluntary poverty, operating Voices in the the two organizations as moving closer thing out there, I know I am loved." Wilderness out ofher elderly father's home together in their aims. T earns from the One of the most energetic and "on the in Chicago. She says the IRS agent who Bruderhof community have gone to Iraq ground" individuals in the anti-sanctions showed up to assess what could be seized to scrub hospital floors and perform other movement is Kathy Kelly, founder of an in lieu of taxes, "looked around and said, menial tasks, as part of their witness. organization called Voices in the Wilder 'You don't really have anything, do you? The VFP effort, known as the Iraq ness. Kelly has led some 35 delegations I'm going to put you down as Water Project, is not without its symbol into Iraq. She had gone to the Middle uncollectable."' Jail is no longer a threat, ism as well. Volunteers put in token stints East as a pacifist and was there in Iraq, she says, having served nine months of a of work with shovels and wheelbarrows, near the Iranian border, when U.S. bombs twelve-month sentence-in maximum se but chiefly they are providing the funds to started falling in 1990. More recently she curity-for the offense of planting corn put Iraqi engineers and laborers to work. lived for seven months in Basra, which on a missile silo site in Kentucky. Among the members of Carley's del continues to suffer not only from the sanc She thinks people in the U.S. would be egation was a Gulf War veteran named tions but from the continuing bombard furious if they knew how cold-bloodedly Candy Lovett, who suffers from debilitat ment used to enforce the so-called "no fly the impact of the bombing was calculated. ing Gulf War Syndrome. Near suicide, wne," declared unilaterally by the United She cites a 1991 report by the Defense she had been befriended by the Bruderhof States and Britain. Intelligence Agency, only recently declas community and later encouraged to join "Every morning," she says, "usually sified, that pinpoints the vulnerability of the VFP delegation. She had chosen to go around 2:30, the planes would come, and the Iraqi water system and predicts the so that she could participate at least sym we would wonder whether civilians had consequences in civilian suffering. The bolically. She managed, from her wheel been hit. Little girls would make a sound bombardments are "more glitzy," she says, chair, to lift a couple of shovelfuls of dirt la-la-/a-la-and hold their ears, trying to and are what sell newspapers, which is ofa and stone. But Lovett was looking for drown out the sound. For the present piece with our society's glorification of
8 September 2001 FRIENDS]OURNAL violence. But it is primarily the sanctions hear Jonathan Dale, an English Quaker We may try to live by them, but we do not that are extending the war. who described his own struggle to live own them. If we own anything it is our Asked ifshe sees any grounds for hope, according to his beliefs. It confirmed my institutional readiness to support those she observed the extent to which the young own optimism about Quakerism as an who act from the deep wells of faith. people involved today in combating actual and potential force in the world. Particularly moving for me were some sweatshops and corporate globalization "No religious body," Dale writes in things said by a Quaker couple from are committed to nonviolence. She at Faith in Action, "is in a better position to Canada. Rick McCutcheon and Tamara tributes much of this to their professors, unite around its fundamental values, our Fleming had just returned from Iraq afrer some of whom were activists during the testimonies, and offer them to a world spending seven and a half months over the 60s. The task now is to find ways, as which is more than ever deprived of radi course of a year-long assignment oversee Gandhi did, to make the principles of cal vision. That is the distinctive contribu ing several projects organized by AFSC nonviolence attractive to masses of people: tion Friends could make. We could be of and Mennonite Central Committee. The to persuade people in the United States service if we faithfully contributed to the projects ranged from distributing 2,000 that "there are advantages to simplifYing public debate, seeking out much more metric tons of beans and lentils donated their lives, to serving the needs of our actively than at present opportunities to by Canadian farmers through the Cana neighbors rather than exploiting them." share the vision inherent in our testimo dian Foodgrains Bank, to rehabilitating Notwithstanding her Catholic roots, nies .... We may not all be actors but, with nine schools in the Baghdad area, to teach Kelly struck me as more Quakerly in her encouragement and support, we could ing Iraqi farmers modern methods of actions than many of us Quakers. Her become more effective agents of change." propagating tomato seedlings. testimony caused me to examine my own All with whom I talked, whatever their I asked Fleming, who is 27, what she willingness to translate my faith into deeds. religious posture-whether Christ had gotten from the experience spiritu I also was led to consider the special centered or founded on the teachings of ally. What happem to your heart? is the way role of Quakerism in today's struggle for Buddha, or based on no religion at all I phrased it. She said that for her it was social justice. It so happened that while shared a dedication to social justice based "seeing the darkness of the situation-the conducting these interviews I was spend on nonviolence as well as a belief that their malnutrition, the unemployment, the suf ing a lot of time reading the work ofJohn spiritual lives were inseparable from their fering we were seeing on the ground Woolman, who for me embodies some political lives. All expressed anger at what and then seeing the Light. We did see the thing quintessential in the Quaker tradi is happening in Iraq, but the anger was resilience of the human spirit. Driving tion. In the peculiar way that such threads subordinated to compassion, hope, and around Baghdad in some rickety old taxi run through one's life, I ended up attend love. Whether voiced or not, there was a you come across a wedding and see them ing a weekend workshop at Pendle Hill clear, underlying belief in meeting that of celebrating, clapping hands, playing entitled 'The Prophetic Voice in Public God in others; all of which leads me to drums. They keep going. You see the Life: Reclaiming the Quaker Social T esti believe that in a vital sense the Quaker survival mechanisms at work, and it fuels mony." There I had the opportunity to testimonies are broader than Quakerism. my desire to keep going, to keep talking about the issues." McCutcheon, who is a few years older and had done most of the talking up to that point, an swered the question for himself "How does it af fect your heart?" he mused. "As I was listen ing toTam, I was think ing, it breaks it open. There's this Buddhist idea of the heart ofcom passion just breaking open." He talked of the political burnout he had experienced in Toronto before they left for Iraq, his sense of futility. His voice was gentle. "My heart had fllled with that darkness for many years. And then it just breaks open. And there, in the midst of this suffering, is Light." 0
FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2001 9 ary is sitting in her usual Day, Saint Patrick's Day, Easter, Mother's ing back in her geri-chair in the doorway corner. She just rocks her Day, and so on. Patients make buttons of her room. She opens her eyes wide as I self in her chair and cries saying "Happy Valentine's Day," then go by and smiles. M most of the day. She doesn't Easter bunnies, then they decorate bas "Well, what are you doing here?" she have a rocking chair anymore but grips kets .... asks. the wooden arms of the chair fiercely and I am rarely a part of all this busyness; "I came to see you, of course." rocks her upper body to and fro. I squat my work is a little different. I spend al From the photograph on her bureau down in front of her and touch her hand. most all of my time on "West." West behind her a middle-aged couple smiles "Hi Mary, how are you today?" She Wing is a mixed unit that has a large happily. Norma can no longer remember glances quickly at me and then away. number of patients with dementia. Most her husband's name, but she can usually "Hi Mary, will you sing with me? Lee's of these have Alzheimer's disease (AD). tell me the names of her sisters and broth sing 'Frere Jacques.' " She glances at me These are the people with whom I interact ers. The three beautiful young women gaze out serenely from the family portrait, Norma the middle one. "You're the prettiest," I always tell her. "Watch out, she's very combative to day," the nurse warns me. Norma has an alarm clipped between her sweater and her chair. She is at risk for falling if she tries to get out ofher chair alone, but she is always trying to get out of her chair. Re straints are illegal in the nursing homes so by Wynne Busby these alarms alert us to the fact that some one is trying to stand or walk. The noise a~n, then away. But she has stopped during my work hours. On West we are the alarms make is unbelievable. They crymg. beyond making Easter bunnies. distress the residents and set up a lot of "Let's sing together, Mary. Will you When I arrive at the nursing home for agitation and yelling. It gets very noisy help me?" my shift, I take my "coy cart" where we here on bad days. "Yes," she says in a tiny voice. I begin to keep our supplies of balls, beanbags, and I park my cart next to the nursing sing, tapping out the beat on her knee. puzzles and push it along the corridor station and push Norma's chair into the "Come on Mary, I need you to help from the activities room to the West Wmg. day room. She enjoys being in company, me." Please Open Door Slowly, warns a tattered, but the aides usually leave her in the door I begin again. She doesn't sing but handwritten sign taped to the door. I slowly way of her room. I find about ten people nods her head in time to the tune, finally push open the heavy door, back against in the solarium: a big room with floor-to joining in at ding dong bell with a "bee the wall where a magnetic catch will hold ceiling windows and glass doors at the far hee bee, bee hee bee.'' it. I push my cart through and reach back end. It's chilly in winter but hot as hell "That's good, Mary. We'll sing again with my left hand to pull the door loose when the sun hits that glass. later." As I move on to greet Tom in the and let it close behind me with a clunk. First, I go around the room and greet nex.t chair, Mary begins to rock and cry Please Keep Door Closed, says the sign on those who are awake. During the after agatn. this side. noon, the Certified Nursing Aides (CNAs) I'm heading for the solarium, which is will bring more patients into this room The nursing home where I work has a almost halfway down this long corridor, until it is so crowded it becomes difficult good reputation in the local community. opposite the nurses' station. The walls are to move around. Most patients are in It's gone through various changes over the painted pink. Fluorescent cubes provide wheelchairs but some can still walk with years; for a while it was the "sanatorium," lighting 24 hours a day. There are open the help ofa walking frame. I usually have now it is long-term care and rehabilita doors on both sides into small rooms with about 14 residents in the solarium. tion. Almost everyone knows someone two beds in each. This is the short end I greer everyone: Mary who is rocking who died here. Many people come here with several residents who are long-term and crying in her corner, Vicki clutching from hospital, too sick to go home, and but not dementia patients. I push my cart her doll and wanting kisses,] ack dozing in many do indeed die here. Others come for down the short end. I wave to Nell who his chair, Patsy who smiles sleepily and a brief stay in the rehabilitation unit and waves back; she is never out of bed in the says, "Hello Sweetheart" while unbutton then return home. afternoons. Elsie is sitting in her room ing her swearer to show me the shirt she is I am officially part of the activities de reading the newspaper. Bridget is sitting wearing, Annie who wants to know if the partment here. In our department, what I in her doorway looking for a bit of com children are home from school yet, Stella can only describe as the Hallmark liturgi pany. who is mercifully quiet today. I bring the cal year rolls relentlessly on: Valentine's "Where are you going?" she asks me. brightly colored beach ball in to see who "Down to the solarium, Bridget. Do will play ball today. Norma enjoys this W)rnne Busby is a British Friend living in you want to come and join us?" She makes game. She catches the ball when I throw it Cummington, Massachusetts, and is a member a face and says, "Maybe I will." to her. She holds it up in front of her face, of Northampton (Mass.) Meeting. Near the nurses' station, Norma is ly- then peeks round the side to watch my
10 September 2001 FRIENDS j OURNAL reaction. We giggle together. Two aides thing and get away with it. She catches Hey! Are you going to help me?" come to take her to the bathroom. sight of my earrings, "Oh, I like those." But when I ask her what she wants, she "Let's take a walk, Norma." Her face lights up in a winter smile as she doesn't know. Finally I tell her, "Hush, She strikes out angrily at them as they fumbles at my ear. we mustn't wake the baby." I point to try to help her out of her chair. Taking "You have to have pierced ears," I tell where Vicki is sitting clutching her doll people to the bathroom is done on a list her. "Do you have pierced ears?" three seats away from Kathleen. system and heaven help "I don't know." ''What baby?" she asks me, suspiciously. anyone who needs to go at "They'll do it for you in "Mrs. Carpenter's baby, she's just got an odd or inconvenient Nonnaopens the store. It doesn't hun." him to sleep." time. I am forever telling "Oh. In the store?" That keeps her quiet for a few more an aide that a patient needs her ryes wide "You get your ears minutes. I continue with ballgarnes, a bean to go to the bathroom, only as I go by and pierced, and I'll get you bag toss, and individual visits with people to be told, "Well, she'll some earrings like this, until4:30 when it is time to get organized have to wait, we're doing smiles. okay?" for supper. After I have wheeled or es such and such now." "You will?" She looks de coned the half-dozen or so residents who Kathleen sits between "WeD, what lighted. We have this con eat in the dining room, I return to West Mary and Patsy. She must are you doing versation several times a day. and sit near Norma, persuading her to eat always have been a small "Do I need a haircut?" some of her supper. woman, and now at 91, here?':~ she asks. She tugs at her shaggy silver "Norma, here's your sandwich. Take she seems tiny like a bird ''/ came to see hair. a bite." that dashed itself against "I'll make an appoint From time to time I cross the room to ~+ :1:1 my windows. you, o1 course. ment for you," I promise. Patsy who is falling asleep again, her head "Hey! Are you going to Kathleen dismisses my dipping onto her supper tray. help me?" she yells as soon attempts to interest her in a "Patsy, wake up. Look! You have as she catches sight of me. magazine, a talk, a game. some soup." "Hi Kathleen." I squat down in front "I don'twant to .. . I don't want... ." I scoop some soup onto her spoon and of her so she can see my face as I smile Later though, when we are playing kick put the spoon in her hand. at her. ball, Kathleen's foot in its neat brown "Put it in your mouth." She looks "Hi." She grins. "You're such a cute shoe gives a little kick to the ball when I puzzled. thing." send it in her direction. I pretend not to "In your mouth, Patsy." I think Kathleen must be the only per notice. Every couple of minutes she yells, In this way I manage to coax Patsy and son in the world who can call me a cute "Please help me! Lord, please help me! Norma and Kathleen to eat something. The CNAs are busy feed ing patients who can no longer feed themselves at all and so, although I am not supposed to put food into a patient's mouth, I do try and help in this way. Kathleen takes three bites of her grilled cheese sandwich, then flings it down on her tray. "I , don't want any more. She struggles to her feet and grips her walking frame. "I've got to get out of here!" Slowly she walks out of the day room. At the door way she pauses. "Where am I going?" she yells to anyone who will listen. I point her down the hall to her room. She'll be back in threeminutesyell ing, "Where am I going to sit?"
FRJENDS jOURNAL September 2001 11 Today Kathleen is wearing a dark blue I know nothing about the inner life of hoping that some of the familiar words denim skirt. It is much too long for her the AD patient. If you don't know what reach a place in her mind. But I always now. I pin up the hem so that she will to do with a spoon of ice cream when I have the impulse to rush out to the minis not trip and fall. Kathleen had a birthday pur it into your hand, what does your ter of this church and haul him into the last week. The nurse asked her how old inner life look like? In a way, though, that nursing home and say, "Look! It's no good she was. doesn't matter. sending her this news "Five," she answered, as ifanyone should Most of the patients I letter. She can't read it; know that. see regularly know me in she doesn't know what After supper, Norma thinks we should a way. They don't know '1'11 come it's about. You have to make a call to her mama, but I tell her it's my name or my job or tomorrow. "/ do better than this." a long distance call from here, so we'll anything like that, but A ministry to those wait until tomorrow. Norma nods her they seem to know I am promise. with AD might have to agreement. their friend. It must make '1 always look include playing ball and The population changes of course. a difference to have a doing very simple During the 18 months I have been work friend. I believe that love forward to your puzzles and winding ing there, 12 people have died. And new does reach people in the visits," Norma yarn. It might include people come. place where they are, even looking at family pho When someone from my meeting asked if they know it only for a assures me, and I tographs with Norma me what I got out of my work, I was brief moment. I don't and reminding her of the stumped for a bit. Partly I get the occa know what that place is glimpse for a names of her brothers sional stunning moment-like Kathleen like and I hope I never moment the and sisters when she for and her wedding album that is a gift to a will, but I sense it is some- gets them, or looking at poet, or Joanna telling me gracious hostess Kathleen's wedding about the N ile green dress she must have pictures with her. It she danced in. It is as if there might include singing is a dark place and you can been. "Frere Jacques" with open little windows of light Mary because that's the for a moment. only way to stop her cry- .;:: "But isn't that for them, ing for a while; it would include playing ..s.~ thou gh'" . cards (War!) with Julian and finding the ~ Maybe, bur it's for me too. newspaper for Annie ro read in the after ;t: The thing is, there are abso noon even though none of it makes sense e; lurely no pretenses in these to her anymore. ~ interactions on West. All the Bur it would need a friend for the ~ social niceties we value so ministers too. I find I carry home a lot :.:S highly are gone, totally gone. of sad and heavy things because I have ~ That makes for a very direct nowhere else to go with them. Some connection. The only way I times I feel as if I am on a desert island have found to reach these patients is to times frightening, sometimes puzzling. A and ships are going by just out of reach of beam love at them, dose up and full power. person in the later stages ofdemen ria seems the sound of my voice or the sight of my I believe people do feel that love, even if usually less frightened. So a ministry to frantic help signals. only for a moment. Yes, I get something the dementia patient must be one of At about 7:15 I begin to go around the in return: they see me as a friend, they companioning and befriending. It would room again, saying goodnight to those trust me, and love me in return in a way. have to include regular visits so you be still there and still awake. I explain that I The problem-and that's why I asked come a familiar face. You need to be some am going home now and will be back my meeting for a clearness committe~is one who can be at home in a very odd sort tomorrow. "Have a good night's rest. that the work is exhausting when you of world. Goodnight." have no support system or backup. It's I find myself frustrated and disap Norma looks puzzled. emotionally draining, and the physical cir pointed at the lack of contact with local "We can find a bed for you here," she cumstances are pretty hard too: hours on faith communities and with the inappro tells me, with an expansive gesture. my feet on a cement floor, the room usu priate nature of some of these contacts. ''I'll come tomorrow," I promise. ally overheated. I keep thinking about the Lilian, for example, still gets the newslet "I always look forward to your visits," work, why I am doing it, how hard it is, ter from her church. It's in 10 -point font. Norma assures me, and I glimpse for a how desperately important it is, and how I She can't read it. Actually she couldn't moment the gracious hostess she must feel I can't do it much longer. I have been read it now if it were in 50-point. Lilian have been. asking myselfw hy there isn't a ministry to used to be a librarian and is happiest when "Have a good night's rest. Sleep with nursing homes. Especially, why isn't there she has some books ro move around and the angels." a ministry to people with Alzheimer's dis arrange, but she can't read anymore. I I take my cart and push it back down ease and other dementias? open her mail for her and read the prayers the corridor. I pull open the door and let it What would such a ministry look like? and scripture passages in the newsletter, close behind me. 0 12 September 2001 FRIENDS JouRNAL FRIENDS JoURNAL September 2001 13 Stories from the Line Reflections on Protesting the U.S. Army School of the Americas
by Barbara Luetke-Stahlman
first heard of the U.S. Army School the poor, also was assassinated by SOA victims. Although there is not an official of the Americas (SOA), located on trained soldiers while he was celebrating Quaker presence at SOA Watch demon the grounds of the huge Ft. Benning mass. Part of his last homily is read at the strations, Friends from across the country I Army base in Georgia, through the annual demonstration that began with a are involved in supporting, publicizing, Religious Sociery of Friends. [The SOA handful of friends of those murdered and attending demonstrations. was renamed "Westen Hemishere In The SOA was established in Panama stitute for Securiry Cooperation" on in 1946 to train Latin American soldiers January 17, 2001-Eds.] When I was to protect the interests of U.S. corpora offered the opportuniry tO participate tions and maintain an economy that ben in a nonviolent demonstration for the efits powerful people in the U .S. and their purpose ofclosing the school, I went as allies in Latin America. Pentagon figures a Friend with the spiritual support of estimate that $10 to $20 million of our Penn Valley Meeting, Iowa Yearly taxes annually support the SOA. Through Meeting (Conservative). Throughout the SOA, a U.S. military presence is main the rainy, damp weekend of protest, I tained without jeopardizing the lives of sought the guidance and friendship of U.S. soldiers. Approximately 60,000 Latin other Quakers. Two of my daughters American troops have now learned com joined me in the protest. bat skills such as commando tactics, mili Events to publicize and protest train tary intelligence, and psychological opera ~ ing by the SOA are organized prima tions at the SOA. A White House report ~ rily by the SOA Watch, a national confirmed the use ofSOA training manu ~ organization founded by Fr. Roy Bour als that advocated torture, execution, and ~ geois. About ten years ago, Roy rented blackmail. ~ an apartment across the street from the Dubbed "The School ofAssassins," the ~ main gates into Ft. Benning and opened SOA is responsible for the deaths of nu ~ the first SOA Watch office there. His merous Larin Americans who once threat ~ foresight in doing so propelled demon- ened U.S. interests. The victims of SOA ~ strations at the base each November: graduates range from labor leaders and ~ the anniversary of the murder of six protesters to clergy and innocent witnesses; f Jesuits and two women who were killed no one is free from the tyranny enforced ;::~ on November 16, 1989. Of the 2 1 by SOA-trained soldiers. What follows is 8 soldiers indicted for the murders, 16 a compilation of stories based on conver were trained at the SOA. Archbishop sations with SOA Watch members who Oscar Romero, beloved champion of protested at Ft. Benning, Georgia, in the Barbara Luetke-Stahlman is a member ofPenn throughout Latin America by soldiers fall of2000. Valley Meeting in Kansas City, Mo., living in trained at the SOA. Today, the rally in Frank and Carol Cummings joined an Wilson, N C She recently published a book, cludes over 10,000 priests, nuns, union SOA Watch protest at Ft. Benning about 17th-Century Remarkable Quaker Youth. ists, and students as well as friends of the ten years ago, when a priest-friend joined In one 1981 ~ ..: counterinsurgency m ~ i ~ ~ "' ; "' ;; ! operation, 757 people 0> ui !;i ~: ~ Q "'~ o ::J oo :: oo ~ o ~ "' "' "' ~.... § "'o ui u "' oa: .J (/) o
14 September 2001 FRIENDS JouRNAL Roy in a fast at the gates. "There were Page 14: During the about 20 people and more police than demonstration, Peg Morton carries dolls that" commented Frank in a recent dis symbolizing the cussion. The Cummings participate in murdered siblings of the annual demonstration to provide a a friend who survived presence from Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting and a Guatemala Atlanta Sanctuary Committee, as Frank massacre. was AFSC Acting Director for the south Left: Hannah and east and a board member of Network in Barbara Luetke· Stahlman Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). Frank is also a member of the Sanctuary Movement, which includes and sliced open her belly Quakers as well as other religious groups, with machetes, hacking and which assists refugees from Guate the baby and what was mala and El Salvador to live and speak in left of the flesh of her the U.S. against torture and terrorist events uterus. They left her to happening in their villages. This year Frank die. The men who at organized an AFSC and N ISGUA infor tacked her and their mation table at the SOA demonstration. leaders were graduates November 2000 was the second time of the SOA. Now she that Blue Maas, of Des Moines Valley annually protests to Gowa) Meeting, participated. Blue tells told me that this was the first time she was close the SOA. her story: "Last year in 1999, the tenth going to the demonstration, 'to be with Sunday morning, Blue headed for the anniversary of the slayings, I decided to [her] son.' demonstration at the front gates of Ft. join the SOA Watch. Using the Internet "That first night I attended one of Benning. "I was to catch a flight home at and e-mail, I found a room to share with several informational sessions held by SOA 12:30, not giving me much time to see the other protesters to cut expenses. I carried a Watch organizers. Here all protesters take actual funeral procession. I carried my white cross with the name 'Benjamin a pledge to participate nonviolently, form cross as I went to arrange for a cab to the Linder/Nicaragua' painted on it, given affinity groups if they haven't already done local airport. As I did so, I was stopped by me by a Quaker, Marian Solomon, who'd so, and are told what to expect over the a young woman who recognized the name carried it in previous years. She told me weekend. The atmosphere is one of in on the cross as a dedication in a book Linder had been a young man from Wash tense caring and solidarity. written by Barbara Kingsolver. The woman ington who, upon his graduation, went to "Because of individual schedules, it explained that she was a resident of Co the mountains of Nicaragua to build hy was two nights before I had the opportu lumbus, and I shared what I knew about droelectric devices that would bring fresh nity to spend time with Nadine, a Chi 'Benjamin Linder/Nicaragua.' Then she water to villages. He was lcidnapped and cago resident of Salvadoran ancestry and offered to drive me to the Atlanta airport killed by SOA graduates." Blue carried the woman with whom I was sharing a (a three-hour drive), even though we had the cross enscribed with Linder's name all bed!" Blue finally met her roommate and just met! As it worked out, she drove me the way to Ft. Benning. "I switched planes was moved by her story. "Saturday after to the local airport in time to catch my in Atlanta and while doing so, met others noon I found her in our room, busy original departing flight." Blue still main obviously headed for the SOA Watch dem with a diorama. Using few words she indi tains a friendship with this chance ac onstration. As we boarded the plane, a cated that, like the cross I was to carry quaintance and even stayed with her when very petite, gray-haired woman tearfully Sunday, she would be carrying this three she was at the rally in 2000. Blue planned approached me. She pointed her finger at dimensional miniature of a gravesite and her trip to the 2000 protest so that she the name on my cross and said, This is headstone to symbolize her story. In 1982 could be present at the processional and . . . my son.' There are not words to several men had rampaged her village in cross the line into Ft. Benning. describe the emotion of that moment and El Salvador, raping and killing. She ran, "I found the march onto the base on the joy and pride I felt in having made the although eight months pregnant, and was Sunday very somber, yet spiritually uplift decision to go to Ft. Benning. Mrs. Linder caught. Two of the men held her down ing. The names of the murdered are read,
FRIENDS j OURNAL September 2001 15 and all those with crosses lift them Breeze and Hannah Luetke and say "presente," meaning "you Stahlman sent this post card are with us today and we honor to (f)friends, asking them to you." People walk in native cos join the march in November 2001. tumes, many carrying flowers and signs, others with various individual symbols honoring murdered family and friends. On the quiet, slow walk to cross the line I thought of Nadine or both. Many have already and her baby, Benjamin Linder and served time or are currently in his mother, Friends I knew in Central jail for participating in previ and South America, and the Quakers ous SOA Watch events. supporting me in Iowa." "Local reporters met our My daughter Breeze Luetke vans as our group returned to Kansas. The next day, my ¢ Stahlman participated in her first dem ·~ onstration against the SOA at the Pen 22nd birthday, the headlines ~ tagon in the spring of 1999 while in- told our story. One article ~ terningat William Penn House in Wash that touched many ended ~ ington, D.C. Breeze tells her story: "I with my words: 'You give t';) was a puppeteer in a 'National Day with me five years, I'll give you ~ out the Pentagon,' an action involving five people.' In other words, 2! street theater, a solemn procession, the we need Friends to cross ..S symbolic burying of the SOA using dirt , nextyear! ~ brought by the protesters from all over the A "Also in an effort to iG' world, and a 'die-in' to bring attention to 0 se th e 5 O . bring my experience to ~ the number of deaths for which the SOA -~~~~:::_::_:_~~------::-: others, I designed a post- d is responsible. A 'die-in' is a reenactment ! card of Hannah and [me] carrying of the massacres carried out by SOA care of Chapel Hill (N.C.) our banner and crosses. On the back we trained soldiers. They occurred on both Meeting earlier in the fall. We went for asked others to join us November 16-18, sides of the 'line' during the November our friends there. I remembered the words 2001. With some support from our Penn demonstration in Georgia. ofArchbishop Oscar Romero who said in Valley Meeting, we sent nearly 200 of "This year [2000] I decided to join a his last homily, knowing he would be these to (F)friends around the country University of Kansas group (where I now murdered, 'Let those with voices speak for during the week ofour final exams! Ifone am in school). The Sunday prior to the the voiceless.' I traveled to Ft. Benning of those postcards sparks one conversation event, my mother and I participated in a because I wanted to use my body as a tool that questions the role of the SOA, my special, nondenominational, faith-based and add my voice to those who are saying time and energy will have been worth it. I commitment and solidarity ceremony at that we must do all we can to close the hope to see more members of my Quaker the campus ecumenical center. There we SOA. community beside me at the gates." met about 20 students and community "At the gates of Ft. Benning I walked in Peg Morton is an active member of members from Topeka, Olathe, and the processional and decided to cross the Eugene (Oreg.) Meeting. "I am a long Lawrence who had a variety of reasons for line onto the base. I walked arm-in-arm term activist, mainly in the Central Ameri attending the SOA Watch demonstration. with eight others, including my sister can solidarity and war-tax resistance move Hannah, my 17-year-old sister, decided Hannah. Proudly upholding our pledge ments. I've wanted to be present at faith to join us. She had been working with the to nonviolence, we were arrested. Although based actions for change and have found AFSC locally to stop military recruiters in previous years protesters had been myself focusing on closing the SOA. This from speaking in area high schools, and banned from returning to the base for a organization represents the absolute worst she saw the protest as an extension of that year, this time the ban was for five years. If of an intricate web of U.S. and corporate work. Hannah and I had also worked in a we cross the line in the next five years, we policies ofgreed, environmental rampage, mountain village in Honduras under the risk six months in prison, a $50,000 fine, and both insidious and physically violent
16 September 2001 FRIENDS JouRNAL war upon the poor around the world. the Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s as pray for those who cross; a vital role. A "I traveled from Oregon to Ft. Benning well as ties to the Presbyterian church and huge die-in of 1,000 people was planned with 80 others. This year more than ever, Atlanta Meeting. At that time, she met a this year as well, but it was so wet that the SOA Watch welcomed and embraced the refugee from Guatemala who was active idea was abandoned. Signs included the global movement for change, and I was in the SOA Watch. Nancy was moved to slogans, 'I order you in the name of God, impressed with the diversity of those in participate. She finally went to Ft. Benning Stop the oppression' (Romero) and 'Hate attendance: young people with puppets, some 15 years later in honor ofher friends, cannot drive out hate, only love can do vitality, and imagination mixed with others who have suffered, and those who that' (Martin Luther King Jr.)." Catholic sisters, unionists, those in wheel continue to suffer at the hands of SOA Attending the demonstration for the chairs, families with toddlers, and weath trained military. "I wanted to learn more first time this year were Malcolm and ered activists to spend the weekend in the about the SOA and add my voice to gain Lucy Bell from Weston, Vermont, and chilly drizzle and protest nonviolently. ... attention to an injustice," she recalls. "I members ofWilderness Meeting. Malcolm We all agreed to act in reverence and to was impressed at the number of people I became involved after joining the Sanctu honor those murdered. About 3,600 pro saw there and their commitment." ary Movement and meeting Frank testers risked arrest by crossing the line Nancy Smith's son was one of about Cummings in 1989. Malcolm distrusts onto base property and walking as far as 20 Guilford College students who also the mission of the SOA and believes the possible onto the base. Over 2,100 of us demonstrated against the SOA. The motivation is control and military frater were actually arrested. school's Service and Coordination Coun nity. He found it "terribly moving" to "As I watched all those people standing cil paid for their gas and hotel, and meals watch the multiple columns of people in the rain and cold, listening to survivors were packed by the school cafeteria. Other walking peacefully into the fort and feels of the actual massacre in 1996 in Chiapas, support came from the Quaker Leader strongly that "actions against the SOA to Pete Seeger, to a row of people who ship Scholars Program and the campus help to inform the American public of the have served this cause in prison, I felt a Amnesty International organization. Of truth behind the school." Malcolm wrote power that transcends the violence in the the 15 or 20 people who went, two were a letter to the editor of the Columbus world. I felt hope. When it was time for Quaker. Eight students crossed the line newspaper that was published several days my affinity group ofsix to walk in the long and were processed for arrest. after the November demonstration. The funeral procession and cross onto the base, "As a Quaker and a pacifist," reported Bells would like to see a Quaker presence we carried dolls that were dressed for burial, Priscilla Ewen from Atlanta, "I go to the this November. "There is a good deal of each representing a massacred child. SOA protest every year because it is a way public respect for the Quakers and noth "Shrouded in black, I clutched a family to stand up to America's pervasive milita ing could be more consistent with our of little rag dolls, [symbolizing] the sib rism within a wide base of support. The Peace Testimony," Malcolm said in are lings of a friend who is a survivor of a SOA is so clearly a human rights hazard cent telephone conversation. They plan to Guatemala massacre. Never have I felt so that many people want to see it closed. return to the base in November and cross. bonded to dolls. Once on the base we More broadly, I am protesting America's Like Malcolm, I found protesting the walked until we found a grassy patch. general foreign policy especially in Latin SOA very powerful. Participating in the There we used spades to bury our dolls, America. I definitely think more Quakers rally, as well as knowing that the expriences wailing loudly from the deepest places of should show up next year. There are plenty I heard were similar to my own, gives me our hearts. Many joined us in our wailing. of religious groups represented, most vis strength. Through shared witness, I can We were arrested for 'criminal trespass' ibly Catholics and Buddhists. You don't continue to work for a better world. 0 and 'destroying property.' Yet the dicta have to be prepared to go to jail to go to tors and generals, graduates of the SOA the protest. Some people don't cross, some and perpetrators of massacres, go un do and come back before they are ar Resources: charged, untried. We were of course is rested, and others risk arrest. This past Call or e-mail the SOA Watch, sued 'ban and bar' letters. One of our year, an affinity group model was adopted (202) 234-3440/ group, Ann Huntwork, was already await from Seattle and D. C. protests. There was
FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2001 17 Christ and Jesus in
by David K Leonard y perception is that most ... in him was life, and the life was the light of attenders of unprogrammed all people. The light shines in the darkness, Quaker meetings in the and the darkness did not overcome it. United States today are un M This is the origin of our phrase "Inner comfortable with the Christian heritage of the Religious Society of Friends. If Light," and it testifies to the universal so, this is unfortunate, for that heri presence ofGod and its capability ofbreak tage is rich and has much to give us if ing in on our lives. In The Coming ofthe we would only draw upon it. The Cosmic Christ, the lapsed Catholic Mat problem, I propose, has thew Fox uses this Christ from the Gospel of]ohn to argue for the universality of this ••!Iiiii• much to do with the fact that we do aspect of the Christian experience. not understand the Thus although unprogrammed Quak distinctly Quaker ers may be uncomfortable with "Jesus ' approach to Christianity Christ," I believe they are more at ease and instead accept the inter- with "Jesus" and "Christ." I want to show pretations of other denominations that the implicit theology that underlies as the only ones possible-so that these distinctions is much the same as that when we reject these interpretations of the early Quakers. we also reject Christianity. Quakerism arose out ofthe ferment that In order to help us to a new un overtook England in the first generation derstanding, I'd like to revisit the after the Bible became widely available in early Quaker experience ofChrist Jesus Ef_l~ish. In the p~riod around the English and discuss what is distinctive about it. ClYll War most literate English men and I've deliberately used the inverted phrase women read the Bible avidly and studied it Christ Jesus, because that was common intently. They frequently were shocked to among founding Friends and because it discover that the Christianity portrayed in helps to alert us to the fact that a good pan the New Testament was quite different of our problem is one oflanguage. from the one presented by the established In the contemporary United States churches, both Anglican and Catholic. when someone says "Jesus Christ," im Quakerism was an attempt to recapture plicitly embedded within this term is "my "primitive Christianity" as reflected in the personal Lord and Savior." However, when Gospels and the Book of Acts. There is a w_e_ simply say "Jesus" we open the possi gentle irony to the many Friends who bthty that we mean the historical Jesus as strongly affirm the Quaker testimonies but understood from the last century of criti distance themselves from Christianity-for cal biblical scholarship on the Synoptic virtually all of those testimonies are rooted Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. in the Gospels. Do we not lose something And when we invoke "Christ" we gener when we accept these precious fruits and ally mean the universal presence ofChrist, reject the roots from which they grew? which was manifested in the historical However, Friends did not and do not Jesus, but also preexisted him and has believe that the discovery ofTruth, whether continued to break in on the lives ofpeoples abo~t Christianity or anything else, is pri of all cultures since. marlly a matter of scholarship. Protestant This universal Christ is announced in theologians such as Calvin knew ancient the Gospel ofJohn 1: 1, 4-5 with: Greek and Hebrew and devoted intensive study to the early texts but came to very In the beginning was the Word, and the different conclusions than Friends did. Word was with God, and the Word was God. George Fox wrote that "though I read David K Leonard is a member ofStrawberry the Scriptures that spoke of Christ and of Creek (Calif) Meeting. He studied with Douglas God, yet I knew him not but by revela Steer~ and Henry Cadbury at Haverford College tion ...." Fox insisted again and again that and zs now Dean of International and Area he "knew experimentally" the fundamen Studies at University ofCalifornia at Berkeley. tal truths about which he ministered. By
18 September 2001 FRIENDS JouRNAL Early Quakerism Friends Fiduciary this he meant that the Inner Light, the in which their aspirations exceed their Presence of Christ, the Indwelling Seed performance; it's just that they see no ben gave him a direct experience that affirmed efit in wallowing in their shortcomings and Corporation a particular insight for him. instead want to get on with doing better. Thomas Ellwood, another founding To do otherwise is what George Fox criti Socially responsible investing Friend, wrote similarly: cized in the Calvinists as "preaching sin." If in harmony with Friends) one compares early Quaker writing to that Now also did I receive a new law, an Testimonies inward law superadded to the outward-the of Martin Luther or of most Catholics law of the spirit oflife in Christ Jesus- which from Augustine to Vatican Council II, the • Solid long-term performance wrought in me against all evil, not only in deed absence ofdiscussions of Hell is dramatic. • Steady stream of income through and in word, but even in thought also ...." For Quakers, becoming a child of God predictable total return distributions is a lifelong project. Perhaps one can be Quakerism is based on a quasi-mystical "saved" from guilt or can commit oneself • Proxies voted. guided by Quaker experience of the presence of God. Early to a new path in a single prayer meeting. beliefs and values Friends saw this presence as universally When one reads the accounts of these • Extreme!;' low expense ratio. espe available in all ages and cultures. But they epiphanies among early Friends, however, cial !Y vs. other funds also recognized that this spirit was present one is struck by the long periods of seek in the historical Jesus, is what was resur • Organizations can maintain sepa ing and threshing that preceded them. rate funds for separate purposes rected after his crucifixion, and lives on And being a "child of God" requires an today as the presence ofChrist. They cer (Scholarship, Graveyard or Prop ongoing series ofbreakthroughs that come er!}' Funds. etc.) tainly believed in the Bible as it was writ from continuous living in the Light of ten, and they felt that all the peoples of the • Abili!}' to individualize semi-annual Christ. Friends therefore have not been distribution instructions (accept world would benefit from accepting the ones for altar calls but instead for gradu Christian interpretation of the Living payout. reinvest payout or reinvest ally altered lives. just a portion) Christ, whom all experience. But this was As a consequence, as William Penn • Reduced burden for your volun the antithesis of a biblical literalism. The observed of the early Friends: study of the NewTestament is important teers (i.e. treasurer, board, finance because it helps one to access the Spirit of They were changed men [sic] themselves committee. school committee) before they went about to change others. Their Christ-the Inner Light. At the same time • Investment is made through our hearts were rent as well as their garments, and the Bible can be interpreted validly only in Consolidated Fund, a balanced fund they know the power and work of God upon the Light of that experience. them. . . . And as they freely received what averaging 6S% stocks/35% bonds Until the last century Friends freely they had to say from the Lord, so they freely used the language of salvation. But they administered it to others. The bent and stress We manage money for meant something quite different by it than of their ministry was conversion to God, re what is usually implied by "Jesus Christ as generation and holiness, not schemes of doc Friends Meetings, Schools, my personal Lord and Savior." Many trines and verbal creed or new forms of wor and other Friends Friends had a deep sense of their personal ship, but a leaving off in religion the superflu Organizations failings--or sins. But they saw salvation as ous and reducing the ceremonious and formal liberating us from those shortcomings so part, and pressing earnestly the substantial, Friends Fiducial)' Corporation is a the necessary and profitable patt.... " we can get on with doing better. As Job not-for-profit corporation. Scott wrote in 1792, "Christ has not con A great many dreadful things have been managed by a board of directors quered to excuse us but that we should and continue to be done in the name of made up entire!;' of members follow in his steps." When Jesus said in Christianity. But this is not true of the of the Religious Socie!}' of Friends. the Sermon on the Mount, "You therefore Religious Society ofFriends. Overwhelm must be perfect as your heavenly Father is ingly the vision and good works ofQuak For information, please contact: perfect" they took him seriously. We are erism have grown out of the understand Constance Brookes. Executive Director called the Religious Society of Friends ing its founders had of Christianity. I, for Friends Center. ISIS Cheri)' Street because Jesus said that "You are my friends one, have no wish to abandon Christian Philadelphia, PA 19102 if you do whatsoever I command you." ity to the fundamentalists. We Friends 215-241-7272 The testimonies describe steps necessary know experimentally that when we inter Email: [email protected] to follow that vision, as shown by the ex pret the Gospels in the Light of the Living perience Friends have had with the Living Christ, we have the capacity to make this or visit our website at Christ. It's not that Friends are unaware of troubled Earth a new creation. This is our www.Ql.laker.oryfriendsfiducial)' their many personal failings and the ways testimony to the world. 0
FRIENDS JoURNAL September 2001 19 G Staying in Touch F by Paul Buckley and Peggy Spohr ----~------
s oon after Susan Corson-Finnerty be jOURNAL in the previous six to eighteen Germantown Friends School came editor-manager of FRIENDS months. A telephone number could not (215) 951-2346 SJouRNAL in 1999, she set a goal to be found for about one-third ofthis sample. Please come to our Open Houses: conduct a survey of FRIENDSJO URNAL sub Of the remainder, 72 percent answered a • Oct. 13, Saturday, 2-4 p.m. scribers. It had been nearly a decade since short set of questions. Almost two-thirds • Nov. 12, Monday, 8:30a.m. a 1991 survey, and much had changed in of the lapsed subscribers interviewed were • May 17, Friday, 8:30a.m. that time. The editors, staff, and Board women, their average age was about 50, needed to know whether subscribers had and roughly a third had children under changed as well. Three questions guided 18. Two-thirds had received the JOURNAL the survey development: Who are the cur for five years or less when they decided to rent subscribers? What is it about the JoUR drop their subscription. While 37 percent CERTIFIED PURE AND SEGREGATED NAL that keeps them reading? And equally had started with gift subscriptions, a large Civilian Public Servia: Reviait<:d important, why have some people who proportion had paid for their subscrip used to read the JouRNAL decided to stop? tions themselves either initially or by re newing an initial gift. The Lapsed Subscriber Survey The cost of subscribing was the most In 1999, members ofthe FRIENDSJoUR frequent reason given for not renewing a NAL Board of Managers conducted a short subscription-75 percent ofall lapsed sub telephone survey of former subscribers. A scribers listed this as a reason. In addition, Lester J. Clarke sample of 176 was selected at random nearly half said they did not have enough from people who had not renewed the time to read the JOURNAL, and a little over one-third noted that they didn't like the Peggy Spohr is a member ofC lear Creek Meeting in Richmond, Indiana. Paul Buckley, a member content or that it didn't speak to them. CERTIFIED PURE of57 th St. Meeting in Chicago, is Peggy's hus AND SEGREGATED band and a member of the FRIENDS JouRNAL The CurTeld Subscriber Survey Board ofTrus tees. He has 18 years ofexperience In early 2001, a random sample of Civilian in thefie ld ofsurvey research. 1,000 current subscribers received a mail Public Service Revisited " ... one feature that I've found to be by the late Lester j Clarke Individual comments most unexpectedly inspirational to me is Details CPS Camps in Powellsville, Maryland; Many of the readers who answered the the Milestones section. I can't tell you how Orlando, Florida; Gainesville, Florida; survey wrote comments in the margins. While many times I've been moved and inspired and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. 60 pages of text by these records of lives lived by garden with original sketches and photographs. it isn't practical to print the fu/135 pages of comments, here are a few samples. variety Quakers which seem to me so full To order: Send $12.50 of Light and giving in so many ways. It (includes postage & handling) to: 'The jOURNAL gives us a perspective of always makes me aspire to living and serv Margaret D. Clarke, PO Box 145, a lifestyle and worldview that is not readily ing more fully in my own life ... ." South Lee, MA 01260-0145 available in other journals. As one tries to live a nonviolent lifestyle, it becomes a "I rely on FRIENDS jOURNAL for bringing lonely journey on occasions. It is difficult me into a conversation with myself about to find places to fill the soul and get energy spiritual matters. It helps me work on for the journey. The jOURNAL supplies this U.S.-backed Economic understanding and strengthening my core very critical and, I believe, essential role. I Sanctions Against Iraq values; which in turn support my actions am a non-Quaker whose life has been to improve our society. I don't get that are killing thousands ofchildren every immensely enriched by the fellowship of base by reading about the problems of the month. Friends, we must speak for the Friends and persons of many hues and world. I read about the problems of the children. Letters, postcards, e-mails, backgrounds." world on a daily basis in the NY Times." phone calls, and faxes to our Congress "I appreciate reading about Friends' and our President can help get sanc "I prefer not having a whole issue de social justice work, and theologicallintel voted to one topic!" tions lifted so that children may live! lectual reflections are all well and good, - Marjorie Schier, Falls Friends Meeting, but I'd like to see more spiritual 'oomph' "I have appreciated issues that focus on Fallsington, Pa. in the pages of FRIENDS JOURNAL." a topic, such as the recent one on educa-
20 September 2001 FRIENDS JouRNAL questionnaire. A total of 520 completed questionnaires were returned within two months of mailing. The findings of these questionnaires are included in the analysis that follows and when available are com pared to the 1991 survey results. Scmergood Friends School, founded Demographics. Nearly two-thirds of in 1890, is committed to fostering those who responded to the questionnaire lifelong and self-directed learning, developing a sense of personal were women, and as in 1991, about 60 responsibility and cultivating global percent were married. The number of citizenship. respondents who describe themselves as • All recent graduates have gained single dropped from 22 percent in 1991 college acceptance to 11 percent in 2001. Almost all have • Student-to-teacher ratio: 4 to I children, but the percentage with children • Innovative block scheduling • Community service graduation under the age of 18 has dropped from 33 requirement to 22 percent. In 1991, the average • Shared work program respondent's age was about 50; currently • Organic garden, farm • Comprehensive, exciting it is over 60. As would be expected in an Arts Department older audience, the proportion of retired • Daily Collection, weekly subscribers has increased from 30 to 47 Meeting for Worship percent. Educational attainment was high For information, call toll-free at in 1991 and has become even higher-90 1-888-737-4636, or e-mail percent have at least a bachelor's degree [email protected] and those with at least a master's degree 1951 Delta Avenue has risen from 52 to 61 percent. Respon West Branch, Iowa 52358 dents were most often employed in edu cation (33 percent, up from 29 percent 'IV 'IV 'IV. S C ;.1 t ten years ago), and 22 percent are medical, legal, or other professionals (up from 16 percent). Household income seems to have grown faster than inflation, now averag ing over $70,000. tion. I like getting what I feel is a compre hensive set of Quaker views on a topic." " ... one ofthe best things about FRIENDS joURNAL is its role as a window into other parts of the Quaker world-around the . . . where each resident world, across the country. I see a fair bit of enjoys a comfortable, diversity of belief and practice revealed in the various departments (news, epistles). secure and caring I'd like to see more of that diversity in the environment lead articles. Articles from a broader range ... where newcomers ofviewpoints would stretch us all to grow in our understanding of each other. We quickly feel at home and don't have to wind up in agreement with long-time residents find the author-but Friends from across the new delights every day universalist-evangelical spectrum need more opportunities to hear each other's experiences. For most of us in fairly ho mogeneous meetings, magazines like A Quaker Sponsored Continuing Care Retirement Community FRIENDS jOURNAL are the best place for • Independent Living • Assisted Living • Skilled Nursing Care that to happen on a regular basis. This is especially vital for those of us in very 6300 Greene Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144 small, geographically remote meetings." 215-844-0700 £QUAL HCUSING Continued on p. 22 Visit our Internet site at: www.stapeley.org OPPORTUNITY
FRIENDS jOURNAL September 2001 21 Membership in the Religious Society attracted by far the largest number ofcom ofFriends among current respondents has ments, most asking for higher quality in eepening increased from 76 to 83 percent, with the poetry printed. eight in ten reporting that they attend a Men and women had some very differ Friends meeting for worship at least once ent emphases in this section of the ques our a month. While the bulk of the JOURNAL's tionnaire. Ofall topics listed, women most readers still live in the mid-Atlantic re wanted more "Spiritual Reflections" ar uaker Life gion, 2001 survey respondents appear to ticles (41 percent women, 29 percent men). be geographically more diverse, coming Men were more interested in additional Quakers and Racial Justice from every yearly meeting in North articles on Quaker history (33 percent America (evangelical and liberal, pro women, 41 percent men), the variety of Ernestine Buscemi, jerry grammed and unprogrammed) and from Quaker beliefs (34 percent women, 39 Leaphart & Vanessa]ulye at least eight yearly meetings overseas. percent men), and on controversial issues Oct. 12-14 In 1991, 50 percent of respondents among Friends (31 percent women, 42 said they had been subscribers for more percent men). Inquirers' Weekend: than five years; by 2001 this rose to 72 Basic Quakerism percent. Similar to 1991 respondents, most Rating the Sections. Readers were then reported that they first became subscribers asked to rate the various sections (depart Gene Hillman, Christine & by picking up a copy of the jOURNAL at ments, features, and ads) in the JoURNAL. john Rose Oct. 26-28 their meeting (21 percent) or by receiving Of all categories, articles were clearly the it as a gift, either from their meeting (14 most appreciated. These were rated as "ex Clerking: percent) or a friend (13 percent). cellent" by 34 percent (higher than the Serving the Community with rating given to any other section) and Rating topics. Readers were asked to "good" by an additional 50 percent (also Joy and Confidence indicate whether they wanted "more," higher than any other section). When asked Arthur Larrabee Nov. 16-18 "same," or "less" of each of ten topics. if they had ever photocopied anything Most answered that the current amount from the ]OURNAL, 58 percent said yes, Quaker Worship and the of space given to these topics in the JoUR and in most cases it was an article that had "Opportunity": NAL should remain the same or increase. been copied. Among the other sections, Theory and Practice Only the ratings of poetry were somewhat the editor's column, ForurnNiewpoint, negative, where 25 percent of those re Book Reviews, and the Meeting Direc BiU Taber & Ted Perry sponding wanted fewer poems versus 9 tory all received ratings of excellent or Dec. 2- 7 percent who wanted more. This topic also good from more than 70 percent of the Continued from p. 21 "I like controversial articles and letters." what Quakers bring to issues that is unique." "How about some articles about money as a spiritual issue? It is the most hidden "Since I am a new attender, I'm in spiritual issue-please begin the dialogue terested in finding out more about Quak and challenge us on it. I feel you are erism so I generally devour it when it 'buying' into the ways of the world- 'be arrives. Interestingly, I got my subscrip in the world, but not ofit."' tion 3-4 years before attending meet "I love the Quaker Crostic puzzle!" ing. Thank you!" "Need to seek out Christocentric view "I have done some reading in the old point more-Universalist types get more Friends lnteUigencer, and found the folksy for more insightful programs check airplay in FJ and I imagine this is because personal style very appealing, as well as www. pendlehill.org they are more proactive in seeking oppor the emphasis on news of Friends and tunities to share their viewpoints." their activities. I sometimes find the un relieved earnestness of today's JoURNAL "When FRIENDS JouRNAL arrives, I'm hard to face; although the articles are always excited. Until I see what's in the fine individually, each issue is a bit over -~~~~~= issue. I feel lobbied and as though this is a whelming. I tend to set it aside to read 338 Plush Mill Rd social activist publication. Speak to what when I have more time and energy Wallingford, PA 19086 it means to be Quaker today-all the little (which may never happen)." EXT.142:(800) 742-3150 (US only) or things. Share people's spiritual openings (610) 566-4507 (available worldwide) (and have them lead to social activism) "I often read FJ on Sunday morning as [email protected] and you'll keep my attention. I am a liberal a way to prepare for meeting." Democrat-what I need is more about Continued on p. 24
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PAULA MICHAEL PALMER ARNOLD Trustees are: Allen Bowman (secretary), Stephen Cary Boulder Mtg., West Grove (assistant clerk), Carolyn Pickett Miller, Michael Moyer, co Mtg.,NC James Newby, Doris Jean Newlin, Wilmer Tjossem, (clerk), and John Wagoner. Advisory Council· Jay Beede, Elise Boulding, Henry Freeman, Leanore Goodenow, Mary Hoxie Jones, Lawrence McK Miller, and Gilbert White. *Grants range from $1,000 to $8,000 and are not available for CANDACE KUGEL acadmzic study. **e-mail: FRIENDS ]OURNAL September 2001 23 respondents. Only a few departments "slick" or more expensive. "Keep it plain Poetry, "Humor, Games, Puzzles," Par and simple," wrote one. ents' Corner, and Young Friends-had Excelling combined excellent/good ratings of less OveraURatings. The final question of IN A CHANGING WORLD than 50 percent. Several comments indi fered respondents a five-point scale from cated that more humor would be welcome. "very imponant" to "not imponant" on The advenising was also rated posi which to rate overall personal imponance FRIENDS SELECT tively. Particular interest was expressed in of FRIENDS jOURNAL. The highest rating ads for books (80 percent) and confer was chosen by 33 percent, and "4" was Pre-K to 12th grade ences (59 percent). Job ads were more selected by another 40 percent. This rat 17th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway interesting to younger readers, while ads ing increased with the age of the respon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-1284 for schools and summer camps appealed dent and was consistently high among more to respondents with children at those over 80. Women rated the jOURNAL 215-561-5900 home. A number of readers from outside higher than men did, and those with adult the mid-Atlantic region wrote comments children rated it higher than did those asking for more ads from their regions. with minor children. Respondents also commented that the in 2001 formation submitted for the Meeting Di Summary rectory should be kept more current. As in Aside from an increase in age, the 2001 Spiritual Admission Office the rating of topics, in every section to be respondents were very similar to those in 5800 West Friendly Avenue Formation rated, the average rating by women was 1991. Current readers are generally pleased Greensboro, NC 27410 higher than that by men. with FRIENDSJouRNAL, and many assume Retreat 336-316-2 100 that Friends everywhere would like to read 1-800-992-7759 Style and Layout. Responses toques it. Subscribers tend to be women, over the FAX 336-316-2954 Ed Stivender, tions about the style, design, and artwork age of 60, well educated, and to have www.guilford.edu author, storyteller of the magazine were uniformly positive. grown children. They love to read books and mummer. However, questions about the possibility and to read about books, and they are Quaker Education Since 1837 of adding color drew strongly negative likely to get their first subscription to the responses and perhaps the most memo JouRNAL as a gift. Men of all ages, and rable comment, "Torally opposed. Are parents with children under 18, are gener you going to run military ads too?" A ally less satisfied with the offerings. Read number of respondents were against any ers want the ads, meeting directory, and changes that would make the JouRNAL Milestones to be current and relevant to Continued from p. 22 DELAWARE VALLEY FRIENDS "Except in the letters, I've been both Friends should strive to get less squea SCHOOL ered by a general blandness and superfici mish about talking about God. 'That of 19 E. Central Avenue, Paoli, PA 19301 ality in FJ over the decades. It's easy to put God in everyone' is the foundation ofall off reading it. There are wonderful excep the wonderful justice work, after all . ... tions, but I don't feel right urging people Let's not abandon God to the funda College Preparatory • Grades7·12 • &Summer School to subscribe. (Is it too nice or a bit dull?)" mentalists! FRIENDS jOURNAL can help Call (610) 640-4150 for infonnation model a progressive, radical reclaiming Admission Tour dates: Nov. 13 • Dec. 12 • Jan. 9 "I have always liked your font choice ofGod ... even ofJesus." Feb. 5• March 12 • April3• May 15 and layout! I've been subscribing since the late 1970's!" "FRIENDS JoURNAL keeps us in touch with the wider circle ofFriends ." "We are very disappointed in FRIENDS DISCOVER QUAKER PHILADELPHIA "Lastly I want to thank all of the staff Two-hour walking tours of William Penn's JOURNAL oflate. It is as ifit has been taken original city of brotherly love. For sale: hostage by mystical secular humanists. I for producing a beautiful, highly read paperweight created to honor Penn's work grew up in PYM, which was very non able magazine without any glitz or glam and crafted in Olde City. Biblical. I liked that, but this new ap our! It lifrs my spirit from the moment I Send a SASE for information to: QUAKER proach is ridiculous. It has become a po see it has arrived at our door. Well done, TOURS, Box 1632, Media, PA 19063. litical tool. I get this as a gifr, but I'd rather all ofyou! Or should I say, in the old way have a roll ofstamps next year." of Friends, 'you have been favoured' by the Spirit working through you. The Bible Association of Friends "Closing thought: I've seen a lot of Whatever way you say it, I wish you all in America coverage of current events/social justice every blessing." since 1829 has offered Bibles, NewTestaments, witness in FJ-which is great; however, and Portions free or at cost to Friends I'd like to see more about the spiritual side institutions, individuals, and others worldwide. of Friends' witness. I think we liberal Write ro: P.O. Box 3, Riverton, NJ 08077 24 September 2001 FRIENDS joURNAL For additional information contact Julie at (908) 595-6500 100 Monroe Street • Bridgewater, NJ 08807 s someone you care about going to college? Would you like to offer regular contact with Quaker thinking and values? Send I a subscription to FRIENDS jOURNAL. In the din of dorm life, or the midst of studying and exams, FRIENDS JOURNAL can offer quiet moments ofwelcome reflection or stimulate a line of thought worth pursuing. An added bonus for students: our classified and display ads offer opportunities to pursue education at Quaker schools, Quaker scholarship and volunteer opportunities, and Quaker job opportunities for graduates. Student school-year subscriptions run from October through May and are offered at the special rate of $18 (save 7% over regular subscription prices). Orders must be received by September 10 to insure receipt of the October issue. I want to send a student subscription. Enclosed is $18. Send to: ______Address:______FRIENDS Gift from: ______JOURNAL Address: ______1216 Arch Street, 2A Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835 FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2001 25 where they live. And they wouldn't mind a little more humor sprinkled throughout POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Senior Editor the JouRNAL. Most subscribers are Friends, and they look forward to the JoURNAL for FRIENDS jOURNAL, an independent monthly Friends Send resume and three inspiration, support, and challenge in liv magazine, publishes "Quaker thought and life today." references by October I to: ing a life of faith. Our readership is located in all 50 states and 42 foreign Susan Corson-Finnerty, The editors, staff, and Board are grate counuies, and includes members ofevery yearly meeting Publisher and Executive ful for these responses. Your answers and in North America, across all the branches of Quakerism. Editor, hm~I>S jlwR~\1 , comments will serve the JoURNAL greatly We are seeking a Senior Editor. In collaboration with 1216 Arch Street, in the coming years. 0 the Executive Editor, this individual will select manu Suite 2A, Philadelphia, scripts for publication, provide oversight of technical PA 19107. production of the magazine, create the annual produc Fax: 21 )-)68- U 77. tion schedule, read and respond to approximately 400 No phone calls please. A Response • • • and an Invitation submissions annually, supervise editorial volunteers and We are very gratefol to the 520 readers student interns. who filled out and returned our survey this Experience and knowledge of the Religious Society of past january. The information we've gotten Friends is essential. The ideal candidate will be pleased from you has been heartening and given us to work with the wide range of belief found among valuable guidance in thinking about foture Friends General Conference Quakers, and also will be issues. The comments written on these sur enthusiastic about building bridges across the branches veys are candid and hence quite helpfUL We of Quakerism. Excellent organizational, editorial, writ greatly appreciate hearing from our readers! ing, and computer skills required. Familiarity with The Despite the enormous care taken to create Chicago Manual ofStyle is desirable. a survey that would yield unambiguous re sponses, some questions remain for the editors We offer a warm, congenial work environment; ex to puzzle over. Who were the 480 individu cellent benefits; flexible work hours; and the excitement FRIENDS als who did not respond to the survey, and of working in a hub of Quaker communication. ®=--' JOURNAL why didn't they? Is there a personality or dispositional or perhaps life circumstance dif ference (such as retirement) between those who responded and those who didn't that would skew the results? One thing is quite clear. The content of Personalized Care in the FRIENDS jOURNAL is created to a significant extent by our readership. So ifyou are a Quaker Tradition reader who hopes to see more spiritual reflec tion in these pages, or more Quaker history, Since 1896 or more controversial issues, or more on the variety ofFriends beliefi, or more humor, or A Quiet, more advertising/rom areas outside the mid Atlantic region, be advised! We will keep our Home-Like Setting in a eyes open for such material but you, dear readers, must send it in to us! Please help us Beautifully Landscaped to meet these stated needs by encouraging Atmosphere others and considering yourself what you might submit for possible publication. A final thought. A copy ofthis readership • Private Rooms, Suites and • Recreational Activities survey is on our website at om Ewell may be one ofthe few Friends whose dearness committee didn't clear T him on the first try! He did not grow up a Quaker, but he became interested in Quakers when he was teaching at Cambridge (Mass.) Friends School in the early '70s. "I decided midway through the year (1972) that I would check out these Quakers I was working for; so I went to Friends Meeting at Cambridge, and I felt at home. I had gone to a number of churches in the Cambridge area, and I'd not found one that I even went back to a second time. So Quakers were a big discovery. "After a few months, I asked how to be come a member. Of course they said, 'You write a letter,' which I did right away, and they set up a clearness committee for me. About 15 minutes into our first meeting, they asked if I'd ever read Faith and Practice, or been to a business meeting, or read a book about Quakers. I said, 'no'! Courteously, they suggested I think about Quakers a little more, C9-ur new Health Care facility, go to business meeting, and maybe read Faith and Practice. Gwynedd House, is now open "Their rejection was good. I went to busi right in the heart of Foulkeways' ness meeting and began to appreciate the 1 00+ acres of beautiful gardens deeper part of Quakerism-its faith and prac tice. When I had a second clearness commit and spacious grounds. tee, perhaps a year later, it was a great celebra ~ two-story, 52,000 tion. I knew I had found a home, and I've not Featuring a style of homelike square foot nursing facility is as looked back. health care unique to the area, advanced in its design as the life "I never tire of reflecting on 'there's that of Gwynedd House features 40 God in each person,' partly because it's the care philosophy Foul keways heart of my egalitarian instinct. I find it such a spacious rooms each with offers-24 hours a day. powerful way to organize my conscience, my private showers, walk-in closets, social wimess, and my sense of who I am. and scenic views from the large Call Nancy Gold, Director of Then there's the emphasis on experiential Admissions, at 215-643-2200 to faith-no easy life rings of creed, church, windows. Plus, sun-lit country status, or finance. T he truth is yours to struggle kitchens, open dining rooms make an appointment for a for; nobody's doing it for you. and comfortable living rooms personal tour. "The same thing goes for Friends commu nity, which does not just happen. You have are on each floor. to give your heart as part of the community. If I am smug about my Quakerism, it isn't about theology or practice, it's about the won derful community to which I have access, traveling across the country or a phone call 1120 Meetinghouse Road away-people with whom I share deep values Gwynedd, PA 19436 and trust." Tom Ewell is 57 years old and lives in E-mail: [email protected] Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He has been execu tive director ofthe Maine Council ofChurches since 1986. He is a member ofPorcland Meet- 215-643-2200 Kara Newell is a member ofReedwood Friends Visit our web site! www.foulkeways.org Church in Portland, Oregon. © 2001 Kara Newell FRIENDS Jou RNAL September 2001 27 ,~etmgl-).'-~ ing. He feels he enjoys him, and he visited the first "a very privileged ex chance he got. He deter istence, living in a mined that he would move '-!\ beautiful place, and there, which he did even 1730 having the where tually with his family afrer "When we're gone, our hearts wiU stiU belong'' withal to enjoy life." finishing his graduate work. Tom graduated He first worked in a hous Call the School for vacancies from the College of ing rehabilitation program in the 2001-2002 School Year Wooster (Ohio) in for three years. Then he Age K through 6th Grade 1965. He grew up in a served as field secretary for 2150 rJutler Pilce, Plymouth }'rteeting small town in Ohio. New England Yearly Meet PA 19462 • (610) 828-2288 "In some ways [it] ing from 1982 to 1986. seemed like a wonder Having been executive ful, sheltered place director of the Maine with considerable free Council of Churches for dom and privilege. But over 15 years, Tom is re- J1 both of my parents flective about his work and § One pathway to peace died in those years, my his future: "One thing I ~ leads right through the father when I was a feel good about is develop- ~ baby, and my mom ing a leadership style that halls of Congress when I was 16. I was Tom Ewell flattens the organization, taken into the home of my Methodist Sunday both staff and committee. There's a broad School teacher, I call her 'Mom Dundon' and shared responsibility for the work-it's al Call 202 547-6000 have been an adopted member of her family most the norm that people cannot claim indi Ask how you can help ever since. I am grateful for my good fortune. vidual credit for anything that's done in the bring Friends' concern for "On a fellowship, I taught college in India council. And that includes me, of course." peace and justice to Capitol Hill for two years, 1965-67, working with Ti Tom acknowledges that he must do the ad FRIENDS COMMITIEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION betan refugees during the summer break. I ministrative work well to be free to do the 245 Second Street N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 returned through Southeast Asia and faced public policy work he most enjoys. into the Vietnam War when I talked with an Outside work, Tom's focus is on family Air Force man who was pulling the trigger and faith. His two sons have graduated from and bombing places we weren't supposed to college and are finding their way in the world. be bombing-Cambodia and Laos. He also Tom is a proud father and spends quality time confessed to his relationship with a Thai with his children. Though he and their mother woman when he had a wife at home. He was a divorced a number of years ago, he is open miserable guy. and honest with his sons about the pain of the "That conversation was stunning-that divorce and has supported their relationship there was this huge lie going on. with their mother. He is now happy in a "When I went to India, I was a major mutually supportive and spiritually compat apologist for the U.S., but I came back with ible marriage and is the stepfather of a third an inclination to do peace work-at least to adult son. tell the story of what I had seen." Tom taught Tom nurtures his spiritual life in several for two years in an inner-ciry Philadelphia ways. "I take some time in the morning to (609) 714-0100 junior high school, then went to School for thank God, gratitude being the heart ofprayer. callighrf@ aol.com International Training in Vermont. He did I also take at least a week a year to go away on • MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES • an internship in Bolivia and eventually went retreat for regeneration, rest, and quiet. And • INSCRIPTIONS • SCROLLS • to the Center for the Study of Development being part ofa larger faith body, my meeting, and Social Change in Cambridge, as a volun has always been important." 22 New Freedom Rd., Medford, NJ 08055 teer and antiwar activist. "There I really dug Over his years as a teacher, social activist, in as a pacifist. My day job was Manpower; I pacifist, Quaker, husband, father, administra worked some with [Latin American educa tor, and leader, Tom has looked to heroes and tion activist] Paulo Freire and spent most mentors-Schweitzer, Gandhi, King-for evenings doing antiwar work." inspiration and courage. Bur, he says, "in Tom married in 1971 and taught at Cam creasingly, the real heroes of my life are older CREMATION bridge Friends School from 1972 to 1976, people who have stood the test of time, who Friends are reminded that the deciding that education was not his calling. have held integrity, grace, and humor. Watch Anna T. Jeanes Fund He was drawn toward ministry, so he spent a ing Mom Dundon grow old (she's now 97) will reimburse cremation costs. year at Earlham School of Religion and went has been a lesson. She has lost her eyesight and (Applicable to members of on to Washington University in St. Louis for hearing, but when we sing hymns and pray, she Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) a graduate degree in Social Work. is as sharp as ever. Her prayers are cogent. She · For information, write DORIS CLINKSCALE Tom went to Maine because of a college goes into a different place. She's only gotten IS East McPherson Street, roommate's poster-a scene from Maine's better over the years. I think what I most want Philadelphia, PA 19119-1617 Georgetown Beach that fascinated and amazed to do is to grow old and be like that." 0 28 September 2001 FRIENDS JoURNAL Quaker Organizations The Social Don't miss out. Testimonies at Pendle Hill We're by Paul Rasor filling up fast. a newcomer to Quakerism, one of my most exciting discoveries was the The first phase of Chandler Quaker social testimonies. I had heard Hall's community living of the Peace Testimony, but it was not until I began reading authors such as Howard Brinton units filled up in record and talking with my Pendle Hill colleagues time. Our newest phase that I learned ofother testimonies that spoke in depth to every dimension of life. Here, I opens soon, so there's still realized, is a set of living principles that can time to become part of ground a personal and corporate way of being in the world. the family. Come tour As I sought to deepen my understanding, I the light-filled common found the state of the dialogue on the social testimonies among Friends to be ambiguous. areas, country kitchens, In North America, at least among people I met at Pendle Hill and within Philadelphia community theatre and Yearly Meeting, there didn't seem to be much intimate dining rooms. discussion of the testimonies. Even at the recent FGC Gathering, while several events Talk with our chef, activities director and all the compassionate touched on one or another testimony as part people whose personalized approach to aging makes every resident ofa witness on the environment or economic justice or peace, there were no workshops or feel at home. Let our residents tell you about the activities-from interest groups exploring the social testimo art classes and fitness programs to day trips-that make their days nies in general. This puzzled me. It is possible, of course, that the testimonies are so deeply so interesting. Learn how affordable it is to live here. And discover ingrained in the Quaker makeup that this sort for yourself the difference we can make in your loved one's life. ofdiscussion is not really needed. Perhaps I, as a newcomer, was simply discovering some thing that everyone else took for granted. On the other hand, it is also possible that Adult Day Program Home Health Care Nursing Care Friends' understanding of the testimonies is Aquatics Programs Hospice Care Wellness Clinic not as deep as it might be, and that there is a Assisted Living Memory Care profound need at present for just this sort of dialogue. This is the message I heard repeat edly as I worked on organizing the conference held at Pendle Hill this past May, entitled The .Ev~ry Lif~ Has M~aning .. . Prophetic Voice in Public Life: Recldiming the Quaker SociaL Testimonies. Participants were excited by the topic and many expressed hope CHANDLER that avenues for further exploration might be found. Many, in fact, affirmed the idea that these testimonies did indeed need to be re LL claimed, as the conference title suggested. Living Th~ Quak~r Tradition Our dialogue around the social testimo nies could be helped enormously by the re cent work of British Friends. Following a A nonprofit, nondiscriminatory QUAKER faciliry 99 Barclay Street, Newtown, PA • (215) 860-4000 PauL Rasor is director ofthe Religion and SociaL Issues Forum at Pendle HiLL Quaker Study Cen ter, 338 PLush MiLL Road, WaLlingford, PA 1-888-603-1973 • www.chandlerhall.org 19086. FRIENDS jOURNAL September 2001 29 NEWTOWN FRIENDS general concern that Friends were not well There are other problems as well. I have SCHOOL informed about the testimonies, Britain Yearly noticed that some Friends seem to use the Meeting began a project called "Rediscover term "testimony" as though it were a syn ing Our Social T esrimonies." After four years onym for "belief" Indeed, many people in of discussions involving individuals, monthly general seem to reduce religion itself to belief. meetings, and a committee ofthe yearly meet Bur religion is more than belief, and so is ing, the process culminated in 1997 with the Quaker testimony. The Peace Testimony, for issuance of a remarkable document entitled example, certainly reflects a particular set of "An expression in words of Britain Yearly beliefs (principles may be a better term here). Meeting's corporate social testimony, drawn But, as I understand it, it is the actual refusal from its experience and understanding at this to take up arms or resort to violence, nor "The accomplishments of adults rime." This document has become the basis simply the belief about it, that is the testi begin as the dreams of children. for ongoing discussion in Britain, and I be mony-the witness to the world. Newtown Friends is a place lieve it has much potential to stimulate dia Another issue is the emergence of new logue on the testimonies among Friends in testimonies and new understandings of old where dreams begin." North America and elsewhere as well. ones. I sometimes see a list of testimonies - NFS Mission Statement We tried to initiate just such a dialogue in usually Equality, Community, Simplicity, In our Pendle Hill conference in May. This con tegrity (or harmony), and Peace--offered as ference was the inaugural event for the newly though they were a fixed set. Bur of course old Pre-K to Grade 8 redesigned Religion and Social Issues Forum testimonies fade &om use (we don'rhear much OPEN HOUSE at Pendle Hill. In addition to two non-Quaker about hat honor these days), and new ones November 4, 2001 speakers who addressed the general role of the emerge, ·though without formal process. Some 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. prophetic voice and the relation between spiri Friends, for example, have begun to speak ofa For further information, tual discernment and social action, two Quaker testimony for Earth or creation. Others sug presenters addressed the testimonies directly. gest that a testimony on economic values may call 215-968-2225, or visit Thomas Jeavons, general secretary of Phila be emerging, even while economic issues con us at newtownfriends.org delphia Yearly Meeting, traced the testimo tinue to be addressed through the traditional nies to their biblical roots and warned against testimonies of equality and simplicity. shallow understandings of the testimonies. Several questions emerge from these devel A=~Altd 6y tk ~'""gylva,.la,4••odAticm ~ He reminded us that "the Peace Testimony is ~tlvat< ,4CAdu..lc Scf..oof.g opments, as well as from the Pendle Hill not simply an assertion that peace is better conference. First, what is the state of the dia than violence or that war is unacceptable," logue around the social testimonies? Are and that "the Testimony on Simplicity is not Friends generally aware of the deep historical simply a statement that it is politically and and spiritual basis of the testimonies, or are ethically better to live more simply in eco they perceived simply as political statements nomic terms so that the world's resources can or "nice ideas"? Are Friends aware of how the be better preserved and shared." Instead, the testimonies can be lived in daily life? BENJAMIN testimonies, as they emerged in various state Second, as living and evolving spiritual The Meetinghouse Mouse ments and actions of early Quakers, were principles, do the various articulations of the "meant to stand as testimony to the reality social testimonies now in existence need to be by Benjamin, as told to Clifford and power and love of God." When we un revisited or updated for the 21st century? Is Pfeil, with illustrations by John D. derstand them this way, the testimonies offer there a need for a new corporate articulation guidance through which our whole lives might of the testimonies? If so, at what level? The Gummere become a form of prophetic ministry. monthly meeting? The yearly meeting? What If you remember the Benjamin British Friend Jonathan Dale, who was a role might an institution like Pendle Hill play central figure in the Britain Yearly Meeting in such a process? And how might the British stories in past issues, you will be process described above, warned that the cur experience help? happy to share them-now in rent tendency (especially among liberal Third, how do the social testimonies in Friends) "to understand the Inner Light as a form the activities of prophetic Friends? How book form-with your children, personal and individual faculty, rather than a deeply is Quaker activism today grounded in grandchildren, and Friends! divine light illuminating our condition," has the Spirit, and where do the testimonies enter made it more difficult to achieve a broader the picture? Avai!dble for $6plus $2 shipping corporate understanding of testimony. Dale It is our hope that the Pendle Hill Religion and handling ($3.50 for shipping noted that "testimony cannot be discerned, and Social Issues Forum can provide at least and handling outside let alone expressed, where Friends suggest that one context for addressing these sorts of ques each of us can only know what is right for tions. We would be interested in hearing US, Cancu:/4, her or himself" This sort of individualism is Friends' views of the state of, or need for, on and Mexico) one of the reasons why the social testimonies going dialogue around the social testimonies. "faded from the agenda of liberal Quaker 0 ftom the FRIENDS ism." Yet, Dale concludes, "it remains true jOURNAL office. that Quaker testimonies are necessarily cor porate and that they cannot be kept alive without corporate exercise." 30 September 2001 FRIENDS Jou RNAL Cadbury's Assisted Living community it's reassuring to know that she'll be offers peace of mind and personal well cared for at Cadbury. " care in a warm and inviting What is also comforting to our environment. We fo llow our residents and their family members long-standing Quaker tradition is having physicians on-site, of treating our residents with 24-hour nursing care and LPN's dignity and compassion. dispensing medication. To learn "My mom's move to Cadbury more about Assisted Living- the Assisted Living has put me at ease way it should be-call us at and given both ofus a seme of 800-422-3287. security. Living outside the area, 0 Send me information on Cadbury Assisted Living 0 Please contact me to schedule an appointment Name ______ Address ______ City------~State ___ Zip ------~ AT CHERRY HILL Phone ------ASSISTED LIVING Please mail coupon to: Cadbury Assisted Living, 2150 Route 38, Cherry H ill, NJ 08002 F] 6/01 or visit us at www.cadbury.org ~ ~ VTDVDfrx-..I Retreatand ~ l't1 'I'J \IU(J L Study Center The "picket and pray" place with ecumenicity at its heart is pleased to announce these events Breathing Space for the Soul: Photography as Spiritual Practice and Contemplative Grounding for Active People Window to the Sacred Tilden Edwards ...... September 24 - 26 David T . Osborne ...... October 19 - 21 Loving the Questions >· Robert Raines ...... ~ ..Octobe r '26 -~ 28 Selma to Montgomery: A Kirkridge Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama . Visit ou; web site for more information about these a nd other~ ~-~ . .,---~ ~·" \. !' ' y , .;. ' ~ . -.' www.kirkridge.org FRJENDS JouRNAL September 2001 31 Witness Pray for Whom? "I grew to appreciate learning as a by John Andrew Gallery part ofeveryday life at Friends' stood at the vigil today, I carried with Central. Because the teachers care me thoughts from the morning's meet about the students as individuals, ing for worship. On my way to Central they teach us lessons oflife in addition Philadelphia Meeting, I happened to glance at the front page of the Sunday paper. There was to the academics." an article that began with the headline, "Should we pray for Timothy McVeigh?" I carried this thought into meeting, and it kept going around in my head. I felt I had to speak and was about Rob Crauderueff '01 to rise, intending to preface my remarks by COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY saying that I had often heard it was not appro priate to base messages on what you read in the Friends' Central Service Award morning newspaper. But as often happens in Friends School Student Leadership Conference meetings, just before I rose a woman across the Model U.N. • Admission Tour Guide room stood and began her message by saying, Student Newspaper Writer • Black Student Forum Amnesty International • Debate Team "I have often heard it is not appropriate to base Varsity Baseball Captain • Varsity Basketball messages on the morning newspaper." She Varsity Soccer too had been struck by the same article, and it led her to reflect on the nature of prayer, on Lower School, Grades Pre-K- 4 Middle/Upper School, Grades 5-12 the need to pray for those whose opinions are 228 Old Gulph Road 1101 City Avenue different ftom our own, and a reminder that Wynnewood, PA 19096-1098 Wynnewood, PA 19096-3490 whatever else prayer does, it changes us. Call: (610) 649-7440 for more information As the meeting progressed, there were sev eral other unrelated messages, but I found that my leading to speak had not gone away. And so I rose to say something like the following: I too was moved by the article asking whether we should pray for Timothy McVeigh. When I first thought about it the answer seemed simple and obvious: ofcourse we should Friends Home at Woodstown pray for him. There is that of God in him just as much as in me, his spirit will go to God at his death just as mine will. Of course we A Century ofQuaker Care for Older Adults should pray for him and hold him in the Light. But as I think further I realize that I am not Simply put, Friends Home at Woodstown provides friendly and affordable called to pray for Timothy McVeigh this morn care to older adults. Nesded in the heart of rural southern New Jersey, ing. I am called to pray for myself, and perhaps Friends Home has maintained a stable presence in the community for over for others in the room and in this country. 100 years. Some of our primary services include: For the past 11 years, every day of every week, the United States has bombed Iraq. • Private, homelike residential living Over that period of time, hundreds of thou • Independent apartment living sands of men, women, and children--civil ians, just as innocent as the 168 people who • Health care facility with 24-hour services died in Oklahoma City-have been killed in • Patient and supportive staff my name and I have remained silent. I have let • Attention to the individual's spiritual, social, and physical needs it go on; I have not even written a letter to the • Closeness to the community president expressing my opposition. Timothy • Medicare and Medicaid Certificate McVeigh has merely held up a mirror to my face and let me see what I have been doing. So Rated one ofthe best care homes in the U.S. this morning I pray for my own forgiveness. Dear God, please forgive me. Forgive me for For a tour or more information, contact our Admissions Office at my silence. Give me the strength and resolve 856-769-1500 to be silent and complicit no more. 0 john Andrew Gallery is a member ofChestnut Friends Home at Woodstown Hill (Pa.} Meeting. Weekly prayer vigils for peace are held in Philadelphia every Sunday at 4 P.O. Box 457 • Friends Drive • Woodstown, NJ 08098 p.m. For more information, e-mail: < Cityquake @aolcom>. 32 September 2001 FRIENDS JoURNAL Life in the Meeting l FRIENDS jOURNAL September 2001 33 Residential and Assisted Living what to do, bur to lead and learn by example." Montclair (N.J.) Meeting, srruggling "with since 1891 issues both mundane and significant," restated its opposition to the death penalty, supported Carolyn Keys as a member of the Friends In addition to The Hickman's Peace Team Project in Africa, and reexam "not too big, not too small" ined the Peace Testimony. "Our meetings for worship have provided a time ofsilen ce, prayer, size, Bill and Becky Mcilvain and meditation .... We are renewed by the liked the retirement Spirit as we come through the often slow community's in-town location. process of reaching the sense of the meeting and then acting, in community, upon our leadings." 'There are so many things Friends at Ridgewood (N.J.) Meeting "have begun to work with one another, guided you can do within walking by love and the Light within." The meeting's distance. We're still driving Peace and Social Action Committee supported now, but the day will come. ... " the Million Mom March on Washington to protest the availability of handguns, and the Ministry and Counsel Committee has Quaker-Sponsored • Homelike • Affordable • Close to Town • Welcoming Diversity introduced "interviews" and birthday celebra tions among members and begun a study 400 N. Walnut St., West Chester, PA 19380 of Faith and Practice. The "meeting has re 610-696-1536 ceived enough spiritual nourishment from its e-mail: [email protected] members and attenders to make us increas ingly hopeful about our ability to enrich the www.thehickman.org new year." Two queries were presented to members of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.): "Where do you find community within the meeting?" and, "How do you nourish this community?" In their responses, according to the spiritual state of the meeting report, Quakers and Money: "Friends report a deep satisfaction with the Bringing Quaker Values and level of community they experience .... All Spirituality to Our Earning, Sharing point to engagement with individuals, small and Stewardship Practices groups, and worship as sites of greatest com munity. . . . Those involved in any one of October s--8 at Pendle Hill the many outreach and fellowship programs • Living our values in our daily dealings with report satisfactory levels of community." De spite concern over too many messages or money lack of silence between messages during • Quaker Testimonies and discerning our callings meeting for worship at 11 a.m., "Friends • Practicing our spiritual values in the workplace at Friends Meeting of Washington appear to be looking fo r that of God within them • Using our resources in harmony with Quaker selves and each other, and express anticipation faith for moving forward in partnership with Presenters include WiUiam Charland, Margaret the Divine." Benefiel and Mark Hulbert Meeting for worship is the center of spiri tuallife fo r Olympia Meeting in Tumwater, Wash. "As one member wrote," according ro the meeting's scare of the Society report, '"(we) sir in Silence, expectantly, listening for that voice and letting God own us.' Out of this working of the Divine Spirit comes our witness, our care for one another, and PENDLEHILL our lives, lived in the Light." The report A QUAKER CENTER FOR STIIDY AND CONTEMPlATION also finds that "participation in a number of 338 Plush Mill Rd · Wallingford, PA }9086 sharing and learning groups, as well as com EXT. l 42 (800) 742-3150 · (610) 566-4507 mittees and community service activities, [email protected] · www.pendlehill.org appears ro be the great dynamic in deepening our sense of connectedness" that includes answering to numerous social and peace 34 September 2001 FRIENDS JouRNAL Give Six Free Gifts----Get Six Free Months concerns in the community. Eugene (Oreg.) Meeting defines "spiritu ality" as "the awareness of our connection to the highest Light within, however named; the oneness of all, the recognition of that of God in each person." Consequently, the state of the Society report continues, "We are re minded ro be tender as we take political ac tions, ro preserve the dignity of all; and to avoid being drawn into adversarial positions that could harden our hearts, close our minds, or jeopardize simplicity in our management of time, talent, and resources. . . . We are seekers everyone. . .. Together we wait, in repeated, expectant silence for both divine leading and that compelling willingness ro follow." For Multnomah Meeting in Portland, Oreg., 'The past year, 2000, has been rich and lively ... ; we have deepened our sense of community and ofworship, and we are gradu ally strengthening our offerings of ourselves into community service and activism." Some of the concerns Multnomah Meeting focused on last year were global warming, peace, and homeless youth. Three other worship groups are also under the care of Multnomah Meet ing. "We realize that the more we give to the The strength of FRIENDS JOURNAL is in its readers, so we want to add some meeting, the deeper our roots grow into the new ones! living stream that sustains us." For its state of the meeting report, Hono Send us the names of up to six individuals who are not currently subscribers,* lulu (Hawaii) Meeting approved a "ditty" of but who you know would enjoy the J OUR.t" FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2001 35 Books Bookstore Bargains in the Real World: Thirteen Stories. FOR ADULTS By Elizabeth Cox. Random House, 2001. 221 A Friend among the Senecas: pages. $19.95/hardcover. 'Tm interested in the way passion guides a The Quaker Mission to Cornplanter's People by David Swatzler life toward something meaningful," says Eliza This account of a 1799 Quaker mission to a Seneca village in beth Cox in regard to the stories constituting northwestern Pennsylvania is based on the journal of Henry Bargains in the Real World. These 13 tales are Simmons and offers a captivating look at Seneca culture of the chock full of passion in common folks' lives, period-their festivals and games, division oflabor, and fascinating and their search for love, meaning, redemp cult of dreams, that effected many of their actions. The perceptive tion, forgiveness, and purpose. Chief Cornplanter, realizing that his people must adapt to new social The stories tun the gamut from intensely and economic patterns, welcomed the Quakers as teachers, not so much for their religion, but for their knowledge of agriculture. The dark to delightfully sunny. Each is crafted by a interactions between the two groups brought on conflicts among the careful wordsmith who obviously delights in Senecas and new developments in their culture. The author shows her creation and its creatures. Her themes and how Simmons and Cornplanter each attained a grasp of the other's titles hint at the personal faith that guides her religion, politics, and lifesryles and were able to mutually achieve work: "Land of Goshen," "Saved," "A Sound their goals by finding the similarities and utilizing them. Stackpole Books, 2000, 319 pp., hardcover $24.95 ing Brass," and so on. The collection begins with the 0. Henry Quaker Witness: An Elizabeth Elliot Mystery Award-winning "The Third ofJul y," wherein by Irene Allen a wife starts her day planning to leave her The latest Elizabeth Elliot mystery in paperback involves a husband for good-until she wimesses a fatal paleontologist found murdered in his Harvard lab. The car accident while driving away. In "Saved," prime suspect is a student of his, who has just filed sexual religious fervor and childlike faith run amok harassment charges against him. The wise and gentle clerk of Cambridge Meeting steps in to help exonerate the graduate as Cox recounts 12-year-old Josie Wire's be student and find the real killer. lief that she can personally redeem those StMartin's, 200 I, 242 pp., paperback $5.99 around her. "The Last Fourth Grade" brings Jesus' words, "I was in prison and you visited Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: me," to new life as a now-grown woman visits Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Uterally her fourth grade teacher in prison. by Marcus J. Borg Cox is a writer in the same vein as novelist Growing numbers of people are unwilling to abandon the world of Tom Grimers who said that "when we write science and historical thinking for their faith and are searching for an enlightened, integrated way to be believers and to understand the and read Literature, we're praying; we're bear Bible. Marcus Borg offers a new understanding of scripture that ing wimess." Cox does so by taking on the respects both tradition and reality. Moving away from the narrow things that are at once ordinary and impor literalism that drives so many away from the profound richness of tant in life. She's tackled big themes in her the Bible, this book blends the best of biblical scholarship with a previous books: divorce in The Ragged Way concern for authentic faith and how it can be lived today. HorperSanFrondsco, 200 I, 321 pp., hardcover $24.00 People Fall Out ofLove and racism in Night Talk. She has just finished a novel that deals with the violence children do to other children and the kind of world we have created where FOR YOUNG PEOPLE that can happen. Bargains in the Real World Just the Way You Are fits perfectly in the Elizabeth Cox catalog. by Max Lucado, illustrated by Sergio Martinez -] Brent Bill Five orphaned children find out that the king wants to adopt them. Four of the children get busy trying to make great gifrs for J Brent Bill associate director ofthe Indianapo the king---<>ne child carves a sculpture out of wood, one practices lis Center for Congregations and an attender of on her mandolin and so on, except for one sister who feels she has First Friends Meeting in Indianapolis, is assis nothing to offer except her good heart. But when the king comes j OURNAL to town, disguised, she is the one who greers him warmly and asks tant book review editor ojFRIENDS him about his journey and listens to him, while the other children [Elizabeth Cox will be the keynote speaker at are too busy making things to tty to impress the king to norice him. This story is a wonderful allegory of God's love and the Earlham School ofReligions "Ministry ofWrit importance of the gifrs of presence and kindness. ing Colloquium" October 19-20, 2001. For Crossway. 1999, 32 pp., hardcover $15.99 information, contact ESR. -Eds.] Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne F. Rockwell, illustrated by Gregory Christie Phineas and His Cousins "In this moving picture-book biography, Rockwell's quiet, searing By Polly Grose. William Sessions Limited, words and Christie's dramatic full-page, acrylic paintings express the sorrow, anger, and strength of the woman who made herself 2000. 148 pages. $13.00/paperback. Sojourner Truth."- Booklist The final book in a series, Phineas and His Alfred A. Knopf. 2000, 40 pp., hardcover $16.95 Cousins completes the journey of the author's Q uaker ancestors from England to Minne- 36 September 2001 FRIENDS JoURNAL sora. In this segment, Phineas Janney and his relatives provide a firsthand account through letters and stories of the Separation of 1827, WES'ITOWN the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, ethnic religious groups in the Midwest, farm ing practices, and the difficulty of maintain ing fidelity to Quaker ways on the frontier. Fact and imagined dialogue shed light on the day-to-day life of the 19th century. Some will quibble with the author's one-sided take on the Orchodox/Hicksite Separation (It was the Hicksites' fault!). Others will wish for more deta11 in the story of Quakerism during the Civil War; the great story of southern Quaker heroism is largely skipped over. Grose concludes her story with a Janney in the Indian Superintendency, but there is little feel for what that was like for him. By this time, however, much of the Janney family had be come Presbyterian, unable to mainta1n an· active Quakerism during their peregrinations through the Midwest. Not unlike the book! -Max L. Carter Max L. Carter is director ofthe Friends Center at Guilford College. In Brief Letting That Go, Keeping This-The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Fritz Eichenberg By Philip Hamden. Pendle Hi/JPamphlet#353, Pend!e Hill, 2001. 32 pages. $4/paperback. Musl readin~ for anyone feelin~ loo busy Philip Harnden's profile of Fritz Eichenberg allows us a glimpse into the life and faith ofan or loo slreued and seekin~ lo simplify lheir life exceptional artist, while the reproductions of the artist's woodcuts included in this pam phlet make it a work of art in itself. Harnden views the artist's work from perspectives of PLAIN L IV I H G what he considers to be Eichenberg's "spiri tual directors": animals; the Chinese sage Lao A QUAKER PATH TO SIMPLICITY Tzu; the Russian novelists (especially Dostoyevsky); the Quakers; and the Catholic Ca~herine Whi~mire Workers (under the care of Dorothy Day). Harnden cites, for example, Lao Tzu's teach In Plain Living Catherine Whitmire provides ings in the Tao Te Ching on the relationship A OUAK!R PATH TO SIMPLIC 1Y between fullness and emptiness-"Hollowed direction to the gimmick-free spiritual path followed out, I clay makes a pot. I Where the pot's not by Quakers. Going beyond the merely trendy, I is where it's useful." A comparison is drawn Whitmire shows that plain living is not about with the technique of wood engraving: "Now sacrifice. It's about choosing the life you really want. tell me, where is the art in Fritz Eichenberg's work? Is it in what is there--or in what is not Plain Living makes the time-tested Quaker there? In what has been kept--or in what has path to plain living accessible to everyone. been let go? In the inked paper--or in the not inked?" This pamphlet is another delightful CATHERINE WHITMIRE ISBN: 1-893732-28-2 I 192 pages, $13.95 demonstration of Pendle Hill's commitment to changing the old Quaker reputation for misunderstanding and discarding the arts. At bookstores or ~ SORIN BOOKS -Kirsten Backstrom Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-1006 Kirsten Backstrom is a member ofMultnomah 1-800-282-1865 I sorinbooks.com Meeting in Portland, Oregon. FRIENDS jOURNAL September 2001 37 News Speaking in Philadelphia on May 16, Jean Zaru, clerk of Ramallah Meeting on the West Bank voiced her concerns and hopes in Year2002 the face of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian struggle. She told a group of 50 over a brown Quaker Motto Calendar bag lunch that the paradoxical fruit ofthe Oslo accords is that she has nor been able to visit Gaza or even Jerusalem since 1993, which she Inspirational messages was able to do before. "Internal closure" even for each month blocks access between Palestinian villages. To Since 1884 get ro the U.S., she traveled via many detours to the Jordanian border, thenflewfromAmman. 25 calendars $21.00 She finds it necessary to counter demonization Open your child's of the Palestinian people, especially in the 25 calendars & envelopes $23.00 U.S. media. Differences over issues like the mind to the world Palestinian right of return have hindered co operation between Palestinian and Israeli peace ABINGTON Send orders with check to: groups. The well-being of Israelis and Pales FRIENDS The Motto Calendar tinians is interrelated, she insisted. She accepts SCHOOL P.O. Box 59 variety among people as a good thing. What separates people, she said, is not differences, A Quaker coeducational Douglassville, PA 19518 but sin. Her vision of peace is one stare with day school grades equal rights for all. She could live anywhere Preschool through 12 that everyone has equal rights and equal dig MottoCal @aol.com nity, no matter what ir is called-Palestine, For more information, call telephone: 301-320-3931 Israel, or the United States. Why, she asked, 215-886-4350 fax: 301-320-7370 can't Jews and Palestinians be as free in a 575 Washington Lane • Jenkintown, PA 19046 secular state with each other as both are now, along with many others, in the United States? -Robert Dockhorn Rabbi Arik Ascherman, executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR), spoke to a group of 15 at Friends Center in Philadel phia this May about RHR and Jewish non violent resistance to the Occupation. RHR was founded in 1988 in response to abuses of human rights by Israeli military authorities in the suppression of the Intifada. RHR's mem bership includes some 90 Reform, Orthodox, Conservative, and Reconstructionisr rabbis, plus some rabbinic students. RHR publicizes specific human-rights grievances and pressures for their redress and has been active with Bedouins and on the issue of home demoli tion. Social justice is just as much a part of Jewish heritage as the nationalist-particularist tradition, Rabbi Ascherman said. He sees eco nomic justice as a human rights issue and is concerned that the gap between the rich and the poor in Israel has gone from one of the lowest in the world to one of the highest, if nor the highest. The violence inside Israel in October 2000 was particularly unsettling to Israelis, he said, and he noted that in the violence by Israeli Arabs, who have experi enced long-term discrimination in Israel, ir was the young and unemployed who were lashing out. He sees four positions among Israeli progressives: those who are upset by violence and throw up their hands in resigna tion; those who hold borh sides equally re sponsible; those who say it's all Israel's fault; 38 September 2001 FRIENDS JouRNAL and finally, those who oppose all violence, The Philadelphia Golf believe violence is strategically counterpro Heritage Festival™ ductive for Palestinians, but who recognize that the situation is not symmetrical and NOW Accepting Consignments that Israel has the power. Getting unbiased For its "Treasures of the Game" information on the conflict is a challenge, Golf Antiquities Auction Rabbi Ascherman said; he finds reports by "B'Tselem" ( FRJENDS JoURNAL September 2001 39 GuideOne Insurance is America's leading insur er of religious institutions, and has been pro Charlotte Meeting was adopted from the tecting Friends houses of worship and schools Beijing Children's Welfare Institute. -Char lotte Meeting newsletter for more than 20 years. In fact, since 1979, GuideOne has been the Friends Insurance Asheville {N.C.) Meeting again sponsored, through its Peace and Earth Committee, a Group property and casualty insurer of choice. summer community service internship for To arrange for a FREE premium quotation. and young Friends. The internships, for young to learn more about GuideOne Insurance, call Friends ages 14 to 18 who have not yet 1-877-448-4331 ext. 5429. Ciu1deOne· entered college, were scheduled for three r. lnsur~'nce weeks, from July 9 through July 27. Partici pants committed to working either 10 or 20 hours per week in a local nonprofit orga nization. Those who worked 10 hours a week received a stipend of $180, while those who worked 20 hours a week received $360. Last year, rwo young Friends from Asheville Meeting worked as interns at the Western FRIENDS ScHooL HAVERFORD Notth Carolina AIDS Project, and a third young Friend from the meeting worked with Habitat for Humanity. -Asheville Meet Learning for Life--Learning with Joy ing newsletter Montana Gathering of Friends reports that Age Three the Jeannette Rankin Civil Liberties Award was presented earlier this year by the Montana to chapter of American Civil Liberties U nion to Grade 6 Eve Malo and Clare Sinclair. The rwo retired teachers were recognized for their journey last spring to engage rural Montanans in a dia logue about the death penalty. Following the example of Jeannette Rankin in her effort in 1917 to become the first woman to be elected to the United States House of Representa tives, Eva and Clare pulled an old sheep wagon to 35 Montana communities, gathering sig Open House natures on a resolution for elimination of the Wednesday, October 3 death penalty in Montana. Eve Malo partici Friday, November 2 pated in the campaign on behalf of Amnesty International, and Clare Sinclair participated Call 610-642-0354 with support from Montana Gathering of to register Friends. (See FRIENDS JouRNAL, March 2001 , pp. 28-9.) -Montana Gathering of Friends Newsletter 851 Buck Lane Haverford, PA 19041 www .friendshaverford.org Bulletin Board Upcoming Events •October 4-7-German Yearly Meeting •October 20--Quaker College Fair, Arch Street Meetinghouse, Philadelphia. Worma Reservations are required for display ads in FRIENDS JouRNAL tion: Debi Peterson at 40 September 2001 F RIENDS JoURNAL Milestones Births/Adoptions Holinann-rwins Stephen WiUiam and Marshall Levi, on May 24, 2001, to Stephen T. Hofmann and Angela Marshall Hofmann. Stephen is a member of Austin (Tex.) Meeting. McWhirter-Brythe Conkling Me Whirter, on • Picturesque 84-acre country campus offering an July 14, 2001, to Ramsay Muhly McWhirter and active lifestyle, near the attractions of Baltimore. Cameron Kennedy McWhirter. Cameron is a member of Birmingham (Mich.) Meeting and • One-story, garden style apartments. Ramsay an occasional attender. • Wellness program Marriages/Unions • A good value in retirement living- your meals, Ford-Pickering-Laura L. Pickering and Charles weekly housekeeping, prescriptions, medical bill R. Ford, on March 31,2001, in Harrisburg, Pa., processing, health care, long-term care and under the care of Harrisburg Meeting. Laura is a much more are Included in the basic monthly fee. member of Harrisburg Meeting and Charles of Grand Rapids (Mich.) Meeting. Pilgrim-Pilgrim-Ev Pilgrim and Kit Pilgrim, on Broadmead is an Accredited, Not-for-Profit May 19, 2001, under the care ofWicomico Continuing Care Retirement Community River Meeting in Salisbury, Md., at the meetinghouse. Ev and Kit, previously members Founded and operated in the caring Quaker tradition. ofYork (Pa.) Meeting and attenders at Lancaster 13801 York Road, Cockeysville, Maryland 21030 (Pa.) Meeting, are now both members of Wicomico River Meeting. 410-527-1900 Deaths www.broadmead.org EQUAL HOUSINQ Hayden-William F. (Bill) Hayden, 85, on De OPPORTUNITY cember 17, 2000, in a retirement community in Dearborn, Mich. He was born on May?, 1915, in Denver, Colo. His mother was from a Minneapo lis family, the Daytons, who established the Day ton Hudson retail chain. He graduated from Harvard in 1937 and pursued a master's degree in Germany, where he married Antoinette (Ria) von Geldem-Egmond. When warrime pressures be came too great, the couple returned to the U.S., Friends Academy raising their rwo daughters in Belmont, Mass. They were divorced in 1959. Bill met his second Founded 1876 Located on scenic Long Island, wife, pathologist Molly Tan Lo, while fundraising for AFSC. They were married in 1971. Bill worked • less than 30 miles from New York City. as a stockbroker, public relations director, and a theater manager. A pacifist and antiwar activist, he vigorously protested the Viemam War and resisted Celebrating our 125th Anniversary certain taxes on the basis that they funded the military. A resident of the Detroit area since 1971, Bill was a generous philanthropist. From 1959 until his retirement in 1982, he worked as a fundraiser for AFSC. Bill and Molly were divorced in 1986. After retirement Bill worked to reform the criminal justice system, co outlaw the death penalty, and to organize a program to drive chil dren to visit their mothers in prison. Raised a Presbyterian, he became a Friend after working with AFSC. A former member of Yellow Springs (Ohio) Meeting, he joined Birmingham Meeting in Lake Orion, Mich. Bill was old-fashioned in Founded in 1876 by Gideon Frost for "the children of Friends and those style but progressive in substance. An "issues guy," he placed newspaper clippings under his step similarly sentimented," Friends Academy is a Quaker, coeducational, inde children's breakfast plates. His resources, polish, pendent, college preparatory day school serving 750 students from age three and privilege belied his values; he preferred to live through the twelfth grade. The school awards significant financial assistance. frugally to save for the causes he believed in, and he was known to turn the collars on his shirts and drive miles to save a few pennies on gasoline. When Friends Academy • Duck Pond Road • Locust Valley, NY 11560 Parkinson's disease eroded his mobility, after a lifetime of helping others, he found it difficult to Phone: 516-676-0393 • Fax: 516-671-2025 • [email protected] accept the help he needed. H e finally succumbed FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2001 41 HARVARD DIVINITY to it by invocation of his living will. He is survived -SCHOOL- by two daughters, Ricki and Margaret Hayden; his stepchildren James, Margaret, and Anita Lo; and his nephews Jon, Jerry, and Robert Chase. A Hood-jean M Hood, 84, in Philadelphia, Pa., on February 23, 2001, after an eight-month barrie tradition withcancer.Jean was born on February?, 1917, in Wesrrown, Pa., where her father taught mathemat of excellence in an ics at Westtown School, from which she graduated. She was a lifelong member of the Religious Sociery interdenominational setting of Friends. She made friends easily and was active in the community. She taught fo r many years at Preparatio n for o rdained and lay mi nistries the Green Tree School in Philadelphia and was the as well as a range of professions first special education teacher to go to Harrisburg enriched by theological study as one ofthe ten finalists for Pennsylvania's Teacher Degree Programs: M.Div., M.T.S. , Th.M., & Th.D. ofthe Year award. During World War II she worked • at the Budd Company but was fi red for being a Special Resources: Women's Studies in Religion Program, union supporter and subsequently hired as an or Center for the Study of World Religions, Center for the Study of Values in Public Life ganizer by United Auto Workers. When the union • won an election and negotiated its first contract, Student colleagues from such fields as public policy, law, education & medicine Jean was reinstated at Budd and elected secretary • treasurer at the union office. In 1954, one year Opportunities for coursework & dual degree programs within after Abbotrsford Homes had been changed from a Harvard University & cross-registration in the nine member schools of whites-only federal project ro a low-income Phila the Boston Theological Institute. delphia Housing Authority development, Jean and her fami ly moved in. When the first African Ameri can family to do likewise was faced with mob vio For information on admissions &financial aid: lence, Jean and several other tenants organized an Office ofAdmissions and Financial Aid, Harvard Divinity School, 14 Divinity Avenue, interracial community council. Active in the Civil Cambridge, MA 02138 • (617) 495-5796 Rights movement, she was in Washington, D.C., http:/ l www. hds. hal'l'ard. edu in 1963 to hear Dr. Marrin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. She later participated in the Poor People's Campaign. In 1989 she joined a 13- bus caravan from Philadelphia, Pa., to Philadelphia, Miss., for the 25th reunion memorial service for the three young voter registration activists who were murdered there. She promoted registration and voting, was active in Women's International League "When I look back now at the past four years, I can see that all my for Peace and Freedom, and served on a variety of experiences and my reactions to experiences were about balance: neighborhood boards and committees. She was a balance between experiential/earning vs. "traditional" structured member of Green Street Meeting in Phialdelphia work; between wonderful journeys and rough arrivals; between the and was active on irs Peace and Social Concerns selfless commitment w the world and the entrapment of cynical ego Committee. She is survived by her husband of 54 years, William Hood; a daughter, Joan Hood; trips; and this year in London balanced out the "exotic" spots I've three sons, James, Thomas, and Richard H ood; six traveled to and the wild adventures. Not only did this huge metropohs grandchildren; and a brother, Lincoln C. Magill. counter previous sites uke the African "bush" , [but] my learning was H ubbe--Gny Hubbe, 72, on April2, 2001, of a more structured and had more to do with theory than the 'it's six in the heart arrack, in Eugene, Oreg. Gery was born on morning and I've just been attacked by safari ants' kind of writing that January 13, 1929, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to German seems to characterize some of my previous writing. " speaking parents, Paul and Hedwig Strack Hubbe. From his father, Gery received the gift of music, -Excerpt from senior student's final self evaluation instruction in playing the guitar, and an apprecia tion for theosophical beliefs and a broad, inclusive, Friends World Program, European Center and mystically-based approach to religion that re The Friends World Program of Long Island University gratefully mained with Gery throughout his life. From his mother, he received a love of nature. As a boy he acknowledges its Q uaker roots. Now in its thirty-fifth year, the attended Sunday school at O ld First Dutch Re Program seeks to uphold the ideals upon which it was founded. formed Church, where he met his future wife, Ellen O ur efforts continue with the present learning community. McBain, as they harmonized in the choir when they were both 16--ir was "love at first hearing." Gery For further information about study with Friends World, please contact: enrolled in the School of Forestry at Oregon State College, covering his expenses with ROTC and The Friends World Program part-time jobs. Afrer graduation in 1951 he worked Long Island University FRIENDS WORLD PROGRAM briefly for the U.S. Forest Service but was called in 239 Montauk Highway from the fire lines and sent to Korea, where he Southampton, NY 11968 served for 13 months in an artillery company. He (631)287-8474 and Ellen married on August 29, 1953, in Passaic, fw®southampton.liunet.edu N .J. Their first home was at Flat Creek Ranger www .southampton.liunet.edu/fw/ Station in Oakridge, Oreg., and Gery'sworkon the Willamette National Forest for the next 33 years enabled him ro continue his lifelo ng love affair 42 September 2001 FRIENDS JouRNAL with the forest. After moving to Eugene in 1956, the Hubbe liunily found their religious home in Eugene Meeting. For 45 years Gery served as a Junior Friends counselor and First-day school leader at Eugene Meeting, Willamerre Quarrerly Meeting, and North Pacific Yearly Meeting; helping, as clerk, with the deliberations, writing, and coming to unity on a same-sex marriage minute and other difficult matters. He parricipated in the local neighborhood association and contributed to the master plan for the Bike Paths in Eugene program. Gery had a fine musical talent and infectious enthusiasm. He is sur vived by his wife of 47 years, Ellen Hubbe; a son, John Hubbe; daughters Lise, Sara, and Cameron Hub be; three grandchildren, Laura, Mari, and Jesse Hub be; and brothers Rolf and Paul Hubbe. Klineberg-Sl'ima G. Klinebtrg, 91, on December 23, 2000, ar home in Chevy Chase, Md., after a yearlong barrie with cancer. She was born in New York City in 1909 ro Morris and Rose F. Ginrz.ler. Her father, a banker and businessman, was awarded the Order of Sr. Olaf by the king of Norway in recognition of his aid to the Norwegian Resistance movement during World War II. Selma graduated summa cum laude from Vassar College in 1929 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa with a major in Romance Languages. She received a Doctorat de L'Universitein 1931 from the Sorbonne, following study at the universities of Paris, Berlin, and Flo rence. An accomplished linguist, she put her gift for languages to constant use as she accompanied her husband, social psychologist Otto Klineberg, on their frequent journeys abroad. They resided for Earlham still emphasizes Quaker values many years in Beijing, Sao Paulo, and Paris. During the nearly 60 years of their marriage, Selma served in its devotion to academic excellence. as editor and collaborator on her husband's books and articles. Their 1933 honeymoon consisted of an anthropological expedition to the Huichol In • Respect for individuality in the midst of community dians ofMexico, whose last-known Norwegian visi tors had never returned. The couple moved to Paris in 1962 when Otto took early retirement from • Concern to make a difference in the world. Columbia University, where he had taught for 35 working for peace and justice years, in order ro reach at University of Paris. Returning to the United States in 1982, they spent ten years in New York City before moving to Chevy • Academic integrity in the search for truth Chase, Md. A member ofScarsdale (N.Y.) Meeting, Selma served on the New York Metropolitan Board ofAFSC and was active in League ofWomen Voters Fall Preview Days: November 4-5. 2001 and Quaker United Nations Office. During her long residence in France she served as simulta Winter Preview Days: January 20-21 . 2002 neous translator at international meetings and con gresses from Dublin to Tashkent. She is survived Junior Preview Days: March 10-11 . 2002 by her daughter, Rosemary K. Coffey; her two sons, Dr. John M. and Dr. Stephen L. Klineberg; ... or call us to arrange your own visit! eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Porter-M. Kristen Humphrey Porter, 60, on Feb ruary 24, 2001, in Louisville, Ky. Born on October 6, 1940, in Jeffersonville, Ind., she was the only child of Anderson E. Humphrey and Helen M. Hartzell. A curious girl with an active mind, Kristen EARLHAM was fond of reading and questioning well before COLL EGE she began school. She graduated from University ofLouisville in 1963 with a degree in Psychology, after which she worked in Indiana and Kentucky 801 National Road West with the mentally ill and alcoholics. For the rest of Richmond. IN 47374-4095 her life she championed the cause of just and accessible treatment for those who suffered from 765/ 983-1200 these affiictions. Kristen married Craig Porter in www.earlham.edu Logansport, Ind., and although the marriage was brief, it brought her a bond otfri endship with her in-laws that lasted for the rest of her life. In Rich- FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2001 43 mond, Ind., she became acquainted with the Reli gious Society of Friends; she subsequently sought Truth from meetings of all varieties: pastoral, con WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 servative, and Friends General Conference, but the Over 300 Years of Quaker Education conservative discipline seemed to speak most dearly to her condition. Afi:er returning to the Louisville The William Penn Charter School is a Quaker college-preparatory school area and working at the LifeS pring mental health stressing high standards in academics, the arts, and athletics. Penn Charter center, she wholeheartedly entered into the life of is committed to nurturing girls and boys of diverse backgrounds in an Louisville Meeting. She could be adamant in her convictions. A fierce advocate for peace and jus atmosphere designed to stimulate each student to work to his or her rice, she initiated a lunchtime meeting, helped fullest potential. Kindergarten through twelfth grade. organize a Bible study group, was a vocal advocate for building renovation, and arranged letter-writ Earl J. Ball Ill, Head of School ing campaigns to legislators. A mercurial and yet 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 steadfast personality, she let her legislators know (215) 844-3460 where she stood and what she expected of them. New attenders felt her welcome. She became a member of Louisville Meeting, then later with drew her name, but the meeting felt that it didn't matter-they knew she was a Friend. While she a Ministry ofPrayer and,~ devoted to believed that instrumental music or singing in the meetinghouse was not Quakerly, she played her Gree~£::~~ lhe r:SchooJ.r/ip_e r:Spiril own piano with great joy. Her testimony against celebrations was rooted in history and nuttured by ON''' '' BE~~G her conviction that materialism has rendered most "the small school that celebrations into hollow rituals that raise expecta makes big people" tions only to plunge many into depression when those expectations go unfulfilled. She cherished children and had a special relationship with many SPrntit~~R in Louisville Meeting. She was active in a folkdancing group and a Middle East political action group, and for 12 years she was a faithful volunteer at the recreational unit of Frazier Reha bilitation Center. Kristen urged Peace and Social Concerns to patticipate in numerous community concerns. One of these, "the Ruth Project," in ::.:i!ft'i);~~~ volved making handicapped-accessible changes in w.~::wE;'~,. the home of a patient Kristen had met at the rehab Greene Street Friends School center. A new life opened up for "Ruth" because 5511 Greene Street OcroBER31, 2001 Kristen brought her needs to the attention of the Philadelphia, PA 19144 meeting. During Kristen's illness and depression, Introductory Weekend she had a suppott committee from meeting and • Aston, PA September 14- 16, 2001 among her friends, and she talked openly with Pre-K through Grade 8 them about suicide. Eventually, her intensity of Founded in 1855 For more information: feeling and empathy for those who suffer produced (919) 929-2339 • quaker.org/sosministry/ a burden she could no longer bear, and Kristen Please call TODAY for a chose to seek the spiritual peace and physical ease of an afterlife she firmly believed existed. She will tour. 215-438-7545 AJ-rojectafihe~m Wmhipnl~af Fbiladelrhia y ealy ~ Rcligjrus Socid.y ofFriaxls remain in the hearts of those whose lives she touched, moved, and enriched. Schmoe-Fk;yd Schmoe, 105, on April20, 2001, at a retirement home in Seattle. He was born in 1895, one of five children on a family farm in The Meeting School Prairie Center, Kans. T hough his family was poor, it was resourceful. H is grandmother invented a 56 Thomas Road, Rindge, NH 03461 process fo r cooking rolled oats, which were sold in a cylindrical container as Purity O ats and later Organic Farm renamed Quaker Oats. Floyd was a member of ~ heirloom breeds, active student involvement University Friends Meeting of Seattle. The only / Caring Quaker Community child in his family to attain more than an eighth putting faith into practice in our daily lives grade education, Floyd went to the College of Forestry in Syracuse, N.Y., but was drawn ro the Progressive Secondary Education Pacific Notthwest by his parents' recollections ofa day/boarding, small classes, hands-on learning 1909 trip to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. He moved ro Seattle and continued his fo restry studies in 1917 at University ofWashingron. When World War I broke out, in order to follow his belief as a conscientious objector and to save lives, Floyd joined a Red Cross unit bound for Europe. email:[email protected] ( 603) 899-3366 www.meetingschool.org While stationed in France he risked his life as an ambulance driver and stretcher-bearer fo r the 44 September 2001 FRIENDS JouRNAL wounded on the battlefields in France. While the nese Americans was wrong that he resigned from for the peace movement when she died of radia German armies still occupied Eastern Europe, he University of Washington to live among the in tion sickness after the destruction of Hiroshima. was chosen by the Hoover Commission to deliver ternees sent from Seattle to barbed-wire camps in The park opened in 1990, on the 45th anniversary a trainload of food and clothing to refugees inside Idaho. He later helped them by watching after the of the bombing. Floyd did much of the work Poland. After the war, he returned to Kansas and homes and businesses they had been forced to himself, fundraising, applying for permits, clearing married his high school sweetheart, Ruth, an ac abandon and by endorsing a court challenge of the the weeds, and planting trees. His love of trees complished pianist and music student at Univer federal internment order by University of Wash remained with him throughout his life, as did the sity ofWashington. In September 1919, the couple ington student Gordon K. Hirabayashi, a Japanese simple belief that he had learned as a child: "One moved to Seattle to continue their studies, but by American. (The conviction of Hirabayashi, who should always have something important to do." December they were out of money. The Rainier married one of Floyd's daughters, was overturned Vlaskarnp-foe Vlaskamp, 71,onJanuary 19,2001, National Park Company hired them as "winter in 1986 by a federal judge in Seattle, and the case in Brooklyn, N.Y. Joe was born on March 31, keepers" (caretakers) ofbuildings at Paradise, Wash. played a role in the decision by Congress in the 1929, in Muncie, Ind., to Arend and Martha A telephone line and semiweekly hikes to Longmire 1990s to pay reparations to internees.) From 1948 Vlaskamp. He graduated from Earlham College in were the couple's only contact with civilization to 1953, Floyd made several trips to Japan, helping 1950, received his bachelor of divinity from Hart until they heard a steam shovel working to clear to build homes for Japanese citizens who had ford Theological Seminary in 1955, then a master snow from the road, which was finally opened on survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and ofarts in Religious Education from Hartford Semi July 4, 1920. (His account of their experiences, A Nagasaki. He supported construction of homes, nary Foundation in 1957. He ministered with Year in Paradise, was published in 1959 and re orphanages, hospitals, and irrigation systems in First Friends, Indianapolis; with W ilmington mains in print.) In the spring of 1922, Floyd Korea, the Middle East, and Mrica. He was nomi Friends, Wilmington, Ohio; and as interim pastor completed his undergraduate forestry education at nated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize by U.S. at Valton Friends, LaValle, W isconsin. He also the university. That June he became a full-time Representative Jim McDermott (D), who in his served other denominations and directed an AFSC park ranger at Mount Rainier, and then, in 1924, nomination letter acknowledged that Floyd was workcamp in Pennsylvania. He served as secretary the park's first full time naturalist. His book Our not as well known as other nominees, such as of religious education for Friends General Confer Greatest Mountain was published and served as an former President Jimmy Carter, but the man who ence and as general secretary of New York Yearly unofficial park handbook. It is one of ten books he had spent his lifetime "doing small things for peace" Meeting. Joe was a representative to the World wrote (including the 1983 publication W0' Is possessed "a personal moral authority every bit as Council of Churches in Zimbabwe and to the Man, which posed questions to world leaders). In compelling as that of the most renowned leaders of regional association of the World Council. A mem 1928 he resigned from the Park Service and be our time." In May 1982, Floyd was awarded the ber of Brooklyn Meeting, he had been an active came an instructor in the Forestry Department at Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure, Japan's member of Rancocas, Westfield, and Montclair University of Washington, specializing in forest highest civilian award, by Emperor Hirohito, and Meetings in New Jersey. He is survived by his wife, ecology. When World War II broke out, he was in 1988 he was honored with the Hiroshima Peace D. Caroline (Lyn) Vlaskarnp; five children, Jeffrey, Northwest regional secretary for AFSC. Working Prize. He used his prize money to finance the Ronald, Douglas, and Karen Vlaskarnp and Kristine with British Quakers, he helped several thousand Seattle Peace Park, a half-acre featuring a Peace Pole, Sharp; a sister, W ilma Cox; five grandchildren; a Jews escape from Germany. 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FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2001 47 PENDLE A QUAKER CENTER FOR WORSHIP, A Campaign for a New Century STUDY, WORK AND SERVICE Is Pendle Hill in Your Will? last will and testament is the cornerstone of Aestate planning. It is the lasting expression of love for our family and friends, as well as our support for those charitable organizations we wish to see endure and flourish. Pendle Hill exists today because of the hundreds of supporters who have remembered Pendle Hill in their wills. A simple charitable bequest can provide very meaningful support to our mission as well as reduce the amount of estate and inheritance taxes paid. Bequests may be specific, proportional, or residual in nature. 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(570) Patrick, (423) 283-4392 or FRIENDS ]OURNALAugust 2001 51 A Campaign for a New Century We are all creatures, not only born into the sure darkness of death, but also endowed with an unquenchable longing for the light oflife . .. We can all meet in this same light, however varied our lanterns. Dan Wilson Director of Pendle Hill, 1953-70 A Unique Resource in Friends Education A Resource for Monthly Meetings Grounded in Quaker faith and practice, guided Pendle Hill is committed to nurturing and sustaining by continuing revelation, and respected around the monthly meetings. While Pendle Hill is not a Quaker world, Pendle Hill is today, as it has been for nearly seminary or school of theology, it provides the 70 years, a sacred place for Friends to: educational resources and seasoned teachers to help monthly meetings address the challenges facing • meet for worship as the center of daily life their families, their meetings , their communities, • study religious thought and practice, Quaker and the world. studies, peace and social justice, and spirituality in literature and the arts Over 2,000 Come to Pendle Hill Each Year • experience the divine while working with others Pendle Hill offers many programs for Friends to in community enrich their skills in such ministries as clerking, providing pastoral care, facilitating Alternatives to • prepare for service to the Religious Society of Friends Violence training, witnessing to Friends' social concerns, and • assist Friends seeking divine guidance in meeting teaching religious education. the challenges of contemporary society Each year over two thousand people sojourn at Pendle Hill or attend our new weeklong courses, our weekend and summer conferences or other programs. Invest in the future Alex Kern If you want to learn how you can make an attends investment, not only in Pendle Hill, but also Young Adults in the future of the Religious Society of Friends Friends, please contact Conference Richard Barnes Director of Development Pendle Hill 338 Plush Mill Road Wallingford, PA 19086-6099 800.742.3150, ext. 132 E-mail contributions@pendlehill. org www.pendlehill.org