November 1994 Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today

. someone pays attention to the part of me that struggles to know God, my search intensifies. The questing spirit grows bold enough to claim its path. If someone believes with me in the amazement of grace, prays with me, and reminds me of God's tenderness, I live more thoroughly and bravely in sacred time. Among Friends

Editor-Manager Vinton Deming Steady Modification Assistant Editor Timothy Drake Art Director ow could we even consider it? After all, who would get Andrew to soccer on Barbara Benton Saturday and Sunday, and should he really play two games anyway if his Development Consultant H knee has not completely healed? And how about after-school plans for Sim, Henry Freeman and getting him to the birthday party at the roller-rink? Would anyone remember to Marketing and Advertising Manager Nagendran Gulendran lock the front door and tum off the lights? Would the boys get along together? What Production Assistant if someone forgets to tum offthe stove and there's a fire? Kenneth Sutton We nearly gave up the plan several times as we considered all the implications. Secretary All the effort that would be needed, and no guarantee that it would be possible. But it Edward Sargent gets to the point when you have to follow your best instincts, take care of yourselves, Bookkeeper James Neveil and trust that things will work out for the best. Circulation Assistant We knew this in our gut when friends Brian and Florence invited Michele and me Nyree Gleaves to join them for a couples enricbment weekend. Yes, we both said, yes, yes," YES! Volunteers We'll do it. We expected, of course, those last-minute, not-so-subtle moves to derail Jane Burgess, Emily Conlon, Marguerite Clark, Gwen Neveil, Robert Sutton the plan: "Do you really have to go!? [picture, if you will, the hurt expression and Board of Managers hug around the neck] ... I really wanted youto see my game, you never come to my Irwin Abrams, Jennie Allen, Frank Bjomsgaard, Sue games. ... What happens ifl get hurt while you're away? . . . Ifl don't make it to Carnell, Marguerite Clark, Barbara Coffin, Emily Benji's birthday party I'll be the only one who isn't there and it will be your fault Conlon, Phoebe Cottingham (Asst. Treasurer), Richard Eldridge (Clerk), Deborah Fisch, Marty [this one almost worked]." But we hung tough. We made good plans for the boys, Grundy, Kitty Harrison, Robert Kunkel, Carol created a schedule they felt good about, packed our bags, and left- somewhat MacCormack, Mary Mangelsdorf, Richard Moses (Treasurer), Jack Mongar, Lee NetT, Caroline exhausted, but steadfast. Balderston Parry, Julie Ries, Margery Rubin (Asst. 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8 Light Enough 2 Among Friends Mariellen 0. Gilpin They could find their way without a flashlight, she discovered on 4 Forum that moonless night. 5 Viewpoint 9 Clarence Pickett and 28 Young Friends the Alger Hiss Case Lany Miller 29 Life in the Meeting The Quaker connections were to weave a mysterious thread as events unfolded. 30 Books 16 Deep Listening 35 Reports Mary Rose O'Reilley 40 News of Friends First one ofthem listens, then the other-and they speak ofall manner ofthings. A spiritual friendship is the result. 41 Bulletin Board 19 Service: A Sacrament for Quakers? 42 Calendar William Charland A common theme brought most ofth em to Quakerism. What 43 Milestones new instruments might be found? 45 Classified 21 When Meetings Take Risks Judith Brown Poetry Seattle Friends find a unique way to involve themselves in the community. 14 Moveable Rings 22 Released to Do Good Works John Calvi Chrysanthemum A meeting's support may come in manyforms: gas money, a Russell Endo new pair ofboots, or relieffrom milking chores. 15 Flapping the Sheets 25 The Doctor and the Child Fredrick Zydek Grace Yaukey The journey to Kuling by steamer and sedan chairs would not be easy, Human compassion made all the difference.

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FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1994 Forum

Inane or insane? bystander to a conversation Jesus is having marriage are ill-advised to marry. To me, at with his disciples. Consequently, all the least, and to those Friends who advised me One late night while riding a bus in interpretations one might make about the during the clearness process preceding my Afghanistan, we came to such an abrupt halt story in Mark, so thoughtfully put by Jeff, wedding, marriage implies a great deal that most of us slid off our narrow seats onto seem to be contradicted by the story in John. more. the floor. Ahead of us was a deep chasm I'd be interested in knowing how Jeff and I can only say that my marriage has been where the road had washed away. Had the other Friends would interpret and reconcile and continues to be a source of spiritual driver not been alert, or the brakes not these differences. growth for me. Sexual intimacy is important, properly adjusted, we would have ridden John Andrew Gallery but not indispensable, to a marriage, and a into disaster. Philadelphia, Pa. marriage does not subsist on sexual Just so, the U.S. is rapidly approaching a intimacy alone. The intimacy of marriage disastrous situation, where violence is no extends far beyond sexual union and longer isolated from a large portion of the Population challenges me constantly to allow myself to people, and where the only suggested In his letter (FJ June) Friend William be known as I am, to reexamine my solutions are punishment after the fact. In Alexander raised the issue of managing both assumptions in the Light in order to reach a some states there are motions to remove fertility and the earth's resources. However, common understanding, and to lovingly guns from easy and indiscriminate access. his disturbing statement implied that only accept my partner as she is. These things At the same time, the death penalty (murder women are fertile and, therefore, women are can and should be practiced in any by official decree) is being proposed for a responsible for the population problem. relationship and are especially required in larger number of crimes. Further, his statement implies that men relationships to which one has a long-term Nowhere have I seen a proposal to link alone manage the earth's resources, and, commitment; however, no other relationship punitive measures with rehabilitation or therefore, men need only to be empowered in my experience has exercised these prevention, nor is there much concern to to manage them better. Since we already capacities as intensely as my marriage. The investigate and take action to deal with the know the pain of living in a world that growth it brings about in these dimensions root causes of why and where serious crimes defines men and women by these unnatural overflows into the other relationships in my occur. When a person comes to trial, the law and inherently limiting sex roles, isn't it life, however short- or long-term, enabling does not take into account the fact that the time to think about empowering each other me to better practice the openness to and individual's entire life history may have to handle both these issues in a cooperative acceptance of others, which is the basis of a omitted any training in learning to deal with way? Friendly approach to people. violent emotions. Had that person's Virginia McCullough Roger Brooks environment fostered violence? Had Asheville, N.C. Htinenberg, Switzerland deprivation led to seething, angry emotions? Can 'justice" be done without considering such factors? Not as much money is spent Marriage questions Fine artwork on correcting faulty living environments as As a married Quaker who has no As a long-time subscriber, I have on punishing the victims of them. children and does not expect any, I was appreciated the artwork/illustrations that What are we and our government doing astonished by Michael Thielmann's letter accompany stories and articles in the to encourage new ways of helping our (FJ June). If I understand it correctly, the magazine. Please consider devoting a children grow into responsible, contributing author sees a childless marriage as merely portion of an issue to the lives and work of adults? Cutting Headstart and other basic the consecration ofa sexual union. This in these talented artists; they help make educational and health programs? Are our itself seems to present a conflict between the FRIENDS JOURNAL the fine publication that it ideas and proposals inane or insane? Quaker precept that everything should be is. I would like to read about their treated as holy (i.e. , sacred) and the apparent background, the relationship between their Rebecca Cresson implication that sexual union without · art and spirituality, and see a wider sampling Monteverde, Costa Rica procreation is profane. The further of their work. Most recently I've appreciated implication that a childless marriage is the lovely illustrations by Sue Burrus and "sanctified fornication" is very difficult for Narcissa Weatherbee, which enriched the The wrong illustration me to understand. Those seeking only August issue. I enjoyed Jeff Perkins's reflections on the sexual union or sexual intimacy in a Jeff Perkins story of the blind man in Mark 10 (FJ Philadelphia, Pa. March). However, it was interesting to note your selection of an illustration for· his Thanks for the suggestion, a very good article. There are in the Gospels two stories one. We'll consider such an article­ of blind men being healed by Jesus. The perhaps even a series- in the coming year. illustration you selected is not for the story -Eds. Jeff wrote about, but rather for the other story found in John 9, as clearly evidenced by the fact that Jesus in the illustration is in The still center the process of placing mud upon the blind Ah, pacifism! A necessary but troubling man's eyes. word. Many of our "convinced" Friends In this story the blind man is also were pacifists before they started to call standing by the side of the road. However, themselves Friends or Quakers. he does not call out to Jesus, he doesn't But now I tend to feel that's too simple, know who Jesus is, he has no faith (either even for a Quaker. Killing is wrong. That's before, during, or after he is cured, for that the simplistic pacifist charge. It's mainly a matter); he is, in many respects, an innocent personal, not a social, concept, unless you

4 November 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL Viewpoint want to put a lot of time and study into it. World War II was called by some a Proposed Legislation "good" war because it stopped Hitler who had to be stopped and no other means had ike many people I am exceedingly 8. All school bus rides ofless than one­ much of a chance. Hitler-maybe Stalin concerned about the tearing social and-one-half miles would be discontinued too-perfected genocide as his tool, and the L fabric in my country. We all know (except for very young children, the ill, world couldn't handle that without war. the disastrous manifestations. and disabled). But Quakers are not caught in a crossfire I have decided to write a letter that I 9. All people aged 18 or under would of activists and "peace-within" people. We hope will be seized upon by caring par­ be expected to write a letter to an older are, or ought to be, the still center of a ents, teachers, and young people. Below relative once per week. maelstrom now raging that involves are statements with no stated background 10. All working people would be ex­ spirituality and cosmology, mixed in with a or rationale. It is my hope that concerned pected to greet everyone in their immedi­ "me-first" and finger-pointing return to adults will go over each of these with ate workplace each morning before com­ chaos. young people asking: "Why, why do you mencing work details. Let there be peace on earth and let it suppose he would say that?" Or, asking: II. All relevant transactions would em­ begin with me. "Why, why do you suppose he would do ploy the words "please" and "thank you." James S. Best that? What can possibly be behind his 12. Every elementary and secondary Tucson, Ariz. statements?" student would be assigned a significant physical chore that would need to be per­ If! had authority to make laws in a U.S. formed for his or her school, daily. town or city, this is what I would legislate. 13. Every inhabitant of the town (ex­ That for a period of three years: cept elderly and disabled) would be ex­ I. Every person meeting another when pected to visit an institutionalized person, walking the streets would have to say hello. once per month. 2. There would be one day each week 14. Every family would be expectedto when motorized vehicles could not be used keep the street or walkway picked up and (except for through traffic on main high­ swept in front of its residence. ways). 3. There would be one day per month I am deeply concerned that many of us when all neighbors on a block had to get do not know each other, do not care about together for a discussion of mutual neigh­ our neighbors, do not show courtesy to­ borhood concerns. ward each other, do not interact together, 4. There would be two evenings per do not respect those of other generations, week when electrical power was discon­ do not have substantive dialogue with each tinued- for two hours. other, are not aware of the ideas that gave Plenty of power 5. There would be one hour per week the United States its ways, do not have Our meetinghouse had been having when every person had to attend a relig­ routine responsibilities, are not regularly difficulties with its electricity. One day, ious service of his or her choice or join a accountable for something, do not have while early arrivals were cleaning up the group in discussion on the ideas of U.S. occasion to make decisions about things refrigerator-thaw and looking for squirrel fi gures in history, e.g., William Penn, beyond ourselves, do not feel community damage on our service pole, a newly-arrived George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, ownership, and are increasingly being taken attender came into the dark house and called Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, over by personal insecurity, hostility, ag­ out, "Uh-oh; power out again?" She was Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, gressiveness, America-bashing, group po­ answered promptly and vigorously from the Ralph Bunche, John Marshall, Eleanor larization, bizarre behavior, incivility, and kitchen by one of the moppers: "No, not at Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., John even violence toward each other. all; we've got plenty of power- it's only the F. Kennedy, Norman Cousins, etc. What, I wonder, would young people electricity that's out!" 6. There would be one evening each infer from a discussion of the 14 laws that Sylvia Spotts week in which all memberS of a family I would temporarily put into effect, were I Columbia, Mo. would have a sit-down, home-prepared to have the authority to do so in a town or meal together. city in my homeland? 7. All males would have to remove Religious correctness? their hats upon entering a restaurant, of­ Donovan Russell Something odd is going on in the fice, or retail store. Peace Corps, Kathmandu, Nepal Religious Society of Friends. One manifestation is the onslaught on one of our basic metaphors, that of The Light. In the that use of the word is color-biased." is associated with goodness, etc., and Quakerism 101 syllabus the question is Clearly, these strictures cannot arise out darkness (black) with evil and badness. raised as to whether the Light metaphor is of the Universe of discourse of Quakerism. Conclusion: Light as well as darkness are racist as well as sexist. During a meeting in Its source must be outside and most likely racist notions, standard correctness thinking. the 1994 Friends General Conference the represents an individualistic, secular However, nowhere in our literature, nor same issue was raised, especially the ideology attempting to impart a certain in Scripture, has the color oflight been contention of racism. In Jim Harris's letter religious correctness to the Society. defined. For alii know, it might be golden, (FJ May), the question is asserted to be true: To make the racist case, the critics must pink, chartreuse, or blue. Nor has the color "Friends, I would ask you to think about presume that the color of the Light is white, of darkness been specified. It does not how we use the word Light, and how that just as they must presume that the color of necessarily mean black. The white and black may perpetuate racial stereotypes. I propose darkness must be black. White, it is claimed, attributions are purely arbitrary postulations

FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1994 5 analogous to the attributes assigned to problem is human. gays.) What a painful dilemma this man planets by astrologers. Once they are made, I have come to view violence similarly­ must be in, his face sincere and drawn with the conclusions are not surprising. The mere as a red herring. The real issues are spiritual, concern. Gays are beaten up, and he can't assertion that the Light metaphor is racist is and we must not lose sight of this fact. What but know it. Yet he is against giving them no proof. That is not speaking inwardly from is being done to the human spirit? the slim degree oflegal protection that a God. Indeed, for may Friends the Light is Nonviolence can kill the spirit, just as revision of the ordinance woutd provide. I the in-dwelling Christ, a legitimate function violence can (think of a swamp, think of feel for him. How does he square with of the metaphor without any negative stagnation, apathy, cynicism). himself? He may rationalize by saying, "All overtones. The materialist opposes violence because gays are not beaten up. And it's not 100 Should we engage in a kind of religious it destroys the physical, which is the only percent certain on any day that any gay will cleansing, purge all references to Light in aspect the materialist sees. But, as Quakers, be. Besides, I myself have never signed an our religious writings? What about Fox's we must rise above this materialism. We order to anyone to beat up any. Alas, this all "ocean of L ... and ocean of D ..." or his must do battle with the evils that hide must be in the hands of God." questions: "art thou a child of the L ... and beneath the violence. And our devotion to Torquemada, director of persecution in hast thou walked in the L ..."? What about peace must be more than just antipathy the Spanish Inquisition, did not hate any of the use of the word in other languages into towards violence. Our orientation should be his fellow-creatures. His tender-heartedness which Friends' literature has been positive, not negative: We love peace, made him leave the torture chamber where translated? Should we presume that das because a peaceful world fosters freedom, the recalcitrant infidel on the rack uttered Light and Ia /umiere perpetuate racial civilization, and evolution of the human/ screams of pain he could not endure. stereotypes? divine spirit. "In as much as ye have done it unto the Obviously there is racism and Charles Ohler least. .." discrimination in our culture and society. Farmville, Va. Warren Staebler When this is attributed to Friends ex Richmond, Ind. cathedra, I wonder what sort of thinking is at work. Is there any real faith in what Gay rights When Stephen Zunes claims (FJ Sept.) it Friends stand for? Does our waiting on It may be of interest to Friends to read is homophobia that keeps in place rigid sex Divine guidance lead to the belief that Light about the effort in Richmond, Indiana, to roles and- by extension-many of society's is a racist concept? To claim by mere sayso have the city adopt, so to speak, gays along most oppressive attitudes and institutions, is that we are latent or overt racists and, to with women, blacks, and other ethnic there danger that some readers will boot, are full of socio-economic snobbery minorities in its Human Rights Ordinance. I misinterpret this to mean homophobia and prejudice is gross. If we can answer to was present at the final meeting this summer causes these ills? Much of the research I that of God in everyone, we can overcome of the Human Rights Commission, where have come across (while teaching womens' any constraints or bonds, if there are such, ordinance revision opponents attended in studies and since retiring) leads me to and have that openness and receptivity unusually large numbers. They were heated wonder whether his statement might more which is a standing invitation to others to and they cheered on their ministerial accurately be reversed to read "It was a walk the spiritual path with us. spokesmen vehemently. And a number were system of rigid sex roles that preceded, angry. made possible, and now keeps in place H. Otto Dahlke Many of the ordinance-opposing many of society's oppressive attitudes and Richmond, Va. clergymen protest that they do not hate gays institutions, including homophobia." and lesbians. They recognize them as fellow Then, when Zunes maintains that as long human beings, children of God, like as being gay is unprotected from official Beneath the violence themselves--<:hildren, however, who have discrimination there will be strong resistance The July letters on nonviolence inspire strayed into sin. The pastors will show that to risking that label through support of me to respond. Why do we assume that the they love even them-if they renounce their Friends principles, does that imply that dichotomy between violence and sin, repent, and come into their arms, removing the discrimination against gays nonviolence has spiritual significance? beseeching to be made Christians. Although and lesbians will also remove the resistance I was raised a Catholic. Eat meat on it may seem far-fetched to say so, what they to human equality in general? This seems Friday, and you burn in Hell: So we all are doing is in a tiny corner of the same unlikely in light of the experience of my believed. I now realize that life is more category as what Charlemagne did in monthly meeting, where it has been easier to complex. We must use all of our faculties: conquering the Gauls around A.D. 800, or pass resolutions and start projects promoting judgment, reason, heart, imagination! what Cortez did in laying waste to Mexico gay rights than to approve our yearly Obeying a mechanical rule is not good in 1520. The sword is at the throat of the meeting's Minute on Patriarchy. Some enough: We are not machines. Such rules do kneeling Gaul or prostate Aztec, and the Friends, both gay and straight, insisted violence to the spirit, even a rule against ultimatum is delivered: "Accept Christ and gender inequality is mostly a thing of the using violence. live, or continue to reject him and die." past; one even suggested we may already be War, ofcourse, brings many evils: deceit, Church and state are now, thank God, no moving in the direction of matriarchy! greed, despair, hate, anger, ignorance. But longer one. And, putting it bluntly, the I wish Zunes had stated unequivocally instead of opposing these evils directly, we church has no authority or power to kill gays that to eliminate homophobia we must rail against war itself. But war itself is not for not renouncing gayness. Still, they want eliminate misogyny, however subtle or the problem. War is neutral, like a hurricane. to punish them-by depriving them of a unconscious. As long as there are socially We attack war, because it is so big; it seems right currently enjoyed by other persecutable imposed or condoned risks to being female, like an easy target. But it is really just a minorities. there will be risks to being gay and lesbian. huge decoy that draws our arrows far from "No, I don't want anybody to be beaten It may well be that people fear these labels the real target, the vices of the human heart. up," compassionately exclaimed one of the less for their possible effects on civil rights War enables us to pretend that our problem pastors after a meeting of the Commission. (employment, housing, etc.) than for their is guns and missiles, when in reality, our (He had already stated that he did not hate threat to our own precariously-held self-

6 November 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL images-those assigned, internalized, close to poverty level. None were financially 10,000 letters archaic gender stereotypes which haunt us successful business or professional people. still. Even the lawyers and doctors among our I am most grateful to you for the As Friends, we need to examine members have been working in positions of initiative you took (Among Friends, FJ ourselves more honestly and study all these great service and for little pay. I felt if we Sept.) in support of the U.S. Peace Tax Fund issues more carefully. When we do, I could raise $75,000 it would be a miracle. Bill. Let us hope that many Friends will join believe we will find ourselves "once again Well, Friends contributed $400,000, and I in that effort to write I 0,000 letters in in the forefront of a movement for justice"­ give Adolph and his committee credit for support. for women as well as for the other oppressed that. Their solid work and humble David Bassett ones we have so often befriended. presentations went on for two to three years. Ann Arbor, Mich. Once it was decided to begin the Peg Calbeck Neal renovations, Adolph was clerk of the Different trees Asheville, N.C. committee that gave oversight to the work being done-much as my wife had given Claudia Wair's recent article (FJ Aug.) oversight when we decided to remodel our "turned me on." I am glad that you, Claudia, Making a "Silk Purse" own home. She and Adolph, I must say, are had that wonderful experience with nature, I was pleased to see mentioned in the in a class by themselves. The professionals I of seeing a maple sapling growing in a notch editor's Among Friends column ("Round­ have worked with in that capacity don't of an old pine tree, when you were seeking trip," FJ June) the name of our meeting's compare! an answer and consolation for your feeling member, Adolph Burckhardt. Friends should In addition, Adolph coordinated and (and that of many black, young people) of know that in the minds of many if not all of supervised the volunteers-the idea of being so different and often discriminated us in Minneapolis (Minn.) Meeting, Adolph which caused me nightmares. In the end, the against in our present-day white country. has made a unique and very significant volunteers made a significant contribution I too had a somewhat similar experience contribution to our meeting. and had the satisfaction of knowing that they when many years ago I, a middle-class Minneapolis Friends desperately needed did. The contractor was pleased and the cost white woman, after many years of teaching a new meetinghouse. The current building reduced. This was, in my mind, an nursery school in the white suburbs, decided was probably built before 1920. It had been uncommon and significant management to teach in a Headstart program in the inner a small Catholic, then Lutheran, church, and achievement. city. There, quite often, I would be the only except for removal of some of the altar rails, Adolph Burckhardt stayed with this white person in the entire neighborhood, stained glass wind?ws, etc., it had enjoyed project for approximately four to five years. and, especially after dark, was very no major improvements in the last 75 years. Even now, he still provides his expert conscious of my white skin. (I am able to verifY this statement because consultation to the meeting-and as a The poverty I found was appalling, for it 65 years ago I went to the same building as volunteer. He was a major factor if not the was not just poverty per se (I, coming from a a Lutheran!) major factor in helping us to make a "silk German immigrant background, had seen In order to accommodate some of our purse." that), but this seemed to me to be a real disabled members, something had to be You would have to visit the poverty of soul and spirit, and an apathy. done. Adolph Burckhardt was on the ad hoc meetinghouse to appreciate what a fine, It was shortly after this experience that I committee that worked on this. When the useful, imaginative, and beautiful facility it finally made up my mind to join the committee conducted an evaluation of our has become. I shall continue to think of it as Quakers. Now I feel I can sit in the silence meeting's resources, it was determined that a great accomplishment- and as "Adolph's with people of all skin colors. It does not the meeting members' resources were building"! seem to matter. Yes, I can even sing my extremely limited; it appeared that no Arne Anderson own quiet song, "Together'': professional fundraisers, for instance, were Scandia, Minn. As we march along, available among our members. We sing a song, "Together." The subject of building plans for the There's a place for each, meetinghouse was on the monthly meeting's As we forward reach, together. agenda for a couple of years. Adolph was There is help from above persistent with his vision for ways to As we learn to love, together. remodel the existing building, a vision So, with one accord, which was practical, beautiful, and We will praise the Lord, "Together." imaginative. Personally, my wife and I thought we should sell the old meetinghouse Elizabeth G. Gibbs and start all over again, believing "you can't Newtown, Pa. make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." Adolph, however, worked with meeting FRIENDS JouRNAL welcomes Forum con­ members in planning, and an architect was tributions. Please try to be brief so we finally secured. Adolph then negotiated with may include as many as possible. Limit the contractor for much of the work to be letters to 300 words, Viewpoint to 1,000 done by volunteers. A majority of our words. Addresses are omitted to main­ members couldn't make a significant dollar tain the authors' privacy; those wishing contribution, so volunteer support was a way to correspond directly with authors may in which many could contribute. send letters to FRIENDS JOURNAL to be The cost of remodeling the building ~ forwarded. Authors' names are not to be came in at $500,000. In looking at our ~ used for personal or organizational so­ membership list, I counted 53 members- "' licitation. -Eds. and a significant number had always lived at ....]

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1994 7 uneven ground toward where the cows were. We came upon the lead cow. She was only a black shape against the dark sky and hillside, but I knew which cow it was. "That's Licey," I said, calling the cow by name. My father looked and_in some surprise said, "Yes, it is." Another cow, and then another, ap­ peared in the dark, and I knew each cow by name. I knew who they were, not so much by how they looked in the dark­ ness, as by their personalities. By this time we had reached the gate into the stubble field, where the little calf was running back and forth on one side of the fence crying, and the mother was calling on her side of the fence. When the calf saw us, it panicked and ran away. ''Now what?" I wondered. "Could we just tum the mother through the gate and let both ofthem stay in the stubble through the night?" I asked hopefully. "It's not good for the cows to be sepa­ rated at night," my father told me. "We have to find the calf and put it with the rest of the herd." We listened. The calf called, and we realized it had run to the far side of the field, where a drainage ditch separated the com field from woods. Whatever we did, we had to keep the calf from bolting across the ditch into the woods. "What do you think we should try?" my father asked. "We need to keep way over to the left side of the field away from the calf until we get down to the ditch, and try to get between the calf and the ditch. That way if it panics when it sees us, it'll run toward the herd instead of into the woods." We walked the length of the field. The calf was silent now. We reached the ditch, and began following it toward where we last heard the calf. We found the calf; in the darkness we could hear it breathing, although we couldn't see it. We stopped; would it run? At last we began moving hen I was growing up on the black. How are we going to find a little toward the calf, and it quietly walked farm, my mother came to me black calf on a moonless night? I won­ ahead of us back toward the herd. We W one winter evening to say that a dered. walked behind it back toward the gate, I little calf had gotten separated from the I got the biggest flashlight we owned opened the gate, and Daddy urged the herd. When I listened, I could hear a little to carry with us. When my father saw it, calfthrou gh the gate to join the cows. The calf crying for its mother, and a cow he said, "Well, you can carry that if you mother cow nosed over the calf, and then calling for her calf. "Will you go help want to, but we aren't going to use it." the cows all moved offquietly to stand on Daddy fmd the calf and put it with its "How will we be able to see the calf?" the nearby hillside together. mother?" my mother asked. "We'll be able to do the job without I have often been in situations in my I went to my room to change into my the flashlight," my father affirmed. life that were like trying to find a little barn clothes. When I looked out my win­ We walked through the yard to the black calf on a moonless night. When­ dow, I saw that the night was cloudy, and pasture gate. The light from the house ever life is complex and I don't know that there was no moon. Our cattle were guided us only a few steps, and then we what to do, I remember the night we Mariel/en Gilpin is a member of Urbana­ were in deep darkness. Our feet knew found the calf, and I am filled with a deep Champaign (Ill.) Meeting. where the path was as we walked over the knowing: There will be Light enough. 0

8 November 1994 fRIENDS JOURNAL by Larry Miller

In a time of pervasive, often irrational zine and a confessed ex-Communist cou­ On August 6, Jackson wrote to Alger anti-Communism during the years fol­ rier and espionage agent, accused Alger Hiss to congratulate him on his testimony lowing World War II, the perjury trial of Hiss, president of the Carnegie Endow­ the previous day, and added: "I talked Alger Hiss gained widespread notoriety. ment for International Peace and former with Clarence this morning on the tele­ Amidst the controversy surrounding the high-level official in the U.S. State De­ phone, and he is writing John Foster Dulles case, a number of the key players were partment, of having belonged to an un­ [chairman of the trustees of the Carnegie either Quakers or had close association derground Communist cell in Washing­ Endowment] expressing our great faith in with Friends (including a freshman con­ ton, D.C., during the 1930s. Ri­ gressman, Richard Milhous Nixon, and chard Nixon, congressman from Alger Hiss himself). On the eve ofAlger the 12th District in California, Hiss's 90th birthday in November, Larry was a freshman member of the Miller shares his account of these re­ committee. Few Friends knew markable events. His article is from a that Whittaker Chambers and his chapter ofa book he is writing, Witness family were members of Pipe for Humanity: The Biography ofClarence Creek (Md.) Meeting, that Alger E. Pickett. Due to its length, the article Hiss was a member of an AFSC will be presented in two parts, with the Board committee to evaluate the concluding portion appearing in our De­ AFSC's Peace Section and had cember issue. - Eds. been on the visiting faculty of two AFSC peace seminars, and that Hiss's wife, Priscilla, and their son, Tony, were regularly n Friday, July 30, 1948, his last attending the 20th Street (N.Y.) day in the office prior to his va­ Meeting. Many persons knew cation, Clarence Pickett pur­ that Richard Nixon had Quaker rnchased a little portable radio for his wife, parents and was a member of the Lilly. He had consulted her to see whether East Whittier (Calif.) Friends she would like to have the gift in advance Church. The Quaker connections of her upcoming birthday so they could were to weave a mysterious use it during their vacation on Cape Cod. thread through the ensuing de­ Clarence Picke~t at his home, Waysmeet, in "She thought it was a good idea," he cades of public interest in the Wallingford, Pa., 1948 wrote in his journal, "so here it is." Little case, during which dozens of did he know that, while on vacation, her books and articles were to be written about your integrity and his hope that the radio would bring them news of special the affair. Carnegie Endowment will stand com­ interest to Friends, and of personal con­ Even during his vacation, Clarence was pletely behind you." Under the date of cern to him as executive secretary of the involved in the rapidly developing and August 13 Hiss replied to Jackson's letter American Friends Service Committee. highly publicized events of the case. On expressing appreciation for it, stating in Indeed, an event in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, August 4, Alger Hiss met part, "The response of friends has been which was to involve the AFSC and with Elmore Jackson, AFSC assistant ex­ one of the few compensations in this ugly Clarence in particular, dominated the ecutive secretary, and other key staffmem­ incident." evening newscasts on August 3rd. At a bers in the AFSC offices in Philadelphia. On August 16 HUAC met with Alger hearing of the House Un-American Ac­ The next day, Hiss voluntarily appeared, Hiss in executive session in Washington, tivities Committee (HUAC), Whittaker without counsel, before HUAC in public D.C. He was vigorously grilled about the Chambers, a senior editor ofT/ME maga- session. To quote author Fawn M. Brodie, details of his life and household in the "Every Committee member but Nixon 1930s, particularly those mentioned by Larry Miller retired in 1992 after many years was convinced of Hiss's innocence and Chambers in a session on August 7. For of employment with the American Friends eager, in [Congressman] Edward Hebert's example, he was questioned about the Service Committee. He is a member of words, to 'wash our hands of the whole schools that his stepson, Timothy, had Doylestown (Pa.) Meeting. mess.' " attended. (They included Sidwell Friends

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1994 9 School and George School.) It was at this August 16 hearing that Hiss, on the basis of photographs, stated that Whittaker Chambers and a George Crosley, whom he had known as a freelance writer in the 1930s, might be one and the same. It was on the next day, August 17, that a subcommittee consisting ofNixon, Con­ gressman John McDowell, and Robert Stripling, the committee's chief investi­ gator, hastily arranged for a private con­ frontation between Hiss and Chambers in a suite at the Commodore Hotel in New York. At this meeting Hiss positively iden­ tified Chambers as George Crosley. Following this private encounter HUAC scheduled a hearing in Washing­ ton and subpoenaed both men to be present for what became a public confrontation, as Hiss later described it, "in the circus­ arena atmosphere ofk.lieg lights and flash­ bulbs." It was at this session that Alger Alger Hiss (right) with U. S. State Department colleagues en route to Hiss challenged Chambers to make in the Yalta Conference in the Soviet Union, 1945 public the statements about him with re­ found only a person of intelligence and .. .In the taxi, Clarence asked a few simple spect to Communist connections that he integrity. questions, all very circumspect, about had made under privilege to the Commit­ I am sure I do not have to persuade you or Whittaker Chambers. I don't remember the tee. Hiss threatened to sue for libel. Sub­ the Trustees ofthe Foundation of these facts. I questions, nor what I might have told him that sequently, on August 27, Chambers re­ am writing them to you with the understand­ could have been of help. I could have said, peated his accusations on "Meet the ing that you are at liberty to use them in any yes, Whittaker and his family were members Press." But, because of the intervention way you consider helpful. in good standing of the Pipe Creek Meeting. of an investigation by the Grarid Jury of He was a tea drinker, smoked a pipe when his the Southern District of New York, the Plans were also set into motion that doctor said it was permissible, was a popular libel case never went to court. judge of livestock at country fairs; no ques­ same week, the week before Labor Day, tion, he was a real dirt farmer as well as an Immediately upon his return from va­ for Clarence to visit Whittaker Chambers accomplished translator, editor, and writer. cation Clarence wrote to Dr. James T. with Gilbert Kilpack, who, ~or the five Shotwell, vice chairman of the Carnegie years since 1943, had been executive sec­ When Clarence and Gilbert arrived at Endowment for International Peace, as retary of the Park Avenue (Md.) Meeting, the meetinghouse, Chambers, according follows: now Stony Run, in Baltimore, and who to Kilpack's account, "was standing alone had just joined the staff of Pendle Hill. in the parlor, reading from George Fox's I have been deeply disturbed by the recent The date settled upon was Thursday, Journal, a calf-bound volume he had taken attacks that have been made on Alger Hiss September 16, with the location, the from the wall of old books. We pulled and know that unless and until he is entirely Homewood Meetinghouse on Charles comfortable chairs together and turned cleared, this situation will be a matter of great Street in Baltimore. It was across from directly to the business at hand." concern to the Trustees ofthe Carnegie Foun­ Johns Hopkins University, where Alger As Clarence later put it in a ''very dation. Hiss, coincidentally, had distinguished confidential" memorandum to his two While, of course, I have no official respon­ himself as a student. Gilbert agreed to sibility, I am concerned that the Trustees shall AFSC assistants, Elmore Jackson and know in what high regard Alger Hiss is held meet Clarence's train from Philadelphia Stephen Cary: by some of us who have known and worked and accompany him to the meetinghouse. with him in different capacities. As Kilpack retrospectively recalled in I told him [Chambers] that I had not come to I believe psychiatrists say that total recall later years: give any advice or counsel, but had felt that he is one of the most difficult mental maladies to was probably distressed and might like to overcome. Since Mr. Hiss does not suffer Stepping off the train, Clarence might have talk, and that I should appreciate his speaking from that malady, but has centered his atten­ passed for a savings and loan executive from as he felt at liberty to do, with the understand­ tion on the important and significant currents Philadelphia, with his neat, conservative gray ing that whatever he said was fully confiden­ of life that are moving, he has naturally ap­ suit, white shirt, blue tie, black shoes and tial. He warmly welcomed the opportunity peared at some disadvantage when recall of briefcase. He was traveling under the weight and said that Henry Luce [the editor ofTIMEJ detailed events that have happened some years of concern-the Quaker word for the was the only man with whom he had talked in ago is thought to be of primary importance. promptings of an enlightened conscience, a complete confidence, and that he was deeply From my point of view, the very fact that kind of spiritual semaphore signaling alarm distressed and puzzled to know what might constantly in my work with him he has cen­ and calling for action. Clarence was not mak­ be done. tered on the creative, the forward-looking, the ing the journey under the official direction of sound steps to take, I have prized very highly the American Friends Service Committee, Clarence asked whether this was a case the fiiendship and cooperation we have shared. which he had served for 19 years as executive of mistaken identity. Might it have been In such dealings as I have had with him I have secretary. . . . not Alger Hiss at all, but some other gov-

10 November 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL ernment official he had known? As and without resolution," as Kilpack put it. versy. He feels deeply concerned that both Kilpack later put it: Coming out of the interview, Clarence men may be injured by this. He is more criti­ said: cal of Hiss for not being completely open and Whittaker's reply was a conclusive no-no frank. On the other hand, he is concerned not chance of mistaken identity. His reply was I am deeply distressed that this matter is to go to do Hiss any harm. He has offered to let me unequivocal, but even more subdued in tone to the courts. That, I fear, is a major mistake. see the records, and I think sometime I may than the quiet control of the seasoned Friend, ... So much bitterness will be engendered, I take advantage of that offer. He said the way no rise of blood pressure, no gestures, no am afraid, that it may further impair the use­ was always open for me to come and have a rancor--only the clear assurance that what he fulness of both men ... . I am also sure that talk with him, and he appreciated our talk. had charged was true. That almost stopped Chambers is a man ofconsiderab le brilliance, the conversation. "Put on your thinking cap, but with some instability. He deeply needs Gilbert," Clarence said, implying it was my hat, one might ask, were the the steadying hand ofsomeone who will meet connections that Whittaker tum to come up with an idea. I was taken by with him frequently and talk .... I believe, Chambers, Alger and Priscilla surprise. finally, that two or three Friends should be mHiss, and Richard Nixon had with the Finally, Clarence came up with a willing to spend some time repeatedly with Chambers, and with Hiss, ifhe is prepared for Religious Society of Friends prior to the proposition-one entirely appropriate to such fellowship. . .. The most satisfactory controversy? Quaker tradition: conclusion concerning this episode is, I am sure, not yet found. The relationship of Whittaker Cham­ I asked Chambers whether he thought it would bers to Friends is clearly described in his be possible for him and Alger Hiss to meet autobiography, Witness. His great-grand­ and to talk matters over, with the hope of It was just one week later in Washing­ coming out with a joint statement to the press ton, on September 23, that Clarence was mother on his father's side was a Friend. which would, as nearly as possible, leave able to get an appointment with Nixon. Chambers recalls asking his grandmother both Hiss and himself with that Clarence had (who could remember the Civil War and, degree of integrity that they de­ written to him on as a little girl, made bandages after the served. September 7: Battle of Gettysburg) why she didn't sew on Sunday. Chambers responded in Dear Mr. Nixon: the affirmative, but with some I am writing you "Because it's Sunday," she snapped. "Why hesitation. "He said he didn't as a fellow-member can't you sew on Sunday?" "Because my see how he could change his of the Society of mother was a Quaker." "What are the Quak­ statements, because they were Friends. You may ers?'' I asked. I saw come over her face, on or may not realize which the flesh was prematurely translucent, true, he knows they were true, that Mr. Whittaker an expression of gentleness and reflection and he cannot lie." Chambers is a that I had never seen there before. She began Clarence then explored Friend and belongs to talk, more to herself, I felt, than to me, the possibility of their wives to a Meeting in about the Quakers- how they were quiet, having a meeting, a com­ Maryland. Also, how they sat in meeting without saying any­ pletely off-the-record meet­ Mr. Alger Hiss, thing. She began to describe the "plain dress" ing, perhaps at Waysmeet, while not a mem­ with her usual thoroughness about clothes. Clarence and Lilly Pickett's ber of the Society With a chuckle she mentioned the "thee" and house that was adjacent to of Friends, has been "thy." Pendle Hill. Even though he very useful in vari­ ous ways to the felt such a meeting would This was Whittaker Chambers's first American Friends knowledge of Friends. probably not be possible, Service Committee Clarence nevertheless agreed The first actual contact Chambers had because of his wide with Friends was in 1923 during his jun­ to speak with Alger about it knowledge of the ior year at Columbia University. His ad­ and, if appropriate, with peace movement. Priscilla Hiss. Some of us, as visor, Mark Van Doren, had approved for As Clarence reported: Friends, therefore, publication inMorningside a literary piece have felt concerned by Chambers entitled, "A Play for Pup­ We talked, about the place of to talk with each of pets." As Allen Weinstein has pointed out Congressman Nixon, who as a these men entirely in his book, Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers member of the committee, has unofficially in view Case: been most active in relation to of the recent con­ this episode. He [Chambers] was gressional hearings. . .. running through "A Play for Puppets" is a surprised that Nixon is a Friend, Before doing so, I theme that characterized Chambers's writing and, while he was not critical of should very greatly and reflections before his commitment to Com­ Nixon's role as a committee appreciate having a munism later in the decade, the destruction of member, he did not feel that he talk with you about an individual's goodness (as embodied in approached it in any sense as an the matter. Jesus) by both established society and orga­ understanding Quaker, but rather nized religion-and the yearning for life's as a lawyer and congressman, as contrasted Clarence's termination. Thus the "voice of Christ" in­ with a person of religious life and understand­ journal records the interview: tones: "Who is breaking my sleep? ...What is ing. God? ... Heaven? Let me sleep, I am weary. Had a good session with Congressman Rich­ ... Do not men live and do not men die? I "So the meeting ended uneventfully, ard Nixon about the Hiss-Chambers contro- wish to sleep.... Roll back the stone and go

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1994 11 thy way. It is very quiet in the earth and I will ers can write, which, in the most restrained Quaker rebuff to me in my youth ... had left sleep." language, said in effect: "You are outcast." an unhealing scar. But I hesitated even more ... It was an invisible turning point in my life. because the traditional Quaker witness against Neither Van Doren nor Chambers an­ It took me seventeen years to find my way, war seemed to close the door of the meeting­ ticipated the drastic reaction of university unaided, back to that peace." house against me, forever barring me from authorities to "A Play for Puppets," pub­ the peace within, which it was my pathos to lished under a pseudonym. Consequently The records of the AFSC show that crave, but not my right to share. Chambers withdrew from Columbia, feel­ Chambers did submit an application to ing, however, serve with the Committee in Russia, and Nevertheless, Chambers and his fam­ that he was not selected. But, as Clarence ily attended meetings for worship at Pipe ... a renewed sense oflife, and a great desire Pickett put it in a letter to the Saturday Creek, experiencing, according to to go somewhere and do something new. I Review in 1952: Chambers, what the early Quaker, Robert spoke to Van Doren about it. "Why don't you Barclay, had given expression to: \'For, go to Soviet Russia?" he asked. "The Russian I doubt very much that the "sharp" rejection when I came into the silent assemblies of Revolution is like Elizabethan England. All ofhim [was] on any semi-theological basis. It God's people, I felt a secret power among is more likely that he was refused because of the walls are falling down. You should go and them, which touched my heart; and, as I see it." He suggested that I might go as a relief his immaturity. Very few people, if any, as young and inexperienced as he was then, had gave way unto it, I found the evil weaken­ worker for the Friends Service Committee, ing in me and the good raised up. . . ." which was then administering Quaker relief been used in foreign missions of this charac­ in the Russian famine areas. He offered to ter. His strong reaction is typical of the youth At last, Whittaker Chambers writes, write, recommending me to certain "weighty who is anxious for such an opportunity as that he Friends." offered by the Russian famine. ... asked the Friends at Pipe Creek if my children might be admitted.... Instead, they Chambers states in his autobiography From 1939 to 1948, having left the proposed that my wife and I, together with the that the first Friend he saw in Philadel­ Communist Party in 1938, Whittaker children, join the meeting as a family. I hesi­ phia was J. Barnard Walton, who he Chambers worked for TIME magazine in tated. I asked myself if so great a blessing thought was "the head ofthe Service Com­ New York, becoming a senior editor. In could be meant for me. It seemed to me that it mittee." In fact, Walton was one of three was indeed meant to be so, and that I would 1940, he purchased a very run-down farm be doing no wrong to respond to the sum­ associate secretaries and had been one of in Westminster, Maryland. During the mons. For though Friends, as a Society, still the 13 Friends who had established the week Chambers lived at his mother's maintain their ancient witness for peace and house on Long Island. against war, it is the sense of modem Quaker­ He was home on week­ ism that, for the individual, the decision in ends, working "most of wartime is a matter for his own conscience. the time, plowing, As a family, we were united to the meeting. disking, harrowing, haying, milking­ The meeting records show that they whatever operation were received into membership on Au­ need called for." His gust 15, 1943. wife and two children Yet, Chambers's spiritual journey sub­ also worked industri­ sequently moved in another direction. In ously on the farm. the March 8, 1948, issue of TIME he It was the proxim­ wrote the cover story, "Faith for A Lenten ity of his farm to Pipe Age," a brilliant and major piece stretch­ Creek (Md.) Meeting ing over six pages of the magazine. It near Union Bridge that dealt with Christian neoorthodoxy and eventually led to mem­ the noted U.S. theologian, Reinhold Pipe Creek (Md.) Friends Meetinghouse, where bership of the whole Niebuhr. "In many ways, the Niebuhr Whittaker Chambers and his family became family in the Religious essay was a statement of my own relig­ members in 1943 Society ofFriends. But ious faith at the time," he said. Whittaker he also attended from Chambers and his wife, Esther, ceased AFSC on April30, 1917. Chambers, ac­ time to time the mid-week meetings for attending meetings for worship at Pipe cording to his account, stayed in Philadel­ worship at the 20th Street Meeting in Creek Meeting "from about the begin­ phia several days, meeting other Friends: New York. He writes: ning of 1951." A new and enormously tranquilizing spirit I was not seeking ethics; I was seeking God. enveloped me. It emanated from those quiet My need was to be a practicing Christian in presences whom I met, from the chaste Quaker the same sense that I had been a practicing ention has already been made rooms with their plain and fine proportions, or Communist. I was seeking a community of of Alger Hiss's involvement simply from the sound of the plain language, worship in which a daily mysticism (for I hold with the AFSC as a resource as voices asked me: "How is thee, Whittaker that God cannot be known in any other way) mleader at summer peace institutes. On June Chambers?" . . . This is my natural home, I would be disciplined and fortified by an or­ thought. I wanted nothing so much as to re­ derly, and even practical spirit and habit of 6, 1947, Hiss gave the commencement main in it. life and the mind. Some instinctive sense of address at Haverford College on the sub­ Then the story of my atheist play reached my need ... drew me powerfully to the Relig­ ject, "The Prospects for Peace." The full Friends. There was a horrified reaction. I re­ ious Society of Friends, the Quakers. text of the address was published in The ceived one of those letters, such as only Quak- Yet I hesitated. I hesitated because the Friend, one of the two predecessor publi-

12 November 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL the generation ofQuakers who used the plain language. I grew up in a religious environ­ ment that was at once unusually strict and unusually tolerant. My mother and father belonged to a branch of the Friends Church that had minis­ ters, choirs, and virtually all the sym­ bols of other Protestant denomina­ tions. The differences were the ab­ sences of water baptism and com­ munion, and the heavy Quaker em­ phasis on silent prayer. My father had converted to Quakerism from his own rather robust Methodism at the time of his marriage, and he had the typical enthusiasm of a convert for his new religion.

In his life Richard Nixon would consistently view his mother as "a remarkable woman," with many people in Whittier referring to her as a "Quaker saint." He was im­ pressed with her inner serenity. His father he described as "a scrappy, belligerent fighter with ~::: ~ a quick, wide-ranging, raw intel­ Vi lect. He left me a respect for learn­ ~ 1: ing. . . . I loved my parents \.:) equally, but in different ways, Richard Nixon campaigns in his home town of Whittier, Calif., 1952. just as they were different people." cations to FRIENDS JouRNAL. It was Alger's A significant departure from Quaker wife, Priscilla Fansler Hobson Hiss, who ichard Nixon, a member of tradition in Richard Nixon's life occurred had close connections with Friends. Her East Whittier Friends Church in August, 1942. Nixon, already married, father and mother were lifelong and ac­ right up to the time of his death was working as a lawyer for the Office of tive Presbyterians, according to Alger on April 22, 1994, was raised in a Quaker Price Administration (OPA) in Washing­ Hiss, but as a student at Bryn Mawr Col­ family. In his memoirs he speaks of his ton. He recognized that as a government lege she came in contact with Friends and boyhood as being "centered around a lov­ worker he could probably get a draft de­ attended Haverford Meeting. Because she ing family and a small, tight-knit, Quaker ferment. "Despite my Quaker background and Alger used the plain language in talk­ community" in Whittier, California. and beliefs, I never considered doing this," ing and corresponding with one another, "Three words describe my life in he wrote in his Memoirs. Instead he ap­ it was assumed by Chambers, Nixon, and Whittier," records Nixon, "family, church, plied for a commission in the Navy. others that she came from a Quaker fam­ and school." ily. In fact, Priscilla was part of a circle of I received orders to report to San Francisco students who all used the plain language for assignment overseas, and we went back to in their intimate relationships. The Milhous family was one of the oldest Whittier so that I could say goodbye to my Quite coincidentally, in 1933, when in the town, and counting sisters and cousins family. It was a very painful visit. Although Alger was working for the Department of and aunts, it included scores of people. It was nothing was ever said, I knew that my mother a matriarchy headed, first, by my great grand­ and grandmother were deeply troubled by my Agriculture in Washington, Priscilla took mother, Elizabeth Price Milhous. This remark­ a volunteer job with a subsistence home­ decision. In World War I, my Uncle able woman, along with a forebear of hers, Oscar [Marshburn) had gone to France with steads project, organized in the Interior was the model for Eliza Cope Birdwell in the American Friends Service Committee and Department by Eleanor Roosevelt, and Jessamyn West's charming novel, The worked with the Red Cross as an orderly, run on a part-time basis by Clarence Friendly Persuasion. She died in 1923 at the tending wounded soldiers on both sides ofthe Pickett, on leave from the AFSC. There is age of 96, when I was only ten, but I can lines. I am sure that this was the kind of no evidence that Clarence knew her at remember her well. service they had hoped I would choose. that time. When the Hisses moved from My grandmother, Almira Burdg Milhous, Washington to New York following lived to be 94.... When I was in college my Alger's appointment as president of the grandmother gave me a biography ofGandhi, which I read from cover to cover. Gandhi's Carnegie Endowment, Priscilla Hiss and concept of peaceful change and passive resis­ their son, Tony, regularly attended the tance appealed to her, and she had a deep 20th Street Meeting. Alger Hiss also oc­ Quaker opposition to any racial or religious casionally attended with them. prejudice. Grandmother Milhous belonged to (I'o be concluded next month)

FRJENDS JouRNAL November 1994 13 MOVEABLE RINGS This morning, When you peered into the walkway mirror Applying your makeup, Leaving a cold mark of breath On the glass with your lips, I let out a breath of vapor to hover, Its mark making another ring around yours; I watched your face burst into a laugh, Your lips glazed lightly.

We are like rings Sharing life together As we go through our troubles. Sometimes, as in an embrace, Our rings slip neatly one on top the other; At other times, there is a clinking When the outer boundaries expand and cla.sh. I don't want this to stop.

-Russell Endo CHRYSANTHEMUM Leaves tumble in the wind Like souls searching for a way home. I watch trained carp, multi-hued leaves of the fall, Gather when I clap my hands. A woman in a kimono kneels and begins a ceremony, Elaborate ritual of cleansing and of politeness. An inscription of mu, "emptiness," hangs on a scroll on a wall. I gaze across a garden pond, its miniature islands and mountains, The woman turns the tea bowl to the right twice, Swishing tea with steaming water In quick strokes with a whisk, Patiently, with concentration.

-Russell Endo

14 November 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL '~ man in Billings, Montana, claims he can change the shape ofthe Aurora Borealis byflapping a bedsheet at it. News seroices in Billings report the man has invited members ofthe City Council and university to obseroe and attempt to disprove his theory." -Radio news broadcast, 1946

FLAPPING THE SHEETS

The sky is full of strange illusions; The beast has noticed, the white eyelashes of God has moved a dash of red and blue blinking through the universe, through tinsels of spine and ice. heaven's lace doilies, The beast is shimmering into new form, sifts of flour from the celestial drain board, lifting its neon feet strings of sequins from neon puffs of powder, twinkling their way to the moon. settling back on its silver haunches, and wagging its tail. Armed with only a bedsheet, the man strides out to take the sky. The man from Billings, Montana, In the distance, a silvery beast folds up his bedsheet, takes shape from what hums in the stars. slings it, like a fawn, over his shoulders, The beast has many fingers, turns his back on the tame Montana sky, knows the secrets of fire, everything and lifts his brow that hurries in the night. as he passes before us.

The man's faith is in the cloth I turned in time to see the beast's tail where the deepest silences always yield to sleep. lift to the likes of a cobra. He takes the hem of the garment, Armed with what I'd learned, lifts his arms towards heaven, and in one stroke I turned full-face and blew the beast a kiss. flaps the bedsheet at the billowing beast. It fluttered into form like a swarm of fireflies lighting the will of a swan; changing yet more gently than for he who merely flapped the sheets.

-Fredrick Zydek Russell Endo is a member of Green Street (Pa.) Meeting. Fredrick Zydek runs a family farm in Brunswick, Nebraska.

FRJENDS JouRNAL November 1994 15 by Mary Rose O'Reilley silence, called to the spirituality of the master. When I am present-to prayer, to desert. But curiously, in the middle of that art, to another-the feeling I have, in­ silence, I found Peter. And to fmd Peter is conununicable as it may be, comes to me od is speaking us." This was to find language, because he seldom shuts as a deep tone, the note of a cello rather the first thing I remember up, except when he is listening. I want to than ofa violin. Peter and I talk and laugh hearing Peter say. "We are write here about talking and listening, the and badger each other, but under it all her story. God revealed in Christ a story dialectic between the two, as I have expe­ runs this cello continuum of presence; that makes it possible to go from I to We rienced it in a relationship of spiritual and that's what makes the whole thing to I with less excruciating pain. Everyone companionship. work. I meet tells me a little bit ofthe story. She The you-talk/I-talk rule is the one we is speaking us. God makes it possible to Deep Trust and most often keep. It's essential to our dy­ bear the fact of our death. Our stories are namic because Peter tends to dominate color movies of her revelation. God· is Blunt Talk conversations, and I tend to drop the con­ speaking us." As Peter and I became Friends, we versational ball and start staring at leaf When I heard Peter talk this way, I decided to spend two hours a week listen­ hoppers and bits of string. But we have cocked my head and paid attention be­ ing to each other talk about our struggles tried and discarded most of the other con­ cause it was not-like so much of what on the spiritual stomping ground. Both of temporary guidelines for spiritual direc­ we say every day-trivial. Peter was us (he a minister, I a college teacher) felt tion. In a certain sense, we are more old­ speaking in the little Quaker meeting room a need for spiritual direction, but neither fashioned. We often scold each other and at Pendle Hill, the retreat and learning of us knew any Jesuits and neither of us give orders, like medieval clerics. This is center near Philadelphia. I have written it takes direction very well. We developed not supposed to happen in the therapeutic down because he would never bother, a simple formula: you talk for an hour, model many people apply to spiritual di­ because I am his listener, as he is mine. and then I talk for an hour. We didn't plan rection today. But spiritual direction is Henri Nowen writes in The Way ofthe to ask a lot ofquestions, or interrupt much nothing much like psychotherapy. For me, Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contem­ beyond a few clarifications, or give ad­ it is like talking to a prophet in the wilder­ porary Ministry about "how often we vice. At various times, we broke most of ness. (I think Peter probably eats locusts. come out of a conversation, a social gath­ those rules. We moved 500 miles away I often hear something crunching on the ering, or a business meeting with a bad from each other. But the conversations phone, but he tells me they are com chips.) taste in our mouth." He continues: (by phone now) have continued for six We are both solitary, difficult people; and years. I am beginning to learn to listen; I we don't have the patience for a lot of How seldom have long talks proved to be am beginning to bear being heard. psychological soft-shoe. My notes on con­ good and fruitful? Would not many if not How does this listening work, and versations with Peter are full of patriar­ most ofthe words we use be better left unspo­ what's deep about it? Don't all of us chal conunands, ranging from "Stop re­ ken? We speak about the events of the world, lqlow how to listen? On the contrary, I sisting God and pay attention to what but how often do we really change them for the better? We speak about people and their think we know how to shut down. Self­ you're supposed to be doing with your ways, but how often do our words do them or preservation compels it. Modem life with life" to "Get your mechanic to reset the us any good? We speak about our ideas and its din of carmed music and conunercial idle on the Toyota." For my part, I once feelings as ifeveryone were interested in them, entreaty, its appeals and drives, its re­ wrote up a "Holy Rule" for Peter and told but how often do we really feel understood? views and performance evaluations, trains him to tape it to his wall. It was full of We speak a great deal about God and religion, us not to attend but to tune out. There is matriarchal counsel. "Don't eat standing but how often does it bring us or others real much to hear, but little worth listening to. up. Don't fall asleep in your clothes." insight? Words often leave us with a sense of In an environment of overstimulation, the Or "My mother is always whining," I inner defeat. commitment to spend time simply listen­ tell him. "So are you," he says back. ing constitutes a radical experiment in "What are you doing now? Whining about I had read those words, and concurred, friendship. I know a woman who has your mother." at a time in my life when I felt called to raised 12 foster children. She uses a wheel­ Or I'll apologize. "I'm sorry. I'm whin­ chair and is, in fact, paralyzed from the ing." Mary Rose O'Reilley teaches English at the neck down; but she cares for children "That's what friends are for. To whine University ofSt. Thomas in St. Paul, Minne­ sota, where she lives with her two children. with attention and presence. "I am always and whine and whine to. Don't ever stop Her article appeared in the May/June 1994 here," she says, "and I listen." She listens, whining. It's a spiritual practice." issue ofWeavings. A member of Twin Cities I think, deeply. Attention and presence The bluntness of our conversations (Minn.) Meeting, she is author ofThe Peace­ imply something more like Zen medita­ comes oflong listening and deep trust, in able Classroom: Essays Toward a Pedagogy tion orcentering prayer than like the "com­ particular a trust that neither has a vested of Nonviolence. munication skills" we go to workshops to interest in changing the other, nor has a

16 November 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL appropriate feminine language. We should celebrate this, I'm sure: the ceremonies of inno­ cence in a violent world. Only I, for my part, am not very meek, nor is my dear companion. Any­ one who thinks spiritual direc­ tion is for monks and hermits­ people called to "states of per­ fection" in the old spiritual hier­ archy-can take a tour around Peter and me to get a more real­ istic vision. Perfection is not on our horizon: we are not very good or very successful. We are not Francis and Clare. Both of us, for example, are divorced, crotchety, and often on the outs with our communities. We mess up relationships. We are notteam players. We participate in the reality of brokenness that many religious people affirm abstractly but avoid by grace, luck, or a preference for safety. Religious people, by and large, try to be­ have very well, a habit I am not attempting to subvert. But the goodness of others can have a shaming side. People who do not or• cannot- yet-behave very well may feel humiliated by religious language and be­ havior. They may feel they aren't good enough to sit at this table. In a relationship of deep lis­ tening, Peter and I have given each other freedom to chart a spiritual path outside the norm, which has helped us to see what cultural or religious paradigm to impose try to "break" him of these habits, but the norms are, what they are good for, on the other. We have suffered and for­ why? Thinking and praying about Peter's and where they may actually impede spiri­ given each other through deep and pain­ contentiousness has helped me to under­ tual progress. I mentioned Peter's disor­ ful misunderstandings: indeed, Peter has stand a lot about male, as opposed to ganization. In Myers-Briggs terms, he's a helped me to learn that intimacy entails female, spirituality and to remember that strong "P." In the orderly halls of my pain, almost as a condition of growth. both the lion and the lamb are permitted childhood religion, spiritual direction This history has given us the capacity to to lie down in the garden oflsaiah 11 :6-8. seemed to assume that "P"s are bad relig­ renegotiate definitions ofbeing male, fe­ Many of our models for being spiritual ious material, who should be fixed or male, ministers, spiritual beings, social people are feminized models. And, when cured. Our deeply puritan traditions, beings-and so on- within the frame­ men get into spiritual relationships with maybe, have taught us to affirm the steady, works ofour rather eccentric and difficult women (I'm thinking of the conversa­ solid, frugal, orderly religious model. temperaments. tions ofFrancis and Clare ofAssisi, Teresa Dealing with Peter has helped me-me Peter, for example, is quarrelsome and of Avila and John ofthe Cross, Francis de with the color-coded file drawers-to disorganized. A traditional guidance might Sales and Jane de Chantal), they tend to understand the beauty ofa ministry that is

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1994 17 truly "oll call" for the Spirit If Peter is with child-rearing, our jobs, our ex­ tity while you struggle with kids' finan­ late, it's because whomever he is with at spouses, our cars, our dates, our pets. cial aid forms and importunate boyfriends the moment has his full attention. Many's Where do we get off calling this a spiri­ from prayer group. I have even known the time I have watched him wend his tual friendship? Because of the intention, people in spiritual direction to be posi­ way toward a meeting with some impor­ for one thing. Because of the gift, for tively duplicitous with their directors, to tant religious official, or donor, or me, another-I've come to understand that construct one self, as it were, for the con­ deflected by some lonely grandmother or certain people do or do not have a gift for sulting chamber and another for daily wandering felon, stop to talk, stop to lis­ loving a certain partner, teaching a par­ life. ten. Once I gave him, wistful with hope, a ticular student, training one dog or an­ Listening in the kitchen, this evasion is Mickey Mouse watch. He soon lost it. other. Peter and I have a gift-hard won­ not so easy. Peter and I certainly do resist for this relationship, and it would be un­ and hide out from each other, just as we fair not to acknowledge it. And, finally, it resist the God who is speaking us. Some­ Living in Sacred Time is spiritual friendship because we know times we even hang up the phone. Other Attention. Deep listening. People are that the junk that flows through our lives times, though, we telephone in the middle dying in spirit for lack of it. In academic is the raw material of new creation. As of the night. Our angels are, like Rilke's, culture, where I range, most listening is Brenda Ueland says in her wonderful es­ earth angels, who often fly in the dark. critical listening. We pay attention only say about listening ("Tell Me More," Utne They specialize in the panic surrounding long enough to develop a counter-argu­ Reader, November/December 1992), "I sick children, creepy noises in the base­ ment; we critique the student or the think it's only by expressing all that is ment, and teenagers who have missed colleague's ideas; we mentally grade and inside that purer and purer streams come. curfew. I suppose we could pray over pigeon-hole each other. In society at large, ... If you hold back the dull things, you these things without calling each other; people often listen with an agenda, to sell, are certain to hold back what is clear and sometimes we have to go it alone. But or petition, or seduce. Seldom is there a beautiful and true and lively." This week why did Jesus send the apostles out in deep, open-hearted, unjudging reception I may tell Peter how my bad dog, Shep, pairs, besides to share com chips? of the other. And so, we all talk louder got up on the kitchen table and ate the I practiced Zen meditation for a long and more stridently, and with a terrible butter. Next week, Peter may remind me time before it occurred to me that it had desperation. By contrast, ifsomeone truly how similar my spiritual path is to Shep's. any transferability to everyday life. Simi­ listens to me, my spirit begins to expand. From time to time, I give up on Peter larly, I practiced the discipline of deep I once spent a summer with a mixed as a spiritual director and consult with a listening for many years before l realized bag of American and British students at priest or nun. I want someone who will that it, too, was a branch ofcontemplative an English university. One of our lectur­ give me more advice, who knows about prayer. Like all contemplative disciplines, ers was a famous British academic, very psychology and the pratfalls of it deals with the whole rather than with fierce and unapproachable. But, because contemplative prayer. I cherish these en­ the parts. It attends not to the momentary we American students were unfamiliar counters, but in them I must struggle not faltering but to the long path of the soul, with the British syle, we found him funny to compartmentalize my life into sacred not to the stammer but to the poem being and laughed uproariously at his twitty and secular divisions. The image of per­ born. It completes the clumsy ·gesture in comments on Queen Victoria. The more fection intimidates. Perhaps some degree an arc of grace. One can, I think, listen we Americans laughed, the better and the of tension is inevitable when your direc­ someone into existence, encourage a wittier grew his lectures. The decorous tor lives under vows of poverty and chas- stronger self to emerge or a new talent to English students shook their heads in dis­ flourish. Good teachers listen this way, as belief over the transformation of their do terrific grandfathers and similar he­ famous scholar into the Monty Python of roes of the spirit. (The critical hearer, by Exeter College. In our welcoming­ contrast, crushes our spirits, leaves us though perhaps befuddled-response, we with that sense of inner defeat Henri mirrored back to him a self he had not Nouwen speaks of.) known before. Still, it was a self longing How do we become deep listeners? to be born and strut its stuff for the plea­ Brenda Ueland offers sound guidance into sure ofall . So it is with spiritual compan­ this contemplative dimension of listen­ ionship. If someone pays attention to the ing. "In order to learn to listen," she tells part ofme that struggles to know God, my us, "here are some suggestions": search intensifies. The questing spirit grows bold enough to claim its path. If Try to learn tranquility, to live in the someone believes with me in the amaze­ present a part ofthe time every day. Some­ ment of grace, prays with me, and re­ times say to yourself: "Now. What is minds me ofGod's tenderness, I live more happening now? This friend is talking. I thoroughly and bravely in sacred time. am quiet. There is endless time. I hear it, Now, sacred time runs on a daily clock. every word." Then, suddenly, you begin I want to emphasize again how banal, to hear not only what people are saying, how unassuming, is this relationship of but what they are trying to say, and you deep listening. I sit in my kitchen in St. sense the whole truth about them. And Paul, Minnesota, drinking tea, listening to you sense existence, not piecemeal, not Peter crunch com chips in Philadelphia, this object and that, but as a translucent Pennsylvania. We talk about our struggles whole. 0

18 November 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL SERVICE

by William Charland

t was 25 years ago when I first made In many respects, the Quakers' draft ing, another was operating a hospital for the connection between Quakerism counseling program seemed as question­ war victims in Vietnam. I found clarity in I and commitment to service. But last able as anything I was trying to do. But that spirit and, after attending my first December, when I joined a gathering of the spirit in which people did their work conference at Quaker Hill, I became a Friends at Quaker Hill Conference Cen­ was striking, and it drew me to them. Quaker too. ter in Richmond, Indiana, the decades Quakers didn't niggle over beliefs, for Twenty-five years later, the 1993 con­ seemed to melt away. one thing. They didn't seem much inter­ sultation seemed to be infused by the I was taking part in a consultation on ested in my theological position as an same sense ofdiversity in service. Quaker "Friends and Personal Service" in Evans ordained minister- in what I did or didn't Hill Conference Center and co-sponsor House-the musty, old, white-pillared believe. Indeed, as I got to know them, it Earlham School of Religion had invited mansion at Quaker Hill. It is a place de­ seemed that members ofthat Friends meet­ about 30 Friends from throughout the signed for reflection, and I remembered ing ran the gamut from evangelical Chris­ United States and England, plus repre­ the first conference I attended there in the tians to Mahayana Buddhists. They be­ sentatives of three Quaker organizations 1970s. I'd been struggling with my role lieved almost everything under the sun. involved in outreach. K.ara Newell was as a college chaplain during the days of What united them was a spirit of serv­ there to represent the American Friends the counterculture, the civil rights move­ ice and outreach. While several of the Service Committee; Ron Stansell, Evan­ ment, and the Vietnam War, and I'd hoped Quakers were involved in draft counsel- gelical Friends International; and Andrew the conference might clear my head. The '60s and '70s were tough times to be a cleric. I often found myselfquestioning my beliefs, and felt embarrassed by my indecision. What if others sensed I was uncer­ tain what to do as a minister, and what to believe? It was about that time that I came in contact with a group of Quakers in my college town. I'd volunteered to do draft counseling Saturday mornings at the Friends meetinghouse, and found I looked forward to that experience each weekend. It wasn't the counseling itself that appealed to me. The meeting was in a wealthy suburb of Chicago, and counselees would drive up in fancy sports cars to ask how to convince a draft board that they'd suddenly become consci­ entious objectors on the eve of the draft.

William Charland is a member of Mountain View (Colo.) Meeting. A newspaper columnist and training consultant in Denver, his two recent books are Career Shifting: Starting Guilford College students Alex Kem, Wendy Mattocks, Susan Mers, and Over in a Changing Economy, and Kate Willever rake and bag trash at the edge of the Fairhill Burial Ground The Heart of the Global Village. in Philadelphia, where Lucretia Mott is buried.

FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1994 19 Clark, Quaker Peace and Service in have all the answers to questions offaith: Meeting described how Friends in his England. John Punshon, an English Friend "As Friends, we accept the searchers." region had managed to reinvent the insti­ who teaches at the Earlham School of "In the last analysis, outreach is all tution of the workcamp, once a staple of Religion, served as clerk ofthe gathering. about the human condition," he said. "It's AFSC, which the organization had laid Most ofthe fonnal program highlighted back to the Cross- an encounter with down. "We'd all had important experi­ the three organizations, and sometimes good and evil. For some of us that's 'mis­ ences in workcamps when we were the leaders squirmed in the spotlight, very sion' and for some of us it's 'service.'" young," he said, "and we wanted the same much as I had when I was trying to be a Midway through the conference, an­ for our children." responsible professional religious worker. othertheme began to echo in Evans House. This Friend was working as paid staff Kara Newell spoke candidly about the It was a concern connected with the work one day a week, which was all his meet­ struggles of the AFSC to develop a minis­ of Quaker organizations, but seemed to ing could afford, to organize work camps try appropriate to the 1990s. "This is a transcend them as well. It was a concern in Maryland, Tanzania, and Romania. very '60s organization," she said. "The for paying attention to the ministries of A nurse from upstate New York told AFSC has ridden into the 1990s on the individual Quakers- for personal how she had become involved with or­ strength of that energy, but without much service. phanages in Romania after seeing an ad analysis. Now we're faced with questions The theme surfaced as the 30 Friends for the workcamps in FRIENDS JouRNAL. such as what it means to be a peace or­ began to tell about the experiences that · After she returned from Romania, people ganization at a time when there is no brought them to Quaker Hill. Some of the in her community began giving her unso­ effective peace movement in this stories were poignant. There was a man licited gifts of medical equipment and country." from New England who had given up his supplies. Now the work had become the Newell offered a set of queries for jewelry business to serve as a lobbyist for center of her life. She would spend the Quakers bent on service: poor people in his state legislature. Al­ summer coordinating three workcamps 1. What need is being met by the pro­ most immobilized by a physical infir- in Nicorest, Romania. posed service? As the stories circulated around the 2. Who identified that need? high-ceilinged drawing room of Evans 3. Who is the servant and who is the House, I reflected on my first contact served? with Quakers. And, like an old college 4. Are independence, dignity, and chaplain, I began to frame a theological equality goals of the service project? idea. 5. Are the motives for service clearly I wondered whether service is not a understood and articulated? kind of sacrament for Quakers. The pur­ While calling on Quakers to be more pose of a sacrament, I recalled, was to sophisticated, she also stressed that genu­ provide an opportunity for people to act ine service · is always a venture in faith. on their beliefs. That's an important coun­ "Your ability to take risks is directly re­ terpart to just thinking about them. I re­ lated to your relationship to God and His membered a fragment of a communion healing power," she said. ~ sermon I'd once heard: "The highest can­ Ron Stansell offered another perspec- ~ not be spoken, but only done." tive on service as "conversion evangel- Could it be, I wondered, that this is ~ ism." He said the putpose of Friends' ~ what Quakers find in service? In the ab­ outreach is to share our experience in ~ · sence of other liturgies, maybe Quakers Christian faith: the kind of faith that can ~ need to focus their faith in service. I once '0' "encourage us in times of change and ~ heard Ed Duckles, a Friend whose faith anchor us to the unchangeable." ~ had led him to a long career of service in Andrew Clark expounded on the theme c Mexico City, say something to that effect. of cultural diversity, citing his experi- ~'-' It is in outreach, he said, that our beliefs .Q ences with QPS in Nigeria, Palestine, ~ are defined and deepened. India, and Vietnam. He said one of his I wondered whether that's why we role models was a missionary he'd known ~'"" Friends struggle so heatedly with our out­ in India. This man was so sensitive to the ~ reach organizations-such as continually values in other cultures that he encour­ Haverford College students trying to refme the work of the AFSC so aged a woman who was unhappy in her Hannah Scardina and Mariya that it represents the best current thinking Christian beliefs to become a Hindu. Strauss plaster a wall during a on social change. Maybe it's because serv­ Respect for the cultures of others is at workcamp in Baltimore, Md. ice is our sacrament. I wondered whether the heart ofservice, Clark declared. "Most we need new instruments for involving problems in the world are not about mate­ mity, he radiated a spirit ofjoy as he told ourselves directly in service, ~uch as new rial goods. They are about right relation­ about going around to call on his clients. forms ofworkcamps for Friends who want ships and respect," he said. "Don't ask Another Friend told how she became a to engage in outreach together, and clear­ poor people, 'What is your need?' Ask, specialist in conflict resolution. "I grew ness committees for those who are con­ 'What is your strength?' That's part of up in a violent family," she said. "I was sidering new directions in their careers. seeking that of God in everyone." beat up a lot by people I loved. So I took For the second time in 25 years, I sat Clark maintained that it's not neces­ an interest in learning how to fight right." with Friends and pondered the sacrament sary or even desirable for Quakers to A Quaker from Baltimore Yearly of service. 0

20 November 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL Right: An intem placed at AFSC's regional office will work with gay and lesbian youth on issues of racism, social justice, and violence. Below: A special project Below: Two QUEST carried out intems stop to relax. by an lntem in the "Powerful Schools" program Involved family portraits.

When Meetings Take Risks by Judith Brown ost three years ago our meeting cia! change and service agencies around gotanewburstofenergy. We found Seattle, Washington. We knew of agen­ h Spirit enough to find unity on the cies working on slim budgets such as issue of whether we could provide cer­ Mediation Services for Victims and Of­ emonies of marriage for all couples re­ fenders, the Church Council's gardless of gender. That ten-year search Homelessness Program, the Northwest for unity over, we looked for work that AIDS Foundation, Women's Shelters, Day we as Friends should be about in the Care for the Elderly, Immigration Rights, world. What could we focus on that was and the Coalition to Abolish the Death positive and needed doing? Penalty. We knew them to be working on In the late 1980s we remodeled a house Friends concerns, and thought they might across the parking lot from our meeting­ value help from our meeting in the tan­ house intending to use its upstairs floor to gible form of a full-time intern to offer house some kind of outreach program. them fresh energy. We envisioned playing host to an effort Still, recruiting a group ofinterns, hous­ that fostered our dreams for outreach in ing them, and actually placing them in the community. Our hopes were realized agencies seemed like a huge undertaking. when we were able to house on that top We needed to locate persons with a good floor an agency that helps persons recov­ measure of the volunteer spirit, and find ering from breaks in mental health live agencies that could afford about $8,000 a semi-independently. When that group had year for the support of such an intern. The been there awhile, we began to think $8,000 included a placement fee, money Judith Brown is a member of Univer­ about founding a program of our own for the intern's room and board, health sity Meeting, Seattle, Washington. that would place young volunteers in so- insurance, transportation costs, and an $85

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1994 21 monthly stipend. What if founding this the problems. Some changes .occurred, kind of a program was too big for us? but not enough. In the end, QUEST sup­ Launching into this program, which we ported the intern in leaving that agency called QUEST (Quaker Experiential Serv­ and finding another part-time job. She Released ice and Training), required an act offaith. finished the year still living in community University Meeting, after honing and with the other interns. That first year when seasoning our committee's written pro­ the group's living arrangements got by John Calvi posal for several months, gave us their thorny, the program coordinator helped n :Minneapolis, in 1988, I was teaching cautious approval for a three-year trial. mend the breaks in communication. a seminar at the first national confer­ The original committee raised $7,000 of QUEST interns meet regularly to mull I ence on massage for people with AIDS. start-up money to fund a person working over their living arrangements, work as­ I was not at all sure about my topic. half-time for six months to set up the signments, and social change issues~ They Doubts abounded as the first speaker fm­ program. That person was hired and be­ retreat twice a year for a weekend to­ ished up and I took my place at the micro­ gan work. She wasn't trained in program gether with the meeting's QUEST com­ phone. I had wanted to teach massage or development, but she was smart, savvy, mittee. All ofthis is intended to help them my anti-burnout workshop, but I had con­ and willing to work nearly full-time for get perspective on their lives and situa­ tacted the organizers too late and they had what was half-time pay. Simultaneously tions. In the two years of the program's those bases covered. Also, they had never she began to contact career counseling operation, all the agencies except the one heard of me. "Could you teach offices of U.S. colleges and Seattle social mentioned have worked well, and the fundraising?" they asked. interns feel they have learned a great deal. So, there I was explaining two ideas. Would the project drain Several of the interns have been hired by First, there's a concept slowly being re­ the meetings energy? To their agencies for continued work. vealed out of the pain and injustices of the Recruiting was easier the second year. 20th century, which is this: There is a the contrary, it added Word of mouth had begun to operate. level at which evil-such as apartheid, energy-and new Agencies also began to come to us asking nuclear power, etc.- is no longer eco­ for an intern. We have just finished re­ nomically feasible. Conversely, goodness, members were attracted. cruiting for the third year, and we had so defined as sharing wealth and working many good applicants and excellent agen­ for the common good, has not yet shown change and service agencies. The first cies asking for interns that we are scram­ an upper limit. As the tides turn ever so need was to fmd the people, and nine bling to be able to house seven interns. slowly, more money becomes available applications were actually completed af­ More agencies wanted interns this year for good works. Second, the way you ter many inquiries that first year. We in­ than we could provide. Interns and agen­ raise money is to go out and do something terviewed face-to-face all the final appli­ cies have opportunity to choose each other. beautiful and then say, "Who will help cants, using our Quaker friends in the The QUEST program has been blessed me?" areas of the country where the applicants by several pieces of remarkable luck. It Well, they loved it. They even used were living. pays for itself. Our meeting would offer it these ideas to fund the following year's The first year of QUEST started with financial support in a pinch, but it hasn't conference. There were a few skeptics four young women and one young man, had to. Automatically, it seems to draw who said, "How do you know these and one older volunteer who worked with outstanding young people. things?" to which I replied, "I'm a re­ no monetary support for only ten hours a We couldn't have housed it nearly so leased Friend." week at a Dispute Resolution Center. Only easily had we not already owned the house What is this Friends' tradition, and the latter person was from Seattle. The across the parking lot, but we could have what mechanics are used? I want to share 1992-93 year had its pitfalls, but overall rented a house. It got a good solid start a few thoughts on this because it is a good it worked beautifully. because the person we hired to develop it and valuable tradition that should be pre­ When the program was launched, the initially was so innovative and practical. served. I confess at the outset that my meeting hired a permanent coordinator to It also would never work so well were its view is from an extreme experience: For handle the program's basic support and present program coordinator not so effec­ over ten years I have lived primarily on operations. Her job is completely funded tive and willing to do nearly a full-time gifts while following a leading to teach by the placement fees the agencies pay job for half-time pay. The meeting won­ about healing from trauma. the QUEST program. The program coor­ dered if it would drain our energy. It has I remember when I first heard the term. dinator is a half-time position, which at added to our energy. The committee that I had just spent two years asking friends certain seasons amounts to full-time. Be­ supports it gains new members because for donations so I could continue to eat sides helping the interns who live together people want to be involved, not because and pay rent while giving massage to build community, the program coordina­ they have to be coaxed. people with AIDS for little or no pay. A tor troubleshoots when things go awry The Spirit moved our meeting, gave it good friend mentioned it might be helpful with the agency placements. The first year, the faith to take the risk. For all this we are if my monthly meeting "released" me. one of the interns placed at a women's grateful. We offer any other Friends meet­ "Is that like being set loose, Lyle?" shelter was given an outreach job to do ing information and help in doing a simi­ and was not well supervised. When she lar program. Our program coordinator, John Calvi is a Quaker hepler working for felt she waS left to flounder, QUEST's Eileen Long, can be contacted at Univer­ the past 12 years with trauma survivors. He is program coordinator scheduled confer­ sity Friends Meeting, 4009 9th Ave., a member and released Friend ofPutney (Vt.) ences with the intern and her supervisor. Seattle, W A 98105, telephone at (206) Meeting. · They agreed on changes to smooth out 522-0589. D

22 November 1994 FRIENDS JoURNAL to Do Good Work

"In a way," he said. whether the leading is a genuine one, if Friend to go and talk to other meetings in With more research I learned this won­ the Friend is appropriate to the task, and if the quarter about an issue of some impor­ derful and very old tradition in the Relig­ the task is a shared concern in the meet­ tance. It can also be as complex as sup­ ious Society of Friends is used to help ing. If so, the Friend is supported in some. porting a life's work. people follow a leading. The tradition way to help accomplish the work. That's For instance, Friend Obadiah might goes something like this. A Friend re­ the shell of the tradition. All of the par­ wish to travel to a troubled place to make ceives a leading to do good works and ticulars are the invention of each meeting. some sort of contribution of himself. The seeks clearness with his or her monthly Support from the meeting may be as meeting considers the situation carefully. meeting. The meeting will consider simple as providing gas money for the If they perceive that his doing this work will be an extension of the meeting, and that it rightly will be done by him, they ask what he may need that they can give. We do good works to reform our interior, Since he will be set apart from regular community life, will he need a good pair to seek, learn, change, and come closer, ifonly of boots, perhaps, or letters of introduc­ tion, or relief from his milking chores? for moments, to the Divine. Will he need forgiveness from his mon­ etary contribution to the meeting or from

Responding to her own call to service, Elizabeth Fry reads to inmates at Newgate Prison, 1816.

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1994 23 his commitment to start up the wood stove ofdoing one's best work and being faith­ renewal and reassessment into the struc­ in the meetinghouse early on First Days? ful to a leading belongs to the seeker, who ture, there is a three-year limit to the Through this kind of searching together, should bear in mind that directions change Minute. We are not in the meeting's bud­ early Friends sent out many people from and broaden as time goes on. Leadings get; the meeting established a contribu­ their meeting to do things that one person change with the maturing ability to listen tory fund whereby individuals or other had a passion for and all agreed needed without hearing one's own wishes. The meetings can donate anonymously as they doing. true test of a mature ministry is that the are led. (Anonymity is a lovely thing. "ke many Quaker traditions, the spirit tone of one's best reverent work is ab­ Remember, there's only one thing our is the essence of the form, divine sorbed and exuded in one's everyday liv­ Society shies away from talking about Uinspiration is its basis, and the exter­ ing. Speaking well at meeting does not more than sex, and that is money!) nal details are minimal. The first task of a excuse one's rudeness anywhere else in Both Eva Mondon and I have over­ meeting is to seek clarity about whether a life. sight committees to help us, as needed, Friend's leading is genuine. This can be The release is a recognition that spiri­ seek clarity-and to offer other support. difficult for Friends to sense, particularly tual questing involves doing good works. One member of my committee takes care if the individual is not yet active in a This must also be understood for what it of thank-you notes to donors, whose certain work. It is important that a meet­ is and what it is not. We do good works to names and addresses are passed on by the ing distinguish between passion that has reform our interior, to seek, learn, change, treasurer. This is good for anonymity and muscle, and idealism that may lose stamina and come closer, if only for moments, to a true blessing for anyone with a desk like in difficult times. There is also the prob­ the Divine. The fact that it will be of help mine, which seems to sneeze out too many lem of eccentricity, a quality we Quakers to others in direct ways is merely good letters to be answered. Both Eva and I adore in some and disdain in others. ft is design on the part of the universe. The have presented our work in various ways not your regular kind of person who takes difficulties of doubt, fatigue, and losing to the meeting. Eva is a member ofThich on prison reform-not in 1794, and not finite ideas of purpose are not flukes; they Nhat Hanh's Tiep Hien Order, which now. This can make discerning a Friend's are to be expected. More often, Way open­ stresses mindfulness. She is generous with leading difficult. Spiritual seeking in its ing resembles a shooting star rather than her Buddhist candles and uses a healing active stages can cause people to be highly the yellow brick road. It is a journey, not quilt made for her work by the meeting. I inarticulate and odd. It is the essence of a merely a ride. No one is honored by on­ keep a journal at the meetinghouse, which person that must be sought to determine going suffering, however, so love of work includes various writings and my calen­ the genuineness of the leading. Depend­ and joy must be kept track ofdeliberately. dar. I add to this every so often. ing on the leading, a meeting will want Since release can be the essence of Things should be kept as simple and the Friend to be genuine-crazy enough spiritual life, one can assume that lan­ neighborly as possible. Release should to do the work, but not too crazy. guage will be insufficient to express what increase a sense of reverence about good The next task is to consider the meet­ is witnessed. We must strive to say some­ work, also a meeting's sense of its gener­ ing's interest in the work-to measure its how what we saw, felt, and heard, but we osity. If that is not there, I would wonder enthusiasm. It needn't be work that the can also anticipate frustrations. Once we why. meeting is excited about, since the first begin to put words to describe spiritual he released Friend tradition is one responsibility is to help the Friend seek. experience, we dilute it. It can help the hat helps us support the still small The meeting must then consider what meeting to trust that all love and good Tvoice within. Does a meeting have is needed and what can be offered or work go to the common good. Sensing more spiritual life going on than is given invented to help. Often, more will be and feeding the effort, not policing it, is voice? Is there work that needs doing that needed than the meeting can give. This the meeting's boundary. The released we are not sure how to touch? Can we reflects the tension inherent in seeking, seeker should understand that the work give the space Spirit needs within us? not the failure of the meeting as parent. itself is one's road and home for the pe­ What do you support now that reflects The meeting is not a job bank or a pana­ riod of release. your inner knowing? cea for every seeker who can't bear the y meeting in Putney, Vermont, I think of the essence of release as suspense ofhow and when way will open. has two released Friends. Eva having two levels, really. One is that the It also should be clearly understood by all M Mondon began working as a involvement of the meeting acts as a cul­ that one need not suffer in order to do massage therapist. She has devoted her tural base, a firm ground from which one good works. There is enough to do with­ life to helping people who are healing extends outward. But the true nature of out having to worry that a great deal of from suffering. As massage fell away release is this: If you truly feel you are work may collapse because the phone has from her practice, her leading included doing what you are supposed to, you will been turned off. As we support people breath work, imagery, drums, and always come to know and expect that Way will who are good at giving, we must be watch­ prayer. Her understanding of what she open; common fears will be laid down, ful for unnecessary sacrificing of their does moved from massage therapist to and you will be allowed to know your life own basic needs as they attempt to give to Quaker Witness for Healing. Her release outside the worldly definitions that keep others. and mine happened about the same time us huddled and confused in this noisy Discerning the essence of a leading and have similar structure. We both have world. and nurturing it for good health, or help­ Minutes naming the nature ofour leadings, When I took the leap, I had faith I ing to bring it into maturity, is the respon­ which describe the meeting's apprecia­ would find a net; instead I learned I could sibility of the meeting. The primary task tion and support of our work. To bring fly. 0

24 November 1994 F RIENDS JouRNAL THE DOCTOR AND THE CHILD

he China mission station, where I will never forget the lovely feeling I That first winter I spent my time with a my husband and I lived for 11 had the morning we walked into our house Chinese teacher, who helped me to read 1years, was situated on an estuary more after the best part of a night spent in a and also instructed me in the strange pro­ than 700 miles up the Yangtze River. The fourth-class railway car. nunciations of the Mandarin language city stretched along the used by the people there. shore of what appeared to My husband, having been be a lake. In the wintertime there for a year before I it was a delta through which came, was already caught ran a navigable channel. up in the work. His ability Steamships from Shanghai with figures made him a dropped anchor in sight of natural bookkeeper for all the city. I remember a yel­ who drew salaries, for all low tanker bearing the expenditures, and for all in­ words "Standard Oil Com­ come. pany of New York" an­ When our first child was chored within sight of our born in May of our first house. year, we engaged a Chi­ One entered the com­ neseamah, or nurse, to help pound through a gate open­ in his care. I went to the ing from a street called In- • Yale-in-China Hospital in Front-of-the-Pagoda Street. Changsha for his birth. Although we never found There we had a good out which emperor actually American doctor. built the pagoda, it was fa­ The Chinese amah and mous for its beauty. our cook and other menser­ Walking in from the gate, vants were waiting at our one saw the hospital, the door when we arrived back doctor's house, and the at our house. The amah im­ nurses' home. To the left mediately appropriated the was a side yard ofour house, tiny baby, exclaiming over with the windows of the his white skin and black church next door looking hair. (She did not mention onto it. Further along the his blue eyes.) Church walk lay what was called members and employees of the ladies' hall, occupied by the mission came bearing two American teachers and gifts. There were red eggs, two American nurses. Still pair upon pair of small em­ further along and over a broidered shoes, and fancy small rise was another mis­ caps with silver bells and sionary home, a boarding tiger faces. school for women, and a The routine of our life boarding school for girls. began to go smoothly along. We looked over at the Grace Yaukey, a poet and au­ empty hospital: empty be­ thor ofsevera l books, lived at cause there was no doctor. Friends Retirement Commu­ The last American doctor .~ nity and was a beloved mem­ had become elderly and re- :S. ber of Sandy Spring (Md.) tired a few years before our ~ Meeting. She was born and arrival. There was no west- ~ raised in China with her sis­ em-trained Chinese doctor "0' ter, Pearl Buck. Shortly be­ to be had. The two Ameri- ~ fore her death this year at age can nurses and some Chi- 94, and nearly blind, Grace .t:::3 dictated this true story to her nese nurses opened a dis- ~ friend Natalie Krakau. pensary in the hospital in J:

FRIENDS JOURNAL Nov. 1994 25 the afternoon. Here they gave out qui­ gerous method of rowboats, but we nine for malaria, castor oil, and mild could not lengthen the journey in that medicines. There were always boils way, in this case. to lance, and eyes wanting care. My husband made the reservation A few weeks after our child's birth for us. The day came and then the we had the welcome news that an night, the night that we were to board American doctor and his wife, Dr. the ship. Fortunately, it was not rain­ and Mrs. Stucki, were coming. There ing. My two menservants, the cook was a great bustling to get everything and the boy, had the luggage aboard a connected with the hospital in order rowboat, waiting, so when the steamer and the doctor's home refurbished. itself was sighted, we went down to When they came, we were de­ the shore and got aboard the rowboat. lighted. There they were, two beauti­ As we drew near to the steamer, ful creatures from Texas. They were the water was turbulent because of tall and slim, black-eyed, black-haired, her motion. She had slowed down, with ivory-white complexions. The but not come to a full stop. Our rower doctor took our baby in his arms and went on until we almost touched the handled him as if the child were his steamer, then sailors aboard the ship own. threw ropes to us, which the boatman In May, when the weather was quickly grasped, at the same time already dreadfully bot, our child was moving us so close in that we felt the almost a year old, and he suddenly trembling of the ship. At this point became very ill. He had been tod- ~ men from the ship reached over to­ dling everywhere, clinging to fumi- ~ ward us, taking hold of us, while our ture or a person's hands, but hope- s rowers pushed us from behind, so we fully directing everything toward his ~ were literally thrown onto the lower mouth. deck of the steamer. The doctor had The doctor came at once and, the baby, holding him high in one studying the symptoms, he said qui­ arm while he reached out, and grasp­ etly, "I think the child has dysentery. Grace and Ray Yaukey in Hunan, ing the railing, leaped aboard. When There are several forms of it. This China, 1925 I and the servants were all aboard, may not be the worst one." Then he scarecely knowing how we had got­ looked at my husband and asked, "When thing I could do. Tell me how to get to ten there, the doctor said, "Let's go up do you plan to take your family to the Kuling." another level and find your room." mountains?" (He was referring to Kuling, My husband explained how we had to There were people sleeping every­ where my family had had a house for go by ship to the port nearest to the foot of where, lying on the decks or on the seats many years.} the mountains, take sedan chairs across of the saloon, which was near where we [The author describes Kuling in her the plain to the foot of the mountains were to go. Our cabin or stateroom held article "Center" (FJ Aprill991) as a place themselves for a three-hour ride, then four berths and had one small window. of great mystical beauty, cool air, and change to light bamboo mountain chairs­ There was no electric fan. I quickly spread clean water. Many Westerners went there for another three hours or so. a rubber sheet on one of the lower berths to escape the oppressive summer heat­ After a brief pause, the doctor asked, and the doctor lay the baby there, and also the diseases that were prevalent at "How do we get a reservation on the began to open his clothes to give him as that time.] steamer?" much air as possible. He quickly changed My husband answered, "I plan to take My husband said, "We telegraph to the child and tried to get him to take a my wife and child up in about two weeks, the missionary home in Hankow, the larg­ little water from his nursing bottle. I sat then I'll go back for a while in August." est port city in this area. They make a down on whatever was there and waited. The doctor said nothing, then went reservation with the steamship company The doctor said nothing for a while, then away, but in an hour or so he was back. and wire us back the day and name of the at length he turned to me and said, "You He said, "You know, the danger of dys­ ship." and the womanservant go and find the entery is that it causes dehydration and The doctor ran his hand back over his deck and try to get a little fresh air. I we have no equipment for intravenous hair, then said, with a look at me, "IfMrs. won't move from here. You know I will feeding of any fluid." He paused, and Yaukey can do it, I can." do everything I possibly can to save this then said, "Trying intravenous feeding on But my husband had not yet given full child." I could not speak, but I obeyed so small a child would be dangerous in details of the journey. Since no shipping him. itself." He looked up and he looked company had quay or wharf at our city, The whole night through was spent around, and at last he said, "Mr. Yaukey, we would have to go out to the ship in a tip-toeing in and out. The womanservant I think the best thing to be done is for me rowboat, and while the ship slowed its sat on a seat in the saloon. I didn't know to accompany Mrs. Yaukey and the child motors, we would be pushed, lifted, helped where the manservant went. From time to to the mountains." Then he continued, "I in any way possible onto the lowest deck time I could bear the child's fretful cry­ know that your work as treasurer is heavi­ of the ship. I shuddered to think of it. ing. I know that sometimes the doctor est at the end ofthe month, and the hospi­ We sometimes went to Hankow and took him in his arms and walked around tal is not yet really open, so this is -some- boarded the ship there to avoid the dan- the tiny room.

26 November 1994 FRIENDS JoURNAL When dawn came the doctor stepped out of the room to find me. I saw his shirt was soaking wet, and he had deep lines under his eyes, but there was a little smile on his face. "I'm not sure yet," he said, ''but perhaps we may make it. If you'd asked me last night, I would have said no, but now I'm beginning to think yes." In midmorning we came to the port where we would leave the ship and take sedan chairs across the plain for three hours. Sometimes we stopped at places where the chairbearers could get a cup of tea. Once I went to see how the baby was doing. He lay panting on the doctor's lap, but the doctor looked up at me with a glimmer of a smile. He said, "I imagine that I feel a touch of coolness in the air already." I said, "I wish you were right, but you have a very good imagination." By midday we were at the foot of the mountain. Here we changed to high-slung bamboo chairs, which would avoid the rocky steps. Late in the afternoon the road seemed to level out, and suddenly all the chair coolies, in unison, began to take long steps along a level space, and as they seemed to run, they shouted. This was always an exciting moment, but some­ how, on this occasion, it had something victorious about it. We were now at the great stone arch­ way, which was the entrance to the vil­ lage of Kuling. Here were a telegraph station, a post office, a photographer, as well as a few grocery stores carrying im­ ported goods. I had already given our manservant a list of things to get. The doctor said, "Do you want to send a tele­ Saves you as much as 90°/o gram? I'm going to wire my wife." I said, "What shall I say?" He said, "Child seems of the costs of a traditional funeral better." I added, "Thanks to the dear doc­ without going through your local funeral home. tor. Love," and signed my name. He sent a telegram to his wife, but I don't know what he said. Serving the entire state of Pennsylvania We went on quickly now along the with a worldwide plan available. neat gravel path ofthe valley. Other streets led off the side of the valley, to right and to left. Ours went to the left, and there I put the key in the door and threw it open. Cremation Society of Pennsylvania There was the bay window opening into 4100 Jonestown Road Harrisburg, PA 171 09 the mimosa grove, there the corner porch. We opened the door to the porch and let the wonderful air pour in. The manser­ 1-800-722-8200 vant lay down his packages and pulled an or write for a free brochure· old wicker rocker and another chair out Name ______Age ______onto the porch. The doctor sat down and laid the baby on his knees, and began to Addr~s ______open the child's clothing, but not too much at once. The baby was still asleep. The City ------State ______Zip ______doctor looked over at me. I could see the Phone (___ ) County ______lines in his face were very deep, and he FJ994 said, "God willing, we made it." 1:1

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1994 27 Young Friends Friends Student Workcamp: Continuing a Tradition ''This week was beauty, happiness, com­ Erica Bailey fort, feeling, freedom. For the first time in and Jessica many years I felt really good about what I Paxson, of was doing and who I was with. " Haverford o wrote one student, in describing this College, year's Quaker student workcamp. Fif­ assist Steen students from Haverford, Bryn Guilford's Mawr, and Guilford Colleges traveled to Carl Christie Swananoa, North Carolina, to learn about sus­ in digging a tainable development and to work side by new side with people who really care about the greenhouse environment. Chris and Ollie Ahrens, mem­ foundation. bers of Asheville (N.C.) Meeting, were the local coordinators. Chris is an engineer and retired Warren Wilson College professor with extensive experience in appropriate technol­ ogy. Deborah Shaw, Assistant to the Friends Center at Guilford College, also participated as an advisor and equal participant. Work camp projects included hauling pipes for a micro-hydroelectric generating plant, re­ constructing a damaged greenhouse, helping set up an outdoor meditation center on the grounds of the Asheville Meetinghouse, and were meant to be working on a housing rehabilitation program. used for- work, The group also worshiped at Friends meet­ survival. They ings in Greensboro, N.C., had a potluck sup­ were no longer a per with Asheville Friends, heard presenta­ container for our tions about Southern Appalachian culture, intellect, shells that learned about work-study programs, visited together in a chain to get them into position. are good for nothing except sustaining our the Long Branch Environmental Center, and We were right up in the clouds, it was snow­ minds. I know that this week I was whole. I met with a sustainability group at Warren ing lightly, but there was blue sky and sun­ was both a body and a soul and a mind, Wilson College. shine above us. We got to drink from the because for the first time in a long while I was The following are excerpts from the stu­ spring at the top of the mountain-that water using all three at once. dents' communal journal: tasted so good. That day of air and water and I am so glad I came on this trip, so glad that Monday: I feel like we've already experi­ hard work made me feel the best I've felt in a when I look at a wall of bricks I can say, "I enced a week's worth of adventrues and ex­ long time. made that." I made something from nothing, periences. The group is really bonding and Friday: I kept asking myself why I was we all did. Not just walls, lines of pipe, and growing together. Today we started with 7 coming on this trip. Last Friday I almost took cement, but moments and memories. Memo­ a.m. yoga and spent the rest of the morning at off with my roommate to Florida. I even cried ries that will be in my heart always, and will the Appropriate Technology Center making on the phone to my mom telling her that I remind me of who I want to be and why I am bricks, digging, leveling, insulating, and be­ didn' t want to go to North Carolina. I realize happy. ginning the framework of the greenhouse. We now, though, that the reason was that I was Monday: Now that it's over I ask myself finally got to jump into some good physical afraid. I was afraid to do something that deep how all this has changed me. I feel re-inspired work for the first time today, and I think each down in my heart I knew I really wanted to to do many ofthe little things that I want to do, of us agreed it felt great to be working and do. but don't usually get around to, like drying sweating and actually accomplishing some­ At Haverford my spirituality has been clothes on racks or closing the shades at night. thing worthwhile.... pushed to the background, so far back that I On a larger scale, I have been given examples Thursday evening: I'm so tired and sweaty, forgot it was and still is the most important of how to lead a sustainable lifestyle. Chris and I have blisters on my feet from contra part of my life. I guess I was scared that if I and Ollie's toilet had ad vice with which you dancing. It was such fun. But the highlight of looked for it again, it wouldn't be as strong, could wash your hands ith the water refill­ my week so far was working with Paul on the wouldn't be as special. I was afraid that I had ing the tank as it flush . Paul's house was mountain today. We were carrying 20-foot­ lost my spiritual self. I have to say that this partly heated by a gree house on the south long, 60-pound sections of pipe, and lining week proved all of my fears wrong. side, and I saw many e amples of a sincere them up from a spring at the very top, down a I wish I had the words to explian how I am attempt to live one's id Is, rather than just steep, rough slope. We figured we laid 45. feeling now. I am sitting in Chris and Ollie's preach them. It was a n trip, but I also pipes, that's 900 feet. When the project is house and I look around me and see not learned from · it and fel satisfied from the finished, it will be a 4-kilowatt hydroelectric people, but spirits. Spirits that found freedom service I gav:e. generator. The pipes were really heavy and this week just as I did. It's a freedom that (Excerpted from Haverford College's the bank was so steep it took all of us working comes from using our bodies for what they Rufus Jones Associates, July 1994)

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nnapolis (Md.) Friends Meeting has a lovely new meetinghouse. While most of us are enjoying it greatly, we have been challenged to deal with some of our beloved members' spe­ cial needs because of disabilities of various kinds. These have included allergies to new carpeting and other chemicals in the building, meeting, we don't call and ask how we can hearing problems that seem to be greater in help. If a decision is made with implications the new meeting room, and difficulties with for a person with a disability, we assume that SEED CARDS building access. (The building is "accessible," if they don't say anything, they are comfort­ Seeds for thought are but some Friends find it difficult due to the able with the decision. We don't check it out food for the soul. severity of their particular problems.) with them. 80 beautifully illustrated cards There is no question that we Friends care The fact is that most of us have trouble about one another. We take our community asking for what we need, communicating it with questions. for personal life very seriously. However, there are some clearly, and having the self-confidence that growth. or group discussion. ways of thinking about disabilities in the other people care about us enough to meet our Based on the concept of greater society that we in Annapolis are strug­ needs. Yet clarity and excellent, assertive com­ Quaker queries. gling with. munication are what we both expect and re­ For a signed limited edition. One of these is that if someone has a quire from people with disabilities. please send $27.00 to: disability, while we will make efforts to be of We may not be able to meet everyone's DANA ~-McCABE help, we essentially consider it their problem, needs, at least as far as the meetinghouse P.O.Box200 and anything we do to make the environment goes. In that case, we need to be up-front Bishopville, MD 21813 work for them is viewed as doing them a about this, and to include those people in favor. figuring out how they can still be part of our I think the reality is that when a member of community. It is not acceptable to ignore them our community has a problem of access, a because we feel guilty. probl!!m being in an environment, a problem It was interesting to observe how we dealt with hearing or sight, we have a problem to with allergies from the perspective of conflict solve. To speak theologically, we are one resolution principles. As a meeting we usu­ Oakwood School body. The people with special needs are part ally think about problems in flexible and cre­ of us. It is the meeting's responsibility to ative ways, trusting we will be led to a solu­ create an environment and structure that works tion. But when we had to deal with conflicting Grades 7-12 and Postgraduate for us. needs-some were allergic to gases in the Friends Boarding and Day School Perhaps the problem is we don't like to be building, and some were allergic to pollen reminded that there, but for the grace of God, outdoors-we shifted to either/or thinking. Emphasis on.: goes each of us. Any one of us who is able­ Either we would worship in the meeting room bodied might find ourselves in a wheelchair or we would worship outside. We got stuck in • College Preparatory Curriculum or without use of one of our senses in the a winllose mentality and it took several months · Challenging Senior Program future. Good health and fitness can change in before the issue was fully aired with a view to · Learning Center a moment with an accident or disease. This is finding a creative solution workable for all of • Personal Growth a painful reality, and it is psychologically us. (During the summer months we have an ·International Program easier to deny that possibility by convincing indoor and an outdoor worship group, which · Visual and Performing Arts ourselves that people with disabilities are sepa­ we started a good three months after the di­ · Sports Program rate from us. lemma presented itself to us. We still haven't Second, we try to be helpful, but we ex­ figured out a solution for the colder seasons.) For a tour and more information pect the person with the disability to take full Those with conflict resolution training will responsibility for letting us know exactly what recognize this right away. We perceive a con­ contact: it is they need. If they are not assertive and flict, we become fearful, and our thinking Oakwood School articulate in Jetting us know their exact needs, freezes up. Not only do we lose the ability to 515 South Road we grow impatient. If they stay away from think creatively, but we no longer open our Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 hearts to the spirit of truth. Telephone:(914) 4624200 Patience Schenck is a member ofAnnapolis I think Friends can be more inclusive, car- Fax:(914) 4624251 (Md.) Meeting. ing, and helpful. 0

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Mary Dyer: Biography of a Mary Dyer confronts Boston magistrates Rebel Quaker ... ~ every person. Prison, flogging, By Ruth Talbot Plimpton. Branden & mutilation, fines, being whipped Publishing Company, Boston, Mass., /994. - at the cart's tail, and return on 246 pages. $21.95/hardcover. ! pain of death awaited them. On 1 June 1660, by the Frog Pond on .! John Dyer eventually learned Boston Commons, Mary Dyer was hanged 0 of his wife's whereabouts and for being a Quaker. She had been banished ~ demanded her release. Governor from the Massachusetts Bay Colony on pain .i Endicott consented subject to of death. She returned to imprisonment and cc John ensuring his wife's perma­ cruel punishment. Expelled from the colony, L.: nent exile from the colony. Mary she re-entered Boston to defy the law and S returned home to a grown family court persecution, and invite her own death. j; and a Narragansett Bay trans­ This act ofwitness hastened the day ofrelig- ~ formed into a busy, bustling cen­ ious toleration in the colonies and the decline :8?'. ter oftrade, manufacture, and ag­ of the Puritan oligarchy in Boston. -..: riculture. But there was no hold­ Mary Dyer was in all likelihood the daugh- ·~ ing Mary, who returned to Bos­ ter of Arabella Stuart (a cousin of King James -..: ton to witness the hanging of her I) and Willi!lm Seymour, Marquis of Hertford. ·~ two Quaker companions. When Brought up by Arabella's lady-in-waiting, who ~ the halter was placed around her gave her own name (Mary Dyer) to the infant neck, she was reprieved by the to protect her from King James' s discovering that was still highly precarious. Controversy intervention of her eldest son. She was told the child's whereabouts, she was raised in was to be crushed. Indians, whether or not that should she return, her execution was in­ Somerset. When 22, she married a foster­ they presented a threat, had to be destroyed. evitable. Again, after staying on Shelter Is­ cousin, William Dyer, a London milliner, and The union of church and state had to be pre­ land with her fiiends the Coddingtons, she in 1635 they embarked for New England. served lest it attract the attention and interven­ returned to Boston and her fate. "Desiring In Ruth Plimpton's excellently researched tion of King Charles I. But dissension grew, you," as she said on the scaffold, "to replace and elegantly written biography, it is not easy feeding on public obloquy and chastisement. the unrighteous and unjust laws of banish­ to decide whether the rigors of the physical So the Dyers, with their antinomian fiiends ment upon pain of death made against the climate and hardships of the settlers' lives (as they came to be known), sadly made their innocent servants of the Lord." were more difficult to bear than the harsh, way to John Williams's haven of religious Ruth Plimpton writes with a brilliant clar­ intolerant bigotry ofthe Puritan elders of Bos­ tolerance in and around Narragansett Bay. ity, taking us into the houses and the ships of ton. Cotton, Winthrop, Endicott, Bradstreet, There they settled and, with the help of the the settlers, sharing in their housekeeping and Dudley, and the rest had left England, not to local Indians, endured initial hardship eventu­ husbandry, their religious searchings, and the enjoy religious freedom, but to be free to ally to prosper. New.comers brought tidings statecraft they developed to manage their af­ establish and enforce their own vision of the ofcivil war, the execution of the king, and the fairs and to manipulate the distant and ill­ "City on the Hill." The Bible was the sole creation of Cromwell's Commonwealth. informed authorities in London. inspiration from which laws were derived. With a growing family, a prospering farm, Despite occasional historical hiccups, Mary They were God's elect. At least the men were: trading vessels, and a tolerant and loving hus­ Dyer is an impressive work. We should all be women were not to be heard on any matter band highly respected in the councils of the grateful for Ruth Plimpton's devoted and dili­ whether of church or state. Behavior was pre­ new settlements, what prompted Mary Dyer gent account of a Quaker heroine, to whom scribed in detail by the draconian laws that to return to England? Possibly the massacre we all owe so much and who still has the were promulgated, and their transgression sub­ of Anne Hutchinson and her family by Indi­ power to inspire us today. ject to severe punishment and banishment ans, or the distances that separated Mary from Ralph Townley from the colony. other women fiiends, or that even in tolerant This intimate control of everyone's daily Rhode Island women were still not enfran­ An English Quaker, now a member of life by the governor, magistrates, and minis­ chised, left her restless. Mattapoisett (Mass.) Meeting, Ralph Townley ters was intolerable. The disenfranchised Mary sailed for England where she re­ was educated at Sibford Friends ' School. For women were those who questioned most. mained for seven years, meeting and falling 35 years he was a career member of the Mary Dyer became an intimate of Anne under the spell of George Fox. She attended United Nations Secretariat, retiring as a di­ Hutchinson, who gathered other women and gatherings of seekers, finding her way even­ rector. He has published several books and later their menfolk to discuss her view that tually to Swarthmoor Hall, where she learned plays including The United Nations: A View God's Grace came, not from "a covenant of to become a Quaker minister. In 1657 she From Within works," but from "a serene spirit, coming returned to New England via Barbados (where from the consciousness ofGod's state within." there were a number of Quaker families). Retribution followed swiftly, for Governor Landing at Boston intending to journey on to Quaker Witness Winthrop feared for the religious and political Newport, she and her traveling companion, stability of the young colony if dissent was to Ann Burden were promptly jailed and thrown By Irene !fllen. Villard Books, New York, · be permitted. into solitary confinement. They were unaware N.Y., 1993. 255 pages. $18/clothbound. Religion and politics in New England were of the anti-Quaker laws that had been promul­ Imagine publisher reaction to this proposal: inseparable. Ruth Plimpton describes this gated by the city fathers infuriated by the "I have a female sleuth who' s in her sixties, while giving a fair hearing to the obdurate and Quakers' ''turbulen~nd contemptuous be­ has arthritis, prays frequently, drinks a lot of zealous elders. They imposed their rule on a havior to Autho~ty" and seditious preaching tea, drives a car only if she has to . .. yes, she colony physically vulnerable with an economy that the inner ligh~ of God's presence dwelt in has a cat, but it doesn't help her solve myster-

30 November 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL ies; all it does is hide from company." MaJjorie Sykes first went from England to How could the author have hoped to be teach in Madras, India, in 1928, at the age of Margaret Fell and the Rise listened to, in a time when the most popular 23. Later she was asked by author-educator of Quakerism female detectives go out after midnight to Tagore to be "the representative of English confront murderers, hold their own with any­ culture" in his Bengal university. She knew By Bonnelyn Young Kunze. Stanford one in martial arts and gunplay, and have ear­ Gandhi very well and was active in his non­ University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1994. 327 curling vocabularies? Maybe the publisher's violent movement for Indian independence. pages. $39.50. acceptance is part of a pendulum swing to­ She was asked by him to head his basic edu­ Margaret Fell emerges from the pages of ward less repulsive amusements. Maybe cation program, training teachers in social this book as a far more important, and more Villard Books itself is a significant part ofthat reform. This program she later extended into human, figure than Friends have acknowl­ swing and should be generously patronized her own home in the Nilgiri Hills of South edged. Our traditional image of Fell as "nurs­ by Quakers and all who would love to see India. MaJjorie has been Friend-in-Residence ing Mother" omits some of her accomplish­ entertainment depict more gentleness and re­ at both Pendle Hill and Woodbrooke, and ments and neglects to note how unusual she sponsibility. traveled widely in the United States, Austra­ was in her day. We have also failed to see In any case, Villard accepted and the pub­ lia, and New Zealand among Friends. that, although loving to family and Friends, lic bought, so Irene Allen wrote this second I first met MaJjorie Sykes in February she sometimes behaved in less than admi­ mystery starring her Quaker. According to 1975 at a Redwood Forest (Calif.) Meeting rable ways-she could be "manipulative and the jacket blurb, a third is in production. potluck gathering. The fact that MaJjorie is dictatorial." Again the murder is done off camera and not a birthright, but a convinced Friend, and Using new evidence and reinterpreting pre­ bloodlessly. Again Quaker sleuth Elizabeth from earliest years associated in ecumenical viously known material, the author, who is Elliot becomes involved through her meeting; groups where as many as five different relig­ trained in both theology and history, but is not a troubled young attender becomes the prime ions were represented, worshiping together, a Friend, has given us an eminently readable suspect. The timely topic of sexual harass­ made a strong impression on me. She helped book that is solidly based in research. She ment is involved and the reader is led through arrange the Colloquium of Hindus and Chris­ successfully combines an intellectual/bio­ a jungle unfamiliar to most of us, scientific tians organized by Dorothy and Douglas Steere graphical approach with one from social his­ research. at Ootacamund. tory, so that we can learn about Fell, about the Again, we have the coziness of Elliot's In this biography we are able to see how a 17th-century world in which she lived, about simple life amidst unpleasant weather, her woman's life, when purpose and discipline what it was like to be a woman in that era, and inner debates about proceeding in a Quakerly are strong, develops organically. Each new about the early Friends. The book's four parts way (should she encourage someone's break­ service builds on the earlier skills and inter­ deal respectively with: family life, socio-eco­ ing into an office for vital information?), and ests- allied by the Spirit. Martha Dart' s lively, nomic affairs, political and religious activi­ specifics about the buildings she enters and clear prose is enhanced by photographs, a ties, and Fell's "mental world." Comparisons the streets she walks. map, glossary of Indian words, and a com­ with contemporaries of similar background If Quakers recruited, this series might be plete bibliography of Marjorie Sykes's pub­ and status, as well as with other Friends, help seen almost as a ploy; how many readers will lished writings, including translations and lec­ us to see in what respects Fell was extraordi­ seek out a meeting? Allen shows all the ap­ tures. Primary sources- letters, interviews, nary, and how Quakerism affected her life. peals of the Quaker way of life and indirectly memories of fiiends- form the body of the Fell' s instrumental role in the establish­ answers many questions about Quakerism, biography. ment of women's meetings is one of several while quietly correcting common mispercep­ (Available from the author, Martha Dart, points where this book breaks new ground. tions. She also demonstrates that fiction can 937 W. Bonita Ave., Claremont, CA 91711, Admitting that incomplete evidence prevents be gripping without constant gore and de­ for $12 plus $2 us from constructing exactly what happened, struction, and without foolhardy risk-taking. postage.) the author carefully reviews Mary the available material and Joan Gilbert Millman offers her interpretation. We see Fox and Fell as part­ Joan Gilbert is a freelance writer and editor Mary Millman ners, whose relationship in Hallsville, Mo. She is an inactive member is a member of may have been sexual as of Columbia (Mo.) Meeting and belongs to Eugene (Oreg.) well as spiritual, and learn Wider Quaker Fellowship. Meeting. how, in the Wilkinson-Story affair, when Fell's activism was a target for criticism, Marjorie Sykes: Quaker­ she supported Fox. Her loy­ alty to Fox and her influ­ Gandhian ence upon him are part of By Martha Dart. William Sessions Limited, her contribution to the So­ York, England, 1993. /56 pages. $12/ ciety of Friends. paperback. The author ably handles I am often asked by new attenders at meet­ both questions of gender ing ifl can refer them to contemporary Quaker and the interplay and ten­ women who are affecting change in the qual­ sion between the social hi­ ity of life. This biography is one I have been erarchy of 17th-century En­ passing about, and it is a delightful reading gland and the spiritual egali­ experience. Martha Dart, a member of tarianism of Quakerism in Claremont (Calif.) Meeting, has been a fiiend Fell's life. Like Penn, with of MaJjorie Sykes since 1967 and received her permission to write the story of her life. Marjorie Sykes

FRJENDS JOURNAL November 1994 31 whom Fell had a close bond, Fell used con­ The patio and nections and assumptions deriving from her garden of a upper-class origins on behalf of Friends. Her Foulkeways leadership was crucial in organization, but at resident times, such as in her dispute with Thomas Rawlinson, who had managed her property of Force Forge, she rode rough-shod over any­ one who stood in her way. To King Charles II in 1660, Fell publicly defended Friends and opposed violence and war. The paper, which she wrote and deliv­ ered to the king, is one of an extensive collec­ tion of writings that show her to be a substan­ tive thinker about religion and politics. Through seeing Margaret Fell as an "au­ residents moved in and began to create the cally illustrates that family life is not now, nor thoritative female public minister," this book Foulkeways spirit of integrity, friendliness, was it ever, a function of individual prefer­ speaks to current issues as well as to those of and caring. ence, private morality, or ideological orienta­ the past. The first part of the book tells of tion in isolation, but of social decisions com­ Esther S. Cope Foulkeways's beginnings and the early years; prising culture. From nomadic cultures, the second part considers the many aspects of through agrarian life, to the beginning of the Esther S. Cope is a member ofLincoln (Nebr.) daily life and continuing care; color photo­ Industrial Revolution, family support has been Meeting and a Professor of History at the graphs and appendices are useful additions. a community enterprise. Coontz draws inter­ University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As interest in continuing care communities esting parallels between our current moralis­ gains momentum, this account of life as it is tic dispositions and the "Gilded Age" of the lived and managed at Foulkeways is a valu­ 1870s through the 1890s, characterized by Foulkeways: The Treasure able resource for persons who are thinking of personal withdrawal from public concern and such a move, and for their families. Blanche an accompanying increase in attention to per­ and the Dream Zimmerman gives the reader an even wider sonal fortune and fulfillment. The new con­ By Blanche Perkins Zimmerman. Celo view as she describes how to work with a servatism redirects motivation from social and Valley Books, Burnsville, N.C., /992. /56 treasure and a dream. political responsibility to personal isolation­ pages. $I 5/hardcover. (Available from Foulkeways at Gwynedd, ism. Historically it is not private responsibil­ Quaker business procedure and decision I 120 Meetinghouse Road, Gwynedd, PA ity, but public policy that shapes family life. making were put to a severe test when in 19436.) Coontz observes that: 1945, Gwynedd (Pa.) Meeting received the Emily Conlon ... the new moralism about sex and family gift of an adjoining 68-acre farm from a non­ represents the bankruptcy of our political Quaker who had never set foot in the meet­ A member of the FRIENDS JOURNAL Board of life. Public policy failures take second place inghouse. There were no restrictions except Managers, Emily Conlon is a resident of to family irregularities; a political issue that the gift be used as a memorial to the Foulkeways, and a member ofAbington (Pa.) such as the status of women is reduced to donor's late wife. Blanche Zimmerman tells Meeting. courtroom brawls over alimony; rampant the story that she herself experienced, of the social ills such as childhood poverty re­ 17-year search that eventually culminated in ceive far less attention than tales about the founding of Foulkeways at Gwynedd, a The Way We Never Were: prominent men who videotape young girls continuing care retirement community named in sex acts. to honor May Foulke Beaumont. Foulkeways American Families and the was the first such community in Pennsylva­ Public policy follows the ideology of indi­ nia, the second in the Delaware Valley, and Nostalgia Trap vidualism, creating new victims, then punish­ the model for many others. By Stephanie Coontz. Basic Books, New ing them for being victims. Nowhere is the The story of Foulkeways does not lack York, N.Y., 1992. 389 pages. $27/hardcover, substance of Coontz's argument more clearly drama: a stormy-night call to a Quaker lawyer $14/paperback. enunciated than in our current stumbling to­ to write a will, the death 40 days later of the In The Way We Never Were: American ward "welfare reform." We cheerfully ap­ donor, and the electrifying announcement to Families and the Nostalgia Trap, Stephanie plaud the middle-class suburbanite who the Friends of Gwynedd Meeting. All this Coontz systematically examines 200 years of chooses to stay at home, claiming "my chil­ was followed by the immediate tasks of car­ myth upon which family life is rationalized. dren are too important for me to work outside ing for the houses on the property and the This clearly written, painstakingly docu­ the home." Yet we chastise welfare moms, farm acreage, to say nothing of the concern to mented, thoroughly readable book, the best devising inventive ways to further impover­ formulate a plan for the future. social history produced in the past four de­ ish them for staying home with their children, Over the years committees were formed cades, should be read by anyone wishing to though they may not choose to do so were and re-formed, ways opened and closed, pos­ speak to family affairs sensibly. From her there an alternative for them, and may lack sibilities were suggested and rejected. At long introduction, in which she begins our trek to the skills to handle any but the most menial last another local farmer, a member of the meaning of "traditional values," through work outside their homes. It insults us to be Gwynedd Meeting, was led to envision what her epilogue, appealing for personal responsi­ told, in spite of this jarring abuse, that these the enlarged working committee finally bility in building community, Coontz com­ efforts are designed to restore "traditional fam­ brought to fruition-a cottage-type commu­ pels us to review with her the socio/economic ily values." nity where Friends and others could live fully climate providing the substance offamily life. Current policymakers, citing ill conceived and independently among their peers and be Coontz orients family life to social, eco­ statistics aborted by promiscuous academics, cared for, always. In November 1967 the first nomic, and political organization. She histori- state: "The most serious threat to American

32 November 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL Claiming Our Past: Assuring the Future What better way to give expression to your life is the increasing incidence of single teen Quaker values than by leaving a portion of your pregnancy." We mightcommitthistomemory. Ignore the reality that, Coontz documents, estate to FRIENDS jounNAJ! You will assure the growth of Quaker thought and life long into the In Concord, Massachusetts, a bastion future. Con'lider a provision in your will for ofPuritan tradition, one-third ofall chil­ FRI~"NOS jOURNAL. dren born during the twenty years prior For more information, contact: to the American Revolution were con­ FRIENDS j ouRNAL, 1501 Cherry Street ceived out of wedlock ... A study of Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 (215) 241-7280 illegitimacy in North Carolina found that out-of-wedlock birth rates for white women were approximately the same in 1850 as in 1970... there was one abortion for every fi ve live births dur­ ing the 1850s, and perhaps as many as FRIENDS HOME AT WOODSTOWN one for every three in 1970. A Quaker-Sponsored Retirement Facility We surely must believe our social prob­ lems stem not rrom the increasing incidence • One-bedroom Woods Court • 60-bed Medicare & Medicaid of children in poverty; nor the failure of in­ Apartments for People over 60 Certified Nursing Home dustry to provide doable work at a livable • Residential facility with • Pastoral Setting wage; nor the increasing number of impris­ community dining • Caring, supportive staff oned youth; nor the out-of-control cost of • Delicious, nutritious meals health care; nor the failure of community. to pro~ide reasonable child care facilities; nor the continuing disparity between the wages of P.O. Box 457, Friends Drive • Woodstown, NJ 08098 • (609) 769-1500 women and that of men at the introductory level of private employment; nor our bigoted non-acceptance of alternative organization of family life; nor the greed of middle- and up­ per-income people unwilling to tax ourselves Won't you please help these for the · educational, social, and health pro­ grams that make society possible; nor the innocent victims of geography? dispersal of a high percentage of our welfare dollars for entitlements for the rich. Of course These children and their families are all victims of geography. Where they were born, poverty is their birthright. And try as they may, not! The ostensibly increasing incidence of it is impossible for them to break its vice-like hold. pregnancy among teenagers threatens the in­ They need a helping hand - a chance for a better life. Not a tegrity off amily life and societal health. Please! handout, but a real chance for education, for traini_ng, for clean ~~ter, In The Way We Never Were, Stephanie · for healthcare - for all the things that can help chtldren and fam1l1es Coontz exposes these myths that prompt us to -l•._-... grow with a sense of hope for tomorrow. promote unworkable public social policy based Childreach is a sponsorship program that upon an imagined universe that never was. Of gives a child and a family overseas that kind of course there are changes. But these changes hope. It is a program that allows you to make suggest that to generate sound policy designed a real difference. It's a difference you'll see in pictures and letters. And it's a difference to promote individual and social health, "we you'll feel in your heart. Childreach ... ..,i-...,... must accurately describe the full range of new it's the chance of a lifetime. Pl..ll social and demographic territory through For more information, hil...l...'""' h which modem men, women, and children are calll-800-323-2822. required to make their way." Coontz does not c weac The U.S. Affiliate of PLAN International suggest returning to a past wherein "we could all trust each other, and sleep soundly in our beds," but rather to invent new community appropriate to the social and economic cir­ cumstances within which we must function, and to be prepared to pay for it with our Quaker Inner City School money, our compassion and understanding for the Other, our energies, and our trust. Endowment Fund Stephanie Coontz writes authoritatively about important matters. Read her, then let's talk We're trying to help a small group of well integrated Quaker about family values. Ed Dodson schools that are doing a terrific job in inner city environments gain sufficient endowments to provide long-term financial sta­ Ed Dodson lives in Mansvil/e, Wash., with his bility. For more information write or phone Imogene Angell, 150 wife, Nancy, and attends Agate Passage (Wash.) Worship Group on Bainbridge Kendal at Longwood, Kennett Square, PA 19348. (610) 388-0935. Island.

FRJENDS JouRNAL November 1994 33 Findings: An Enquiry into ious Education Committee of Friends Gen­ The Independent Home: eral Conference, and a member ofCleveland Quaker Religious (Ohio) Meeting. Living well with power Experience from the sun, wind and Edited by Jack H. Wallis. Quaker Home Becoming a Friend to the water Service, London, 1993. 107 pages. $11. Creation: Earthcare Leaven This is a frustrating book, unconsciously By Michael Potts. Chelsea Green Publish­ symptomatic of many of the problems within for Friends and Friends' ing Company, Post Mills, Vt., 1993. 300 the Religious Society of Friends today. Based pages. $17.95/paperback. on work ofthe Alister Hardy Research Centre Meetings The author and his family have been build­ ing their own innovative home over many into first-hand evidence of religious or spiri­ Edited by Lisa Lofland Gould. Publications tual experience, this slim book records the years. He has interviewed families from Ha­ Committee ofthe Friends Committee on waii to Vermont, who "have learned to live re~ponses of 29 London Yearly Meeting Unity with Nature, Chelsea, Mich., 1994. better by using less energy, many of them Fnends and attenders to four questions. They 130 pages. $12/paperback. were asked about their religious (spiritual) disconnected from the utility grid." Most of experiences, whether these were linked to Hot off the presses, "Leaven" is an ex­ the 15 chapters include excerpts from taped interviews with owners and operators ofhomes being ~ Quaker, and if attending meeting for ceedingly accessible resource guide to Friends worshtp encourages or discourages, hinders moved by the environmental concern. Lisa that to various degrees are "independent" of or helps in relation to these experiences. Gould has organized a varied and prodigious public utilities. The style of the interviews is The e!lcouraging and imeresting part of lot of information in classic journalistic style. conversational, dramatic, and biased in favor the book ts the account of the spiritual experi­ You get the gist ofmaterial quickly through of "harvesting" energy from sunshine, wind, ences of the respondents, the intimations of the "Brief Look" page at the beginning of and water. The book offers many practical the Divine which come unbidden into their most chapters. Read these pages on your first suggestions, such as this one from Richard lives. Wallis notices in his introduction that leaf through. Deeper understanding is avail­ Gottlieb in Vermont: "I recommend placing Friends "seem to lack an adequate vocabulary able in the "Wider Compilation" sections, removable panels over walls that contain and are obliged to hunt for symbols or meta­ which make up the bulk of the chapters. plumbing and electrical connections, so that phors or fall back upon technical or emotional Earthcare Leaven is the necessary hand­ systems may be revealed and repaired and the language." Our branch of Friends has been book for Friends who want to do more than panels replaced as neatly as new." Wes and consciously throwing out our old symbols recycle aluminum. Inspirational chapters go Linda Edwards of Humboldt County, Califor­ and shared language because of their misuse beyond practical suggestions. Quotations from nia, commented: "with utility power, you pay by.others. The baby that disappeared with the Quaker, biblical, and other sources reinforce for convenience. If you run your own system, bath water was our understanding ofour shared the foundation in faith for unity with nature. I you must get involved with it, learn about religious experience of sitting together, as a found the accounts ofmeeting projects equally meters and maintenance, and you must know gathered people, under the teaching and guid­ inspiring. The sections on Minutes, State­ and stay within the limits of your systems." ance of the Light Within. We are left with the ments, and Queries provide fodder for fruitful The Rocky Mountain Institute is a non­ atomistic experiences which make up the discussions. Adult education and First-day profit resource policy group which carries on hopeful body ofthis book. Something real has school teachers, take note! research on energy strategies. The Institute's happened to these individuals. The great trag­ The black line drawings, evidently clipped main offices "are in a comfortable, super­ edy for the Religious Society of Friends is from a variety ofsources , underscore the eclec­ insulated, four-thousand-square-foot rock, tim­ that they rarely speak to each other about tic simplicity of the book. ber, and glass building beside Capitol Creek these experiences. Their meetings vary from The final chapter, "Resources for in Old Snowmass, Colorado. It gets pr?viding a silent place for meditation, to Friends," is a stunning bibliography, cold at 7,100 feet, down to -40 bemg overtly unsupportive of spiritual life. or better, "oliography," which degrees every winter, but the The editor cheerfully writes off the unfed points the way to further reading Institute building has no .§ hunger as "evidence of seeking rather than and action. conventional heating and .~ errors, as arising from differences of tempera­ The book belongs on the derives 99 percent of its ....., ment" rather than as a terrible failure to be shelfof every Friends Meet­ space heating from the ~ first ofall, a religious society. He seems to be ing library. It may not stay sun shining into the 2 unaware of a realization that Quakerism has there for long because the bioshelter, a large green- ~ offered-and could offer again-much, much First-day school people, the house filled with tropi- J: more. , Adult Education Committee, cal plants." ~ Although it is not intended as such, the Peace and Social Order activ­ . A 13-page glossary in- ·§ book stands as a powerful indictment of the ists, and the Unity with Nature eludes such terms as photo- § current state of too many ofour meetings: we group will all be wanting to use it. voltaics (PVs), ram pump, and r:o won't tell you what to call your experience (Available for $12 plus $2 shipping phantom load. The bibliography because we have no clue; the only definition {$/ 0 each for 10 or more] from FCUN, 7700 occupies four and one-half pages with titles of Quakerism is what we do not have. The Clarks Lake Road, Chelsea, M/48118-8422.) on global issues, energy issues, building, sys­ vision of these meetings consists of nice, spe­ tems, and gardening. A list of resources and a cial people who sit in silence and do good Sandra Moon Farley subject index complete this refreshing book. works. They do not talk about God or nurture each other's spiritual journey. Sandy Farley is a member of Palo Alto Francis D. Hole (Calif.) Meeting and serves on the editorial Marty Grundy board of EarthLight magazine of spirituality Francis D. Hole is a member of Madison andecology, published by Pacific Yearly Meet­ (Wis.) Meeting, and a retired professor ofsoil Marty Grundy is recording clerk ofthe Relig- ing Unity with Nature Committee. science and geography.

34 · November 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL Friends World Committee for Consultation 18th • Quality care in the Quaker tradition. Triennial Conference • 42 apartments for independent liv­ ing, 60 private personal care rooms. In the pure, bright light of the 120 nursing home beds. New Mexico high country, sur­ rounded by red rock buttes, 260 • Peace of mind. Supportive medical Friends representing yearly meet­ and social services throughout your ings on six continents gathered at stay. Ghost Ranch conference center, August 15-24, for the 18th Trien­ • An active lifestyle in a beautiful, nial meeting of the Friends World graceful setting. Committee for Consultation to con- ~ siderthe implications ofbeing "Pub- -E • Meals, housekeeping, transporta­ lishers ofTruth." Q: tion, cultural and social activities. Johan Maurer, General Secretary ~ ofFriends United Meeting, keynoted ,2 • A history of caring since 1904. the session by speaking on "The Ci ~~~:.....::"""''"-'-';.;....,~.~o~ Light of Quaker Tradition." He noted there is no "pure" Quaker tradition which the expression " Publishers of Truth" will be­ Stapeley In Germantown has not been formed in a specific, historical, come not only a phrase by which we are 6300 Greene Street and cultural context. While we honor George recognized and set apart, but a statement about Philadelphia, PA 19144 Fox and his valiant group, some Friends pay our willi ngness to relentlessly pursue Truth more attention to the linkage than do others. about ourselves. Call Carol Nemeroff Some emphasize Fox's discovery that "there After experiencing the Shangrila setting Admissions Director is one Christ Jesus who can speak to thy through various walkabouts and day-long ex­ (2 15)844--0700 condition," while others stress his exhortation cursio,ns, Friends gathered to consider "The to "walk cheerfully over the world answering Light of God's Creation." A panel of four that of God in everyone." Friends spoke on the environmental issues of Among Friends there are two major atti­ sustainable development and renewable en­ Small classes, strong tudes toward tradition: I) abandon or conceal ergy sources. After the Earth Summit of 1992, FRIENDS academics in a our tradition if we want to reach new people, Stephen Collett reported that some of the SELECT supportive, caring and 2) resist any invitation in outreach or agreements are being implemented by con­ environment evangelism which would not feel "Quakerly." ventions. Gilliam Smith from London YM SCHOOL emphasizing Quaker We need the light of tradition to shine upon said we need to find energy subsitutes for values. our efforts to proclaim Truth for at least three fossil fuel. Silas Keza-Kubi reported his work reasons: I) to authenticate the power of the in Tanzania involving men to provide clean • Pre·K thru 12th testimonies, 2) to invite the newcomer into water, raise animals, and grow their own food. Day School the new life in Christ, and 3) to remember that Bernabe Yujra addressed the problems of the e • After School Program the Holy Spirit is at work in the world, and alta plana in Bolivia. Quaker schools in poor • Summer Day Camp that our social testimonies are being expressed rural areas are training people in agriculture by other Christian groups. and livestock improvement, and rediscover­ 17th & the Parkway In an interest group that followed, Johan ing the use of folk medicine remedies to meet Philadelphia, PA Maurer shared his dream that unprogrammed health and nutritional problems. (215) 561-5900 meetings should start a programmed meeting, There have been marked changes in the not necessarily pastoral, to meet the needs of Triennials over the years as Friends from Af­ people not comfortable with the unpro­ rica, Latin America, and parts of Asia and grammed format. Similarly, pastoral meet­ Australia assume greater participation and Educational excellence ings should start an unprogrammed or semi­ ownership of FWCC. Although it was not programmed meeting to meet the needs of possible to bring every concern to plenary for over 200 years people not comfortable with programmed session, through worship-sharing, interest worship. groups, and informal discussions, Friends built In the First Day morning worship service, strong networks with one another. Greg Lamm, campus pastor at George Fox The plenary sessions covered a great range College, stated that if we would be publishers of topics of concern, some of which were of Truth, we must be willing to pursue and referred to the Triennial by one or more yearly publish Truth about who we are as individu­ meetings. These included I) welcoming two als, who make up the "thick stew called yearly meetings from India, Bhopal YM and Friends." He asked us to remember our first Bundelhand YM; 2) reflections on the 199 1 love when we first encountered God. We World Conference and a plea that we not wait need to renew that feeling of excitement as 24 years for the next one; 3) a reaffirmation of 110 East Main Street, Moorestown, NJ both seekers and finders. As we move toward its 1988 concern for justice for the Lubicon 609-235-2900 ext. 227 authenticity about ourselves as individuals, Cree people of northern Alberta, Canada;

FRIENDS JoURNAL November 1994 35 Quaker Retirement Residences. • • Offering the vahtes ofa small community

If you are retired and 4) suffering people everwhere, expecially in looking for a living Cuba, Burundi, and Rwanda; 5) human rights, arrangement that pro­ refugees, sustainable development, world trade, peacemaking, and peacekeeping; 6) the vides a sense of com­ Cairo conference on population and develop­ munity, why not con­ ment; 7) the Beijing conference on the role of women; 8) new challenges to the Peace Testi­ sider Quaker Retire­ mony, including involvement in the New Call ment Residences? to Peacemaking, ethnic cleansing, Interna­ tional Peacemaking Teams, the violent ef­ Each of these residences is located in the midst of a neighborhood with fects of world economic structures, and the local activities and resources nearby. And each develops a sense of its peace campaign initiated by the World Coun­ cil of Churches; 9) consultative support for oum community. Friends House Moscow; I 0) crime preven­ tion and treatment of offenders with a UN Small in scale, these residences provide settings for caring, supportive congress meeting in Tunisia on mediation, relationships as well as the freedom for each member to go her or his alternatives to violence, and restorative jus­ own way. People come together around shared meals, over jigsaw tice; II) religious freedom for First Nations peoples; 12) arms transfer and trade. An puzzles, or in impromptu discussions. Occasionally they may plan FWCC-sponsored 6th Missions and Service more structured programs. consultation is being considered for October 1995, with a special focus on Afiica. Time ran The most important thing is that no one is alone. out before the Triennial could consider min­ utes from three interest groups on the Law of The Quaker Retirement Residences listed here are all members of the Seas Treaty, Sustainable Development, Friends Services for the Aging, a cooperative network of 18 varied and Sexual Discrimination, Abuse, and Ha­ rassment. Quaker organizations serving older adults in the region. Australia Yearly Meeting has been con­ If this is the kind of community you seek in your retirement years, write cerned about educating Friends children in our faith and li fe, and creating an awareness or call for more information. of God and the stewardship of the earth. A new brochure, "Children and Quaker Meet­ ings," includes queries like "Why do you go to meeting?" and " Do you look for that of God in people you meet?" 6834 Anderson Street Children's groups from several places sent Philadelphia, PA 19119 artwork. Australian children offered a multi­ colored mural, which served as a backdrop Telephone (215) 849-4428 behind the clerk's table, called "A Rainbow of Hope." Children in South Afiica presented a poster made in 1993 called "Peace in Our Land." And children from Aotearoa (New Simplicity, Community, Zealand) sent a notebook ofdrawings ofthem­ selves. Several suggestions were made to pro­ A Spirit ofIndependence vide linkages for Friends children around the --- world, including a video of the world family In New Jersey In Pennsylvania of Friends, a guide for children's business meetings, and a calendar of art work. •!• Friends Home Woodstown •!•The Barclay West Chester One Friend, who brought his three chil­ •!•The Greenleaf Moorestown •!•The Hickman West Chester dren, asked FWCC to change its policy and include children and spouses for FWCC-spon­ •!•The McCutchen N. Plainfield •!•Stapeley Hall Philadelphia sored events, insofar as feasible as to place and cost. Friends recorded the proposed minute

36 November 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL Fyfe & Miller Pages 35-37: FUNERAL SERVICE Scenes from FWCC's 18th 7047 Germantown Ave. Triennial Philadelphia, PA 19119 Conference; (215) ~7-8700 opposite: James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller Stephen Collett, Simple earth burial representing and cremation service QUNO; below available at reasonable cost. left: Dudu Mtshazo, representing FWCC, Africa Section higher education, we feel, increasingly, that F AHE is "home" for us-a source of renewal in a world of conflicts which can drain our energy and challenge our faith. It is a gather­ Q\JAKEII RmiiEHENT REsiDENCE ing where we feel no obligation, but are ready IOOyeotS Reasonable Rates to serve in any way we can. It is a place where of aJrirlg Not for Profit we can give over to all that we do not know, Persona/Care rejoice in those who do know, and let our­ CoiM!nient to Shops and Busi~ selves be taught in friendly fellowship and 400 NorthWalnut Street mutual respect by colleagues who share our WestChester,PA 19380 (610)696-1536 passionate concerns, like these, heard in plenaries and hallways alike: • "To have the vision- the peaceable king­ dom- up front, right before our eyes... " • "To collapse the distance between the I without full endorsement. and the Other .. ." Baltimore Yearly Meeting brought a • "To recover the culture of peace ..." minute regarding population growth and led • "To foster contemplative education, lead­ an interest group. ing to compassionate adventuresomeness ... During the week representatives watched • "To design classes so that students ache swallows feed and care for their young in with caring ..." mud nests outside the meeting room. It oc­ • "To be as creative as we dare." curred to one Friend that this was a kind of We asked ourselves, how can we incorpo­ ., metaphor for what was happening to our li ves rate our faith with our practice as educators? The ?/ea,tuu, i oumal pr vides a as Friends. Just like the birds, we were fed How can we stay true to our values of respect­ forum for healthcare professionals and nurtured by the Holy Spirit, cared for ing the truth within all people and yet also be until we felt strong enough to fly off, back to effective in helping to move this world to­ and patients to dialogue t ough our homes to carry out God's purposes for our ward a sustainable peace? art, poetrY:Profiles and peJWnal lives. As the fi nal epistle states, we return This year's conference, June 23-26, ex­ essays a bout 1"11 n ess expet n. ences. home to "face the challenges with hope and amined these crucial questions through a key­ ' live our lives in that Spirit oflove that delights note address on the mission of the Quaker "· Winner of a 1993 BronzeAward 1" to do no wrong." United Nations Organization, a plenary on r ~ , /,( • t One of the Triennial's final acts was to peace education, and talks spanning literary ~,r;,~t -n:or~ i.J!JOr~m~tion , or i~ y~u r accept the invitation of London Yearly Meet­ studies as a form of ministry, our place in w:o,ujclttJke to("rece1ve the Heahng ' nature, and our heritage from the ·life and ing to meet at West Hills College, Birming­ "Jout nal ($30/1 year), wrA·e to: ham, England, July 23- 31, 1997. teachings of William Penn. We cooperated with the Friends' Committee on Unity With rl.e Health Communica - Robert S. Vogel Nature in producing a commanding sympo­ esearch ~stitute, Inc. ~. 1 Fulton Av~ Ste. ISO Dept,Q sium o n the meaning and necessity of Sacrametato, CA 95825 "sustainability" in the present era. In session 'VOICE MAR. #I ~ 1 6) 558-J'n4 Friends Association for after session, we shared ways to make our daily work into our peace witness. Particu­ CREMATION Higher Education larly compelling was Elise Boulding's ple­ Friends are reminded that the "Coming Home to the Earth: William Penn nary urging us to "examine [our] trade[s] and Anna T. Jeanes Fund and Contemporary Issues." seek what can come out of[them] for peace." will reimburse cremation costs. While we reflected on what FAH E is to us, Our fellowship reinforced our work. We (Applicable to members of one member of the Epistle Committee shared spent one evening seeking ways to bring more Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) a memory ofas king an eminent Catholic theo­ of our colleagues into our association, and For lnfor malion, wrile or lelephone logian why she was a Catholic. She replied, another celebrating in worship together, amidst SANDY BATES 5350 Knor Streel " It's home." original musical compositions by lola Phllodelphlo, PA 19144 As Friends who work in the vineyards of Cadwallader, "Coming Home to the Earth."

F RIENDS JOURNAL November 1994 37 ANOTHER VICfiM Finally, we all felt thankful for Charles we are all grounded in life; that, as the OF GALLOPING Browning's recovery from his stroke, and his Boddhisattvas who return to the world real­ presence as a founding member ofFAHE. ize, "Perfect Jove casts out fear" (John 1). Through all our seeking, F AHE is a safe Ann spoke of our need to support each CONSUMPfiON. haven to which we can come home together other through our corporate spirituality. In the for sharing and renewal. Here, we have forti­ Quaker role of mediators and reconcilers, we fied and inspired each other to take risks, to can never be neutral in the face of injustice take our testimonies back to the world, and and should put ourselves where people are infuse our working lives with their power: in suffering. Ann impressed on us that "Silence the words of early Quaker women diarists, to is the voice of complicity," and warned that become "Living Epistles" of peace. clearness in our own actions is of utmost importance. "Are we acting in the spirit of -susanne Wei/, Paul Niebanck, love?" Michelle Tarter With her passionately personal treatment of our theme, Ann left us with the conclusion that to act out of love in a climate of fear, we Conference of Quaker must have a strong individual and corporate Historians and Archivists spiritual base. We need to speak out and take The Quaker Historians and Archivists met action, and it is imperative to participate in at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., June dialogue with those with whose ideas and 24-26, for their IOth biennial meeting. Sev­ actions we may disagree. In a separate, yet quite synchronistic, part Worldwide, fifty thousand acres enty people, a few from as far away as Oregon and England, gathered to hear stimu­ ofour gathering, Sandy Boehmler, an attender of rainforest will be destroyed of Missoula (Mont.) Meeting, led the group in today. Paradise lost at horrendous lating presentations on various aspects of Quaker history. several Dances of Universal Peace. Simple, cost to half the species left on earth. uplifting, and meditative group dances, they Many of the presenters were Friends, but To ensure their survival, we must others also find provocative and important represent and integrate many of the world's act now. Learn how by writing us. themes, stories, and ideas in studying Quaker spiritual traditions. Helping to create peace history. The conference provides a venue for and unity within and without, the songs and movements are simple and repetitive. Sandy's discussion and the lively exchange of ideas and information, as well as the opportunity to addition to the gathering was widely and lov­ ~~ ingly welcomed. 450 SANSOME , 1700 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111 hear the results ofcurrent research in the field. A sample of the papers presented includes: Marge Abbott, presiding clerk of North "'To Wear the Chains' Conceptions of Mar­ Pacific Yearly Meeting (NPYM), spoke early riage among 18th-century Philadelphia Quak­ to the group about the relationship of NPYM DISCOVER QUAKER PHILADELPHIA ers," by Karin Wulf; "The Reshaping ofQuak­ and MGOF. Through interest groups and in­ Two hour walking tours of William Penn's erism after the Nayler Affair," by Rosemary formal discussion, Marge gleaned enough sen­ timent about that relationship to report during original city of brotherly love, in honor of Moore; and "Experiment in Persuasion: our meeting for business on Sunday morning. Penn's 350th birthday. Lawrence Scott and the Vigil against Biologi­ Send a SASE for schedule to: QUAKER cal Warfare at Fort Detrick, 1959- 1961 ," by The summary of comments has been pre­ sented to the Mulling Committee ofNPYM. TOURS, Box 1632, Media, PA 19063. David Hostetter. Stressed are the need for the larger com­ The next conference will be held at Oakwood School, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in munity ofNPYM by MGOF's Junior Friends, 1996. Interested Friends are invited to write to and a strong desire for connections, both within U?hy not send the Friends Historical Association, Haverford MGOF and the larger Quaker community. College Library, Haverford, PA 19041 , for There is also a focus on nurturing the various FRIENDs joURNAL to more information. Montana meetings and worship groups, a dif­ - Elsa F. Glines ficult task due to the small number of Mon­ school! tana Friends and the large distances between them, coupled with a sense that MGOF does You can help continue a young Montana Gathering of have a responsibility as a Quarter within person's connection with his or NPYM. Though there is no real desire to her community with a special Friends separate from NPYM, and the wider connec­ school-year subscription to The theme of this winter's MGOF, Feb. tions with Friends are important to MGOF, FRIENDs jouRNAL. Student subscrip­ 11- 13, was " Filling Up and Spilling Over our greater priorities are nurturing and strength­ tions last for 8 issues and are with Love in a Climate of Fear." Like other ening MGOF, its monthly meetings, and its offered at the special rate of $12. states in the Northwest, Montana has been worship groups. targeted with acts of hatred against racial, Also during the meeting for business, the religious, and sexual minorities. Ann Stever Gathering agreed to support, financially and FRIENDS ofAFSC in Seattle, Wash., spoke to the issue. with hospitality, two members to travel around She described some of the positive aspects Montana to speak with meetings and worship which have been occurring in response, all groups about the Queer Quaker Minute being JOURNAL coming down to the spiritual basis of touch­ circulated and seasoned throughout NPYM. 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 ing that of God in ourselves and in others, an Our guests from other parts of the region, (215) 241-7115 Fax: (215) 568-1377 idea found in all religions. With references to and the ideas and insights they shared, were Adam Curle's writings, she reminded us that welcomed and received in the attitude oflove

38 November 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL Est. 1689 WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Kindergarten through 303 Years of Quaker Education Twelfth Grade with which they were given. We hope our guests will all return to many future MGOFs. Operated under Charter issued by William Penn. The William Penn Charter Leaving a MGOF is always a sweet sor­ School is a Quaker college-preparatory school committed to nurturing in girls row. We are filled with the Light and love of and boys the education of the mind , the quickening of the spirit, and the Friends. development of the body. Penn Charter stresses high standards in academics, -Jim Coates the arts, and athletics. (Reprinted from Friends Bulletin, April Friends are encouraged to apply both as students and as teachers. 1994) Earl J. Ball Ill, Headmaster 3000 W. School House lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 Palmetto Friends (215) 844-3460 Gathering Over 80 Friends from South Carolina, northern Georgia, and North Carolina met February 18-20, near Columbia, S.C., for the fifth annual Palmetto Friends Gathering. The Gathering's theme was "Quaker Communi­ What kind of a ties-in Our Region and Worldwide." Games PAX to celebrate diversity and inclusion opened I - - world do you want the Gathering, and a bagpipe rendition of "Amazing Grace" closed the final meeting W 0 R L D ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND? for worship. PEACEFUL? Our study of the worldwide aspect of IF u N D Friends' community-building work focused I - WITH- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY? e on the past and present programs of FWCC. Palmetto Friends learned more about Quaker Then Consider Pax World Fund• activities closer to home through interest groups on Quaker House of Fayetteville's For a free prospectus Pax World is a no-load, diversified balanced (N.C.) military counseling center; the Rural and other materials mutual fund designed for those who wish to call toll-free Southern Voice for Peace in Celo, N.C.; and develop income and to invest in life-supportive the Penn Center (S.C.) Work Camp. A stu­ 24 hours a day: products and services. Pax invests in such dent from Charleston (S.C.) Meeting told of his experiences in the new Quaker Leader­ 1-800-767-1729 industries as pollution control, health care, food, ship Scholars Program at Guilford College, housing, education, and leisure time. and there was also a presentation on the his­ Pox World Fund shores are ovoiloble for sole in tory of 19th-century South Carolina Friends. The fund does not invest in weapons production, all 50 states. Young Friends' activities included the nuclear power, or the tobacco, alcohol or making of stone soup, "Green Circle" exer­ gambling industries. Various opportunities are cises on understanding violence, and creating available: Regular Accounts, IRA's, Educational skits based on the stories of David and Goliath Accounts, SEP-IRA's, and 403(b) Pension Plans. and the loaves and fishes. Twenty years ago, there were only a few Minimum investment $250. Send no money. scattered Friends in four small meetings in *PAX W ORLD FUND IS THE ONLY MUTUAL FU ND IN THE this region. Since that time those meetings have grown and there are now two more NATION AFFILIATED WITH A FOUNDATION THAT, FOR TWELVE monthly meetings in South Carolina as well. YEARS, HAS SUPPORTED TREE PLANTING IN AREAS OF THE The growth has come mainly from the outside DEFORESTED THIRD WORLD. as Friends and kindred spirits have moved to this section ofthe Sunbelt. The Palmetto Gathering is designed for fellowship and mutual support. Meetings and worship groups remain affiliated with their HENRY B. yearly meeting, or in one case, have no offi­ cial affiliation. The "outside in" pattern of FREEMAN growth is reflected in the Palmetto Gathering's connections to four yearly meetings. In what Consulting is perhaps the fledgling Gathering's first ma­ illlll.llii.. IIIIIIIIMIIiiMiiiillilllllilfll 713 sw 15th St. jor business decision, the Jarie Palmer Memo­ Richmond IN 47374 rial Fund for intra-regional visitation was es­ (317) 983-1578 tablished in memory of a well-traveled and well-loved Friend, most recently a member of •Fonner Earlham College Columbia (S.C.) Meeting. Vice-president. While the number of Friends in our area is •Extensive experience with still small, we feel we have at last a true both large and small regional community. capital campaigns. - Ellen McCracken fRIENDS JOURNAL November 1994 39 News of Friends nonprofit organizations FGC's new Friends Hymnal project is com­ ing along well, but assistance is still needed. organization, leadership, As of July I, $64, II 0 had been committed to communications, planning, resources, marketing, the project by individuals and yearly and effective meetings ... monthly meetings. The Hymnal Oversight Committee's goal is to raise another $80,000 in contributions, plus $35,000 in interest-free Steven W. Ross loans. Aside from financial contributions, 400 Sairs Avenue #1 there are other ways in which Friends can Long Branch NJ 07740-5629 help this project. The Music Selection Working Group, with members from / phone and fax: seven yearly meetings, is currently / (908) 571-2614 considering over 700 hymns /,.(' \ i for possible inclusion. £<:V'~ \'-. adviser trainer consultant The final selection will ~ "· consist of approximately . 350 hymns. A Trial Booklet, which · ---.....

includes about 40 pieces being consid- : 1 ered, is available to meetings and groups j · ofs ingers for review. Comments made / Washington, D.C., is Affordable on various hymns are helpful to the /"/ at WiUiam Penn House Music Selection Working Group, and considered in the Argentinian legislature, but Enjoy simple lodging on Capitol performing selections from the Trial Booklet this latest change will do away with obliga­ Hill. A short walk to the Capitol, provides an opportunity for raising funds for tory service altogether. (from the August 22, Supreme Court, Library of Con­ the project. For more information, to make a Mennonite Reporter) gress. Groups welcomed. Breakfast contribution, or to order Trial Booklets (up to included. 30), contact the Hymnal Oversight Commit­ A shipment of computers intended for tee, FGC, 12 16 Arch St., 2B, Philadelphia, Friends College in Kaimosi, Kenya, has Public Policy Seminars PA 19107, telephone (2 15) 561-1700. been lost. Seven computers donated last year by Wilmington College were sold at govern­ Your meeting or school group can Live Oak (Tex.) Meeting celebrated its 40th ment auction before Friends College could meet with government officials, lob­ birthday on Sept. 18, with a day of activities obtain the necessary papers to move the equip­ byists, diplomats, activists, and at its meetinghouse. Friends gathered for wor­ ment through customs duty free. Apparently members of Congress to discuss is­ ship, followed by a light lunch, games, and the computers had already been sold to cover sues of concern to you. much reminiscing. Participants browsed storage fees when college board chair Simeon through a collection of old photographs and Shitemi was trying to obtain the correct William Penn House newspaper clippings, and had the opportunity documents. Simeon offered his resignation 515 East Capitol Street SE to meet with founding members of the meet­ because he felt responsible for the situation, Washington, DC 20003 ing. According to well-researched legend, the but the Friends College Board refused. The (212) 543-5560 fi rst meeting for worship of what came to be school had a computer program in place, and Live Oak Friends Meeting was held Sept. 19, was eagerly awaiting the arrival of the do­ 1954, in the home of Walter and Myra nated machines. The incident was upsetting Whitson. This year's celebration also pro­ to all involved, but steps have been taken to vided an opportunity to speculate about the assure the problem will not occur again. Display Ad Deadlines future of the Society of Friends, and to look Friends College, Kaimosi greatly values the forward to another 40 years of Quakerism in assistance it receives from American Friends, Reservations are required for display the Houston, Texas, area. and prays this incident will not affect future ads in fRIENDS JOURNAL. donations. Argentina will end its official practice of January issue: Reservations by required military service. In a surprise an­ Haverford College Alumni have started a lesbian, gay, and bisexual alumni network. October 31. Ads must be received by nouncement, government officials declared it will do away with universal military con­ The group, which consists of about 80 mem­ November 7. scription by the end of 1994. Following up a bers so far, hosted its first major event in the February issue: Reserve space by story on efforts to secure legal protection for last week ofJune . The gathering of Haverford December 5. Ads must be received conscientious objectors throughout Latin alumni, students, faculty, and friends took by December 12. America (FJ 10/94, News), Argentina will place in New York during the Stonewall 25 join Brazil, Uruguay, and Guyana as the only celebration commemorating the beginning of Ad rate is $28 per column inch. 15% countries in the region to make military serv­ the modem gay rights movement. The net­ work plans to work with lesbjan, gay, and discount for 6 or more consecutive ice optional. The move came after an 18-year­ old conscript died after a beating he received bisexual students at the college, address aca­ insertions. on entering an army base. Several church demic concerns at Haverford, and serve as a groups have been working for years to obtain social and support resource for its members. Call (215) 241-7279 now for your recognition of conscientious objection in Ar­ For more information, contact Michael Gluck reservations or questions. gentina, Guatemala, Venezuela, Bolivia, Hon­ at 9039 Sligo Creek Parkway, 1406, Silver duras, and Columbia. A proposal was being Spring, MD 20901-3355.

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•"Crime: Is there a Christian Response?" is the title ofa training program on how to start a STTOWN Church-Based Victim Offender Reconcilia­ tion Program (VORP). Scheduled for Nov. 3- SCHOOL 5, in Fresno, Calif., the program will be led by Westtown, Pennsylvania- Founded In 1799 Ron Claassen, founding director ofthe Fresno VORP and the Center for Conflict Studies and Peacemaking at Fresno Pacific College. The course includes an in-depth look at the Westtown is a Quaker school of 600 students in Pre-K through vision and mission ofVORP, plus training on 12th grade, co-educational, college preparatory, day and boarding corporate organization, case management, volunteer management, mediator training, and interactive instruction. For more information, • Excellent academic programs telephone Kathy Stiick at (800) 909-VORP. • Individual attention within a caring community •A "Stop the Killing, Start the Healing" • Before and after school day care programs campaign against • Performing and fine arts handguns was launched in Oct., 1993, • 600-acre campus with lakes and woods in Louisville, Ky., by the Fellowship For • Outstanding facilities (science center, arts center Reconciliation. The fieldhouse, 25-meter indoor pool) project serves as a model of how to organize a program to replace firearm violence and mili­ tarism with economic justice and a renewed For more information and to arrange to visit classes, sense of community. Although each commu­ nity is unique, the Louisville campaign gained please call Sarah Goebel, director of admissions, Westtown School, insights that will be useful to others who want Westtown, PA 19395 (215/ 399-0123) to address the issue of handgun violence. The Louisville project included a vigil and march, petition drive, citizen lobbyists at the state legislature, a gun buy-back program, and a Mothers Against Handgun Violence cam­ paign. For more information on starting a similar campaign, plus details on the Louis­ vi lle model and background information, con­ tact FOR, Disarmament, P.O. Box 271 , Nyack, NY 10960, telephone (9 14) 358-4601. (from Voices, September/October /994) •Applications are currently being accepted for the Charles Bannerman Memorial Fel­ lowship Progam. Founded in 1987, the pro­ gram honors outstanding activists of color, and provides stipends of$15,000 for sabbati­ cals of three months or more. This financial support allows activists to reflect on their Outpatient help for the stressed~ut work and renew themselves for future en­ deavors. To qualifY, applicants must be a You can't concentrate. You yell at the kids. You're coping -- barely. Friends Hospital person of color, be a resident of the United Day Programs are for people like you: dealing with loss, depression, extreme anxi­ States or its territories, have at least I 0 years ety, and other problems traditional office therapy hasn't helped. We promote your of experience as a community activist, and be independence with a program that lets you go home every day. Our team of psy­ committed to work for social change. Past chiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers and rehabilitative therapists helps Fellows have been involved in community you establish goals and puts together an individual plan of therapy. In just days you and labor organizing, political and economic begin to regain self-confidence and control. There's no shame in having emotional development, and cultural work. The program problems. What is a shame is ignoring them too long. is named in honor of the late Charles Bannerman, whose lifelong commitment to Friends delivers the finest psychiatric care, with social change and economic justice brought Quaker compassion, on our beautiful campus in substantial improvement to many of the poor Northeast Philadelphia. When you need Friends, communities of the Mississippi Delta. Appli­ we're here. Ask your family doctor or call us. FRIENDS cations for the 1995 Bannerman Fellowships HOSPITAL must be postmarked by Dec. I, 1994. For FRIENDS HOSPITAL ACCEPTS A VARJE'TY 464 1Roosevelt Boulevard more information and an application, contact OF INSURANCE PLANS Philadelphia, PA 19124 Bannerman Fellowship Program, 1627 215 -83 1-4600 Lancaster St., Baltimore, MD 21231. fRIENDS JOURNAL November 1994 41 •With the Panama Canal and U.S. military Santa Cruz, CA 95060, telephone (408) 423- bases scheduled to be turned over to Panama 1626. by the end of the decade, how can the poor and communities of color benefit? The Fel­ •Global Service Corps is inviting participants lowship of Reconciliation will sponsor its to join in its "Volunteers to Southeast Asia" fifth National Delegation to Panama, Dec. 11- program, Nov. 11-27. The group will travel to 23, to help answer this question, and join the Chiang Mai region of northern Thailand Panamanians in remembering the fifth anni­ to assist local villagers in addressing commu­ versary of the U.S. military invasion of that nity needs by teaching English and assisting country. The group will also meet with poor, with construction, agricultural, or public works Afro-Caribbean, and indigenous communi­ projects. Participants will experience the ties, and investigate conditions of racial and warmth of the Thai people firsthand by living economic justice. Panama's poor majority with local families, and sharing traditional needs housing, jobs, education, and a say in meals and accommodations. The group will or 142 years Quakerdale has the decisions that will affect them. The FOR also spend time in Bangkok visiting a Bud­ helped change - and seeks a diverse group to participate in this dhist monastery, the fl oating markets, and improve - rhe lives of special delegation. People of color and people other highlights of the area. The project tu­ troubled teens. Quakerdale with experience of military base closures in ition is $1 ,495, discounted group airfares are services embrace rhe whole their communities are especially sought. Cost available, and all costs are usually tax deduct­ person - physically, emotionally for the program is $775 from Panama City, ible. For more information, contact Global and spirirually. and some scholarship aid is available. Apply Service Corps, 1472 Filbert St. #405, San For information on how you can immediately to the FOR Task Force on Latin Francisco, CA 94109, telephone (415) 922- help build Quakercla)e s A merica and the Caribbean, 5 15 Broadway, 5538. endowment for rhe 21st cenrury and to see rhe video «If I Only H ad A Chance" call or write: Calendar Donna Lawler (Phone 515-497-5294) Box 8 New Providence, IA 50286 NOVEMBER 13-18-"Healing From Life's Wounds," a confer­ ence at Quaker Center, Ben Lomond, Calif. Led by 3-6-German Yearly Meeting, Bad Pyrmont, John Calvi, the gathering is for both the wounded Gennany. Contact Lore Hom, Wikinger Ufer 5, D- and the caregiver. The program will include talk 10555 Berlin, Gennany, telephone (30) 3914867. and stories, some touch, small group sharing to ...... understand trauma, healing, and giving. Cost is "-·· .. 4--6---Training ofTrainers for Social Action, Wash­ $200, and some scholarships are available. Con­ .•. ·· .. ington, D.C. Led by George Lakey, the program tact Quaker Center, P.O. Box 686, Ben Lomond, .. teaches skills and new techniques, and allows par­ CA 95005, telephone (408) 336-8333. • • ticipants to network with other trainers. Contact . Training Center Workshops, 4719 Springfield, 14-"William Penn and his Educational Legacy," ~ Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19143, telephone (215) the theme for the Annual Meeting of Friends His­ 150 729-7458. torical Association, at Arch Street Meetinghouse, Philadelphia, Pa. Speaking will be William C. Celebrating 150 years 5-"Emerging Democracies-Steps Toward Inde­ Kashatus Il l, chair of religious studies and director pendence," AFSC's Annual Public Gathering, I :30 of community service for William Penn Charter of dynamic Quaker p.m., at the Friends Center in Philadelphia, Pa. The School. The program includes a 5:30 p.m. recep­ education. keynote address will be given by Lani Guinier, tion and dinner at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $9, and reser­ professor of Law at the University of Pennsylva­ vations need to be made by Nov. 7. Telephone (215) 951-2346 nia. Panel discussions and a reception will follow. (610) 896-1161. Contact AFSC, Public Gathering, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102, telephone (2 15) 241-7057. 17-20-"lndividual Empowennent and Corporate Effectiveness," a Friends business consultation at KNOW THY 11 - 12-"Growing From Strength: The Moral De­ Quaker Hill Conference Center, Richmond, Ind. velopment of Children," a symposium at Sponsored by Earlham School of Religion and JOB OPTIONS. Gennantown Friends School, Philadelphia, Pa. Part Quaker Hill Conference Center, the gathering will Discover a surprising new world of ofthe school's I 50th anniversary celebrations, the examine the moral changes and opportunities for two-day event will examine the different factors witness that business life involves, and the rel­ opportunities. Your next oould be job influencing the development of children's sense of evance of Quaker values as modem management among the thousands available right now values, and will explore how adults can ensure that practices change. Telephone John Punshon at (800) in Cluistian organizations. Explore your children grow up leading lives of conscience and 432-1377 for more infonnation: p088ibilities with lntErcrlslo. moral courage. The keynote speaker will be Robert Call Intercristo! Coles, and the guest speaker will be Lani Guinier. 25-lntemational Day Against Violence Against Cost for both days is $90. Contact Gennantown Women. For infonnation, contact the Center for 1-800-426-1342 Friends School, 31 West Coulter St., Philadelphia, Women's Global Leadership, 27 Clifton Ave., PA 19144, telephone (215) 951-2340. Douglas College, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, tele­ phone (908) 932-8782. The Chrlltllln Clntr Speclll .... 12-18-Guatemala Yearly Meeting, ·Iglesia 19303 Fremont Aw. N. Seattle, WA 98133-3800 Nacional Amigos, Tabernaculo "Amigos," In November- Japan Yearly Meeting, Tokyo, Ja­ ., Chiquimula. Guatemala. Contact Salome Ramirez pan. Contact Japan Yearly Meeting, 8-19 Mita 4- ._.. GJI Miguel, Apartado 8, Chiquimula. Guatemala, tele­ Chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, telephone (03) phone 9-420-149. 3451-7002.

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Milestones One pathway to peace leads right through the Births/Adoptions March 20, under the care of Davis (Calif.) Meeting. halls of Congress Bradshaw-Be'!iamin A. W. Bradshaw, on Dec. Hirabayashi-StofTregen-Thomas Andrew 30, 1993, to Terry and Nelson Bradshaw. Nelson Stoffregen and Asako Hirabayashi, on July 9, at is a member of Fifteenth Street (N.Y.) Meeting. Cincinnati (Ohio) Meeting, under the care of Casey-Ann Marie Olsen Casey, on Dec. 26, Community (Ohio) Meeting, of which Thomas is Ae;k how you can h~lp 1993, to Gay Lynn Olsen and Paul Casey, of a member. bring Frl~nd6' conc~rn for Boulder (Colo.) Meeting. Krakau-Fenninger-Carl Fenninger and p~ac~ and ju6tlc~ to Capitol Hill Douglas-Katherine Louisa Strode Douglas, on Natalie Krakau, on June 9. Carl is a member of June 2, to Betsy Strode and Lee Douglas, of Palo Warrenton (Pa.) Meeting. FRIENDS COMMITIIlll ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION 245 Second Street N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 Alto (Calif.) Meeting. Pallante-Hyun-Christopher Charles Hyun and Ersek--0/ivia Jean Marshburn Ersek, on Feb. Maria Ann Pallante, on April 30. Christopher is a 24, to Carol Marshburn and John Ersek, of member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.). 0 Durham (Maine) Meeting. Scanlon-HufT-Steven Huffand Margaret Graham-Tynan Sherman Graham, on Feb. 5, to Scanlon, on Nov. 20, 1993, under the care of Kim Lacey and Daniel Graham, of San Francisco Rochester (N.Y.) Meeting, of which Steven and (Calif.) Meeting. Margaret are both members. Horton-Kinari Ann Riseman Horton, on Feb. I, Simmons-Getty- Philip Getty and Barbara to Julia Riseman and Nicholas Horton, of Simmons, on June 4, under the care of Falls (Pa.) • matll213.

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1994 43 death in 1949, Florence became a housemother at Wilmington College in Ohio. She later moved to Columbus and joined North Columbus (Ohio) Meet­ ing. In 1960 she felt called to volunteer her time and energy in working for a peaceful world, and Newtown, PA 18940 became a resident and cook at the Peace Action Center in Washington, D.C. After spending a win­ ter term at Pendle Hill in 1963, Florence moved to Hartford, Conn., becoming a member of Hartford Meeting in 1965. During the 1960s she was a faithful vigiler in front of the Connecticut State House. She attended many peace and human rights rallies, and joined in the great Martin Luther King march in Washington, D.C. In 1974 Florence moved to Waterbury, then Waterboro, Conn., and joined Watertown Meeting, now Litchfield Hills (Conn.) Meeting. Some of Florence's other interests in­ cluded cooking wholesome food, walking every day, sewing, playing games, and drawing and paint­ ing. Florence is survived by her daughter, Dorothy Carpenter Wheeler; eight grandchildren; and 16 Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, George School is a co­ great-grandchildren. educational boarding and day school for s tudents in grades 9-12. Harper-Oliver (Monty) Harper, 74, on Feb. 25, The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values and includes: of renal failure. Monty was born in Wakenaam, • Courses on 4levels of challenge • International Baccalaureate (IB) Guyana, the son of a bishop in the African Meth­ • Advanced Placement (AP) • International workcamps odist-Episcopal Church. He graduated !Tom the • English as a Second Language (ESL) • Required community service University of London, majoring in languages and • Foreign study • Required full-year courses in the arts teaching. He did pre-med work at Columbia • 13 interscholastic sports for boys and girls University, and received a doctorate degree in dentistry from Howard University. When an ill­ For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 215/579-6547. ness ended his career, he took a graduate degree in education, and taught English literature, Latin, Spanish, French, and African History. Monty also spoke Arabic, and was noted as a musicologist, raconteur, and as the author of many articles and studies. His third career was in the Foreign Serv­ ice, serving in Tunisia and Burkina Faso (formerly the Ivory Coast). Monty became associated with Friends in Greensboro, N.C. He was a member of Gainsville (Fla.) Meeting, and a regular attender and staunch supporter of Ocala (Fla.) Worship Group. Monty is survived by his wife, Velma; three daughters; a son; two brothers; four sisters; and two grandchildren. Kamp--Esther Lois Farquhar Kamp, 99, on June 28, at Quaker Heights Nursing Home, Waynesville, Ohio. Esther was born in Blue Island, Ill., but spent most of her youth and retirement years in Wilmington, Ohio. She graduated !Tom Westtown School in 1913 and Wilmington College in 1916. Esther taught in public schools in Ohio, then in Friends schools in Cuba. She received a masters degree in Spanish !Tom Middlebury College, and later taught Spanish at Wilmington College. Dur­ ing the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s, she went to Spain with the AFSC to help feed children. She then spent 24 years in Indianapolis, Ind., as a social service consultant for the state oflndiana. In 1977 Esther married Wilbur Kamp. They were members of Campus (Ohio) Meeting, and were active in the affairs of the Society of Friends throughout the Midwest. Esther was a loyal sup­ porter of both Westtown School and Wilmington College. She was preceded in death by her hus­ band, Wilbur, in May. Land-Shar/i Powers Land, 52, on Aug. 5, of cancer, at her home in Philadelphia, Pa. Born in New York City, Sharli was introduced early to the world of the arts by her parents, both of whom were actors. She was primarily a painter, with a distinctive way of seeing people, things, events,

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The couple moved to Cambridge, Mass., and Fax: (215) 568-13n then to Philadelphia, Pa., where they became mem­ bers of Chestnut Hill (Pa.) Meeting. As her chil­ dren grew up, Sharli used her creative talents as a Accommodations staff person for several Quaker organizations. She began as interpretation secretary for FWCC, Sec­ NYC midtown B&B bargain! Charming, one-bedroom apartments of your own in historical, Eastside neighbor­ tion of the Americas, designing and writing bro­ hood, $7D-$125 double, plus $15 per additional guest. chures and publications. Later she took responsi­ From simple to sublime. (212) 228-4645. bility for the Right Sharing of World Resources Hawaii-Island of Kaual. Cozy housekeeping cottages. program, where she found an outlet for her energy, Peace, palms, privacy. $60-$80/nightly. 147 Royal Drive, humane concerns, and creative imagination that Kapaa, Hl96746. (808) 822-2321. brought new life to a valid but struggling program. SW Florida: North Fort Myers large Spanish pool home. Characteristically, she captured the program in a Canals; walk-safe neighborhood. Do-it-yourself break­ painting, a collage of impressions of India, which fast. Smoking on covered terrace only. $25 to $40 single. All faiths welcome. Berry (813) 995-1234. was reproduced to raise funds for Right Sharing. active with the Women's International League for Visiting Britain? No need to pay for expensive accom­ Later she worked on specific interpretation projects Peace and Freedom and Friends World Committee modation. Home Exchange can connect you with Friends for the Quaker United Nations Office and AFSC. for Consultation. Akie was often called on to act as and others who wish to exchange homes or hospitality. In many areas of her life, her artist's eye and translator for city government affairs, and after her Send SASE to Home Exchange-FJ, P.O. Box 567, Quaker heart saw elements and aspects of reality retirement, she acted as a consultant to Japanese Northampton, MA 01061. that others missed. Often her vision and discern­ and U.S. business people. A beloved member of Washington, D.C., Area: Furnished rooms in Quaker ment came to her friends first as challenge, then as home, close in, near public transit, ideal for interns, short Santa Cruz (Calif.) Meeting, she was active in the & long-term. Ph: (703) 845-0427. education, and, ultimately, as precious gift. Sharli Friends in the Orient Committee of Pacific Yearly is survived by her husband, Stuart Land; a son, Frenchtown, N.J., B&B. Along the Delaware River. A Meeting. Akie will be remembered for her work victorian inn with contemporary comfort. Getaways, anni­ Jonas; a daughter, Sunshine; her parents, Charles with children in Santa Cruz Meeting, teaching versaries, intimate weddings, business, and relocation and Edythe Powers; and a multitude of (F)friends. them the Japanese art of Origami, and in yearly stays. Full breakfast menu. Seven guest suites with meeting, where she assisted them in the recogni­ private baths, period furnishings. $11 0-$145/double, week­ Leeds-Edith Hull Leeds, 89, on March 30, at day rates available. The Hunterdon House, (800) Pennswood Village, Newtown, Pa. A birthright tion of Hiroshima Day. Akie is survived by her 382.0375, (908) 996-3632. husband of30 years, Earle L. Reynolds; her mother, Friend, Edith attended Baltimore Friends School, Quaker House, Managua, Nicaragua. Simple hospitality; George School, and Swarthmore College, from Yoshie Nagami; a brother, Kazuyuki Nagami; a shared kitchen. Reservations: 011·505-2-663216 (Span­ which she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. A long-time sister, Sachie Komeima; two nephews; and a niece. ish) or 011-505-2-660984 (English). resident of Washington, D.C., she worked at the Walker-A/ice Ellzey Morris Walker, 82, on April Washington, D.C., sojourners welcome in Friends' home Library of Congress for 26 years, and was an in pleasant suburbs nearby. By day, week, or month. For 15, in Santa Rosa, Calif. The daughter of a mis­ details call: (301) 270-5258. active member of Friends Meeting of Washington sionary physician from Philadelphia, Pa., Alice (D.C.). Her husband, Kingsley B. Leeds, was inca­ A homely base In the heart of London? Short-, me­ was born and raised in Shanghai, but periodically dium-, and long-term accommodation available with pacitated for much of his life, and Edith raised her traveled to Philadelphia and attended Quaker excellent meals. Also meeting rooms for workshops, lec­ two daughters alone. She loved literature, appreci­ schools. She graduated from Simmons College in tures, and conferences. Contact: Quaker International ated music and the theater, enjoyed cats and stitch­ Boston, Mass., with a library science degree in Centre, 1 Byng Place, London WC 1E 7 JH. Tel: 071- 387- 5648; fax: 071-383-3722. ery, and had a lively sense of humor. Her home 1934. Alice did library work in China after college, served as a center of overflow hospitality for then returned to Philadelphia, where she joined the Peaks Island, Portland, Maine, B&B. Water-view sum­ William Penn House. Edith is survived by her mer home, 15 min. ferry, wooded lane, beach 300 feet; Society of Friends and mamed Nicholas Raspa. He complete island variety living. $45 single, $65 double. daughters, Sheila D. Leeds and Judith Leeds passed away shortly after World War II, and Alice Berry: (813) 995·1234; (207) 766-3366. Inskeep; two grandchildren, Rita J. and James R. later married Charlie Walker at Radnor(Pa.) Meet­ London? Stay at the Penn Club, Bedford Place, London Inskeep; a sister, Bertha Hull Paxson; and a brother, ing. The couple moved to Washington state, where WC1 B 5JH. Friendly atmosphere. Central for Friends James D. Hull, Jr. Alice attended Seattle (Wash.) Meeting, then to House, West End, concerts, theater, British Museum, university, and excursions. Telephone: 071-636-4718. Reynolds-Akie Nagami Reynolds, 52, on July 2, Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1965. Charlie died in 1969, Mexico City Friends Center. Reasonable accommoda­ of breast cancer. A native ofTokuyama-shi, Japan, shortly before Alice received her master's degree in library science from the University of Hawaii. tions. Reservations recommended. Casa de los Amigos, Akie married Earle L. Reynolds in 1964. Sailing Ignacio Mariscal132, 06030 Mexico D.F. 705-Q521. aboard the yachtPhoenix, they helped deliver medi­ She then moved to Canada, where she earned another master's degree from the University of NYC-Greenwich VIllage Accommodation. Walk to 15th cal supplies to North Vietnam, and made a friend­ Street Meeting. One-four people; children welcome. (Two ship voyage to the former Soviet Union. From Vancouver, and ran a hostel for American men cats in house.) Reservations: (212) 924-6520. who objected to the Vietnam War draft. During the 1970-73 Akie and Earle served as codirectors of Looking for a creative living alternative in New York the newly established Quaker Center in Ben 1970s and I 980s, Alice made several trips to China City? Penington Friends House may be the place for you! Lomond, Calif. Akie later served as librarian and to do volunteer teaching. In 1980 she moved to We are looking for people of all ages who want to make a Maui, Hawaii, where she did counseling work at serious commitment to a community lifestyle based on international counselor in the University of Quaker principles. For information call (212) 673-1730. California Career Center in Santa Cruz, Calif., hospitals. Maui (Hawaii) Friends Worship Group We also have overnight accommodations. where she introduced many students to careers in met in her home for several years. Alice is remem­ international peace-keeping and social justice. She bered for being cheerful and helpful to anyone Accommodations Sought earned a BA degree from UCSC and a master's who needed assistance, and she kept an open home. Although not publicly outspoken, she was stead­ Costa Rlc.-Wanted. Housing for family of four. From degree in Peace Studies from Antioch College. two weeks to two months during Summer, 1995. Open to Akie was a member of the executive committee of fastly sure of her beliefs. Alice is survived by a all options and locations. C. Jackson, 853 Vanderbilt the Santa Cruz Japanese Cultural Fair, and was brother, Herbert Morris. Beach Road, 11214, Naples, FL 33963.

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