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General Conference May 2000 Quaker Thought · and Life Today ~-..~ Special Issue: Frieflds General Conference An Among Friends independent magazine serving the Congratulations FGC! Religious though FGC and FRIENDS JOURNAL are two entirely independent Quaker Society of organizations, we've long enjoyed a comfortable and mutually supportive Friends relationship. When I first worked for FRIENDS JouRNAL in the late 1970s, our office was located in the basement of Friends Center on Cherry Street in Philadelphia, 'EdHorial across a brick courtyard from the historic building that housed Friends General Susan Corson-Finnerty (Editor-Manager), Kenneth Sutton (Senior Editor), Roben Dockhorn Conference. The atmosphere at Friends Center was affable, and it was common to {Assistant Editor}, Judith Brown (Poetry Editor}, pass FGC staff in the hallways or having lunch in the courtyard on balmy days, Ellen Michaud {Book Reviro~ Editor}, Christine exchanging friendly greetings as we went about our tasks. In those days Ken Miller Rusch (Milestones Editor}, Julie Gochenour, Roben Marks, Cameron McWhiner (Nro~s sported a ponytail and was the organizer of the FGC Gathering, then held on the Editors}, Jennifer Zumpf (Intern), Marjorie Schier campus oflthaca College in New York. He also served on our Board of Managers. (Volunteer) Carolyn Terrell, who later served on our staff and then our Board, was in those days Production preparing religious education materials that FGC published and distributed. Barbara Benton (Art Director), Alia Podolsky {Assistant Art Dimtor) In subsequent years, my husband, Adam, and I were co-directors of Powell House, Circulation and Advertising the retreat and conference center ofNew York Yearly Meeting. I remember how Nagendran Gulendran (Marketing and Advertising valuable FGC's book catalog was to me, as one of my tasks was to stock the small Manager), Nicole Hackel (Circulation Assistant), Carrie Glasby, Ruth Peterson, Roben Sutton, bookstore at Powell House. How extraordinary those wonderful Quaker resources Ellen Wr.ight (Voluntem) are! And how eagerly Friends perused the volumes we stacked on the shelves in that Administration little bookstore. I was filled with gratitude many times for the wide array of resources Marianne De Lange (Office Manager), available through FGC, including curriculum materials for First-day school teachers. Pamela Nelson (Development Assistant), Tom McPeak (Accounting Servius) I came to love traveling to the annual FGC Gathering while first working for Board of Trustees FRIENDS JoURNAL. At Powell House, I scheduled summer events around it, knowing · Lucinda Antrim, Aaron Buckley, Paul Buckley, that so many other Friends enjoy the Gathering too. It has become a tradition for the TylaAnn Burger (Treasurer), Susan Carnahan JouRNAL to give coverage to that wonderful event each year--<>ne of the reasons you (Recording Clerk), Sue Carnell {Assistant Clerk), Linda Coffin, Mary Ann Downey, Marsha Green, will not find a particular focus on it in this issue (even though you will find it Dan Hewitt, Barbara Mays, Larry Miller, Caroline mentioned frequently). Balderston Parry, Ruth Peterson, Ted Robinson, David Runkel (Clerk), Larry C. Spears, Larry D. Returning to the JoURNAL last year, I found the magazine located in a new building Spears, Katherine Wood, Elizabeth Yeats on Arch Street, about four blocks from Friends Center, and sharing the second floor, FRIENDS j OURNAL (ISSN 00 16-1322) was established in two separate office suites, with our old friends at Friends General Conference. This in 1955 as the successor ro The Friend (1827-1955) was not entirely coincidental, as a member ofour Board of Trustees-Paul Buckley, and Friends lntelligmcer (1844-1955). an Illinois Yearly Meeting Friend who came to us from FGC's Central Committee­ • FRIENDSj OURNAL is published monthly by Friends Publishing Corporation, 1216 Arch Street, 2A, recommended that we purchase the front space when it became available. It was a Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835. Telephone (215) good suggestion. One of the pleasant consequences is that we still wave friendly 563-8629. E-mail Friends)[email protected]. Periodicals postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa., and additional greetings to our colleagues in FGC as we pass in the lobby or on the stairwell. Ken mailing offices. Miller no longer sports a ponytail, and these days he's working as FGC's associate • Subscriptions: one year $29, two years $54. secretary, tending to a multitude of business details. Now it's his dad, Larry Miller, a Add $6 per year for postage to countries outside the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Individual copies former general secretary ofFGC, who sits on our Board ofTrustees. Kenneth Sutton, $3 each. our senior editor, came to us afrer several years of work with the FGC bookstore. And • Advertising information and assistance isa vailable our Board treasurer, TylaAnn Burger, served FGC for many years as treasurer and on request. Appearance of any advertisement does then clerk of FGC's Central Committee. These days she's co-coordinator of the High not imply endorsement by FRJENDS jOURNAL. School Gathering. Clearly, the mutually supportive relationship between two • Postmaster: send address changes ro FRJENDS jOURNAL, 1216 Arch Street, 2A, Philadelphia, PA independent Quaker organizations continues to thrive! 19107-2835. Given this collegial history, it has been a special pleasure to prepare this centennial • Copyright © 2000 by Friends Publishing celebration issue. We received many more articles than we were able to include-and Corporation. Permission should be received before reprintingexcerpts longer than 200 words. hope you will agree with us that the selection published here gives a flavor of some of Available on microfllm from Bell and Howell the many aspects ofFGC. We've divided the material into four sections: vision, Information and Learning. history, programs, and "FGC as seedbed." On pages 10 to 16, a timeline, with PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER photos, runs across the bottom of the pages. Looking through the materials to prepare Min. 20% post-consumer this issue felt like looking through the family scrapbook and photo albums! We hope Moving? Let us update your you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed preparing it. We salute the staff and many, many volunteers who have served on FGC's subscription and address. committees over the past 100 years! Friends everywhere are the richer for the hard FRIENDS JOURNAL, 1216 Arch St., 2A work of these good folks. We look forward with anticipation to seeing the fruits of Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835 their labor fur many}"'ll' ro come. ~ ~ ~ (215) 563-8629, Fax (215) 568-1377 E-mail [email protected] 2 May 2000 FRIENDS JoURNAL May2000 FRIENDS Volume 46, No. 5 OURNAL Vision Programs 6 Nurturing VItal Quaker Meetings 35 Enriching the Uves of Couples and Spirit-Filled Friends Shirley and Verne Bechill Bruce Birchard 38 Worship in Song History Fran Beer 40 Almost Sixty Years with FGC 10 FGC Timeline Carolyn Nicholson Terrell 11 Where We Came From 43 The FGC Bookstore Deborah Haines Liz Yeats 14 A Guiding Ught Departments Alison Levie 17 Delighting in Friends: 2 Among Friends The Legacy of J. Barnard Walton 4 Forum . Marty Walton 5 Vtewpoint 18 J. Barnard Walton Marty Grundy 44 Books 20 Times of Great Change 47 News Larry Miller so Bulletin Board 20 World Council of Churches Dean Freiday 51 Milestones 22 Nonviolence and Racial Justice 53 Classified Martin Luther King Jr. Front cover background FGC as Seedbed photo: 1896 conferences ofFriends in Swarthmore, 24 A Quaker Action Group Pa., FGC archives George Lakey Inset: 1996 Gathering of Friends, photo © Bonnie J 27 Made to Feel Welcome Zimmer Bruce Grimes Photos not otherwise credited: 30 FGC Could Be a Better Courtesy ofFGC and Mirror of the World Friends Historical Library, Vanessa Julye Swarthmore College 1998 Gathering FRIENDS JoURNAL May 2000 3 Forum Suggestions for solving include Cooperstown on their trip. Those position is on the agricultural issues who come by plane may want to extend discussed so clearly in Morse's article. hearing difficulty their visit a day or so, to take in this Peter Bien I have often thought a significant part of landmark showing. Hanover, N.H. the problem for Friends who don't hear well Kathryn Parke Black Mountain, N.C. Thank you for "The Message of Seattle." {Forum, FjFeb) is Friends who don't speak Friends are making a significant effort to up. Our culture frowns upon foisting our john Brzostoski's review ofthis show, "Hicks's encourage and influence the constructive views on others; I think this is one reason for Peaceable Kingdom, "appears in the February discussions that must take place around those views being offered in a soft, hesitant 2000 FRIENDS jOURNAJ..-Eds. trade issues. We appreciate your effort to voice. Another reason may be that speaking keep us informed and hope that you will to a group can feel intimidating. continue to do so. Although members of our meeting Let's get the name straight! Vici Oshiro remind each other to speak up in meeting Burnsville, Minn. for business, we have not resolved the Please, please, please. problem in meeting for worship. I wonder It was difficult enough to find out in how to convey to all the message that "what your March issue that my secret flame, What would John Woolman you have to say is important, and everyone Elizabeth Gray Vining, had died (very secret, wants to hear it!" "Non-foisting" can be we never met). It was almost as difficult to do? accomplished by the speaking tone. see my meeting referred to by the wrong David Morse's "The Message of Seattle" Also, I would like to see a way for Friends name, again, in her death notice. lends great meaning to the actions of many {not just those in positions ofleadership) to Very often, when I am at the Friends well-intentioned protestors who spent days acquire experience in speaking to a group.
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