September 1994 Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today

LIVING THE SPIRIT News from theFGC Gathering Editor-Manager Among Friends Vinton Deming Assistant Editor Timothy Drake Art Director Barbara Benton For the Sake of Conscience Guest Designer John D. Gummere hough I get lots of letters, this one caught my attention. It was written by Marketing and Advertising Marge Schier, a member of Falls (Pa.) Meeting's Peace and Service Manager Nagendran Gu lendran T Committee. She wanted to let me know what her meeting was doing to Production Assistant support the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund. Since her message was Kenneth Sutton really intended for our readers, let me share it with you: Secretary Edward Sargent "Will you and your meeting join us in a project to celebrate William Penn's Bookkeeper 350th birthday? We are Friends from Falls Meeting, which was William Penn's James Neveil own meeting here in Pennsylvania. We've been working for a year to educate Circulation Assistant Nyree Gleaves ourselves and each other about the Peace Tax Fund Bill, and we think there's no Volunteers better way to celebrate Penn's lifelong struggle for freedom of faith and Jane Burgess, Emily Conlon, Marguerite Clark, conscience than to work for passage of this bill. Gwen Nevei l, Robert Sutton "The U.S. House of Representatives has already held hearings on the bill and Board of Managers Irwin Abrams, Jennie Allen, Frank Bjornsgaard, now there's a prospect of hearings in the Senate. Senator Mark Hatfield, who's Sue Carnell, Marguerite Clark, Barbara Coffin, worked very hard for the bill, has challenged supporters to send 10,000 letters to Emily Conlon, Phoebe Cottingham (Asst. Congress. That's·what's needed to pass the bill, he says. Treasurer), Richard Eldridge (Clerk), Deborah Fisch, Marty Grundy, Kitty Harrison, "Ten thousand letters! Friends, we can do it-we and other supporters of the Bernard Haviland, Robert Kunkel, Eric Larson, bill nationwide .... Friends, you might wish to end your letters with thanks or Carol MacCormack, Mary Mangelsdorf, compliments. We did ... because we knew of good legislation that each senator Richard Moses (Treasurer), Jack Mongar, Lee Neff, Carolyn Balderston Parry, Julie Ries, had voted for." Margery Rubin (Asst. Clerk), Mary Ellen Singsen, Carolyn Sprogell, Robert Stauffer, Robert Sutton, To make it easy for me to write one of these 10,000 letters, Marge enclosed a Carolyn Terrell, Wilmer Tjossem, sample of the letter she was sending to Senator Harris Wofford. I won't quote .all Alice Wiser (Secretary). of it, but let me list the important points she makes: Honorary Managers Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Mildred BinnsYoung •This year is William Penn's 350th anniversary. What better way to carry on his FRIENDS JOURNAL (ISSN 00 16-1322) was legacy than to work toward Senate hearings on the Peace Tax Fund Bill. established in 1955 as the successor to The Friend ( 1827-1955) and Friends lntelligencer •For people living in states other than Pennsylvania, senators might be reminded (1844-1955). It is associated with the Religious that William Penn's living legacy is for all America-that his standards of Society of Friends. liberty, equality, and freedom of conscience are embodied in our Constitution. • FRIENDS JOURNAL is published monthly by •The House has already held hearings, attended by people from all parts of the Friends Publishing Corporation, 150 I Cherry St., Philadelphia; PA 19102- 1497. Telephone (215) country. 241-7277. Accepted as second-class postage at •The bill is about religious liberty and freedom of conscience. 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7 Living the Spirit: 2 Among Friends Listening. •. Acting Vinton Deming 4 Forum This year's FGC Gathering was the largest in recent history. 5 Viewpoint 1 0 Coming Out as a Quaker 20 Witness Signe Wilkinson We might make our faith more visible, she suggests, and have 22 Reports more fun in the process. 24 News of Friends 12 The Dilemma of Not Speaking Bulletin Board Truth to Power 26 Irwin Abrams 26 Calendar Lives sometimes were spared when we were careful not to criticize, but was it right to remain silent? 28 Milestones 13 Why I Am Glad My Children 30 Classified Were Raised Quaker Nancy L. Bieber Whether they continue as Quakers or seek other paths, Poetry . Quakerly echoes will remain. 16 Friends and the Debate 15 Red-Tailed Hawks over Gay Rights W. D. Ehrhart Stephen Zunes Friends bear a special responsibility to be at the forefront ofthe movement for justice. 18 Fox and Me H. Otto Dahlke His best advice? Stay open to the Spirit, and a way will open.

Cover photos, all scenes from the FGC Gathering, by Skip Schiel and ©1994 Danna Cornick.

FRIENDS JOURNAL September 1994 Forum

Healing the spirits can contribute, please make out a check to (Questions getting harder-finally. . .) the meeting (noting that it's for the Peace "Because it's heavy." (A short feeling of Twenty-seven years ago many of you Park) and mail it to the meeting at 1704 relief, but then . ..) dug deep in your pockets to help seven Roberts Ct., Madison, WI 53711. Please "Who is God?" (Wondering how to Quakers, a Unitarian, and a Jew go to North support this effort to heal the spirits and answer her, suddenly it came like messages Vietnam. We carried $10,000 worth of change anger to friendship. sometimes do in meeting. ..) medical supplies from Japan to Hanoi on Elizabeth J. Boardman " Reina, I want to give you a bear-hug Earle Reynolds's 50-foot ketch, the Phoenix. 2553 Upham St. and a press-on kjss. (We did, then /looked We wanted to show friendship to the Madison, WI 53704 right into those wonderfully innocent eyes.) Vietnamese, whose country our country had Reina, I love you very much! (The love from invaded, to give an unmistakable message to A special bond her tiny arms was flowing up and around our government that we opposed the war, my neck. ) I can't tell you who God is, but I The editor's mention of his son Sim's and to have personal experience with think God is like our love for each other." penetrating questions about the "age of Vietnamese people that we could share with "Oh-h-h! (Then looking at me intently God" (FJ March) brought to mind one of other Americans. Our trip was memorable she added... ) Well, how big is the hole in my favorite memories ofa conversation and successful in those three areas. the toilet when you flush the water down with my granddaughter, Reina, when she The war has been over for about 20 it?" was three: years, but some of the wounds are still "Oh, that I know. It's this big." (And I "Grampa, where does the water go when festering. Many of our soldiers who came showed her, making a circle with my thumbs you flush the toilet?" back have ills of the lxtdy and spirit that and fingers.) "It goes in a big hole in the ground." have not healed. Vietnamese soldiers have End of our conversation. Reina is now "When it gets full, then where does the suffered even more injuries, deaths, and 23, but she still remembers the discussion. I water go?" disappearances than ours have. It was a · asked her the other day, tears beginning to "It goes out in long, sort of, tunnels under devastation for both countries. mist in my eyes. And she nodded her head. the ground." Now there is a move by Vietnamese and We have a special bond between us. U.S. veterans to help each other. Many U.S. "Then where does it go?" Vets have made the trip to Hanoi to try to "It sinks into the ground." Walt Lohans understand their counterparts there. Some "Why does it sink into the ground?" Reedley, Calif. Vietnamese vets have made the trip here. Together a group of them have decided on a way to make their reconciliation visible and Back to Tharg thus are embarked on a project to build a Peace Park outside Hanoi (Among Friends, In response to Cynthia Maciel's Jetter and her son Josh's computer-generated art FJ May). This park will consist offish (FJ June), I submit the following. (see below) Paul Thompson ponds, fruit trees, shrubs, and flowers; and Shropshire, England its focal point will be a dove effigy mound like the one at Highground in Wisconsin, which was built by vets, and admired and understood by the Vietnamese vets who visited it last year. About ten acres of land has been given by the Vietnamese government, but the money to build it and to transport a crew of U.S. vets to help with the work has to be raised. I hope that those who helped send us to Vietnam 27 years ago (as well as their children and grandchildren, and all who read this) will dig down again in recognition of the importance of the reconciliation that has been started by these former enemies. I have been asked to go with Mike Boehm, the U.S. organizer of the project, in August, when he will deliver the first installment of the site preparation and construction money. My role is to represent the various Quaker programs that were carried out in the '60s and '70s, and to help with the reconciliation of the women of Vietnam and the U.S. who lost so much in that war. By the time this letter appears I will be in Vietnam traveling on borrowed money, so I too will need contributions. So will the vets who will go there to do the actual building in November. Madison (Wis.) Meeting has set up an ''Well, that's done! Now I can get back to level 3 of Super Mario account for tax-exempt contributions. If you versus the Soul-Stealers of Tharg!"

4 September 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL Viewpoint Does Love Include Justice? "I just don't feel a calling to work in give to them--of my time and materials. I have come up with a few suggestions: the inner city. I feel I do better working want to be with them. I hurt when they hurt. •Find a group in your meeting interested with the people close to me. It's really I suffer when someone transgresses against in learning about the history and current too bad that neighborhoods are so them. I learn from them as they learn from dilemmas of blacks, Indians, and low­ stratified that most of the people near me me. I am committed to working through our income people in our country. Even if maybe don't need as much help." conflicts. I share in their joys. you find one other person, you can meet "I've never worked much with As Quakers and followers of Christ, I regularly and share your insights. Yes, homeless people (substitute black people, feel we are all called to be with the poor. As understanding is important, and Christ teenagers, mentally handicapped, white people living in the United States we also asks us to act on our beliefs. Haitians, gangs, toddlers) before. I don't live with the results of the genocide of •Join a group that has people from have any gifts in that area. " Indian people and abduction and diverse racial, ethnic, and class enslavement of African people. Most U.S. backgrounds. It could be music, politics, These words are from people in my Quakers are white-skinned, and I feel we are or sports. As Fox said, "And friends, meeting. I wonder at my response to such called to address our racism. This is the _ spread yourselves abroad, that you may sentiments. I'm at once confused and justice I feel God asks of us. We can only do be serviceable for the Lord and His distressed. I'm co.nfused because I too this from a position of love, not a position of Truth." share these feelings. It takes effort being moral obligation. I am determined to find •In choosing where you shop, where you with people different than myself. My gut out how to love and act justly with those live, where you cut your hair, where you feeling is discomfort. Messages inside who are voiceless in this society. socialize, where you get roommates or say, "I'll make a fool of myself if I go to Toward this end, I and my spouse have colleagues, consider being with others the inner city. I'm inadequate for the job. made two major decisions. We are different from yourself. Search out small It'll be tough work-maybe dangerous committed to living in a racially and minority businesses and patronize them. for me. Even worse, I may insult economically mixed neighborhood, and we •Have discussions within your family someone or cause them further damage." are committed to sending our children to about what ways you can meet new These thoughts are real fears and public schools, even with a reputable people or put yourself in positions where paralyze me. I like it when the people I Quaker school nearby. I've no great master you learn from those who are a different worship with are the people I socialize plan as to how to end the inequalities in our race or of lower income. You could try a with, and the people I socialize with are society: I am clear that I need to walk the restaurant in another part of town, you people I work with. There's a wholeness streets with those who suffer because of could visit a senior citizen club, you and integration to my life. I don't inequalities. could plant a flower garden in an welcome fragmenting my life by What's wrong with concentrating our unkempt park. traveling 15 miles to an ugly part of town love on those already in our meeting More than anything, it's important to to work at a public housing project. communities (mostly white and well-oft)? pray. Ask for divine assistance in ending And for me, born in relative wealth, We are doing no harm, lots of good, and the walls, hatred, and acts of violence that isn't it patronizing to do so? Folk wisdom filling our lives with love, right? Well, separate us all. Isn't it easier to pray for says: Bloom where you are planted. If I yes... and there's more. If Quakerism loses peace in Bosnia or Rwanda than to pray spent life where I was planted, I' d have its living water, we shrink into a social club. for reconciliation and justice in our own stayed in a white, upper-middle-class Even the Elks/Kiwanas clubs and country towns where there's violence and suburb. clubs act with love toward their own ilk. We rebellion? It's even harder to look at how God does not require us to be useful to have a commitment to God--even a each of us, inadvertantly or not, takes part one another, but to love one another. covenant with God. in this violence. Maybe the place to start How exactly do we love our neighbor in God asks us to work with people of color is to admit the reality of our own the face of such economic inequality and or people without resources despite any participation in racism and classism. in the face of widespread racism? I am discomfort. Living righteously or following To walk the road oflove and justice is distressed because I don't see many Christ means reaching out regularly to those not easy on the feet, but it sings to the Friends addressing the classism or the on the outskirts of society. This is the apex heart. racism with which we live. Christ asked where love and justice and peace meet. This - Elizabeth Claggett-Bome us to love one another: where does justice is at the heart of the Beatitudes. fall in this law of love? There are no easy Don't get me wrong-1 don't do this Elizabeth Claggett-Borne lives and wor­ answers. covenant stuff with God very well. ships in Cambridge, Mass., where she I do know that when I love someone, I However, in talking with other Friends, we works to prevent domestic violence.

More wrestling and is lunging for the other, am I a bad the crisis stage." I concur, but when they do Quaker if I brain him with a baseball bat? If reach the crisis stage willy-nilly, does it As a weary wrestler with intervention, I it were morally certain (as I am not answer our responsibilities if we stand by on am grateful for Roberta Spivek's frank convinced it is) that killing 200 thugs principle and permit a bloodbath? views on that subject (FJ April), and for the remains the only way to save 10,000 Nor does it help me to distinguish concern of the responses printed (FJ July), innocent Haitians, what then? religious from secular or Christian from but perceive that they did not meet her Geoffrey Huggins wrote that "Answering Jewish, as some responders did. The Light is challenge squarely. to our responsibilities means we would the Light, regardless, though concluding that If a madman stabs one of my children never have allowed these situations to reach we have seen it, and that others have not,

FRJENDS JOURNAL September 1994 5 may presume too much. I am told that major catastrophe. Selling weapons would get-togethers whenever anyone had an idea earnest Quakers stood well across the war­ be akin to saying that eliminating gun for doing something-hiking, birding, peace spectrum when it came to stopping control would help stop juvenile gang war. I picnics. Sometimes everyone would have Hitler. think we all would do well to examine the dinner at Marshie Austin's. Often they'd Particularly in this violence-prone history and causes of the turmoil in so-called come to my folks' home. At first all travel society, it is perilous to admit that personal liberated Communist countries. was by horse and buggy, then Ernest Moon or national violence may ever accord with Why has ethnic hatred emerged now? and Fred Mitchell got cars. God's will, and those few who don't admit it Does the media report the truth? What is the The original group consisted of five men set a strong and salutary example. Concepts complicity between transnational and five women. Canie Farquhar taught of"self-defense" and a 'just war" are freely corporations and religious hierarchies? Who Latin at Wilmington High School. She wrote mangled; too often, as in Guatemala, Chile, has the moral right to intervene, let alone the the group's anthem, "The Pedestrian Song." and El Salvador, our country has claimed the moral character? It's a far deeper problem Marshie Austin taught English at the high high ground while intervening on behalf of than the public is made aware of because of school and wrote the music for the song. She thugs. War often begets war, while the the State Department manipulation of facts baked a special date-nut bread, which was a spiritual and practical benefits of and the Pentagon's new-found censorship of great favorite of the club. My Aunt Evelyn nonviolence are vastly underrated. All this is news. Peterson, Lola Street, and my mother, Alice, part of why I call myself a Quaker. Being deeply influenced by the true all were teachers too. Orange Frazier was Yet in my imperfect view, the will of the teaching of Jesus as a man of nonviolence, the spark plug of the outfit. He knew a lot God of love and peace bars violence in my hope is that more and more people all about birds and wi ldflowers. Howard almost every case. If only the world were over the world, yearning for peace, will Macune and Fred Mitchell were farmers. otherwise, but we are not there yet. practice and walk the path of nonviolence. My father, William, was a lawyer. Ernest Moon was a carpenter. He also played the Malcolm Bell Solveig Eskedahl Autoharp to accompany the group singing, Weston, Vt. Newton Highlands, Mass. which was a favorite part of any club occasion. My brother, sister, and I were the You have to admire Roberta Spivek and Pleased but dismayed only children, but always enjoyed being a the man in an earlier issue who wrote about part of the activities. The special memories I was pleased to find out that FRIENDS the ceremony he had devised for his baby. have remained with me all of my life. They've got guts! JOURNAL included an item about the Friends Or maybe they had no idea that when Committee on Scouting (FJ June), but David Telfair they grappled with their issues and came up dismayed that my address was used as the Richmond, Ind. with results they thought worth sharing with one for information. I am the editor of our newsletter Scouting Among Friends, but I Friends, the response would be "Kaboom!" am not a clearing-house for all inquiries, Beauty and mystery Maybe people at the meetings they've Recently someone in Friends meeting attended listen to others with the idea that especially those seeking to receive cunicula for the Friends religious awards programs. spoke of the relationship of bees with God can speak to us even in statements we Scouting Friends who wish to purchase flowers as a sign of beauty and mystery in don't agree with all down the line. Maybe the Friends cuniculum guides should write the natural world. The message aroused in they thought Friends would be happy that to PRAY, 8520 MacKenzie Rd., St. Louis, me a feeling of sadness that people are their deliberations had resulted in something excluded and always have been; we don't they could at least put into words that helped MO 63 123-3433. Both the That of God for Brownie and Cub Scouts, and Spirit of Truth belong in Eden. We were given as them make sense of their lives. for Juniors, Cadettes, and Boy Scouts cost recompense free will, limited free will, When people lay themselves open in $3 each, plus $1.60 postage and handling incapable of gaining for us the security of print knowing disagreement may result, being strands, woven inextricably into the aren't they giving us a chance to react in per item. web oflife. We, the outsiders, may choose ways that "take away the occasion for war," I will be glad to receive newsletter to tread lightly on the earth. But even with even though there may not be a major, requests addressed to Scouting Among Friends, 500 12 Ave. NW, Altoona, lA our most sensitive awareness of human declared, ballistic one going on at the time? 50009. inappropriateness in the evolutionary spiral, we can never belong as completely to the Dee Birch Cameron Margaret Ludington Altoona, Iowa earth as bees inadvertently pollinating El Paso, Tex. flowers. Mary Bye It was sad to read Roberta Spivek's The Pedestrian Club Newtown, Pa. thoughtful article. So many peace activists With the renewed concern for have had a similar journey, sharing her appreciating and preserving our natural hopes, her despair, her frustrations, but environment, it might be of interest to share FRIENDS JouRNAL welcomes Forum con­ fortunately not all of us share her these memories ofa group of Quaker nature tributions. Please try to be brief so we conclusions and decisions, however well lovers 80 years ago. may include as many as possible. Limit reasoned and articulated It is a dilemma we Around the tum of the century there letters to 300 words, Viewpoint to I ,000 all face and the peace movement needs emerged, in the vicinity of Wilmington, words. Addresses are omitted to main­ people of her sensitivity and compassion. So Ohio, a rather remarkable group of nature tain the authors' privacy; those wishing to have her lean toward the theory of a just lovers, who called themselves The to correspond directly with authors may war and military intervention is a loss. Pedestrian Club. The club started before my send letters to FRIENDS JOURNAL to be While I abhor what is happening in mother and father were manied; and as it forwarded. Authors' names are not to be Yugoslavia, military intervention or even continued after their maniage, they were the used for personal or organizational so­ selling arms to the Bosnians would only only manied members. There were no licitation. -Eds. prolong the agony and engulf the world in a particular meeting times, just spontaneous

6 September 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL ing this spiritual path, he had been led to say, "Jesus, I like you-but I don't like your friends!" As he found himself be­ Living the Spirit: corning a Christian, however, he realized he didn't need to let other Christians de­ fme him. What happens when you ignore or say no to a leading? Fear of change may block us at such times (we may find our­ Listening ... Acting selves saying "thanks God, I'll take it under advisement, I'll get back to you!")­ as happened when he first considered "coming out" as a gay person. by Vmton Deming who will go for us? ... Here am I, Lord, On Wednesday night Fay Honey send me!" (The title of his speech was, Knopp spoke on "Living the Spirit in the "You Want Me to Do What?") He inter­ Eye of the Storm." She spoke movingly es, it will be busy . . . speakers, spersed humor with thoughtful personal of two instances in her life when she storytellers, singers, contra danc­ experiences as a teacher in the Boston learned the meaning of being a vessel Ying, workshops, interest groups, city schools-and shared movingly his through which the Spirit flows. In 1962 tours .... so hard to make a decision you journey as a person with AIDS. How she was invited to participate in a women's may decide to go sit by the pond and do does one know when one experiences a protest against nuclear fallout-and to ostensibly nothing .... But at the center is true leading? He cited the words of St. the still point ofworship, the still point of Theresa, who said you will know when silent waiting on the leadings ofthe Spirit. God speaks to you if the following three It is the worship together throughout the things occur: you will be certain of what day, throughout the week, that binds us the words are; the words will give you a into a community." feeling of peace, even if you don't under­ New England Friend Stine Schultz's stand them; and the words will stay with words of welcome prepared us well as you a long time, maybe forever. more than 2,200 Friends assembled on Often, William has discovered, God the campus of the University of Massa­ may speak to us through other people or chusetts at Amherst, July 2-9, for the in everyday, ordinary times. One such Friends General Conference Gathering. leading for him occurred when a woman And busy we were! told William he had special gifts as a On Sunday, Johan Maurer, general sec­ teacher and that he should write a book retary of Friends United Meeting, made about his work with young people on an important speech to the gathering on issues of conflict resolution and violence the topic of"Restarting the Quaker Move­ prevention. He did (and has completed a lead a march (something she had never ment" (see sidebar report). Other evening second book), and, as a result, has been done). Two years later she was called to speakers were New England Yearly Meet­ able to communicate with people all over the South during a time of upheaval and ing Friends William Kreidler and Fay the world on the subject. Similarly, after violence in Jackson, Mississippi. In both Honey Knopp. I found William's address being diagnosed with AIDS, he clearly instances she learned to trust divine to be a high point of my week, clearly heard Christ say to him, "When you are leading; she was transformed, fear was one of the best speeches I have heard at ready, come home!" Subsequently, he has gone, and true reconciliation occurred. an FGC gathering. He spoke from the text become a Christian, something he never "We all need to be blessed," Honey said, of Isaiah 6:8: "Whom shall I send, and would have anticipated earlier. In resist- "to be touched by others, to know there

7 is good in each of us." During the week there were morning workshops-a rich variety to say the least. 1! How are these for inviting titles?: "Spiri- l:: (l tual Discernment in Business Meeting," ., "Life in the Spiritual Fast Lane," "Keep- ~ ing a Personal Journal," "Men Exploring ~ Women's Spirituality," "Welcoming ~ Strangers: Quakers and Immigration," o "Friends Peace Teams-Active Nonvio­ lence around the World," and "Creative Step-Parenting." One group published The Quaker Free Press during the week, con­ tributing lively coverage to the confer­ ence events. And there was music, music, music! Friends sang rounds every evening be­ fore dinner. A choral group made sur­ prise appearances at the dining room and 11 student center, filling the air with joyous ~ sound. Before an evening program, there . ~ was an old-time hymn sing led by Ellen t5 Paullin and Walter Felton-reminiscent ofCape May, N.J., days when these same Friends led us in song. Peter and Annie Blood-Patterson, Kim and Reggie Harris, Susan Stark, and others shared their mu­ sical talents throughout the week. A memorable event was a performance by the Boston-based group known as the Free Grace Undying Love Full Gospel Quaker Choir Sing and Be Saved (whew, a mouthfull of a title, but also a heartfull of sound-the closest thing to Quaker soul music one might find). Friend Elizabeth Watson filled an au­ ditorium on four afternoons as she shared from her studies ofthe life and writings of Emily Dickinson. Many Friends made a visit as well to the Dickinson home and graveyard during the week, located only a short distance from the campus. Other fare included side-trips to the beautiful surrounding area, interest groups on all manner of topics, visits to the popular FGC book store, swimming, a spectacu­ lar July 4th fireworks event in the local community- and much more. Friends Committee on Unity with Nature orga­ nized films and speakers, and there were the customary Gathering Centers for men, women, singles, gays and lesbians, and families. This year's Henry J. Cadbury Event, sponsored by FRIENDS JOURNAL, was held Friday afternoon-an original production in story and song about the war tax wit­ ness of Randy Kehler and Betsy Corner from Colrain, Massachusetts. The stage performance won a favorable review from those who crowded the auditorium (de­ spite the heat and lack of air condition­ ing!). A video of the show was made 8 (Left) Kim and Reggie Harris in concert.

and will be available at a later date. "great flood of '94" one afternoon sent Thirty years ago George A. Walton It was a good conference despite cer­ Friends running for high and dry ground. described well the magic ofFGC gather­ tain negative factors. Meeting spaces were An inch and a half of rain during a brief ings in that time: "For Friends from each often poor. (A space designated for "al­ downpour flooded a key building while a yearly meeting to be together to build phabet soup" sessions with Quaker orga­ wider power failure brought elevators, air lasting friendships, to listen to each other nizations had no windows or air condi­ conditioning, and dishwashers to a stand­ in round tables, to have classes for chil­ tioning and was hidden away at the back still. dren, to spend a week by the ocean: these of the book store.) My dormatory was Might it be time, we wonder, to con­ mean more to religious life than the texts crowded, hot, and noisy. Despite all the sider smaller, more intimate FGC gather­ of the lectures." excellent planning, it felt as if the ele­ ings? Perhaps some years there could be This year we longed particularly for ments too were working against us. Tem­ more than one in different geographic the ocean! Next year, in Kalamazoo, peratures most days were in the upper 90s locations. We heard reports of su·ch dis­ Michigan, we shall hope for cool Lake (and as humid as Philadelphia!)-and the cussions during the week. Michigan breezes. 0

FRIENDS JoURNAL September 1994 9 lighten up the FRIENDS JOURNAL. I do be­ lieve we each must use our unique gifts to make our faith visible to the world. That's what a cartoonist does every day. Certainly not every cartoonist is a Quaker, but each of the really good car­ toonists has his (and the correct pronoun in my virtually all-male profession is defi­ nitely masculine!) own conception of uto­ pia, or God's heaven on earth. When he sees something in the news that falls short of that vision of perfection, the seed of a cartoon takes hold. In response to car­ toons, the readers let us know how far we have fallen from their conception of uto­ pia. Truth can be brutal but it's also in­ vigorating! I'm still alive and have been called: "worthy of Hustler magazine," ''the feminist movement's own Josephine, Goebbels/Julienne Streicher." Once when a TV host was preparing The following article is condensedfrom for he had just described what the best to interview me about my views on Sinead Signe Wilkinson 's address to the Gather­ cartoonists hope their work will achieve. O'Conner's attack on the Pope and Ca­ ing of Friends at Friends General Con­ But then I got to the end of this letter tholicism, I asked her why she had cho­ ference, July 1993, Stillwater, Oklahoma. where this Friend wrote, "Please forgive sen me. She responded, "Oh, don't you Signe was the Henry J. Cadbury Event the back door approach in addressing this know? Many Philadelphians consider you speaker sponsored by FRIENDS JOURNAL. letter to you directly, but I was afraid all the anti-Christ." hell would break loose if it ever showed The reason I feel so strongly that we, tis an honor to stand before you as the up in FRIENDS JouRNAL." as a religion, need to be more vocal is that Henry Cadbury lecturer, for I know Friends, it's about time we stop being Quakerism has something to say both to I something of that fme Quaker. But to afraid to let all hell break loose. If we are individual seekers and to the world. Quak­ paraphrase Lloyd Benson on Dan Quayle, not afraid to speak truth to power, why erism and Quakers shaped me when I I am no Henry Cadbury! More apt might are we afraid to speak truth to each other was young, buoy me when I am search­ be the immortal words of that vice-presi­ and share our message ofhope and equal­ ing, and still challenge me when I come to dential debater, Admiral Stockdale: "Who ity before God with our neighbors? I am a hard place. Let me mention some of am I, and why am I here? ..." a question not suggesting every Friend speak as I do Quakerism's beneficial tenets. More than we've asked ourselves in Friends meet­ through cartoons, though it would really creed, they are sacrosanct ways of living. ing. The short reason is that FRIENDS JouR­ NAL helped give me my start by publish- ing my early cartoons. The longer expla­ nation is that it was thought I could talk about bow a perfectly nice little Quaker could have fallen so far from the fold as to .1bDAY :::2 have become a ... a ... journalist! I would like to share a letter with you. j:t~~ y{E.gToy(fl ~ Cow~.ntf It was from a sweet man, who wrote that ?: 311 fRI&JDS (/{)()Ct,A.f2Y as soon as they saw the article about me /0:'/~ Fo~WA'(S Soll£1> (in the July 1993 issue of FRIENDS JoUR­ l!'N<.Ii FRtfNI)S /losftll£ BoND NAL), Quakers started grumbling: "I don't J: ~o HAV~fZDCo}~ PIW?P know why she is so hard on the yearly Jf:oo 'SrAPELCj' fiA/.L BMro meeting," and that she is "superficial and doesn't get to the point." He then kindly 5:3o 1\FSC. f3oi!Ro added, "I feel you always get to the point" i=oo HDNT1/IJ' 11t£Till6 fof &s. and that cartoons "stimulate the person lf:Jo 9'Jte;( Rt:rL£cTioN ON involved to start thinking and possibly Wlfllr IT Mf/1/o/J To Be A FFC?IfN() trying to correct the problems concerned." Well, as you can imagine, I was delighted, j ~ Signe Wilkinson is a member of Willistown ~ (Pa.) Meeting. She is editorial cartoonist for ~ the Philadelphia Daily News, and the first ~ woman (and Quaker) to win the Pulitzer Prize ~ in cartooning.

10 September 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL I refer, ofcourse, to such profound Quaker virtues as BEING CHEAP. Cheapness kept me from smoking, be­ cause I was too cheap to go out and buy lung cancer. It kept me from psychiatrists because I was too cheap to think of pay- ing someone when a good friend would listen for free. And it kept me able to work for ~he Philadelphia Yearly Meeting when I got out of college, be­ cause my tastes were mostly sustained on .~ the $50 a week Friends thought I was ,.. worth. The cheap salary then forced me ~ into evening work as a stringer for the ~ local newspaper, where I got my toehold in mainstream journalism. And, the yearly ::::~ meeting salary prepared me to accept with- o out blinking a $25-a-week salary for a project on the island of Cyprus that got with healing. Do you realize six of your news producer does freelance work for me interested in politics and world af­ 59 workshops at the FGC gathering (about the Catholics televising Masses. She finds fairs. That, in turn, showed me the limits one-tenth) are about healing? Either the that people are hungry for spiritual mes-· ofgood work when, nine months after we American Medical Association has infil­ sages, and her telecasts reach people who arrived to bring peace between Greeks trated FGC or we're becoming a pack of themselves can't reach a church. I asked and Turks, war broke out. hypochondriacs. I also don't remember her whether there was any way she might Back home, my training in cheap al­ "worship sharing," which has grown like be able to help get a Friends' message in a lowed me to live comfortably on a a Quaker kudzu stifling the free flow of cable-ready format, perhaps calling it freelance artist's salary-which of course ideas among Friends. I think it was started "Non-Talking Heads." She said yes and made the yearly meeting look munifi­ by someone afraid that all hell would that she would love to see Friends' testi­ cent- and be tolerant of my husband's break loose. What I do remember ofFGC monies on the air, but she asked, "Do finances, bringing home, as he was, the was hanging out under the boardwalk in Friends want to proselytize?" "big bucks" from the Central Committee Cape May, New Jersey, listening to adults She would not have had to ask for Conscientious Objectors. And now, arguing Vietnam until they fmally just up William Penn, Margaret Fell, or that timid our early training pays off because we and left the conference to go vigil in Wash­ George Fox, but it's a right-on question have two girls in Friends Schools. We ington. They raised hell with each other for modem Friends who wouldn't be should be grateful for Friends Schools. in the FGC crowd there that summer, and caught dead proselytizing. So, let's not Through their tuitions, they instruct thou­ they raised hell in the capital. And, in think ofit as proselytizing. Let's just think sands of non-Quakers in simple living. some subterranean way, they taught me of it as sharing the faith. IfQuakeri sm is a The other Quaker virtue that I have much about the obligations of faith in this spring that sustains us, perhaps it might grown increasingly grateful for is the ad­ world. sustain others as well. monition ofthat renowned Quaker, Friend One ofthose obligations is to let friends I will simply add that when you're out Nike, who keeps reminding us to JUST and neighbors know we are Quakers and making the world a better place, have a DO IT. At my politically uninvolved meet­ why. To do anything in this world we will good time doing it; and for heaven's sake, ing, I learned about racism not from peace need more of us. To get more of us, we don't be afraid to raise~ little hell. Who committee pamphlets but from meeting need to let others know we are here. Gays knows, all heaven might break loose! 0 members who were working on open and lesbians come out ofthe closet all the housing in our area. I learned of anti­ time, even though they can be facing Semitism when our meeting matriarch, physical violence. Many Quakers would I'm paid to sit in a small room all Anna Bartram, rented a room to a woman rather die than come out of their spiritual by myself and draw cartoons. I am who warned Anna that she was Jewish. closet. About the worst thing that's ever well aware of Friends' testimony on Anna said, "We are all Friends in this happened to me when I've come out as a humor-you know, #13.5 in Faith house." I didn't know one needed to learn Quaker is being asked whether I use elec­ and Practice which states, "Are the that women were equal, because so many tricity. schools, hospitals, and boarding of the women in our meeting just did it. Our message is obviously important, homes under your care and are your Whatever it was they did, they did it well not just to get more Quakers. It's impor­ meetings themselves free from hu­ and with joy. tant to take back the nation's theology mor and uproarious laughter? When Likewise, my early experience with from the Pat Buchanans and Ollie Norths, you make a joyful noise unto the Lord, Friends General Conference had nothing those who think that Christ's message is are you careful no one else can hear to do with therapeutic touch one or two one of exclusion and disapproval. While it?" I give you permission to laugh (although I remember administering to word ofmouth is important, I urge Friends out loud. I know you 're not in shape­ my aggravating younger brother with such not to be afraid of using technology and there are two workshops at FGC on vigor that my hairbrush broke over his the media to spread the word of love and lightening up! thick skull-much to my mother's morti­ inclusion-of peace and care for the -Signe Wilkinson fication). It definitely didn't have to do planet. A friend of mine who is a TV

FRIENDS JouRNAL September 1994 II t h e d i I e 1n 1n a o.f Not Speaking Tnlth to Power by hwm Abrams

peak Truth to Power was the title as with officials in the German Federal of a brochure produced by an , Should Quallers Republic. Again here~ in our discussions SAmerican Friends Service Commit­ with top East German Communist Walter tee task force early in the Cold War, call­ Ulbricht, we spoke truth about permitting ing for a change in U.S. policy toward the have spollen truth in relatives and seniors to pass the Wall for Soviet Union. It has become something family visits in the West, but we said ofa cliche in Quaker and even nonQuaker the spirit of Fox to nothing about the victims of the secret writings. We will all give a ringing affrr­ police. mation to these four little words. But as Soviet and East In each case, to maintain relationships with all such absolute commandments, with what must be called an evil power, a remaining faithful is not always so simple. government that was persecuting its citi­ I would offer for consideration several German Communists zens and causing untold human suffering, instances I have encountered, both in my the Quakers did not speak this truth to research and through personal experience and to the Nazis? power. To be sure, avoiding speaking in AFSC projects, which present the di­ truth may have furthered good. Soviet lemma of not speaking truth to power so In 1931, however, when AFSC relief and East German leaders permitted the that good may be done. workers had been active in the Soviet continuance of programs that certainly The power to which the task force Union, Clarence rejected a request to raise promoted better understanding. Whether spoke its truth was the U.S. government funds for political prisoners and these lessened the hostility that might have and people. No effort was made to speak Tolstoyans, explaining that if this were brought war is a question that cannot be truth to the officials of the Soviet Union, done, the AFSC "could do nothing more answered. We can only speculate as to to condemn the injustices for which they there." the impact ofour programs upon the hun­ were responsible. The bilateral youth The 1930s were also the time of Nazi dreds of participants from the East, al­ seminars and exchange programs in which persecutions. In 1935 British Friends sent though some of the program alumni have I had some small part in the 1960s were a letter to Hitler. They spoke of "oppres­ turned up in recent times in the move­ negotiated with the Soviets in the hope sive measures of discrimination," but de­ ments for democracy in those countries. that they would promote mutual under­ clared, "We do not presume to judge of The 1938 mission's hope of securing standing and lessen the likelihood of the internal need for such measures." official permission for Quakers to facili­ nuclear warfare. Had we spoken truth Friends who disagreed said, "If we refuse tate Jewish emigration was not realized to about the gulags, the exchange programs to pass judgment on what we are con­ any significant extent, but for a brief pe­ would have been soon terminated. vinced is evil, do we not come under riod the Berlin Center was able to help a As AFSC secretary, Clarence Pickett judgment ourselves?" The tone of the greater number of families. Throughout faced this dilemma earlier. Jack Sutters, letter was certainly tempered by those in the 1930s and until 1941, Quaker silence AFSC archivist, has shown me two in­ Friends House in London who were per­ about the Nazi atrocities permitted the triguing documents. Clarence actually mitted to send funds to Germany to be Berlin and Vienna centers to aid Nazi wrote a "Dear Friend" letter to Joseph used for concentration camp victims and victims. Certainly lives were spared. Stalin in 1933, telling him of the pleas for their families. George Fox wrote to the rulers of his help that had come to AFSC as a result of In 1938, after the "Day of Broken day, calling upon them "to hearken to the "the harsh and cruel treatment of certain Glass," the AFSC sent a team of leading spirit of God in you." Should Quakers groups in Russia at the present time," and Friends to Germany to see how the AFSC have spoken truth in this spirit to Soviet urging upon Stalin "a consideration for could relieve the suffering of the Jews. and East German Communists and to the the rights and personalities of all within Much has been made of their visit to the Nazis? Because we spoke only "partial your borders." Gestapo, but it is not well remembered truth," some good was done. that the statement they gave Nazi offi­ Did we do right? D cials included the words, "We do not Irwin Abrams, emeritus professor of history The editor will prepare a special Forum at Antioch University, is a member of Yellow come to-judge or to criticize or to push Springs (Ohio) Friends Meeting, and of the ourselves in." for our December issue in response to FRJENDS JouRNAL Board ofMana gers. His ar­ After the Berlin Wall went up, I was a Irwin Abrams's question. Letters should ticle is adaptedfrom a paper given at a meet­ member of the international Quaker team be typed double-spaced, brief( 350 words ing of the Friends Association for Higher that visited with Communist leaders in or less), and received by October 1st. Education in June 1993. the German Democratic Republic, as well -Eds

12 September 1994 FRJENDS JouRNAL . HYI AMGUDMYCHILDREN WERE RAISED QuAKER by Nancy L. Bieber and movement (sports, or­ chestra, play practice), crammed with minute-to­ a first-time attender, holding two minute deadlines (school wide-eyed preschoolers by the bus to catch, term papers hand, I looked around for some­ due), a world that rocks with one to ask about Sunday school classes sound and fury of seeming for my girls. I don't recall which gentle, significance (TV news, white-haired woman hurried up with a COs playing), here, we are welcoming smile, but I remember she reminded weekly, is another soon had us sorted out. way. We are creatures of Fifteen years later, the meeting stal­ silence and stillness, too. At warts are still welcoming new attenders the very least, we need the with smiling faces and great warmth. And quiet to balance the rest of new attenders still come, as I did, looking our lives. At the most, we for something they haven't found any­ need the quiet to know our­ where else. selves. A child who grows My search was quite deliberate, a con­ up comfortable with silence scious examination of various church op­ and stillness, and willing to tions to find the one that would best meet seek it out, has received a my family's needs. As my husband and I treasure of immeasurable are both ministers' children, we had a value. considerable background of church expe­ While the silence of rience to draw on. I knew I wanted two meeting for worship gave things for my children. I first wanted a school to join us, I had immersed myself my children a treasure to tum to, the loving, warm community in which they in a quiet too long absent from my busy spoken messages outlined for them a pat­ could be known individually, accepted life. A wed by aJl the strange people and tern for living. When they were small, the unconditionally, and loved whole­ the new experience of a gathering with­ patriarch of our meeting, 90-plus years heartedly. I wanted a church home for out visible or audible action, my children old and still going strong, sometimes them to grow up in. My second wish was sat quietly looking around them. As they summed up the Quaker teaching for liv­ that they should take religion seriously, became more familiar with meeting for ing in four words: "Let your lives speak." that their church experience would en­ worship and the awe subsided, having a We learned through the messages­ courage them to address thoughtfully the book to look at eased the time. Reading and, sometimes even more pointedly, in spiritual aspects in all of life. was useful, but they knew that when some­ the lengthy announcements that fol­ Almost as important as what I wanted one stood to speak, they closed their books lowed- just how Quaker lives were my children to receive was what I didn't to listen. As they grew older, they them­ speaking. The patriarch himself had been want them to receive. My husband and I selves chose to discard their books and to held in harsh military confinement rather ' had found many of the traditional theo­ receive not only the messages of meeting than fight in World War I. A concern for logical tenets of Christianity unpalatable but the silences as well. Nicaragua led to a lengthy hosting of as we grew into adulthood. We were un­ I am grateful for the influence of Sun­ refugees. First-hand experiences of war willing to have our children be taught as day morning silence and stillness in my grew into a national Veterans for Peace absolute truth that which we were none family's life. Unlike a more traditional organization. People of meeting were lead­ too sure about ourselves. Perhaps, in com­ service, we can experience Quaker wor­ ing the local Amnesty International chap­ parison with our own lives, we wanted ship without kneeling or standing, chant­ ter, traveling to Macedonia to begin a them to have fewer "beliefs" to discard ing or singing. Yet it is not really passive. peace studies program, working on local when they came to adulthood. Something is happening. It's difficult sim­ environmental issues, sponsoring a So, after a few years of testing various ply to be for an hour without encounter­ monthly Legislative Writing Sunday, col­ religious waters, we came to Quaker meet­ ing an inner self, without being led into lecting food and clothing for those in ing. I remember that first Sunday, sitting deeper thoughts and feelings. The ex­ need, working with Habitat for Human­ in silence amid a room full of people. By ample of a gathering of worshipers in ity, ministering in the local prison, start­ the time the children came from First-day extended silence influences us subtly, yet ing a peace essay contest and a Peace Nancy L. Bieber is a member of Lancaster powerfully. Fair, marching and testifying for peace, (Pa.) Meeting. In the midst oflives filled with activity caring for those of our own community

FRIENDS JoURNAL September I 994 13 who needed friendship and emotional sup­ most important, try to keep a low profile on that aspect of port-the list could go on and on. they learned that her life. It speaks well for the strength of My children sat and listened, absorb­ it is all right not our meeting that the children of the meet­ ing the message that lay within all the to have a fully ing seemed quite comfortable with their messages and all the announcements: elucidated reli­ peculiar heritage. They freely invited When you believe something, you act on gion, that it's school friends to come with them on Sun­ it. When we care, we do. And we care! O.K. to have day morning, although it was challenging I am grateful too that the meeting gave questions and to to explain to curious classmates what its children opportunities to act. First-day not know. Quakers believed. Explaining the unfold­ school projects such as collecting food In Quaker ing revelation of a spiritual journey to for local relief, making school supply kits '---"~~!...!..!.!....---=-= meeting we are friends raised with a set creed or a sin­ for Nicaragua, and assembling personal vulnerable together to the urgings of the and-salvation theology would be an al­ hygiene kits to be sent many places, led Spirit. Only in a gathering filled with love most impossible task to any adolescent into youthful experiences of workcamps, can we feel safe enough to share from the short of a young Rufus Jones. It's hard writing to legislators, and joining a com­ deepest places within ourselves and tell enough for adults. munity youth peace group. stories of our spiritual journeys. In this Being, as Quakers, out of step with Led by the example of community in­ way, we model growing in the Light of many of the values and life goals they volvement and social action they saw all the Spirit for each other. I am filled with saw around them eventually brought its around them, my children as young adults gratitude that my children have partici­ own strength to my children. As adoles­ have assumed a level ofcommitment and pated in such communal vulnerability and cents, yearly meeting young friends ac­ caring for people, which I deeply respect. openness to the Spirit. tivities introduced them to a wider circle They absorbed, however, more than a In First-day school classes, my chil­ of Quakers with whom they had much in call to social action from Quaker gather­ dren learned of more models for growing common. ings. It is a unique gift of the Quaker form and working in the Light. They learned In their public high school they experi­ of worship to offer the maximum oppor­ about our Judeo-Christian heritage, an enced, as Quakers themselves, not only tunity for individual leading of the Spirit invaluable aid to understanding our val­ curiosity, but respect from classmates and to be recognized. There is no order of ues and ethics today. They learned of teachers, especially from people who worship, no bulletin with hymns listed Jesus' life and ministry, a beacon of clar­ knew of 20th century relief efforts or and Scripture cited. The unpredictability ity in a tumultuous world. They heard William Penn's "holy experiment" or sim­ of sitting in silence until the Spirit moves stories of Quakers in other years and how ply heard of Quakers as "good people." one person to break the silence can be their lives spoke of deep-held convic­ There was the American literature teacher pretty scary. The messages that rise out of tions. They heard of Elizabeth Fry, and who included The Journal of John that silence are not planned in advance they spoke with meeting members who Woolman in her syllabus and asked my but arise from the present. If they express ministered in the prison. They learned of daughters to talk about Quakerism to their joy, the speaker is feeling that joy; if John Woolman and of efforts to promote class. There was the black armband one grief, the speaker is verging on tears. And racial harmony today. They learned about daughter wore to school when the U.S.­ if the speaker expresses confusion and William Penn's peaceful dealings with Iraq war began. Her friends, mostly con­ uncertainty, that too is a reality. Some Pennsylvania's Indians and how Quakers servative and militaristic, weren't sur­ messages flow smoothly and gracefully today still pursue the path of peace. prised; they already knew where she stood while others are awkward and stumbling. Quakers, they learned, sometimes had and respected her for it. Being the sole Some speakers are moved to poetry or to struggle long and painfully to under­ Quaker in a high school class, the repre­ song. Though messages were sometimes stand God's leading for them. Quakers, sentative of pacifism in a class filled with clearly over my children's heads, the depth they also learned, didn't permit little things hawkish tendencies, eventually came to of feeling, the sincerity of expression, like ostracism or imprisonment to stop be an honor claimed with pride. Being and the present reality which the words the message they felt compelled to de­ different came to be a badge worn not had for the speaker all taught aspects of liver. only comfortably, but gladly. the spiritual journey. A fuller understand­ In these First-day school classes, my My daughters are young adults now. ing of the words themselves was not nec­ children had confirmed for them what They're stuck with the memories, the essary. they surely must have suspected before: childhood influences of Quaker meeting. As one sits in silence and listens to Historically, Quakers have almost always Whether they remain Quaker or find their messages from others and within oneself, been viewed as different, or even pecu­ journey takes them on other paths, Quak­ it becomes clear that the life of the Spirit liar, by the majority of people with whom erly echoes will remain through their lives. is a journey. And all stages ofthat journey they lived. From their own school experi­ A Quakerly impress has stamped their are honored. As my children listened week ences, my children knew that their friends souls. An appreciation for silence and the after week, they heard about struggling often confused Quakers with Puritans deep Center which reveals itself in si­ with pain and darkness, about gratitude (who, as we all know, are dead now). lence, a love for fellow beings which is for God's gifts, about groping to under­ Sometimes Quakers were thought to be a not complete without an action, a vision stand God's reality and God's works. They branch of Amish, even right here in of life as a journey of growth to an ever heard of deep faith and love, which gives Lancaster County! Probably the famous deeper awareness of God and more Light strength to continue the work of God. Quaker Oats figure contributed to that for the day: these gifts remain. When I They learned that the development of misconception. recall what I wanted for them 15 years such faith and love is a process one can It would have been easy for a child to ago, I am awed they have received much, choose to encourage within oneself And, be embarrassed about being Quaker, and much more. It has been good. 0

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FRIENDS JOURNAL September 1994 15 Fyfe & Miller FUNERAL SERVICE Friends and the Debate over 7047 Germantown Ave. by Stephen Zunes Philadelphia, PA 19119 (215) 247-8700 major battle over lesbian and gay Friends to support gay rights. James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller rights is raging across the country, However, homophobia hurts everyone, Simple earth burial Awith a record number ofcivil rights regardless of sexua,l preference. Like any and cremation service bills being introduced in state legisla­ form of prejudice- be it racism, sexism, available at reasonable cost. tures and anti-gay initiatives being placed anti-Semitism, or any other form of op­ on ballots. Unfortunately, the debate over pression- it divides and stigmatizes rights has often been obscured by a de­ people. More importantly, however, it is bate over homosexuality. homophobia that keeps rigid sex roles for Given the emotionally-charged atmo­ both gay and straight people in place, sphere around anything to do with sexu­ and-by extension- much of society's ality, the far right has found its efforts to most oppressive attitudes and institutions. overturn and block civil rights legislation Once I asked a group of adolescent for gays and lesbians a powerful organiz­ male Friends for what reasons they had ing tool. Their premise is that homosexu­ ever been labeled a "faggot." From the QuAKER RETIREMENT RESIDENCE ality is unnatural, immoral, unhealthy, group came a long list: taking part in a I 00 yeors Reasonable Rates ofcoring Not for Profit and perverse; thus, any state-sanctioned peace vigil, avoiding a fight, being poor Personal Core protection ofthe civil rights ofthose iden­ at athletics, refusing to take advantage of Convenient to Shops and Businesses tified as gay or lesbian would be an abomi­ women, showing interest in music or the 400 NorthWalnut Street nation, as it would constitute an official arts, acting charitable, being bookish, and WestChester,PA 19380 (610)696-1536 endorsement of homosexuality. many other perfectly reasonable behav­ However, one need not support ho­ iors, which had nothing to do with any of mosexuality to support lesbian and gay their sexual orientations. rights. For example, many Friends be­ In a similar exercise with young Quaker lieve that the Christian faith is the only women, they reported being labeled a one truly sanctioned by God, but- at the "dyke" for resisting unwanted sexual ad­ same time-strenuously oppose any dis­ vances from men, being athletic, speak­ crimination against those who choose to ing out against sexism, having close fe­ practice other faiths. Similarly, it is quite male friends, doing well in math and sci­ possible to fervently believe that hetero­ ences, asserting leadership qualities and sexuality is everyone's natural orienta­ other attributes which, again, had nothing tion while still supporting legislation pro­ to do with their actual sexual preferences. tecting the rights of gays and lesbians. As long as gays and lesbians can be The Guest House This is why, depending on how the legally discriminated against, being question is posed, public opinion polls on thought of as gay or lesbian carries a at Knoll Farm the matter have varied so widely. As with pervasive risk. As long as men and women Find Peace ofMind and Renewal ofSpirit on a abortion, there can be a big difference have to fear such labeling, it limits the 150-Acre Organic Farm in tJJe HiJJs ofVermoflt between one's own attitude on the act choices of all of us. Scotch Highland cattle, horses, pond, itself and one's opinion on the role of Quakers are particularly vulnerable to organic gardens, pastures with spectacu­ government in the matter. homophobic attacks because of our his­ lar views, a well established guest The importance of separating the civil tory ofseeking the Truth even ifit contra­ house. Work in our gardens, hike our nature trails, relax in our hammocks, rights of gays and lesbians from the issue dicts societal norms, such as women re­ recreate your own spirit \vith a personal of homosexuality stems from the fact fusing to be passive against injustice, or retreat or in fellowship \vith other that this issue affects individuals well men refusing to go to war. guests. Reasonable rates by day or beyond the gay and lesbian community. The linkage between homosexuality week. For brochure, write: Ann Day, The denial of basic rights to gays and and pacifism in popular culture is perva­ Knoll Farm, Bragg Hill, Waitsfield, VT lesbians in employment, housing, child­ sive. My mother was warned that her 05673 (802) 496-3939 rearing, health benefits, and other areas decision not to let me play with war toys increases the stigma attached to such an would tum me into a homosexual. Quaker CREMATION orientation and thereby encourages ho­ draft resisters who spent time in prison Friends are reminded that the mophobia. have many stories of facing the assump­ Anna T. Jeanes Fund Even if discrimination against gays tion by guards and fellow inmates that will reimburse cremation costs. and lesbians affected sexual minorities they were gay because they did not act (Applicable to members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) alone, that would be sufficient cause for tough. Faggot has replaced Commie as the leading epithet hurled at those in pub­ For inform11lon, write or telephone Stephen Zunes attends Agate Passage (Wash.) SANDY BATES Worship Group and is a visiting professor of lic demonstrations against militarism. 5350 Knox Stree1 Philadelphia, PA 19144 politics and government at the University of Indeed, I was told by a friend in high Puget Sound. school that even just the name "Society of

16 September 1994 FRIENDS JoURNAL avRights What kind of a world do you want Friends" sounded to him like a "group of queers." A right-wing, Christian funda­ ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND? mentalist preacher in Berea, Kentucky­ PEACEFUL? site of the 1981 FGC Gathering-offered WITH EQUAL OP PORTUNITY? as proof of the rampant homosexuality among the Quakers his overhearing a Then Consider Pax World Fund* woman at the Gathering (who happened to be straight) telling a female friend (also For a free prospectus Pax World is a no-load, diversified balanced straight) how much she loved her and and other materials mutual fund designed for those who w ish to cared about her. call toll-free 24 hours a day: develop income and to invest in life-supportive As long as being gay is unprotected products and services. Pax invests in such from official discrimination, there will be industries as pollution control, health care, food, strong resistance to making any kind of 1-800-767-1729 housing, education, and leisure time. stance that would risk being given such a Pax World Fund shares label. Many of the most basic principles are available for sale in The fund does not invest in weapons production, all 50 states. of our faith-such as nonviolence and nuclear power, or the tobacco, alcohol or human fellowship-become marginalized gambling industries. Various opportunities are in broader society as a result. available: Regular Accounts, IRA's, Educational . Thus, opposition to gay rights by ultra­ Accounts, SEP-IRA's, and 403(b) Pension Plans. conservatives does not represent just an attack against a sexual minority. It is an Minimum investment $250. Send no money. assault against everyone who seeks ful­ * PAX WORLD FuND IS THE ONLY MUTUAL FUND IN THE fillment beyond the most rigid traditional NATION AF FILIATED WITH A FOUNDATION THAT, FOR TWE LVE sex roles assigned to their gender and YEARS, HAS SUPPORTED TREE PLANTING IN AR EAS OF THE who works for social change. • DEFORESTED THIRD WORLD. This is the goal of the crusaders against gay rights: It goes beyond simply dis­ criminating against the less than ten per­ cent of the population who defme them­ selves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. It even extends further than an attempt to reverse the gains of the women's rights move­ ment of recent decades, and to similarly set back corresponding efforts by men to seek alternatives to equally rigid expecta­ tions on themselves. It is a calculated effort to block any hope ofsustaining the kind ofpeople who can help create a just and peaceful world. Scattergood Friends School is a co-educational, college In an ironic sense, the right wing is preparatory, boarding and day high school for 55 students correct: Civil rights for gays and lesbians is a challenge to traditional value~, if by "traditional values" one means limiting • Excellent success in placing graduates in colleges and universities men and women from pursuing their indi­ vidual potential beyond archaic expecta­ • 4: 1 student to faculty ratio tions assigned to their respective gender. • Small classes and attention to the needs and interests of individuals This is why the rights of gays and • Extensive outdoor and farm experiences lesbians must be defended regardless of • Caring and supportive community life one's sexual preference and regardless of • Emphasis upon cooperation rather than competition one's attitudes towards homosexuality. • Affordable tuition with extensive financial assistance This is also why gays and lesbians should welcome any straight people who support their rights, even those who cannot per­ sonally endorse gay or lesbian lifestyles. For additional information, or to arrange a visit, And this is why Friends bear a special call or write, Director ofAdmissions, Scattergood Friends School, responsibility to once again be in the fore­ Route 1, Box 32, WestBranch, IA 52358-9715 (3 19) 643-7600 front of a movement for justice. 0

FRIENDS JOURNAL September 1994 17 One pathway to peace leads right through the halls of Congress FOX•ME by H. Otto Dahlke

Call202 547-6000 Ae;k how you can help here are many sayings of George brine Friende;' concern for Fox that speak to me. One of these peace and jue;tice to Capitol Hill T is: "It is said that Christ said this F'RIBNDS COMMITIEE ON NATIONAL LllGisLATION and the Apostles said that, but what canst 245 Second Street N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 thou say?" The first time I read this, I experienced a real jolt. It seemed an un­ believable challenge. This led to an inter­ a nal dialogue:

"George, you really mean I have some­ thing to say?" "Indubitably." • m~a

0 of deep meaning and inspiration." thought was important is the spirit that "Er, uh. . . I guess you knew what animates the Scriptures, and especially Christ and the Apostles said, and then you the guide that we worship in truth and in could go beyond them." the spirit and that the letter killeth. Fur­ Let us design your newsletter, "Indubitably." ther, as you know, from this we also be­ brochure, or letterhead! "Christ spoke to your condition, right?" lieved in continuing revelation." "Indubitably. How did you know that?" "Ah, and that is the basis of your invi­ --We produce quality type.-- "Well, I . . . read your journal." tation for me to say something?" - ---We're flexible.---- "You mean the one that Margaret Fell "You've got the message." ----We'll help.---- edited, leaving out some rather interest­ "That really throws responsibility on --WE'RE AFFORDABLE.-- ing facts of my life." me!" - We're experieueed.- "Indubitably." "You never had a better insight. Of "I see you like that word too. Well, the course, you have to rely upon your per­ FRIENDS JOURNAL journal represents Margaret Fell's George sonal experience. What else is there? All Typesetting and Design Fox, not George Fox's George Fox. But else is predigested hand-me-downs. You attn: Kenneth Sutton we are going off on a tangent." don't need spiritual crutches." 1501 Cherry Street "Well, you were Scripture oriented, "And that's why you were so radical Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 weren't you?" when you rejected so much ofestablished v 215.241.7282 "A kind of dumb question, to be frank. church doctrine, ritual, holidays, and Of course, all of us were. The Bible was hymns." the central book in our lives. What other "Well, radical is a pejorative word, literature was there really?" though it means getting to the roots of DELAWARE VALLEY "I mean that not all of the Bible was things, and that's what we tried to do. your dish, to use one of our idioms. I was You know, we did feel that we could FRIENDS ScHOOL under the impression that you sort of fo­ reach that life Adam had before the fall­ Morris & Montgomery Avenues Bryn Mawr, Pa. cused on the four Gospels, some of Paul, and let me add, we had strong reserva­ the prophets, and some of the Psalms and tions about original sin. That's not in the For Students with Proverbs." Bible. I think it was invented by St. Learning Differences "Without hesitation, I say, indubita­ Augustine. All the things you mentioned College preparatory, Grades 7-12 bly. What do you prefer?'' we thought were impediments in the spiri­ Summer School "I go along with what you stress, but I tuallife, standing in the way ofour direct, Come to an Open House especially like the Sermon on the Mount immediate relation with God. Think about and Ecclesiastes, possibly John." that." 526-9595 for info & video, H. Otto Dahlke is a member of Richmond "I have, and I believe you are entirely "Learning with a Difference" (Va.) Meeting. right, but that's not all?"

. 18 September 1994 FRIENDS JoURNAL "Ofcourse not, there are also the seven deadly vices and the seven deadly vir­ tues." "George, I think you are pulling my Quaker Retirement Residences. • • leg. The seven deadly virtues! That's a contradiction in terms." "Oh, not at all. So many nefarious acts A Choice have been cloaked in the virtues. Ever hear of inquisitions and crusades, and to isn't there a popular saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions?" Consider "Why do you have to be so iconoclas­ tic?" "That's not the point. The point is that you are so full of what I call 'notions,' and they are in the way. When that debris is removed, then you can be open to a full If you are retired and authentic spiritual experience." "You mean I have to divest myself of and looking at all the religious training and schooling I alternatives for have had?" the years ahead, why not consider one of these Quaker Retirement "I did not say that. You have to recog­ Residences in Southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey? nize what it is and what it has meant, but you can't stay there. You need to move Each provides a friendly atmosphere for older adults who want the on." freedom to pursue their particular interests, whether those be travel, "And then I can have my say?" time with family, bird watching, gardening, or intellectual or spiritual "Most likely." "But how do I know when my experi­ quests. ence is authentic and true?" . Each is located in the midst of a community with a nearby public "Good question. For that we have the meeting for worship. In the religious cor­ library, Friends Meeting, and a host of other resources. porate community, you have a kind of These residences are within the financial reach of most Friends. There check, even a 'feedback,' to use one of your newfangled words." is, at most, a modest entry fee. Monthly charges for a private room and "A sort ofspiritua l homeostatic mecha­ community meals rival the costs of living in your own home. nism?" "Well, if you want to use that kind of The Quaker Retirement Residences listed here are all afftliated with language, O.K., but I have reservations Friends Services for the Aging, a practical Quaker network of 18 about the word mechanism." organizations that enhances the quality of service to all residents. "It seems to me, George, that you are asking an awful lot of people." "I do, and you have to be responsible For more information, write or call: for your spiritual life. Nobody can do it for you, but you have the support of the meeting for worship. So, you are and are FRIENDS not alone. If that is a paradox, simply 6834 Anderson Street accept it. No need to fret and worry." SEI~VICES\· ~m Philadelphia, PA 19119 "But I do." "I grant, the way is difficult. You should AGING Telephone (215) 849-4428 know that from my journal. I did not have an easy time." "Yes, George." Simplicity, Community, "So, why do you think you should have an easy time? Do you want some A Spirit ofIndependence easy how-to-do-it spiritual handbook?" "Er, I uh ..." In New Jersey . In Pennsylvania "Let me give you what I hope is a reassuring statement. This arises out of •!• Friends Home Woodstown •!•The Barclay West Chester our experience, and we know it works if •!•The Greenleaf Moorestown •!•The Hickman West Chester there is the patience, and this statement is: 'A way will open.' It has always been so •!•The McCutchen N. Plainfield •!• Stapeley Hall Philadelphia for us, and I know it will be for you. Take heart, and you will have your say." 0

FRIENDS JoURNAL September 1994 19 Witness The Fourth World Family Congress

I Healing is not tl}e ${line as treating or by Chris Mohr curing-healingTstlie-ns toration or return to wholeness and'res:l#ls in a '"" "What use is silent worship ifit does not One way is through the International Fourth balanced life. !' ensure that the Lord can dwell in the hearts of World Family Congress, October 10-20. This ~' I#?/ ~ \ the poor, in their hectic lives, in their ever­ unique gathering will bring 300 poor parents, The,.,:~ Journal pr restless minds? The well-off are often preoc­ grassroots workers, and full-time Fourth World forum for healthcare profe cupied, but their lives are not comparable to Movement volunteers from· some 40 coun­ and pati~nts to dialogue · those of the wretched. . . . We sometimes tries in five continents to New York City and art, poetry:{>rofiles and speak of the survival strategies of the poor, Washington, D.C. without always realizing that these drain all Why a Family Congress? essays about illness experiences. their energies and attention. These strategies The United Nations declared 1994 the In­ leave the poor no moment ofrespite. Yet God ternational Year of the Family. The Fourth Winner of a /993 Bron~ Award dwells within them, the gates ofthe Kingdom World Movement is organizing this family are open to them. " congress to ensure that policy-makers and the For ,more i~formation , or if you public hear from the experts on poverty-the would like to receive the Healing hese words were written not by a poorest themselves. Rarely does anyone ask a Jou nal ($30/1 year), wri e to: weighty Quaker activist but by Father family living under a bridge or in a cardboard Tbe Health CommunicatiOn TJoseph Wresinski ( 1917- 1988), the shack for their advice about their own situa­ Research Ibstitute, ln.~:. ' Catholic priest who founded the Fourth World tions. When the poorest are able to speak for 1850 Fulton Av~ Ste. ISO Dept Q Movement, in his book Blessed Are You the and by themselves, they become more than Sacramento, CA 95825 Poor! Father Joseph believed that if churches the sum of their problems and difficulties, and VOICE M.(ji # (916) 558-3n4 were not reaching the poorest, they were not they lead the way in restoring basic human doing their jobs. rights to all. How do we learn to really hear what the Volatile political and religious debates have poorest have to say? How can we see the surrounded the changing definitions and mean­ Light in those hardest to look at? How can we ing of the family over the last several years. more strongly involve the poorest in meetings For the poorest people of the world, family is and churches of the Religious Society of not only a choice but also a necessity. The Friends, as well as in society at large? family may be the only place where they can find an identity as who they are, rather than as Chris Mohr is an attender at Friends Meeting just another poor person. For people living in of Washington (D.C.), and a full-time Fourth poverty, family is what keeps them going day World volunteer. For more information on after day. " I just want a better life for my the Family Congress or the Fourth World children," parents in many countries have told Movement, write him at 7600 Willow Hill Fourth World volunteers. " It's too late for me, Drive, Landover, MD 20785. but I keep going for them."

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20 September 1994 fRIENDS JOURNAL What will happen in October? It's Possible ... In the first phase of the congress, families and community groups in locations across ...We lie(p peopfe fif(f. you invest to improve our environment aruf North America will welcome delegations from wfii1e abroad. Among the locations are Chicago, promote a just aruf peaceful society saving for eiucation aruf Boston, Seattle, Baltimore, Louisiana, Appa­ pfanning for retirement. Ca{[ totfay to firul out fww you can cfwose lachia, and northern California. Delegates will learn about the life of families in their hosts' your investments in a socia([g responsibfe manner. area, typically meeting poor families too. Next, the delegates and some hosts will travel to New York City for a weekend of meeting in small and large sessions. The agenda includes what "family" means to people in poverty; what their strengths are; and how others can support their efforts to stay together as a family, and to go beyond the day-to-day struggle for survival to full partici­ pation in society. 1-800-456-6625 On Monday, October 17, the delegates Ask for Kathleen Talboom will be at the center ofthe UN's commemora­ tion of the World Day for Overcoming Ex­ treme Poverty. Secretary General Boutros­ Ghali has agreed to welcome the delegates. That evening the Cathedral of St. John the Divine will hold an ecumenical service for the World Day with representatives of the major religions. In the third and final phase, delegates will travel to Washington, D.C., where they will meet U.S. government officials and the am­ bassadors of their countries. The congress, while lasting only ten days, is part of a much longer process of training. Volunteers have been working for almost two years to prepare with poor parents-who may never have left their neighborhood or region before-for the congress. Afterward they will share their experiences and new knowledge BAYARD from the congress with their neighbors. How Can Friends Get Involved? RUSTIN In light of Friends' historic testimonies of equality, peace, and commitment to social SINGS! justice, we hope that North American Quakers will find ways to take part in the family con­ " Spirituals, Work & Freedom Songs" gress. (Live performance with commentary) All events, except the weekend meeting of delegates, will be open to the public. Friends Cassette$11.95 in the New York and Washington areas are especially invited to take part in public events "Elizabethan Songs/Spirituals & in those cities. We encourage Friends who are Twelve Songs on the Life of Christ" interested in meeting or hosting delegates to (With Bible readings by James Farmer) contact us for information. Of course, all this costs money, and the Fourth World Move­ Cassette $20.00 ment is raising funds to cover expenses. Compact Disc $25.00 Wherever you may be, October 17 pro­ vides a time to reflect on the courage and Send check or money order to: struggles of the poorest, pray for peace and Bayard Rustin Fund stillness in their lives, and remember the vic­ For information on how you can 218 East 18th Street tims of poverty. On that day, or the Sunday New York, NY 10003 before, we invite individual Friends, peace help build Quakerdale's endowment for the 21st century and social justice committees, and meetings and to see the video ~If I Only Prices include shipping, and churches to worship while centered on Had A Chance" call or write: handling and taxes. the poorest. Donna Lawler We can respond to the call ofthe poor­ (Phone ~1~-497-5294) est-in our meetings, our Society, and in our Box 8 New Providence, IA 50286 hearts. 0

FRIENDS JouRNAL September 1994 21 Reports Southern California WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 Kindergarten through Friends' Conference on 303 Years of Quaker Education Twelfth Grade Operated under Charter issued by William Penn. The William Penn Charter Religion and Psychology School is a Quaker college-preparatory school committed to nurturing in girls In the rolling granite·crowned hills north­ and boys the education of the mind, the quickening of the spirit, and the east of San Diego, Calif., 42 Friends gathered development of the body. Penn Charter stresses high standards in academics, at Rancho del Cielo for the 13th annual South­ the arts, and athletics. em California Conference on Religion and Friends are encouraged to apply both as students and as teachers. Psychology. The theme for the conference was "Yielding to the Center: Friends and Earl J. Ball Ill, Headmaster Meditation." The conference began on Fri­ 3000 W. School House lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 day, April 8th, with dinner and a warm wel­ (215) 844-3460 come by conference convener, Joe Franko, and continued through Sunday lunch. In addition to small group meetings orga­ nized around different methods of meditation and worship, this year's conference featured FRIENDS HOME AT WOODSTOWN four guest speakers. Judy Leshtka spoke Fri­ day night on the topic of guided meditation. A Quaker-Sponsored Retirement Facility Saturday morning Steve Smith discussed sit­ ting (Zazen) meditation, and that afternoon • One-bedroom Woods Court • 60-bed Medicare &Medicaid Maggie Shelton spoke about moving (tai'chi) Apartments for People over 60 Certified Nursing Home meditation. As part of their sharings, each • Residential facility with • Pastoral Setting presenter led Friends through a brief experi­ community dining • Caring, supportive staff ential demonstration of their meditative tech­ • Delicious, nutritious meals niques. On Sunday morning the final speaker, Jane Peers, addressed the topic of Friends' worship and raised important questions about P.O. Box 457, Friends Drive • Woodstown, NJ 08098 • (609) 769-1500 the relationship between meditation and wor­ ship. All four speakers went beyond a general introduction to share personally how these different practices have deepened their own spiritual and psychological development. They spoke simply and movingly about their own spiritual journeys through the pain of sexual abuse, childhood polio, and alcoholism to a deeper communion with the Light. Saves you as much as 90°/o The weather during the weekend, damp and overcast, provided an appropriate back­ of the costs of a traditional funeral drop for the introspective and contemplative without going through your local funeral home. tone of the conference. But just as the clouds parted occasionally to allow dazzling shafts of sunlight to illuminate the valley, so did Serving the entire state of Pennsylvania times of playfulness and humor burst forth among Friends. The spontaneous drumming with a worldwide plan available. and dancing (forms of meditation in their own right) which continued for over half-an-hour on Saturday night demonstrated clearly that Light and Love are present not just in silence. Cremation Society ofPennsylvania When the conference came to a close Sunday 4100 Jonestown Road Harrisburg, PA 17109 afternoon and the skies finally cleared, the world seemed to glisten luminously with a 1-800-722-8200 reborn vitality and brilliance. As did we all. or write for a free brochure - Richard Holt Name ______Age ______Friends Conference on Address______Religion and Psychology City ------State ______Zip ______Elizabeth Watson, a Quaker and a theolo­ Phone (_) County ______gian, presented a series of talks to the Friends FJ994 Conference on Religion and Psychology over Memorial Day weekend, May 27- 30, on the

22 September 1994 FRJENDS JouRNAL topic "Renaming the World." Elizabeth's in­ the unfortunate metaphor of Jacob's ladder, She speculates that the "most favored dis­ terest stems from her life-long work in the which has become a metaphor for the corpo­ ciple" at the Last Supper may have been Mary fields of theology and race relations, and her rate ladder, be replaced by Sarah's circle. For Magdalene. If you would like to order tapes continuing interest in liberation theology and Elizabeth, the story of Jacob and Esau raises of Elizabeth's talks presented at the confer­ ecology. Remarking that it is a primary func­ questions of transforming "power over" to ence, please contact Carol Kimball, 97 tion of all societies to name the world, "power with" or shared power. During her Gunderman Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850. Elizabeth observed that oppressed people have final talk, Elizabeth invited participants to had the power of naming taken from them. share their personal metaphors for God. Fol­ -simmone Patricia Waddell She cited the work of Paolo Freir, Pope John lowing a few minutes of silence, there was a XXIII, Archbishop Oscar Romero, and Mary rich procession of responses ranging from: Daly, who remind us of the need to acknowl­ God as the vibrant creative energy, God as the FWCC edge and empower the downtrodden. inclusive circle drawn by a three year old, to Conference participants were asked to re­ God as the hen, under whose wings we are Correction for the report on the Friends call and speak lovingly about the landscape of protected. Participants observed that some World Committee for Consultation, Section their childhood. We have never left our place, Quakers, poets, and contemporary theologians of the Americas, Annual Meeting from the the earth, which is the source ofour nurturance, have envisioned the world as God's body or June issue: except in our fevered and frenetic imagina­ the earth as God's Incarnation. In reporting on Thomas Hamm's address tions, Elizabeth noted. Bringing to our atten­ At the conference, held at Lebanon Valley on what Friends can learn from divisions of tion the definition of humility as the willing­ College, Annville, Pa., participants also en­ the 19th Century, Hamm observed that in the ness to become teachable, she later asked if gaged in small group creative work ranging past, two solutions that have not worked are we would be willing to change our conscious­ from drumming to work with clay. Next year I) reliance on structure and statements to ness and give up chocolate, beef, and coffee. the Friends Conference on Religion and Psy­ achieve unity; and 2) a desire to be so inclu­ Elizabeth believes our most serious ecologi­ chology over Memorial Day weekend will be sive that for some it is enough only to be a cal problem is the loss of the rain forest, addressed by Eugene Monick, a Jungian ana­ "seeker'' and sincere in the pursuit of Truth. which is being sacrificed to support these lyst and Episcopal priest. He will speak on the Hamm is raising the question here of iden­ products. spiritual qualities ofthe masculine, and present tity. He asks in his speech, " If Friends can Throughout her talks, Elizabeth wove the his thinking on the differences between mas­ accommodate virtually any belief, then what story of Jacob and Esau, a story of power and culinity and patriarchy. does it mean to be a Friend?" loss of power, separation and reunion, oflove, Elizabeth Watson is currently working on jealousy, and bitterness. She suggested that a book examining the women around Jesus. -Robert Vogel

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Friends in Burundi and Rwanda are con­ STTOWN tinuing to react to tribal violence that began with an Oct. 21, 1993, coup in Burundi. Coun­ SCHOOL try-wide massacres in Burundi, including at Westtown, Pennsylvania- Founded In 1799 least I 0 k i lied atthe Friends center in Kwibuka (FJ Feb.), have crippled the nation, forced neighbors belonging to different tribes against each other, and sent millions of refugees into Westtown is a Quaker school of 600 students in Pre-K through bordering countries. The violence has also 12th grade, co-educational, college preparatory, day and boarding spilled into Rwanda, a country whose capa­ bility to handle Burundi refugees has been far exceeded. • Excellent academic programs An update from Friends World Commit­ • Individual attention within a caring community tee, Afiica Section reports that in Burundi, Crisis Committees have been set up in Mutaho, • Before and after school day care programs Kwibuka, and Kibimba Quarterly Meetings to monitor relief efforts and start Peace Out­ • Performing and fine arts reach. Though unrest continues, signs ofpeace are present. David Niyonzima chaired a meet­ • 600-acre campus with lakes and woods ing where Christian denominations sat down • Outstanding facilities (science center, arts center with government and army personnel to dis­ cuss prospects for peace. He later traveled fieldhouse, 25-meter indoor pool) among Friends in Germany, England, and the United States, sharing his experiences. Susan Seitz, a nurse and member of Rocky Moun­ For more information and to arrange to visit classes, tain Yearly Meeting, is volunteering in please call Sarah Goebel, director of admissions, Westtown School, Kibimba Hospital. Her presence allows the Westtown, PA 19395 (2151399-0123) one qualified nurse who was running the fa­ cility to take a leave of absence. Much finan­ cial support is still needed for reconstruction and peace works, as are prayers for peace and safety. In Rwanda, wide-spread carnage has taken its toll on the population. Aminadabu Munyaneza, one of the founding pastors of Friends Church in Rwanda, reported the kill­ ing of the presiding clerk and his family, among many others. Friends Evangelical Mis­ sion released money and constructed a shelter at the Friends International Centre through the efforts of Quakers for Peace and Social Concerns. Friends in Afiica will continue to seek ways to bring peace to the area. Friends wishing to offer assistance may send dona­ tions, earmarked for Burundi and Rwanda, to FWCC World Office, 4 Byng Place, London Fresh air for troubled teens WCIE 7JH, England. When children have both emotional troubles and substance abuse problems, traditional therapies won't help. Friends Hospital has a fresh approach -- our Adolescent Dual Diagnosis Program. We evaluate the entire family's needs. A team -- doctor, nurse, social worker, therapist -- puts together a course of treatment aimed at the quickest. most e ffective return to a more manageable life. We'll keep the family informed, and work with school authorities, too.

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24 September 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL Claiming Our Past: Assuring the Future What better way to give expression to your Quaker values than by leaving a portion of your estate to FRIENDS j oURNAL? You will assure the growth of Quaker thought and life long into the ~ future. Consider a provision in your will for FRIENDS j OURNAL. 8 For more information, contact: FRI ENDS joURNAL, 1501 Cherry Street ~OV3 Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 (215) 241-7280 CENT£~ . location in a central Moscow apartment build­ ing early this summer. Kay Anderson will live at the center and continue her work in coordinating the program's activities. She has met with many grassroots organizations in Moscow, and the center has sponsored its first group of volunteers to work with them. A Quaker presence is also growing through the Moscow Friends Group, which accommo­ dates 25-35 worshipers. They have begun the process for registering as an official religious organization, and look forward to establish­ ing their meeting and beginning outreach pro­ grams. To continue its efforts, Friends Center Moscow needs assistance. All library materi­ als, questions, suggestions for volunteers or contacts, inquiries from prospective volun­ teers, and tax deductible contributions can be sent to Julie Harlow, 1163 Auburn Dr., Davis, CA 95616, telephone (916) 753-6826. Also, if traveling to Russia for any reason, contact the program to help relay letters or participate in other ways. Finally, a video about the his­ tory and development of the center is avail­ able. To obtain a copy, contact Nancy Samelson, 841 Esplanada Way, Stanford, CA 94305, telephone (415) 857-9287.

The Clarence and Lilly Pickett Fund for Quaker Leadership awarded its first grant to Sanu P. Chandy in May. Sanu is a 1994 honors graduate of Earlham College and a member of Chicago (Ill.) Meeting. In Sep­ tember she will travel to India, her ancestral country, to continue the work ofTrivandrum (abode offiiends) in Kerala. Trivandrum was founded in 1956 by K. Viswanathan to sup­ port a nursery school, a health center, garden­ ing, arts and crafts, and a hostel for women. The grant will enable Sanu to give a year to this work, after which she will enter law school at Northwestern University. She says she be­ lieves that eventually "attaining a law degree Quaker Inner City School will enable me to be a more effective activist, in line with my Quaker beliefs, for a safer, Endowment Fund more just, and more peace-filled world." Created to honor the lives of Clarence and We're trying to help a small group of well integrated Quaker Lilly Pickett, the fund makes grants to Friends with unique leadership potential and commit­ schools that are doing a terrific job in inner city environments ment to Quaker faith, values, and service. For gain sufficient endowments to provide long-term financial sta­ more information, contact Allen Bowman, bility. For more information write or phone Imogene Angell, 150 Coordinator, William Penn College, 20 I Trueblood Ave., Oskaloosa, lA 52577, tele­ Kendal at Longwood, Kennett Square, PA 19348. (610) 388-0935. phone (515) 673-1076.

FRIENDS JouRNAL September 1994 25 Bulletin Board CELEBRATING

•Noted experts on child development will est group, proposing a new fonnat, etc. Pro­ speak at a Nov. 12 symposium hosted by posals should include name and address, a Gennantown Friends School. The keynote description of the presentation or session, and speaker is Dr. Robert Coles, a child psychia­ experience with the subject. This infonnation trist, Harvard professor, and author, who will must be sent by Oct. I. To discuss ideas, ~----.. ~ ' ~~--- address the topic of"The Moral Development obtain more infonnation, or send a proposal, .. ---- of Children." Following his talk, seminar ses­ contact Linda Baron, Executive Director, YEARS OF SERVANT-LEADERSHIP THE Ct:NT£1 ro• A,LIED ETHI CS • THt: Rouu K. Gaul\iLEAr CtNTU sions led by nationally known specialists will NCPCR, George Mason University, 4400 focus on Social Forces, Ethical Dilemmas, University Dr., Fairfax, VA 22030-4444, tele­ Family Structure, and Child Development. phone (703) 934-5140. settings. Participants will have the opportu­ The day-long symposium is part ofthe school's nity to exchange ideas and infonnation with !50th anniversary celebrations. Cost for the •"Managing Inter-Personal and Group Con­ other servant-leaders, and have access to a seminar program and lunch is $75. For more flict," is the theme for a regional New Call to variety of published materials. Cost for the information, contact Gennantown Friends Peacemalcing Conference, Oct. 27-29, at the conference is $275 for GreenleafCenter mem­ School, Symposium, 31 W. Coulter St., Phila­ Tempe (Ariz.) Meetinghouse. Facilitators and bers and $325 for nonmembers, if registered delphia, PA 19144, or telephone (215) 951- trainers for the program are Barbara Date, before Sept. 15. After Sept. 15, cost increases 2340 to request a brochure. David Brubaker, and Ann Hardt. The topics $25. Discounts for students and seniors are they will address include Nonviolent Response available. For more infonnation, contact Kelly •Getting desperately needed medicines and to Conflict, Personal Style Materials, Com­ Tobe or Michele Lawrence at the Greenleaf supplies to poverty-stricken areas ofthe world munication Skills, Group Dynamics, Conflict Center for Servant Leadership, 1100 W. 42nd is the goal of MAP International's Travel in Groups (neutralizing history, role clarifica­ St., Suite 321, Indianapolis, IN 46208, tele­ Pack program. Each Travel Pack, designed to tion), Interpersonal Negotiation and Healing, phone (317) 925-2677, fax (317) 925-0466. help treat diseases found in the third world, Conflict in Churches and Meetings, Assess­ contains antibiotics, pain-relievers, vitamins, ment and Process Design, Structured Dia­ •The Children's Defense Fund's third annual anti-parasitics, decongestants, topical oint­ logue, and Role Plays. Costs are reduced for National Observance of Children's Sabbaths ments, and other medicines and supplies­ registration before Oct. I. For more infonna­ will take place Oct. 14-16. Endorsed by more enough to serve over 700 infants, children, tion, contact Ann Hardt, 914 E. Laguna Dr., than 140 denominations and religious organi­ and adults. The Brunswick, Ga., based, Chris­ Tempe, AZ 85282, telephone (602) 839-8399. zations, the event serves as an opportunity to tian global health organization makes the packs raise a united voice of concern for the welfare available to the thousands of health care pro­ •"Servant-Leadership: A Celebration of 30 ofchildren throughout the world, and to com­ fessionals and mission workers that volunteer Years in Practice," is the title of the fourth mit to action. More than 4,000 congregations for short-tenn international medical missions annual international conference sponsored by participated in 1993, nearly twice as many as each year. The packs are designed to meet the the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, the year before. Organizing kits for 1994's size and weight requirements for a piece of Oct. 7-8, in Indianapolis, Ind. Keynote speak­ Children's Sabbath are now available to help check-in luggage on international flights. Pack ers include Peter Block and Dr. Ann McGee­ congregations focus on their services and edu­ requests are sent directly to the recipient within Cooper, whose books help people to utilize cation programs on violence and ways to ad­ days of placing an order, and can be sent the principles of creative problem-solving. dress the problem. For more infonnation or to overnight ifnecessary. Each pack has a whole­ The conference will also include over 20 work­ order an organizing kit (add $3 for postage sale value of $5,000, and processing, pack­ shops and roundtables covering the imple­ and handling), contact Children's Defense ing, and shipping costs $350. MAP Interna­ mentation of servant-leadership in business, Fund, 25 ESt., NW, Washington, DC 20001 , tional depends on contributions of medicines, academic, religious, personal, and non-profit telephone (202) 628-8787. medical supplies, and cash to operate. To make a donation, learn more about the Travel Pack or other MAP services, or to place an Calendar order, contact Roxie Howser, Director of Phy­ sician Services, or the Travel Pack Coordina­ SEPTEMBER tor at (912) 265-6010 or (800) 225-8550, or Cost for the conference is $35. For more informa­ write to MAP International, 2200 Glynco Park­ 8-11 - "Quaker Faith and the Family: A Way of tion or to register, contact Nancy West, Universal­ way, P.O. Box 215000, Brunswick, GA Denial or Healing?", a conference at Pendle Hill ist Convocation 1994, 9075 River Styx Rd., 31521-5000. that will examine how Quaker practice affects and Wadsworth, OH 44281. influences healthy family life. The weekend will ! &-Harvey Gillman, Outreach Secretary of Lon­ include an address by Elise Boulding on "Witness­ •A call is being made for participation in don Yearly Meeting, will be speaking on the theme ing to Our Faith through the Family." Cost is $165. "Working it Out: Creating Inclusive Social of Quaker outreach; at Plainfield (N.J.) Meeting. Contact Pendle Hill, 338 Plush Mill Rd., Sponsored by the Advancement Committee ofNew Structures," the National Conference on Peace­ Wallingford, PA 19086-6099, telephone(610)566- York Yearly Meeting, the program will include a making and Conflict Resolution, to be held 4507. May 26-30, 1995, in Minneapolis, Minn. This question and answer session, followed by small­ biennial conference is dedicated to renewal, 15-17- "Yisioning the Future: Open Doors for group discussions on the issues raised. For more Women in Ministry," the 1994 gathering for information, contact NYYM, 15 Rutherford Place, inclusion, and reconciliation. The conference Women in Public Ministry, to be held in India­ New York, NY 10003, telephone (212) 673-5750. itself is intended to be an exercise in change, a napolis, Ind. The conference is open to women 23-25--"Exploring the Bible-Quaker Style," a structure designed and built by those who use from all branches of Friends who are in pastoral gathering at Woolman Hill, led by Program Coor­ it. The organizers want to know about ministry or have experienced a strong call into dinator, John Preston. The conference will share public ministry. For more information, contact Mary attenders' ideas, slcills, and needs. Suggested implications and problems of a biblically guided Glenn Hadley, 101 Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, IN ways to participate include teaching skills, faith, while exploring the content and background 47374, telephone (317) 962-7573. organizing or joining various types of discus­ of various types of Bible literature. Contact sions, presenting research, giving a creative 16-18-The 1994 Universalist Convocation, at the Woolman Hill, 107 Keets Rd., Deerfield, MA presentation or perfonnance, leading an inter- Universalist Church of Westfield Center, Ohio. 01 342, (413) 774-343 1.

26 September 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, are committed to the protection of life, which is threatened in today's world by war, abortion, poverty, racism, the arms race, the death penalty and euthanasia. We believe these issues are linked under a consistent ethic of life. We challenge those working on all or some of these issues to maintain a cooperative spirit of peace, reconciliation, and respect in protecting the unprotected.

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Robert C. & J an et A. Aldridge Richard Foster, Professor of Theology, Friends Univer>ity Susan Carpenter McMillan Authors, Children and Non·Violence William C. Frey, former Bishop. Episcopal Diocese of Colorado; L.A. County Commissioner on the Status of Women Dr. Maya Angelou, Poet Dean, Trinity Episcopal School for Min istry Richard C. McSorley Fr. Don Bauer, Executive Board. NYS Labor & Religion F r ye Gaillard, Joumalis~ Writer Direclor, Center for Peace Studies, Georgetown University Coalition; former member, Congress Of Racial Equality Doris Gordon, National Coordinator, Libertarians For Life C athe rine Meeks, Ph.D. (CORE): Prisoner of Conscience. Operation Rescue Hildegard Goss-Mayr , Founder & Honorary President African-American Studies. Mercer University Consuelo M . Bed<·Sague' , M.D. lntemationaJ Fellowship of Reconcilialion Steph en V. Monsma National Health Care Professional Ellen G rady and Peter DeMott Professor of Political Science, Peppcrdine Joan Andrews Bell Griffiss Peace Community Elena Mue ller -Garcia, Columnist, La Voz, Miami Opera1ion Rescue Prisoner or Conscience Thomas Gumbleton, Auxiliary Bishop. Detroit Henri J . M. Nouwen, L'Arc:he·Daybreak Daniel Berrigan, SJ , Atlantic Life Community Ruth Heaney, OSR E lizabeth Williams Omilami, People's Survival Theatre Rosalie Bertell, GNSH, President, Toronto Founder, Families & Friends of Persons in Prison Niall O'Brien; Peace Building, Philippines lntemationallnstitute of Concern for Public Health Nat HentoiT, Civil Libertarian: Journalist Dan O'Neill, Founder, Mercy Corps International Wendell Berry, Author and Environmentalist Ernie Hernandez, Indiana Vioe.chair CURE Cathryn Holderread Passmore, Film Producer Jean Blackwood (Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants) Bill Pelke, Marietta Yaeger,Coordinator MIRV Author, Beyond Beginning and Other P Against the Draft (Murder Victim Families for Reconciliation) Will D. Campbell Johnny Hunter , MLK Award, Erie County Ecumenical Donald M. Pe ters Author, Civil Rights Leader Council: Spokesperson, Operation Rescue Vioe Chair, New York State Right to Life Party Rachel Cann Lana Jacobs, Companions of Shalom: Karen Swallow Prior, Spokesperson and Organizer Director, Brookline Women's Shelter, Boston Recipient, Manin Luther King Award Spring of Life Rescue, Buffalo. NY Sr. Joan C hittister, OSB Lawrence Martin Jenco, Former Hostage Antonio Ramire7., Editor. Teachers Union Publication Bened~tine Sisters of Erie Timothy Jessen, Moderator Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM Bernhard C lasen, Russian-German Translator Transylvania Presbytery. Presbyterian Church (USA) Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, CA Anti·nuclear Activist, West Gennany Angela Jones, Peace Prisoner of Conscience, Australia Suzanne Schnittman, Ph.D.. Professor of History Dorothy Cotton, Co-worker, Dr. Martin Luther King Dr. M aureen Jones-Ryan, Executive Director and Women's Studies; State Uni versity of New York Harvey Cox, Harvard Divinity School Sexual Assault Recovery Institute, Phoenix Charles J , S haro n, SA His Ho liness The Dalai Lama Lois Y a ke Kenagy Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute 1989 Nobel Peace Laureate Peace & Jusliee Committee, PCC. Mennonite Church Martin Sheen, Actor John Dear, SJ, Author Faye Kunce, Coordinator, Pro-Life I Pro-Peace Challenge Honorable Sargent Shriver Disarming the fleort: Toward a Vow ofNon-violence Randy Loney, Ph.D., Death Penalty Abolitionist Bonnie S hollenberger, Correspondent, Jim & Shelly Douglass, Peace Activists J o Anne Lyons, Professor of Women, Church & Society. The Uving World, News Magazine of the Episcopal Church Patricia Driscoll, Womanity Asbury Methodist Theological Seminary Tom Siemer, Producer. Gods ofMetal Eugenia & Bill Durland Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate Robert Moss Smith, Brandywine Peace Community Founders. Center on Law & Communily Patrick Mahoney, Presbyterian Minister Roberta (Bobbie) Stewart, Lutheran Peace Fellowship Eileen Egan, Ambassador of Peace National Spokesperson, Operation Rescue Gail Grenier Sweet, Editor The Reverend Kathleen Elckwort Etizabeth McAllister and Phillip Berrigan Prolife Femini$m: Different Voices Episcopal Priest, Diocese of W. Michigan Anti-war Activists Ena Synott·Bustra, Self-Determination for East Timor Lowell 0. Erdahl Colman McCarthy, Columnist, The Washington Post Marcia Timmel, Ploughsharer> Activist Bishop, EMMS, Evangelical Lutheran Church Kathleen and James McGinnis Andrew West, Secretary Adolfo Perez Esquivel, 1980 Nobel Peace Laureate Authors, Parenting for Peace and Justice Christian Socialists of Australia Ellen Flanders Anita C. McGlynn, Ans Director, NYC Gordon Zahn, Author Friends Meeting; Trainer. ConOict Resolution Studies A. J, McKnight, CS S p. A Solitary Witness: Tht Lift of Franz Jaegestelter Jim Forest & Nancy Forest-Flier Executive Director. Southern Development Foundation Stephen Zunes, Ph.D., Director. Founders/Director, Peace Media Service, Netherlands Gary Mitche ner, Canon Pastor. Trinity Cathedral Institute for a New Mid East Policy

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F RJENDS J OURNAL September 1994 27 Milestones Births/Adoptions Danz- William Littlefield Danz, on April 22, to Lydia Littlefield and Robert Danz, of South Berkshire (Mass.) Meeting. Newtown, PA 18940 Filbert- Patrick Carl Filbert, on April 2, to Suzy and Bill Filbert, of Baltimore (Md.) Meeting, Stony Run. Lichtner- Mol/y Kate Lichtner, on March II, to Kathy and Frank Lichtner, of Middletown (Pa.) Meeting. Sanders-James P/unke/1 Sanders, on March I, to Maryann Plunkett and Jay 0. Sanders. His grandmother, Phyllis Sanders, is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. Ventura-Rosemary Krome Ventura, on March 22, to Margaret Krome and Steve Ventura, of Madison (Wis.) Meeting. Young-Brian Alexander Young, on January 28, to Asja and David Young, of Madison (Wis.) Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, George School is a co­ Meeting. educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values and includes: Marriages/Unions • Courses on 4levels of challenge • International Baccalaureate (IB) Joyce-Williams- Paul Collins Williams and • Advanced Placement (AP) • International workcamps Virginia S. Joyce, on April 9, at and under the • English as a Second Language (ESL) • Required community service care of Harrisburg (Pa.) Meeting. • Foreign study • Required full-year courses in the arts • 13 interscholastic sports for boys and girls Miller-Ludlam- John M. Ludlam, Jr. and For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 215/579-6547. Carolyn A. Miller, on June 5, 1993, under the care of Third Haven (Md.) Meeting. Szinnyey-Otto--Frederick Lawrence Otto and Katherine Annie Szinnyey, on June 4, in the Friends Meeting of Louisville (Ky.). Deaths Brewer- Nathaniel Brewer, 93, on March 27. Born in Washington, D.C., Nat graduated from the Uni­ versity of Michigan with a degree in engineering. He and his late wife, "Bud" (Hilma Sibray) Brewer, joined Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting in the early 1950s. At the time of hi s death, Nat was Wrightstown Meeting's oldest active member. His engineering skills were utilized in the remodeling ofthe meetinghouse in the 1960s, and his leader­ ship and generous funding helped bring the project to completion in the 1970s. Nat served the meeting as clerk and was a member of committees for First­ day School, Building and Grounds, Trustees, Phila­ delphia Yearly Meeting, Bucks Quarterly Meet­ ing, Buckingham Friends School, and George School. He was one of the founding members and president of Welcome House; an adoption agency started by Pearl Buck, and was president of the Bucks Chapter of the United World Federalists. His quiet, plain phrasing, ready smile, and warm chuckle made him a delightful companion. When moved to speak in worship, his messages were openly received. His second wife, Grace Brewer, died April 6 (see below). He is survived by a daughter, Anne B. Alden. Brewer-Grace Dixon Brewer, 77, on April6, at Chandler Hall, Newtown, Pa., of Alzheimer's dis­ ease. Grace was born in Darby, Pa., and later graduated from Michigan State University. A life­ long music lover, she worked as editor and publi­ cations coordinator for the Bucks County Opera Company. She also served on the board of the Opera Company of Philadelphia. A member of Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting, Grace was active in

28 September 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL ...... •.·· .·· .. the First-day school and at the piano. She was his life. ln 1940 he served in one ofthe early AFSC ; known and loved as a gentle and friendly person. workcamps in Mexico. A conscientious obj ector . • Grace was preceded in death by her husband, during World War II, he participated in Civilian . Nathaniel Brewer. Public Service in New York and Oregon, during .. Evans- W. Frederic Evans, 33, on April 21, of which time he was infected with malaria. Frank 150 complications related to AIDS. Frederic graduated was a close friend of Norman Cousins, and to­ from Swarthmore College in 1982 and continued gether they set up the Hiroshima Maidens project Celebrating 150 years with graduate studies in linguistics at Brown Uni­ in the 1960s. He hosted several maidens in his versity. He worked as an editor and briefly as an home during this time. Frank was an honest man, of dynamic Quaker assistant professor of linguistics at Yale Univer­ and all who knew him drew strength from him. He education. sity. Following a move to Cambridge, Mass., in is remembered for his self-discipline, work ethic, faithfulness to family, sense of humor, and overall 1992, he worked with a non-profit educational (215) 951-2346 company, and in 1993 he was assistant editor of wisdom and guidance. Frank is survived by his Wellspring, a newsletter for people with HIV. Mu­ wife, Carol; his son, Frank L. Hornbrook, Jr.; two sic was very important to Frederic, and he sang and daughters, Erica Hollins and Andrea Benoit; two played several instruments. He directed and sang stepsons, Brian and James Grindey; three step­ Display Ad Deadlines with the Free Grace Undying Love Full Gospel daughters, Eve Overby, Faith Donohue, and Johanna Ojeda; four grandchildren; six Reservations are required for display ads Quaker Choir Sing and be Saved from its inception in FRIENDS JOURNAL. in 1992 until his death. Frederic became a member stepgrandchildren; a brother, William Hornbrook; of Purchase (N.Y.) Meeting while in high school. and two sisters, Sarah Ortwein and Patricia Bond. November issue: Reserve space by He later transferred his membership to Westport Seitner- £/eanor H. Seitner, 69, on May 9, at September 6. Ads must be received by (Mass.) Meeting, and was an attender of Beacon Chandler Hall, Newtown, Pa., after a long illness. September 12. Hill (Mass.) Meeting. Frederic served on the Per­ Born in Maplewood, N.J., Eleanor attended col­ December issue: Reservations by manent Board of New England Yearly Meeting lege in Florida and later worked as a secretary for a October 3. Ads must be received by and the Board of Managers of Beacon Hill Friends circus. She also worked as a librarian at the Ringling October 10. House. From 1982-84 he was co-clerk of North Museum of Art in Sarasota, N.Y. Grace married American Friends for Lesbian and Gay Concerns. Jack E. Seitner in 1961, and the couple lived in Ad rate is $28 per column inch. 15% Throughout his involvement with Friends, Frederic New Mexico before moving to Pennsylvania and discount for 6 or more consecutive was known for his work with children and teenag­ joining Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting in 1970. Eleanor insertions. CaD (215) 241-7279 now for ers in many different youth programs, and for the taught First-day school there for many years. Her your reservation or questions. last two years he served on the support committee outstanding contribution was working with the for the Youth and Education Secretary ofNEYM. Lutheran Family Services when the meeting spon­ Frederic is survived by his partner, Jon Bourgault; sored three Vietnamese families ("boat people") father and stepmother, Fred and Mary Evans; a and three Cambodian refugee fam ilies. She was a brother, David; two stepbrothers, Eric and Jon "shepherdess" in helping these people fi nd homes, Washington, D.C. is Affordable Jadow; an aunt and uncle; and many beloved jobs, and literacy classes, and continued loving at William Penn House friends. contact with the adults and children for years. Enjoy simple lodging on Capitol Hanf--John Valentine Hanf, 77, on April 23, in Many she helped returned to attend her memorial service. Eleanor is survived by her husband, Jack; Hill. A short walk to the Capitol, Reading, Pa. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised in Rahway, N.J., John studied at the Juilliard School a son, Robert Seitner; a daughter, Susan April Supreme Court, Library of Con­ Seitner; a brother, George Hoppe; two nephews; of Music from 1938 to 1941. He then helped or­ gress. Groups welcomed. Breakfast and a niece. ganize the Rahway Symphony Orchestra, where included. he met his wife, Betty Peel. The couple moved to W eil--Char/otte Liebrecht Wei/, 89, on March 24, Pennsylvania in 1950, and John turned to an office in Mill Valley, Calif. Born in Berlin, Germany, to Public Policy Seminars career. He continued his musical activities in dance parents who were both amateur musicians, bands, orchestras, chamber music groups, early Charlotte was playing the piano at the age of eight. Your meeting or school group can music consorts, and as a band director for many She graduated from the Music Conservatory of meet with government officials, lob­ years. John and Betty joined Reading (Pa.) Meet­ Berlin, and, later in life, taught music and played byists, diplomats, activists, and ing in 1960, and became active in Cain Quarter. viola in several symphony orchestras. Charlotte members of Congress to discuss is­ John served as a trustee at Reading Meeting, as married Konrad Liebrecht in 1934, and the couple registrar at Cain's family weekends, and as trea­ lived in Tokyo, Japan, and Honolulu, Hawaii, where sues of concern to you. surer of the quarter. He wrote several arrange­ Konrad was concertmaster of those cities' ments and did musical editing and proofreading philharmonics. Charlotte witnessed the bombing William Penn House work for the 1978 publication, Songs ofthe Spirit. of Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the couple were 515 East Capitol Street SE An advocate of inter-meeting visitation, John trav­ promptly interned. She was introduced to Friends Washington, DC 20003 eled regularly throughout the quarter, sharing the through successful efforts by Quakers to release gifts of music and dance. His ink drawings of them from detention. After the war they moved to (212) 543-5560 several meetinghouses have been used on station­ California, where Konrad died in 1956. Charlotte ery and in publications. He lobbied for a ramp to be joined San Francisco (Calif.) Meeting in 1957, and built at the meetinghouse, not realizing he would served on the Ministry and Oversight and Retreat be the first to use it. Increasing medical handicaps committees. In 1970 she married Paul Weil, whom kept him from traveling during the last few years, she had dated as a young woman in Berlin. The but his interests continued; the trustees brought couple moved to Mill Valley, Calif., where Get things their meetings to his home, and the Friendly Charlotte continued to live after Paul's death in hopping! Handbell Ringers came to play his arrangements 1974. She remained involved with music by teach­ with him. John is survived by his wife of 44 years, ing, playing viola, and hosting musical retreats in Advertise in Elizabeth Hanf; three daughters, Jennifer M. Hanf, her home until the mid-1980s, when osteoporosis Friends Marjorie J. Rausch, and Priscilla L. Hanf; and four limited her mobility. A warm and open person, grandchildren. Charlotte had many life-long friends, correspond­ Journal. ing with some ofthem for 50 or 60 years. Charlotte Hornbrook- Frank L. Hornbrook, Jr., 72, on is survived by her nephew, Andrew Maretzki; and March 13, in Tampa, Fla. A graduate of Earlham College, Frank was associated with Friends all of two grandnephews, Craig and Bryce Maretzki.

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Shared living and meal arrange­ Fax: (215) 568-1377 program, highlighting coalition work and consultations ments in historic Friends Meetinghouse in Chicago. Ideal with congressional staff, and emphasizes the important for Friends new to Chicago. Write or call: Program Direc­ role of religious groups in this work. Includes discussion tors, Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, of the Native American Free Exercise of Religion Act. 15 IL 60637. (312) 288-3066. Accommodations min. $22.50 ea. FCNL, Dept. FJ, 245 Second Street NE, Washington, DC 20002. Friends Southwest Center. Reasonable guest accom­ Study vacations for the socially concerned modations. R.V. facilities also available. Mild climate at Tour Guatemalan precolumbian, colonial, and contem­ 4,200 ft. altitude in southeastern Arizona. Convenient to porary communities 11/29-12/10194, 217-18195, 4/8-17/ Coronado National Forest and Mexico. Please write Rt.t Books and Publications 95 with Quaker educator, Robert Hinshaw-30 years Box 170, McNeal, AZ 85617. research/service among Mayan Indians. Islam, Peace & Nonviolence, special issue of Fellow­ In 1995 to Sweden/Finland in July, Nova Scotia in Sep­ Ecumenical Christ-Ian Community. Grand Traverse re­ ship magazine, explores rich tradition that counters tember. and S.E. Asia in October. For travel with an gion of NW lower Michigan. Short- and long-term ignorance and prejudice. $3.50. Fellowship, Box 271, anthropological focus, write Hinshaw Tours, Box 412, residential facilities are available. Inquiries are invited. Nyack, NY 10960. Allenspark, CO 80510. (303) 499-1699. Facilities include complete conference and retreat re­ sources, complete woodworking shop, blacksmithing and Fall 1993 Catalogue of Quaker Books free upon re­ Consider a Costa Rican study tour. February 2-13, weaving workshops, artisan gallery, barns. greenhouse, quest from Friends General Conference Bookstore, 1216 1995. Call or write Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey, 1182 large plant research and propagation areas. gardens, Arch Street 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107; or call (800) Hornbeam Road, Sabina, OH 45169. Phone: (513) 584- agricultural fields, and residences. An active Friends 966-4556. Come visit us when in Philadelphia, Monday­ 2900. meeting and meetinghouse/chapel is on site. Present Friday, 9-5. efforts include retreat programs focused on the evolve­ ment of human spiritual potential and conferences in The British Quaker Socialist Society was formed about Performing Arts sustainable agroforestry and agriculture. Please write 80 years ago as an alternative to status quo capitalism. It FRIENDS, 1021 Doerr Road, Mancelona, Michigan 49659, Music for all occasions-Weddings. parties, teas, holi­ continues to be moderately active in London, with a day events, business functions. Recorder/flute, classical and tell us about your missions and visions. Year around newsletter three or four times a year. Quaker socialism is visits are generally welcomed with advance invitation. guitar, celtic harp-solo, duo, trio. (609) 858-9374, (609) promoting worker-owned cooperatives, community shar­ 795-8772. Frenchtown, N.J., B&B. Along the Delaware River. A ing, and simple living, as envisaged by E. F. Schumacher. victorian inn with contemporary comfort. Getaways, anni­ Some people believe there is no longer a need for social­ versaries, intimate weddings, business, and relocation ist ideals, but poverty continues to increase. The need for Personals stays. Full breakfast menu. Seven guest suites with social change continues, but many Americans don't seem Seeking Quakers In Brasilia, Brazil. We will arrive mid­ private baths, period furnishings. $11 Q-$145/double, week­ to care. Social inventions are a rare way to improve the September 1994 for 3-year assignment. Before August day rates available. The Hunterdon House, (800) human condition. National parks, social security, and th e 15, contact Barbara Platt, 3011 Crest Avenue, Cheverly, 382-0375, (908) 996-3632. United Nations are social inventions, because they help all of the people. Now, Americans have no national issue MD 20785, (301) 386-3319. After September 15, contact Quaker House, Managua, Nicaragua. Simple hospitality; that we can support (or oppose). But there is a need for Barb, or John Butler, c/o WWF, SHIS EQ QL 6/8, Conjunto shared kitchen. Reservations: 011-505-2-663216 (Span­ enlightenment about a better world. Life can be better, if E-2 andar, 721620-430 Brasilia. (061) 577-2992 ish) or 011-505-2-660984 (English). ways can be found to affect beliefs in peace and justice. Single Booklovers, a national group, has been getting Washington, D.C., sojourners welcome in Friends' home Life on earth will not get better without a lot of true unattached booklovers together since 1970. Please write in pleasant suburbs nearby. By day, week, or month. For believers. Quaker socialism can answer only a few of the Box 117, Gradyville, PA 19039, or call (215) 358-5049. details call: (301) 270-5258. important questions of our time. But it can point the way Classical Music Lovers' Exchange-Nationwide link towards a simpler, freer lifestyle. If you are interested in A homely base In the heart of London? Short-, me­ between unattached music lovers. 1 (800) 233-CMLS; receiving Ron Huzzard's essay, "Quaker Socialist Tradi­ dium-, and long-term accommodation available with Box 31 , Pelham, NY 10803. excellent meals. Also meeting rooms for workshops, lec­ tion", please send a 29¢ stamp to: Tom Todd, 3713 West Main, Kalamazoo, Ml 49006-2842. tures, and conferences. Contact: Quaker International Concerned Singles Newsletter links compatible, socially Centre, 1 Byng Place, London WCt E 7JH. Tel: 071-387- Books-Quaker spiritual classics, history, biography, conscious singles concerned about peace, social jus­ 5648; fax: 071-383-3722. and current Quaker experience, published by Friends tice, gender equity, and the environment. Nationwide. All Peaks Island, Portland, Maine, B&B. Water-view sum­ United Press, 101-A Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, IN 47374. ages. Since 1984. Free sample: Box 555-F, Stockbridge, mer home, 15 min. ferry, wooded lane, beach 300 feet; Write for free catalogue. MA01262. complete island variety living. $45 single, $65 double. Free. Steps Toward Inner Peace, by Peace Pilgrim. Write: Berry: (813) 995-1234; (207) 766-3366. Friends of Peace Pilgrim, 43480 Cedar Ave., Hemet, CA 92544. Big Island, Hawaii, Friends invite you into their homes Positions Vacant for mutual Quaker sharing. Donations. HC1, Box 21-0, Captain Cook, Hawaii 96704; (808) 328-8711 , 325-7323, Quaker Books. Rare and out-of-print, journals, memori­ Field Organizer-Rural Southern Voice for Peace. Ini­ or 322-3116. als, histories, inspirational. Send for free catalogue or tiate & conduct trainings & grassroots organizing. Some specific wants. Vintage Books, 181 Hayden Rowe St., promotion and fund raising. Computer literacy. 'Simple London? Stay at the Penn Club, Bedford Place, London Hopkinton, MA 01748. living' salary. 20-30 hours /week. Letter, resume, three WC1 B 5JH. Friendly atmosphere. Central for Friends references: Job Search, 1898 Hannah Branch Road, House, West End, concerts, theater, British Museum, Burnsville, NC 28714. university, and excursions. Telephone: 071-636-4718. For Sale University Friends Meeting has an opening, beginning Mexico City Friends Center. Reasonable accommoda­ in September 1994, for a half-time position as Quaker Candles, handrolled beeswax, 8"-75 cents, 5"-50 cents. tions. Reservations recommended. Casa de los Amigos, Center Resident. Responsible for providing a Friendly S & H-$2.50 per order. Over $20 add 15% of total order. Ignacio Mariscal 132, 06030 Mexico D.F. 705-0521 . presence and hospitality at Quaker House. Interacts with Check or money order to: Spartina Studios, 429 Fir Ridge various Meeting committees on upkeep and manage­ NYC-Greenwich VIllage Accommodation. Walk to 15th Lane, Beaufort, NC 28516. Street Meeting. One-four people; children welcome. (Two ment of Quaker House. Includes some program cats in house.) Reservations: (212) 924-6520. Mid-coast Maine. A very special place near the ocean. development. Applicants should be familiar and comfort- · Old cape carefully and tastefully restored. Four bed­ able with Quaker values and beliefs. Independence and Looking for a creative living alternative in New York rooms, three full baths, spacious remodeled kitchen; initiative essential. Compensation includes housing, health City? Penington Friends House may be the place for you! opens onto screened porch with patio doors. Large at­ insurance, and salary. Individuals or couples may apply We are looking for people of all ages who want to make a tached barn/garage. Fourteen acres, open fields and to: Personnel Committee, c/o University Friends Meeting, serious commitment to a community lifestyle based on woods, sunset views. Excellent water from driven well. 4001 9th Avenue, NE, Seattle, WA 98105. Open until Quaker principles. For inform ation call (212) 673-1730. $195K Bartram Cadbury (207) 354-6074. filled. For more information call Nancy Helm at (206) 781- We also have overnight accommodations. 4863. Case Heberto Seln Friends Center. Reasonable ac­ Opportunities Seeking Personal Assistant Elder Quaker couple seek commodations. Reservations. Asociacion Sonorense de strong, kind individual or couple for personal ass1slance los Amigos, Felipe Salido 32, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Adoption opportunity. 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This top-level management posi­ tion will be responsible for standards of care and program West development for community mental health centers in Newton, Marion, anc! McPherson; outpatient services in Friends Homes West, the new continuing care retire­ Wichita; and a 60-bed psychiatric hospital and partial ment community in Greensboro, North Carolina, is now Marriage certificates, Birth announcements, Invitations, hospital located on a 70-acre campus at the edge of open. Friends Homes West is owned by Friends Homes, etc. Do justice to your event with our calligraphy and Newton. Prairie View was established in 1954 by the Inc., specialists in retirement living since 1968. Friends award-winning graphic design. Call (800) 763-0053 or Mennonite churches and is guided by a strong tradition of Homes West includes 171 apartments for independent Fax (610) 692-3394. Christian caring. Submit cover letter and resume to Melvin living and on-site heallh care services in the 28 private Goering, CEO, Prairie View, Inc., P.O.Box 467, Newton, rooms of the Assisted Living Un~ or the 40 private rooms Loans are available for building or improving Friends KS 67114-0467. of the Skilled Care Nursing Un~ . Enjoy a beautiful com­ meetinghouses, schools, and related facilities. We are munity in a location with temperate winters and changing Urgently seeking a psyc hiatrist for a 20-bed, in-pi unit Friends helping Friends to grow! For information contact seasons. For more information, please call (910) 292- for adults in Southeastern Kentucky that is located within Margaret Bennington, Friends Extension Corporation, 101 9952 or write: Friends Homes West, 6100 West Friendly Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. Phone: (317) a community med-surg hospital. Situated in the foothills Road, Greensboro, NC 27410. of the Appalachians, the unit serves a population of 962-7573. (Affiliated with Friends United Meeting.) approximately 150,000. Entering its fourth year of serv­ ice, the unit is currently staffed by one psychiatrist, and Foxdale VIllage, a Quaker life-care community. Buying or selling a home in Montgomery Co., Bucks strives to meet a growing and desperate need. Managed Thoughtfully designed cottages complemented by attrac­ Co., or Philadelphia area? Call Fran Oldynski of John N. tive dining facilities, auditorium, library, and full medical by Specialized Hospital Programs, the hospital is a part Weiss, Inc. Realtors, at (215) 37~2002 (0) or (215) 745- of the Appalachian Regional Healthcare Organization, a protection. Setting is a wonderful combination of rural 7061 (H). Fifteen years experience. Member Abington not-for-profit group serving the Appalachian people in and university environment. Entry fees from Monthly Meeting. Ky., W.V., and Va. Competitive salary and excellent $38,000-$134,000; monthly fees from $1,165--$2,140. benefits. 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Among academic classes, challenging outdoor experiences, com­ munity service, consensus decision-making, daily work Celo Valley Books: personal attention; intelligent typ­ ~s strengths are its diverse population and its urban projects in a small, caring, community environment. Arthur ing; professional copyediting; 600 dpi camera-ready copy; location. The school seeks candidates with a compatible book production (50 copies or more). One percent to educational philosophy and values. This could include Morgan School, 1901 Hannah Branch Road, Burnsville, NC 28714; (704) 675-4262. charity. 346 Seven Mile Ridge Road, Burnsville, NC candidates from private or public schools with successful 28714. leadership in strengthening educational programs and creating alliances to expand programs. Ideal candidates Olney Friends School. A safe, caring, value-centered, have budgetary and development experience. Please educational community for students in grades 9-12. A General Contractor. Repairs or alterations on old or historical buildings. Storm and fire damage restored. send a letter describing your experience, and a resume, college preparatory curriculum emphasizing a belief in John File, 1147 Bloomdale Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19115. to: Gilvar & Associates, 29 Concord Sq., Boston, MA the individual and his/her own abilities makes Olney a 02118. positive environment in which to live and learn. 61830 (215) 464-2207. Sandy Ridge Road, Barnesville, OH 43713. Phone: (614) Service community, lnnlsfree Village. Volunteers live 425-3655. Forum Travel and work with adults with mental disabilities on a farm in United Friends School: coed; K-6; emphasizing inte­ Quaker-owned-and-managed travel agency. Friendly, experienced service; the Blue Ridge Mountains. Must be 21, able to stay one grated, developmentally appropriate curriculum, including • year. Receive room, board, medical benefits, and $160/ whole language and manipulative math; serving upper • domestic and international; overnight de­ month. Recruiting, lnnisfree, Rte. 2, Box 506, Crozet, VA Bucks County. 20 South 10th Street, Quakertown, PA livery. (800) 888-4099. 22932. 18951. (215) 538-1733. A value-centered school for elementary students with Quaker Universalist Fellowship is a fellowship of seek­ Positions Wanted learning differences. Small, remedial classes, qualified ers wishing to enrich and expand Friends' perspectives. staff, serving Philadelphia and northern suburbs. The We meet, publish, and correspond to share thoughts, Compassionate man, 33, certified social studies teacher, Quaker School at Horsham, 318 Meeting House Road, insights, and information. We seek to follow the promptings song writer, organic gardener, environmental educator/ Horsham, PA 19044. (215) 674-2875. of the Spirit. Inquiries welcome! Write QUF, Box 201 RD naturalist seeks a fulfilling position. Excellent references. 1, Landenberg, PA 19350. Any ideas? Please leave message for Eddy at (800) 525- Stratford Friends School provides a strong academic 2172 (9-5 Eastern time). program in a warm, supportive, ungraded setting for Wedding Certificates, birth testimonials, poetry, gifts all children ages 5 to 13 who learn differently. Small classes done in beautiful calligraphy and watercolor Illuminati on. and an enriched curriculum answer the needs of the Book early for spring weddings. Write or call Leslie Rentals & Retreats whole child. An at-risk program for five-year-olds is avail­ Mitchell, 2840 Bristol Rd., Bensalem, PA 19020. (215) A Friendly Maul vacation on a Quaker Family Organic able. The school also offers an after-school reading 752-5554. Farm, 20 minutes to most beaches. New building of stone program, extended day, tutoring, and summer school. and cedar with large octagonal room skylight 300 degree Information: Stratford Frie·nds School, 5 Llandillo Road, Socially Responsible Investing Havertown, PA 19083. (610) 446-3144. ocean view, walk-in closet, beautifully furnished bedroom Using client-specified social cr~eria , I screen invest­ and tile bath. Use of organic garden and studio shop, John Woolman School. Rural California, grades 9-12. ments. I use a financial planning approach to portfolio including outdoor shower and hot tub, if desired. Bed & Preparation for college and adulthood, small classes, management by identifying individual objectives and de­ breakfast $70 per day-weekly and monthly rates avail­ caring staff, work program, service projects; board, day. signing an investment strategy. I work with individuals able. Write or call: Wm. & Henrietta Vitarelli, 160 Kawelo 13075 Woolman Lane, Nevada City, CA 95959. (916) and business'. 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