February 1994 -Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today

War Tax Resistance Family Day at an Anns Fair Spirit-Led Listening

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Editor-Manager Vinton Deming Steady Drops Assistant Editor Timothy Drake y mail slot at home tells me it's that time again. The forms and booklets Art Director Barbara Benton and bank statements have arrived. I begin to look at my calendar to set Advertising Manager M aside a weekend when I may begin again the unpleasant task and gear up Catherine Frost to meet the dreaded deadline. How is it possible, I ask myself, that another year has Circulation and Promotion Nagendran Gulendran passed and I must start the painful process all over again? Production Assistant The date I have in mind, of course, is the one we've all grown accustomed to, Kenneth Sutton April15. And the agonizing question is the same for us each year: Should I Trivia Specialist Edward Sargent willingly pay my taxes when our government continues to use such a large portion Bookkeeper for military purposes? James Neveil For many years I sought ways to protest. I started by submitting a letter with my Volunteers Jane Burgess, Emily Conlon, Marguerite Clark, 1040 objecting to the large sums going to the Pentagon and the neglect of other Gwen Neveil, Robert Sutton needed programs. No one responded. At other times I requested a refund so I might Board of Managers send a sum to a human service program not being adequately funded. Nice idea, I 1991-1994: Frank Bjornsgaard, Emily Conlon, Sam Legg (Clerk,), Parry Jones, Richard Moses thought, but IRS didn't think so. One year they told me the request was "frivolous," (Treasurer), Harry Scott, Larry Spears, Robert Sutton, Carolyn Terrell and they tried to penalize me for asking. My lawyer got them to drop the matter. 1992-1995: Phoebe Cottingham, Richard Eldridge Then about 15 years ago I stopped filing a tax return altogether, choosing instead to (Assistant Clerk), Deborah Fisch, Kitty Harrison, Bernard Haviland, Paul Jolly, Eric Larson, Mary write a letter to the president explaining why I was not willing as a Friend to pay for Mangelsdorf, Margery Rubin, David Samuel, things like B-1 bombers, cruise missiles, or Star Wars. Carolyn Sprogell, Wilmer Tjossem, Alice Wiser The latter approach clearly got the attention of IRS officials. Suddenly I was (Secretary) 1993-1996: Marguerite Clark, Lee Neff, "playing in the big leagues." The government took me to court on two occasions Mary Ellen Singsen and threatened to do the same to my present employer unless my back taxes, Honorary Managers Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Mildred BinnsYoung interest, and penalties were paid at once (FJ May 1992). Reluctantly, and after FRIENDS JOURNA L(ISSN 0016-1322) was much soul searching, the JouRNAL agreed to pay. I released them to do so, being established in 1955 as the successor to The convinced we had resisted as long as we could and had explored all legal means. Friend (1827-1955) and Friends lntelligencer (1844-1955). It is associated with the Religious Friends rallied to support us with financial gifts to help pay the large debt. In Society of Friends. December 1993 I made my last monthly payment to the JouRNAL. • FRIENDS JOURNALi s published monthly by I continue to struggle with IRS on this matter, which dates back to my tax Friends Publishing Corporation, 150 I Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. Telephone (215) resistance of the 1980s. The government disagreed with our math for what we 241-7277. Accepted as second-class postage at believed was actually owed in back taxes. 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Features Departments 7 Spirit-led Listening 2 Among Friends Margery M. Larrabee Deep listening opens the way to new understanding and 4 Forum awareness. 28 Reports 9 Follow God's Will 29 Nonsense of the David Shen When dealing with taxes, one Friend goes with God's flow. Meeting 10 A Doctor's Peace Testimony 30 QUNONotes Susan Van Haitsma 31 News of Friends An interview with Friend, physician, and tax resister Paula Rogge. 32 Bulletin Board 13 Fnlits of a Leading 32 Calendar Perry Treadwell Faithfulness to a 20-year leading yields its own harvest. 34 Books 14 As Long as We Both Shall Live 38 Milestones Debra Kolodny and Betty Renshaw 40 Classified One meeting's path to a same-gender marriage minute. 16 A Welcome for Michael 42 Meetings Susanna Thomas A new baby is officially welcomed into the meeting. Poetry 18 The Orange House Crisis Edward Borgers 8 February at the A meeting reaches out and discovers it has much to offer. Quaker Graveyard 20 "Nothing Is Impossible" in Haverford, Pam (Jeffery) Barratt Pennsylvania Bolivian Quakers' faith in action is making a difference. Andy Shanken 24 Quaker Crostic 26 Lost Children: Family Day at an Arms Fair A. Robert Smith Unaccustomed to peace, the U.S. psyche still includes outdated notions ofnational security and the military as a part oflife .

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FRIENDS JOURNAL February 1994 3 Forum

Showing a commitment The mystical experience patience. When found and followed, it will Phillips P. Moulton says, in his article In H. Otto Dahlke's article ("Welcome bring a more satisfactory solution than on the Third World Kairos Documents (FJ to the Darkness," FJ Oct. 1993), he mere consensus. It may be difficult to know when divine guidance has been found and Oct. 1993), "The convictions expressed in mentions the "excess of spirit" which led to the South African document, and in the one of the experiences of early Friends, that followed. The letter from Esther Greenleaf Murer others as well, are very close to those of of quaking. Another physical manifestation rightly states that unanimity is not required. pacifists. Only when strictly nonviolent of the Holy Spirit is reported by Rufus It says that a Friend who "stands in the methods are perceived to havefailed do the Jones. After an automobile accident, he felt signatories approve ofresorting to violence he had moved to a new level of life due to a way," i.e., does not agree with the decision, should be "teachable," by which she seems that involves killing" (emphasis is mine). spiritual and physical revitalization. He It struck me, because I don't think a referred to this experience when he wrote, to mean this Friend should eventually person can really be nonviolent if one has "There is a type of organic mysticism realize the decision was right. Daniel Pastorius, in 1688, presented a in mind that one can resort to violence if which is much more common than highly petition against slavery to Philadelphia nonviolence does not work, any more than conscious mysticism is" (from Friend of Yearly Meeting, which promptly rejected one can really be committed to marriage if Life by Elizabeth Gray Vining, p. 250). it. During Pastorius's lifetime, which ended one has in the back of one's mind that one Historical documentation exists in in 1720, the yearly meeting continued to can always get a divorce if it does not work Friends literature and elsewhere regarding accept slavery, a position I believe out as one expected or hoped. the physical effects on the human body as a Pastorius never accepted. I have result of the mystical experience. Were the Jane Morgan occasionally been a lone or almost lone first Quakers persecuted as much for what Yellow Springs, Ohio dissenter from a decision by my monthly they experienced through their bodies as meeting, but I did not regard the matter they were for the words they spoke? They Stop funding SOA were jailed, burned at the stake for vital enough for me to hinder the decision. witchcraft, and hanged. Today many I hope that on a really vital subject (such as Cheers for the November 1993 FRIENDS Friends and others who experience "excess the Friends peace testimony), divine JouRNAL. It's splendid! Peg Morton's article of spirit" are diagnosed as having bipolar guidance will make me, as well as other on Guatemalan refugees was especially Friends, "teachable." disorder (manic depression) or good. I was glad to note her challenge: schizophrenia; they may be confined in . Ralph H. Pickett "Let's join the nationwide effort to close mental institutions, heavily medicated with Lima, Pa. the School of the Americas" (SOA) and to toxic drugs, and suffer brain damage due to learn about Pro-Nica, the project supported electroshock. The methods are different by Southeastern Yearly Meeting, which can from the early days, but the goal is the Support for resisters supply information on Friends' efforts to same: to maintain control over those who I do not think Quaker work is done close the SOA. may have experienced a greater source of when our money, today, is put to work The School of the Americas indeed power. In the 1600s, through fear and killing people in the new, high-tech should be closed. Our tax dollars shouldn't ignorance, society condoned this goal and military. In this light, a query for all Quaker be funding a school for terrorists. accepted the methods used. Today we do organizations: If there are Friends willing to According to the United Nations Truth the same. risk prison and all they own for principles Commission, SOA graduates were It is time we paid attention to the energy espoused (at least historically) by the involved in the murders of six Jesuit behind the mystical experience and do so in Religious Society of Friends, what will priests, four U.S. church women, and the context of our 300-year-old spiritual Quaker organizations do to support them? hundreds oflittle children and other history as Quakers. As we look at this At the very least, monthly and yearly defenseless civilians in El Mozote, El phenomenon, our knowledge concerning meetings should reinstitute or reactivate Salvador. And those are just some ofthe mysticism will expand into other eras and committees for sufferings to document and more widely known crimes com!J1itted by other cultures, and we will see the rise of affirm individual acts of conscience which SOA-trained soldiers. the Quaker religion in the context of the accord with Quaker principles. Funding the SOA is expensive as well evolving nature of human beings. I would urge much more. Let us not let as wrong. Wouldn't it be great if our our institutions become more important government closed the school and gave the than the conscience of people in them. We money to Head Start? For once Head Start Jean Roberts can always build another institution. Let could be fully funded! Sultan, Wash. our institutions lead us in principled stands. My meeting recently learned about a Let them set examples for us. Force the IRS project called SOA Action, which is to come in physically, using the violence sponsored by San Jose Friends (their Friends decision-making they command, to seize what they say is address is SOA Action, 1051 Morse St., I would like to comment on two letters the state's. Do this out of principle, but also San Jose, CA 95126). We wrote to them in the October 1993 Forum on Friends' to educate the public and Congress that and just today received a packet of method of making group decisions. John there is not religious freedom, that we've excellent information which will help us as Zakelj calls it a "consensus process." But legislated and adjudicated away the First we urge Congress to close the SOA. often what is called a consensus is a Amendment so that now one is only free to Millions of U.S. tax dollars each year compromise in which each of the believe-not to act on one's deepest beliefs can be used for good and not for evil if only disagreeing sides gives up part of what it in any way. Let the mainstream churches we can persuade our Congress to stop had hoped to gain. The letter does not see by our experience what this means for funding the SOA. Friends, let's do it! mention divine guidance. I believe it is them- that a future hostile government has mentioned in most yearly meetings' Faith precedent to forbid them to meet and Marjorie T. Schier and Practice. Divine guidance is sought worship--so that they will come to defend L((vittown, Pa. and found through silence, prayer, and our common rights.

4 February 1994 FRJENDS JouRNAL Do this, and I have faith the Religious Hospital attempts to reach out to those who Now, my region surely is not the buckle Society of Friends will once again grow, are hesitant to seek help. Depression of the Bible belt, but only a slim thread. But not diminish. Willing money will support screenings, community lectures, and I wish my visitor had asked if I had been publications and organizations that have hospital events and tours are all efforts to "born again." I would have loved to tell her their assets seized because they support the make individuals suffering from a mental the story of the old New England Unitarian conscience of their members and staff. illness feel they are not alone. who was asked that question by a pesky We will grow because we will become a Friends Hospital sometimes uses the evangelist, and responded without missing vital organization instead of an organization slogan "Friends can help." The play on a beat, "No, I was born right the first time." of vital people. words can apply not only to the hospital, I try to be understanding. There is much Errol Hess but to concerned individuals. Reach out to I can learn from these new neighbors. I try Bristol, Tenn. those who seem withdrawn, depressed, or · to remember the Quaker ethic to look for significantly changed. Be willing to help that of God in everyone. I acknowledge that Friends can help another find professional help. The concern she takes her faith seriously, studies the of Friends, along with professional Bible, and even teaches her children at I read with interest and empathy Anne's treatment, was key to Anne's recovery. home because the public schools do not article, "Darkness and Beyond" (FJ Dec. express her values. 1993), about her battle with mental illness. William M. Uffner The trouble is that there is an arrogance I think it is important to note that the Philadelphia, Pa. about her that disturbs me, and with which Society of Friends has shown concern for I admit having a hard time. I don't know­ the mentally ill since 1671 , when George there's something about that arrogance that Fox suggested that Friends "seek a place Born again? strikes me, well, as downright unChristian. wherein persons distracted or troubled of "Around here, there're more Baptists To be quite honest, I am not sure how this mind could seek refuge." This regard was than people!" woman might have dealt with a darker­ evidenced when William Tuke built The These were the words of Bill Moyers skinned Jesus hanging around with Retreat in York, England, in 1796 and about his small hometown in Texas. prostitutes, fishermen, and tax collectors, when Philadelphia Yearly Meeting founded Having just moved to central Ohio, I now not owning a home, talking about the poor Friends Hospital, devoted to the care of understand what he meant. The first born­ in spirit and God's love for all humanity. "persons deprived of the use of their again Christian came to my door a few Would she deny him, as she does me, my reason." days after we moved in. My new neighbor Universalism? Friends Hospital and The Retreat were arrived with some bread and these first Yes, sister, God loves us. But can you? important leaders of what has been called words: "Aren't you a new pastor?" the "moral revolution" in psychiatric care. I tried to be polite, but she persisted in John Morgan Unlike other 18th century mental finding out my religious persuasion-a Westerville, Ohio institutions where cruelty and inhumanity way, I suspect, of assessing my suitability were common, these institutions as a neighbor. I wanted to remind her of the Appreciates the contact emphasized that there is that of God in admonition of Jesus that a neighbor is For seven months last year my husband every person and that each patient­ simply a person in need-not one who and I were volunteers at Sheldon Jackson regardless of religion, race, degree of shares your dogma. But at the mere College, a small Presbyterian-related illness, or economic circumstances- is mention of the words Unitarian college in Sitka, Alaska. We are retired, treated with respect, kindness, and dignity. Universalist, her whole demeanor changed, fairly active, and enjoy the stimulating For 180 years Friends Hospital has been and she grabbed the door handle to make a atmosphere of this location in southeast providing a full range of therapeutic quick exit, exclaiming, "Well, we're all Alaska. Our room and board is provided by services to patients in need, while God's children." "Does that include me?" I the college; my husband works in remaining faithful to the basic tenets of our asked, knowing full well it did not. She maintenance and I work in the child care Quaker founders. We know that 29 million hurled a few biblical passages at my heart, center connected with the college. in our country suffer from mental illness, but I dodged and threw back a few of my In Sitka, many people use boats for yet less than 20 percent seek help. Friends own. fishing either as a livelihood or as an avocation. In summer months, cruise ships often stop, and the Russian history attracts visitors from many places. Each month when FRIENDS JOURNAL arrives it satisfies my need for contact with Quakers, since there is no local meeting here. Sometimes I think FRIENDS JouRNAL is sort of an anachronism when it's stacked next to today's newspaper or the weekly news magazines. But I consistently feel comforted knowing it will arrive again each month and inspire argument or agreement from me. I appreciate your publication whether I'm in the small town of Sitka (about 8,000 people) or back home in San Jose, Calif. (about 800,000).

Julia Holtzinger A turn-of-the-century view of Friends Hospital San Jose, Calif.

FRIENDS JOURNAL February 1994 5 Self-determination for Haiti subject and the focus on inclusion of focus on this ancient problem, which is offenders. currently being attacked with ferocious In the fall I was in Haiti with Cry for I suggest that Friends should first look at emphasis upon criminalization. Mass Justice, a nonviolent presence. We were what can be done to support sur.vivors of media connotes that the severity of struck by the level of violence, pervasive sexual violence, prevent further violations, punishment deters crime. Much evidence terror, and grinding poverty. At least 4,000 educate Friends communities, and only suggests that extremely strong probabilities people have been killed since the coup. then explore appropriate ways to include of punishment deter crime, but that severity President Aristide and countless other offenders. Otherwise, offenders remain in of punishment is almost irrelevant when Haitians have had to remain in exile, and the position of power. most violators are not severely punished. thousands, including public officials, are Focusing on how to make offenders Most sexual child abuse has been covered hiding within the country. The United welcome is likely to make survivors of up and will continue to be covered up no States continues the evil policy of returning abuse feel excluded. If the meeting is not a matter how large the budget of the child those who flee from the repression. safe place, it is unlikely that survivors will abuse police force. Because of the The seeds of what is happening were disclose the truth, and they may leave contagion between generations, adequate sown in 1914, when U.S. political leaders without ever saying why. "Safe" means that and prompt therapy for both victim and wanted to build a financial empire as well support and protection of all survivors is of aggressor is helpful in minimizing sexual as take over Haiti's control of the primary importance within the meeting, and abuse. However, complete abolition of Windward Passage to guarantee access to inclusion of the offender secondary. child sexual abuse should be recognized as the Panama Canal. U.S. firms used their Offenders have needs, too, but it may not an unattainable goal. control of Haiti's national bank to prevent be possible to meet both. Dozens of falsely accused humans are release of revenues to the government, thus Sexual abuse is a unique form of languishing in jail because of the current crippling it. In 1915, U.S. troops invaded violence. It is such an absolute violation of fad ofexpediting criminal prosecutions. Haiti and forced a treaty giving us virtual trust at the core of an individual's being Scores of families are disrupted because control over the country. Franklin D. that it is akin to soul murder. Most often, middle-aged women have been stimulated Roosevelt, then assistant secretary of the sexual offenders were known and trusted by therapists to falsely accuse their fathers navy, drafted a constitution that would by their victims. Offenders are usually in of statutory rape, even though dozens of allow foreigners to own land. The Haitian positions of authority and power; bigger, psychiatrists dispute the theory that Congress refused to ratify it and was stronger, older, and supported by the memory of rape can be suppressed for dissolved. The constitution was "ratified" community. The imbalance of power that decades. Hundreds of victims of incest by by a "vote" controlled by U.S. marines. exists between perpetrators and their siblings have achieved normal sex lives as They withdrew in 1934 after a brutal victims is often what allowed the crime to adults. Quakers may have as high a occupation, having trained and equipped an occur and remain secret. percentage of sexual abuse as the .. army that would continue to protect our How should a meeting respond to Methodists, but both need to seek spmtual interests. murderers-soul murderers? I'm not sure I discernment rather than being distorted by When Aristide was elected president in believe reconciliation is possible. Many the sensationalist journalism about sexual 1990, most assembly plants in Haiti were survivors may prefer separation. However, abuse that inundates mass media. owned by U.S. companies. Some were I believe there is healing available to both paying workers only 14 cents an hour. parties through a private intervention John Ewbank Aristide worked to halt the drug trade and process managed by an experienced sexual Southampton, Pa. to make economic reforms, including abuse healing professional. The survivor raising the minimum wage. It seems clear gets to confront the offender, expressing the that U . S.~based transnationals and our pain and side effects of the violation. The All are welcome government do not want Aristide to return offender has the opportunity to apologize, As of Tenth Month 1993, our meeting because they want to control Haiti's show remorse, and offer restitution. This has begun meeting at the Binghamton, economy. It is important to note that the can only happen when the power imbalance N.Y., YWCA at 10:30 a.m. each First Day. current U.S. secretary of commerce is corrected and the survivor is supported We welcome Friends to join us whenever represented the Duvalier dictatorship in the and protected from further victimization. In they are in the area. In some ways, this is a early '80s, and Duvalier's supporters have my opinion, this approach is the only way return home, since we met at this location been returning to Haiti. to heal the fragmentation caused by sexual years ago. Mail may be addressed to Let us call on President Clinton to begin violence. Binghamton Community Friends Meeting, supporting self-determination for Haiti. We For more information, I suggest the c/o YWCA, 80 Hawleg St., Binghamton, can urge Congress to join Rep. Joseph Lear 's magazine series, "Incest: A Chilling NY 13901. Kennedy in calling for investigations into Report." It has received awards for its Larry Jones, clerk the CIA's support for Haitian regimes, completeness and accuracy, and been used including its use ofdisinformation (lies) to educate people who work with sexual and its involvement with drug traffickers. FRIENDS JouRNAL welcomes Forum con­ abuse survivors and offenders. tributions. Please try to be brief so we may include as many as possible. Limit Joan H. Nicholson Mary Tadlock New York, N.Y. letters to 300 words, Viewpoint to 1,000 Raleigh, N.C. words. Addresses are omitted to main­ tain the authors' privacy; those wishing Efforts to minimize sexual abuse of to correspond directly with authors may Sexual abuse children can be noted in almost all send letters to FRIENDS JOURNAL to be I applaud your addressing the issue of centuries and cultures, but are also among forwarded. Authors' names are not to sexual abuse (FJNov. 1993). However, as the most baffling problems with which be used for personal or organizational a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, I am humanity struggles. Unfortunately, recent solicitation. -Eds. disturbed by the simple treatment of the decades have seen a skyrocketing of media

6 February 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL Spirit-led 've just returned from a belief for my life. And weekend away, with as I spoke he would peri­ I other Quakers, looking odically mutter as though at issues around leadership. incredulous. "You really As we shared our stories believe that. .. ? You re­ and experiences, there was ally believe that. .. ?" one story I was encouraged "Yes, I believe with my to tell on paper. whole being," and I told In our meeting for wor- some ofmy stories. I also ship we often have an attendance ofabout by Margery M. Larrabee· explained that I believed and respected 100. Of the numerous regular attenders, the importance of his choosing his own there was one who had the felt mission to beliefs that might well be different from prescribe a non-theistic approach to life. Mostly we listened. We accepted and we mine. His beliefs sounded in line with As a scientist he could prove there was understood. those of some Quaker Universalists. But no God, and he waxed eloquently to con­ At one point I asked if he would like it was important that we accept each vince the assembled meeting for worship to hear what each of us as a Quaker other's spiritual journey and not invali­ of the same. believed. He wasn't ready to do that. So date it. Initially his messages were absorbed we listened some more. The hour got He abruptly decided to leave with a by the overall spirit of the meeting, and late. The other Friends had to leave. sense of "Well, that's it." I agreed we sank into the silence. Soon he applied for I encouraged the ahender to stay, ex­ had gone as far as we could. Before the membership. As clerk of Overseers at plaining that I didn't have a sense of week was out and before the next Over­ the time, I struggled with the Overseers closure to our conversation. Would he be seers meeting, he had withdrawn his Committee to discern what was the best willing? He stayed. I listened. I accepted. membership application and his determi­ way for us to assist this person to find his I understood. And once again I asked, nation to confront the meeting. right relationship to the meeting. "Wouldn't you like to know what I as a What happened? It is part of a mys­ We decided to invite him, along with Quaker believe?" At this point, now 12:30 tery. And yet, perhaps we can note sev­ four of the Overseers, to dinner at the a.m., he said yes. I explained simply my eral aspects of the experience. clerk's home. We relaxed during the meal belief in God and the implications of that We related to the individual as a per- and then offered the attender the op­ portunity to talk to us about his world view: his spiritual sense of humankind and the uni­ verse. He was eager and ready. He told us about his life, how initially he had been naive and trusting and then betrayed. He explained how he had become a scientist and in science found his salva­ tion. Science was the only sound basis for his life. We lis­ tened. We accepted. We under­ stood. We listened and we listened. We asked clarifying questions to encourage the expression of the ------D, many faceted sides of his think­ C) ing. And we listened. We occasionally and simply reflected back.

Margery M. Larrabee is a member ofFriends Meeting of Washington, D.C., and the son who presented a problem to be re­ Baltimore Yearly Meeting solved rather than seeing him as a prob­ Counseling Service. A psycho­ lem himself. The problem was ours as therapist and workshop leader, she well as his and was framed: What was attends the spiritual nurture course the best way for this attender to find his ofthe School ofthe Spirit. right relationship to the meeting? The

FRIENDS JouRNAL February 1994 7 desire was to move us all forward and to we accepted the discipline of holding to thing that held life-giving promise and be open to ways we might need to change, that clear and centered place within--as possibility, no matter what hard things as well as ways he might need to change. a place from which to listen. Afterward, we might be called upon to do. We genuinely wanted to hear him. we noted with gratitude that essentially Can we take the time, energy, and And we listened, and listened, with ac­ we were sustained in that practice. resource for such a process when it ap­ ceptance (not agreement) and under­ As he got ready to leave, I was aware pears appropriate? standing. In this situation he was listened of the love and compassion I had felt for What are the consequences of our not into his own awareness. this man particularly during the last pe­ taking this kind of time for such a pro­ Once the attender had a sense of be­ riod of the evening he was in my home. cess? ing accepted and understood, he no longer He had let himselfcome to a difficult and Are we growing in our capability to had a need to be defensive or to prove his disconcerting awareness. focus on and act from that clear centered point of view. Out of his own freshly Perhaps what was most pervasive, most place in which we are empowered to do gained awareness, he had to face the powerful, most present was the sense of this kind of listening? simple reality of our differences with the spirit over all as we listened to each Are we growing in our ability to be him and consider his actual options: be­ other and to that of God in ourselves and aware when we are acting from reactive coming a Universalist Quaker, or partici­ each other. I experienced a spacious places? Are we naming them and fmding pating at the Friends meeting without awareness, an entrance into another's a way of responsibly working through denigrating other Quakers' beliefs. He experience, and a growth process in those reactions without unawarely pro­ chose to do neither. which we learned about each other jecting on other people? In advance, the Overseers were com­ deeply, and in which we each partici­ I would be very interested in hearing mitted to staying outside our reactivity pated. There was an openness and en­ from others who have engaged in spirit­ and negativity as much as possible. So gagement with the attender, and some- led listening. 0

February at the Quaker Graveyard in Haverford, Pennsylvania (for Robert Lowell) by Andy Shanken The fall dew glowed, scared. Whole families subsided into fertility, The cracked grass and a gloating wind bubbled up rich brown earth. moved me along the sorry rows. In death's perverse, weather-tilled bog, There was nothing to see. Nothing. my footprints filled immediately: No ghosts. No Quaker ghosts. "Spring up brave shoots Even between the winter wheat, for whatever they seem small, and green and in retreat, death and life are in cahoots." the stones cast no shadow. A Yarnall, Joneses, Chases, and Stokes, But no Hutton, and no ghosts. No freedom, but for the weeds and the tilted stones like crooked teeth. No grace, but slight, simple solidity in the rocking, cold stones.

No seats; no rest for the living. So I couldn't sit and wait for him. There were leaves, but not from last year's fall, · and a Coke can, despite the ban. Oh! and plenty of peace, like the quiet of Meeting. But to me a flowerless, doveless, Siberian peace.

Where was Addison Hutton? Perhaps unmarked in this old Quaker graveyard Andy Shan ken, ofS cottsdale, Ariz., spends time substi­ tute teaching, studying Yiddish, climbing mountains, where the stones guard and trying to publish poetry. a precious moment of silence.

8 February 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL FOLLOW GOD'S WILL Each year I have by David Shen withheld ast February, the Internal Revenue a portion ervice served a levy on my wages. Two months of dialogue with IRS, of my lawyers, administrators, and F /friends has income demonstrated what prophets have taught: follow God's will, and life-aliveness, tax. I joy-will follow. For 12 years, I have withheld a por­ know IRS tion ofmy income tax from IRS. I refuse may to give money to the military to kill people. There is too much need around punish us. For the last three years, I have given me.And I this portion to My Brothers' House, a homeless shelter my Quaker meeting sup­ know I ports in the inner city of Philadelphia. Each year at tax time, I sigh deeply. I stand on know IRS may punish me. And I know I the side stand on the side of life. For these 12 years, IRS and I have of life. been corresponding politely. They send ~ me notices; I write back. Since I receive d notices of intent to levy and since they .. have not levied, I assume I have been ~ lost in their millions of files. I was sur­ prised, then, when my college employer received the levy on my salary. My first talks with IRS, lawyers, and self invigorated and alive, far from my payroll administrator blurted out, "Isn't F/friends left me feeling depressed and initial feelings of helplessness and de­ there a legal way you can do this (pay helpless. IRS would get what they thought pression. I was back in God's flow. Ev­ income tax without paying the military]?" was theirs. erything became easy. Tension left; I When I met with the president of the Then God intervened. Inadvertently, grew calm. college, six weeks had passed and the my lawyer angered me. In my anger, I I approached the college dean, my levy was almost fully paid. He was busy. took a position of reducing my wages to superior. "Reduce my wages," I said, "so He startled me by agreeing with my right a level IRS could not levy. (By law IRS IRS cannot satisfy its levy." But the dean to take my position, and he would seek must leave me a wage to live on.) I had shocked me. Her superior, the vice presi­ how I could do so at the college. Two not considered it before, since doing so dent, would not allow me to reduce my weeks later, he informed me he could not would cost me $2,200-more than the wages. I had to quit or pay the levy. find a legal way to accommodate me. levy's $1,200. I sought what God now wanted me to I, though, was thrilled. In our two con­ I knew God wanted me to do this. I do. After a conversation with one of my versations, the president and I connected. cried over the prospect of losing 20 per­ students, I decided to continue teaching We talked about my tax situation for 20 cent of my income. Days later, F/friends and pay the levy. I would, however, also minutes and unexpectedly talked about reaffirmed my inner voice: "God pre­ continue learning about love and Truth. his and my family for 90 minutes. He pares you to seek Truth and love. Look at Could I reach administrators, I wondered, was late for one of his appointments. As I what God has wrought with your work if I used Gandhi's principle of self­ waved goodbye, he asked, "Stop in for with Iraqi children and your intimacy suffering? I would direct suffering to me, coffee again, will you?" with your father." and not to the college, by teaching at What did I learn? I am poorer by · It was clear: to pay the levy would be reduced income rather than quitting and $1,200, but I am richer in intangible ways. to move against the flow of God's will leaving the college with 80 angry I feel in the flow of God's will for me for me. God wanted me to stand for life. students. and feel connected to people-F/friends In that knowledge (Light), I found my- I met with the administrator who wrote who support me and opponents who re­ David Shen is a member of Central my paycheck, the department chair, the spect me. I am invigorated and happy. Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. He teaches dean again, and then the vice-president. I share this with you: follow God's college math and provides medical assistance Three respected my position (the vice­ will, and life-aliveness, joy-will fol­ to children in Iraq. president didn't reveal his stand). The low. Remind me, ifl forget. 0

FRIENDS JOURNAL February 1994 9 As I grew older and attended Illinois Yearly Meeting, I heard more about tax resistance. I met two men who had served time in prison for refusing to pay war A DOCTOR'S taxes or resisting cooperation with the Internal Revenue Service. I saw them as very committed people with a lot of in­ PEACE tegrity, and I could see that the yearly meeting supported them. So, at some level I felt that tax resistance was the logical TESTIMONY extension of my pacifist views, and I knew there was a community of support for tax resistance among the Friends and the wider peace community as well. An Interview with 1-- Through the Friends, I also met sev­ eral conscientious objectors who had ei­ Friend and Tax ther refused to register for the draft or had performed alternative service. Again, Resister there was a sense that we don't have to Paula Rogge go along with what we think is wrong. We can say "no"- and there will be con­ sequences. It may change our lives-it by Susan Van Haitsma may be difficult at times-but there is Paula Rogge is a Friend and physician who another way. has practiced war tax resistance for the past 13 Later, I went to medical school, en­ years. Her war tax resistance is integrally tered a residency program, and began to connected with her years as a Friend, her medical earn a salary. That first year ofresidency work serving indigent patients and persons with I decided to refuse to pay whatever taxes AIDS, and her experiences living in a low-income, I owed. I'd had six to seven years to ethnically diverse neighborhood. think it over, and had found that my The following is adapted from an interview convictions had remained the same. As a conducted with Paula in January 1993 at her doctor doing my best to make people home in Austin, Texas. well, I felt I could not simulanteously pay for weapons that would hurt people. I think another important motivating Q. What were the motivating factor in becoming a tax resister was the factors in your decision to very fact that I had just graduated from become a tax resistert medical school. For me, that had meant Deciding to refuse to pay taxes for jumping a big hurdle-making it through war was a slow, gradual process for me. an obstacle course and surviving. I think When I lived in Champaign-Urbana, Illi­ somehow that gave me the chutzpa or the nois, as a teenager, I began attending the courage to go ahead and take that first Friends meeting because I knew the step as a tax resister. Friends opposed the Vietnam War, and I also felt the war was wrong. Several years Q. How did you go about in a row, I leafletted in front of the post your tax resistancet office on Aprill5 with Quakers and other That first year, I think I owed one peace people from Champaign-Urbana. dollar. I refused to pay the dollar and sent We leafletted with pie charts that showed a letter to the IRS explaining my posi­ how federal taxes were being spent I tion. The next year, I increased the num­ especially remember that the leafletting ber of withholding allowances on my W- was done in a friendly manner and people 4 form so that I owed the IRS at the end seemed to take the fliers with interest. of the year instead of vice-versa. I began Even though not all ofthe leafletters were by refusing to pay 40-50 percent of my tax resisters, I could see that they were federal tax money because at the time, very concerned about military spending that was the approximate percentage be­ and were simply urging others to ques­ ing used to fund current and past wars. tion that as well. Then, over time, I realized that of the 50- 60 percent I was paying, 40-50 percent Interviewer Susan Van Haitsma is also a tax was still being used for military purposes, resister living in Austin, Texas. Susan is resi­ so I stopped paying the whole kit and dent caretaker of the Austin (Tex.) Friends caboodle. I stopped paying all taxes be­ Meetinghouse. cause I had no control whatsoever over

10 February 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL how the money was being spent. In the Q. Have there been special I began to work moonlighting jobs in last several years I've also stopped pay­ ways in which you would say various agencies: the city Health Depart­ ing social security taxes because the gov­ your life has been affected ment, Planned Parenthood, and the State ernment borrows from those funds to positively by your practice of Commission for the Blind, for example. I help cover the deficit, indirectly financ­ tax resistancet had to find new moonlighting jobs every ing the defense system. So, it's been a When I finished my residency, I two years or so because that was about gradual process of taking my tax resis­ worked in a migrant clinic for two years the length oftime it usually took the IRS tance further and further. I've always in the Rio Grande Valley in Harlingen, to catch up and begin attaching wages filed, and the IRS and I have always Texas: a very conservative community. again. agreed about how much I've owed (now The second year I was there, I wrote a Something good happened as a result over $60,000 including penalties and in­ letter to the editor of the local paper ex­ ofthis. I've had to explain to all potential terest). At this point, I don't feel led to plaining that I was a war tax resister and employers that at some point the IRS stop filing. For myself, I feel better being why. The newspaper editor phoned me would begin to levy my wages and when open about it, but I realize many tax to make sure I really wanted the letter that happened, I would no longer be able resisters don't file, and I respect their printed! I said yes, and they did print it. I to work for them. When I explained this reasons for going that route. was afraid of the response I might get to the Texas Commission for the Blind from the community, but I felt it was during my interview, for example, they Q. Have you redirected your important to be public about my stance. were quite taken aback, and I thought I tax moneyt After the letter was printed, the other probably wouldn't get the job. But, a few The first couple ofyears that I did tax doctors in Harlingen actually became weeks later, they did hire me! The woman resistance, I put the money aside in a much friendlier and began to take a cer­ who hired me said she understood why I bank account, assuming it would be tain interest in me. I don't think any of was doing tax resistance and that she seized. It wasn't seized right away, how­ them agreed with the tax resistance, but agreed with my convictions. I came to ever, and I'm afraid the money was spent they seemed to respect my position. Sev­ feel a real sense of support and commu­ without having been donated as it should eral nurses and a nuclear medicine tech­ nity there. have. But I learned, and since then I've nician I hadn't known before introduced made sure the amount of money owed in themselves and expressed their support Q. In March of 1990, the IRS taxes and social security is donated ev­ of my war tax resistance. I didn't get any seized your automobile. ery year to charitable groups. negative reactions. Could you describe what I've had a lot offun giving this money In 1987, I began a medical family happenedt away. Sometimes when I have sent the practice in Austin, Texas, along with an­ Well, some time before the car was contribution, I have included a note ex­ other doctor. The first year into the prac­ seized, an IRS agent, accompanied by a plaining that the donation represents re­ tice, the IRS sent notice that my wages law officer, came to our clinic to pay me fused war taxes, and I have received would be garnisheed. I asked that my a visit. I could tell they were nervous and supportive notes in return. It's a very salary be lowered to $100 per week, as even a bit hostile. But as we sat and empowering feeling to know that my that is the amount exempt from levy. In talked, and I explained why I simply money is doing some good. order to supplement this reduced income, could not pay for war, I could see them both soften a little. Toward the end of the interview, the officer began asking ques­ tions about our practice and commented that it was un­ usual for us to be located in such a poor neighborhood. As they were leaving, I complemented the officer on his cowboy boots- he had on some kind of exotic boots- and I think he was tickled pink that I had no­ ticed them. He told me where he had gotten them. It was kind ofa humorous exchange and I felt very good about that. We had related as people. I figured that since my wages had become uncollect­ ible and I had no bank ac­ count, eventually my car would be seized. But even Paula Rogge with her car, which was seized by the IRS and later bought back so, the morning it happened, and donated to her medical practice. it came as a bit of a shock. f RIENDS JOURNAL February 1994 11 My IRS agent came to the bouse and, and it was great. I think the best part of think this is a good question, and I think poor woman, she was just shivering in this story is that when I tell it, people consistency is important; that is, if I be­ her shoes, she looked so nervous. She chuckle. You see, it's such a good ex­ lieve in using nonviolent forms of de­ placed a sticker on the car and then asked ample of how limited the power of the fense on a national scale, then I must if she could use my phone to call the tow IRS is in the face of creative resistance. know how to use nonviolent forms of truck! I decided that they were going to It's also an example of how our needs defense on a personal scale, too. tow it one way or another, so I invited are often met in unexpected ways when When I first moved into the neighbor­ her in to use the phone. I had a sick we take a stand for peace. hood in which I live, my housemate and I patient in the emergency room at the I think these three experiences in par­ were burglarized twice within three time, so I took a taxi to the hospital right ticular- the return of my car, receiving months. It is likely the burglars were away. Having a patient to worry about the job at the Commission for the Blind, neighbors or friends of neighbors. That took my mind off the car long enough to and the reaction to the letter in Harlingen was scary, and in talking with friends ease my worry about the situation. Then paper-were all occasions when I felt (including the fellows I visit in the fed­ that speaking out for truth actually opened eral prison!), we realized there were many doors and tore down barriers between options in the way we could respond to "My tax other people and me. When I was willing the burglaries. We could put up burglar to take a stand for what I felt was right, I bars (my prisoner friends' advice), get resistance has discovered a community of support I guard dogs, hide valuables in a secret definitely been hadn't realized existed. place, etc. Then one of the Quakers in the Austin Meeting suggested we have a faith joumey. Q. Has being a tax resister an open house and invite all the people in influenced your involvement the neighborhood. So we did, and I think If I'm willing to in other peace and justice it was the right thing to do! We invited take risks for world everyone in the immediate neighborhood Well, I think the same motivations and Friends from the meeting, too. People the truth and that Jed me to become a tax resister also knew, after that, they were welcome in led me to work for peace in other ways. our house. I became friends with people do what I'm I've been visiting for several years in a in the neighborhood, especially some of led to do, then federal prison, for example, and I've the children. We haven't been burglar­ learned that prisoners can be beautiful ized since then. I feel safe and secure in God will honor people who have made mistakes, but who the neighborhood now, and I really do still have potential for change. In many believe that our best security lies in reach­ that.'' cases, they have taught me things about ing out to people. how to live with more faith and how to be a good friend. During this past year, Q. How has being a tax I've also become involved with the Al­ resister affected your ternatives to Violence Project (AVP), spiritual lifef friends came forward and loaned me their which teaches nonviolent conflict reso­ My tax resistance has definitely been cars without my having to ask. A month lution skills. As part of that, A VP works a faith journey. At times, I've worried following the seizure, the car was auc­ on building self-esteem, developing com­ about how I'd make it, financially, but tioned. About 20-30 Quakers and other munication skills, and building commu­ whenever I've needed another moonlight­ friends came and protested the auction, nity. To me, these are the essential ingre­ ing job, one has become available. I'm asking potential buyers not to bid on the dients in terms of preventing violence learning to be less anxious and more car. At least one potential buyer was con­ and stopping violence once it begins. I flexible. When a way seems to be blocked, vinced to refrain from bidding, but a used went into medicine because healing is I remind myself there's a better way to car dealer did, in the end, buy the car. A important to me. However, I'm also in­ go. I think there is something like mi­ week following the auction, a doctor I terested in the healing of relationships raculous thinking involved here--when had once worked with phoned and said and in seeing people heal their sense of you give thanks for what you have, even that he wanted to buy the car back from self. I think that's what AVP is about, to the point of thanking God for the dis­ the car dealer and donate it anonymously and I think tax resistance is about that as appointments. Ifl'm willing to take risks to our practice. That was such a wonder­ well. Paying for weapons has harmed for the truth and do what I'm led to do, ful surprise. I was very moved because I people. Healing has come through con­ then God will honor that. My needs have respected him very much as a doctor. I necting personally with each other and been more than provided for in the past, talked the offer over with friends. Though directing our resources to meet all of our and I trust they will be provided for in the I didn't want the money going, even in­ basic human needs. future. r:J directly, to the IRS, I did want this doctor to have an opportunity to support the Q. Have there been other Epilogue: whole cause of war tax resistance, and aspects of your life affected The close of 1993 finds Paula work­ this was his way of contributing. I de­ by your practice of war tax ing part-time as an emergency room doc­ cided to accept the car. It came back with resistancet tor, organizing actively with A VP and new tires, looking much cleaner than it People have asked me, "If you don't her neighborhood association, and, as a had before it was seized! A friend of the believe in paying for military defense, new venture, studying film production at doctor had also done a tune-up on it- what kind of defense would you use?" I the University of Texas.

12 February 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL FRUITS OFA LEADING by Peny Treadwell

oday I received another one of those white nvelopes from the Internal Revenue Service-­ T:the ones that tell me I failed to pay $35 in 1986 or $106 in 1988 and now I owe a lot more in penalties and interest. I file them away with the other ones from last year and the year before. But this time their arrival reminded me of an anni­ versary of sorts. It has been 20 years since I first refused to pay that portion of my federal income taxes which, I believed, went to war. I refused to pay for people to kill other people. A year later I resigned my tenured university posi­ tion (FJ 11/ 15/74) and drastically simplified my lifestyle so the fruits of my labors would not be used for war. Some might view this as an overly drastic step. My earnings, they might say, could have been useful for doing good works. True! But it was my leading, as strong a leading as I may ever have in a meeting for worship. Yes, I have had a twinge of regret or two. But my leading has opened up so many exciting and produc­ tive adventures that the road not taken has little curi­ osity for me. I have participated in a variety of peace actions. I have learned nonviolence and conflict reso­ lution in the West Philadelphia Life Center and so­ journed at Pendle Hill. I have led simple living work­ shops when very few people recognized our complic­ Many ills of this society can be attributed to the ity in the destruction of our environment. absence of friends, at least in part. We have be­ My life has been rich knowing I have helped come so busy trying to survive, we are losing the revitalize a community, educated about AIDS, experi­ social support systems-family, friends, commu­ mented with solar energy, started men's support nity-that help us to survive physically and psy­ groups, overseen the building ofa new Friends meet­ chologically. inghouse, and lived in an intentional community and I believe friendship is something Friends can in solitude. model for the rest of society. I still get that little What has pleased me the most is what I have twist in the stomach when those IRS letters come. learned--sometimes with more than a little pain­ Sometimes the IRS actually raids a bank account or from the hundreds ofpeople who have passed through Individual Retirement Account. However, I know my life for long or brief periods. When I began that Friends are there should I ever need their leading workshops on how to make friends, I support in not cooperating with a government whose experienced how important it is to establish deep only answer to conflict is violence. I have been able friendships. to simplify my life to a point where I am below the Perry Treadwell has been clerk ofAtlanta (Ga.) Meeting taxable level. Friends' support has helped. and is a Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Asso­ The richness of my life is proportional to my ciation representative to Friends General Conference. He friendships. That is what I have learned in 20 years, has written Making Friends, Leaving Loneliness Behind. and that is what I pass on to others. 0

FRIENDS JOURNAL February 1994 13 As Long as l# Both Shall Live

and attitudes about same-gender relation­ ships. When members spoke honestly and sincerely of their desire to accept the minute, but were having difficulty doing so because of their understanding of Scripture, proponents of the minute lis­ tened. Individuals shared dinners, phone by Debra Kolodny and Betty Renshaw calls, and conversations after meeting for lJati~1i~~Kt:1.J;iiliktt~~]~M.tMi:t"t®ifttt~t%:fktt:W•tiMM!!~i;@\liMd&:W>::::~:~tx;m:~.::M8Hmmill.@~#i~~1%ftt.¥HWXftf:t]~;:;:]~ worship to open the door to greater com­ fort and understanding for every mem­ n the Spring of 1991, Adelphi (Md.) ber of the community. Friends Meeting approved a minute We explored what impact this minute I acknowledging our affirmation of the might have on the meeting and we asked sanctity of same-gender relationships. ourselves what relevance there was in Approval of the minute stands as a the fact that same-gender couples in the testament to the careful, inclusive, and state of Maryland cannot gain legal rec­ prayerful process which guided the meet­ ognition as married couples. Ultimately, ing through two intensive years of dia­ we agreed not to take on the battle for logue, and through several years of ex­ legalizing same-gender marriage. We did ploration and education before that. The agree, however, to assist any couple un­ meeting was led by a powerful commit­ der the care ofthe meeting to secure such ment to honoring that ofGod within each legal documents as partnership contracts, person. powers of attorney, and the like. We This commitment was motivated in wanted a same-gender couple to have as part by our knowledge that some of the many of the rights and privileges as pos­ children of the meeting might grow up to sible that a legally married couple can find themselves in same-gender unions. enjoy. What was the meeting's obligation to our Just how did Adelphi reach this point? children? What message did we want to Initial consideration of the question arose send them? The commitment was fueled in the early 1980s, when a hypothetical as well by the recognition that many inquiry to the Ministry and Oversight same-gender couples in our meeting were Committee regarding same-gender already living in committed relationships. unions went unanswered-partly because What was our obligation to these couples? its hypothetical nature made focusing on Did we want to say we honored and held the question difficult. sacred their partnerships? What might be Early in 1988, however, the meeting the benefit to the entire meeting of em­ began to address in earnest issues ofcon ­ bracing greater diver­ cern to lesbians, gays, and bisexuals. sity in loving relation­ Prompted by a desire to open dialogue in ships? the meeting among people of different Queries underly­ sexual orientations, a second hour (a dis­ ing our exploration cussion period following meeting for also focused on how worship) was held and was very well learned attitudes and attended. The sense of the hour was one scriptural teaching af­ of considerable support for the lesbian, fect our individual gay, and bisexual members of the com­ and collective views munity, although no one was "out" re­ garding his or her orientation at that time. Debra Kolodny and For some time thereafter, literature was Betty Renshaw are made available and the meeting contin­ members of Adelphi ued the dialogue through our monthly (Md.) Meeting. Th ey newsletter. extend thanks to Jo Francis, Martha Gay, In the Spring of 1989, Ministry and and Rick Picardi for Worship Committee formed a subcom­ their assistance in the mittee to organize a six-week series of process of writing this workshops designed to enhance under­ article. standing of and appreciation for lesbian,

14 February 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL gay, and bisexual people, particularly QVW's policy excluding lesbians and of at least one instance where a couple's those in our community. During the work­ gays pushed the meeting to explore our request languished for over five years shops, careful attention was paid to using collective view on questions around the because the meeting had reached no con­ language in ways least likely to cause rights of and respect for the lesbian, sensus on the general question before hurt to anyone. Discussions were held to gay, and bisexual members of our being asked to address the request of that address and overcome negative stereo­ community. couple. types, relevant scriptural guidance was A second subcommittee was formed, Concerned Friends did not want to see explored, minutes on same-gender unions this time under the care of the Peace and a similar scenario played out at Adelphi. were reviewed, and consciousness-rais­ Social Order Committee. Membership Without any specific request before the ing exercises (which some participants carne from Ministry and Worship, Peace meeting, the members of the Subcom­ found deeply touching) were offered. The and Social Order, and Pastoral Care com­ mittee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns felt workshops gave those with questions or mittees, as well as the workshop series that the creation of, and, they hoped, the concerns the opportunity to listen, learn, subcommittee. While exploring the gen­ and open their hearts on this important eral question of the acceptance of sexual and sensitive question. They also pro­ orientation differences in our commu­ vided a caring and supportive space within nity, the committee decided that same­ which community members could learn gender marriage was a critical issue for more about each other and could listen to Adelphi to resolve. our respective truths. This decision was in part driven by The final stage of Adelphi's work on our awareness that other meetings were this matter was sparked by a request to exploring whether to affirm same-gen­ sponsor a volunteer under the Quaker der unions, usually in response to a Volunteer Witness (QVW) program. couple's request for clearness. We knew

Our understanding of the spirit of Christ, reflected in the Gospels, leads us to affum one another and our loving responsible relationships. To do so strengthens our community, opens us to the full richness of diverse loving relationships in our meeting, and gives persons in such relationships the support approval of a same-gender marriage of a loving community. minute could serve to preempt such a We accept and appreciate diversity in our community and situation. The subcommittee also believed welcome all who share our search for Truth. Just as a marriage the meeting's understanding of and re­ spect for sexual orientation difference between a woman and a man may provide mutual nurture to both could best be fostered in the context of a the couple and the meeting, committed same-gender relationships concrete proposal, such as one on same­ may also be a source of spiritual growth. We recognize the Light in gender marriage. With the focus now on all sincere, loving, supportive relationships, which are characterized a minute concerning marriage, the sub­ by growth, and in which faith, hope, love, and truth abide. committee was placed under the care of Upon request by a couple, Adelphi Friends Meeting will the Pastoral Care Committee. Heterosexual, lesbian, and bisexual recognize same-gender relationships through the same careful Friends and attenders, some in commit­ process we customarily use to arrive at clearness for all couples ted relationships, others single, ranging who wish to unite under our care. We consider the obligations in age from 25 to 63, participated in this undertaken in these relationships by both the couple and the committee, shepherding the minute from meeting to be those of marriage. We expect the couple to become conception to approval. It was an eclec­ tic group of women and men. We were each other's next of kin, to care for one another and for any determined to test the leading, and just as children brought into the union, and to share equitably their determined to be patient. worldly goods. The oversight committee will work with the couple Queries were developed to help the in securing appropriate legal arrangements to protect the meeting look at various aspects of the relationship. question. Small groups from the meeting We recognize our responsibility to provide continuing nurture to gathered for at-home potluck dinners to talk about the proposed minute. Articles all unions under the care of the meeting. Jesus calls us to a life of were placed in the monthly newsletter love. discussing the status of the minute and -Adelphi Friends Meeting, the legal issues that same-gender couples May 1991 would need to deal with if they wanted their union to have the same effect as a state-sanctioned heterosexual marriage.

FRIENDS JOURNAL February 1994 15 A Welcome for Michael by Susanna Thomas ('1 .. ,,...... I . "·· Quakers and baptism? Stephen /' /'j Zunes wrote an article on the subject ,I last October; Susanna Thomas now / offers a different approach. We invite submissions from other Friends as As successive drafts of the evolving ing, recommending that the minute be well on the various ways of welcom­ minute were considered by Pastoral Care held over for a month. There was a brief ing newborn children to our meet­ Committee and the meeting for worship discussion, led by that committee. At the ings.- Eds. for the conduct of business, copies were May 1991 business meeting, Adelphi widely circulated, and the' progress of the Friends Meeting quickly approved a had come to meet Michael, the entire process regularly reported upon in minute on same-gender unions under the newest baby in our meeting, but an effort to keep everyone up-to-date. care of the meeting. Spirit-filled silence I he was fast asleep in his crib. His Some of us struggled to balance the marked the moment- followed by a tan­ mother, Anna, offered a cup of tea. urgings of most of the meeting to ap­ gible, quiet joy which spread throughout As she set out the tea on her dining prove the minute quickly with the need the meeting room. room table, within hearing ofher new­ to ensure true acceptance ofit by all. We Once the minute was approved, a mail­ born baby, Anna said, "I'm so glad took pains to create safe space for people ing was prepared to go to various Quaker you've come today because Art and I opposing the minute to speak without organizations and to monthly meetings have a question for you. Do Quakers censure. Two second hours were held to that had expressed interest. This included have anything like a baptism for a open dialogue on the minute itself. The a cover letter from the clerk of the meet­ baby? We have special recognition first was an hour of worship-sharing dur­ ing, a copy ofthe minute, and a history of services for weddings and funerals. ing which overwhelming support for the the process as summarized by Pastoral Do we ever have them for the birth of minute was expressed. In an attempt to Care Committee. In addition, members a baby?" ensure that those who felt discomfort of the working committee have visited Anna explained that she and Art were not silenced, individuals spoke pri­ other monthly meetings, both nearby and had a longing to have some sort of vately with those known to have reserva­ distant, to talk about our process. recognition of Michael's birth. Re­ tions, asking them their concerns, an­ As of this writing, no same-gender minding me of her Roman Catholic swering their questions. The other sec­ couple has requested to be recognized background, she admitted that part of ond hour was in small-group format, be­ under the care of the meeting. However, the need came from a recognition of cause some had felt uncomfortable with a number of our members and attenders the importance of baptism in her par­ worship-sharing. We hoped to better re­ are now open about their lesbian, gay, or ents' religious beliefs. Like most spect different views by using varying bisexual orientation, and the meeting's Catholics, her parents believe that formats for discussion. One of the que­ careful and graceful journey through this baptism is integral to the salvation of· ries the small groups discussed during process has left us stronger and richer as a child's soul. this hour was, "Do you feel safe express­ a community. 0 Looking to reconcile her parents' ing yourself on this issue? What might convictions with her own Quaker help you feel safer?" Again, there was leadings, Anna and Art met with a resounding support for the minute. Those interested in receiving the mail­ friend who is a Catholic priest in an- With all the groundwork laid and the ing mentioned above, or in arranging a time seeming right, Pastoral Care Com­ visit, may contact Rick Picardi at 4211 Susanna Thomas is clerk of Storrs mittee brought the proposed final draft of Rainier Ave., Mt. Rainier, MD 20712; (Conn.) Meeting. the minute to the meeting for worship for (301)864-5270 (home), or (202)260-5756 the conduct of business for a first read- (work).

16 February 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL other town to ask if a modified baptism tions to Ministry and Counsel and, surely, (and Michael asleep in his basket). was possible for the baby. Their friend we would find a way to celebrate the life As the new parents explained their replied, "What would be the point of it? of Michael. In July the meeting had rec­ purposes, the committee found itself You do not intend to raise the child as a ognized the beginning ofa marriage with echoing their need for celebration of Roman Catholic, do you?" a meeting for worship full of joy, love, this new life. Soon we had set a date, She went on to say that after talking to and support. InNovember we had met to approved a rough draft for a certifi­ the priest, they were prepared to drop the mourn the death of a young man in a cate based on the Quaker marriage whole idea. Then their thinking shifted. meeting for worship full of compassion certificate, and planned refreshments They had come to realize that pleasing and gratitude for the good he had brought and child care. We found ourselves her parents had little to do with their own to the life ofhis friends and family. There calling it "A Celebration ofLife." desire to celebrate their son's birth. They is a yearning within us to mark life's So on the Saturday before Christ­ wanted to share in a meeting for worship transitions, to give events meaning, to set mas, 40 Friends and guests gathered their deep gratitude for the birth of a them in the context of our spiritual lives for worship to celebrate the life of healthy child; their joy at welcoming him and our connection with one another in a Michael and all new life. A brief in­ into the world, and their appreciation of spiritual community. troduction to Quaker worship was the support of Friends and friends in this Ministry and Counsel agreed immedi­ given, since this was a new form of meaningful life experience. ately to set up a clearness committee. worship for many in the group. Out of I assured Anna I would take her ques- The committee met with Ann and Art the silence came messages of support and caring for this new baby and his parents. It was noted that his presence in a Quaker meeting was putting into place a series ofinfluences that would affect his life. There were messages from parents sharing their experiences of parenthood as a terrifying, reward­ ing responsibility and how they had grown in the Spirit in the process. It was a full and gathered meeting. Michael slept through it all. He awoke in time to smile for the signing of the certificate. Michael's many friends returned his smiles as they signed the certificate. Q Ceriificate of lli!lcome On this nineteenth day of the twelfth month in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-two, Art Wood and Annamarie Andrews presented their son, Michael John Andrews Wood, to Storrs Friends Meeting, promising, with the aid of the Holy Spirit and the support of family and friends, to raise him in the knowledge and love of God. We, the undersigned, having been present at this celebration, have as witnesses thereto, set our hands.

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by Edward Borgers ne noon without warning, some were now more certain than ever that dozen inspectors from as many Orange House must be hiding something. 0 city departments appeared at the The inhabitants were demoralized, con­ door of Orange House, demanding to vinced that no matter how innocent they make instant inspections. Their demands might be, they would be relentlessly ha­ were backed by armed police, with a rassed and punished. police helicopter circling overhead. This was the situation that Marloma In a world Not surprising. This stretch ofOrange (Calif.) Monthly Meeting faced in the A venue was in the heart of the Long late spring of 1993. Orange House was where there Beach, California, ghetto, a high crime the vision of a former California Yearly area. This particular building, a twin to Meeting minister, Fred Newkirk. Fred is so much the family residences around it, had been was an employee ofa minisculely-funded making neighbors nervous for years. operation, the Long Beach Inner Cities that is These neighbors recognized gang garb Ministry. The "Orange House" they had all too well, and the sight of half a dozen acquired had become a residence hall for destructive or so young black males regularly enter­ young black males recently released from ing and leaving this one building made prison. them uneasy. Old cars being tinkered In fact, the atmosphere in the house is and with in the back yard spoiled the scenery. welcoming and supportive. For those who And some neighbors were openly racist. intend to stay, the rules are strict: no discouraging, Other incidents in the neighborhood drugs, no drinking, no smoking. Do your this year had been even more sinister. A share to make the place neat. And sev­ a group of drive-by shooting that riddled the front eral ideas are firmly taught: If you don't of Orange House proved to many that like the way your life has been going, California this must be a center of gang warfare. you are the one who must tum it around. And another night when there was a fatal If you fail, no one else is to blame. Friends have shooting on the Long Beach waterfront, Fred Newkirk describes himself as a some 50 forbidding figures from Los "radical Christian." To him Jesus is a found Angeles, heavily armed, had gathered at unique embodiment ofGod, a living force Orange House-grim-faced, dangerous. with which the worshiper can make di­ No one knew what had followed, but it rect contact and achieve results not avail­ something was a frightening situation. No wonder a able to the non-believer. The reality and crescendo of complaints flooded City the power of this conviction are evident remarkably Hall, and no wonder the councilmen had in every word and action of the house ordered a quick inspection for guns and residents. constructive. drugs. And in a world where every door is The massive inspection revealed noth­ shut against African Americans, the rela­ ing. Well-get the junk cars out of the tively uneducated, and ex-convicts, Or­ yard. (Done, promptly.) And how about ange House residents are fmding occa­ a coat of paint for the front of the house, sional employers who recognize that too? (Done, as quickly as the impover­ someone who has learned responsibility ished residents could scrape together the the hard way may be a better than aver­ money!) age employee. Some residents, too, have But the situation was an unhappy one shown flairs for capitalism at its best. all around. The inspectors were frustrated They have created and sold sweaters, by the futility of all their efforts, and smartly designed with messages like, Edward Borgers is professor emeritus of "Stop the Madness!" Other house resi­ journalism at the University ofSouthern Cali­ dents are writing and have found a pub­ fornia. A former clerk of Marloma (Calif.) lisher for a book on life in the Long Meeting, he has served on several commit­ Beach streets. tees ofhis quarterly meeting. Equally evident is the total commit-

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An informal gathering of Marloma Monthly Meeting and JOURNEY'S END FARM CAMP Orange House residents. Fred Newkirk, who started the is a farm devoted to children for sessions of two to Orange House project, is in the doorway. eight weeks each summer. Farm animals, garden­ ing, nature, ceramics, shop. Nonviolence, simplic­ ity, reverence for nature are emphasized In our ment of Orange House residents to the selves the project's marvelous force for program centered In the life of a Quaker farm Quaker principle of nonviolence. Veter­ good. Also, we had the reputation of family. For thirty-two boys and girls, 7-12 years. ans of lethal gang warfare, they now being caring and responsible citizens. It Welcome all races. carry no arms-neither inside nor out of was possible, then, for us as disinterested CARL & KRISTIN CURTIS the house. The drive-by shooting, in fact, (not uninterested) outsiders to approach Box 136, NEWFOUNDLAND, PA 18445 was the act of outsiders, and a case of members of the City Council and say to Phone: (717) 689-7552; 2353 mistaken assumptions. Instead of retali­ them, "In a world where there is so much ating, Orange House residents sought out that is destructive and discouraging, we their attackers, persuaded them of their think we have found something remark­ Small classes, strong error, and received an apology. As are­ ably constructive. We'd like to invite FRIENDS academics in a sult, there was a de-escalation rather than you to Orange House to have lunch and SELECf supportive, caring an escalation of the bloodshed all too take a look yourselves at what's going environment familiar to the territory. on." SCHOOL emphasizing Quaker The invaders from Los Angeles were They could not all come at the same values. fonner associates of Orange House men time. But several have already come, and • Pre-K thru 12th and had expected their former allies to we expect more will. Those who came ' Day School join them in a war of revenge. But Or­ did look, they did ask, and they did lis­ e • After School Program ange House talked them out of the idea. ten-fairly and carefully. Before one's • Summer Day Camp With its own recent riots and burnings, eyes, in a matter of minutes, suspicion Long Beach has been simply the south­ and hostility turned into appreciation and 17th & the Parkway em extension of Los Angeles. Marloma remarkably imaginative creativeness. Philadelphia, P A Friends, haunted like so many of our There is space here to mention only one (215) 561-5900 fellow-citizens by the sense of billowing of their many suggestions: "You have a tragedy all around, and all too aware of big back yard. Give a garden party. In­ the meeting's small size and smaller re­ vite the neighborhood. Put it in the pa­ sources, looked to see if there was any­ pers that the City Council is coming. thing positive we could do to improve We'll be there." life in the community. Friends discov­ So Marloma Friends were able to play ered Orange House and learned of the a special catalyst role. The young men crisis of the armed invasion by the city themselves assure us too that even more inspectors. important is an even simpler Quaker trait: To our own surprise, we found we the willingness to listen. As one of them QuAKER ftrnREHENT REsiDENCE had some powerful assets. One was that put it, "It's so great, just to have some­ I 00 years Reasonable Rates o( caring Not for Profit as solidly middle-class people, we sym­ body who's willing to sit down and talk. Personal Care pathetically understood the fears of Or­ Aside from Fred Newkirk, you're the Convenient to Shops and Businesses ange House's neighbors. At the same first people who were willing to come time we had come into Orange House as regularly and do that. It's the first time 400 NorthWalnut Street WestChester,PA 19380 (610)696-1536 concerned friends, who had seen for our- anybody's cared what we think." l:l

FRIENDS JOURNAL February 1994 19 ''Nothing Is Impossibli!' by Pam (Jeffery) Barratt TRAVELING however, political instability was the these percentages go up to 86 percent AMONG norm. Bolivia was noted for having more and 59 percent respectively for rural heads of state than years since its inde­ people 50 years or older. The gender BOLIVIAN pendence (1825). Avoidable wars with discrepancy largely comes from a neighbors reduced its size and caused it family's reluctance to allow their daugh­ QUAKERS to lose its access to the sea. ter to go on to a more distant school. The recent political stability will not Rural women tend to children, home be able to solve Bolivia's most formi­ chores, and crops, as well as shepherding first discovered the upbeat attitude dable problem: its terrain. Two branches flocks ofllama. Even ifa woman is lucky of Latin American Quakers at the of the Andes surround that huge plateau: enough to attend three years of primary I Friends World Conference in Hon­ the Altiplano--3,700 meters in eleva­ school, she often can't get the chance to duras in 1991. Travels to Guatemala, EI tion- where the majority of Bolivians use her reading skills; consequently they Salvador, and now Bolivia confirm my live. Daytime temperatures are in the 50s. are soon forgotten. Teachers in govern­ first impression. Latin American Quak­ Neither mudbrick homes nor the office ment schools usually have I 00 or more ers are full of joy. Their spirit of thank­ buildings of La Paz are heated. Perhaps students, and their salaries are around fulness is not only refreshing but also the beauty of the surrounding snow- $60 per month. surprising considering the problems of Although education their countries. in Bolivia is deplor­ I was disappointed with how little time able, the use of child was devoted to the discussion of Quaker labor is more disheart­ actions at the I 99 I conference. (The ening: In La Paz, traf­ theme ofthe conference had been "Faith fic is jammed with vans in Action.") My explanation for this was that serve as minibuses. that the repressive governments of most Each van driver has a of the attenders had made it too risky for boy, often under ten such discussions to take place. I now years ofage, whosejob realize my view of action was limited to is to constantly call out political action, just as my understanding the window the route of Quakerism had been limited to that the van will take. unprogrammed meetings. This is necessary be­ My month of traveling in Bolivia with cause so many poten­ my husband, who is an English Quaker, capped ridges makes the bleak life on tial riders are illiterate. The boy is typi­ has given me a clearer understanding of this dry, stoney land tolerable. The Alti­ cally paid three bolivianos ($.75) for this Latin American Quakerism. While there, plano represents only one tenth of the twelve-hour-a-day job. He is unable to we visited many Quakers and Friends land area. The country also has tropical attend school. schools. The significance of what we forests, fertile valleys, savannas, and Lake Also, boys as young as eight work in observed, however, cannot be explained Titicaca-dramatic sights-and a vari­ the tin mines. They are paid ten bolivianos adequately without giving the reader some ety offood crops and rich mineral depos­ ($2.00) for nine hours of work. Out of background information about the coun- its. However, traveling between cities is this, they pay for their own equipment: try itself. · difficult and sometimes treacherous. lamps, dynamite, nitroglycerin fuses, and Unlike most Latin American coun­ Within a mile of city limits, highways coca leaves. All miners chew coca be­ tries, Bolivia has had a decade of peace tum into dirt roads, which soon become fore entering the mine. About every four and political stability. In August 1993, a one-way ruts. At times your vehicle, hours they'll come out to chew fresh U.S.-educated president (Goni) and an which had better be four-wheel drive, leaves. Coca staves off hunger. During Aymara vice-president (Hugo) were has to ford rivers and go under water­ the working day they don't consume any elected. Hugo is the first indigenous per­ falls. Mail cannot be delivered to most food. son to be elected to a top political office places in the country. Bolivian Quakers are responding to in Latin America. Liberal reforms may Like Guatemala, Bolivia has a large these problems most appropriately, it be forthcoming. Prior to this last decade, indigenous population (60-70 percent), seems to me. In the last 20 years, they most speaking the Quechua or Aymara have established 23 Quaker schools­ Pam (Jeffery) Barratt is a member ofLangley languages. Educating such a diverse more than there are in Great Britain. Hill (Va.) Friends Meeting. In July 1993 she group ofpeople is difficult. For example, Teachers and administrators in these and her husband were married in Birkenhead overall rural illiteracy is 43 percent among school are paid less (only about $40 a Meeting in England, where he is a member. women and 19 percent among men, but month), but class sizes are much smaller

20 February 1994 fRIENDS JoURNAL (25 students per teacher) than those in ernment temporarily closed the school We were taken to several Quaker government-run schools. Sponsoring and for lack oflatrines. The work ofLito and schools: Cecilio Guzman de Rojas in El guiding each school is an evangelical the other teachers in 'this school is volun­ Alto; Res Salirnon in El Alto and Collegio Friends meeting. tary. Until they can muster the time and Los Amigos in La Paz, both sponsored Most of the students in these Quaker money to build the latrines and the other by Iglesia Nacional Evangelica de Los schools are indigenous, yet their parents classrooms, the students are attending Amigos (INELA); and Villa Alicia want them to be taught in Spanish. We another nearby Quaker school. What they Colegio and Jorge Fox in the Altiplano. visited a Quaker friend, Lito Llanque. want more than anything else is money We were very impressed with the dedi­ Lito lives with his family in El Alto, the for a photocopier because there is no cation of the staff in these schools. The large indigenous suburb of La Paz. He Aymara curriculum anywhere in the students seemed happy and eager to learn. became intrigued with unprogrammed country. As Lito is a superb artist, the They were often engaged in copying into meetings while attending the Friends curriculum booklets he has written are their notebooks material the teacher wrote World Conference in Honduras. With also beautifully illustrated and their con­ on the blackboard. Rarely do they work Friends, Lito formed a "silent" meeting tent is excellent. from a book or even a handout in class. and a Quaker school in which the first Books are extremely expensive in Villa Alicia Colegio has two labs and three primary grades are taught in Bolivia. Few people read books because trained teachers, but virtually no lab Aymara. These Quakers are proud of the general level of education is so low equipment- not even a mechanical bal­ their culture. Most Aymara traditions are and most people work 12 hours a day. ance in the chemistry lab. These schools .~ very suitable for survival under the harsh Consequently, it must not be a viable do more than teach. They are community ~ conditions ofthe Altiplano. It used to be, market for local publishers. Imported centers. With simple, basic equipment d Lito told us, that there were over 100 books are expensive. On the other hand, they could make water and soil tests, for ~ different varieties of potatoes and plants the quality ofthe newspa­ ~ that the Aymara ate. Most could be dry­ pers is superior to those in stored for winter months. Now they are the United States and eating too many processed foods of far Great Britain. We figured less nutritional value. this was because the pub­ Lito's school, Cecilio Guzman de lishers knew that the only Rojas, was teaching its students about people who read their pa­ their rich Aymara heritage, until the gov- pers were highly educated.

A scene In Bolivia overlooking the Altiplano plat~u example, to benefit the community's liv­ ing conditions and agricultural practices. The INELA school in La Paz has a What kind of a medical clinic associated with it and a PAX social action group with various health world do you want and agricultural projects. They would like 0 R L D to have a theological center where people ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND? could be trained in theology, leadership, PEACEFUL? and administration. They also want to ~ lJ N_ EJ start a workshop training artisans, so the WITH EQUAL OPPORTUNITY? e theology students could finance their edu­ Then Consider Pax World Fund* cation. They have access to wool and expert weavers. What they want is a mar­ For a free prospectus Pax World is a no-load, diversified balanced ket in the United States or Great Britain and other materials mutual fund designed for those who wish to in which there is no middleman. They call toll-free can make wall hangings, rugs, tablecloths, 24 hours a day: develop income and to invest in life-supportive products and services. Pax invests in such blankets- as well as smaller items like sweaters, hats, mittens, socks, ponchos, industries as pollution control, health care, food, 1-800-767-1729 etc. They want to get involved with for­ housing, education, and leisure time. Pox World Fund shores eign trade wherein they make a profit. ore available for sole in The fund does not invest in weapons production, We traveled to the beautiful little town all 50 states. nuclear power, or the tobacco, alcohol or of Coroico in the tropical forests on the gambling industries. Various opportunities are eastern slopes of the Andes (altitude: available: Regular Accounts, IRA's, Educational 2,000 meters). We just happened to no­ tice a small sign high on a building that Accounts, SEP-IRA's, and 403(b) Pension Plans. read "Iglesia Evangelica Amigos." In­ Minimum investment $250. Send no money. side we were greeted by a most gracious • PAX W O RlD FUND IS THE ONlY MUTUAl FUND IN THE man, Vicente Apaza Condori. Years ago, NATION AFFiliATED WITH A FOUNDATION THAT, FOR TWElVE he had been a Quaker teacher at an YEARS, HAS SUPPORTED TREE PlANTING IN AR EAS OF THE INELA school. An accident threw him DEFORESTED THIRD W ORlD . over a cliff, and a vehicle landed on top of him. Vicente was so thankful to God for saving his life that he decided to start a Quaker school and meeting. The meet­ ing is now associated with Central Yearly Meeting. FRIENDS HOME AT WOODSTOWN Vicente's sermon that night was spo­ ken both in Aymara and Spanish. He A Quaker-Sponsored Retirement Facility introduced us to the meeting and ex­ • One-bedroom Woods Court • 60-bed Medicare & Medicaid plained we were "silent" Quakers. From Apartments for People over 60 Certified Nursing Home the Bible he read the passage about wher­ • Residential facility with • Pastoral Setting ever two or three are gathered the Lord is community dining • Caring, supportive staff present. He said a person is with God • Delicious, nutritious meals while working in the field, walking to town, anywhere and everywhere. "We come together in this meeting to cel­ P.O. Box 457, Friends Drive • Woodstown, NJ 08098 • (609) 769-1500 ebrate the spirit oflove, but this is not the only place we are with God." In Latin America, meetings are typically held sev­ eral times a week. They include a lot of The much-in-demand hymn singing. The four hymns sung in book of cartoons by the beginning are a way ofcalling people Philadelphia's " Attack in the community to gather. Singing well Quaker" and first woman is a definite asset to a Latin American to win a Pulitzer Prize for pastor. editorial cartooning. The perfect gift for a The next day we returned to visit special friend. Sales to Vicente's school, where there are 64 stu­ benefit FRIENDS jOURNAL. dents taught in two shifts by three teach­ Send $8.50 (incl. postage) ers, one of whom is Vicente. Each earns for each copy to: 120 bolivianos ($30) a month. The cur­ FRIENDS jOURNAL, I so I riculum is well thought out. Aymara is Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. taught to the intermediates. Vicente wants Abortion Cartoons on Demand to teach typing, but he has only one me-

22 February 1994 FRIENDS JoURNAL chanical typewriter. With three others, Poverty in Bolivia is extensive and he said, he could start a typing class. often extreme. Bolivian Quakers have They are in the process ofbuilding four responded by sharing their faith. In the more classrooms and some latrines. He name of religion you can safely propose said with $1,000 more, the project could changes. Latin American Friends are Send for be completed. Vicente's wife and three evangelical, but not in a way of insisting of their children are living in La Paz so on a theological orthodoxy. To attract she can earn money sewing trousers. He people to your meeting, you have to do alist of can't send money home as there is barely more than ask them to come in, sit down, enough to feed himself and his two sons and be quiet for an hour. Hymn singing, living with him. He tries to get home to sermons, plus a chance to move and speak yom friends. La Paz once every three months, but it is all help to attract newcomers. By bring­ so expensive! ing in more and more people, Quakers In a country where the level ofeduca­ are able to establish schools. Evangelism tion is so low, it seems appropriate that is accepted in Latin America. It isn't the meetings for worship are pro­ seen as a threat to the local government. When you're struggling with a grammed. Illiterate attenders can learn Quakers have used it as an effective mental or emotional problem, only orally. The variety of native lan­ means of making changes in their pov­ where do you tum? Those dose to guages requires translations of whatever erty-stricken country. These Quakers reap you can provide compassion and is said. The one book people are certain satisfaction from knowing their action understanding, but sometimes you to know about is the Bible. The Bible and (evangelism) is completely directed by need more-the help of an expert a person directing meeting help to bring their faith. Their other source of joy, I people together so they can celebrate feel, is their success. There are 203 trained to understand problems God's love in unity. Quaker meetings in Bolivia today. Q like yours. This is when Friends of a different son can help. Friends Hospital has only one purpose: " WE ARE THANKFUL FOR WHAT WE GET" to treat mental and emotional Quakers living in wealthy nations may feel the obligation to try to redirect the illnesses. world's wealth to obtain a more equitable distribution. We are often unaware of We'd like to send you our free how much good a little of our money can do in such a poor country as Bolivia. 11 11 Perhaps Friends may consider sending a donation for one of the five projects Guide to Staff. It$ a list of our listed below. As Vicente said: "Nothing is impossible, if you believe in God. people, programs and philosophy. There is so little food, but we are thankful for what we get." You'll see the depth of knowledge we have here. And you can use it Projects Make checks payable to Send to to call any one of our physicians. Keep it handy. Mental and Photocopier "Lito Llanque" Lito Llanque emotional problems affect millions Casilla 81 74 La Paz, Bolivia of people. You never know when you might need Friends. Lab Equipment "Villa Alicia Colegio" Villa Alicia Colegio c/o INELA Send coupon to: (address below) Artisan Training "INELA" INELA Center (address below)

Typewriter "Iglesia Evangelica Amigos Vicente Apaza Condori HO S P I TAL Central de Bolivia" Casilla 992 4641 Roosevelt Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19124-2399 La Paz, Bolivia or call: 215 •831 •4600 Completion of "Iglesia Evangelica Amigos Vicente Apaza Condori VIcente's school Central de Bolivia" (address above) Please send your free Guide to Staff, with a full list of Friends physicians, their backgrounds and phone numbers. The address for INELA is Iglesia Nacional Evangelica de Los Amigos, Max Paredes No. 776, Casilla 13897, La Paz, Bolivia. Name______~------Do you know ofa store that will sell Bolivian woven items at minimal or no Address,______charge? For more information, write or call: Pam or Ken Barratt, 58, The Banks, City______Wallasey, Merseyside England L45 3NT. To direct dial from the States: 011 44 51 638 3982 State Zip~------Pam Barratt (AII information is kept sbictly confidential)

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24 February 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL A. Fox birthplace (2 wds.). 36 28m 18o 47 ea 131 s 93 173 186 211 B. _ _ _ _ _ "FairerWorld"relieforganization. 132 27 2 213 40 c. Where the judge fell (two wds.). D. Adjective for a Scots beastie.

E. It flows through Zaragoza.

F. One of the Jones boys. A red, was he?

G. Captain of a Quaker whaler.

H. British Friend working in Nazi Berlin.

I. Oh! German and the night before earn me in the middle. J. See DO. 126 -1- 183 74 44 K. Not illegal.

L. Guillotine conveyance.

M. Proscribed (2 wds.).

N. Shaky ground.

0. Town near C.

P. Street address for FGC.

a. Aussie's neighbor. It's a bird!

R. Station for Friends House, London.

s. More boisterous.

T. Quaker writing implement?

u. Recommended exercises.

v. Avaricious.

w. Key Quaker phrase (3 wds.).

X. Quakerly Greek name.

Y. Deli item or leg display.

z. One of the Peningtons.

Locale of Quaker vision (2 wds.).

Reaches, breaches.

Matador's opponent.

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fRIENDS JOURNAL Febru,ary 1994 25 FAMILY DAY AT AN ARMS FAIR by A. Robert Smith went to the 40th Annual Azalea Fes­ entrepreneurs of death-dealing technol­ Navy doesn't own, such as the F 15, flown tival Air Show here in Virginia last ogy we refer to as "defense" contractors in from Luke Air Force Base in Arizona I April. I was not looking for gorgeous are hustling for new markets abroad. for the occasion; and the Stealth bomber, floral displays for which this region is That's what the symposium and air show from Hilliman Air Force Base in New justly proud, but to seek evidence that were all about, in the name ofadvancing Mexico. Here you could even kick the this event was part of an international "global security," as Defense Secretary tires and mount the armament of your weapons bazaar in disguise. It was that, Les Aspin put it in sending greetings. choice-real touchy-feely stuff. and worse. For the arms merchants, there were If you can't afford a new model, there For the second year since the end of talks addressing "The international mar­ were used vehicles as well, such as the the Cold War, the National Security In­ ket," "Making sales: Where to start," F4, a 1965 McDonnell Douglas model dustrial Association-a trade organiza­ "Closing the deal," and "Getting paid: now owned by the Air National Guard of tion of U.S. armament manufacturers­ resolving the credit crunch." Nebraska. Why Nebraska needs fighter put on a symposium in a hotel here, bring­ For the entrance fee of $395, buyers aircraft is admittedly puzzling, but this ing in speakers from the Pentagon, State could learn how to tap into high-tech's plane had a "For Sale" sign on the wind­ Department, and defense industries to powerful potential. The symposium's shield. speak on the theme "International De­ program carried a full-page ad that pro­ "What will you take for it?'' I asked a fense in the Clinton Era." For the invited claimed, "Who needs more proof [than crew member. officials from some 70 foreign govern­ Desert Storm] that technology wins "Well, we've been getting $1.5 mil­ ments, the drill was like a Dale Carnegie wars?" You could watch videos ofweap­ lion for them from Spain," he remarked. self-improvement workshop, except the ons in action in Iraq, mingle with sales Israel is another satisfied customer of object was not winning friends so much reps eager to take your order, and prac­ this model, he assured me. as intimidating rival governments. The tice closing the deal. The Stealth bomber isn't for sale, I hot topics included: The air show at the Norfolk Naval Air was told-at least not as of this writing. • Advanced land combat Station was overloaded with planes the It's still the newest item in the U.S. arse­ • Sharing technology and bring­ nal. Having one on display ing it into use gave the show a sense ofbeing • Small-business utilization in very current: the world's top the international defense mar­ merchandise. The Stealth ketplace bomber was doing air shows • Precision strike weapons. all up and down the East Coast Among the uninvited guests all last year, flying out of were several demonstrators from Langley Air Force Base in the Catholic Worker, who pro­ Virginia, a crewman told me. tested aloud, made the newspa­ What isn't clear is how pers by getting arrested, and much or whether the Clinton made their point that the gov­ administration intends to con­ ernment should be trying to re­ tinue helping the arms mer­ duce arms instead of promoting chants. It's obviously a big their sale. So did a handful of temptation to promote sales less demonstrative Friends with overseas in the interest of a sign-carrying vigil on the side­ boosting U.S. jobs and the bal­ walk outside. ance ofpayments. We may not Much as we might hope that 4: make world class autos any­ the collapse of one superpower ·~ more, but nobody builds dead­ might induce the surviving su­ 't lier fighter planes than we do. perpower to retool weapons ~ The Bush administration plants for peaceful products, the ~ began to subsidize and promote ~weapons sales very dramati­ A. Robert Smith, a former Wash­ ~ cally three years ago. Until ington correspondent, is editor of ~ then, when McDonnel Douglas the magazine Venture Inward, and ~ wanted to show off its aircraft a member of Virginia Beach (Va.) ~ manned by U.S. military crews, Friends Meeting. ~ they had to lease them from

26 February 1994 FRIENDS JoURNAL the government, paying up to $1 million is that many members of Congress are for each aircraft at each air show. promoting sales of surplus arms to pro­ But in 1991 George Bush quietly ap­ tect jobs in their districts, just like farm ~~~~ proved a welfare program for the arms state lawmakers protect subsidies for to­ e _~m~ .. l industry. Ever since then the taxpayers bacco and peanuts. v HAVERfORD .....,_ have picked up the tab for delivering The military, which has worked U.S. weapons to arms fairs in Europe, closely with industry since World War 851 Buck Lane Pre-Sdtooi..{J!llde VI Havettord, PA Coeducational the Middle East, Asia, South America, II, has institutionalized weapons displays (215}642-{)354 Extended Day and Canada. At the 1991 Paris Air Show, as family fun, such as the Azalea Festival for example, 19 U.S. military planes and Air Show. Each year for 40 years there Now accepting applications 150 military personnel were dispatched has been an Azalea Queen from one of Frierds School is devoted exclusively to to the French capital the NATO countries, elementary education with an emphasis on on industry's behalf at often an ambas­ academic excellence and aker values a cost of $900,000, sador's daughter (four not including the ex­ have been presidents' pense of fuel and daughters), who pre­ & maintenance-costs sides over this cel­ Fyfe Miller the contractors used to ebration ofthe West's FUNERAL SERVICE pay. military alliance. 7047 Germantown Ave. An arms happen­ Last year's show Philadelphia, PA 19119 ing in Singapore cost at the air base, with (215) 247-8700 free admission, out­ the taxpayers over $1 James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller million to supply hel­ drew the circus, and icopters and jet fight­ attracted much the Simple earth burial and cremation service ers. same crowd-young available at reasonable cost. Last year's Paris families seeking Air Show saved us thrills. Anyone, of some bucks because any age, with a trig­ 0 the Pentagon was ger finger was offered miffed that the a chance to climb into French evidently cockpits and aim the have been using their guns. Nice, clean spy network to gather family fun to go with • m~a(je ceJK1F1caces industrial secrets from the picnic lunch • awaJZOs •1t2SC~1pc1ons • U.S. weapons manufacturers in order to mother packed and dad carried and spread • t;1~ct2 announcemencs • compete for arms sales. As protest, the out on a blanket by the runway to watch • e4~eec1t1(j ca~o bes1qns • U.S. representatives boycotted the Paris our aerial gladiators roar through the skies • 1nVIC3C1005 • SC~OltS • show. overhead! A better basis for ending U.S. partici­ The "lost children" signs posted about pation in arms fairs here and abroad would the base seemed symbolic of the U.S. :llanzt:l:Tm'esr be candidate Clinton's seeming wish to condition. Baby-boomers who have never 609-7S6-JSZ+ reduce arms in the Third World. Clinton known a time of real peace have been so bashed Bush by saying the "failure to conditioned to the military as part of the come to grips with conventional arms U.S. way oflife that we flock to be enter­ sales carries with it a very high price tag tained, disconnecting ourselves from the VERMONT in terms of instability, conflict, and the horrors their weapons have visited upon tragic human loss, vast property damage, untold thousands of people in faraway Adventure and high financial cost." lands who had the misfortune of being The Farm & Wilderness summer camps Bush was vulnerable because in 1991, tagged "the enemy." offer challenging adventures for children while telling Congress that one of his Unaccustomed to peace, we seem ages 9-17 in a nurturing atmosphere. post-GulfWar goals was to curb the sale wary of it, more concerned about the Farming, canoeing, hiking, swimming, ofarms to Middle East nations, he simul­ economic dislocations of closing bases work projects & crafts are offered on un­ taneously ordered the Pentagon to help and arms factories. Subconsciously we spoiled lakes deep in the Green Moun­ arms contractors find overseas buyers. cling to outdated notions of national se­ tains, 54 years under Quaker leadership. That year the United States exported a curity built into the U.S. psyche over the Write or call Carla M. Mazzariello, record $23 billion in arms, including a past two generations. Farm& $2.5 billion sale of tanks to Kuwait. The Just as defense contractors avoid con­ Wilderness, HCR70, U.S. had captured 57 percent of the Third verting to peaceful pursuits by peddling Box 27, World market for arms. About 90 per­ arms wherever they can, we seem afraid Plymouth, cent ofit went to unelected governments. to claim a peace dividend and risk rela­ VT 05056 As president, Bill Clinton has yet to tionships in the global community based (802) translate his campaign rhetoric into ac­ on trust, goodwill, and the power of a 422-3761. tion. The current political reality he faces peaceful purpose. 0

FRJENDS JouRNAL February 1994 27 Reports FRIENDS CAMP South China, Maine Canadian Yearly Meeting During the Canadian Friends Service Committee evening, Ursula Franklin chal­ *Ages 7-17 Canadian Yearly Meeting met together, lenged us to find alternatives to the use of * Coed - Residential 240 adults and young Friends, at Pickering military force in the UN' s "peace-keeping" * Non competitive College in Newmarket, Ontario, Aug. 14-21, operations. In small groups we examined our * $475 for 2 weeks 1993. It was our 160th yearly meeting, the own limits around the use of force in our A unique camp program which in­ 38th as a united Canadian meeting. lives as community peacemakers. The re­ dudes international campers, Quaker We came together knowing we would be sults indicated clearly our need for prayerful community living, decision making, holding under prayerful consideration mat­ reflection on our understanding ofand com­ peace communications center, crafts, ters that were laid over from last year. We mitment to the peace testimony. drama, sports, water activities, and approached our deliberations on sexual ha­ Young Adult Friends came together with other creative programs. rassment with trepidation and anxiety. Many a strong interest for revitalized outreach and Friends felt sad that explicit direction had to involvement. A more structured youth pro­ Call or write: be given to forbid sexual and gender abuse, gram fostered stronger bonds among Junior Susan Morris, Director both physical and verbal, within Canadian Young Friends. The meeting received with P.O. Box 84 Yearly Meeting. Working through pain and pleasure an epistle and banner from the chil­ E. Vassalboro, ME 04935 anger born ofabusive experiences has been a dren of London Yearly Meeting. The pres­ (207) 923-3975 demanding but essential task. We have be­ ence ofc hildren and teenage Friends at yearly come more open as we acknowledged there meeting has given us great joy. We espe­ have been abuses in our meetings. We in­ cially enjoyed the Quaker Pageant on the Educational excellence creased our understanding and respect for final evening. for over 200 years one another as women and men met sepa­ We are thankful for the diverse gifts dis­ rately and together every evening. The que­ tributed among our members. We are blessed Coed CoUege PreparatOI)', Pre-K -12 ries we wrote reflected the need to find a by the Spirit in a growing sense of love process as a united meeting to heal and sup­ among us. Friends were reminded that we port the abused, abuser, and the meeting, as are deepening our faith in God's truth as we well as to examine our behavior and attitudes work through difficult issues. Like a tree in a in dealing with one another. We felt the storm, our faith must give us the flexibility to Spirit drawing us together as we moved for­ bow, and the strength not to break. ward in this work. The ad hoc committee on war tax con­ Elaine Bishop cerns has found a method which potentially Moorestown FriendS School will allow Canadian Yearly Meeting to redi­ 110 East Main Street, Moorestown, NJ rect the military portion of employees' in­ North Pacific Yearly come tax remittances to the federal 609-235-2900 ext. 227 government's Debt Service and Reduction Meeting Fund. This is not an entirely satisfactory As we gathered July 22-25, 1993, for the solution, but perhaps a first step. We were 21st annual session of North Pacific Yearly also heartened that Canadian Yearly Meet­ Meeting on the campus ofOregon State Uni­ ing is organizing shipment of medical sup­ versity in Corvallis, we sought to put into plies to Cuba in response to appeals from practice the theme of our gathering, "Ex­ Cuban Friends. tending the Boundaries ofOur Community." We were inspired by the Sunderland P. The session included 306 adults, 63 Junior Gardner lecture presented by Friends who Friends, and 70 children and infants. worked with the Friends' Ambulance Unit in A "Rainbow of Decades" grew on one China during and just after the 1939-1945 lobby wall. Each Friend was asked to attach War. They spoke of the clearness of their a colored square to the rainbow representing discernment to take on this service, the life­ the decade of his/her birth. The rainbow re­ long influence of this experience, and its mained up through the session, reminding us effects on their spiritual life. ofthe age diversity of our yearly meeting. Many Friends experienced feelings ofin ­ Gordon Browne of Friends World Com­ tense urgency around consideration of pro­ mittee for Consultation, Section ofthe Ameri­ posed revisions to the Discipline on mar­ cas, our Friend in Residence, inspired us riage. Friends seemed close to unity with the with the query "How large are our hearts?" exception of non-legally sanctioned mar­ Joy causes us to open our boundaries; fear riages, including same-sex marriages. Con­ causes us to close them. He asked us to cerns were also expressed about the inad­ approach our community as we would a equacy of the care and support of marriages meadow full of a variety of flowers and already under the care of meetings. We were grasses, valuing each other for the range of moved by a minute from the Junior Young our differences as well as for the ways in Friends in which they supported same sex which we are alike. marriage and hoped the yearly meeting would We are attempting to reduce the separa­ welcome all Friends equally. After deep con­ tions among generations. Junior Friends chal­ sideration Friends still are not clear. We will lenged us to accept them as equal partners in return to this deliberation, which we acknowl­ our search for the Light. One response was edge has been painful for many, in 1994. the formation of cross-age worship groups,

28 February 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL co-led by adult and junior Friends. nized by Ministry and Oversight. Our lives concerns for the mentally ill and the sexually After a long and sometimes painful sea­ have been enriched by the wide age-range abused, and were challenged in our plenaries soning, we welcomed a new edition of our among us. Nevertheless, the query "Why is to find God's truth in the search for unity on book of Faith and Practice, which reflects PYM losing its youth and what can we do civil rights for all people in committed rela­ new Light and growth on the issue of mar­ about it?" presented by young Friends (age tionships. riage, including same-gender marriages. We 18 and up) evoked much emotional sharing The peace testimony has been a broad continue to seek new Light concerning dif­ among both young and old. All ages ex­ thread in the fabric of this yearly meeting. ferent experiences of faith, and search for pressed a need for greater spirituality in yearly The members of the East-West Relations ways to express them in language all can meeting. Committee and other groups are working hear. · We have been concerned with the revi­ toward establishing a long-term Friends Cen­ We devoted one plenary session to re­ sion of our Faith and Practice for the year ter in Moscow. Their aim is to support newing our vision of the yearly meeting and 2000, with emphasis this year on the nature grassroots Russian and Ukrainian groups that re-examining its current structure. We di­ of the core of our faith, on the children ofour share traditional Quaker concerns for social vided into small groups to gather Friends' meetings, and on the advices and queries. justice. Pacific Yearly Meeting approved a input on this subject. We now pass on to the The core ofQuakerbeliefis that the Truth is minute of support of a Friends Center in Yearly Meeting Mulling-Over Committee the known to each one of us. In the words of a Moscow. reams of paper generated by this process. book on bird identification, "When the bird Our Peace Committee introduced a pro­ As we left our annual session, we hoped and the book disagree, always believe the posal that grew out of the 1993 gathering of to realize the prediction ofGordon Browne's bird." There is among the Faith and Practice Friends General Conference: to form Friends visiting committee for membership, who told Revision Committee a deep concern for daily peacemaking teams similar to those the Breth­ him,"As a Friend, you will be at home in any meditative practice among all our members. ren and Mennonites have organized. devout community." Our monthly meetings hunger for spiritual There was a sense ofjoy , hope, and thanks­ Marge Abbott enrichment and thirst for guidance in spiri­ giving at the United States' moratorium on tual growth. nuclear testing. Friends signed a letter of Throughout the year Friends in the vari­ appreciation to President Clinton for his ef­ Pacific Yearly Meeting ous meetings and worship groups have been forts and also asked for his support of a Pacific Yearly Meeting Friends gathered concerned with bridging the gap between Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Aug. 4-8, 1993, at Walker Creek Ranch, pastoral and unprogrammed yearly meetings, We send our warm greetings out to you, nestled among the rolling, golden-brown hills many having been inspired by the Western with the thought that our salvation becomes of northern California. Younger and older Gathering of Friends in 1992. We shared one with the salvation of the earth. Friends were encouraged to share their spiri­ tual journeys with each other in interest Ellie Huffman groups and in a special plenary session orga-

Nonsense of the Meeting A Quaker Limerick by Seth Hinshaw Said a frugal old Quaker, O' Mallory, "I' m counting each bite and calorie, And sad to relate, It's not to lose weight; I'm trying to live on my salary!" Jeff could not understand why some Friends did not (From the Aug. 1993 Adirondak like popcorn meetings. (N.Y.) Meeting Newsletter) adverb is picked from the jar. Once the re­ the circle and mimed the recruiting of a Are Quakers Glum? maining circle knows the adverb chosen, the committee. Committee assembled, he led player is invited back in. His or her job is to us in joining hands and a moment's si­ by Linda Rogers guess the adverb. To gain clues, he or she lence. The committee then headed off to Quite a number of years ago, my hus­ may ask people to act out certain activities in shovel joyfully. band, Doug, and I had the opportunity to this fashion, e.g. "Comb your hair this way, (From Plain Speech, May 1993) attend, in the depths of winter, a weekend please, Emily." retreat at Camp Neekaunis, located on After a few rounds of the game, the ad­ Georgian Bay, Canada. The weekend in­ verb "Quakerly" was drawn. This seemed to Hardly Revolutionary cluded the back-breakingjob ofdigging a stump the game player. Each activity she Here is an inspirational cheer from a shoulder-high path through the snow to asked to be performed in the manner of the British Friend entitled "Chant ofth e Lib­ the outhouse. Fortunately, the group was mystery adverb was performed with glum erals" : also able to relax with a game of "Ad­ and serious demeanor, quickly and effi­ Whadda we want? verbs" on Saturday night. ciently- no nonsense. But the game player Gradual change. To play "Adverbs" you need a jar full wasn't getting any closer. Finally she asked When do we want it? of adverbs: quickly, coldly, loudly, etc. Rob Nunn to please shovel the snow in this In due course. One person must leave the room while an manner. Without hesitation he traveled around (From The Friend)

FRIENDS JouRNAL February 1994 29 QUNO Notes New Challenges for Friends and the United Nations Friends' support of the United Nations tal degradation, and rampant weaponry. The training for the job. over the past forty-eight years-and indeed, UN's response is accordingly a more multi­ The Quaker UN Office is addressing the Quakers' three-centuries-old vision of a col­ faceted affair, involving a wide range ofserv­ needs of the UN in the following ways: We lective approach to managing international ices provided by civilians, with military units work with diplomats as new guidelines and affairs-is being put to a new test today. The acting primarily as escorts. Other sections of principles for peace-keeping operations are challenge is that we are being taken up on the UN system broaden the response to cri­ established. We urge increased training for that vision and we are not sure how we feel ses. The political arms provide fact-finding peace-keeping units, employing a common about what we are getting. It seems that and mediation, while specialized agencies curriculum to include the kinds of non-vio­ troops under UN command have run amok mount consolidated operations to bring relief lent training that Quakers have pioneered. in Somalia, and in troubled spots all over the to civilians. We lobby governments to provide resources globe there is a new presence in white ve­ Yes, command and control functions have for training and deployment so that all peoples hicles, menacingly armed, with UN writ large. failed in certain cases and tragedies have ofthe world can participate as peace-keepers Yet these forces often seem unable to deliver resulted, but these cases are more the aberra­ and peace-makers. Additional resources are humanitarian aid where it is needed. tion than the rule. It is important to remem­ also necessary to support the ancillary relief Was our vision flawed? Has the UN turned ber that the United States/Iraq war was not a and development services which can prevent onto a sidepath down a long, slippery slope? UN operation, and that the United States and heal conflicts; currently ten dollars are Should Friends seek an alternative to the UN Rangers were not under UN command when spent on "security" in Somalia for every to be the agent of peace we had in mind? they fought Somalis in the streets. In Bosnia, dollar spent on humanitarian relief and de­ None of the above. We need to clear our where force is not being used even though velopment. Finally, we bring diplomats and vision, take new bearings from the UN's the UN's mandate would allow it, the High UN officials to Quaker House for quiet talks, present position, and continue to support ac­ Commissioner for Refugees estimates that thus increasing opportunities for mediation tivities complementary to this dearly won, the UN saved 4.2 million lives last winter by and arbitration, as called for in the UN still youthful world inter-governmental orga­ absorbing incoming fire and negotiating pas­ Charter. nization. sage for humanitarian convoys. There are There are many roles, in our communi­ From the Quaker UN Office in New York, currently 17 peace-keeping operations around ties, in national politics, and in the field, the situation looks like this. The number and the world employing 80,000 people. In an­ where the Quaker vision ofthe UN as peace­ complexity of crises the UN has to deal with other 20-some countries the UN is providing maker can be supported. It needs us, and I constitute a whole new universe from earlier humanitarian assistance in situations of war dare say we cannot do without it. peace-keeping operations. Situations today without military units. The problem is that are often compounded by the collapse of all this has been placed on a United Nations -stephen Collett internal social structures, severe environmen- that has too little experience, resources, or • COM\M\UINIIlllY In the manner of the Society of Friends, AnnaT. Jeanes went through life with a special awareness of being part of a greater whole - the whole of humanity. Through her kind works and generosity, she reached thousands of individuals and bettered countless lives. Jeanes Hospital upholds the Quaker testimony of community. At Jeanes, we seek to touch the lives of others, to make them healthier and stronger and wiser. We work to educate and to heal. And we commit ourselves fully and deeply to the greater good of the community. Jeanes AnnaT. Jeanes IIOSjiltal Founder of Jeanes Hospital A Quaker tradition ofcaring. 1822-1907 7600 Central Avenue • Philadelphia, PA 19111 • (215) 728-2000

30 February 1994 FRJENDS JoURNAL News of Friends

Friends are sending desperately needed almost entirely Tutsi. As the coup began to certainly Americans would react strongly. medical supplies to Cuba. At the end of collapse, soldiers went into the countryside, We propose that civilian organizations in­ July 1993, the American Friends Service killing Hutus. Hutu reprisal killings came a cluding the International Red Cross, and Committee facilitated a $50,000 shipment few days later. Death tolls are estimated in church relief services such as the experi­ with the Ecumenical Council in Havana, the tens of thousands and nearly 20 percent enced American Friends Service Committee through Church World Service. Funds gath­ of the population of six million has fled the should be funded for such work .... We be­ ered by Friends World Committee for country. lieve that most Americans are strongly moti­ Consultation, Section of the Americas, and Following the coup, staff and students at vated toward peace. . . We desire that our various yearly meetings made the delivery the center tried to keep local people calm, government and the UN pursue solutions of possible. and restrain them from revenge. Tutsis came international problems by alternative meth­ Three Cuban Quakers attended the Friends seeking sanctuary, and the mostly-Hutu staff ods avoiding the use of destructive force. United Meeting Triennial, July 13-18, 1993, and students took them in. There were many and New England Yearly Meeting, Aug. 7- killings and Hutus in the area began to flee, Jeanes Hospital observed the 80th anni­ 12, 1993. They gave Friends first-hand ac­ but the Friends stayed. When paratroopers versary ofthe signing of its charter on Nov. counts of the current conditions in Cuba and landed in the area, the Tutsis felt safe enough 7, 1993. Located in Philadelphia, Pa., the explained the need for additional aid. to leave, and the Friends were also reas­ facility is the only Quaker-guided, acute­ November 14, 1993, marked the tOOth sured, thinking the military would protect care hospital in the United States. More than anniversary of Friends in Cuba and provided everyone. Apparently three of the Tutsi who 80 descendants of the origional charter sign­ an opportunity for a special offering to in­ had been given sanctuary returned to the ers and relatives of AnnaT. Jeanes, the hos­ crease support of the program. FWCC, Sec­ center with eight paratroopers. The soldiers pital's founder, joined the celebrations and tion of the Americas, looks forward to col­ allowed two Rwandan students to leave, then signed a new charter. A display of historical laborative uses of the funds, and to handing began shooting. materials, including original meeting min­ ~ponsibility for material aid back to AFSC Friends who escaped the killing have re­ utes, and copies of two books written by and FUM. Friends Committee on National turned home and are doing what they can to Anna Jeanes allowed for reflection on the Legislation continues to be an important support families and the center. The most hospital's past, as the new charter signing source of policy advice for this effort. Con­ immediate needs are for tents, medicines, marked a renewed commitment to commu­ tributions earmarked for aid to Cuban Friends and surgeons. It is not clear what types of nity service. The event was followed by meet­ may be sent to AFSC, 1501 Cherry St., peace-making are possible, an

I I where. Friends wishing to offer as­ Hartford (Conn.) Meeting on July 18,1993. Zaire ~ Uganda . /) sistance may send donations, ear­ The honor given to Thomas R. Bodine rec­ marked for Burundi, to FWCC ognized his vital role in founding the meet­ )/1 Kampala ,' Kenya World Office, 4 Byng Place, ing in 1940, and highlighted his life ofQuaker London WCIE 7JH, England. service. Over the years, Tom served as clerk (From The Friend) of Hartford Meeting, ofNew England Yearly J "Vi/ Nairobi Meeting, and of Friends United Meeting; as Bryn Mawr College geology pro­ vice-chair of Friends General Conference; ~.(w:-: a '--,,,, fessor Maria Luisa Crawford and he has worked both in the United States ~ ·,, ..../ ...... received a 1993 MacArthur Fel­ and abroad in many important areas, both \;-8urj.nd1 Mombasa lowship, popularly known as the Quaker and civic. In his opening remarks, /. \ B31jumbura "genius" award, last fall. She will Paul Cullen noted, "Tom is truly a Quaker ; Tanzania use a portion of the $320,000 grant for all seasons." this summer, when she and her hus­ band take several students to study a mountain range in Alaska. The MacArthur fellowships were cre­ Tragedy has struck the Friends' center in ated in 1981 to "free exceptionally gifted Kwibuka, Burundi. Violence following an individuals from economic constraints so they Oct. 21, 1993, coup has claimed the lives of could develop their potential." (From F AHE) eight pastoral students at the center's theo­ logical school. Two students at the mechan­ Sarasota (Fla.) Meeting is speaking out ics' training school were also killed, and about U.S. foreign policy and Somalia. A others were wounded. Although many de­ meeting minute endorsing U.S. and UN mo­ tails are not yet available, indications are that tives, but not actions, in Somalia was sent to the killings were tribally motivated and had President Clinton, the UN, and newspapers little or nothing to do with the center's Quaker throughout the United States. The statement orientation. suggests the following: Burundi's population has two ethnic Future humanitarian efforts should not be groups, the majority Hutus and the Tutsis. In administered by armed troops. Factions in July 1993, a predominately Hutu govern­ entered countries are strengthened by their ment was elected for the first time since strong antagonisms to the presence of for­ independence from Belgium in 1962. During eign militia, with resultant increase in con­ Pacifist Tom Bodine strikes an the coup, the president and several cabinet flict. If foreign armies were to land in the unusual pose at the dedication of members were killed by the army, which is United States to feed those in poverty here, the meeting library in his honor.

FRJENDS JouRNAL February 1994 31 Bulletin Board 'W'ho are Friends called to be? Friends • Would you like to include your Quaker home in the 1994 Directory for Traveling Friends? Music The directory is being prepared by Friends General Conference and will list Friends Camp throughout the world who offer home hospi­ tality to other Friends traveling with letters A unique of introduction from their meetings. Some summer program "bed and breakfasts" will be included. Such for ages I 0-18 visitation can increase the sense of related­ Paul. Keynote speakers include Alex ness among Friends world-wide, and help Morisey, former Executive Secretary of July 1o-August 7 Friends spend less when they travel. The FWCC, Section of the Americas, and Kara at Barnesville, Ohio- updated directory will be available from FGC Newell, Executive Secretary of American in May. Friends who want to offer hospital­ Friends Service Committee. For further in­ For brochure, write: ity can obtain an application to be listed in formation and registration details, contact FMC, P.O. Box 427, · the directory by contacting Friends General Nancy Peterson, 4021 Lyndale Ave. South, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 Conference-TO, 1216 Arch St., 2B, Phila­ Minneapolis, MN 55409, telephone (612) Phone 513-767-1311 or 513-767-1818 delphia, PA 19107, telephone (800) 966- 823-4946, or Leland Beckes, 4325 Bryant 4556, or (215) 561-1700. The deadline for Ave. South, Apt. B, Minneapolis, MN 55409, completed applications is Feb. 15. telephone (612) 827-3227.

•Friends Association for Higher Education •"Stalking the Absolute: Science and Spirit," DELAWARE VALLEY is calling for papers and presentations for its a conference at Quaker Center, Ben Lomond, 15th annual conference, "Coming Home to Calif., Feb. 18-21, will explore the relation­ FRIENDS ScHooL the Earth, William Penn and Contemporary ship between faith and scientific inquiry, Morris & Montgomery Avenues Bryn Mawr, Pa. Issues." The conference, scheduled for June working to reclaim and clarifY the space for 23-26 at William Penn College, Oskaloosa, religious sensibilities in our modern culture For Students with Iowa, invites proposals from all disciplines dominated by a scientific worldview. Jim Learning Differences exploring sustainable development, relation­ Brune and Joe Franko, both Quaker scien­ ships with the environment (natural, social, tists, will share personal approaches to in­ College preparatory, Grades 7-12 educational, and spiritual), and challenges to corporating an understanding of Spirit into Summer School educators toward the year 2000. Proposed their professional work. Together the group Come to an Open House sessions may take several forms: works-in­ will explore its views of science and faith, 526-9595 for info & video, progress presented as dialogues that involve asking questions such as: Are scientific truths session attenders, artistic projects, or more invented or discovered? What are the natural "Learning with a Difference" formal presentations. Proposed sessions bridges and historical connections between should address pedagogical or contemporary Mathematics and Theology? How do tradi- issues that are connected with Quaker values and concerns. One-page proposals or inquir­ ies should be directed to Michael A. Heller, Calendar Friends' English Department, Roanoke College, CENTRAL Salem, VA 24153-3794, telephone (703) 375- 'Learn Among Friends' 2369. The deadline for proposal submissions FEBRUARY is February 15. Founded in 1845 4-6-"Clerking: Serving the Community with Joy and Confidence," a workshop for both new and o Record enrollment •"Peace team" participants and activists who experienced clerks of Friends' meetings. Led by o 2 spacious campuses are tired ofoperating without strategy will be Art Larrabee, the weekend will feature both the o Community outreach interested in "Nonviolent Campaigning and theoretical and the practical- the elevated and 3rd Party Intervention," a workshop led by the nitty-gritty. Cost: $160. Contact Pendle Hill, programs George Lakey. Scheduled for March 11-13, 330 Plush Mill Rd., Wallingford, PA 19086, tele­ o Small classes the program will focus on learning action phone (215) 566-4507. Forinjonnotion: (215) 649-7440 techniques and strategies for achieving goals 4-6-"Elder Caregiving," a program at Woolman Friends' Central School and reducing the level of violence in conflict Hill focusing on the normal aging process, its 110 1 City Avenue, Wynnewood, PA 19096 situations in the United States and abroad. mixed blessings and frustrations, and ways to For more information, contact Training enable the elderly to remain vital parts of their Center Workshops, 4719 Springfield Ave., community. The weekend will be led by Mary Philadelphia, P A 19143, telephone (215) 729- Ellen Preston, who is experienced in community health planning and nursing home administra­ 7458. CREMATION tion. Contact Woolman Hill, Keets Rd., Deerfield, MA 01342, telephone ( 413) 774-3431. Friends are reminded that/he · •"Who are Friends Called to be? How do we AnnaT. Jeanes Fund 11-13-"Next Steps Toward a Lasting Peace in will reimburse cremation costs. work in the world?" is the theme for this year's Friends World Committee for Con­ the Middle East," a weekend seminar at Pendle (Applicable to members of Hill. Led by James Fine, the program will exam­ Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) sultation High Plains Regional Conference I ine the historical background of the Arab-Israeli For information, write or telephone All Friends Weekend, April 8-10. The con­ conflict, discuss the current concerns of Israelis RICHARD R. BE:ITS ference will be held in Minnesota at Minne­ 500·8 Glen Echo Road and Palestinians, and identify practical ways in Philadelphia, PA 19119 apolis Friends Meetinghouse, Minneapolis, which participants can act in their own communi­ (215) 247-3354 and Twin Cities Friends Meetinghouse, St. ties to promote Middle East peace. Cost: $160.

32 February 1994 FRIENDS JOURNAL tional religious concepts fit into the cosmos small enterprises. The program's $1600 (plus as revealed by science? and What insights airfare) cost is tax deductible. Group airfare has the Religious Society of Friends tradi­ is available. For further information, contact tionally brought to the field of scientific in­ Global Service Corps, 1472 Filbert St. #405, quiry? Cost for the weekend is $135. For San Francisco, CA 94109, telephone (415) more information, contact Quaker Center, 922-5538. Ben Lomond, CA 95005, telephone (408) 336-8333. •Quaker Festival Orchestra & Chorus in En­ gland will be honoring the music of Friend •World Vision's "30 Hour Famine" will take Donald Swann from March 31-Apri\6. Par­ place Feb. 25-26. The annual event is in ticipants rehearsing at the seven-day resi­ observation ofthe more than one billion hun­ dential school will immerse themselves in gry, malnourished humans in the world to­ Donald's music, and share fellowship and day. Participants, mostly teens, recruit fam­ periods of worship together. Two pieces will ily and friends who sponsor them to go with­ be premiered by the group in Reading on Imagine a vacation so relaxing you feel like part of the scenery. out food for 30 hours. During their fast, young April 5, and in London on April 6. For more Experience a farm vacation: people experience first-hand the reality of information and an application form, contact -Explore hundreds of acres of pristine hunger while they learn about the issues of Tina Helfrich, Leaveners Arts Base, 8 Lennox wilderness hunger and poverty through educational ac­ Rd., London N4 3NW, UK, telephone 071- -Participate in the activities of farm life tivities, videos, and resource materials pro­ 272-5630. -Experience animal life first hand vided by World Vision. Groups or individu­ -Relax in a peaceful simple als interested in participating should contact •The 1994 gathering for Women in Public atmosphere World Vision 30 Hour Famine, P.O. Box Ministry will be held Sept. 15-1 7, in -Enjoy beautiful scenery -Excellent Family Get Away 1131 , Pasadena, CA 9113\-0094, telephone Indianapolis, Ind. Planned for women from Mountain Dale Farm (800) 7-FAMINE. all branches of Friends who are in pastoral (formerly the Water Co Farm) ministry or have experienced a strong call on RR 02 , Box 985 •Global Service Corps is seeking volunteers their lives into public ministry, the McClure, PA 17841 for its "Kenya Project," Feb. 18- March 13. conference's theme is "Visioning the Future: 717-658-3536 Participants will spend four days at Manor Open Doors for Women in Ministry." Par­ Open Year Round, Groups Welcome, Private House Agricultural Centre in Western Kenya ticipants will hear from women who have Accommodations, Meals Available. and the remaining time with Kenyan fami­ felt called to minister in unexpected places, lies in neighboring villages. While experi­ and will test and explore with others God's encing first-hand the warmth of the Kenyan call on individual lives. For further informa­ people, the group will Jearn about small­ tion, contact Mary Glenn Hadley, lO I Quaker village development issues and assist in the Hill Dr., Richmond, IN 47374, telephone initiation ofbiointensive gardening and other (317) 962-7573.

The Friends Camp in Bucks County • TWO WEEK SESSIONS - Contact Pendle Hill, 330 Plush Mill Rd., is $130. Contact Powell House, RD #1, PO Box STARTING JUNE 26 Wallingford, PA 19086, telephone (2 15) 566- 160, Old Chatham, NY 12136. A residential camp 4507. 19-"Art and the Spirit: A Gathering of Friends," Jor boys & girls 8-13. 11-14-Friends for Lesbian and Gay Concerns at Evanston (Ill.) Meetinghouse (just north of At Camp Onas kids Mid-Winter Gathering, at the Day Spring Episco­ Chicago). The program's theme, "How is artistic choose their activities from pal Conference Center, Ellinton, Fla., near expression compatible with Quaker practice?" a complete ca~p program. Sarasota. This year's theme is "Growing Together will be examined through discussions, worship in Faith- by Leaps & Bounds." For registration sharing, small group artistic sharing, and a "Merry FOR IN FORMAT10N cal/ 610-84 7-5858 information, write to David Thurman, 669 Quakers Coffee House." Cost is $25, and housing 609 Geigel Hill Rd. , Ottsville, PA 18942 Yorkshire Rd., NE, Atlanta, GA 30306. can be arranged. Contact Marti Matthews, Quaker ONAS IS ALSO AVAIVIBLE FOR Off·SEASON GROUP RENTALS Artists Gathering, 746 N. Taylor, Oak Park, IL 18-20-"Training of Trainers for Social Action," 60302, telephone (708) 524-9574. a program designed to increase training skills, teach new techniques, and provide networking MARCH with other trainers. It will be led by George Lakey GLOBAL WORKS Early March-Cuba Yearly Meeting, at Iglesia in Chicago, Ill. Contact Training Center Work­ "Amigos," Holgui11, Cuba. Contact Maulio Ajo Cultural exchange - Service to: shops, 4719 Springfield Ave., Philadelphia, PA Berencen, Libertad 114, 80100 Holguin, Cuba, Communities and environment. 19143, telephone (215) 729-7458. telephone (42) 3653. Summer teen adventures in: 18-20-"Finding Your Spiritual Source(s) for Liv­ • Pacific Northwest ing Simply and Joyfully," a Powell House confer­ 10-14-Alaska Yearly Meeting, Kotzebue, Alaska. Contact Robert Sheldon, Box 687, ence led by Paul Hood and Barr Swennerfelt. ~ • Puerto Rico Kotzebue, AK 99752, telephone (907) 442-3906. Through practices and principles derived mainly ~ • Russia from Quakerism, the feminist movement, and na­ 17-20-Annual Meeting ofFWCC, Section ofthe • Fiji Islands tive American spirituality, the group will exam­ Americas, at the Southwest Holiday Inn in St. Pam and Biff Houldin 814-667-2411 ine practical steps that can be taken toward lead­ Louis, Mo. Contact FWCC, Section of the ing simpler lives. More radical and wholistic ap­ Americas, 1506 Race St., Philadelphia, PA 19102, RD 2 Box356B, Huntingdon, Pa 16652 proaches will also be considered. Cost for adults telephone (215) 241-7250.

FRIENDS JouRNAL February 1994 33 Books ()ak\vood School Robert Maynard Hutchins, stitution. Shortly after he left Chicago, most of his innovations were scrapped. Grades 7-12 and Postgraduate A Memoir Hutchins became president of the Ford Friends Boarding and Day School Foundation's Fund for the Republic, which By Milton Mayer, edited by John Hicks supported efforts to reaffirm the Bill ofRights Emphasis on: with a foreword by Studs Terkel. University during the McCarthy period and made a sub­ ofCalifornia Press, Berkeley, Calif, 1993. stantial grant to AFSC's Freedom of Con­ • College Preparatory Curriculum 550 pages. $35/c/othbound. science Fund. He then went on to found the · Challenging Senior Program I am sure that most readers ofthe JouRNAL Center for the Study of Democratic Institu­ · Learning Center are familiar with the cartoon showing a school tions in Santa Barbara, Calif. Once again he · Personal Growth of fish swimming down a river-except one. tried to create a community of scholars, as­ · International Program Seeing that fish swimming upstream against sembled for the purpose of dialogue on the · Visual and Performing Arts the current, an observer remarked, "That one great issues facing the post-World War II • Sports Program must be a Quaker!" Well, Robert Maynard world. Mayer, also associated with the cen­ Hutchins was a Presbyterian, not a Quaker; ter, describes some of the difficulties. It was For a tour and more information but his long-time fiiend and associate, Milton not easy for scholars, used to doing indepen­ contact: Mayer, was a Jewish Quaker. Both spent dent research in specialized fields, to come their lives swimming upstream against the together to think collectively. As in many Oakwood School social and political currents of the middle groups with noble purposes, interpersonal 515 South Road years ofthe 20th century (1925-1975). conflicts arose and, at length, brought about Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Mayer' s memoir is almost as much his the center's demise. Telephone:(914) 462-4200 autobiography as it is a biography of Mayer and editor John Hicks have pro­ Fax:(914) 462-4251 Hutchins. It is often hard to know when duced a very readable book. Although the Hutchins leaves off and Mayer begins. times are still out ofjoint , future generations Mayer was primarily known to Friends may benefit by these prophets of peace. through his connections with the American Friends Service Committee's Institutes of RobertS. Vogel International Relations; as one ofthe authors of Speak Truth to Power; and for his debate Robert Vogel is a member ofOrange Grove ~ with Kenneth Boulding on peace research (Calif) Meeting. He serves on the General nI ~&1f~~~ Board ofPendle Hill and is a member ofthe and witness at Pendle Hill. Robert Hutchins, like Mayer, was a 20th Development Committee of Friends World • Quality care in the Quaker tradition. century prophet, a man clearly ahead of his Committee for Consultation, Section of the times. As Studs Terkel puts it in his fore­ Americas. • 42 apartments for independent liv­ ing, 60 private personal care rooms. word, "He was out of sync." But aren't most 120 nursing home beds. prophets? He was perhaps the most creative innova­ I Shall Not Want: • Peace of mind. Supportive medical tor in the philosophy ofed ucation since John and social services throughout your Dewey. Assuming the presidency ofthe Uni­ Guidestones of My Life stay. versity of Chicago at the age of 29, he em­ phasized reason, right, justice, and moral By Elvi Saari. Abridged and translated • An active lifestyle in a beautiful, truth. He called the university a "community from Finnish by C. B. Hall. Published by graceful sening. of scholars" with the primary purpose "to Quakers in Finland: Ystiivien unsettle the minds of young men (sic), to Uskonnol/inen Seura Kveekaritry, Helsinki, • Meals, housekeeping, transporta­ widen their horizons, to inflame their intel­ Finland, 1992. 90 pages. $10/paperback. tion, cultural and social activities. lects.... It is not to teach men facts, theo­ This long-awaited translation of Finnish ries, or laws; it is not to reform them, or Quaker Elvi (Esko) Saari's autobiography • A history of caring since 1904. amuse them, or make them expert techni­ was made possible by the efforts of Friends cians in any field. It is to teach them to think in both the United States and Finland. C. B. ... always for themselves." Hall first translated the entire book, then Stapeley In Germantown During his 22 years at Chicago, he estab­ abridged it, particularly retaining portions of 6300 Greene Street lished the college for undergraduates, interest to non-Finnish readers. Philadelphia, PA 19144 noncompulsory attendance, no grades, and a Esko Saari is known primarily among degree after two years or whenever the stu­ Friends as the founder of Viittakivi Call Carol Nemeroff dent felt ready for a comprehensive exami­ ("Guidestone" in Finnish) International Folk Admissions Director nation. He invaded the elective system with High School, commonly referred to as "The (2 15) 844-()700 year-long general courses in each division of Finnish Pendle Hill." The first half of the the university. Later he founded the Great book deals with her childhood in Finland's Books Foundation and taught freshman easternmost province, Karelia, from which Brin.ging Friends" Concerns courses with such titles as she twice evacuated with her family during lor Peace & Justice to The Nature ofthe Congress Since 1943 World and Men and The History ofId eas. World War II. It covers her involvement Wnte or catt t202t547· 4343 An isolationist prior to World War II, he with the International Girl Scouts, and fol­ !Of ac11on suggestl()n tape then managed the scientific research that re­ lowing the Winter War (1939) and Finland's ~'fili'f.T'\ sulted in the atomic bomb. Horrified by alliance with Germany, her fascinating visit ~\,Y.!l,~ Hiroshima, he led the movement for world to the German Arbeitslager (workcamps) in government and helped develop a world con- Hitler' s Germany.

34 February 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL More familiar to those Friends who be­ Quaker Retirement Residences. • • came acquainted with Esko while she was an interpreter with the American Friends Ser­ vice Committee relief work in Lapland (1945- A Choice 1947), will be the central part of the book on her initial involvement with Quakers. For example, when she fi rst visited the United to States in 1948, then a staunch Lutheran, she describes her shock at the fashion of "The Consider New Look." While in Europe people were still having to use curtains and bedspreads to make clothing, in the United States women were wearing "Unfathomable masses offab­ ric [which] had been gathered up into vast bell-shaped skirts." Since much of the aid distributed by the If you are retired American Friends Service Committee had and looking at been given by U.S. Finns, Esko visited many alternatives for U.S. Lutheran Churches. When she left to return to Finland at the end of a year, her the years ahead, why not consider one of these Quaker Retirement view of people in the States had mellowed: "I Residences in Southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey? had always considered U.S. spiritual life quite shallow in contrast to Finland's, the latter Each provides a friendly atmosphere for older adults who want the having been deepened by the lessons of re­ freedom to pursue their particular interests, whether those be travel, peated suffering. But the active little congre­ gations I encountered in the States surprised time with family, bird watching, gardening, or intellectual or spiritual me with their vigor." quests. Some ofus might wish that the section on Viittakivi, which begins with a detailed de­ Each is located in the midst of a community with a nearby public scription of its founding, could have given library, Friends Meeting, and a host of other resources. more specifics about how its organizers adapted the Pendle Hill idea to the Finnish These residences are within the financial reach of most Friends. There post-war situation. Financed largely by the Finnish government and under the supervi­ is, at most, a modest entry fee. Monthly charges for a private room and sion of the Finnish Christian Settlement community meals rival the costs of living in your own home. Movement, Viittakivi continues to offer iso­ lated Finns an encounter with like-minded The Quaker Retirement Residences listed here are all affiliated with people from abroad. Unfortunately, contacts Friends Services for the Aging, a practical Quaker network of 16 with non-Finnish Friends have dropped off since Esko's time (1951-1974). organizations that enhances the quality of service to all residents. After a meaty chapter on "Yoga, Ortho­ doxy and Finland," Esko concludes with a too-briefdescription of her vigorous ten years For more information, write or call: of retirement. Even after her initial bout with cancer in 1980, she recounts her hectic sched­ ule as a traveling Friend and spiritual guide: following two months in the States on a speaking tour, she returned to Finland " ... 6834 Anderson Street but did not stay long: over the next twenty Philadelphia, PA 19119 months I made repeated trips abroad, to in­ Telephone (215) 849-4428 ternational conferences and personal desti­ nations alike in Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, Greece, France, and Switzerland. Within Finland the schedule proved just as Simplicity, Community, hectic: seventy-two lectures in thirty-one places during the same period of time." A Spirit ofIndependence Few people match the energy and influ­ ence of this peripatetic Friend. We are grate­ In New Jersey In Pennsylvania ful to Esther Williams and C. B. Hall for making it possible to share her seasoned life with readers in the United States. •!• Friends Home Woodstown •!•The Barclay West Chester •!•The Greenleaf Moorestown •!•The Hamed Media Mary Barclay Howarth •!•The McCutchen N. Plainfield •!•Tite Hickman West Chester Mary Howarth, a member of Media (Pa.) Meeting, lives in Estes Park, Colorado, where •!•Stapeley Hall Philadelphia she attends a Quaker/Unitarian Fellowship.

FRIENDS JOURNAL February 1994 35 The Light upon the WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 Kindergarten through Candlestick 303 Years of Quaker Education Twelfth Grade Operated under Charter issued by William Penn. The William Penn Charter Quaker Universalist Fellowship, School is a Quaker college-preparatory school committed to nurturing in girls Landenberg, Pa., 1992. 19 pages. $2.751 and boys the education of the mind, the quickening of the spirit, and the paper. development of the body. Penn Charter stresses high standards in academics, This pamphlet, probably originating as a the arts, and athletics. tract, was written in the middle of the 17th century in England. In its current form, the Friends are encouraged to apply both as students and as teachers. tract is wrapped in prefatory pieces that ex­ Earl J. Ball III, Headmaster plore the historical and religious possibilities 3000 W. School House lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 that may belong to its origins. While these (215) 844-3460 are interesting and useful, the original au­ thor, place and purpose of writing, and even the character ofth e religious community from which it emerges remain unknown. This is most likely a very early Quaker tract, but it could even be a proto-Quaker writing. Its very existence and the clear for­ mulations of spiritual experience which it posits quicken the imagination with thoughts that the Quaker experience, in one manifes­ tation or another, was fully present on the historical horizon before the times ofGeorge Fox. This should in no way diminish his historical benchmarks, but it could put them in a different light. What the brief tract lacks in volume is Scattergood Friends School is a co-educatio nal, college well compensated by the complexity of preparatory , boarding and day high school for 55 students thought and the logic of argument. It reads more like a philosophical essay than an in­ spirational devotion. Sentences are typical of • Excellent success in placing graduates in colleges and universities the period in that they are long and complex. The reader should anticipate frequent • 4: 1 student to faculty ratio rereadings of many lines, but is richly re­ • Small classes and attention to the needs and interests of individuals warded for the effort with a simple, clear • Extensive outdoor and farm exp eriences statement about the fundamental essence of Quakerism. • Caring and supportive community life This tract is additionally provocative since • Emphasis upon cooperatio n rather than competition its language seldom includes traditional or • Affordable tuitio n with extensive financial assistance typical references to the Bible or religious images. The faith and spiritual experience of the writer dances in front of the reader's eyes, but the language lacks the classical For additional information, or to arrange a visit, religious references found in all early Quaker call or write, Director ofAdmissions , Scattergood Friends School, writings of this same period. The existence Route 1, Box 32, West Branch, lA 52358-9715 (319) 643-7600 of this tract tickles the mind to wonder about the origins of spiritual experience that arise with no particular relationship to the tradi­ tional Christian thought of the period. The tract persists in examining the place and func­ Claiming Our Past: Assuring the Future tion of the Bible within spiritual experience using other than the traditional Christian vo­ What better way to give expression to your cabulary. Quaker values than by leaving a portion The Light upon the Candlestick is chal­ of your estate to FRIENDS JouRNAL? You will lenging reading, spiritually stimulating, assure the growth of Quaker thought and and an effective catalyst for the fertile life long into the future. Consider a imagination. provision in your will for FRIENDS JouRNAL. Edwin E. Staudt lll For more information, contact: FRIENDS JouRNAL, 1501 Cherry Street Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 Edwin E. Staudt 111 is a member of (215) 241-7820 Doylestown (Pa.) Meeting and serves as General Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

36 February 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL STTOWN SCHOOL Westtown, Pennsylvania- Founded In 1799

Westtown is a Quaker school of 600 students in Pre-K through 12th grade, co-educational, college preparatory, day and boarding Coming Out to God By Chris Glaser. Westminster/John Knox • Excellent academic programs Press, Louisville, Ky., 1991. 168 pages. $8.95/ • Individual attention within a caring community paperback. Here is a collection of prayers through which bisexual, lesbian, and gay • Before and after school day care programs persons, as well as their loved ones, may voice their questions and issues to God. The • Performing and fine arts author, who has served on several commit­ tees to promote increased acceptance be­ • 600-acre campus with lakes and woods tween homosexual and Christian communi­ • Outstanding facilities (science center, arts center ties, employs the metaphor of dance in his prayers. "Sexuality and spirituality are not fieldhouse, 25-meter indoor pool) opposing forces, as it is frequently supposed today ... Prayer becomes a place wherein the choreography of the dance ofspi rituality and For more information and to arrange to visit classes, sexuality gets worked out." please call Sarah Goebel, director of admissions, Westtown School, Westtown, PA 19395 (215/ 399-0123) The Sierra Club Guide to Community Organizing By Maritza Pick. Random House, New York, N. Y., 1993. 224 pages. $12/paperback. If you want to change things, here's your hand­ book. While slanted toward environmental concerns, Maritza Pick's suggestions are use­ ful for any cause. She tells how to get kin­ dred souls together, keep gatherings produc­ tive, avoid pitfalls, raise funds, gain media support, produce newsletters, network among organizations, handle confrontations, and get · candidates elected. Pick's unassuming tone of authority comes from experience: she's spent more than a decade as an activist, ed­ ited a Sierra Club newsletter, and has written several books including a novel, League of Liars, dealing with politics of environmen­ talism. This book gives hope for the future. Pray there are always people who share se­ crets of breaking down barriers to civiliza­ tion, and others who will listen and act. Parable of the Mustard Seed Written and illustrated by Helen Caswell. Abingdon Press, Nashville, Tenn., 1992. 22 pages. $5.95/paperback. This beautifully illustrated picture book follows an Afiican American boy in a retelling of the familiar parable, as found in Matthew 13:31-32. Through the artwork, the reader shares in the boy's sense of wonder and learning as he grows a sturdy mustard plant from the tiniest of seeds. In the process, he discovers how "Faith in God is like a mustard seed" and "Like the tiny seeds, faith is full of life and beauty." The book is recommended for chil­ dren three to seven years old. f RIENDS JOURNAL February 1994 37 Milestones

Births-Adoptions Angell-Christopher Samuel Angell, on July 1, 1993, to Jeanne and Samuel Angell. Samuel is a member of Bulls Head-Oswego (N.Y.) Meeting. Angeli-Jacob Elliott Angell, on June 29, 1993, to Janet and Thomas Angell, members of Bulls Head-Oswego (N.Y.) Meeting. Christiansen-Eric Nolan Christiansen, on May 15, 1993, to Amy S. Nolan and David A. Christiansen, members of Ridgewood (N.J.) Meeting. Edminster- Mo/ly Charlotte Edminster, on March 15, 1993, to Amy and John Edminster, of 15th Street (N.Y.) Meeting. Leighton- Jean Louise Leighton, on Oct. 5, 1993, to Lauren and Vernon Leighton. Both parents are members of La-Crosse/Winona (Minn.) Worship Group. Matlack-Hannah Webster Matlack, on Oct. 11 , 1993, to Allison and Dan Matlack, of Moorestown (N.J.) Meeting. McCarthy- Phoebe Rose McCarthy, on Oct. 7, 1993, to Jeanne A. Ward and John P. McCarthy, of Exeter (Pa.) Meeting. Percy- Rebekah Sophia Percy, on May 12, 1993, to Mary Ann Percy and Tyler Griese. Mary Ann is a member of Lloyd Harbor (N.Y.) Meeting and Tyler is a member of Wilton (Conn.) Meeting. Pollock- Ann Marie Pollock, on Sept. 16, 1993, to Holly and Jeffrey Pollock. Jeffrey is a member of Somerset Hills (N.J.) Meeting. Roos-/an Joseph Roos, on Sept. 16, 1993, to Amy and Peter Roos. Amy is a member of Somerset Hills (N.J.) Meeting. "I am as sure there is 110 salvation out of Christ, as I am of any thil1g ill Trueblood- Leise Crew Trueblood, on Aug. 13, the world: I am also as sure that the common ideas of salvatum are very 1993, to Kristen and Neil Trueblood, of Gwynedd greatly beside the true doctri11e of salvatio11 by Christ. - Job Scott (Pa.) Meeting. Vokes--Erin Nicole Vokes, on March 14, 1993, Many inspiring and historically important Quaker books exist only in fragile or to Siri Hammarstrom Vokes and Neil Vokes. Siri even crumbly volumes in the attics of older Friends (put there by those Friends' is a member of Somerset Hills (N.J.) Meeting. grandparents) or in a few specialized libraries. Our mission is to reprint them as Walter-Justin Lee Walter, on April 12, 1993, to Richenda and Martin Walter. Richenda is a mem­ durable hardbacks. We start with one that is short but of much significance for ber of Poplar Ridge (N.Y.) Meeting. grasping the theological issues that exercised Friends in the 18th & 19th centuries. Now Available: Marriages Glllespie-Wentorf-Robert H. Wentorf. Jr., and Frances Cohen Gillespie, on June 19, 1993, un­ der the care of Easton (N.Y.) Meeting, of which JOB SCOTT'S essays Robert is a member. Kellum-Taylor- James Taylor and Evalyn on Salvation By Christ Kellum, on Aug. 4, 1993, at Fall Creek (Ind.) Meetinghouse. Their marriage was held under the and the debate that followed their publication care of North Meadow (Ind.) Circle of Friends. Powell-Arnold- Keith Brian Arnold and Kathryn Volume includes Job Scott's preface and 3 essays transcribed from Jean Powell, on Oct. 2, 1993, at and under the the 1831 Works; also Luke Howard's Letter to a Friend in Ameri­ care of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.). Richardson-Clements- David Clements and ca, Benjamin Ferris's rebuttal of Luke Howard, an anonymous Ruth Evan Richardson, on June 26, 1993, at reply to Ferris, and Job Scott's last epistle. Morningside (N.Y.) Meeting, of which David is a member. Quaker Heritage Press 160 pages, hardback, $9.25 16 Huber St. Deaths no postage charge if order is prepaid Glenside, PA 19038 Kapenga- Jay Kapenga, 75, on Aug. 19, 1993, of emphysema. Born in Holland, Mich., Jay was For the Next 200 Years ordained in 1944 to the ministry of the Reformed Church in America. He served as a member ofthe

38 February 1994 FRIENDS JouRNAL Arabian Mission in the Middle East for 39 years, both in Iraq and the Sultanate of Oman. His work in Muscat, Oman, involved preaching in Arabic and English, teaching, and, with his wife Marjory, administering the mission school. He was also in Newtown, PA 18940 charge of maintenance for the mission's hospital, school, church, and residences. In later years the couple worked under the Government Ministry of National Heritage to revive dying handicrafts, particularly hand weaving. They visited weavers, encouraging them by marketing their products and camping near their villages. In 1983 the Sul­ tan of Oman presented Jay with the Order of Oman, the first ever given to a minister. Jay and Midge enjoyed a long and meaningful relation­ ship with Pendle Hill both as students and staff. In retirement Jay and Midge were occasional attenders ofJacksonville (Fla.) Meeting and South­ eastern Yearly Meeting. Jay is survived by his wife of 46 years, Marjory Kapenga; a son, Peter Kapenga; two daughters, Margaret Shurdom and Barbara Kapenga; and three grandchildren. Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, George School is a co­ Morgan-Griscom Morgan, 81, on Oct. 14, 1993, educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. at Friends Care Center, Yellow Springs, Ohio. The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values and includes: Born in Philadelphia, Pa., his family moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1921 , soon after his • Courses on 4levels of challenge • International Baccalaureate (IB) father, Arthur E. Morgan, became president of • Advanced Placement (AP) • International workcamps Antioch College. Griscom attended Antioch • English as a Second Language (ESL) • Required community service College and Madison College in Tennessee. He • Foreign study • Required full-year courses in the arts married Jane Moore in 1942 and the two became • 13 interscholastic sports for boys and girls principal founders of the Yale Community, just For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 215/579-6547. south of Yellow Springs, on land donated by the Morgans. After his father's retirement in the late 1960s, Griscom served as Director ofCommunity Service, Inc. He was an early advocate ofbuilding a nursing care center in Yellow Springs, and he Reservations for display ads in FRIENDS JouRNAL are required. helped secure the sponsorship of Friends Care Issue: March. Reservations must be made by January 10. Center by the Yellow Springs (Ohio) Meeting, of which he was a founding member. Griscom was a Ads must be received by January 18. prolific writerofletters to the editor. He principally Issue: April. Reservations must be made by February 7. wrote about the detrimental effect of population Ads must be received by February 14. concentrations in cities, the superiority of small DEADLINES Ad rate is $28 per column inch. schools, and reforming U.S. currency to promote Call (215) 241-7279 now for your reservation. economic growth. He was also the author of numerous articles and pamphlets on these and other subjects. Griscom is survived by his wife, Jane Moore Morgan; a son, John Morgan; a daughter, Faith Morgan; a brother, Ernest; a sister, FRIENDS JouRNAL is a forum for discussing Frances Bowling; and several nieces and nephews. today's concerns: global peace, human rights, Roach-Elisabeth Stead Roach, 76, on Oct. 26, environmental awareness, Friends education, 1993, after a recent illness. She was a member of Crosswicks (N.J.) Meeting. Elisabeth is survived social injustice, and current political events. by a daughter, Joan S. Binette; and a granddaugh­ ter, Elisa A. Meyer. You can receive 3 issues of FRIENDS JouRNAL absolutely free through this introductory offer. Stefferud-Aifred Stefferod, 90, on Sept. 12, 1993. Born in Kenyon, Minn., of first generation Nor­ Just use the coupon below. If you enjoy the wegians, Alfred was the youngest of seven chil­ magazine, we'll invite you to subscribe. dren. He graduated from St. Olaf College in 1925 and taught high school Latin and English. In 1927 he was hired as a news reporter for the Associated Yes, please send me 3 free issues Press, working in Iowa, New York, Berlin, and of FRIENDS JouRNAL. Vienna. Alfred married Doris Harriet Roberts in 1931, and they raised a daughter and two sons. During World War II, he served in London for the NAME Office of War Information as a liason with Nor­ wegian underground troops and the government ADDRFSS in exile. Alfred served the U.S. Department of 1501 Cherry Street Agriculture for more than 20 years. In 1945, he Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 became editor of the Yearbook of Agriculture, (215) 241-7115 and was responsible for 19 classic vol-umes on Fax: (215) 568-1377 CITY/Sf ATE/ZIP Please a/law 6-8 weeks for delivery. soil, water, trees, crops, etc. He also edhed two books for the U.S. Department of the Interior. He

FRJENDS JouRNAL February 1994 39 NYC-Greenwich Village Accommodation. Walk Classified to 15th Street Meeting. One-four people; children welcome. (Two cats in house.) Reservations: (212) 924-6520. conceived, ·collected, and edited The Wonderful For information call (215) 241-7279. Looking for a creative living alternative in New World of Books in 1953, which was printed in 46 55¢ per word. Minimum charge is $11. York City? Penington Friends House may be the languages and is still in use in schools and librar­ Add 10% if boxed. 10% discount for three place for you! We are looking for people of all ages consecutive insertions, 25% for six. who want to make a serious commitment to a com­ ies aJI over the world. In 1945 Alfred and Doris Appearance of any advertisement does not munity lifestyle based on Quaker principles. For joined and were very active in Goose Creek (Va.) imply endorsement by Friends Journal. information call (212) 673-1730. We also have over­ Meeting. He was editor ofFRJENDS JOURNAL from night accommodations. 1968-1972. In this time, Alfred enriched the JouR­ London? Stay at the Penn Club, Bedford Place, NAL with his strong sense of Quaker ministry, and Classified Ad Deadlines: London WC1B 5JH. Friendly atmosphere. Central April issue: February 14 agreed with Carl Wise that editing the JouRNAL for Friends House, West End, concerts, theater, May issue: March 14 British Museum, university, and excursions. Tele­ was an act of worship. In retirement, he lived for phone: 071-636-4718. several years in England. Upon returning to the Submit your ad to: Casa Heberto Seln Friends Center. Reasonable States in 1978, he became active in Florida Ave. Advertising Manager, Friends Journal accommodations. Reservations. Asociacion (Washington, D.C.) Meeting. Alfred was an en­ 1501 Cherry Street Sonorense de los Amigos, Felipe Salido 32, thusiastic gardener and a creative weaver. He was Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Friends Meeting, Sun­ committed to education, books, reading, writing, Fax: (215) 568-13n days 11 a.m. Phone: (011-52-621) 7-01-42. and the English language. He is survived by a Washington, D.C., sojourners welcome in Friends' home in pleasant suburb nearby. By day, week, or daughter, Christine Jacoby; two sons, David Rob­ month. For details call: (301) 270-5258. erts Stefferud and John Anthony Stefferud; seven Simple low-cost lodging for individuals and groups. grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Accommodations Seminar planning available. Quaker center on Capi­ Stephenson-Madeleine Yaude Stephenson, 74, tol Hill. William Penn House, 515 E. Capitol St. SE, on Sept. 5, 1993. Madeleine was born in Roches­ B&B Florida: town/country, North Fort Myers, haci­ Washington, DC 20003. (202) 543-5560. ter, N.Y., and, earning her own scholarships, enda-style, pool residence. Near everything. (Edison Mexico City Friends Center. Reasonable winter home: 20 minutes.) Refrigerator; share kitchen. accommodations. Reservations recommended. Casa graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Berry (813) 995-1234. de los Amigos, Ignacio Mariscal 132. 06030 Mexico Rochester. She then worked at the Eastman School D.F. 705-0521. of Music, where her life-long interest in music Explore George Fox's territory. Lake District, York­ Ocala, Florida, Meetinghouse: Two twin-bed was nurtured. After Pearl Harbor, her pacifist shire Dales. Friend welcomes paying guests at her rooms, split plan, private baths, spacious living ar­ convictions led her to join the Society of Friends small hill farm. Excellent food. Peacocke, Dummah eas, fully equipped. Reasonable. George Newkirk, and work for the American Friends Service Com­ Hill Farm, N. Stainmore, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria Correspondent, 4910 N.E. 16th Street, Ocala, FL CA 17 4DZ, England. Phone: 07683 41218. mittee, an organization she served throughout her 34470-1151. (904) 236-2839. San Francisco Friends Meeting has guest rooms lifetime. In I 946 Madeleine met, and later mar­ available in Friends Center for $15/night. For reser­ Audio-Visual ried, "Red" Stephenson while traveling to Europe vations, call (415) 752-7440. to work with refugees. The couple moved to San VIsiting Britain? No need to pay for expensive Who are Quakers? VHS video, Francisco in 1948, where Madeleine worked for accommodation. Home Exchange can connect you 27 min., by Claire Simon. Lively, the AFSC regional office as Director of the Inter­ with Friends and others who wish to exchange homes informative, for outreach and edu­ national Institute at Mills CoJiege, and, later, as or hospitality. Send SASE to Home Exchange, P.O. cation. $26.50 plus $3 postage. Regional Peace Secretary. The Stephensonsjoined Box 567, Northampton, MA 01061. Quaker Video, P.O. Box 292, Maplewood, NJ 07040. Berkeley (Calif.) Meeting, where she served as NYC midtown B&B bargain! Charming, one-bed­ room apartments of your own in historical, Eastside clerk. Madeleine earned master's degrees in Ori­ neighborhood. $70-$125 double, plus $15 per addi­ John Woolman on tape. The classic journal now ental philosophy and music education, and gave tional guest. From simple to sublime. (212) 228-4645. available on audio cassettes, approximately 5 1/2 hours. $20 including postage. Send to: AudioLogos, piano lessons to children. In 1975 the Stephensons Frenchtown, N.J., B&B. Along the Delaware River. 4200 31st Street, Mt. Rainier, MD 20712. (301) 864- moved to Santa Rosa, Calif., w here they were A victorian inn with contemporary comfort. Geta­ 6929. founding members of Monan's Rill, an inten­ ways, anniversaries, intimate weddings, business, tional community. Madeleine was a member of and relocation stays. Full breakfast menu. Seven guest suites with private baths, period furnishings. Books and Publications Redwood (Calif.) Meeting, ser ved on committees $110-$145/double, weekday rates available. The and the Board of Friends Association of Services Hunterdon House, (800) 382-0375, (908) 996-3632. Wider Quaker Fellowship mailings offer spiritual for the Elderly, and helped develop the Friends A homely base In the heart of London? Short-, nurture for Friends and non-Friends around the world. House retirement facility. In 1990, the Stephensons medium-, and long-term accommodation available Consider gift membership(s). Donations voluntary. were Friends in Residence at Pendle Hill. with excellent meals. Also meeting rooms for work­ Call/write WQF, 1506 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA shops, lectures, and conferences. Contact: Quaker 19102. (215) 241-7293. A program of FWCC, Sec­ Madeleine is survived by her husband, Edwin P. tion of the Americas. "Red" Stephenson; and two children. International Centre, 1 Byng Place, London WC1 E 7JH. Tel: 071-387 5648; fax: 071-383-3722. Williams-John Williams, 100, on June 26, 1993. Books-Quaker spiritual classics, history, biogra­ Beacon Hill Friends House: Quaker-sponsored phy, and current Quaker experience, published by John was born and raised near Springville, Iowa. residence of 19 interested in community living, spiri­ Friends United Press, 101-A Quaker Hill Dr .• Rich­ A life-long member of the Society of Friends, he tual growth, peace, and social concerns. All faiths mond, IN 47374. Write for free catalogue. graduated from Westtown School and Iowa State welcome. Openings immediately. For information, application: BHFH, 6 Chestnut Street, Boston, MA Carlos Castaneda, Academic Opportunism and CoJiege. He married Edna WiJiits in 191 9 and, 02108-3624. (617) 227-9118. after farming for two years, they moved to Whittier, the Psychedelic Sixties examines how academic Big Island, Hawaii, Friends invite you into their misconduct and New Age experimentation clouded Iowa, where John maintained an experimental homes for mutual Quaker sharing. Donations. HC1, the 1990 Supreme Court ruling which threatens reli­ orchard for Iowa State CoJiege for many years. Box 21-0, Captain Cook, Hawaii 96704; (808) 328- gious freedom. Send $22.50 (total) to author: Jay T heir vegetable gardens and orchards were dear 8711, 325-7323, or 322-31 16. Fikes, Box 517, Carlsbad, CA 92018. to his heart, and his love of growing things was an The Berkshlres, Massachusetts. Baldwin Hill Farm aspect oflife he shared with aJI his children. John Bed & Breakfast, Box 125, RD3, Great Barrington, Free. Steps Toward Inner Peace, by Peace Pilgrim. Write: Friends of Peace Pilgrim, 43480 Cedar Ave., was a member of Whittier (Iowa) Meeting and MA 01230. (413) 528-4092. Friend's victorian farm homestead of 450 acres on Berkshire mountaintop. Hemet CA 92544. served as clerk of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conser­ Panoramic views with warm hospitality and country Hopewell Friends History: 1734-1934. Newly re­ vative) for 14 years. Edna passed away in 1973 breakfasts. Close to golf, skiing, concerts, drama, printed history of Hopewell Meeting, Frederick and John married Ardith Emmons in 1974. The museums, shops, trails, and restaurants. Open all County, Virginia. Extensive genealogical record of couple resided at Friends Homes, Greensboro, year. Pool, hiking, maps, and menus. membership, marriage certificates, family records. N.C. John was also preceded in death by his Cambridge, England, B&B. Historic Old Rectory. History of Hopewell and surrounding meetings. 671 second wife, Ardith WiJiiams, in 1988. He is Ensuite rooms. Peaceful surroundings. Log fires. pages. Large index. $38.50 plus $3.50 shipping. Easy access. Also self-catering, short and long lets. P.O. 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40 February 1994 fRIENDS JOURNAL Monteverde Friends School needs elementary and Fall1993 Catalogue of Quaker Books free upon Positions Vacant secondary teachers for August 1994-April1995. MFS request from Friends General Conference Book­ is an English-dominant, bilingual school in Costa store, 1216 Arch Street 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107; Director, Powell House. We are seeking a Quaker Rica's rural mountains. We offer a unique opportu­ to provide spiritual and administrative leadership for or call (800) 966-4556. Come visit us when in Phila­ nity to work in multi-graded classes. While salaries the New York Yearly Meeting conference and re­ delphia, Monday-Friday, 9-5. are low, the experience is rich. Simple housing in­ treat center in Old Chatham, New York. The position cluded. Contact Katy VanDusen, Monteverde Friends Friendly Oakay Essays for Quakers and others. entails program direction, staff supervision, fund­ School, Apartado 10165-1000, San Jose, Costa Rica. raising, and maintenance of a Friendly atmosphere. Many good ideas. Free sample. Kliff N. Merry, P.O. Tel/Fax: (506) 64-51-01 before 7 p.m. EST. Box 6075, Los Angeles. CA 90015. Please send inquiries or applications to Powell House Search Committee, RD 1 Box 160, Old Chatham, Arthur Morgan School. Small, junior high boarding school seeks houseparents for 94-95 school year. Quaker Books. Rare and out-of-print, journals, me­ NY 12136. Positions also include a mix of other responsibilities: morials, histories, inspirational. Send for free teaching (academics and/or electives), leading work catalogue or specific wants. Vintage Books, 181 Friends General Conference Bookstore seeks in­ projects and outdoor trips, maintenance, gardening, Hayden Rowe St., Hopkinton, MA 01748. dividual skilled in computerized purchasing, inventory control, accounts receivable, and accounts payable, cooking. Particularly seeking one individual experi­ plus customer service. Prefer a Friend who loves enced in financial management. Intimate community books and people. Starting salary: $20,560 + gener­ of staff and students; consensus run. Simple living; Books Wanted ous benefits. Send letter, resume by 2/15/94 to FGC beautiful mountain setting. Contact Joy Montagano, Wanted: copy of The Friendly Caravan. Will pay Bookstore (AA), 1216 Arch St 2B, Philadelphia, PA AMS, 1901 Hannah Branch Rd., Burnsville, NC reasonable price. Meredith Krugel, P.O. Box 72, 19107. 28714; (704) 675-4262. Oyer, NV 89010. (702) 572-3277. Earlham College - Craft Artist. Assistant Profes­ Editor Search Expanded. The Friends Committee sor, full-time, tenure track, starting September 1994. on Unity with Nature (FCUN) is seeking applications For Sale Craft emphasis in an area other then ceramics, weav­ for the editorship of its newsletter, BeFriending Cre­ ing, and papermaking is required. Teaching will ation. Writing, editing, layout, and desktop publishing Mid-coast Maine. A very special place near the include the craft specialty as well as drawing, de­ skills and experience essential; e-mail access a plus; ocean. Old cape carefully and tastefully restored. sign, and introduction to the arts (team taught with concern for the earth assumed. Send resumes. writ­ Four bedrooms, three full baths, spacious remod­ music and theater). Other responsibilities: participa­ ing samples, and other material, or inquiries for further eled kitchen; opens onto screened porch with patio tion in developing an undergraduate liberal arts information to: Skip Mandler, BFC Search, Box 532, doors. Large attached bam/garage. Fourteen acres, . program restructured to focus on craft media and Dingmans Ferry, PA 18328. Phone: (717) 686-1910; open fields and woods, sunset views. Excellent wa­ aesthetics, and sharing in departmental administra­ e-mail: . Deadline: 15 Feb­ ter from driven well. $195K. Bartram Cadbury (207) tion and gallery operation. Commitment to education ruary, 1994. Previous applicants remain in con­ 354-6074. in a liberal arts context, including interest in interna­ sideration. Small house at Friends Southwest Center, near tional education and multiculturalism, is important, Manager, Lake Paupac Lodge. Summer position in Douglas, Ariz. Block construction, about 800 sq. ft.; as is sympathy with Quaker values. MFA or equiva­ the Poconos. Operate lodge as community center. $20,000 with owner financing. Membership require­ lent experience and college teaching experience. By Room included. Cater three-four meals weekly. Hire ment. For flyer, call or write. (602) 396-5452; P.O. February 15 send letter of application, c.v.,10-20 own staff. June 27 to September 6, 1994. Write or Box 121 , McNeal, AZ 85617. slides of own work, names and phone numbers of call M. Trueblood, 716 Autumn Trace, Williamsburg, Sweatshirts w/logo, inscription: Pray for Peace in three references. SASE. AA/EOE. Women and mi­ VA 23188, or call (804) 565-3149. the Middle East. $10. 50/50 cotton-poly. Info: norities encouraged. Leonard Holvik, Art Search Vermont Adventure: The Farm and Wilderness LeRhette, P.O. Box 8973, Trenton, NJ 08650. Committee, Drawer 48, Earlham College, Richmond, camps seek cooks and counselors for a nine-week IN 47374-4095. For sale or rent : five-bedroom, two-bath, summer program. Skills in cooking, farming, canoe­ Germantown twin. Great family home. Sale by owner. Legislative Interns. Three positions available as­ ing, hiking, swimming, carpentry, and crafts. Quaker Contact Barbara, (215) 843-6075. sisting FCNL lobbyists. These are 11-month paid leadership, diversified community. Write or call Carla assignments, usually filled by recent college gradu­ M. Mazzariello, Farm and Wilderness, HCR 70, Box Opportunities ates, beginning September 1, 1994. Duties include 27, Plymouth, VT 05056. (802) 422-3761. research, writing, monitoring issues, attending hear­ Western Yearly Meeting seeks General Superin­ Chatwalijoq Spanish School. Total immersion lan­ ings and coalition meetings, and maintaining files. tendent. Western's superintendent serves as support guage lessons, indigenous projects, living with family. Write or call for an application. Friends Committee staff for a variety of committees and boards, super­ Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. SASE: P.O. Box 31783, on National legislation, 245 Second Street NE, Wash­ vises a small office, visits area and monthly meetings, Tucson AZ 85751. ington, DC 20002. Phone: (202) 547-6000. Application and represents the yearly meeting among wider deadline: March 1 1994. Volunteer adventures. Build, teach, connect with Friends and ecumeriical circles. Particular expertise indigenous people of Guatemala, Kenya, St. Vincent. Let Friends Camp be your Maine job this summer. is required in supervising and caring for pastors as Tax-deductible. Global Citizens Network, (612) 644- We seek nurses, cooks, EMT lifeguards, crafts, pot­ well as nurturing and developing local meetings. 0960. tery, drama, and music staff. Doers, makers, and Western Yearly (FUM meetings in western Indiana Quakers apply to: Susan Morris, Director, Friends and eastern Illinois) is one of the most diverse groups Are you led to right stewardship of the earth? Camp, Box 84, E. Vassalboro, ME 04935; or call of Quakers. The person we are looking for must be a Let Friends Committee on Unity with Nature share (207) 923-3975. Friend able to provide leadership to people from a and support your concern. Membership $20. Box broad variety of theological perspectives. Anticipated FJ , FCUN, 7700 Clarks Lake Road, Chelsea, Ml Moorestown Friends School starting date is July 1, 1995. Send resume and re­ 48118. Lower/Middle School Quakerism/Religious Life Co­ quest application blank from Kay Record, Search ordinator. Position available July 1994. Committee Clerk, 5610 W. Hanna Ave., Indianapo­ Personals Responsibilities include working in the religion de­ lis, IN 46241. (317) 856-5825. Deadline for application partment with special emphasis on development and is April 1, 1994. Single Booklovers, a national group, has been get­ implementation of religious education program, com­ ting unattached booklovers together since 1970. munity service projects, conflict resolution programs, Rentals & Retreats Please write Box 117, Gradyville, PA 19039, or call and peace studies: pre-school through eighth grade. (215) 358-5049. Upper School Director: Grades 9-12. Masters de­ Downeast Maine. Modem house on Taunton Bay. Classical Music Lovers' Exchange-Nationwide gree required in addition to administrative experience Four-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath, washer, dryer, dish­ link between unattached music lovers. 1 (800) 233- and successful classroom teaching in upper school. washer, VCR, microwave; large deck, Sunfish, canoe, CMLS; Box 31, Pelham, NY 10803. Address inquiries (including resume and a state­ rowboat. Available June and July, $600 one week; ment of philosophy) to: Alan R. Craig, Headmaster, $1,100 two weeks; $2,000 per month. Write: Allen Concerned Singles Newsletter links compatible, Moorestown Friends School, 110 East Main Street, Bacon, Woodbrooke, 1046 Bristol Rd., Birmingham socially conscious singles concerned about peace, Moorestown, NJ 08057. B29 6W, England. social justice, gender equity, and the environment. Provence, France. Secluded old stone house, vil­ Nationwide. All ages. Since 1984. Free sample: Box Opportunity for one or two persons to host and lage near Avignon, beautiful historic region. Recently 555-F, Stockbridge, MA 01262. cook at small, well-established Vermont guest farm restored, sleeps four, equipped kitchen. Terrace and May- October 1994. We'd like someone who enjoys courtyard, view of medieval castle. $1,000/mo. June­ people, housekeeping, nature, animals, gardening, August; $850/mo. September-October. Marc Simon, and early mornings. Must be nonsmoker, non-drinker. Rue Tour de I'Oume, 30290 St. Victor Ia Coste, We don't mean to get Please send resumes and/or letter to Ann Day, P.O. France; or J. Simon, 217 High Park, Buffalo, NY too personal . .. Box 31, Waitsfield, VT 05673. (802) 496-3527 be­ 14226. (716) 836-8698. but please subscribe fore 6 p.m. Bald Head Island, N.C. Lovely panoramic view of Intern Position, AFSC Washington Office. Start­ ocean, dunes, lagoon, and golf course from four­ to ing September 1, 1994, this full-time, paid, ten-month bedroom, two-bathroom, beautifully furnished house FRIENDS position is usually filled by a recent college gradu­ with wrap-around deck, electric golf cart. 14 miles of ate. The intern will assist in varied program and beach, championship golf, tennis, croquet, swim­ JoURNAL! interpretation work on AFSC issues and with Davis ming, and fishing. 13,000 acres of maritime House, an international guest house. Applications wilderness. Many birds and wildflowers. No cars on close March 31 . AFSC-Davis House, 1822 R Street island. Peaceful, friendly. Rental by day or week. NW, Washington, DC 20009. (202) 483-3341 . (215)699-9186.

FRIENDS JOURNAL February 1994 41 Nantucket, four-bedroom, two-bath, near beach and Meetings Hummock Pond. Washer, dryer, dishwasher, deck. Services Offered June • October, two weeks minimum. Nonsmokers. (508) 642-9449 evenings. Celo Valley Books: personal attention; intelligent Coastal Maine. Spacious house sleeps eight. Deck typing; professional copyediting; 600 dpi camera­ A partial listing of Friends overlooks pond. Beautiful woods, saltwater cove, ready copy; book production (50 copies or more). meetings in the United swimming, canoeing. Island ferries, beaches, woods One percent to charity. 346 Seven Mile Ridge Road, walks, theaters, concerts, Friends meetings. $700+1 Burnsville, NC 28714. States and abroad. week. Weekends spring, fall. Dam Cove Lodge. (207) 443-9446. General Contractor. Repairs or alterations on old MEETING NOTICE RATES: $13.50 per or historical buildings. Storm and fire damage re­ France. Life is sweeter in the Dordogne. Fifteenth line per year. Payable a year in advance. stored. John File, 1147 Bloomdale Rd., Philadelphia, century village home available April-October near PA 19115. (215)464·2207. No discount. Changes: $8 each. Bergerac. Rates will vary according to length of stay. Sleeps eight. Fully furnished with books, TV, ping pong, and bikes. Kind neighbors. Call (615) Forum Travel Quaker-owned-and-managed travel 483-1311, or write: Jean Grant, 221 East Vanderbilt BOTSWANA Drive, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. agency. Friendly, experienced service; • • domestic and international; overnight GABORONE-Kagisong Centre. 373624 or 353552. Retirement Living delivery. (800) 888-4099. CANADA Foxdale Village, a Quaker life-care community. Friendly financial planning. Let me help you pre­ HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA-(902)461.0702 or 477-3690. Thoughtfully designed cottages complemented by pare for retirement or work out an estate plan. Socially OTTAWA-Worship and First~ay school 10:30 a.m. 91A attractive dining facilities, auditorium, library, and responsible investments are my specialty. Call Joyce Fourth Ave. (613)232-9923. full medical protection. Setting is a wonderful combi· K. Moore, Registered Representative, John Hancock TORONTO, ONTARIO-Worship and F irst~ay school 11 nation of rural and university environment. Entry Financial Services, (215)258-7532. a.m. 60 Lowther Ave. (North from cor. Bloor and Bedford). fees from $38,000-$134,000; monthly fees from Loans are available for building or improving Friends $1,165·$2,140. 500 East Marylyn Avenue, Depart­ COSTA RICA meetinghouses, schools, and related facilities. We ment F, State College, PA 16801 . Telephone: (800) MONTEVERDE·Phone 64·50-56 or 64-50-36. are Friends helping Friends to grow! For information 253-4951 . contact Margaret Bennington, Friends Extension Cor­ SAN JOSE-Unprogrammed meeting, 11 a.m. Sunday. Phone 24-43-76 or 33-61-68. The Harned. Lovely old house and carriage house poration, 101 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. on quiet, residential, tree-lined street south of Me­ Phone: (317) 962-7573. (Affiliated with Friends United EGYPT dia, Pa. Meals served in main house. Short walk to Meeting.) train. Eleven units. 505 Glenwood Avenue, Moylan, CAIRO-First, third, and fifth Saturday evenings, August PA 19065. (215)566-4624. Quaker Universalist Fellowship is a fellowship of through June. Call: Stan Way, 353-9692. seekers wishing to enrich and expand Friends' per· spectives. We meet, publish, and correspond to FRANCE Schools share thoughts, insights, and information. We seek PARIS.Worship Sundays 11 a.m. Centre Quaker, 114, to follow the promptings of the Spirit. Inquiries wel­ rue de Vaugirard. Junior high boarding school for grades 7, 8, 9. come! Write QUF, Box 201 RD 1, Landenberg, PA GERMANY Small, academic classes, challenging outdoor expe­ 19350. HEIDELBERG-Unprogrammed meeting 11:00 a.m. Sun· riences, community service, daily work projects in a Wedding Certificates, birth testimonials, poetry, small, caring, community environment. Arthur Mor­ days Hauptstrasse 133 (Junior year). Phone 06223· 1386. gilts all done in beautiful calligraphy and watercolor gan School, 1901 Hannah Branch Rd., Burnsville, illumination. Book early for spring weddings. Write GUATEMALA NC 28714; (704) 675-4262. or call Leslie Mitchell, 2840 Bristol Rd., Bensalem, GUATEMALA-Unprogrammed. First and third Sundays. PA 19020. (215)752-5554. Call Trudie Hunt: 0343686, Nancy Espana: 0392461. Olney Friends School. A safe, caring, value-cen­ tered, educational community for students in grades MEXICO 9-12. A college preparatory curriculum emphasizing Socially Responsible Investing Using client-specified social criteria, I screen invest­ MEXICO CITY-Unprogrammed meeting, Sundays, 11 a.m. a belief in the individual and his/her own abilities ments. I use a financial planning approach to port· Casa de los Amigos, Ignacio Mariscal132, 06030, Mexico makes Olney a positive environment in which to live folio management by identifying individual objectives 1, D.F. 705-Q521. and learn. 61830 Sandy Ridge Road, Barnesville, and designing an investment strategy. I work with OH 43713. Phone: (614)425-3655. NICARAGUA individuals and business. Call: Sacha Millstone; MANAGUA-Unprogrammed Worship 10 am. each Sun­ United Friends School: coed; K-6; emphasizing Ferris, Baker Watts; member NYSE, SIPC. (202) integrated, developmentally appropriate curriculum, day at Centro de los Amigos, APTDO 5391 Managua, 429-3632 in Washington, D.C., area, or (800) 227· Nicaragua 66-3216 or 66-0984. including whole language and manipulative math; 0308. serving upper Bucks County. 20 South 10th Street, SWITZERLAND Quakertown, PA 18951. (215)538-1733. Moving to North Carolina? Maybe David Brown, a GENEVA-Meeting for worship and First~ay school10:30 The Meeting School: a Quaker alternative high Quaker real estate broker, can help. Contact him at a.m. Sunday. 13 ave Mervelet, Quaker House, Petit· school for 30 students who want an education and 1208 Pinewood Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. (919) Saconnex. lifestyle promoting Friends testimonies of peace, 294-2095. equality, and simplicity. Students live in faculty UNITED STATES Family Relations Committee's Counseling Ser­ homes, sharing meals, campus work, silence, com­ vice (PYM) provides confidential professional Alabama munity decision-making. Characteristic classes counseling to individuals, couples in most geographic BIRMINGHAM-Unprogrammed meeting. 10 a.l"(l. Sundays. include: Conflict Resolution, Native American Stud· areas of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. All counselors Creative Montessori School, 1650 28th Court South, ies, Ecology, Human Rights, Alternative Housing, are Quakers. All Friends, regular attenders, and em­ Homewood. (205) 592-0570. Mythology, Quantum Physics. College preparatory ployees of Friends organizations are eligible. Sliding FAIRHOPE-Unprogrammed meeting 9 a.m. Sundays at and alternative graduation plans. Wooded rural set­ fees. Further information or brochure, contact: Arlene Friends Meetinghouse, 1.2 mi. east on Fairhope Ave. Ext. ting near Mt. Monadnock; organic garden, draft Kelly, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102. (215) Write: P.O. Box 319, Fairhope, AL36533. horses, sheep, poultry. Annual four-week intensive 988-0140. HUNTSVILLE-Unprogrammed meeting 10:00 a.m. Sun­ independent study projects. The Meeting School, 56 days in various homes. Call (205)837-6327 or write P.O. Thomas Road, Rindge, NH 03461 . (603)899-3366. Box 3530, Huntsville, AL 35810. A value-centered school for elementary students Summer Camps with learning differences. Small, remedial classes, Alaska qualified staff, serving Philadelphia and northern sub­ camp Woodbrooke, Richland Cen- ANCHORAGE-Call for time and directions. (907)566-0700. urbs. The Quaker School at Horsham, 318 Meeting ter, Wisconsin. A caring community; FAIRBANKs-Unprogrammed, First Day, 10 a.m. Hidden House Road, Horsham, PA 19044. (215) 674-2875. "" -. ecology, campcraft. Quaker leader- { Hill Friends Center, 2682 Gold Hill Rd. Phone: 479-3796. Stratford Friends School provides a strong aca­ ~ ship. 34 boys and girls; ages 7·12; JUNEAu-Unprogrammed. First Day 9 a.m. 592 Seatter demic program in a warm, supportive, ungraded ·· · .- two or three weeks. Jenny Lang, Street. Phone (907) 586-4409 for information. setting for children ages 5 to 13 who learn differently. l" 795 Beverly, Lake Forest, IL 60045. Small classes and an enriched curriculum answer o\ (708) 295-5705. Arizona the needs of the whole child. An at-risk program for ~ FLAGSTAFF-Unprogrammed meeting and First~y school five-year-olds is available. The school also offers an Make friends, make music at Friends Music Camp. 10 am. 402 S. Beaver, 86001. alter-school reading program, extended day, tutor­ Ages lQ-18. For information: FMC, P.O. Box 427, McNEAL-cochise Friends Meeting at Friends Southwest ing, and summer school. Information: Stratford Yellow Springs, OH 45387. (513) 767-131 1 or (513) Center, 7 112 miles south of Elfrida Worship 11 a.m. Friends School, 5 Llandillo Road, Havertown, PA 767-1818. Phone: (602)642-3894 or (602) 642-3547. 19083. (215)446-3144. The Leaveners (Quaker Performing Arts Project) PHOENIX-Worship and F irst~ay school10 a.m. 1702 E. John Woolman School. Rural California, grades 9· invites Friends to join us in raising the creative spirit Glendale, Phoenix, 85020. 943-5831 or 955-1878. 12. Preparation for college and adulthood, small on holiday residential music and drama projects; TEMPE-Unprogrammed, First Days, 10 am., child care classes, caring staff, work program, service projects; open to anyone 16 years and over. For more infor­ provided. 318 East 15th Street, 85281, Phone: 968-3966. board, day. 13075 Woolman Lane, Nevada City, CA mation write to: The Leaveners, 8 Lennox Road, TUCSON-Pima Friends Meeting (unprogrammed). 10 a.m. 95959. (916)273-3183. London N4 3NW, England, U.K. 931 N. 5th Ave. Information: (602)625-o926.

42 February 1994 FRIENDS JoURNAL Arkansas Mary Hey at (303) 442-3638. JACKSONVILLE-Meeting for worship, First Days. For lo­ cation and time phone (904) 768-3648 or 733-3573. FAYETTEVLLE-U nprog

fRIENDS JOURNAL February J994 43 homes. (309) 343-7097 for location. LOUISVILLE-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. 3050 Bon Friends House, 6 Chestnut St., Boston, 02108. Phone: LAKE FOREST-Worship 10:30 a.m. at meetinghouse. West Air Ave., 40205. Phone: 452-6812. 227-9118. Old Elm and Ridge Ads. Mail: Box 95, Lake Forest, 60045. CAMBRIDGE-Meetings, Sundays, 9:00 and 11:15 a.m. Phone: (708) 234-&11 0. Louisiana During July and Aug., Sundays, 10 a.m. 5longfellow Pk. McHENRY COUNTY-Worship 10 a.m. (815) 385-8512. BATONROUGE·Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 (near Harvard Sq., olf Brattle St.). Phone: 876-6883. a.m. 333 E. Chimes St. Co-<:lerks: Marshall Vidrine, (504) McNABB-Clear Creek Meeting. Unprogrammed worship DEERFIELO-GREENFIELD-Worship group Thursday 5:30 629-5362; Ralph Mclawry, (504) 755-6595. 11 a.m., First-day school 10 a.m. Meetinghouse 2 miles p.m. at Woolman Hill Conference Center, Keels Road, Deerfield, MA 01342. (413) 774-3431 . All welcome. south, 1 mile east of McNabb. Phone: (815) 882-2214. NEW ORLEANS-Unprogrammed meeting for worship Sun­ are days10 a.m. 7102 Ferret St. (504) 885-1223or861-8022. FRAMINGHAM-Worship 10 a.m. First-day school. Year OAK PARK-Worship 10 a.m., First-day school and child care 10 a.m., Oak Park Art League, 720 Chicago Ave. RUSTON-Unprogrammed. Call: (318) 251-2669. round. 841 Edmands Rd. (2 mi. west of Nobscot tralfic lights). (508) 877-1261. Phone: (708) 386-8391. SHREVEPORT-Unprogrammed. Call: (318) 797-0578. GREAT BARRINGTON-South Berkshire Meeting, Blodgett QUINCY-Friends Hill Meeting. Unprogrammed worship 10 House, Simon's Rock College, Alford Rd. Unprogrammed a.m. 223-3902 or 222-6704 for location. Maine 10:30 a.m. Phone: (413) 528-1847 or (413) 243-1575, ROCKFORD-Meeting for worship, First Days, 10:30 a.m., BAR HARBOR-Acadia. Unprogrammed meeting for wor­ NANTUCKET-Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m., June 15- Friends House, 326 N. Avon. (815) 962-7373, 963-7448, shipS p.m. (7 p.m. June, July, Aug.). 288-3888 or288-4941. Sept. 15., Fair Street Meeting House. After Sept. 15, 15 or 964-0716. BELFAST AREA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, 9 Maria Mitchell Library, Vestel Street, 228-1690, 228-0136, a.m. Phone: (207) 338-4476. URBANA-CHAMPAIGN-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. 714 228-1002, W. Green St., Urbana. Phone: (217) 344-6510. 328-5853 or BRUNSWICK-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. 333 Maine NORTH SHORE-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. Indiana St. 833-5016 or 725-8216. Glen Urquhart School, Beverly Farms, Mass, Clerk: Bruce EAST VASSALSBORO-Unprogrammed meeting for wor­ Nevin, 281-5683. BLOOMINGTON-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Moores ship 10 a.m. (9 a.m. summer). Child care. Friends Pike at Smith Road. (812) 336-5576. NORTHAMPTON-Worship 11 a.m., adult discussion 9:30; meetinghouse, China Road, Gerald Robbins, clerk. (207) child care. Smith College, Bass Hall, room 210. (413) 584- EVANSVILLE-Worship 11 a.m. Sundays at Patchwork 923-3088. 2788. Central, 100 Washington Ave. MI[)..COAST AREA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, SANDWICH-East Sandwich Meeting House, Quaker Meet­ FORT WAYNE-Maple Grove Meeting, unprogrammed wor­ First-day school, 10 a.m. at The Community Center, Busi­ ing House Rd. just north of Rte. 6A. Meeting for worship ship. Phone Julia Dunn, (219) 489-9342, for time and ness Route 1, Damariscotta. (207) 563-3464, or 354-8714. Sunday 11 a.m. (508) 747-0761. place. ORONO-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 am. Orono SOUTH YARMOUTH-CAPE COD-Unprogrammed worship HOPEWELL-Unprogrammed worship 9:30 a.m., discus­ Community Center. 989-1366. 10 a.m. 58 N. Main St. 362-6633. sion 10:30 a.m. 20 mi. W. Richmond; between 1-70, US PORTLAND-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school, 40; 1-70 exit Wilbur Wright Rd., 1 1/4 mi. S., 1 mi. W. 478- WELLESLEY-Meeting for worship and Sunday school 10:30 a.m. 1845 Forest Ave. (Rte. 302). Call (207) 797- 4218. 10:30 a.m. at 26 Benvenue St. Phone: 237-0268. 4720. INDIANAPOLIS-North Meadow Circle of Friends, 1710 N. WEST FALMOUTH-CAPE CO[)..Meeting for worship, Sun­ WATERBORO-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school Talbott. Unprogrammed, worship 10 a.m. Children wel­ day, 11 a.m. Rte. 28A. 9 a.m. Conant Chapel, Alfred. (207) 324-4134, 625-8034. come. 926-7657. WESTPORT-Meeting, Sundays, 10:00 a.m. Central Vil­ WHmNG-Cobscook Friends Meeting. Meeting for wor­ INDIANAPOLIS-Valley Mills Friends Meeting. Meeting for lage. 636-4963. ship, First Days, 10:00 a.m. Walter Plaut, clerk. (207) worship 11 a.m., Sunday school1 0 a.m. 6739 West Thoml)­ WORCESTER-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 11 a.m. 733-2191. son Road. Catherine Sherman, pastor. (317) 856-4368. 901 Pleasant St. Phone: 754-3887. PLAINFIELD-Unprogrammed worship 8:30 a.m., meeting Maryland for study and discussion 9:30 a.m., programmed meeting Michigan for worship 10:40 a.m. 105 S. East St. at the corner of ADELPHI-Worship 8:30 and 10 a.m. Sunday. Sunday ALMA·MT. PLEASANT-Unprogrammed meeting 11 a.m.; school '10:20 a.m. (10 a.m. fourth Sun.). Adult 2nd hour U.S. 40 and East St. David Hadley, clerk; Keith Kirk, discussion 10 a.m. First-day school. Clerk: Don Nagler, pastoral minister. (317) 839-9840. 11:30 a.m. 1st/3rd/5th Sun. Nursery, 2303 Metzerott, near (517) 772-2941. U. of Md. (301) 445-1 11 4. RICHMOND-Clear Creek, Stout Memorial Meetinghouse, ANN ARBOR-Meeting 10 a.m., adult discussion 11:30 Earlham College, unprogrammed, 9: 15 a.m. Clerk: Marg­ A NNA POLIS-351 Dubois Rd. Worship 11 a.m. a.m. Meetinghouse, 1420 Hill St.; guest room reserva­ aret Lechner. Paul Barten-Kriese: (317) 966-9286. Phone: (41 0) 573·0364. tions, (313) 761-7435. Clerk: Walt Scheider, (313) SOUTH BEN[)..Worship 10:30 a.m. (219) 232-5729,256- BALTIMO RE·Stony Run: worship 9:30 and 11 a. m. ex­ 663-3846. cept 10 a.m. July and August. 5116 N. Charles St. 435-3773. 0635. BIRMINGHAM-Meeting 10:30 a.m. Brookside School Li· Homewood: worship and First-day school 11 a.m. 3107 N. VALPARAISO-Duneland Friends Meeting. Singing 11:30 brary. N.E. corner Lone Pine & Cranbrook, Bloomfield Charles St. 235-4438. Hills. Summer: Springdale Park, Strathmore Rd. (313) a.m., unprogrammed worship 11 :45 a.m. Community United 377-8811 . Clerk: Margaret Kanost: (31 3) 373-6608. Methodist Churcb, 2647 Calumet Ave., 46383. Informa­ BALTIMORE/SPARKS-Gunpowder Meeting. Worship ev­ tion: (219) 462-9997. ery First Day, 1 1 a.m. Call for directions. Phone: (41 0) DETROIT-First Day meeting 10:30 a.m. Call341-9404, or 771-4583. write 4011 Norfolk, Detroit, Ml 48221, for information. WEST LAFAYETTE-Unprogrammed worship at 10 a.m. at 176 E. Stadium Ave., West Lafayette. BETHESDA-Classes and worship 11 a.m. (year round) EAST LANSING-Unprogrammed Worship and First-day Sidwell Friends Lower School, Edgemoor Lane and Beverly school, 12:30 p.m. AU Saints Episcopal Church Lounge, Iowa Rd. 986-8681. 800 Abbott Road. Accessible. Call 371-1754 or 351-3094. AMES-Worship 10 am. Sun.; summer 9 am., 427 Hawthorne CHESTERTOWN-Chester River Meeting, 124 Philosophers GRAND RAPIDS-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. Ave. (4 blks west of campus) Arnes,IA50014. (515) 292-1459, Terrace. Worship 11 a.m. Clerk: Lorraine Fry, P.O. Box (616) 942-4713 or 454-7701 . 296-5160. 1005, Chestertown, MD 21620. (410) 778-0220. KALAMAZOO-Meeting for worship and First-day school DES MOINES-Meeting for worship 10 a.m., classes 11 :30 DARLINGTON-Deer Creek Meeting. Worship 10:30; clerk, 10 a.m., discussion and child care 11 a.m. Friends Meet­ a.m. Meetinghouse, 4211 Grand Ave. Phone: 274-4717. Anne Gregory, (410) 457-9188. inghouse, 508 Denner. Phone: 349·1754. IOWA CITY-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 a.m. EASTON·Third Haven Meeting, 405 S. Washington St. 10 311 N. Linn St. Call351-2234 or Selma Conner, 338-2914. a.m. Kenneth Carroll, clerk, (410) 820-6347, 820-7952. Minnesota WEST BRANCH-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m., dis­ FALLSTON-Little Falls Meeting, Old Fallston Rd. Worship BRAINERD-Unprogrammed meeting and discussion, Sun­ cussion 9:45a.m. except 2nd Sunday. 317 N. 6th St. Call: 10:30 a.m. Clerk, Nancy Paaby, (410) 877-7245. days 6:30. Call: (218) 963-7786. (319) 643-5639. FREDERICK-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. First-day school DULUTH-Unprogrammed worship, First Day, 9:30 a.m. 10:15. Please call for location, directions. Richard Sundays, 1730 E. Superior St. David Harper, clerk: (218) Kansas Broadbent, clerk, (301) 44 7-6290. 525-5877. LAWRENCE·Oread Friends Meeting, 1146 Oregon. SALISBURY-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. First-day MINNEAPOLIS-Minneapolis Friends Meeting, 4401 York Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. 7 49-1316, 843-4895. school and adult class 10 a.m. Carey Ave. at Glen. (410) Ave. South, Mpls., MN 55410. Call for times. (612) 926- MANHATTAN-Unprogrammed. Baptist Campus Center, 543-4343, or 289-6893. 6159. 1801 Anderson, Manhattan, KS 66502. School year: 10 NORTHFIEL[).S()GN-CANNON FALLS TWP.-Cannon Val­ SANDY SPRING-Worship 9:30 and 11 a.m., first Sundays a.m. silence, 11 a.m. discussion. June/July: members' 9:30 only. Classes 10:30 a.m. Meetinghouse Rd. at Rte. ley Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. Child homes, 9:30a.m. (913) 539-2636, (913) 537-2260. 108. care. (507) 663-7969. TOPEKA-Unprogrammed worship 9:45 a.m. followed by SOUTHERN MARYLAND-Patuxent Preparative Meeting. ROCHESTER-Unprogrammed meeting. Call: (507) 282- discussion. 603 S.W. 8th Topeka. First-day school and Worship 10 a.m. Call Ann Trentman 884-4048 or Peter 4565 or 282-3310. child care provided. Phone: (913) 233-521 0, 273-6791. or Rabenold 586-1199. ST. CLOUD-Unprogrammed meeting 3:00 p.m. followed WICHITA-Heartland Meeting, unprogrammed worship by second hour discussion. First United Methodist Church, UNION BRIDGE-Pipe Creek Meeting. Worship 11 a.m. 11 :00 a.m., First Days. Room 113, St. Paul's United Meth­ 302 S. 5th Ave. George Fellers, clerk, (301) 831 -9797. odist Church, 13th and Topeka. (316) 262-8331. Carry-in ST. PAUL· Twin Cities Friends Meeting, 1725 Grand Ave., lunch and business following worship on last First Day of Massachusetts St. Paul. Unprogrammed worship, 10:30 a.m. (612) 699- month. ACTON-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. Harvey 6995. WICHITA-University Friends Meeting, 1840 University. Wheeler Community Center, corner Main and Church Sts. STILLWATER-St. Croix Valley Friends. Unprogrammed Sunday school9:30 a.m., Meeting for worship 10:45 a.m. West Concord (during summer in homes). Clerk: Edith worship at 10 am. Phone (612) 777-1698,777-5651. Gene Maynard, pastor. Phone: (316) 262..()471 . Gilmore, 371 -1619. Mississippi AMESBURY-Worship 10 a.m.; 120 Friend St. Call (508) Kentucky HATnESBURG- Unprogrammed worship, each Sunday 10 463-3259 or (508) 388-3293. BEREA-Meeting Sunday 9 a.m. Berea College: (606) 986- a.m., Wesley Foundation, 210 N. 32nd St.; child care 1745. AMHERST·NORTHAMPTON-GREENFIELD-Worship and available. (601) 261 -1150. LEXINGTON-Meeting for worship and First-dey school 10 First-day school 10 a.m. Mt. Toby Meetinghouse, Rte. 63, a.m. Sundays. 1504 Bryan Ave., l exington, KY 40505. Leverett. 548-9188; if no answer 584-2788 or 549-4845. Missouri Phone: (606) 223-4176. BOSTON-Worship 10:30 a.m. First Day. Beacon Hill COLUMBIA-Discussion and First-day school 9:30, wor-

44 February 1994 fRIENDS JOURNAL ship 10:30 a.m. 6408 Locust Grove Dr. Call: (314) 442- cept July and Aug. 10 a .m. Park St. and Gordonhurst Ave. CENTRAL FINGER LAKES-Penn Van, Sundays, Sept. 8328 for information. Phone: (201) 746-0940. Visitors welcome. through June, 270 Lake St., rear, adult and child's study KANSAS CITY·Penn Valley Meeting, 4405 Gillham Rd. 10 MOORESTOWN-118 E. Main St. Meeting for worship 9 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m. July through Aug., worship in a.m. Call: (816) 931-5256. a.m. and 11 a.m., First-day school 9:45 a.m. Except 2nd homes. Phone: (716) 528-5196. ST. LOUIS-Meeting 10:30 a .m. 2539 Rockford Ave., Rock First Day: Meeting for worship 9 a.m., Meeting for Busi­ CHAPPAQUA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and Hill. Phone: 962·3061. ness 9:45a.m., First-day tor children. (609) 235-1561. First-day school 10:30 a .m. Ate. 120 Quaker Rd. (914) SPRINGFIELD-Preparative Meeting. Worship and First­ MOUNT HOLLY-Meeting for worship 10:30 am. High and 238-3170. day school 11 a.m. each First Day at the Ecumenical Garden Sts. Visitors welcome. Call: (609) 261-7575. CLINTON-Meeting, Sundays, 10:30 a.m. Kirkland Art Cen­ Center, SMSU campus, 680 S. Florence Ave. Contact MULLICA HILL-Main St. Sept.-May FDS 9:45, meeting for ter, On-the-Park. Phone: 853·2243. Louis Cox: (417) 882-3963. worship 11 a.m. Meeting only, June, July and Aug., 10 CLINTONDALE-Clintondale Friends Meeting. 302 Cres­ Montana a.m. cent Ave. Sunday school 9:45 a.m., worship 11 a.m. (summer hours: July-Aug. 9:30 a.m.) Daniel P. Whitley, BILLINGS-Unprogrammed worship, 10:30 a.m., Meeting NEW BRUNSWICK-Meeting and First-day school 10:30 Pastor. Phone: (914) 883-6456. for Learning 11 :15 a.m. Child care. 2032 Central Avenue a.m. Meeting only July and Aug., 9:30 a.m.109 Nichol or call: (406) 252·5065 or (406) 656-2163. Ave. (201) 846-8969. CORNWALL-Meeting for worship a nd Sunday school1 0:30 a.m. Ate. 107, off 9W, Quaker Ave. Phone: 496-4463. HELENA-Call (406) 449-6663 or (406) 449·0913. PLAINFIELD-Meeting for worship and First-day school 10:00 a.m. Wednesday at 8:00p.m. 225 Watchung Ave. EASTON-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school 11 MISSOULA-Unprogrammed, Sundays. 1861 South 12th at E. Third St. 757-5736. Street W. (406) 549-6276. a.m. Ate. 40. (518) 664-6567, 692·9227, or 677·3693. PRINCETON-Worship 9 and 11 a.m. First-day school 11 ELMIRA-10:30 a.m. Sundays. 155 West 6th St. Phone: Nebraska a.m. Oct-May. Quaker Rd. near Mercer St. (609) 924· (607) 733·7972. 7034. LINCOLN-Discussion 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m. 3319 S. FREDONIA-Unprogrammed meeting 10:30 a.m. Call: (716) 46th. Phone: 488-4178. QUAKERTOWN-Worship and First-day school1 0:30a.m. 672-4427 or (716) 672-4518. OMAHA-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m.; University Box 502, Quakertown 08868. (201) 782.{)953. HAMILTON-Meeting tor worship 10 a .m. Chapel House, Relig. Ctr., 101 N. Happy Hollow. 289-4156, 558-9162. RANCOCAS-First-day school 10 a.m., meeting tor wor­ Colgate University. Phone: Joel Plotkin, (315) 684-9320. Nevada ship 11 a.m. HUDSON-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. first and third RIDGEWOOD-Meeting tor worship and First-day school LAS VEGAS-Unprogrammed worship group. Call (702) 898- Sundays. 343 Union St. (518) 851 -7954, 968-8940, o r 5785. 11 a.m. 224 Highwood Ave. (201) 445-8450. 329-0401 . SALEM-Meeting for worship 11 a.m., First-day school RENQ-Unprogranmedworship, for information call: 747-4623. ITHACA-Worship 11 a.m., Anabel Taylor Hall, Oct.-May, 9:45a.m. July and Aug. worship 10 a.m. East Broadway. worship 10:30 a .m., Hector Meeting House, Perry City New Hampshire SEAVILLE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. (July/Aug. 10 Ad., June-Sept. Phone: 273-5421. CONCORD-Worship 10 a .m. Children welcomed and cared a.m.) Main Shore Rd., Ate. 9, Seaville. (609) 624-1165. LONG ISLAND (QUEENS, NA S SA U, SUFFOLK tor. Merrimack Valley Day Care Center, 19 N. Fruit St. SHREWSBURY-Meeting tor worship and First-day school COUNTIES)- Unprogrammed meetings for worship, 11 Phone: 783-4743. 10:30 a.m. Ate. 35 and Sycamore. Phone: (908) 741- a.m. First Days, unless otherwise noted. DOVER-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m., 141 Central 4138. EA STERN LONG ISLAND (3 worship groups) Ave. Contact: Pat Gildea, (603) 749-9316, or write: P.O. SOMERSET/MORRIS COUNTIES-Somerset Hills Meet­ Sag Harbor: 96 Hempstead St., Sag Harbor. (516) 725- Box 98, Dover, NH 03820. ing, Community Club, E. Main St., Brookside. Worship 10 2547. a.m. Sept.-May. (908) 234·2486 or (201) 543-7477. Southampton: Administration Building, Southampton Col· GONic-Programmed Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays. 10:30 lege. (516) 287-1713. a.m. Maple St. Clerk: Evelyn Lang. Phone: (603) 895- SUMMIT-Meeting for worship and First-day school 11 Southold: 2060 Leeward Drive. (516) 765-1132. 9877. a.m. (July, Aug., 10 a.m.). 158 Southern Blvd., Chatham FLUSHING-Discussion 10 a.m.; FDS 11 a.m. 137-16 HANOVER-Worship and First-day school, Sundays, 10 Township. Visitors welcome. Northern Blvd. (718) 358·9636. a.m. Friends Meetinghouse, 43 Lebanon St. (next to high TRENTON-Meeting for worship and primary First-day school). Clerk: Mayme Noda, (603) 643-4138. school 10 a .m. Hanover and Montgomery Sts. Children HUNTINGTON-LLOYD HARBOR·11 :30 a.m., St. Paul's Methodist Church, 270 Main St., Northport, NY. Tel: LANCASTER-Unprogrammed meeting at the Episcopal welcomed and cared tor. (516) 757-4548. Rectory nearly every Sunday evening at 5:30. Check tor TUCK ERTON-Little Egg Harbor Meeting. Left side of Ate. time. (802) 962-5290. 9 traveling north. Worship 10:30 a.m. J ERICHQ-Oid Jericho Tpke., oft Ate. 25, just east ot intersection with Rtes. 106 and 107. NORTH SANDWICH-10:30 a.m. Contact: Webb, (603) WOODBURY-First-day school 10 a.m., meeting for wor­ 284-6215. ship 11 :15 a.m. 140 North Broad St. Telephone: (609) LOCUST VALLEY· MA TINECOCK· 10 a .m. all year, FDS PETERBOROUGH-Monadnock, Meeting at Peter­ 845-5080, if no answer call 845-9516. Sept.-June. Duck Pond and Piping Rock Ads. borough/Jaffrey Une on Rt. 202. 10:30. (603) 924-6150, WOODSTOWN-First-day school 9 :45 a.m., worship 11 MANHASSET-Adult class 10 a.m., FDS 11 a.m., Win­ or Stine, 878-4768. a.m. July and Aug., worship 10 a.m. N. Main St. Phone: ter. (Worship 1 0 a.m. June - August.) (516) 365-5142. WEARE-1 0:30a.m., Quaker St., Henniker. Contact: Baker (609) 358-3528. ST. JAMES-CONSCIENCE BA Y-Friends Way, ott (603) 478-3230. New Mexico Moriches Rd. Adult d iscussion, FDS, and singing. (5 16) WEST EPPING-Unprogrammed. 10 a.m. on 1st and 3rd 862-6213. First Days. Friend St. directly off Rt. 27. Clerk: Fritz Bell A LBUQUERQUE-Meeting and First-day school1 0:30. 1600 SHELTER ISLAND EXECUTIVE MEETING-10:30 a.m. (603) 895-2437. 5th St., N.W., (505) 843-6450. Summers: Circle at Quaker Martyr's Monument , GA LLUP-Friends Worship Group, First Day 10:30 a .m. Sylvester Manor. (516) 7 49-

F RIENDS JOURNAL February 1994 45 9 a.m. and 1 1 a.m. First-day school 1 1 a.m. June 1 to 4353. Cindi Goslee, clerk. DOYLESTOWN-Meeting for worship and First-day school Labor Day worship at 10 a.m. with babysitting available, CLEVELAND-Meeting tor worship and First-day school11 10 :30 a.m. East Oakland Ave. 41 Westminster Rd., 14607. (716) 27Hl900. am. 10916 Magnolia Or. (216) 791·2220. DUNNING$ CREEK-First-day schooVMeeting for worship ROCKLAND-Meeting for worship and First-day school 11 COLUMBUs-Unprogrammed meeting 10:30 a.m. 1954 begins 10 a.m. N.W. Bedford at Fishertown. 623-5350. a.m. 60 Leber Rd., Blauvelt. (914) 623-8473. Indianola Ave. Call the Meetinghouse at (614) 291-2331 ERIE-Unprogrammed worship. Call: (814) 866-0682. RYE-Unprogrammed meeting lor worship 9 am., 624 Milton or Gerry Brevoort at (614) 268-2002. FALLSINGTON (Bucks County)-Falls Meeting, Main St. Road. Phone(914)967~9 . DAYTON-Friends meeting FGC. Unprogrammed wor­ First-day school 10 a.m., meeting for worship 11 a.m. Five SARANAC LAKE-Meeting tor worship and First-day school; ship and First-day school10 a.m. 1516 Salem Ave., Rm. miles from Pennsbury reconstructed manor home of Wil­ (518) 523-1899 or (518) 523-3548. 236 Phone: (513) 426-9875. liam Penn. SARATOGA SPRINGs-Worship and First-day school 11 DELAWARE-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school, GLENSIDE-Unprogrammed, Christ~en tered worship. First­ a.m. Phone: (518) 399·5013. 11 :00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., room 311 of the Hami~onWilliams day 10:30 a.m., Fourth-day, 7:30 p.m. 16 Huber St., SCARSDALE-Meeting for worship, second Sunday in Sept. Campus Center at Ohio Wesleyan University. For summer Glenside (near Railroad Station) Ph. 576-1450. through June, 11 a.m.; July through first Sunday in Sept. and 2nd Sundays, call (614) 362-8921. GOSHEN-First-day school 10 a.m., worship 10:45 10 am. First-day school, third Sunday in Sept. through GRANVILLE-Area worship group meets Sundays 10a.m. Goshenville, intersection of Rte. 352 and Paoli Pike. second Sunday in June, 11 a.m. 133 Popham Rd. For information, call Mike Fuson: (614) 587-4756. GWYNEDD-First-day school 9:45 a.m., except summer. SCHENECTADY-Meeting tor worship 9:30 a.m. Albany KENT-Meeting for worship and First-day school 10:30 Worship 11:15 a.m. Sumneytown Pike and Ate. 202. a.m., UCM lounge, 1435 East Main Street. David Stilwell, Street United Methodist Church, 924 Albany Street. (518) HARRISBURG-Worship 11 a.m., First-day school and adult clerk. Phone: (216) 869-5563. 377-4912. education (Sept. to May) 9:45 a.m. Sixth and Herr Sts. STATEN ISLAND-Meeting for worship Sundays at 11 a.m. MANSFIELD-Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m., first and Phone: (717) 232-7282 or 232-1326. third Sundays. (419) 756-4441 or 289-8335. Information: (718) 273-{)493. HAVERFORD-First-day school 10:30 a.m., meeting tor SYRACUSE-Worship 10:30 a.m. 821 Euclid Ave. MARIETTA-Mid-Ohio Valley Friends unprogrammed wor­ worship 10:30 a.m., filth-day meeting for worship 10 am. ship First Day mornings at 10:30 o'clock. Betsey Mills during college year. Buck Lane, between Lancaster Pike North Carolina Club, 4th and Putnam Sts. Phone: (614) 373-2466. and Haverford Rd. ASHEVILLE-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and First­ OBERLIN-Unprogrammed meeting, First Days: (216) 775- HAVERTOWN-Old Haverford Meeting. East Eagle Rd. at day school 10 a.m., forum and child care 11 a.m. 227 2368 or (216) 774-3292. Saint Dennis Lane, Havertown; First-day school and adult Edgewood Rd. (704) 258-0974. WAYNESVILLE-Friends meeting, First-day school 9:30 forum, 10 a.m., meeting for worship 11 a.m. BOONE-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m., Unitarian Fel­ a.m., unprogrammed worship 10:45 a.m. 4th and Hight HORSHAM-First-day school, meeting 11 am. Rte. 611. Sts. (513) 885-7276, 897-8959. lowship. King Street, Boone, N.C. Call for information. HUNTINGDON-Worship 10 a.m. 1715 Mifflin St. (81 4) Michael Harless, (919) 877-4663. WILMINGTON-Campus Meeting (United FUM and FGC), 643-1842 or 669-4038. BREVARD-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, 11 a.m. College Kelly Center. Unprogrammed worship 10:15 a.m. Barbara Olmsted, clerk, (513) 382-4118. INDIANA-Unprogrammed meeting lor worship, 10:30 a.m., Oakdale and Duckworth Aves. (704) 884-7000. first and third Sundays. United Ministry, 828 Grant St. CELO.Meeting 10:45 a.m., near Burnsville, off Rt. 80S, WOOSTER-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school (412) 349-3338. 455 Hannah Branch Rd., (704) 675-4456. 10:30 a.m. S.W. corner College and Pine Sts. (216) 345- 8664 or 262·7650. KENDAL·Worship 10:30 a.m. Ate. 1, 1 mi. N. of Longwood CHAPEL HILL-Meeting tor worship 9 a.m. and 11 :15 a.m. Gardens. First-day school11 :15 a.m. Child care. During June, July YELLOW SPRINGs-Unprogrammed worship, FGC, 10 a.m. KENNETT SQUARE-First-day school 10 a.m., worship 11 August, worship 10 am. 531 Raleigh Mike Rockford Meetinghouse, President St. (Antioch campus). and at Rd. Cieri<: a.m. Union and Sickles. Betsy McKinistry, clerk, (215) Green, (919) 929-2339. Meetinghouse, (919) 929-5377. Clerk, John Eastman: (513) 767-7919. 444-4449. CHARLOTTE-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and Oklahoma LANCASTER-Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m. 11 0 First-day school 10 a.m., forum and child care 11 am. Tulane Terr. 392·2762. 2327 Remount Rd. (704) 399-8465 or 537-5808. OKLAHOMA CITY-Friends Meetinghouse, 312 S.E. 25th. Unprogrammed meeting lor worship 10 a.m., Quaker study DAVIDSON-10 a.m. Carolina Inn. (704) 892-3996. LANSDOWNE-First-day school and activities 10 a.m. Meet· group, midweek. (405) 632·7574, 631-4174. ing for worship 10 a.m. Lansdowne and Stewart Aves. DURHAM-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school STILLWATER-Unprogrammed meeting lor worship 11 a.m. LEHIGH VALLEY-BETHLEHEM-Worship and First-day 10 a.m. 404 Alexander Ave. Contact Alice Keighton, (919) For information call (405) 372-5892 or 372-4839. 489-6652. school9:30 a.m. Programs for all ages 10:45 a.m. On Rte. TULSA-Green Country Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed 512, 112 mile north of Rte. 22. FAYETTEVILLE-Unprogrammed. Phone 485-5720. worship 5:15p.m. Forum 4 p.m. For information, call (918) LEWISBURG-Worship 10 :30 a.m. Sundays. Vaughan Ut. GREENSBORo-Friendship Meeting (unprogrammed) 1103 743-6827. Bldg. Ubrary, Bucknell University. Clerk: (717) 524..()191. New Garden Rd. Worship 10:30 a.m. Call: (919) 294-2095 or 854-5155. Oregon LONDON GROVE-Friends meeting Sunday 10 a.m., child care/First-day school 11 a.m. Newark Rd. and Ate. 926. GREENSBORo-New Garden Friends Meeting. Meeting ASHLAND-Meeting for worship 10 a.m· Sunday. 1150 for worship: unprogrammed 9 a.m.; semi-programmed 11 Ashland St. (503) 482-4335. MARSHALLTON-Bradford Meeting (unprogrammed), Ate. 162, 4 mi. west of West Chester. 1 1 a m. 696-6538. a.m. First-day school9:45 am. Gary C. Dent, clerk; David CORVALLI$-Meeting for worship 9:30 a.m. 3311 N.W. W. Bills, pastoral minister. 801 New Garden Road, 27410. Polk Ave. Phone: 752-3569. MEDIA-Worship 11 a.m. (10 am. July-Aug.) Joint First­ (910) 294-2095 or854-5155. EUGENE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. Sunday. 2274 Onyx day school 9:30 a.m. at Media, Sept...J an., and at Provi­ GREENVILLE-Unprogrammed worship and First-day St. Phone: 343-3840. dence, Feb . ..June, 125 W. Third St. school. 355-7230 or 758-6789. FLORENCE-Unprogrammed worship (503) 997-4237 or MEDIA-Providence Meeting, 105 N. Providence Rd. (215) HICKORY-Unprogrammedworship, First-day school10:15, 964-5691 . 566-1308. Worship 1 1 a.m. Joint First-day school 9:30 at Providence, Feb.-June and at Media, Sept. ..Jan. forum 11:30. 328 N. Center St., (704) 324-5343. PORTLAND-Mu~nomah Monthly Meeting, 4312 S.E. Stark. RALEIGK-Unprogrammed. Worship 10 a.m. 625 Tower Worship 10 am. Phone: 232-2822. MERION-Meeting for worship 11 a.m., First-day school Street. 10:15 except summer months. Babysitting provided. Meet­ SALEM-Meeting tor worship 10 am., Forum 11 a.m. YWCA, inghouse Lane at Montgomery. WENTWORTHIREIOSVILLE-()pen worship and child care 768 State St., 399-1908. Call for summer schedule. 10:30 a.m. Call: (919) 349-5727 or (919) 427-3188. MIDDLETOWN-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. First-day Pennsylvania school 10:30-11:30 a.m. Adult education 10:30-11 a.m. WILMINGTON-Unprogrammed worship 11:00 a.m., dis· Delaware County, Ate. 352 N. of Lima. 358-1528. cussion 10:00 a.m., 313 Castle St. ABINGTON-First-day school (summer-outdoor meeting) 9:45 a.m., worship 11 :15 a.m. Child care. Meetinghouse MIDDLETOWN-First-day school 9:30 a.m., meeting for WOODLAND-Cedar Grove Meeting. Sabbath school 10 Rd./Greenwood Ave., Jenkintown. (E. of York Rd., N. of worship 11 a.m. Seventh and eighth months worship 10- a.m., meeting tor worship 11 a.m. Bill Remmes, clerk. Philadelphia.) 884-2865. 11 a.m. At Langhorne, 453 W. Maple Ave. (919) 587-9981 . BIRMINGHAM-First-day school 10 a.m., worship 10: 15. MILLVILLE-Worship 10 a.m., First-day school 11 a.m. North Dakota 1245 Birmingham Rd. S. of West Chester on Rte. 202 to Main St. Dean Girton, (717) 458-6431 . Rte. 926, turn W. to Birmingham Rd., turn S. 1/4 mile. FARGo-Unprogrammed meeting, 10:30 am. Sundays, NEWTOWN (Bucks Co.J.-Worship 11 a.m., First-day school 1239 12th St. N. 234-0974. BUCKINGHAM-Worship and First-day school, 11 a.m.-12 9:45a.m. Summer worship only. 21 9 Court St., 968-3804. (June, July, Aug.: 10-11 , no FOS). Routes 202-263, NEWTOWN SQUARE (Del. Co.)-Meeting 10 a.m. Rte. Ohio Lahaska. (215) 794-7299. 252 N. of Ate. 3. (215) 566-4808. AKRON-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school. CARLISLE-First-day school, Meeting for worship 10 am.; NORRISTOWN-Meeting tor worship and First-day school United Church of Christ, 750 Work Or., 44320; in little 252 A Street, (717) 249-8899. 1 0 a.m. on First Day at Swede and Jacoby Sts. Phone: chapel in the back; (216) 253-7151 (AFSC). CHAMBERSBURG-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. (717) 279-3765. Mail: P.O. Box 823, Norristown, PA 19404. ATHEN$-10 a.m. 18 N. College St. (614) 592·5789. 263-6576. OXFORD-First-day school 10 a.m., Meeting for worship BOWLING GREEN-Broadmead Friends Meeting FGC. CHELTENHAM-See Philadelphia listing. 11 a.m. 260 S. 3rd St. (215) 932-8572. Janet P. Eaby, Unprogrammed worship groups meet at: CHESTER-Meeting for worship 11 a.m., Sunday. 24th and clerk. (717) 786-7810. BLUFFTON-Sally Weaver Sommer, clerk, (419) 358· Chestnut Sts., (215) 874-5860. PENNSBURG-Unami Monthly Meeting meets First Days 5411 . CONCORD-Worship and First-day school 11 :15 a.m. At at 11 a.m. Meetinghouse at 5th and Macoby Sts. Geoffrey FINDLAY-Joe Davis, (419) 422·7668. Concordville, on Concord Rd. one block south of Rte. 1. Kaiser, clerk: 234-8424. TOLEDo-Rilma Buckman, (419) 385-1718. DARBY-Meeting for worship and First-day school 11 a.m. PHILADELPHIA-Meetings 10:30 a.m. unless specified; phone 241-7221 tor information about First-day schools. CINCINNATI-Eastern Hills Friends Meeting (previously Main at 1Oth St. Clifton Friends Meeting), 1671 Nagel Road, Sunday 10 DOUNGTON-MAKEFIELD-Worship 11·11 :30 a.m. First­ BYBERRY-one mile east of Roosevelt Boulevard at a.m. (513) 232-5348. day school11 :30-12:30. East of Oolington on MI. Eyre Rd. Southampton Rd., 11 a.m. CINCINNATl-Community Meeting (United FGC and FUM), DOWNINGTOWN-First-day school (except summer CENTRAL PHILADELPHIA-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. 3960 Winding Way, 45229. Worship from silence and months) and worship 10:30 a.m. 800 E. Lancaster Ave. (10 a.m. July and August). 15th and Cherry Sts. First-day school 10 a.m. Quaker-house phone: (513) 861 - (south side old Ate. 30, 1/2 mile east of town). 269-2899. CHEL TENHAM-Jeanes Hospital grounds, Fox Chase,

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