\ October 1991 Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today

...... ~ Edltor-M•n•ger Among Friends Vinton Deming Assocl•te Editor Melissa Kay Elliott Art Director Barbara Benton Christmas in October Advertising M•n•ger Catherine Frost Clrcul•tlon •nd Promotion hen we are traveling among Friends, one particular question Nagendran Gulendran often arises: How do issues of the magazine come together? ~peseHing Services James Rice and Susan Jordhamo W People want to know whether the articles are solicited, for Secret•rl•l Services instance, or if they just come in. How do we decide what to use? Edward Sargent Bookk•eper Our process of receiving articles is much like an unprogrammed meeting James Neveil for worship. We as editors find ourselves sitting on the facing bench, if you Volunteers Jane Burgess, Carol Eresian, Anders Hansen, will, of a very large meeting-a threshing session, perhaps-one that Emily Conlon includes Friends of many persuasions from a wide geographical area. When Bo•rd of M•n•gers 1989-1992: Jennie Allen (Secretary), Richard messages are shared with us, as they are daily, we read them carefully. Eldridge (Assistant Clerk), Bernard Haviland, Some are expressed well, others need improvement or seem less suitable. We Eric Larsen, Marcia Mason, Janet Norton, David Samuel, Carolyn Sprogell, Wilmer try to exercise discernment and participate in extensive dialogue with Tjossem, Alice Wiser authors. Out of this process our monthly issues emerge. 1990-1993: Clement Alexandre, Marguerite Clark, Leonard Kenworthy, Lee Neff, Mary Sometimes we ask individuals to submit articles. Currently, for instance, Ellen Singsen the subject of realignment within Friends United Meeting is a topic of wide 1991- 1994: Frank Bjornsgaard, Emily Conlon, Nancy Cocks Culleton, Barbara Dinhofer, Dian discussion. We have invited two Friends to write on the subject for a future Fatula, Sam Legg (Clerk), Parry Jones, Richard Moses (Treasurer) , Harry Scott, Larry Spears issue. Similarly, this year marks the 50th anniversary of Civilian Public Honor•I'J M•n•gers Service. Several veterans of CPS have been asked to write articles for an Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Mildred Binns Young issue this winter. We try to be aware too of who has traveled recently to an fRIENDS JOURNAL (ISSN 0016-1322) was established in 1955 as the successor to The interesting place in the world, what Friend has delivered a challenging Friend (1827-1955) and Friends Intelligencer (1844- 1955). It is associated with the Religious conference address, who is traveling with a particular concern. At such Society of Friends, and is a member of the times we encourage timely articles. Associated Church Press. Our October issue represents all of this. 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2 October 1991 FRIENDS JOURNAL October 1991 FRIENDS Volume 37, No. 10 JOURNAL Features Departments 6 Continuing Revelation 2 Among Friends Sam Legg New light, new understanding can come at any time, from 4 Forum any source. 5 VIewpoint 8 Friends School-One of Detroit's 28 Witness Jewels 30 Reports Imogene B. Angell Racially integrated and vibrant, a Friends school addresses a 32 Life of the Meeting city's needs. 33 Parents' Corner 10 Teaching Religion In Friends 34 Bulletin Board Schools Thomas Woehrle Calendar Students from different traditions can be brought closer to 36 News of Friends God in Spirit and in truth. Nonsense 12 Friends Schools: 1\vo Unmet Needs of the Meeting Spencer Coxe Can inclusive education validate Quaker principles? 38 Books 14 A Critical VIew of Multicultural 40 Milestones Education Classified Alfred K. LaMotte Quaker education affirms the transcendence of God in a 42 Meetings diversity of culture. 17 Final Exam: Gulf War 101 The course is over. Can we learn from the answers? 18 Trends in Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution Paul Wahrhaftig New and exciting approaches are being made at all levels of our society. 20 1991 FGC Gathering Friends share their experiences from a week of " Growing in Radical Faith."

The front cover shows a class self-portrait on fabric made by second graders in Boulder, Colo. They gave one copy to Boulder's Sister City, Dushanbe, in the Soviet Union; the other is on display at the State Capitol in Denver.

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1991 3 ~ - ~------Foftlm "The Penn Elm Tree "

Attention arboriculturists Looking again at one of my favorite photographic histories-Philadelphia Quakers 1681-1981, by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting-! note the close association of old trees with old Quaker structures or with old Quakers. The most noteworthy association of these two is the Shackamaxon elm with William Penn, made well-known by the Quaker painter Benjamin West. In the above-cited book is a reproduced photo of a great white oak near Salem (N.J.) Meeting, which in 1676 predated Penn's gathering on the Delaware River with his Friendly native Americans. Turning more pages I find two other old trees associated with Quakerism, the only two I remember viewing personally before my emigration from one PYM deep road cut. The hushed swish of trucks following crostic as a letter with a note area to another PYM (Pacific Yearly and cars is steady. One could wish that the explaining who actually wrote the one Meeting). These are the magnificent old corridor of traffic were set over a mile or you published in July. oak-is it a black, white, red, or other so to the south. Yet it occurred to me oak?-in the foreground of the London during worship in the meetinghouse that Oops! Grove (Pa.) Meeting, and the giant the Jove and centeredness of that building Sequoia near the Painter-Tyler and of the century-old school grounds A. FRIENDS JouRNAL's editorial standards. Arboretum in Delaware County, Pa. continually radiate spiritual energy and I suggest there are in the early Quaker peace. Some of this may spill down onto 6 areas of the mid-Atlantic states other the highway. If so, drivers of trucks and B. Embarrassed sound. examples of historic old trees of known autos are splashing their vehicles through 4 association with Friendly structures or an invisible, ever-replenished pool of C. ___ if it were mine. II 7 with Friendly arboriculturists. This blessing. Do these people sense a appeals to me as a worthy topic for a D. Editors can _ __ but they can't corresponding moment of light­ hide. __ Quaker writer to explore. Taking another heartedness and of relaxation from 5 9 12 tack, what kinds of native woods were anxiety? Do travelers experience a strange E. Someone who couldn't believe what the old Quaker meeting benches sawed and beautiful empowerment as they drive he saw. from? From where were the trees cut and just below the meetinghouse? These 2 10 who were the sawyers, the joiners? Were questions came to me. Could it be that the the wooden partitions between meeting Divine Presence is pleased to see a major sections cut from the same woods as were highway touch the hem of the grounds of a the benches? committed religious community? I would like to correspond with any The fact that a similar impingement of a other Friendly historians of similar mind new highway is happening to Pendle Hill's wanderings who would fancy such grounds in Pennsylvania gives credence to intellectual explorations as mine. I would the concept of invisible baptismal pools of encourage him/ her to write of and photo the Spirit near Friends' centers and other reproduce his/ her information. similarly enlarged and gentled sources of spiritual power. I find it to be a wholesome Edward P. Thatcher image that eases and gives purpose to the Osborn Cresson 1812 Villard St. discipline required of residents of at least Kalamazoo, Mich. Eugene, OR 97403 two Quaker centers of learning, as the learners deal with the background sound of (When we received Osborn Cresson's (FJ welcomes such correspondence as distant traffic. fetter and mini-crostic above, we well. -Eds.) Francis D. Hole immediately wrote to the real author of Madison, Wis. July's Quaker Crostic, lrven Roberts, a Friend from N. Easton, Mass. We Pools of blessing? apologized profusely and begged his What a puzzle! forgiveness. /rven 's response follows. I was fortunate to visit Scattergood -Eds.) Friends School in Iowa for four days It was nice to see my name in print (FJ recently. This high school campus is a July), but that wasn' t my Quaker Dear Editor, gem. The cluster of buildings serves the Crostic! You do have three of them from school community well. A lovely frame me; one you published in January 1990, Your note about the mix-up on author meetinghouse stands with its back to the the others are in your files for use. of July's Quaker Crostic just came and adjacent Interstate 80, which is hidden in a Perhaps you might publish the you'll be interested in the following: Even

4 October 1991 FRIENDS JoURNAL Viewpoint after solving it, I never checked my copy! or realized it was mine! The Valiant Three The Cresson family and the Roberts family were acquainted years ago at Radnor (Pa.) Meeting. Young Os and his any Friends stood against the sister were the age of my children. When war fever that swept America one of the Cresson crostics was published M during the Persian Gulf con­ in FRIENDS JouRNAL, I wrote to Os, flict. They prayed, lobbied their represen­ senior, in Costa Rica. Later, I had a note tatives, marched, and went to jail. Now from Os, junior, from Western Michigan they will heal the wounds and bury the University, enclosing a couple of other dead of George Bush and Saddam Hus­ puzzles. sein's oil war. So, I'm now sending a note back to In the hysteria of those days, the cour­ young Os with another crostic I made up. ageous actions of some young Friends Let me know if you want more material! may have been overlooked. They should - lrven Roberts be noted. ed, "How did the world get to be this N. Easton, Mass. Noah Rorem, 13, of Kankakee (Ill.) crazy?") Worship Group, lives in Essex, Illinois, During the war, Andrew also partici­ west of Kankakee and southwest of pated in a silent march in Bloomington­ It ain't over Chicago. Last spring he was in the 8th Normal. grade. At his school, posters of Saddam Jesse Hepperly, 8, of DeKalb (Ill.) (Our FJ Board clerk, Sam Legg, Hussein with bull's eyes on them were be­ Meeting, lives in DeKalb, Illinois, west of experienced with London, England, ing put up. Students began to sport yellow Chicago. His school, where he was in the environs, calls attention to a mistake in ribbons. 3rd grade, was flooded with yellow rib­ one of the clues to the July Quaker In response, Noah drew a big peace bons and posters. Crostic! Clue C was, "Where Big Ben is sign on the back of his Levi jacket and Jesse's teacher wanted the class to write (3 words)" and the answer given was wore it to school. letters to soldiers saying, "Thank you for "Tower of London." Not so, Sam points fighting for me and being willing to die out; Big Ben is located in the Parliament At Noah's school the other students tower (Westminster Palace), not the made remarks like, "Traitor!" And the for me." Jesse and some of the other Tower of London-located just east of comments continued throughout the students didn't want to write the letters, the city and on the north bank of the school term. because they didn't want anyone to fight Thames-a very different structure. So Noah persevered, however, also declin­ or die for them, but they were made to there, we fooled you all! -Eds.) ing to use "Honor Those Who Served" do so, anyway. stamps. Jesse's school also sent "Support the "UDUJnl{ S! JJiJ O.L ."JiJMSUD fr aiJDcf Andrew Stout, II, of Bloomington­ Troops" flyers home with the students. Normal (Ill.) Meeting, Jives in Normal, Jesse was upset about this, too, so his in central Illinois. At his school, where teacher asked him to bring something to Our legacy he was in the 4th grade, yellow ribbons share with the other students. He brought Charley Brown's message (Forum July) began to sprout. "The Peace Dragon," a Fred Small song. about the environmental future and the Andrew's school council voted about Some of its words are: "Children wave impact population growth will have on reimbursing their teachers, who had pur­ and shout hello when it flies overhead/ It future generations of children deeply chased the yellow ribbons used in the . calls to people, 'Please don't fight, but affected me. school. Andrew, along with another mem­ think and talk instead/ Don't send your Recently I attended a conference where ber, voted no. The other students didn't young ones off to war, don't poison all Gaylord Nelson, past governor of say anything but they looked at him as the earth/ When you're truly big and Wisconsin, U.S. senator and lifetime if to say, "Who do you think you are?" strong, you'll understand what peace is environmentalist, told us that he felt the Some time later, Andrew and fellow worth.' " number one threat to human existence students signed a large banner to present Jesse's teacher confiscated the song. was our over expenditure of our to a visiting soldier. Andrew didn't look When his mother contacted the school environmental capital assets. And that at the banner as he signed, feeling it authorities, she was informed that it was the biggest danger to these assets was couldn't be anything bad. But when he subversive literature and that it would en­ uncontrolled population growth. He saw the banner at the rally for the soldier, danger the safety of the troops. suggested that the way to prevent this he was amazed. It said, " Thank You For Jesse has continued to struggle, how­ disaster was to develop a conservation ethic. Our Future." He felt he never would have ever. A large boy for his age, he has re­ For Charley Brown of Wiscasset, signed it if he had known what it said. fused to fight with the other children and Maine, to welcome this population (Andrew commented to me later: plans are for him to serve on a student growth by asserting "the spirit of God "Thank you for our future, what does mediation committee to prevent fighting will be just as great for each child then that mean?" Shaking his head, he add- between students. as it is now" astounds me. Gary Sandman is willing to pass on any let­ These young Friends are heroes. They In order for the inner spirit of God to ters of support to these young Friends and is have luminous courage. They should in­ be honored, nurtured, and developed interested in other young Friends' experiences spire us all. We are blessed to have them within a human being, huge expenditures during the war. Please contact him at 1203 in our midst. of human, physical and environmental Gladden, Columbia, S.C. 29205. Gary Sandman continued

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1991 5 Forum continued ------· capital are required. If this capital is not accepts us as we are, but points to available, that child's inner spirit of God something higher which we may by Sam Legg shrivels and dies as we can clearly see in become." the eyes of starving children. Without Eleanor Webb ome years ago, the United States spiritual nourishment we will ultimately Baltimore, Md. sent a probe to Mars. It was pro­ create a human civilization made up of Sgrammed to land and acquire degraded morons, a population samples of rock/ soil for study back consultant recently stated. Protest letters needed here. What we were looking. for, of As people of the Light of Jesus Christ we have an obligation to take full When I was in San Jose, Costa Rica, course, were signs of "life." To ac­ spiritual responsibility for creating the in mid-July, I learned of the case of complish this, the probe contained in­ Kingdom/ Queendom of Jehovah God on Livia Cordero Gene, now in her 16th struments capable of detecting evidence this planet Earth-NOW! We do this by month in prison without a trial. What I of oxygen, carbon, and the other com­ saying " NO! " to everything that am asking Friends to do is to write the ponents of life as we know it on Earth. diminishes and dehumanizes life and president of the Costa Rican Supreme Granted, Mars is pretty close for me "YES!" to everything that affirms it. We Court, the minister of justice, and the to be suggesting, as I do, that we might need to be spiritual warriors showing our president of Costa Rica, pointing out the grandchildren what it means to be violation of human rights and asking why be wise to keep ·our minds open to the responsibly alive, vital, and in love with a trial has not been held. possibility that ''life'' could turn out to one's self, others, and Mother Earth. Livia Cordero Gene has been identified be something so far unknown to us here. A planet with its human population with peace and human rights The chances of a different form of life under control and living in harmony with organizations; and it appears that she is so close as Mars are, I admit, small. But the fundamental laws of nature must be being held for her political views rathe~ what kind of probe would we send to our spiritual legacy to future generations. than the trumped-up charge of complicity with a bomb-thrower. She has been a another galaxy? Is it possible we might Nancy Laine Davis member of the Quaker Peace Center, the find there forms of life completely dif­ Madison, Wisconsin Women's International League for Peace ferent from anything we could imagine? and Freedom (WILPF), the Commission A physicist tapped on a solid oak for the Defense of Human Rights in table and said to me: "This table is The power of prayer Central America, and the Costa Rica mostly empty space. Inside are myriads Commission of Human Rights. of molecules dashing madly about at It is not up to us to determine the guilt In your News of Friends section (FJ or innocence of Livia Cordero Gene, but furious speed, but the distances between June), a request was published from the to insist on a fair and speedy trial. them are so vast they seldom collide, yet Friends Meeting of Austin (Tex.) for Friends involved with the San Jose together they still make the table." prayers as the meeting considered the Friends Meeting and Peace Center are Remembering the times I have been request for marriage of Steve and Jim. encouraging our efforts. The WILPF, At the July meeting for business, the bruised by bumping against the edges of Apartado 315-1250 Escazu, Costa Rica, badly placed tables, I found the descrip­ meeting decided to send a second note to would appreciate receiving copies of FRIENDS JOURNAL as follows: letters sent to officials. The addresses of tion hard to accept. But what if it were "The Friends of the Meeting at Austin, key officials are: true? What if our body is simply an Texas, wish to thank Friends elsewhere unimaginable number of cells, each per­ for their prayers for our meeting in its Lie. Edgar Cervantes V., Presidente de Ia forming its destined role? Taking it far­ decision-making process regarding the Corte Supreme de Justicia, 103, San marriage of Steve and Jim." ther, what if I am one of those cells in Jose, Costa Rica. a larger body, say, the Earth? From Lied a. Elizabeth Odio B., Ministra de Paul Stucky, clerk Justicia, Apdo Postal 5685-1000, San what we keep learning about the infinite­ Austin (Tex.) Meeting Jose, Costa Rica. ly expanding universe, why couldn't our Lie. Rafal A. Calderon Forunier, massive planet itself be merely a cell in (Steve and Jim are to be married under Presidente de Costa Rica, Apdo Postal a larger organism, say our Milky Way the care of Austin Meeting November 2, 520-2010, Zapote, Costa Rica. 1991. -Eds.) galaxy? Why stop there? We could go on to see our galaxy as a cell, one tiny Robert S. Vogel Pasadena, Calif. fragment of the ultimate creation. And if that idea doesn't make us think big Simple gifts enough, let's say the galaxy is a cell in Do you ever have use for tiny fRmNDS JoURNAL welcomes contribu­ the big toe of a larger being. You get the minuscripts? I was so struck with tions from readers. We reserve the idea; we could go on indefinitely like Margaret (Holly) Sanderson's recent right to edit all letters. Submissions to this. And we could explain lots of the message at Stony Run (Md.) Meeting that Forum should be no longer than 300 explosions our telescopes and our radio I asked if I might send it to you. The words. Submissions to Viewpoint enclosed is fully three-fourths of the should be limited to 1,000 words. Al­ Sam Legg is a member of Stony Run Meeting, entire message, and is near enough to the though we would like to print all con­ Baltimore, Md., ·and clerk of the FRIEN DS Jou R­ exact words Holly used that both she and ·tributions we receive, space is limited, NAL Board of Managers. I are comfortable with it: and we urge Friends to be succinct. "God's unconditional love for us

6 October 1991 FRIENDS JouRNAL God has been speaking to hum.anity since there have been any humans, and will go on speaking while we last · and beyond. God in my human image. It also helps me avoid pontificating that an idea or proposed action is God's will. If God is beyond my human comprehension I would be wise to refrain from announc­ ing in precise terms what the Divine Will is. I will not presume to speak for ) God, however comfortable I may feel with my present insight. This is not to say that a group of us can't assemble and quietly wait for an indication of spiritual guidance. Our ex­ perience shouts to us that indeed we can. Nor does it mean there are no eternal truths in the Bible or in the sacred writings from other religions. Again, our experience abundantly demonstrates the validity of such literature in inter­ preting, clarifying, often confirming the insights that have come to us in our in­ dividual prayers or in our corporate seeking in our meetings for worship. But what is so exciting is to recognize that these eternal truths can be expressed in different terms in different circumstances or eras. And so we must be open to such new light as is constantly being revealed, or at least is available, to us. Continu- ing revelation means to me that God has been speaking to humanity since there have been any humans, and will go on CONTINUING speaking while we last, and beyond. Over the years our understanding has evolved; we probably know more about God than did our Paleolithic ancestors. REVELATION But there is more to know; as we learn to listen to the still small voice, we have faith that what we think is God's will at antennae are registering: as a cell I even­ stretch our imaginations beyond our in­ the moment will guide us in healthy tually meet and couple with another, tellectual experiences? For instance, re­ directions. producing a third, fourth, etc., or I get membering Walt Whitman's learned as­ Continuing revelation also means that mad at another and eat or otherwise an­ tronomer contemplating the firmament, new light, new understanding can come nihilate it. As the scale gets larger we ex­ how do we define God? to us at any time and from any source, plain growth as well as wars. Necessarily we begin with our God­ not just from our own tradition. God What if this scenario, based as it is on given intelligence to seek "proofs" that can, and does, speak to us from the our human knowledge, is as ridiculous satisfy us, most of which someone even­ pages of the Koran, from the heart of as it sounds, but for the reason that out tually more or less successfully chal­ our beloved, from farthermost space, there in the great beyond are forces and lenges. I have long since given up try­ from our meetings for worship. How objects unknown and undreamed by ing to define God. Defining anything important, then, that we keep our hearts humans on Earth? How do we set about limits it, and who am I to limit God? and minds open to receive-to the ex­ beginning to encompass the immensity God is so far above and beyond me and tent we are capable- new insights. The of the physical universe? Just as impor­ my comprehension that I can only ac­ meeting for worship is perhaps the most tant, how do we learn to reach out and cept what I cannot describe in words but likely, surely the easiest place for us to absorb some of the unknowns of the what I can, and do, feel. This conven­ do this, but it won't hurt us to try it at spiritual universe? How do we learn to iently eliminates the temptation to create other times as well. D

F RIENDS JouRNAL October 1991 7 Friends School: 'One of Detroit's Jewels' by Imogene B. Angell predominantly black (70 percent), and enough money to get it started. recently many middle-class blacks have The school began with 65 students in Friends school in Detroit, Michi­ also moved to the suburbs. As in other grades one through five meeting in a gan? Does this concept seem in­ large cities, homicide is the leading cause storefront in Lafayette Park. Each sub­ A congruous? of death for black children over the age sequent year one grade with 16 students Last fall, NBC's 20-20 sensationalized of nine, and its predominantly black was added. Soon it was relocated in tem­ the fires set on Halloween and the gun school system has a poor record. Fifty­ porary trailers on a muddy tract of land shots that celebrate the New Year in four percent of male students drop out obtained from the city in an area known Detroit, exacerbating the negative image of the public schools before they finish as the Black Bottom. Under the leader­ the city has acquired throughout the rest the 12th grade; 45 percent of female ship of Hali Giessler, who became its of the country. Behind this image, there students are dropouts. first headmaster, funds were raised by are many good and positive aspects to The Friends School in Detroit was 1970 to erect a beautifully designed brick the city, the seat of an auto industry that founded in 1965 because a suburban in­ school building on the same site. The was once the prototype of U.S. dyna­ dependent school refused to admit an trailers were kept for the lower school mism and progressive thinking. But still, African-American student because of for several years. By 1972 there were a Friends school in Motown? The city her race. The girl was the daughter of nearly 400 students. Currently it is sur­ of the first UAW sit-ins? The Supremes? Wade McCree, then judge of a U.S. rounded by attractive low-cost condo­ The 1967 riots? The Bad Boy Pistons? district court in Michigan and later miniums and impressive new businesses. The Grand Prix races? solicitor general of the United States The hotel towers of the Renaissance Cen­ Today, like other large cities, Detroit's under President Carter. Civic leaders of ter can be seen nearby on the riverfront. people are plagued by problems of low Detroit were gravely concerned. Know­ From the beginning, Detroit Friends income, unemployment, drugs, and vio­ ing that Quakers have a strong involve­ sought to have its student body reflect lence. Due to an exodus of whites it is ment in solid education and a long the city's cultural, religious, racial, and history of recognizing the worth of each economic diversity. It stresses students' Imogene Angell has been a trustee of Friends individual regardless of race, they asked self-respect and respect for others, em­ School in Detroit since /985. From 1976 to 1984 she was an elected trustee on the Board of Educa­ the newly formed Green Pastures Quar­ phasizes nonviolent resolution of con­ tion in Birmingham, Michigan. She is a member terly Meeting to found a Quaker school. flict, and attempts to help students of Birmingham (Mich.) Meeting. A small group of sponsors pooled develop integrity and responsibility. It

8 October 1991 FluENDS JouRNAL encourages diversity, openness and hon­ ed. Trustees of Friends School then se­ closed at the end of the school year. The esty, friendly collaboration, and coop­ cured a grant to provide workshops at parents rallied en masse and demanded erative interaction among all. There is the school for community leaders at no that the school be kept open, even a very dramatic contrast between the at­ cost to them. Working with Save Our though it could not provide a full pro­ mosphere in Friends School and the ci­ Sons And Daughters (SOSAD), an or­ gram, because, they said, "there is ty outside its doors! ganization of parents (mostly African­ nothing else like it for our children." Friends School is not isolated from American) whose children have been It was at this low point that miracles the violence and crime of Detroit. Funds murdered, several people were trained began. The Detroit Free Press's lead have been embezzled and its building to teach others the techniques of avoid­ editorial on April 7, 1987, was entitled has been broken into several times in re­ ing violence by AVP methods. After "BEST FRIENDS: This jewel of a school cent years with computers and other training, the new facilitators are prepared would be a shame to lose." It said: readily salable equipment stolen. The to participate in offering basic workshops It would be a terrible loss for Detroit, and for others and to help the program to a great shame, if lack of support in'the com­ expand. munity forced Friends School to fold .... During its 25 years, the school has un­ Now all schools take black students, but the Why did parents dergone several crises. As other private role of the institution at Lafayette and St. schools opened their doors to minorities, Aubin hasn't diminshed: it combines aca­ rally to keep the Friends' uniqueness was less apparent. demic excellence with a truly integrated, Students were drawn away from the hospitable environment (the ratio of white school open? small upper school to two very good to black students at Friends is about 50-50) magnet public high schools that offered and promotes a Quaker value system that Because, they said, stresses tolerance and teaches peaceful ways rich academic and social opportunities. of resolving conflicts .... 'there is nothing In 1976 and again in 1987 it suffered Friends is one of Detroit's jewels and most financial crises, which led trustees to heartening symbols. Without it, this city else like it for seriously contemplate closing the school. would simply be a worse place. This unique In both cases the parents rallied strong­ school deserves help from the community it our children!' ly to resist the closing. In 1976 the school has been serving so well. was mortgaged and over $500,000 in debt. The trustees personally loaned The upper school was laid down, but thousands of dollars to help meet facul­ Friends School, preschool through present headmaster spent a few long ty payrolls, parents engaged in fund­ eighth grade, survived and limped along nights in the building to prevent further raising, and the staff under Headmaster for two years. James Shirley, a retired theft, then reluctantly hired a security Tom Woehrle, with behind-the-scenes principal of the Detroit public school guard to park his marked car in the help from influential Friends and spon­ system, who had been teaching part-time parking lot and stay in the building sors, got donations and foundation sup­ at Friends, volunteered to serve as head­ nights. port to pay off the mortgage and put the master. He worked full-time at half-pay To help combat violence in the com­ school back on a completely debt-free to keep the school in operation. Because munity, a series of AVP (Alternatives basis. of lack of funds, the program was to Violence Project) workshops were In 1987, enrollment had shrunk, neither complete nor of the high quali­ brought to Friends School in 1987. especially in the upper school, and ty Friends School had been offering and Stephen Angell, then chief administrative though still debt-free, its reserves were should offer. The dire financial situation officer of AVP, brought trainers from so badly depleted the trustees actually also resulted in acceptance of students New York to ht:lP get the program start- announced that the school would be with major academic/ behavioral prob­ lems as well as substantial individual reductions of tuition fees because each additional student brought in a little more desperately needed money. The school owes a real debt to those coura­ geous parents, staff, and trustees who doggedly kept the school alive for these two years till "the way opened." In 1989 Friends School became the beneficiary of a 1.2 million dollar be­ quest. An exciting new headmaster was hired, Edward M. Jacomo, who has now been able to bring the quality of the academic program back up to an ex­ cellent level. Ed Jacomo is nationally known as an educational leader. He voluntarily gave up a good position in Page 8: The Detroit skyline from the school, and the library entrance. Left: a classroom scene

9 one of the affluent suburban private anything for tuition. Nevertheless, they schools and turned down other exciting find at least half of the tuition so their job offers because he thought he could child can attend. make the most difference at Friends Quakers in this area give financial Tea chin School. He continues to participate at support to the school, but they are few the cutting edge of education discussions in number and are not wealthy. Because locally and nationally, often bringing of real concern about the Detroit public by Thomas Woehrle participants into Friends School in schools, local corporations that used to or some years now I, a Presbyteri­ Detroit. Though not a Friend, he fosters support Friends School are now focus­ an minister, have taught courses a rich Quaker presence in the school ing their attention exclusively on public F in Bible and religion at the through silent meetings, consensus, quer­ education. (Under the Detroit Compact secondary level in Friends schools to ies written by students, noncompetitive Program, a corporation adopts a specific students with a variety of religious games, and community service (includ­ public school, provides volunteers to beliefs and backgrounds. Always before ing Friends students helping handicapped work there, and guarantees either a job me is the question: How do I teach so students at a nearby public school). or tuition to a state university for stu­ that I am responsible to my own beliefs, Visitors to the school frequently remark dents who comply with attendance re­ those of my students, and those of the about the palpable sense of boys and quirements, graduate with a B average, school? girls from varied backgrounds learning and achieve a 19 or higher on the ACT.) The biblical passage that I have found to live and study together harmonious­ Contributions to Friends School have most helpful in addressing this query is ly in an atmosphere that emphasizes the decreased while its costs continue to Jesus' encounter with a Samaritan wom­ nonviolent resolution of conflict and the escalate. an in the fourth chapter of John's Gos­ unique worth of each individual. The Board of Trustees (11 of the 21 pel. When the woman asks on which Friends School now has 109 students are Quakers) feels it is imperative to mountain, Gerizim or Zion, God is in preschool through eighth grade. It has assess the school's situation realistical­ rightly worshiped, Jesus replies that the an annual budget of $900,000 and an ex­ ly. The historical pattern of financial time is coming when neither mountain cellent academic program. An adminis­ well-being followed by financial crisis will be the place of true worship; for trator of one of the prominent suburban cannot continue. The board decided that true worship will occur wherever one independent schools in our area re­ the time has come to either raise a suf­ worships God in spirit and in truth. The marked that it would cost them between ficient endowment to make the school conclusion I have drawn from this two and two-and-a-half million dollars financially secure for a long time or to regarding my teaching is that I should to run our program at his institution. plan to discontinue its existence in an endeavor to deepen ·and strengthen the The school, however, is forced to orderly manner. It holds that one can­ spiritual life of my students within the spend substantial amounts of its reserves not justify keeping the school open traditions that are already shaping them. each year to maintain its objectives. Tui­ unless it can consistently maintain a Since this approach has been most tion ranges around $4,000. However, to quality program. A committee has been challenging with regard to students who accomplish its mission of diversity, it appointed, therefore, to determine the are not Christian or Quaker, I present must offer many students substantial feasibility of Friends School raising here three cases-a Jew, a Muslim, and financial aid. No school with a similar those funds necessary to permit the a Hindu-as examples of my approach. mission could ever support a high quali­ school to maintain its program on a Some years ago I first met Judy in a ty academic program on tuition alone. long-term basis without running a seventh-grade English class. She had not And Friends School in Detroit cannot deficit. yet learned how to write a cohesive para­ raise its tuition significantly. Many of Are other Friends schools grappling graph or to combine several paragraphs the full-pay students pay monthly in­ with the same fundamental question? Is to present a thought in a coherent way. stallments, which sometimes are late there still a real need for Quaker educa­ She struggled throughout the first half because families don't have the money. tion at the· elementary/ middle school of the year without much success. Then In many cases, when parents submit ap­ level? What is the future for Friends ele­ one winter day she came to me excited­ plications for financial aid, the report mentary/ middle schools? How and by ly, saying, "I finally understand how to indicates they cannot afford to pay whom will they be supported? 0 write a paragraph. It came to me all of a sudden." She was right. The insight Students from had come to her in a manner similar to Friends Schoof a conversion experience. She was en­ in Detroit dance with abled to take off and write not only co­ nursing home hesive paragraphs but excellent essays. residents. Three years later in tenth grade Judy was again my student, this time in a re­ ligious studies course that featured the Bible. Her background was Jewish, but her family was not practicing and she had had no religious training. As we worked our way through the Bible, she became deeply interested in what she Thomas Woehrle is a religion teacher at Friends Academy in Locust Valley, New York.

10 October 1991 FRIENDS JoURNAL eligion in Friends Schools was reading and hearing for the first that she had studied all of the material I am convinced that in the course of time in her life. Several months into the at the school she had just come from. our studies each of these students-a year she confided to me that she had be­ After asking her a few questions, I real­ Jew, a Muslim, and a Hindu-were gun to attend classes at the Jewish com­ ized that she was correct and that it brought closer to God, worshiping the munity center in her neighborhood in would be unwise to have her take the Divine One in spirit and in truth. I also order to become better acquainted with course. am confident that I have functioned in her faith. Near the end of the year her From her name I suspected that she the spirit that Jesus suggests in his dis­ father told ·me that because of her curi­ was Hindu in background and she con­ cussion with the Samaritan woman in osity he too began to attend classes at firmed this, but said that she had not the fourth chapter of John's Gospel. the community center. He expressed his been raised as a Hindu. I asked her if n all of this, my understanding of deep appreciation for the way in which she would like to do some independent the true meaning of conversion has our religion class had led to his and his reading on Hinduism under my super­ I shifted from turning a person to daughter's discovery of the riches of vision. She jumped at the chance. She Christianity from another religion (or no their own Jewish faith. began with two books she had at home religion) to the turning of each person To have served as a midwife to Judy's -one a simple introduction to Hindu- to God in the way that God makes her­ discovery of paragraph writing and her self/himself known to that person. In religious faith gave me great satisfaction many of my students, this means the and provided me with a .model for my deepening of Christian belief. Yet for teaching. Y other two cases come from When the the school year just completed. Samaritan MOne was a senior in a new course in Middle East history and cul­ woman asks ture in which, among other topics, we studied the scriptures of Judaism, Chris­ on which tianity, and Islam. Faisal was the only Muslim in the class. Since his family was mountain God consciously raising him in the Islamic faith and he had made the pilgrimage to is rightly Mecca, he was an important resource. worshipped, He contributed many of his experiences and perspectives to class discussions, Jesus replies helping all of us come to a deeper understanding of Islam. that the time In March we took a trip to Washing­ is coming when ton, D.C., to learn more about U.S. for­ Faisal it meant deepening his Islamic eign policy in the Middle East. Learn­ true worship will faith, and for Judy and Nicole it meant ing of the existence of the Islamic center converting them, i.e., turning them, to there, we made it our last stop before occur wherever the religion of their families. I hope and returning home. Faisal and I did not pray that both the Samaritan woman know quite what to expect, but we found one worships God and Jesus would approve of this a beautiful mosque on the edge of Rock in spirit and approach. Creek Park. The class was fascinated by In closing, I lift up the words of Eliza­ it. Faisal asked if he could do his noon in truth. beth Fry, an early 19th-century Friend prayers. We said we would gladly wait who led the fight for humane treatment while he prayed. We all watched him of prisoners in Britain. She said, "I do begin the ritual and then went outside ism, the other on the concept of karma. not fear truth .. .. Never give up the while he finished. Upon emerging from Then she read the Bhagavad-Gita and search for it; and let me take courage, the mosque he expressed appreciation the Upanishads, writing a perceptive and try from the bottom of my heart to for having been allowed to practice his essay comparing the two. Finally, she do that which I believe truth dictates, if faith. He obviously had been deeply en­ read the material on Hinduism and Bud­ it lead me to be a Quaker or not" riched by the experience and the rest of dhism in Huston Smith's The Religions (Leonard S. Kenworthy, Sixteen Quaker us had acquired a greater appreciation of Man, writing an outstanding essay Leaders Speak, p. 48). It is in the spirit of Islam. comparing the two religions. In our last of these words that I attempt to carry Also this past winter, Nicole, one of conference she said that she planned to out my vocation as a teacher in a man­ my students in a required senior religion take a religion course in college to con­ ner that is responsible to my students, course on the Judeo-Christian tradition, tinue the study of Hinduism she had my school, and my faith in God as I came to me after the first class and said begun this spring. know him in Jesus the Christ. 0

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1991 11 form of elitism at odds with our egali­ Friends Schools: tarian tradition, but it is contributing to the process that has converted the Socie­ ty of Friends over the generations, at least in my own yearly meeting, into a Unmet Needs peculiar kind of aristocracy, combining nvo gentility, liberalism, and a high respect by Spencer Coxe for intelligence and "accomplishment." There was probably no moment at he day after the U.S. invasion of body's part, the schools have become any of our Friends schools when a con­ Grenada, a Philadelphia Inquirer training grounds for "people that mat­ sci.ous decision was made to cater to the T reporter, taking the pulse of the ter." These include some children of academically gifted. It has come about citizenry, interviewed a young man working-class backgrounds whose par­ because of an evolution that affects hanging out at the corner of Kensington ents have dreams of "my son the doc­ almost all successful charitable institu­ and Allegheny avenues in Philadelphia. tor." There was more than a hint of tions; commonly they become more and "Man," he replied, "it's great. It's elitism in the remark at my monthly more high-powered, efficient, and "pro­ about time America kicked ass." The meeting that we should not "water fessional" as the years go by, until their answer, unhappily, reflects a value down" our standards. Not only is this character is altered and they are no system far more common in our coun­ try than the ideology of this journal or of most Friends. · The query on education from Faith It would be interesting to see "what love can and Practice of Philadelphia Yearly do" with a group of children with aspirations to Meeting asks, "How is the Friends school contributing to the mental and own an auto-repair shop or run a beauty parlor. spiritual growth of the community about it?" It is a wholesome exercise in humili­ ty to ask what Quaker education is do­ ing, or even trying to do, to reach "that of God" in the majority of our fellow citizens, whom the young man at Ken­ sington and Allegheny symbolizes. Taken as a whole, primary and secon­ dary education offered by Friends schools in our Philadelphia Yearly Meet­ ing area provide little opportunity for the majority element of the popula­ tion- Friends or non-Friends- to profit from an education infused with Quaker values. It is a curious irony that our religious society in its first generation was made up mostly of artisans, people who made a living by their hands. Yet with few exceptions our schools do not reach out to this population, and few children of families with working-class backgrounds attend. It would be inter­ esting, and probably humbling, to see "what love can do" with a class of Ken­ sington children with aspirations to own an auto-repair shop or run a beauty par­ lor. [Kensington is a low-income, work­ ing-class section of Philadelphia. -Eds.] Our schools cater overwhelmingly to students who score well in intelligence tests and are academically inclined. Without any conscious decision on any-

Spencer Coxe worked for the American Friends Service Committee nationally and abroad. For 28 years he was executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Philadelphia, Pa. Now retired, he is a member of Germantown (Pa.) Meeting.

12 October 1991 FRIENDS J oURNAL mission of Quaker schools was to make nor the best we can aspire to. sure that our children were brought up Delaware Valley and Stratford Friends in the faith, and sheltered from exposure schools were launched because Friends to the world and its temptations. The recognized unmet educational needs. overwhelming majority of my class­ My thesis is that there are still two such mates in the Westtown class of 1936 needs. One is the provision of a place were Friends, and most were Orthodox. for every educable Quaker child who (I was a Hicksite, and felt it.) It was only wants a Quaker education. The other is a few years before my arrival that the an experiment-within existing schools first non-Friend was admitted, and not or through a new institution-to meet long before that when the first piano the needs of blue-collar families that was admitted. have no aspirations to change the color Running schools for the avowed pur­ of their shirts. I do not presume to pose of raising children in the faith (nar­ prescribe how these needs should be longer the modest effort that their rowly defined) is a clear and honest mis­ met; I certainly do not propose aban­ founders were content with. (The Amer­ sion, and can be rationally defended. donment or radical transformation of ican Friends Service Committee, I be­ We have now abandoned it as inconsis­ existing institutions that-measured in lieve, is an example.) The process is tent with Friends' current perception of their own and the world's terms-are gradual and accidental, and it is not themselves Jess as an embattled remnant enormously successful. necessarily deplorable. But it should not of holiness and more as purveyors of a If the experiment of providing educa­ be unnoticed. gospel of relevance to all. tion to blue-collar students were to fail, It is a process particularly seductive Quaker schools in the Philadelphia as well it might, we would profit from in our schools, because it brings psychic Yearly Meeting area have abandoned the the experience in two ways. First, we rewards to the institution and its facul­ original mission; indeed there are Friends might overcome the insufferable smug­ ty. Friends are not immune to feeling who have found it difficult or impossi­ ness that pervades discussion of our pride in running schools that send a ble to enroll their children in a Quaker schools. Second, we might be Jed to con­ large proportion of their graduates to school, even in their own meeting's front our fuzzy thinking about the roots name-brand colleges. Teachers have an school. The sacrifice of this important of our faith, or, less charitably put, our understandable and human preference mission-education of all Friends' chil­ intellectual dishonesty. We might see for teaching gifted children. It's more dren who desire a Quaker education­ that in truth we run the kind of schools fun and more satisfying. Who would not would be justified if it were the neces­ we do because we do not really believe prefer nurturing and challenging an in­ sary price to pay for some more impor­ that an inclusive school would validate cipient Nobel laureate to nudging a dull­ tant mission on which our Society is our faith in the power of our principles. normal child along the path to a di­ ploma? More fun, yes, but is it more im­ portant, or more clearly the mission of Friends? At this point I must inject an obiter dictum. When I presented the foregoing analysis to some Friends deeply involved in Quaker education, they were quick to answer contentions I never asserted and do not assert. I do not say that Friends schools cater to the rich and ignore neighborhood people of modest means. I do not argue that our schools have failed to maintain and inculcate Quaker values. Anticipating a third red herring, I want to pay tribute to Stratford and Delaware Valley Friends schools, which, as I understand, meet the needs of stu­ dents with special learning problems, who could not survive the academic agreed. But this is not the case. By and So we avert our eyes from the young pressure of most of our schools. But large our schools do not serve as a man at the corner, and run institutions these two institutions, like the others, demonstration of the validity of our that do not interfere with our delusion are meeting the needs of "special" peo­ beliefs about the nature of humankind that Quakerism "works." We might be ple. (I also recognize that there are and the power of love. They do serve as Jed to recognize that the rightness of a gradations of intellectual elitism among a demonstration that Friends can offer principle does not depend upon its ef­ our schools, and even disparity within to an intellectual elite a high-powered fectiveness; we would move away from some institutions between primary and academic education infused with Quak­ a futile and misguided effort to justify secondary levels.) er social values. A good ranking in the our faith on utilitarian, pragmatic Now, to return to a consideration of prep school sweepstakes is not, in my grounds. But that is the subject of mission. In the old days the primary estimation, consistent with our values, another essay. D

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1991 13 A Critical View of Mul by Alfred K. LaMotte ur schools and colleges are now embarking on programs of 0 "multicultural education," ig­ niting the nationwide debate over ''po­ litical correctness." Some would even say that multiculturalism is the newest secular religion, following Freudianism and Marxism, to promise salvation through social engineering. Quaker schools must ask serious questions about it. The ideal of cultural diversity is noth­ ing new to Quaker education. Quaker teachers have always believed with George Fox that the Light of God is poured out in every human heart, regard­ less of race or ethnic background, fol­ lowing the text of John's Gospel, 1:9: ''That was the true Light which lighteth every person that comes into the world." Long before the multicultural move­ ment, Quaker schools were witnessing to the Truth from the most liberal and diverse perspectives. But as Quaker edu­ cation affirms the ideal of multicultural­ ism, it adds something to it, something that gives Quaker schools an entirely dif­ ferent tone and thrust. Yes, we affirm the importance of hearing a diversity of voices and values. But we cannot stop there, in a chaos of moral relativism that gives equal ere­ verse voices there is one supreme voice, monies and hymns. Their worship was dance to every demand, every custom, the voice that speaks in the silence of the an act of transcendence, an act of liber­ every point of view. We hold that there heart at meeting for worship, the voice ation from any culture whatsoever. are certain moral absolutes, which pro­ of God. God is the final arbiter of cul­ Cultures provide us with shadowy and ceed not from our artistic imagination, tural values, the absolute underlying the partial images of God, rituals that hint nor our intellectual reasoning, nor our relative, the moral source for persons of of divine processes, literature and art ethnic heritage. The great Quaker tes­ every ethnicity. And we experience God that convey, however imperfectly, some timonies of peace, justice, simplicity, in the deepest center of our soul precise­ of God's qualities; but no culture can and respect for the Light Within spring ly when we have transcended culture contain the Lord. A God communicated from a divine source which flows through altogether. through cultural images is but an idol, us but not from us, demanding a way Quaker schools do not receive their a second-hand God, someone else's no­ of life that is "in the world but not of marching orders from any culture, nor tion. The true and living God must be the world." We might paraphrase this from a diversity of cultures, but from experienced directly, in that aloneness of New Testament verse by saying that we a direct experience of the living God. In moral decision-making and independence live in culture but not ofculture . ForGod that experience, "You have stripped off of heart which is true worship. To know transcends culture, declaring through your old self with its past deeds, and put God, we must radically distrust the im­ the prophet Isaiah to every culture in the on a new self, who grows in knowledge ages of every culture, even our own, and world, "My thoughts are not your as it is formed anew in the image of its worship purely "in Spirit and Truth" thoughts!" God is not a product of creator. There is no Greek or Jew here (John 4:23). So the problem for Quaker human culture. And in the midst of di- ... no foreigner or Scythian, slave or schools is not the problem of culture, freeman: but Christ, who is all in all" but the problem of God. It is spirituali­ Alfred K. LaMolte a/tends Chestnut Hill (Pa.) Meeting. He directs the Community Service Pro­ (Col. 3:9). For this reason the first ty, not multiculturalism, that should be gram and chairs the Religion Department at Quaker worshipers vigilantly rejected all at the center of Quaker education. William Penn Charter School. cultural images, rituals and icons, cere- As students "strip off the old self and

14 October 1991 FRIENDS JoURNAL ___ tural Education

not Serbs. Armenians are not Turks. the centuries, nourishing us with their Sikhs are not Hindus. Palestinians are fragile justice. As educators in a multi­ not Jews. Russians are not Ukrainians, cultural curriculum, we must ask our­ and Lithuanians are not Russians. Many selves, is this sacred tradition of social of these ethnic groups call themselves justice simply one among many ethnic "separatists." The affirmation of one's traditions, of no more value than the own worldly culture will almost always rest? And what are we to do when we Quaker teachers involve the negation of someone else's. teach non-Western cultures that some­ Is this obsession with race and ethnicity times contradict our notion of human see their really drawing us together, or tearing us rights? apart? Can we ask adolescents to empha­ If I am teaching Islam, I must teach students not size ethnicity without inviting the dark that in an Islamic court of law it takes side of ethnicity: tribalism, natiomilism, the testimony of two women to equal the merely as and racial competitiveness? In the words testimony of one man, because women of the poet Yeats, "Things fall apart, the are innately inferior in reason and virtue. history, center cannot hold; mere anarchy is If such a concept of justice were offered loosed upon the world." Clearly, with­ in a Philadephia district court, it would chemistry, or out a spiritual absolute above all cul­ be rejected as lawless sexism. What does tures, multiculturalism can only bring the multiculturalist say? Is such sexism culture, but the fragmentation of society, not its to be valued in Pakistan but condemned healing. in Philadelphia? Does such sexism be­ as continuing come valid simply because it is practiced Non-Western Cultures by non-white, non-Western societies? Or revelations vs. Human Rights is there a moral absolute that transcends Multiculturalism could not have arisen all cultural situations, the absolute stan­ of Godin in any other culture than the Western dard of human rights? If there is such liberal tradition of human rights. Its a standard, then it follows that culture human form. very notion that all voices should be cannot be trusted just because it is heard, the notion that every person has culture. There must be ethical categories equal value regardless of race, religion, which transcend culture. Our concern in or gender, the notion of democracy Quaker schools is not to celebrate Islam itself, comes from centuries of struggle or any other culture; our concern is to put on the new,'' the image of their in the West for the dignity of individu­ celebrate the Truth by which all persons Creator is restored in them as a deep als. This ideal of human rights can be are set free . center of moral freedom. Then and then expressed simply: it is individual persons, The same type of contradiction arises only can they study culture in a way that not ethnic or gender groups, who have when we look at tribal violence in Mrica will help them discern Truth from false­ rights; and they have rights simply or among Native Americans; when we hood. Then and then only can they cele­ because they are persons. Such a notion look at the oppression of women in brate what is good in every culture, hav­ is no facile assumption; it was not easi­ China, or the caste system in India. For ing distinguished it from the fashions of ly won. The dignity of the individual is thousands of years, such non-Western vanity, chauvinism, and greed. the luminous essence extracted from the cultures have valued their members not But in multiculturalism there is no dross of racial, religious, and sexual prej­ on the basis of individual rights, but on God, no absolute, no moral center from udice, through the blood of many mar­ their class, gender, or tribal affiliation. which to order relative cultural values. tyrs, by the marvelous alchemy of demo­ It is no coincidence that these cultures Students are simply given a confusing cratic struggle in the West. It began when are turning to the U.S. Constitution and diversity of art, literature, and quaint the voice of the biblical prophets called the European democracies to restructure custom, then told, "Celebrate all of this; for the rights of "the widows and or­ themselves. It is no coincidence that it is all good." The lack of a spiritual phans and aliens in your land." Almost Gandhi, an Indian, found his inspiration center leads multicultural education in­ eight centuries ago, the Magna Carta in Thoreau and the New Testament. It to the following contradictions: clarified the rights of citizens. The Prot­ is no coincidence that Martin Luther estant reformation spawned practicing King, Jr., in his "Letter from a Birming­ Unity vs. Fragmentation democracies and William Penn's holy ex­ ham Jail," cites Plato, Jesus, the biblical Multiculturalism attempts to unite us, periment in religious tolerance. Out of prophets, and not the traditions of Afri­ but often divides us. Look at the "cele­ these struggles came the Declaration of can society. It is no coincidence that the bration of ethnic diversity" in the world Independence and the U.S. Constitution, students in Tiananmen Square erected a today! Croatians define themselves as a stream of lovely tears shed down over model of the Statue of Liberty, that em-

FiuENos JouRNAL October 1991 15 the program of her genes, the determin­ ism of her ethnic past. She is the prod­ uct of impersonal biological forces; her fate had better be determined by educa­ tional consultants and sociologists, for she has no soul! If I choose you because you are black, or gay, or female, I have missed you. On a college application, it is as superficial to ask you your race as it is to ask you what sign you were born under. The Nazi passports of 1939 asked no more than this. Quaker education asks more of us. It demands more than our color and sex. A Quaker definition of the person has biblical roots and adds to the multicul­ turalist version an element of immeasur­ able dignity: that precious Light without which we cannot be fully human. Quaker teachers know that their students are "created in the image of God," the Light Within, "which lighteth every per­ blem of France's struggle for democracy, begin as a way to combat stereotypes; son that comes into the world." Quaker and not the ancient Chinese goddess, it ends by creating them. What are we teachers see their students not merely as Kwan Yin. Could it be that the Western to make of such types as "Native Amer­ history, chemistry, or culture, but as liberal tradition represents certain politi­ ican", " Afro-centric", or "Euro-cen­ continuing revelations of God in human cal values that are simply closer to the tric"? Is there an "Afro-centric person­ form. Quaker teachers remind their stu­ Truth? Closer to God's absolute standard ality"? Does this term respect the differ­ dents that they are transcendent beings, of Justice? ent experiencs of Urba, Masai, Tsi Tsi, unfettered from the biological past to Our task as Quaker educators is not Zulu, or Muslim peoples? Do Bishop choose and act in freedom now. Quaker to trumpet the superiority of Western Desmond Tutu and "Bid Daddy" Idi teachers teach their students to dream values. It is to point out the Truth wher­ Amin have the same psychological and "that one day white children and black ever it may be found. The ideal of human moral "center" just because they live on children will be judged by the content rights is taught not because it is Western, the same continent? And how " African" of their character and not by the color but because it is true. Asian cultures is a black teenager growing up in the of their skin." have much to teach us about the inward South Bronx? John Woolman, who ignited the anti­ spiritual processes of self-knowledge. What of that latest stereotype, the slavery movement in the United States, The Sioux and the Hopi can teach us a "Euro-centric personality"? Tell a Lith­ defined this transcendent spark in the deeper awareness of our Mother, the uanian his culture is the same as a Rus­ human person: earth. Islam can instruct us on the value sian's. Tell a Serb his culture is Croatian. A principle which is pure, placed in the of purity and the pitfal ls of our material­ Tell a Quaker elder her culture is just human mind, which in different places and ism. But none of these cultures should like a Roman Catholic's! Are St. Paul, ages hath had different names. It is, how­ be celebrated simply because they are Karl Marx, and Ayn Rand all ''Euro­ ever, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep there. They should be carefully examin­ centric"? I can't think of three more and inward, confined to no forms of religion ed for whatever truths they may offer. divergent sensibilities: They take us in­ nor excluded from any where the heart But all, including our own, contain to utterly different worlds. The term stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever much that we must finally reject. Jesus "Euro-centric," like the term "Afro­ this takes root and grows, of what nation was not teaching multiculturalism, but centric," is as demeaning and insensitive soever, they become brethren in the best offering us the sharpest of swords to re­ as any other racial stereotype. sense of the expression. ject the claims of all human culture The final contradiction has become As a Quaker teacher studying diverse when he said, "My kingdom is not of obvious: Multiculturalism presents a cultures, do I ask my students to seek this world." skewed definition of the human person. out this " deep and inward principle"? While professing to give humans more Do I teach them to follow King's dream, Person vs. Type dignity, it finally degrades them by de­ honoring character instead of color? Friends, I fear that such over-confidence fining them incompletely. Implicit in And in the moment of meeting my stu­ in worldly cultures may negate centuries multiculturalist rhetoric is a philosophi­ dent face to face, to whom shall I speak? of struggle for human rights and drag cal materialism that reduces human be­ Shall I speak to her racial history, her us back into the shackles of tribalism, ings to their genotype. In this rhetoric sexual group; or to the uncontainable where we will find ourselves defined, not there is no person capable of stepping radiance of something more particular, by our individuality, but by our member­ out of history into the present moment more present and marvelous? Shall I ship in a race or clan, our ethnic and and freely choosing her future. There is speak to that of God in her? Shall I biological type. Multiculturalism may no spiritual self capable of rising above speak to her soul? 0

16 October 1991 FRIENDS J oURNAL d. Your water supply is polluted, development of weapons of mass FINAL EXAMINATION the sanitation system does not work, destruction in Iraq. In 1985, the food is severely rationed, and there United Nations passed a resolution is no electricity. urging that the development of weapons of mass destruction be pro­ 2. Since 1945, 23 countries have been hibited; 128 nations voted in favor and invaded and occupied by other only one nation voted against. What countries. In how many of these cases nation was this? GULF has the United States intervened Iraq c. People's Repub­ a. militarily to expel the invaders? b. Iran lic of China a.23 11.22 c.21 d.3 d. the United States 3. In 1975, when Indonesia invaded 6. In eight and a half years the United WAR the newly independent country of East States dropped 66,375 tons of bombs Timor, eventually killing 15 percent of on the people of Indochina. In the the country's total population (100,000 43-day Gulf War, how many tons of persons), what subsequent action did bombs were dropped on Iraq and the United States take? Kuwait? a. Sent troops to militarily remove 101 a. 1,000 tons c. 20,000 tons Indonesia. b. 5,000 tons d. 88,000 tons b. Applied severe economic sanctions to Indonesia. 7. According to the Department of c. Called for the United Nations to Defense, what percentage of the permit the use of any means bombs dropped on Iraq and Kuwait INSTRUCTIONS: Circle the correct necessary to expel Indonesia. missed their targets? answer: do not be deceived! Answers d. Supplied Indonesia with a. 40fo b. lOOfo c. 160fo d. 700fo on page 40. Sponsored by Education additional weaponry. 8. In early February, former Attorney for Peace and Justice, and reprinted General Ramsey Clark filmed the from the newsletter of Madison 4. During the Gulf crisis, the (Wis.) Meeting. government of the United States results of the United States' bombing expressed great concern about the use of the city of Basra. Which of the of chemical weapons by Iraq. In 1983, following were destroyed or severely 1. Suppose you were living in Baghdad damaged? at the end of March of this year. when the United Nations passed a factories and communications Describe your living conditions. resolution strongly urging the a. centers You have adequate water and prohibition of the use of chemical a. b. three hotels and the central sanitation, enough food, and weapons, 98 nations voted for the market place electricity. resolution, and only one voted against. What nation was this? c. at least ten residential b. You have adequate water and sanitation, enough food, but no a. Iraq c. the Soviet Union neighborhoods d. all of the above electricity. b. Iran d. the United States c. You have adequate water and 5. During the Gulf crisis, the 9. How many dollars will the U.S. De­ sanitation, but severely rationed government of the United States partment of Defense spend per hour in food supply and no electricity. expressed great concern over the 1991? •• $50,000 c. $1,000,000 b. $250,000 d. $36,000,000 10. While the Gulf War, whose estimated cost is $50 billion, was occurring, a cholera epidemic, threatening 125,000,000 persons, broke out in South America, owing largely to polluted water supplies and inadequate sanitation. For $50 billion, how much of South America could be provided with safe drinking water and adequate sanitation systems? a. 15 Ofo b. 25 Ofo c. 400fo d. 1OOOfo

SOURCES: I. From a persona/letter, Baghdad, dated 3125191; 2. Lentz Peace Research (Dune­ din, Fla.); 3. New York Times, 5114178; 4. UN Resolution 38-187; 5. UN Resolution 40-90; 6. U.S. Air Force; 7. U.S. Defense Department; 8. Ramsey Clark, No Place to Hide; 9. 1992 Federal Budget; 10. Wisconsin State Journal, Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.

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by Paul Wahrhaftig health of the conflict resolution field, It ized Quaker involvement is nearly invisi­ was attended by 775 people. Many were ble. Friends' national organizations, or the fifth time in more than a practitioners, including volunteer media­ particularly the American Friends Serv­ decade I participated in the Na­ tors in neighborhood programs resolving ice Committee, are notable by their ab­ F tional Conference on Peacemak­ nuisance cases. Others mediate divorces sence, although a couple of staff mem­ ing and Conflict Resolution. The confer­ or environmental and public policy is­ bers were present. By contrast, the Men­ ence, held in Charlotte, North Carolina, sues. There were trainers who teach ef­ nonite Conciliation Services has been an June 4-8, reflects the conflict resolution fective problem-solving techniques in exciting and important presence. field as a whole. I have found this pre­ schools and communities. Completing On the other hand, Friends individu­ eminent gathering of North American the mix were some academic researchers ally took part in all segments of the con­ conflict resolvers and peacemakers to be and participants from overseas. ference and are an important presence in a useful measure of the growth and I can only report on my personal im­ the field. Organizing a Friends worship pressions within this vast gathering. I service during the conference seemed Paul Wahrhaftig is president of the Conflict found the role of Friends to be a puz­ natural. Does this reflect· a situation Resolution Center International, a worldwide zle. For example, while the Mennonites where individual Friends have moved resource center for people mediating racial, ethnic, or religious conflicts. He ·was elected, at the con­ take a strong institutional role in con­ ahead of their institutions in recogniz­ ference, to chair ofthe board ofthe National Con­ flict resolution, mainly through Men­ ing opportunities the conflict resolution ference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution. nonite Conciliation Services, the organ- movement provides for building peace-

18 October 1991 FRIENDS Jou RNAL making processes into our communities? be structured. Although he was not pres­ proaches to environmental control, and the In part, the conference was a healing ent at the conference, Hendrick W. Van federal government finally did something process. Advocates of negotiated settle­ der Merwe's influence was visible. Van uniform. ments to major conflicts felt betrayed der Merwe, a South African Friend, has That is what is so important about what and powerless by the U.S. government's struggled for years to implant nonviolent you do. If you never are involved in Sudan, or Burma, or Sri Lanka, the fact that you refusal to try to negotiate in the Persian conflict resolution skills into that coun­ are doing a good job in Charlotte, North Gulf. Boulder (Colo.) Friend Elise try. It was exciting to see the depths of Carolina, or Atlanta or Idaho means that the Boulding of the International Peace involvement and creativity that have people get the conviction that in spite of Research Institute was particularly mov­ sprung from his efforts. serious disagreement, there is a successful ing as she focused the group on the long • Former President Jimmy Carter way to resolve a dispute where both sides haul. The Gulf, she said, was a failure, spoke. We were reminded that no U.S. win. but we must renew our efforts to make soldiers died in combat in his adminis­ That is a theoretical and practical aware­ effective nonviolent peacemaking an ap­ tration. He stressed the link between ness that can help to change national and proach of first choice. She recalled the even international politics. woeful student who complained to her during the Vietnam War, " I have been By the end of the conference I felt that demonstrating for four weeks and noth­ the conflict resolution field is healthy ing has changed!" and vital. New and exciting approaches There were 187 panels and work­ to nonviolent resolution of conflict are shops. Here are some glimpses of the being made at all levels of our society. conference: It is time And those skills are being used abroad in the traditionally intransigent conflicts • At an informal reception for over­ for the of Northern Ireland and South Africa. seas visitors, sponsored by the Conflict However, I am convinced peacemakers Resolution Center International, a will continue to sit on the sidelines of in­ member of the Supreme Soviet from the conflict resolution ternational conflicts until they learn how Soviet Armenian Republic was locked in to counter U.S. leaders who promote intense conversations with a Turkish movement to tum power-based "solutions" to internation­ mediator. Although the history of al problems. It is time for the conflict Armenia and Turkey is far from friend­ outward-to the resolution movement to turn outward­ ly, they explored ways Turkish media­ to the U.S. body politic. We need to tors might help with the Armenian­ U.S. body politic. focus on building a common political Azerbaijani conflict in the Soviet Union. strategy. We must use it to change the The Soviet, a woman, agreed to visit the politics of this country so that expres­ mediator in Turkey if he would take her We need to sions like "we'll beat their butts" will to the village that her grandfather comes become politically irrelevant. Instead from. invent imagery politicians will declare, " " • Barbara Date of Peace Studies at Why the empty line? I tried to think Bethany Theological Seminary conduct­ that will grab of a conflict resolution campaign slogan ed a training session that emphasized to end this article. Neither I nor anyone the importance of developing nonviolent I talked to at the conference could. We language. It is a major challenge to strip public attention. simply have not invented the concise our parlance of war metaphors and start language needed to reach beyond our building peace ones. community of peacemakers. We must to invent imagery that will grab public at­ If you have had a difficult day, you are at tention. That is a challenge that awaits the "end of your rope." That new project is global peacemaking and the work that many participants were doing in their people interested in peaceful resolution "dead in the water," and " heads will roll." of conflicts. Possible translation: If you've had a tough own communities. day your "tank is empty." That new proj­ I urge readers of FRIENDS JoURNAL to ect "won't fly," and "someone will be Many of you are involved in community participate in this work. For starters, responsible.'' conflict resolution. That is very important. send your campaign slogans to the Con­ As a truism in our system of government, the flict Resolution Center International, • Fifteen South African conflict re­ change in attitudes and the evolution of of­ Inc., 7514 Kensington St., Pittsburgh, solvers joined eight Eastern Europeans ficial policy comes from the local level first, PA 15221; telephone (412) 371-9884; fax as they reviewed the vast repertoire of then to the state level, and ultimately to the (412) 371-9885. We will publish the best problem-solving skills developed in this national level. in our international quarterly periodical, country. To what extent are these skills This was the case in the environment. A Conflict Resolution Notes, and reward important building blocks for new demo­ city would have a bad garbage dump, or a each entrant with a free copy. We will stream would get polluted. The state govern­ cratic structures? For instance, both ment would have nothing to do with it. That then build a major presentation around groups were looking for ways of organiz­ was years ago. But when the local govern­ effective communication with the public ing civilian control of the police in ments corrected a problem, it eventually for the 1993 Sixth National Conference societies where there is yet to be a became a state challenge and then an achieve­ on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolu­ political consensus on how society should ment. Then the states had disparate ap- tion, to be held in Portland, Oregon. 0

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worked hard to resolve them. When ple supply at the snack bar of that most news came that a local July 4 homecom­ Quaker food of all, ice cream-enough Growing ing parade for Gulf War returnees flavors to taste or describe. would encircle the campus, Friends The flavors of such a conference could wrestled with the practical meaning of be described in at least 2,000 ways. • "radical faith." It was agreed to schedule What follows are those we received im­ In a meeting for worship outdoors on the mediately after the Gathering. campus during the time of the parade -Ed. rather than carry signs of protest. Friends for Lesbian and Gay Concerns members Radical and their supporters at FGC were upset by reports that the July Friends World Conference in Honduras might be unwel­ A Deeper Sharing coming to gay and lesbian Friends. The A Gathering of Friends. A gathering Faith FLOC group approved a minute of con­ of friends. What struck me most as a cern and took steps to meet with FWCC first-timer to FGC was how much I felt planners in corning months. Issues of the I was with friends, how much I felt at rowing in Radical Faith-living Middle East became focused for some home. It was not, however, like the feel­ the questions, seeking the an­ Friends of Jewish descent who felt Nancy ing I got from my recent 25th college Gswers-was the theme of this Nye's and Mubarak Awad's speeches reunion, where I was renewing old ac­ year's Friends General Conference would be too one-sided in support of the quaintances. I only knew a handful of Gathering. From June 29 to July 6 more Palestinian cause. There was talk by people who were at the Boone Gather­ than 2,000 Friends-one of the largest some of absenting themselves from that ing. Nor was it like the homey feeling post-Cape May Gatherings to date-met plenary; an afternoon interest group, you might get from an intimate gather­ at Appalachia State University, Boone, well attended, explored many of these ing around a fireplace. Two thousand North Carolina, to explore this theme. feelings. people in one place effectively preclud­ A wide variety of workshops and in­ Throughout the week, dialogue oc­ ed that. terest groups throughout the week, curred. Friends for the most part listened Rather, the sense of being with friends along with evening plenary sessions, to one another. There was good oppor­ came from sharing something deeper. provided a vehicle for such seeking. tunity for worship. Children were ever On the visible level, it was sharing a kind In a year in which the Gulf War deep­ present and brought with them playful­ of Quaker lifestyle-the casual, comfort­ ly affected our lives and meetings, peace­ ness and laughter. And there was am- able clothing, the lack of pretense- making was an important topic during the week. One plenary paired Asia Ben­ nett, American Friends Service Commit­ tee executive secretary, with National Public Radio's Scott Simon in a dia­ logue exploring the role of the peace­ maker. Scott's personal experience as a Friend and broadcast journalist assigned to cover the Gulf War, and Asia's views from within AFSC provided Friends with a stimulating evening. Another ses­ sion featured Ohio Friend Christine Snyder in a discussion, "Seeking Sim­ ple Truth." How may Friends find sim­ plicity, she asked, considering the heavy demands placed upon us in our work and daily lives? Sonia Sanchez-teach­ er, poet, and human rights advocate­ read her poetry and spoke to our hearts from her African-American experience. Nancy Nye and Mubarak Awad, with extensive knowledge and experience in the Middle East, helped Friends to re­ flect on the nature and meaning of nonviolence. As with most Gatherings, tough issues arose during the week, and Friends

20 October 1991 FRIENDS JOURNAL overt indicators of personal commit­ with the beauty of the evening. She ments to simplicity. Part of it, too, was speaks of a people's anguish, poverty, the sharing of a kind of politics-con­ grief, torture, suffering ever building in cern about the environment, a seemingly intensity even as her words seem more unanimous opposition to the recent U.S. softly spoken. excursion in the Persian Gulf, the easy As the reading ends, a keening be­ acceptance of the large ·contingent of gins-a raw wail rising, echoing in a hun­ FLGCers (Friends for Lesbian and Gay dred different tongues all crying out in Concerns), the sensitivity to women's fear and pain and longing. And 500 peo­ issues, and so on. It makes a big dif­ ple respond as if pierced to their naked ference to know you are with people souls and, gasping for breath, they swal­ who won't challenge you about your low her cry whole. politics and basic values. A sharp con­ My heart is wrenched from the safe­ trast with most of the rest of my life. ty of its naive white breast, wrung and The Gathering was not a utopia, of bled. And my life is redefined in an in­ course. My seven-year-old son, Reuben, stant along with countless others. My quickly acquired a couple of young bud­ conscience rebukes me and refuses ex­ dies at the Junior Gathering. Midway cuses; my vision is no longer veiled by through the week, two of them squared the innocence of my birth. off against two others in a physical fight In the early evening light, barefoot in the big grassy area outside the dining boys throw crumbs to baby ducklings hall. It was, to say the least, quite are­ under watchful parents' eyes as I stum­ markable sight for a Quaker gathering. ble blindly from that place. Mist newly Rather than shaming the kids, the par­ risen from the pond mingles with the ents talked about the fracas with the boys' tears stinging my eyes, transforming teachers. The Junior Gathering teachers them into crystal drops as they fall held a conflict resolution session with Gathering, attending many late day and silently to the waters below. And I see the children the next day and, by the end evening activities, and dancing my heart with newborn clarity the ever widening of the week, they were all buddies once out every night. On the Fourth of July, circles far reaching into the night, out again. I was most impressed. Sonia Sanchez spoke at the evening ses­ of sight. Being with 2,000 Quakers was more sion, and proved to be a powerful pre­ Anita M. Thacker than just a comfortable way to spend a senter. [This was the annual Henry J. Valatie, N.Y. week. Perhaps because it was so com­ Cadbury Event sponsored by FRIENDS fortable, I felt safe to be stretched JOURNAL, an address entitled "The Poet spiritually. My morning workshop, as a Creator of Social Values." -Eds.] Listening to God "Patchwork Faith," which was led by Many of us were quite moved by her Lynn Fitz-Hugh, became a tight-knit lit­ program, and I found myself writing I was the Gathering coordinator for tle community where everyone seemed these words to describe my personal those entering first grade in the fall. A relaxed about exploring and discussing experience: few children entering kindergarten were our faith and our doubts. Two other also added to my group. We sang, did high points: Elizabeth Watson's lec­ In the early evening light, barefoot art projects, had stories, played and had tures, as I am a real fan of her writings; boys throw crumbs ragged and dirty worship around the theme of Radical and Geoff Kaiser's entertaining and in­ from much clutching to baby ducklings Faith. So often our youngest Friends formed version of U.S. Quaker history. paddling on the pond. Beneath the sur­ heard expressions of "listen to God," I fully anticipate being at many more face, golden carp lazily circle round, "God speaks out of the silence," "God FGC Gatherings in the future. We cer­ their graceful fantails bowing to one will lead you," and so on. tainly will if my son, Reuben, has any another like ballerinas in gauzy skirts. I asked the group how they thought vote in the matter. Colors of crimson and azure cover the God speaks to us, and I thought the Robert Levering sky as on a finely painted porcelain, ideas would take several days to evolve. San Francisco, Calif. while a mischievous breeze ruffles the To my surprise and delight their re­ edges of pond, face, clouds alike. Here sponses came quickly and with thought­ and there among the sprinkling of stars ful care. Here is what they said. I are homemade starbursts-backyard changed a few "He"s and substituted FGCFourth rockets proclaiming a hometown "God"-the rest is direct quotes. This July was my first experience with Fourth. the wonder of FGC, and in many ways Inside a stuffy auditorium, 500 people How God Talks to Us it has given me the strength and courage sit oblivious, held captive by the power God makes storms and wind. to make great changes in my life. I had of a small black woman's voice reading God sends a note in our head. the privilege of working with Junior poetry, telling tales having nothing to do continued

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political does not mean 'advanced' or ing with those who have strayed from 'extreme'; it means 'going to the root or the Friendly path. If Friends can learn origin; thorough.' Radical faith chal­ to confront each other gently over small lenges us to put down deeper roots for issues, they may prevent such issues vigor in spiritual growth and requires us from becoming enormous. A meeting to be both reasonable and courageous" without conflict is probably one that is (Heron, "Gifts and Ministries: A Discus­ dying on the vine. sion Paper on Eldership"). In Elizabeth Watson's talks about Group members shared some personal "Women in the Gospels" I learned: insights about faith: Faith is confidence Women played important roles in ... absence of fear ... acceptance of Christianity from the beginning, though the unknown. Faith is willingness to you'd never know it from reading the turn some things over to God, to relin­ New Testament. Only a handful of wom­ quish the need to control. If we think en in the Gospels were given names. Even of faith as a noun, we can have it today if lucky enough to receive a name, a and lose it tomorrow, but if we think of woman was almost always identified by it as a verb, we put it into action. If a her relationship to a man: Mary, mother meeting cannot yet be a faith communi­ of Jesus; Joanna, wife of Chuza; etc. ty, it can be a hope community. During the course of his ministry, God is inside everybody. We identified at least 20 ways we Jesus broke every Jewish taboo against God thinks of something and then we minister to each other in our meetings, women. Every time he spoke a parable think of it. including: about a man, he followed it with a We think God's words. • affirmation that "I fit in just as I am"; parallel one about a woman. The wind says something that God • phone calls and notes during tough I realized that I do not have to be on­ says. times; ly a Mary or a Martha, and that during God makes a picture in our head. If you listen very quietly you can hear God speak to you. God says something the wind says. God speaks to us in our dreams. God sends a message from your heart to your brain and then you do it. God speaks through our parents and then through us and then through our children. It's like God has magic and God speaks to us when we speak to God. God can be in any form. Maybe God speaks through a satellite. God sends a message down with magic and we don't even know it. God is not a boy or a girl.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we adults could look at the world with as much faith and simplicity and confidence!

Becky Morehouse Pinckney, Mich. • clearness committees; the course of a lifetime-or a day-I • saying "of course" to a request that may be called to either role. What I Learned was hard to ask; By looking around and tuning in I • cross-generational friendships; learned: In my workshop, "Nurturing Radical • being willing to share our pain; that Friends are addicted to books Faith in the Meeting Community," I • hugs! and ice cream; that at the Gathering, learned: while you may not encounter the person Radical faith doesn't mean that you're I learned new ways of thinking about you were hoping to see, the unknown far out, but rather that you're deep in. eldering, that it can include naming gifts Friend you do encounter proves to be "Radical in any other context than the and nurturing the clerk as well as labor- exactly what you need; that kids make

22 October 1991 F'RIENos JouRNAL great fundraisers; that Friends will put up with anything ... but not forever; High School Gathering that during a week of lifting mine eyes What is the FGC High School Gather­ unto the hills encircling the campus, I ing? It is a group of young people who could sometimes make out a faint out­ gather together for friendship (both line of the footsteps of the messengers lower case "f" and capital "F"), in­ of peace. sight, and support. Each year the Gather­ Yvonne Boeger ing changes with new people, new Houston, Tex. places, and new ideas. And participants keep coming back. This year, over half of the staff were young people who had wanted to stay and give something back Poetically Inspired to a program that had meant so much The following prose poem was in­ to them as participants. spired by my participation in Susan Each participant is in a workshop. Bax's FGC workshop on "God­ While most participate in workshops Wrestling": planned for their own age group, many cross the bridge and participate in a Wrestling with God workshop planned for persons of the (for Susan Bax) larger FGC community. Each person also has a support group that meets each Fox wrestled, as we do, with that of day. It is a group of about nine, plus one God staff person. Each group guides itself. within himself (like Jacob, who In the Promised Land From each support group, an overseer received is chosen to be a representative of the a blessing and a new name; like Jesus, I returned from the FGC Gathering group. This overseer takes issues and who yielded the match to God). happy, joyful, connected to God and to problems to and from an Oversight He wrestled, as we do, with God in others, with the feeling that I had lived Committee. others, for a week in the Promised Land: a The participants as a whole set the using words, choosing them carefully place where spirituality is discussed as guidelines for the week. The participants to wrest the Logos from darkness. easily as anything else, where I find enforce their own guidelines. If prob­ many models of right living, where my lems arise, they can be discussed at a Fox redefined the words he used, need for more than one meeting for midweek evaluation handled by the then did not mince them. worship a week is met, and so much else. Gathering Oversight Committee. The Gospel is the power of God, he One aspect was particularly precious The High School Gathering is a group said, to me because it is so rare. Back home, of people that works together to live in and is eternal (from before Matthew, I have to make decisions every day community. It is a group that searches Mark, Luke, and John). In us it is about who I can safely tell that I am gay. for answers to questions in their Jives in God's Seed, At the Gathering, it was not an issue. an environment that has safety and love. the Christ, our Teacher and Guide, Only afterwards did I realize that I had Each year changes are made, new peo­ shared universally. hugged, held hands with, and kissed ple come, and some go. Everyone leaves people of both sexes without once think­ with new thoughts, new ideas, and new In music, painting, dance, and ing about what might happen to me if memories. It is a group that lives and touch-in all someone saw. It didn't even feel like a operates by Quaker process and prin­ our acts employing all of our senses, political act, a demonstration of our ciples and ends its time together with a when we wrestle with God to right to exist, as it so often does; that long worship, which has been said to be overcome right is now taken for granted at the "the most intense experience of my life." the darkness, we seek and find the Gathering. Gay men, lesbians, and sense bisexuals are seen as part of a treasured Megan Spears of our living. diversity, along with people of different Bismarck, N.D. races, ages, regions, ethnic and religious But wrestling takes place backgrounds, family situations, and in noisy arenas; points of view. Removing Barriers to feel the power of God we must The Gathering was the kind of com­ return, munity I want to live in all the time. I This year at Boone, a big step was again and again, to silence, came home with a vow to do what I can taken in making the Gathering less a to wait for the Light. to build it where I live. conference and more a gathered com­ Mary E. B. Feagins Peter Burkholder munity. As a staff person in the high Greensboro, N.C. Bloomington, Ind. continued

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school program, an adult young Friend participant, and a delegate from the high school program to the Gathering Oversight Committee, I was able to see many intergenerational barriers being removed while other bonds were being tied. One topic discussed by the Oversight Committee dealt with rudeness among Friends. I remember in my past four years in the high school program being constantly reminded that I should be ex­ tra careful and go out of my way to not be rude so that adult Friends would not make negative judgments about all youth. I often felt Friends believed that they were exempt from being rude or that they never would make stereotypes because we are usually such a peaceful, loving, accepting community. Many young people worked and are working to erase the ideas that high schoolers are inherently rude. Until this year, how­ Overground Railroad that summer to discuss helping women ever, I had not felt as though Friends, get medically safe, legal abortions. They young and old, had made an attempt This article is about abortion. And it's agreed that future court decisions could together to solve the problem of rude­ about the fact that the Supreme Court permit states to erode the choices avail­ ness among Friends as a whole, in­ has been making more and more restric­ able to women. Then it would be neces­ cluding all ages of Friends. tive abortion decisions. sary to move women to states where My experience with the Oversight During the FGC Gathering in 1989 abortions were still safe and legal. The Committee was an important one for the Supreme Court ruled that in some result was a core group that refers to me, just as the FGC Gathering is every cases the rights of the state override the itself as the Overground Railroad, year. rights of the individual when it comes analogous to the Underground Railroad Nyasha Spears to a woman's right to choose an abor­ that moved slaves to safety in the last Bismarck, N.D. tion. In response, several Friends met century. At the 1990 Gathering, the Railroad began putting a network in place should states begin passing restrictive abortion legislation. They drafted and circulated a flyer asking people to offer transpor­ tation, housing, comfort, and/ or money to help women in need of an abortion. The response covered 21 states. At this year's Gathering the group met again and agreed to expand its ef­ forts within the Religious Society of Friends and other groups who are in­ terested in women's health concerns. More flyers are being circulated and more organizations contacted, increas­ ing the size of the network and letting it be known that help is available for those who need it. An article about the Railroad appeared June 29 in the San Francisco Chronicle. The response it generated has been won­ derful. Doctors, other health care pro­ fessionals, and other concerned in­ dividuals are contacting the Railroad to offer assistance.

24 October 1991 FRIENDS JouRNAL Est. 1689 WUJJAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Kindergarten through 302 Years of Quaker Education Twelfth Grade The Railroad is looking into the use Operated under Charter issued by William Penn. The William Penn Charter of an 800 number to facilitate contact School is a Quaker college-preparatory school committed to nurturing in by volunteers and people in need. girls and boys the education of the mind, the quickening of the spirit, and If you have a concern about women the development of the body. Penn Charter stresses high standards in who may need this service and feel academics, the arts, and athletics. moved to help, please contact the Friends are encouraged to apply both as students and as teachers. Railroad at PO Box 79, Skippack, PA Earl J . Ball Ill, Headmaster 19474. 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 Carol Bloch (215) 844-3460 Trish Walat Royersford, Pa. NEW VIDEO! DELAWARE VALLEY FRIENDS SCHOOL 27 min .• VHS, by Claire Simon a secondary school for students Workshop 12 with unique learning needs. Who Are Quakers? We called ourselves simply " Work­ Lively, informative, for Outreach and Education The full college preparatory curriculum has in­ shop 12." Ours was a risky workshop, special pre-publication price ..... $22.00 tellectually challenging courses supported by regular price (alter 11/1191) ...... $26.50 explicit teaching of organizational skills. a gathered group of people who carne please add postage ...... $3.00 Teacher student ratio is 1 to 5. Fine arts as well together to talk about how to help meet­ as outdoor education are integral to the also available: Crones and Woman and program. ings cope with the issues of child sexual Her the abuse. We know there are many victims For information call: (215) 526-9595 Please write checks to: On the campus of Harcum Jun ior College among us and we know there are perpe­ Quaker Video in Bryn Mawr, Pa. trators among us . We know, also, that P.O. Box 292 each victim and each perpetrator has Maplewood, NJ 07040 Irene McHenry, Head family and friends, loved ones who not only care but who are profoundly affect­ ed by the crime of child sexual abuse. WOODS COURT ______~ This matter can tear meetings apart. The subject is one most people would One bedroom apartments available for people age 60 rather not talk about. In fact, Friends and above. Applications to be put on waiting list seem extremely reluctant to face the are being accepted. nitty-gritty earthiness of what we like to think of as " normal" sex. When it comes to aberrant sexual behavior, Robert L. Hawthorne, Administrator · Friends frequently find it easier to ig­ Friends Home at Woodstown nore the problem altogether. Yet Friends q Woodstown, NJ 08098 Telephone (6o9) 769-1500 are essentially kind people, people who WOOOST~N! care, people who would like to right the wrongs of the world. Therefore, I reasoned, Friends would talk about this and do something about this if they just knew what to do. The subject can so overwhelm a meeting, and if there are .A journey in community ... no guidelines for what to do, struggling meetings can be defeated by the needi­ ness of the people involved. Is this your year I talked this over with a Friend from for Pendle Hill? my yearly meeting and we decided to begin by offering a workshop at the Seize the moment. Gathering. When John Kellam and I de­ There are still openings for the cided to lead this workshop, we were ex­ '91-'92 academic year for one, tremely worried about what would hap­ two or three terms. Fall term pen if both victims and perpetrators begins Sept. 27. carne. We made sure we had lots of pro­ Write or call fessional back-up available. Admissions The first morning of the workshop we Pendle Hill Wallingford, PA 19086 made clear that we were gathered to (215) 566·4507 work on how to help meetings with the I continued

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twin goals of healing and prevention. We let people know they were free to reveal anything they wanted to and it would be kept confidential, but that we were not a therapy group. We were there to work and we wanted our work to emerge from our worship; we wanted to be spirit-led . . This became the most intense, most reverend, most spiritual workshop ex­ perience I have ever had. Yes, we had both victims and perpetrators. And we had people who work professionally with this issue every day of their lives, ~ taking a "busman's holiday" as one of .!!! them put it. We had people attend be- i cause they cared. We had people of vary- r& ing sexual orientations and people from a wide range of yearly meetings. The was the fantasies that needed work. gether. Our group asked John and me breadth of FGC was well represented. Such work was difficult and, they to offer this workshop again next year People revealed intensely personal agreed, perhaps not possible without the for a different set of people. We hope things about themselves, things that help of a therapist and a support group to do so. could be extremely damaging to them. of others struggling with the same Our group is working now. Most of They did this because this workshop problem. us are not professionals. But we have became a safe place for them, a place We found that the perpetrators all felt faith that we are being led to answer a where people cared and were accepting. extreme shame, felt they were not nor­ need. Most of the people in meetings are While we worked on the issues, healing mal people deserving of the care and not professionals either. If we can strug­ was taking place among us. I believe respect of their communities. All of gle with this and come up with some­ there was a Spirit at work, that the Light them agreed that they would have call­ thing useful for meetings, then we will Within was shining brightly as we ed a perpetrator's hot line had one ex­ feel we have been true to the Light struggled with what we had to discuss. isted. Each felt alone with his shame and Within. It was not easy; and yet, no one dropped guilt, and each had felt compelled to do Alice Wiser out. At the end of each morning, peo­ what he did. Burlington, Vt. ple didn't want to leave. What was The survivors had come out of a well happening? of confusion and had worked hard to The victims among us would more find the boundaries of their own lives. properly be called survivors. They are Each was still struggling with who Songs to Sustain Us at a point in their healing that is beyond she/he was and with how to live useful, Voices rising, guitar strings humming, that first raw, debilitating anger and ordinary lives. keyboards plunking, autoharps pluck­ pain. That does not mean they are the Toward the end of the workshop, one ing: music was everywhere at the Gather­ whole people they would like to be, but survivor said to one recovering perpe­ ing. The numerous opportunities pre­ they were able to stay after the first trator: "You remind me so much of my sented conflicts galore for the serious perpetrator revealed himself. One of the perpetrator and you have helped me music lover: choir in the afternoon, or survivors said it well: "Before this week, understand a little bit of how he came Elizabeth Watson? Broadway show tune I would never have believed I would vol­ to do what he did. I feel a bit more of sing-along, or the pre-plenary sings? untarily stay in a room with a man like my life has fallen into place." She was "Nitengales," or contradancing? Satis­ you. Now, being here with you, I feel crying as she said this and the man she fying the soul, or the stomach? I am finding another piece of the whole was talking to began to cry as well. He My daily lunchtime nourishment be­ in my struggle to heal." walked over to her and offered a hug. came the sing-along with Annie Patter­ As we progressed we found that there She accepted. As they sobbed in each son and Peter Blood. Each Gathering I was abuse in the backgrounds of some other's arms, none of the rest of us had come away with a new favorite song to of the perpetrators as well. Descriptions a dry eye. We saw the Spirit at work be remembered in connection with some of abuse had us all in tears. But as we among us. special feeling. This year's memory is of grappled with details we didn't want to At the end of the workshop, we formed "Our House" rocking with joy on the hear, we began to see some answers. All ourselves into a working committee to gospel "Jesus, Won't You Come by of the perpetrators agreed it was impor­ produce a packet that we hope meetings Here." I saw the person next to me pick tant to heal their fantasies. They need­ will find useful. We all went away with up her camera to try to capture the mo­ ed to separate their fantasies fr.om their assignments, with deadlines, and with ment. That gesture froze the picture in sex acts, when alone or with others. It an overall plan for putting it all to- my heart-Annie and Peter in the center

26 October 1991 FRIENDS JOURNAL 11 ~~ ... It's a wonderful book! - N.M. of a room filled with a jubilant presence DAILY "We read it everyday after breakfast." - Ore. filling us all up to overflowing with the " ... This book stays on my bed table." -Calif. moment, their little one watching Mom READINGS " ... It is a wealth of familiar as well as not often-quoted and Dad strumming and singing "Now Fcom QuakerWritings passages from a wide variety of Quakers. The editor is to be is a needed time." commended for a thorough research in the history of the 11\ncient ~odet1J Tunes ran through my head all week. Religious Society of Friends; possessing this resource will "Lift Every Voice," also known as the enrich the library of every Friend." -Reviewer, QUAKER UFE Black National Anthem, was fittingly sung on Independence Day. " ...This is not a book to borrow from your Meeting House library and read in three weeks. It is a book to be owned and John Calvi graced the Gathering with read daily ..." -Reviewer, Quaker Monthly, London his love through music. His evening in­ " ...The book came this week-it is really superb job. I have terest group sharing of story and song enjoyed Josephine Duveneck's already."-Ctllif. was painful to hear. But so often music " ... A splendid collection - feel it will do well on both sides of the Atlantic and elsewhere speaks the truth we might not otherwise in the Quaker world-a quality production." -London, Engllznd seek. " ...30 minutes after we unpacked our copies we sold one to a delighted customer. The The quality of truth present in music comments have been wonderful, too. One said, 'This book makes the difference between is often overpowering for me. It gives this store and the "fast food" bookstores.' ...Please send 5 more copies." -Bookstore me an experience of the Divine where I Owner, WA touch and am touched: by the words, by " ... 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Caroline not previously heard a musical message: Barclay, Robert Curie, Adam Hubbard, Ceo{ Peck,~ Stol)', Thomu " We have holy doubts, God's given us &u.uk, Daniel Dewobul)', Wlllla Hutchloon. "Y Pen'berton."John Taber, William Benfey, 0 . Theodore = ~': Huti:I\Won. Jonatllan Pentngton, ISaac Talc:ot. ch holy doubts, God works through us and t:J~ Donchlan.Petir ~.::.=~ ~~U\i!aJY f:U~D.Eiton that makes these doubts holy." Binns, J. Howard Duveneck, Joeephlne .,_W . Ru.ell Phltadell'hta Y.M. Turkle, Brinton Bouldlng, Eltae ()yrrond, Jonathan M, R.ebeca Pilgrim, Peace UllsnaM, Richard I come home from the Gathering with Bouldlng, KeMeth Elliott. Errol T. es, Rutu. Pringle, Cyrua Umer, Carol Bowden. James Elllaon, Ruth ne, Calvin Pl-oUde, Mal)' Vlnln~~h renewed knowledge of my inner self. I Bownas, S.rn1el Ellwood, Thomu Kelly, ThoJNO ~Ida, RA!glnald Wahl. Brayahaw, A. Neave Eriaoorl. Dwight King, Eltzobeth Taber Rtlldn. Arthur Ward, Lelia come home with new melodies dancing Brlilton. Howard H. Evana, Thomu Knudsen-Hoffman, G. Roboon. Elizabeth Wabon. Elizabeth Brown, William 0. Flngaten, Peter Lacey, Paul A. Sanda, David Wetherald, Thomu in my heart. I come home with new Burrough, Edward Flns-n, Carole LaMotte, Allred ~wya:~,DebT. Whitehead,~ Byhouwer, Pleter Flanagan, RoN Lewis, Enoch .utten Whittier, John G. energy to sing them. I come home with Cadbwy, Hen!)' J. Fouldl, Elfrida V. London Eplotle Sche Patience Wilbur, John songs to sustain me. To quote Bob Capper, Mary Fox, George London Yearly Mtg. Scott. AnnFaner Wllldnaon. Muguet ~I, LarrY Fox, Margaret Fell Maynard, John L. P. Scott. Janet Withy, George Franke in his song "Thanksgiving Eve": Cuilllo, Fortunato Fl)', Elizabeth Mendl, Wolf Scott. ob Woods, MarRMet Cayard, Wallace Fl)', J. M. M-ner, SyMa Seeger, Betty-JeaA Woolman. 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FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1991 27 Witness Armenian Journal

by Martin Holladay

ast summer I spent five months in Spitak, Soviet Armenia, as a volun­ L teer with a project to build village medical clinics, sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. That project is completed. Now I am working in Stepanavan, at another project in the same earthquake­ ing build relief housing. This year I expect missile in silo N-11 is aimed at a city in the devastated region. This project is sponsored to be in Armenia for six months. Soviet Union. Since there are 1,000 Minute­ by the Diocese of the Armenian Church in Yesterday afternoon, a fine Saturday in ear­ man missiles, it is a fair assumption that a America. With four other U.S. citizens and ly May, I climbed a nearby mountain, which few of them are aimed here at Armenia, about 40 Armenian coworkers, I am help- rises about 2,000 feet above Stepanavan. At where the Soviet Union borders Turkey, a the peak there were still patches of snow, as NATO country. At silo N-11, I tried to place Martin Holladay is a carpenter from Sheffield, Vt. . well as the frrst wildflowers of spring. Stretch­ myself at the launching point of one missile; He was arrested on Feb. 19, 1985, for an act of ing away to the distant horizon in every here in Armenia I am, presumably, near one nonviolent civil disobedience at a nuclear missile direction were the snowy peaks of the Lesser missile's target. silo in Missouri, and was released from prison in September 1986. Caucasus. The valley below was intensely Two weeks ago the wife of one of our green with winter wheat and pastures grazed Armenian workers, Romik, died in child­ by flocks of sheep. birth. She was 38. The baby is a healthy girl; As I walked down the mountain I had a she has an older sister and a brother, now sudden flood of joy. In that intense feeling motherless. The health-care system here, as I was at once aware of the perfection of the I have learned from Project Hope volunteers universe, of the great openness of my sur­ in Armenia, is in many ways comparable to roundings, and of my solitary freedom; and that of the West's several decades ago. I suddenly remembered how I missed this The funeral was a wrenching affair for me. rare and deep emotion when I was in jail. The low open casket was carried by six fami­ I was arrested in rural Missouri in early 1985 ly members through the streets to the at missile silo N-11, and imprisoned for 19 cemetery. When it came time to nail the lid months for trespass and sabotage. I have not on the coffin, before it was lowered into the stopped pondering the implications of the grave, the family was inconsolable. The wails physical existence of that missile. of the women and the tears of the men were, There is a high likelihood that the nuclear of course, the wails and tears of people who were burying a wife, a daughter, a sister. But Photos: Hungayan they were also the wails and tears of Arme­ and Yerevan, nians who have lived through an earthquake, Armenia, in 1990. Above: A local who have had too many funerals, who are worker plasters a much too familiar with cemeteries for one ceiling. Right: lifetime. Martin Holladay (in The estimates of the number of dead from dark shirt) with new­ the Armenian earthquake of December 1988 found friends. range from 40,000 to 100,000. Several towns and dozens of villages were, in less than half a minute, shaken into rubble, with hardly a house left standing. It was a Hiroshima-size disaster. For more than two years, the Armenian people, with help from citizens from dozens of countries, have been rebuilding. Yet still much of the wreckage of the broken build­ ings remains uncleared, and thousands of people live in shacks without plumbing. In the yards of temporary homes, the broken stones remain as constant reminders of that day when loved ones died. An earthquake, like a war, can cause devas-

28 October 1991 FRIENDS JoURNAL tating changes in an instant, dividing families suddenly into two camps, the irretrievable ones who died and the grieving ones who must go on. Rebuilding and reconciliation ABE YOU A come much more slowly and uncertainly. Even as I rejoice at the beauty of the Armenian mountains and the generous spirit PBRIPATBTifJ of the Armenian people, I feel myself partly in exile here. It is a different kind of exile from what I felt in Danbury federal prison. Yet it occurs to me that exile is an accurate PBRU8BR? description of the deep wound in our human . . . who leafs through old books society, and the healing of that wound begins and periodicals for people, events, discoveries, and inventions "run inexplicably in acknowledging and experienc­ AARON BURR ing that exile. over by Progress"? You will like The nuclear missiles in Missouri are at BUDAY BooKS • VINTAGE READINGTM once a cause and a manifestation of our -four issues per year (February, May, August, and November)- human exile, of our communal failure to be ...- A val table only from publisher-not sold by agents or stores -... sisters and brothers. It is essential, I feel, to try to come to terms with the wound that We browse in the books, magazines, &c. of 19th-century Americans missile represents. for the Facts, Foibles and Fascinations of their Day-You will be Each workday in Armenia I help frame amazed that only fashions and technologies have changed! new houses that will be given to the home­ Part Two of each issue-the separately-bound ADVERTISER/ REPRISE Jess. The hope, of course, is that by our ac­ offers books from our stock, Subscriber classified ads, as well as tions and choices-by our ability to say yes vintage pictorial miscellany and selected short stories. Together, over 150 pages per issue-600 pages annually. $25.00 per year. as well as our ability to say no-a transfor­ mation can occur, an earthquake or a Hiro­ NOW READY: 128-pg. FALL 1991 ISSUE shima in reverse. In fact, God promises that WITH SEVEN FULL-LENGTH ARTICLES, INCLUDING: this is so. Each day, each time I lift my ham­ • "All Sorts of Senae except Common Senae." The mer, the changes seem very small. My heart Blennerhassetts were happy in their "American Garden of struggles to believe a great transformation Eden, until one day-Aaron Burr dropped by . .. is possible. • A True Tale of Three Sleeping Dragone and Their In dozens of Armenian homes, the homes Wide-Awake Cowdn (the pride and scourge of Naples). of strangers, acquaintances, and friends, I have been compelled to enter, sit, and eat. 11 1 11 1 11 1 11 1 11 1 11 1 11 To my relatively cynical U.S. eyes, the in­ Try a 84-pg. ""Sampler"-ftve feature articles Including: stinctive and completely genuine hospitality • STORY OF THE THR.EE BEARS-as it was REAJ.L Y written. of the Armenian people, who take joy in the • M1ssoU1U EARTHQUAKE LAw-compassionate response, but ... company of neighbors and strangers and • WHEN GoLD TuRNED FluoAY BLACK(1869)-Jay Gould and Jubilee who feel pain at the thought someone might Jim Fisk schemed to "corner" gold-and they did! be left out of the companionship of their family, is astonishing and nearly miraculous. In Spitak, I visit friends. Four siblings­ ; ~;; [ YINTAG;] BUDAY BOOKS • VINTAGE READING ~'~; Kanarik, Karine, Anahit, and Artur-live :•:• ~ EDrTot.JAl OFFICES AND PIJNnNO PLANT: ·>: with their mother in a small wooden house ? READING liMARIONAVENUE :: GILBERTSVILLE,NEWYORKI3776 ~::: tacked together from earthquake salvage. •:•: llEKBEa. COOPERSTOWN C HAWI£1. OF C OW.WEI.CE :•:• There is a water tap outside the front door, )~~~:::::::;- ~~~R.:~~I:_Y_____ ----_____ --______-- __ ---::::::({ and beyond the small vegetable garden is an :;:;:;:;:;:;:;: BUDAY BOOKS • VINTAGE READING HOW TO ORDER ;:;:;:;:;:;:;: outhouse. Two years ago Artur pulled his :;:;:;:;:;:;:;; II Marion Avenue, Gilbertsville, N.Y. 13776 BB ;:;:;:;:;:;:;: father lifeless from the rubble of the house that used to sit on these foundations. Anahit, :::ttr 0 Enclosed $3.00 for my copy of "SAMPLER." If 1 am not delighted, 1 will t::It ;:;:;:;:;:;:;:; return certificate in SAMPLER for full refund. I keep the SAMPLER. :;:;:;:;:;:;:; Artur's 19-year-old sister, carries many scars to remind her of the months she spent in the :~:;:r:::::: 0 Enclosed $25.00 for one-year subscription. As bonuses, you will include }?:}: ;:;:;:;:;:;:;:; SAMPLER and coupon for one free classified ad (up to 30 words). :;:;:;:;:;:;:; hospital. We gather around the small table in the largest room, which is at once a living room, NAME dining room, and bedroom. We eat vegetable ADDRESS soup, fresh bread, and cheese. We are all happy to eat and grateful to be together. We CITY STATE ZIP laugh. The cheese is very salty and sour. With each bite I realize how lucky I am to be here. 0

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1991 29 I Reports Retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh by Penny Jackim

he profound depth of Eastern spiritu­ Evenings were often filled with talks given ality is needed and accessible to West­ by retreatants, presenting materials from T erners at this time. Thich Nhat Hanh their areas of expertise. 1\vo unusual writing is of particular interest. As a young monk workshops were presented by author Natalie in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, he and Goldberg. Evening activities were followed his friends came out of the monasteries by an hour of meditation in the meditation to help people in need on both sides of that hall. Then to bed at 10 p.m., just as the sun conflict. This was a dangerous action, and was setting behind the plum trees. Thich Nhat Hanh became known as an im­ I was led to Thich Nhat Hanh because I portant nonviolent leader. He helped develop wished to deepen my experience and under­ "engaged Buddhism," an activist mode of standing of meditation. Eighteen years ear­ Buddhism, which can be integrated into lier, at a time of personal crisis, I spent a everyday life. He is a dear and wise and great semester at Pendle Hill, becoming more teacher, a scholar who is known for his many grounded in my Christian Quaker roots and books on Buddhist topics. listening to my inner voice so that I could I am a Quaker. In seeking out Buddhism be in touch with my thoughts and feelings. and Thich Nhat Hanh, I hope to deepen my This experience of meditation led to an un­ experience of meditation and mindfulness usual sense of empowerment and enabled me and better understand my own experience of to make major changes in my life at that empowerment. That is why I attended a three- Everj.f ~au we are- time. week retreat given by Thich Nhat Hanh in enaa· n A·~ /'-:In a m,· ~ac IN Thich Nhat Hanh describes such aware­ June 1990 at his community, Plum Village, nW 1 1 ~ ness: "The mind is like a stream. You can in southern France. My fellow retreatants Which Wt don't even follow the stream like a spotlight follows the came from Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, • b/ k dancer. You are the dancer. You are also the the Netherlands, France, Germany, England, reCOf1 ntze : a Ue 5 ~, spotlight. We need to greet our feelings, even Canada, India, and the United States. Our White c/OU05, Jffetn the difficult ones, for they are part of us. When we recognize them, we can tame experience was enriched by participation of Jna IJ:e51 ~e black I a number of Vietnamese people, most of "-' r' I rt /, them." whom were forced to leave their homeland lflC(Uisifive e)1e5 of a Nhat Hanh instructs us to look deeply in­ to the nature of things: ''This is, because that and who have since settled in other countries. ( hJ'f--' _O 11 r OWn -4-1 i 'O English was the language spoken at the V VJ I W is." My husband acts in a destructive way retreat. e eues. All is a miracle:: because of formative influences in his life. Plum Village is not far from Bordeaux and ~ '1 As I cultivate this awareness, my anger at is surrounded by rolling hills and vineyards. ~ Th i c~ N hat Han h him can turn to compassion. Ancient farm buildings were renovated to ~ L------' · As I look deeply into the nature of the make this retreat center, which has a sparse, tomato on my plate, I can see the sunshine, Vietnamese style. Plum trees planted seven Thich Nhat Hanh. Afterward, he led us in fertile soil, water, and the attention of the years ago will eventually provide a cash crop. a 45-minute walk outdoors, in which we farmer- all factors in producing this tomato. Plum Village is like a piece of Vietnam walked very slowly in silence. At some point All these elements enter my body and become planted in bright sunlight in the French in the walk, Thay, as he is affectionately call­ part of me as I eat the tomato. All parts of countryside. ed, would sit down, and we would sit around me are also parts of everything else. Thich Our daily schedule at the retreat was filled him in a circle. There we sang a few songs Nhat Hanh defines " interbeing" as a way of with a variety of activities. Wake-up bell was and frequently did breathing exercises. understanding that all things are interrelated. at 6 a.m., just as the sun was rising. This gave After the walk, we ate lunch. We were People interested in these ideas may join the us a little time to wash and dress before the treated to delicious Vietnamese cuisine, Society of Interbeing which he created. 6:30 a.m. bell announced morning medita­ prepared in the primitive kitchen facilities. A social consciousness and sense of re­ tion in the meditation hall. This hour con­ We often ate outdoors, perched on stones sponsibility are also products of this way of sisted of 20 minutes of sitting meditation, near a grove of palm trees. After lunch, we thinking. Mindfulness can be integrated in­ alternating with l 0 minutes of slow, medita­ had free time until 4 p.m., when a variety to our daily lives. This is something I am still tive walking. Sometimes chanting and read­ of afternoon activities· were scheduled. struggling to learn, as I try to modify the hec­ ing from sacred texts was included. 1\vice weekly, we had tea ceremonies. tic pace of my life. At 8 a.m., the breakfast bell rang. Meals Common in countries of the Orient, tea is I feel that I have much to learn from this were eaten in silence. From 9:'30 to 11:30 we served in a ritualistic way in silence as a form marvelous teacher. These few short para­ listened to the dharma talk, usually given by of meditation. After everyone had tea, we graphs cannot present the full scope of his were invited to share a story or a song. teaching. Books.by Thich Nhat Hanh include Penny Jackim 's report is adapted from one On other days we had small group discus­ The Miracle of Mindfulness, Being Peace, appearing in the Providence (R.I.) Meeting sions. Afternoon activities were followed by and The Sun My Heart. They are a good newsletter. relaxation exercises and then by dinner. place to start if you wish to learn more. 0

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• Raising $200,000 to buy a 270-acre site for a medicine lodge for the Wabanoag people is the goal of a fund-raising campaign, spon­ sored by the Quaker Committee on Native Concerns of the Canadian Friends Service Committee. The property is mostly forested, with several cultivated acres at the confluence of Beaverdam Brook and the Nashwaak River. 1\vo houses, some equipment, and some handmade furnishings come with the property. The Wabanoag Council of Elders would like to use the property to return to their spirituality and way of life that honors nature, with ceremonies, sweatlodges, feasts and fasts, and traditional teachings for ado­ lescents. To contribute or to get a brochure explaining the plan, write to Canadian Friends Service Committee, QCNC Medicine Lodge Project, Quaker Committee for Native Concerns, 60 Lowther Ave., Toronto, On­ throughout the United States and Canada. tario M5R 1C7 , Canada. Five institutions of the Friends Association for Higher Education are current members. Calendar • Friends in Aotearoa/ New Zealand invite The PSA seeks to build and broaden its other yearly meetings and Friends groups to membership. For information, contact Robin OCTOBER consider using some of their money to pro­ J. Crews, Campus Box 471, University of mote self-reliant, cooperative development Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0471. 11-13-Fifth annual gathering of New England projects in parts of the world short of War Tax resisters, in Voluntown, Conn. Discus­ money. The Ecumenical Development Co­ • Materials for a biography of the late Rev. sion of lifestyle and tax resistance, support com­ operative Society uses shares invested by munities, and organizing. For information, con­ George L. (Shorty) Collins are sought from tact Rick Gaumer, Box 1093, Norwich, Cf 06360. churches to make possible self-sustaining those who remember him. Anecdotes, letters, enterprises based on social justice. Current pictures, news articles, sermons, lectures, 19-Dedication of Steere Wing addition to Brin­ projects include a re-employment scheme for etc., may be sent to Colleen R. Watson, 146 ton House Conference Center at Pendle Hill. For miners in Bolivia, sugar-cane farming in information, contact Pendle Hill, Wallingford, PA Rodonovan Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051, 19086, telephone (215) 566-4507. Belize, cotton marketing in Peru, housing in telephone (408) 243-0485. Costa Rica, and poultry farming in Indo­ NOVEMBER nesia. For information, write to the Ecu­ • Financial aid for draft resisters is provid­ 1-3-Friends Committee on Unity with Nature an­ menical Development Cooperative Society at ed by the Fund for Education and Training. nual meeting, at Ben Lomond Quaker Center near P.C. Hooftlaan 3, 3818 HG Amersfoort, Young men who do not register for the draft Santa Cruz, Calif. All FCUN members welcome. Netherlands. are disallowed government educational assis­ 1-3-Seminar for Trustees, led by Tom Brown, tance. The fund supports job training or at Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pa. Call Ruth Seeley • Contact with longtime workers for social higher education for those who have not at (215) 241-7245. change is sought for information on political registered by reason of conscience. For more experiences for a book in progress on sus­ information, contact FEAT, 1601 Connecti­ 7-10-Pyrmont Yearly Meeting, at Quiikerhaus, tained peace and justice activism. Respon­ cut Ave., N.W., Suite 750, Washington, D.C. Bombergstrasse 9, DW-3280 Bad Pyrmont. Con­ tact Lore Horn, Wikingerufer 5, DW-1000 Berlin dents should be from the United States or 20009-1035, telephone (202) 483-4559. 21, Germany, telephone 030 391 4867. Canada. The author, Pat Farren, was the editor of the 1991 Peace Calendar of the War • World Food Day is Oct. 16. Students and 8-10-Japan Yearly Meeting. Contact Hiroshi Resisters League, which sparked the idea for educators in Michigan are working to raise Hatanaka, Japan Yearly Meeting, 8-19 Mita the book. The book will portray long-term 4-Chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, telephone one million dollars to feed the hungry. Emp­ (03) 451-7002. activists in their work and will characterize ty Bowls is a project that uses handmade the personal, political, psychological, and ceramic bowls to raise funds and serve meals. 9-12-Church Women United's 50th Anniversary spiritual factors that help them avoid burn­ It seeks to promote hunger education and en­ Jubilee, at Cervantes Convention Center in St. out and continue involvement. Those who courages the use of art to develop creative Louis, Missouri. For information, contact Church Women United Assembly, 475 Riverside Dr., respond will receive a questionnaire with sug­ thinking. For more information, contact Room 812, New York, NY 10115, telephone (212) gested topics for anecdotal writing. To re­ John Hartom or Lisa Blackburn, P.O. Box 870-2347. spond, contact Pat Farren, 2161 Mass. Ave., 40, Franklin, MI 48025, telephone (313) Cambridge, MA 02140 before September 851-5406. 16-American Friends Service Committee annual public gathering, emphasizing " Economics and 1992. Human Values," 1:00-5:00 p.m., Friends Center, • Hands Off! has names of conscientious ob­ 1501 Cherry, Philadelphia, Pa. Keynote speaker: • In response to the growth of peace studies, jectors needing support. To correspond with noted economist, author, ambassador John Ken­ the Peace Studies Association (PSA) was an individual, or for more information, con­ neth Galbraith, 1:30 p.m. plenary session. Three formed in 1987. The association includes 94 tact Hands Off!, 111 E. 14th St., New York, concurrent panel discussions follow, 3:00-4:30. For college and university peace studies programs NY 10003, telephone (212) 353-2445. information: call (215) 241-7032.

34 October 1991 FRIENDS JouRNAL FRIENDLY FACTS ABOUT RETIREMENT LIVING AT STAPELEY What our residents and others say about us Retirement communities aren't for everyone. Nor are they all alike. But if you're pondering a retirement move, study your options and consider the advantages of living at Stapeley.

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A minute about AIDS resulted from a series Applications for adult facilitators are due by more information, contact Mary Flounders of presentations at Madison (Wis.) Meeting. Nov. 15. Young Friends (16-18 years old) Arnett at (215) 241-7232. A videotape presented an AIDS patient's ex­ should apply before Jan. 15., 1992. For in­ perience of the disease and the ways he was formation and application forms, contact Friends World College became Friends helped by the meeting he attended. An AIDS Cilde Grover, FWCC, P.O. Box 923, Oregon World Program on June I. Friends World education representative of the Red Cross City, OR 97045. College existed for 26 years with six overseas and a man who has tested positive for the centers. Trustees of FWC are now overseers HIV virus also spoke. A third session was The 347th birthday of William Penn will be of the new program. Friends World Program devoted to sharing feelings and brainstorm­ celebrated Sunday, Oct. 6. Events at William is on the Southampton Campus of Long ing further actions the meeting might take. Penn House, in Washington, D.C., will begin Island University. Leo Barrington is its The meeting united in a minute about its at 3 p.m. For more information, contact director. response. It intends to distribute the minute William Penn House, 515 E. Capitol St., among local health care providers and S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003, telephone Paul Lacey recently won the 1990-1991 Sears government agencies, and the Madison AIDS (202) 543-5560. Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence Support Network. and Campus Leadership Award. He is a Waging Peace is a project to aid victims of Quaker speaker, workshop leader, and pro­ Young Friends from Europe and the Ameri­ the Gulf War. It is sponsored by the Middle fessor of English at Earlham College. He is cas will meet in Great Britain July 16 to East Working Group of Philadelphia Year­ one of 700 so honored on the basis of August 13, 1992, for the 1992 Quaker Youth ly Meeting and the Friends Peace Commit­ resourcefulness and leadership in private col­ Pilgrimage. This cultural exchange and ex­ tee. The project will collect funds and leges. Each recipient receives $1 ,000, and the ploration of Quaker roots, practices, and materials for the AFSC and other agencies. college receives a grant of $500 to $1,500, beliefs is sponsored by Friends World Com­ It also hopes to promote cultural exchange. depending on student enrollment. Winners mittee for Consultation. The pilgrimage will Video tapes and a newsletter will provide in­ are selected by independent committees on include a tour of George Fox country and formation to Friends and others. The proj­ each campus. The committee that selected a work camp experience in Northern Ireland. ect encourages personal involvement. For Paul Lacey cited his outstanding teaching of undergraduates, wide acknowledgement of him as a mentor and teacher of new col­ leagues, his high demand as a speaker, and his service as an outside evaluator of other schools. Paul Lacey joined the Earlham faculty in 1960, after receiving his bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his doctorate from Harvard University. But how did she get He has served as Earlham's provost and as to meeting? acting president. Midwestern winters are the stuff legends After being discharged from the U.S. Army are made of. In spite of the Quaker penchant Reserves because of her refusal to report for for understatement, this bit of news from active duty in the Persian Gulf, Stephanie Council House (Okla.) Meeting paints a vivid Atkinson is now an intern in the American picture: because no one here knows how to play the Friends Service Committee's Youth and Mil­ thing." "Attendance has been about normal itarism Program. Stephanie, 23, Jives in Car­ "That Friend speaks my mind. But I through the winter. We did miss services two bondale, Ill., where she enlisted in the army believe we should not move forward at this Sundays when the ice was very bad. Many reserves at age 17 to earn money for a col­ folks had falls. Maxine Hilliard got down to time, because the real problem meeting faces lege education. She says her college work en­ her clothesline without a fall, but had to lie is that we truly need more light." couraged her to question her political assump­ (by Phil Meighan, 57th Street down and roll up the hill to the porch. That tions, while her experience in basic training Meeting in Chicago, Ill.) gives you an idea of how slick it was." made her realize she was opposed to war. (from the Nebraska Friend, spring 1991) When she received the order to report for du­ ty, she disobeyed, began to fill out a claim They'll draw a crowd for a conscientious objector discharge, and spoke publicly about her resistance to taking A contradiction Word has it there's a Quaker family at­ part in the Persian Gulf War. Following ar­ in terms .... tending Roanoke (Va.) Meeting, from Big rest by Illinois state police, she was confined Island, Virginia-about 35 miles distant. by the military and given a less than honor­ A Friend tells of a group of Quakers . These Friends, we are told, are building their able discharge. Stephanie continues to speak whose House Committee brought a recom­ own house in the shadow of No Business out in opposition to the war and serves as mendation to meeting for business that a Mountain. It has been suggested that if the a military counselor, providing advice and chandelier be installed. This did not meet number of Friends living in their area in­ the courage of her own example to those who with ready approval. In fact, three Friends creases, they might start their own question their participation in war. She says: stood in the way, with these remarks: preparative meeting. The name? You guessed "When I look back, I realize how little I "I'm against it, because I can't spell it." it: "No Business Meeting." knew about myself when I joined the armed "Well, I don' t think. we should get one, -Eds. services .... I oppose all violence and now

36 October 1991 FRIENDS JoURNAL want to help others in the military having fessor emeritus, former ambassador to In­ similar realizations to examine their values, dia, and author of several books. He was resist, and file for conscientious objection." awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1946 for his devotion to public service and was a key Plans are underway for a short-wave radio economic advisor to John F. Kennedy dur­ station broadcasting educational and spir­ ing the 1960 presidential campaign. itual material in Guatemala at the Quaker Three panel discussions will follow the Theological Seminary. The group had a plenary session: "Deepening and Hardening studio but lacked a transmitter, so is selling Poverty in the United States," Judy Claude sets of 24 cassette tapes of sermons about the moderator; "Globalization of the Economy Book of Revelations. Price is $100. The group and Its Social Impact," Arthur Schmidt, currently produces a weekly radio program, moderator; and "Patterns of Development which has been on the air for 25 years. and Economic Restructuring," Alison Old­ ham moderator, James Fine as resource Wilmington College has appointed Lon Fen­ speaker. (James Fine was AFSC staff per­ dall as Dean of the Faculty. Lon Fendall son in Baghdad, Iraq, this past summer.) directed the Center for Peace Learning at John Kenneth Galbraith "Galbraith's expertise, insight, and per­ George Fox College from 1984 to 1990. He spectives will help immeasurably in develop­ was assistant professor of history at George "Economics and Human Values" will be the ing a better understanding of the economic Fox College from 1971 to 1974 and is former theme of the annual public gathering of the imperatives in this critical time," Asia A. editor of the Evangelical Friend. He also American Friends Service Committee Nov. Bennett, AFSC executive secretary, said. brings to his position political experience 16 at Friends Center, 1501 Cherry Street, The plenary session will be at 1:30 p.m. from his work as a legislative assistant, field Philadelphia, Pa. John Kenneth Galbraith The three concurrent panel discussions will director, and campaign manager for Senator will be the keynote speaker. follow, from 3 to 4:30p.m. For more infor­ Mark Hatfield from 1974 to 1991. Galbraith is a Harvard economics pro- mation, call (215) 241-7032.

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A Declaration on Peace By Douglas Gwyn, George Hunsinger, Eugene F. Roop, and John Howard Yoder. Herald Press, 616 Walnut Ave., Scottdale, PA 15683. 1991. 109 pages. Scattergood Friends School is a co-educational, college $4.95/paperback, plus $1.91 for shipping preparatory, boarding and day high school for 50 students and handling. This booklet is a radical peace statement based on biblical grounds that elevates the issue above sectarian controversy. It is con­ • Excellent success in placing graduates in colleges and universities ceived by three members of the historic peace • 4: 1 student to faculty ratio churches, plus a person from the Fellowship • Small classes and attention to the needs and interests of individuals of Reconciliation. However, the book is in­ • Extensive outdoor and farm experiences tended to contribute to the broader Chris­ tian discussion of world peace. It is also in­ • Caring and supportive community life tended to move the discussion beyond earlier • Emphasis upon cooperation rather than competition statements by the peace churches: "Peace is • Affordable tuition with extensive financial assistance the will of God" (1953), and "War is con­ trary to the will of God" (1951), composed in response to the call to theologians issued by the Amsterdam Assembly of 1948. For additional information, or to arrange a visit, This trenchant study shows the modest ex­ call or write, Director of Admissions, Scattergood Friends School, tent to which the Church of Christ (in its Route 1, Box 32, West Branch, !A 52358 (319) 643-7600 broadest sense) can risk identification with nationalist purposes without betraying the spirit, teaching, and example of Jesus. If Christians follow Jesus' example, they will plead the cause of those who are denied jus­ tice, sometimes performing acts of disqbedi­ ence to civil authority in defense of the abused. This is not a resort to coercive pow­ er, but identification with the weak and ex­ ploited. It is a call to awaken to truth. STTOWN That is a dangerous posture, as many gen­ erations of Quakers have realized. But it is SCHOOL out of this moral clash that the power of the Church is generated. So long as we have not Wesuown, Pennsylvania- Founded In 1799 betrayed Christ, we are always strongest when we are weakest, because we are identi­ fying ourselves with one who experienced Westtown is a Quaker school of 600 students in Pre-K through death on others' behalf. 12th grade, co-educational, college preparatory, day and boarding This book shows us how the Church in its priestly, prophetic, wise, and servant-orient­ ed roles emerged from Old Testament tradi­ • Excellent academic programs tion as a dynamic expression of God's love for a violence-ridden and self-serving world. • Individual attention within a caring community Early Christians, according to Henry Cad­ • Before and after school day care programs bury, demonstrated love toward beggars on the streets of Greek cities. The pagan Greeks • Performing and fine arts sneered at this as weakness. According to Henry Cadbury, the only reason a Greek • 600-acre campus with lakes and woods gave alms to a beggar was to prevent the beg­ gar from making a row about being ignored. • Outstanding facilities (science center, arts center Giving under these circumstances was con­ fieldhouse, 25-meter indoor pool) descension and self-service, not love. Herein was the real difference between the pagan culture and the new infusion of the For more information and to arrange to visit classes, Christian spirit. A new humanity had entered the harsh old world. It would shake the con­ please call Henry Horne, director of admissions, Westtown School ventional foundations of every culture, and Westtown, PA 19395 (215!399-0123) it continues to do so today. It has its roots in the Old Testament prophetic tradition that

38 October 1991 FRIENDS JoUR}fAL Woodbrooke College proclaimed God required mercy, not mere QUAKER STUDIES TUTOR formal sacrifice. It also represented a remak­ ing of the human heart. Jesus called it a Wood brooke is looking for a new tutor, following John rebirth, without which no person can enter into the kingdom of God (John 3:5). With­ Punshon's move to Earlham School of Religion: to develop out that, human beings are blind to the na­ the field of Quaker studies through her/his contribution to ture of the vast spiritual struggle in which the Quaker thought within our educational programmes and by forces of light and darkness are engaged. In view of this little book, Friends may other work amongst Friends. take more seriously the spiritual basis of their pacifism, as well as issues such as univer­ Applicants will be Friends, who may have.a grounding salism, the sharing of wealth, simplicity, in theology or a related discipline, or experience in teaching capital punishment, the claims of the poor and the oppressed, and the rejection of every or similar qualifications. Willingness to work in the ecumenical form of authoritarianism, be it patriarchal, and interfaith setting of the Selly Oak Colleges is important. matriarchal, or even political correctness. Whilst we welcome applications from members of Yearly The living Church of Christ sees these issues from the standpoint of Jove, and when Meetings from all parts of the world, some understanding of called, that body speaks truth to whatever London Yearly Meeting is necessary. power has violated the spirit, as given in the New Testament. Closing date: 15th November 1991. lntervie'NS February This little book is packed with energy and insight. Quakers need to know, to under­ 1992. Further information and application forms are available stand, to comprehend, to enter into themes­ from: Chris la'NSon, Senior Tutor, Woodbrooke, 1046 Bristol sage that insofar as we are that Church, we Road, Birmingham B29 6LJ, UK. Telephone: (021) 472-5171. are a prophetic and discerning people, ser­ vants of the Creator. That is why, in our end and our beginning, we are pacifists. If hearts were changed (including ours), the powers of the world would tremble and might indeed fall, for what is sown in weakness is raised in power (I Cor. 15:42-43).

J. Bernard Haviland

J. Bernard Haviland is a member of Media (Po.) Meeting, where he serves on the Worship and Ministry Committee. He is clerk of the Philadel­ phia Yearly Meeting Epistle Committee and a Newtown, PA 18940 member of the FRIEN DS JoURN AL Board of Managers.

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Torches Rekindled By Merrill Mow. Plough Publishing House, Ulster Park, N.Y., 1989. 309 pages. $10.501 paperback. In a series of talks, Merrill Mow relates the history of the Eastern branch of the Hutterian Brethren (the Bruderhof) from its beginnings in 1954 through three decades of struggle, conflict, and, finally, renewal. Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, Qeorge School is a co­ Members of the Bruderhof live in close-knit educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9 · 12. communities and strive to follow the teach­ The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values & includes: ings of Jesus Christ. They have chosen to be • Courses on 4levels of diftlculty • International Baccalaureate (IB) isolated from U.S. society rather than be • Advanced Placement (AP) • International workcamps subjected to its consumerism and secularism. • Engllsh as a second Language (ESL) • Required community service Torches Rekindled is the inside story of these • Foreign study • Required full-year courses In the arts people who work hard to preserve a • 13 Interscholastic sports for boys 6\ girls sense of peace and community in a modern For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 215/ 968·3811 world.

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Births Nelson-Eric Russell Nelson, on August 7, to Heather L. and Russell N. Nelson. His parents and sister, Rebecca, are members of St. Lawrence Valley Meeting, under the care of Ottawa (Can.) Meeting. Puth-Cofin Cameron Puth, on July 2, to David and Leslie Puth of Brooklyn, N.Y. He is the great­ grandson of Colin and Elizabeth Tait, members of Rancocas (N.J.) Meeting. Elizabeth is also a member of Clearwater (Fla.) Meeting. Marriages Claggett-Smith-Craig E. Smith and Susan B. Claggett, June I, under the care of Third Haven (Md.) Meeting. Susan and her parents are members of the meeting, Craig an attender. Freeman-Hall-Bob Hall and Michael Freeman, on June I, underthecareofSantaFe(N. Mex.)Meeting. him. Teaching became his profession after he left Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa., after an extended ill­ Bob is a member of Santa Fe Meeting; both attend graduate school. As a Fulbright Lecturer in 1964 and ness. He was born in Harrisburg, Pa., a son of a Pima (Ariz.) Meeting. 1965, he established a Department of Psychology at minister of the Reformed Church. He graduated Thammasat University in Thailand. Subsequently, from Franklin and Marshall College, began his he studied Mandarin, visited China, and collected theological training at Union Seminary in New York, Deaths an extensive library on Asia. His honesty helped him and received his B.D. from Hartford Theological Alexander-Rebecca Biddle Bradbeer Alexander, approach others with consideration of differing Seminary. Following his service in West Virginia and 89, on March 4, at Crosslands, Kennett Square, Pa., perceptions and needs. He is survived by his wife, Kentucky with a child feeding program of the of pneumonia. Shegrewupin Wallingford, Pa., and Dulcie Barlow; three sons, Aaron, Joel, and Michael American Friends Service Committee, he joined the attended Friends Select School and Westtown Barlow; and one grandson. Religious Society of Friends. He was pastoral School. She also studied music in Germany, and Houghton-Anne E. Coppock Houghton, April7, secretary of the Virginia Quarterly Meeting of the while abroad she met and later married Frank Gilbert 1990, of heart failure, in Sandy Spring, Md. She was Baltimore Yearly Meeting for 13 years and pastor of Bradbeer, an Englishman active in child feeding pro­ born in Covrinth, Va. Her parents, Homer J. and the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Friends Meeting for 18 grams after World War I. They lived in England, then Mabel Cary Coppock, headed the school there. A years. He also was a member-at-large of the Execu­ moved to Moylan, Pa., where Frank died in 1935. biology major at Earlham College, she worked in tive Committee of Friends General Conference and As a music teacher at the School in Rose Valley, laboratories in Chicago after graduation. She was a delegate to two Friends World Conferences. He Rebecca developed an interest in the concept of play a charter member of 57th Street Meeting. In 1935, married Anne Elizabeth Willis in 1948. Following therapy, leading to her writing " Inner Equipment she married Daniel Houghton. The Houghtons went his retirement, he and Anne moved to Gwynedd, Pa. in Family Living.'' She served at one time as record­ to Arthursdale, W.Va., where AFSC had a program He was a member-of the Board of Advisors of the ing clerk of Media (Pa.) Meeting and on Represen­ working with coal miners. There, Anne learned to Earlham School of Religion and of various commit­ tative Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. In weave and was for many years a weaver by profes­ tees of Friends United Meeting. He is survived by his 1958 she married Horace Alexander, noted British sion. She is survived by her husband, Daniel; three wife, Anne; a brother, Joseph Stein; and sisters historian and ornithologist, and close associate of sons, Richard, John, and Harold; 13 grandchildren; Eleanor R. Stein and Caroline S. Gibson. Mohandas Gandhi. The Alexanders lived together and a great-granddaughter. in England for ten years and traveled together to India Marls-Ruth Outland Maris, 90, on August 12, at on three occasions. In 1969 they returned to live in Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, in Ahoskie, N.C. She Swarthmore, Pa., and in 1978 moved to Crosslands, was born in Woodland, N.C. She graduated from where Horace died in 1989. She is survived by a Guilford College and later studied at Harvard daughter, Cecilia Bradbeer Sibinga; a son, James B. ClassHied University. For II years, shetaughtinpublicschools Bradbeer; five grandchildren; and one great­ in North Carolina. She· taught for two years at a grandson. For Information call (215) 241-7279. Quaker mission school in Ramallah, Palestine (now Barlow-John A/fred Barlow, 67, on August 2, in so• per word. Minimum charge is $10. the West Bank). Ruth attended the First World Youth Add 1 0% if boxed. 10% discount for Brooklyn, N.Y., of cardiac arrest. He was a member Peace Conference in Holland in 1928. She served for three consecutive insertions, 25% for six. of Brooklyn Meeting. He was born in Gallipolis, two years as personnel secretary of the American Appearance of any advertisement does not imply Ohio, and after graduating from high school in 1942, Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia, Pa. In endorsement by FRIENDS JOURNAL. he spent three years in the air force. His experiences 1937, she married Robert H. Maris, a dentist of Copy deadline: 7 weeks before cover date. in combat in the Pacific led him to a lifelong com­ Wilmington, Del., who had served with AFSC in mitment to nonviolence. After the war he enrolled France during World War I. During World War II, Accommodations in Oberlin College, where he and Dulcie Dimmette she and her husband traveled to many Civilian Public met and were married in 1948. Later he attended Service camps. In 1972, they retired to the Friends Durango, Colorado. Soujourners/lourists. One bedroom unit with kitchen, near downtown historic district, narrow graduate school at Duke University, where he earned Boarding Home (The Hickman) in West Chester, Pa. aPh.D. in psychology. While a student, John involved guage train, etc. By weekend or a few days maximum. For Robert died in 197 5. Ruth moved to the Pine Forest reservation and details call: (303) 259-4592. himself deeply in social concerns projects, and later Rest Home in Potecasi, N.C., in 1989. She was a NYC-Greenwich. Village Bed & Breakfast. Walk to 15th with the American Friends Service Committee. Par­ member of West Chester (Pa.) Meeting, and a birth­ Street Meeting. 1-4 people; children welcome. (Two cats ticipation in Friends meeting became important to rightand sojourning member of Rich Square (N.C.) in house.) Reservations: (212) 924-6520. Meeting. She is survived by a stepdaughter, Faith Greater Boston Hospitality, a bed and breakfast reser· Maris Burlingame; two brothers, Wilfred T. and vation service offers modest to luxury homes, inns, and John G. Outland; two sistets, Janie 0. Sams and unhosted condominiums throughout the greater Boston Gulf War 101 answer area. Many include parking. Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Water· Margaret 0. Revelle; three step-granddaughters; front, South End, and suburbs. Breakfast included. Write: The answer to each question is D. and four step-great-grandchildren. Greater Boston Hospitality, P.O. Box 1142, Brookline, MA Stein-James Rauch Stein, Jr., 85, at Chestnut Hill 02146. Or call (617) 2n-5430 (24 hours/day).

40 October 1991 F'IuENos JoURNAL Tidioute-Friendly Eagle 8&8. Peaceful oil rush town, Higher Education N.W. Pa. Allegheny River, forest, chamber music; children Education for a small ptanet-B.A. degree by living what How to Tell30,000 Friends welcome. Box 222, Tidioute, PA 16351. (814) 484-7130. you learn in U.S., Costa Rica, England, Israel, Kenya, In­ Community Living In Quaker-sponsored house of 20 in· dia, China, Japan. Language, homestays. World Program, About Your Service or Product: terested in spiritual groW1h, peace, and social justice. All Box Q, LIU-Southampton, Southampton, NY 11968. Tel: faiths welcome. Preference to applications completed by (516) 283-4000. Advertise In FRIENDs JOURNAL! 11/ 1 for January openings, 4/1 for June. For application, information: Beacon Hill Friends House, 6 Chestnut Street, To receive advenising information, just fill out Boston, MA 02108. Telephone: (617) 227·9118. Opportunities and mail the coupon below to: Advenising Simple low-coat lodging for individuals and groups. Consider a Costa Rican study tour. February 6-17, 1992. Manager, FRIENDS JouRNAL, 1501 Cherry Seminar planning available. Quaker center on Capitol Hill. Call or write Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey, 1182 Hornbeam Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102; or call (215) William Penn House, 515 E. Capitol St., SE, Washington, Road, Sabina, OH 45169. Phone: (513) 584-2900. 241-7279. DC 20003. (202) 543·5560. Study Spanish In Guatemala. Family living. CASA, Box London? Stay at the Penn Club, Bedford Place, London 40148, Albuquerque, NM 87196. (505) 242-3194. Name WC1B SJH. Friendly atmosphere. Central for Friends Addrm ______House, West End, concerts, theater, British Museum, Personals university, and excursions. Telephone: 071·636-4718. City /State/Zip ______Washington, D.C., sojourners welcome in Friends' home Single Booklovera gets cultured, single, widowed, or in pleasant suburb nearby. By day, week, or month. For divorced persons acquainted. Nationwide, run by Friends. details call: (301) 270.5258. Established 1970. Write Box 117, Gradyville, PA 19039, or Looking for a creative living alternative in New York City? call (215) 358-5049. ing, supporting and practical program. Should have diverse Penington Friends House may be the place for you! We are Claulcal Music Lovers' Exchange-Nationwide link be­ personal experiences, strong management and leadership looking for people of all ages who want to make a serious tween unattached music lovers. 1 (800) 233-CMLS, Box 31, skills. Responsibilities include overseeing staff, financial commitment to a community lifestyle based on Quaker prin­ Pelham, NY 10803. management, referrals, outreach, and maintaining direct ciples. For information call (212) 673-1730. We also have person·al involvement with residents. Competitive salary overnight accommodations. and benefit package. Please send resume to: Department Concerned Singles Newaletter links compatible singles F, P.O. Box 87, Rutland, VT 05702. Mexico City Friends Center. Reasonable accommoda· who care about peace, social justice, and the environ­ Monteverde Institute, Monteverde, Costa Rica, seeks tions. Reservations recommended. Casa de los Amigos, ment. National and international membership. All ages. Academic Director for Short Courses, beginning January, Ignacio Mariscal 132, 06030 Mexico D.F. 705.{)521 . Since 1984. Free sample: Box 555-F, Stockbridge, MA 1992. MVI, a nonprofit educational institution, provides 10. Cesa Heberto Seln Friends Center. Reasonable accom­ 01262. modations. Reservations. Asociacion Sonorense de los to 21-day introductory courses for persons from outside Amigos, Felipe Salido 32, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Costa Rica which include topics in tropical biology/ecology, Friends Meeting, Sundays 11 a.m .. Phone: (011-52·621) Positions Vacant agro-ecology and conservation issues, and Costa Rican language culture. Course level varies from high school to 7.01-42. Cal8 de los Amlgos, Mexico City, Quaker center, needs undergraduate university. Position requires degree in directors beginning this fall for one year, and assistants for biology or environmental education (M.S. preferred), ex­ Books and Publications 3-6-12 month period throughout the year. Housing and perience teaching outdoor activities in natural sciences, small allowance provided. Write Ellen Gonzalez, Casa de good physical condition, compatibility with our mission, sen­ los Amigos, Ignacio Mariscal 132, Colonia Revoluci6n, sitivity and respect for another culture, ability to live in rustic To the Beat of a Different Drummer 06030, Mexico, OF. conditions, flexibility, availability some evenings and What it was like to be a World War II "conchie" and to Cal8 Heberto Seln Friends Center seeks volunteer weekends, and near fluency in Spanish. Duties include do AFSC relief work in Europe, told in 247 pages of lively host(s)/director(s). Contact: Calle Felipe Salido 32, Her· responsibility for planning the tropical biology curriculum, prose with 107 illustrations. Soft cover, $10.95 postpaid. mosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Phone: (011·52-62) 17-01·42. teaching, and leading activities in the field. Send c.v. with Order from the author, J. Henry Dasenbrock, 3300 Dar- Director for Denver baled Alternatives to VIolence Pro­ names, addresses and phone numbers of three references by Rd. 11803, Haverford, PA 19041-1095. ject serving state prisoners and community groups sought. to: Margaret Viers, Monteverde Institute, Apartado Administrative, people, and conflict management skills 10165-1000, San Jose, Costa Rica, C.A. Give minister, teacher, child, Betty Stone's wisdom an- desired. Write: New Foundations Nonviolence Center, 1615 Monteverde Institute, Monteverde, Costa Rica, seeks thology, Coffer of Pearls, quality paperback, $11.95 Ogden St. , Denver, CO 80218; or call (303) 756-4496. Coordinator of International Program, beginning immediate­ postpaid. Waterway, 1228 C Columbus Circle, Wil· Couple and/or single person to help operate a 15o-acre ly. Requires great organizational skills, attention to myriad mington, NC 28403. hill farm, guest house, and retreat center in Vermont. We details, at least near-fluency in Spanish, compatibility with raise Highland cattle and organic vegetables. 1904 farm­ our mission, genuine desire to serve, strong communica­ house accommodates approx. 10 guests. Well-estab­ tion skills, maturity, flexibility, sensitivity and respect for George Fox's volume Worfcs (1831 edition) are back lished-same owner for 35 years. Big barns, lots of open another culture, ability to live in rustic conditions, ex­ in print-at a great price. New introductions by Douglas pasture, spectacular views. Would like quiet, practical peo­ perience in group facilitating, availability some evenings Gwyn and others. Library bound, acid-free paper. Priced ple who enjoy people, have agricultural training and are and weekends. Minimum commitment two years, following at $167.50 for 8 volumes. Sets may be ordered with $40 knowledgeable around animals and farm machinery. Must probationary period. Duties include responsibility for coor­ deposit with balance due upon safe arrival. This set be energetic. There's lots of work to do, but it is rewarding dinating all aspects of international programs in tropical would be a wonderful, lasting gift for your favorite meet­ and is situated in beautiful surroundings. To start in .Oc­ biology, agro-ecology, and Costa Rican culture/language, ing library. Prospectus available. Orders: George Fox tober '91. Please call Ann Day at (802) 496-3527 or write including supervising small staff. Send c.v. w~h names, ad­ Fund, Inc., c/o Douglas Garrett, 324 S. Atherton St., to her at Knoll Farm Inn, RFD 179, Bragg Hill Ad., dresses and phone numbers of three references to: State College, PA 16801 . Waitsfield, VT, 05673. Margaret Viers, Monteverde Institute, Apartado Dlrector(s) for John Woolman Memorial in Mt. Holly, N.J . 10165-1000, San Jose, Costa Rica, C.A. Most tranalated after the Bible is Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. Ideal situation for active retired couple with some independ­ Quaker Resident-Orlando Friends Meeting (unpro­ For catalog of various editions and Interpretations of his ent income. House, utilities, and health insurance provid­ grammed) seeks individual or couple to assist and nurture simple philosophy, write Tao/Etc Books, Box 3755, Tucson, ed. Job includes maintaining the house and grounds. Ap­ our meeting community. Cottage and stipend provided. AZ 85722. plicants should be thoroughly familiar with Quaker prin­ Please respond to: Search Committee, Orlando Monthly Book-Quaker aplrltual claaalca, history, biography, and ciples and have an appreciation for John Woolman and his Meeting, 316 E. Marks Street, Orlando, FL 32803. current Quaker experience, published by Friends United influence. Contact: Joseph Lippincott, 1375 Hainesport Press, 101 -A Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, IN 47374. Write Road, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054. Rentals and Retreats for free catalogue. Winthrop Center Frlenda, Winthrop, Maine, seeking pastor. Winthrop Center Friends Meeting looking for a Ft. Myers, Florlcla-adu~ park mobile home rental with op­ pastor for a small community of 6,000 near Augusta, Maine. tion to buy. Two-bdr., fl. rm., central air/heat, furnished. For Sale Send resume to Marie Perkins, Clerk, P.O. Box 246, East $600/mo., three month minimum. Wilmer and Emily Certified Organic Vermont-grown farm products. Storable Winthrop, ME 04343. Cooper, 1015 Hidden Valley Dr., Richmond, IN 47374; (317) 962-8725. crops, herbs, canned goods. Write: NEKO, AA1 , Box 608, Legislative Secretary (lobbyist) for Friends Committee on Hardwick, VT 05843. National Legislation (FCNL), Washington, D.C. A senior Hawell-laland of Kaual. Cozy housekeeping cottages. Leather Altematlva. Quality selection of leather-free staff person to do legislative, educational, research, and Peace, palms, privacy. $7512 nightly. 147 Royal Drive, wallets, bags, belts, shoes, and other accessories. Men's writing work on priority issues as determined by the FCNL Kapaa, HI 96746. (808) 822·2321 . and women's styles. Avoid using animal skins. Free General Committee. Requires a commitment to and ex­ catalog. Aesop Unlimited, Dept. 903, Box 315, Cambridge, perience with the legislative process as well as a commit· Retirement Uvlng MA 02140. ment to the testimonies and practices of the Religious Society of Friends. Starts: early 1992. Application closing Efficiency apartment now available at The Hickman, date: December 1, 1991 . For further information and ap­ Friends Boarding Home of Concord Quarterly Meeting, in eron.: lnfetvlewa with EJd« Quaker plication material, contact David Boynton, FCNL~ 245 Se­ West Chester, Pa. Includes housekeeping and midday main WOOMn: V.H.S. video by Claire Simon, cond Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20002·5795; (202) meal. Reasonable rates. Call Director John Schwab at (215) $18.50 postpaid. Also, the trilogy 547-6000; fax (202) 547-6019. 696-1536 or write: The Hickman, 400 North Walnut Street, Woman and Her Symbols, $135/set, Director. Well-established Vermont residential therapeutic West Chester, PA 19380. $50/each part. Postpaid. P.O. Box 292, community, set on 600 acres, of approximately 30 adults Foxdale VIllage, part of the tradition of fine Quaker lifecare Maplewood, NJ 07040. with emotional or mental illness, seeks director, to lead car- communities. Thoughtfully designed cottages are comple-

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1991 41 mented by attractive dining facilities, auditorium, library and TUCSON-Pima Friends Meeting (unprogrammed), tO full medical protection. Setting is a wonderful combination a.m. 931 N. 5th Ave. Information: 884-5155 or 327-8973. of rural and university environment. For information write: 500 Marylyn Avenue, Department F, State College, PA Meetings 16801 . Telephone: (BOO) 253-4951. Arkansas A partial listing LITTLE ROCK-Unprogrammed meeting, First-day school Schools and adult discussion at 9:45 a.m., worship at 11 a.m. at of Friends meetings Quapaw Quarter Methodist Church, 1601 S. Louisiana. The Meeting School celebrates the transition from youth In the United States Phone (501 ) 224-5267. to adulthood by encouraging students to make decisions in their own lives in a Friends (Quaker) boarding high school and abroad. in southern New Hampshire. We emphasize experiential MEETING NOTICE RATES: $12 per line per year. Callfomla education, striving for innovative and challenging aca­ Payable a year in advance. No discount. ARCATA-11 a.m. 1920 Zehndner. (707) 677-D46t . demics while working with consensus and equality regard­ Changes: $8 each. less of age. Teenagers live on campus in faculty homes. BERKELEY-Unprogrammed meeting. Worship tt a.m., The school is based on simplicity, honesty, the peaceful 2151 Vine St. at Walnut. 843-9725. resolution of conflict, the dignity of physical labor, mutual BERKELEY-Strawberry Creek, 1600 Sacramento. P.O. trust and respect, and care for the earth. Admissions: The CANADA Box 5065. Unprogrammed worship t O a.m. Meeting School, Rindge, NH 03461 . (603) 899-3366. EDMONTON- Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. First Day. CHICO-tO a.m. singing, 10:30 a.m. meeting for worship, A value-centered school for learning disabled elementary For location and other information, contact David Millar classes for children. 345-3429 or 342-t74t. students. Small, remedial classes; qualified staff serving (403) 988-9335. CLAREMONT-Worship 9:30 a.m. Classes for children. Philadelphia and northern suburbs. The Quaker School at HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA-469-8985 or 4n-3690. 727 W. Harrison Ave., Claremont. Horsham, 318 Meeting House Road, Horsham, PA 19044. OTTAWA-Worship and First-day schoolt0:30 a.m. 9Vz DAVIS-Meeting for worship, First Days, 9:45 a.m. 345 L. (215) 674-2875. Fourth Ave. (613) 232-9923. St. Visitors call 753-5924. TORONTO, ONTARIO-Worship and First-day schooltt GRASS VALLEY-Singing 9:30a.m., meeting for worship a.m. 60 Lowther Ave. (North from cor. Bloor and Bedford). 9:45 a.m., discussion/sharing tt a.m. John Woolman Services Offered School campus, 12585 Jones Bar Road. Phone 273-6485. COSTA RICA HEMET- Meeting for worship 9:30a.m., 43480 Cedar Ave. Visitors call (7t 4) 927-7678 or 658-2261 . TypeMttlng by Friends Publishing Corporation. MONTEVERDE-Phone 6t -o9-56 or 61-26-56. Our organization offers you professional typesetting at LA JOLLA-Meeting tO a.m. 7380 Eads Ave. Visitors call SAN JOSE-Unprogrammed meeting, 11 a.m. Sunday. friendly rates. We typeset books, manuscripts, newslet­ 459-9800 or 456-t020. Phone 24-43-76 or 3~1-68 . ters, brochures, posters, ads, and every issue of Friends LONG BEACH-tO a.m. Orizaba at Spaulding. 434-t004. Journal. We also produce quality type via modem FRANCE LOS ANGELES-Meeting tt a.m. 4t67 S. Normandie. transmission. Call (215) 241-7282, or 241-7116 for more Visitors call 296-0733. information. PARis-Worship Sundays 11 a.m. Centre Quaker, 114, rue de Vaugirard. MARIN COUNTY-tO a.m. tn East Blithedale Ave., Mill Valley, CA. Phone: (415) 382-1226. Investments you can feel good about! Investment cer­ GERMANY MONTEREY PENINSULA-Friends meeting for worship, tificates 1 Sundays, 9:30 a.m. Call (408) 899-2200 or 375-0134. currently earning 7 h% interest are available from HEIDELBERG-Unprogrammed meeting tt :30 a.m. Sun­ Friends Extension Corporation. These investments promote days Hauptstrasse 133 (Junior year). Phone 06223-1386. OJAI-Unprogrammed worship. First-days 9 a.m. Call the growth of Friends by providing funds to build new 646-4497 or 646-3200. meetinghouses and related facilities. We also help with GUATEMALA ORANGE COUNTY-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Harbor needed renovations to existing buildings. We are Friends GUATEMALA-First and third Sunday. 367922 evenings. Area Adult Day Care Center, 661 Hamilton St.. Costa Mesa, helping Friencjs growl Affiliated with Friends United CA 92627. (7t4) 786-7691. Meeting. For information, contact: Katheryn Williams, Ad­ MEXICO PALO ALTO-Meeting for worship and First-day classes ministrator, Friends Extension Corporation, tOt Quaker Hill for children t1 a.m. 957 Colorado. Drive, Richmond, IN 47374-1980. (317) 962-7573. MEXICO CITY -Unprogrammed meeting, Sundays, 11 PASADENA-Orange Grove Monthly Meeting, 520 E. Holistic Mauage Aaaoclatea: therapeutic massage in our a.m. Casa de los Amlgos, Ignacio Mariscal 132, 06030, Mexico t , D.F. 705-0521. Orange Grove Blvd. First-day school 10 a.m., meeting for Media, Pa., home-office. Most health insurances accepted. worship 11 a.m. Phone: 792-6223. Call Joanne or Cliff: (215) 892-D402. NICARAGUA REDLANDs-RIVERSIDE-SAN BERNARDINO-Inland Val­ Electrical Contractor. Residential and commercial installa­ ley Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed. Call (714) 682·5364 tion and repairs. (Phila., Pa. - suburbs.) Call Paul Teitman: MANAGUA-Unprogrammed Worship tO a.m. each Sun­ or 792-7766. 663-0279. day at Centro de los Amigos, APTDO 5391 Managua, Nicaragua. 66-3216 or 66-0984. SACRAMENTO-Meeting tO a.m. Stanford Settlement, Quaker Universalist Fellowahlp is a fellowship of seekers 450 W. El Camino near Northgate. Phone: (916) 452-9317. wishing to enrich and expand Friends' perspectives. We SWITZERLAND SAN DIEGO-Unprogrammed worship, First Days, 10:30 meet, publish, and correspond to share thoughts, insights, a.m. 4848 Seminole Dr. (619) 465-3520. GENEVA-Meeting for worship and First-day school t0:30 and information. We seek to follow the promptings of the a.m., midweek meeting 12:30 p.m. Wednesdays. 13 av. SAN FERNANDO VALLEY-Unprogrammed worship, First Spirit. Inquiries welcome! Write QUF, Box 201 RO 1, Mervelet, Quaker House, Petit-Saconnex. Days, 9:30 a.m. to 11 :30 a.m.; 15056 Bledsoe, Sylmar. Landenberg, PA 19350. 360-7635. Wedding Certlflcatee, birth testimonials, invitations, an­ UNITED STATES SAN FRANCISCO-Meeting for worship, First Days, 11 nouncements, addressing, poetry, gifts all done in beautiful a.m. 2160 Lake St. Phone: 752-7440. calligraphy and watercolor illumination. Book early for Alabama SAN JOSE-Worship and First-day school tO a.m., spring weddings. Write or call Leslie Mitchell, 2840 Bristol BIRMINGHAM-Unprogrammed meeting. 10 a.m. Sun­ discussion 11 :30 a.m. 1041 Morse St. (408) 251-0408. Rd., Bensalem, PA 19020, (215) 752-5554. days. Creative Montessori School, 1650 28th Court South, SAN LUIS OBISPO-Meeting for worship 9:30 a.m. Homewood. (205) 933-7906 or 933-2630. Sunday. Ca~Poly University Christian Center, 1468 Foothill FAIRHOPE- Unprogrammed meeting 9 a.m. Sundays at Blvd., San Luis Obispo, CA. (805) 543-0995. Socially Reeponalble Investing Friends Meetinghouse, 1.2 mi. east on Fairhope Ave. Ext. SANTA BARBARA-Marymount School (above the Using client-specified social criteria, I screen in­ Write: P.O. Box 319, Fairhope, AL 36533. vestments. I use a financial planning approach to port­ Mission), 10 a.m. Children's program and child care. P.O. Box 40120, Santa Barbara, CA 93140-Dt20. Phone: folio management by identifying individual objectives and HUNTSVILLE AREA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and First-day school, tO a.m. Meeting in various homes. 965-5302. designing an investment strategy. I work with individuals Call (205) 837-6327 for information. and business. Call: Sacha Millstone; Ferris, Baker Watts; SANTA CRUZ-Monthly Meeting 10:00 a.m., Louden Nelson Community Center, Paul Niebanck, Clerk, (408) member NYSE, SIPC. (202) 429-3632 in Washington, Alaska 425-7114. D.C. area, or (800) 227-0308. ANCHORAGE-Unprogrammed. Call for time & directions. SANTA MONICA-First-day school and meeting at t 0 a.m. (907) 248-6888 or 345-1379. 1440 Harvard St. Phone: 828-4069. General Contractor. Repairs or alterations on old or FAIRBANKs-Unprogrammed, First Day, tO a.m. Hidden SANTA ROSA-Redwood Forest Meeting. Worship 10 historical buildings. Storm and fire damage restored. John Hill Friends Center, 2682 Gold Hill Rd. Phone: 479-3796. a.m. Phone: (707) 542-1571 for location. File, 1147 Bloomdale Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19115. (215) WESTWOOD (Weet Loa Angelee)-Meeting 10:30 a.m.; 464-2207. JUNEAU-Unprogrammed. First Day 9 a.m. 592 Seatter Street. Phone (907) 586-4409 for information. University Religious Conference, 900 Hilgard (across from Moving to North Carolina? Maybe David Brown, a Quaker SE corner UCLA campus). Phone: (213) 208-2113. real estate broker, can help. Contact him at 1208 Pinewood Arizona WHITTIER-Whitleaf Monthly Meeting, Administration Or., Greensboro, NC 27410. (919) 294-2095. FLAGSTAFF-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day Building, corner Painter and Philadelphia. Worship 9:30 Family Relatione Committee's CounMIIng Service schooltt a.m. 402 S. Beaver, 86001 . a.m. P.O. Box 122. Phone: 698-7538. (PYM) provides confidential professional counseling to in­ McNEAL-Cochise Friends Meeting at Friends Southwest YUCCA VALLEY-Worship 2 p.m. Church of Religious dividuals, couples in most geographic areas of Philadelphia Center, 71h miles south of Elfrida. Worship 11 a.m. Phone: Science, 7434 Bannock Trail, Yucca Valley. (619) 365-1135. Yearly Meeting. All counselors are Quakers. All Friends, (602) 642-3894 or (602) 642-3547. regular attenders, and employees of Friends organizations PHOENIX-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. 1702 E. are eligible. Sliding fees. Further information or brochure­ Glendale, Phoenix, 85020. 943-5831 or 955-1878. Colorado contact Arlene Kelly, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA TEMPE-Unprogrammed, First Days, tO a.m., child care BOULDER-Meeting and First-day school t O a.m. Phone: 19102. (215) 988-Dt40. provided. 318 East 15th Street, 85281. Phone: 968-3966. 449·4060 or 494-2982.

42 October 1991 FRIENDS JouRNAL COLORADO SPRINGS-Meeting Sunday at tO a.m. at 19 Florida Illinois N. Tejon, basement level, Colorado Springs, CO. Tel: (719) CLEARWATER-Worship 10 a.m. St. Paul's School, Oct­ BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL-Unprogrammed. Call {309) 685-5548, shared answering machine. Address: Colorado May (homes June-Sept.) Co-Clerks: Paul and Priscilla 454-1328 for time and location. Springs Friends Meeting, P.O. Box 2514, Colorado Springs, Blanshard. 8333 Seminole Blvd 11439, Seminole, FL 34642. CHICAGO-AFSC, Thursdays, 12:15 p.m. 427-2533. co 80901 -2514. (813) 397-8707. CHICAG0-57th St., 5615 Woodlawn. Worship 10:30 a.m. COKEDALE-Worship and religious studies, 10 a.m. to 12 DAYTONA BEACH-Sunday 10:30 a.m. in homes. Please Monthly meeting follows on third Sunday. Phone: 288-3066. noon. Every First Day. 3 Elm Street. Clerk: Bill Durland call (904) 677-6094 or 672-6885 tor information. CHICAGO-Chicago Monthly Meeting, 10749 S. Artesian. (719) 846-7480. FT. LAUDERDALE-Worship group. (407) 495-9642 or Worship 11 a.m. Phones: 445-8949 or 233-2715. {305) 523-6169. . DENVER-Mountain View Friends Meeting, 2280 South CHICAGO-Northside {unprogrammed). Worship 10:30 Columbine St. Worship and adu~ religious education 9 a.m. FT. MYERS-Worship 12 noon. Contact (813) 481-4239 or a.m. For location call (312) 929-4245. Worship and First-day school, 10:30 a.m. Worship at 12100 455-8924 {Naples). DECATUR-Worship 10 a.m. Mildred Protzman, clerk. W. Alameda, Lakewood 10 a.m. Phone: 777-3799. GAINESVILLE-Meeting and First-day school 11 a.m. 1921 Phone 422-9116 or 864-3592 for meeting location. DURANGO-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m., First-day N.W. 2nd Ave. 462-3201. DEKALB-Meeting 10:30 a.m. Please call for location. school and adult discussion 11 a.m. Call for location. JACKSONVILLE-Sunday 10:30 a.m. {904) 768-3648. {815) 895-5379, {815) 758-1985. 247-4550 or 884-9434. LAKE WALES-Worship group, {813) 676-2199. DOWNERS GROVE-(West Suburban Chicago) Worship ESTES PARK- Friends/Unitarian Fellowship. Unpro­ LAKE WORTH- Palm Beach Meeting, 823 North A St. and First-day school 10:30 a.m. 5710 Lomond Ave. (3 blocks west of Belmont, 1 block south of Maple). Phone: grammed worship 10 a.m. Phone: 586·2686. 10:30 a.m. Phone: {407) 585-8060. 968-3861 or 852-5812. MELBOURNE-10:30 a.m. FIT campus (Oct.-May). (407) FORT COLLINS-Meeting for worship and First-day school EVANSTON-Worship 10 a.m. 1010 Greenleaf, 864-8511. 10 a.m. 493-9278. 676-5077 or 777-1221. Summers call. MIAMI-CORAL GABLES-Meeting 10 a.m. 1185 Sunset GALESBURG-Peoria-Galesburg Meeting. 10 a.m. in Dr., 681-7374. Clerk: Doris Emerson, 1551 Slavatierra homes. (309) 343-7097 for location. Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33134. (305) 661-3868. LAKE FOREST-Worship 10:30 a.m. at meetinghouse. Connecticut ORLANDO-Meeting and First-day school10 a.m. 316 E. West Old Elm and Ridge Ads. Mail: Box 95, Lake Forest, HARTFORD-Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m., Marks St., Orlando, 32603. (407) 425-5125. 60045. Phone: {708) 234-841 o. discussion 11 a.m. 144 South Quaker Lane, West Hartford. ST. PETERSBURG-Meeting, First Day School, and Teen McHENRY COUNTY-Worship 10 a.m. (815) 385-8512. Phone: 232-3631 . Group 10:30 a.m. 130 19th Ave. S.E., Phone: (813) McNABB-Clear Creek Meeting. Unprogrammed worship MIDDLETOWN-Worship 10 a.m. Center for Humanities, 896-0310. 11 a.m., First-day school 10 a.m. Meetinghouse 2 miles 10 Pearl St. Phone: 347-0866. SARASOTA-Worship 11 a.m., discussion 10 a.m. south, 1 mile east of McNabb. Phone: (815) 882-221 4. NEW HAVEN-Meeting and First-day school, Sundays, Women's Resource Center, 340 South Tuttle Ave. Clerk: OAK PARK-Worship 10 a.m., First-day school {children 9:45a.m. At Connecticut Hall on the Old Campus of Yale Ann Stillman, 355-8193 or 359-2207. and adults) 11 a.m., Hephizbah House, 946 North Blvd. University. Clerk: Bonnie Mueller, 25 Tuttle Ave., Hamden, STUART - Worship group. {407) 286-3052 or 335-0281. Phone: 386-5150. CT 06518, (203) 228-0579. May through October (407) 287-0545. PARK FOREST- Thorn Creek Meeting. 10:30 a.m. NEW LONDON-Meeting for worship and First-day school TALLAHASSEE- Worship Sunday 4 p.m. United Church, Sunday. (708) 748-0184. 10 a.m., discussion 11 a.m. Friends Meeting House, 1834 Mahan Dr. (US 90 E). Unprogrammed. Potluck first QUINCY-Friends Hill Meeting. Unprogrammed worship 10 Oswegatchie Rd., oH the Niantic River Rd., Waterford, Sunday. (904) 878-3620. a.m. 223-3902 or 222-6704 tor location. Conn. 536-7245 or 889-1924. TAMPA- Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m.; ROCKFORD-Meeting for worship, First-days, 10:30 a.m., NEW MILFORD-Housatonic Meeting. Ate. 7 at Lanesville Hillsborough Developmental Center, 14219 Bruce B. Friends House, 326 N. Avon. {815) 962-7373, 963-7448, or Rd. Worship 10 a.m. Phone: (203) 746-6329. Downs Blvd. Phone contacts: 238-8879 & 977-4022. 964-0716. POMFRET- 1st and 3rd First-days of each month. 10:30 WINTER PARK-Meeting 10 a.m. Alumni House, Rollins SPRINGFIELD-Meeting in Friends' homes, unpro­ a.m. 928-6356 or 928-5050 for more information. College. Phone: (407) 894-8998. grammed 10 a.m. Eve Fischberg and Steven Staley, Route STAMFORD-GREENWICH-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. #1, Box 83, Loami, IL 62661 . {217) 624-4961 . 572 Roxbury Rd. (corner of Westover), Stamford. (203) URBANA-CHAMPAIGN- Meeting for worship 11 a.m. 714 637-4601 or 869-0445. W. Green St., Urbana. Phone: {217) 328-5853or 344-5348. STORRS-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Corner North Georgia Eagleville and Hunting Lodge Ads. Phone: 429-4459. AMERICUS- Plains Worship Gr. 11 a.m. Fran Warren, WILTON-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. 317 New Koinonia, At. 2, Americus 31709. Phone Fran (912) Indiana Canaan Rd., Ate. 106. (203) 762-5669. 924-1224, or Gene 824-3281 . BLOOMINGTON-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Moores WOODBURY-Litchfield Hills Meeting (formerly Water­ ATHENS-Worship 10 to 11 a.m. Sunday, 11 to 12 Pike at Smith Rd. town). Woodbury Community House, Mountain Rd. at Main discussion Methodist Student Center at U. of GA campus, EVANSVILLE- Worship 11 a.m. Sundays at Patchwork St. Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. Phone: 263-3627. 1196 S. Lumpkin St. , Athens, GA 30605. (404) 548-9394 Central, 100 Washington Ave. or {404) 353-2856. FORT WAYNE- Maple Grove Meeting, unprogrammed ATLANTA-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. 701 W. worship. Phone Julia Dunn, (219) 489-9342, for time and Delaware Howard Ave., Decatur, GA 30030. Perry Treadwell, {404) place. 377-2474. HOPEWELL- Unprogrammed worship 9:30 a.m., CAMDEN-Worship 11 a.m., First-day school10 a.m. 2 mi. AUGUSTA-Worship 10:30 a.m. at Meetinghouse. 340 S. of Dover. 122 Camden-Wyo Ave. (Ate. 10). 284-4745, discussion 10:30 a.m. 20 mi. W. Richmond; between 1-70, Telfair St. (404) 738-8036 or 863-7684. US 40; 1-70 exit Wilbur Wright Rd. , 1V• mi. S., 1 mi. W. 697-7725. CARROLLTON -Worship First and Third Sundays. 114 478-4218. CENTRE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. .1 mile east of Oak Ave., Carrollton, GA 30117. Contact Marylu (404) Centreville on the Centre Meeting Rd. at Adams Dam Rd. INDIANAPOLIS-North Meadow Circle of Friends, 1710 832-3637. N. Talbott. Unprogrammed, worship 10 a.m. Children HOCKESSIN- First-day school 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m. NORTHSIDE-Friends Worship Group: 10 a.m., 2nd and welcome. 926-7657. N.W. from Hockessin-Yorklyn Rd. at first crossroad. 4th First-days at Little White House in the country 30 miles PLAINFIELD-Unprogrammed worship 8:30 a.m., meeting NEWARK-First-day school9:30 a.m., worship 10:30 a.m. north of Atlanta. Call (404) 889-9969 or (404) 993-4593. for study and discussion 9:30 a.m., programmed meeting Newark Center for Creative Learning, 401 Phillips Ave. ST. SIMONS- Weekly meeting for worship in homes 11 for worship 10:40 a.m. 105 S. East St. at the corner of U.S. (302) 368-7505. a.m. Call (912) 638-9346 or 1200. 40 and East St. David Hadley, clerk; Keith Kirk, pastoral ODESSA-Worship, first Sundays, 11 a.m. STATESBORO-Worship at11 a.m. with child care. (912) minister. (317) 839-9840. WILMINGTON- Worship 9:1 5a.m., First-day school10:30 764-6036 or 764-581 0. Visitors welcome. RICHMOND-Clear Creek Meeting, Stout Memorial a.m. Alapocas, Friends School. Meetinghouse, Earlham College. Unprogrammed worship WILMINGTON-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. 4th 9:15a.m. Clerk: Hugh Barbour {317) 962-9221. & West Sts. Phones: 652-4491, 328-7763. SOUTH BEND-Worship 10:30 a.m. {219) 232-5729, Hawaii 256-0635. HONOLULU-Sundays, 9:45a.m. hymn singing; 10 a.m. VALPARAISO-Duneland Friends Meeting. Singing 10:15 District of Columbia worship and First-day school. 2426 Oahu Ave. Overnight a.m., unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m. First United inquiries welcomed. Phone: 988-2714. Methodist Church, Wesley Hall, 103 N. Franklin St., 46383. WASHINGTON-Friends Meeting, 2111 Florida Ave. NW Information: (219) 462-4107 or 462-9997. (north of Dupont Circle Metro, near Conn. Ave.). 483-3310. MAUl-Friends Worship Group. Contact: John Dart (808) 878-2190, 107-D Kamnui Place, Kula, HI 96790; or {808) WEST LAFAYETTE- Unprogrammed worship at10 a.m. Unprogrammed meetings for worship are held on First Day at 176 E. Stadium Ave., West Lafayette. at: 572-9205 (Witarellis). FLORIDA AVE. MEETINGHOUSE-Worship at9 a.m. and '11 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Wed. Discussion at 9:30 a.m. on First Days. First-day school at 11 :20 a.m. Iowa ' Interpreter for the hearing impaired at 11 a.m. Idaho AMES-Worship 10 a.m. Ames Meetinghouse, 427 Hawthorne Ave. Information: {515) 292-1459, 292-2081. QUAKER HOUSE-2121 Decatur, adjacent BOISE-Unprogrammed worship 9 a.m. Sundays. Contact meetinghouse. Worship at 10 a.m. Ann Dusseau, 345-2049; or Curtis Pullin, 336-4620. DES MOINES-Meeting for worship 10 a.m., classes 11 :30 SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL-3825 Wisconsin Ave. a.m. Meetinghouse, 4211 Grand Ave. Phone: 274-4851 . NW, in the Arts Center. Worship at 11 :00 a.m. MOSCOW- Moscow-Pullman Meeting, Campus Christian Center, 822 Elm St., Moscow. Unprogrammed worship 11 IOWA CITY-Unprogrammed meeting tor worship 10 a.m. TACOMA PARK-Worship group, worship third First-day 311 N. Linn St. Call351-2234 or Selma Conner, 338-2914. in members' homes. Contact Nancy Alexander (301) a.m. Sunday. Childcare. {509) 334-4343. 891 -2084. SANDPOINT-U nprogrammed worship group at Gardenia WEST BRANCH-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m., WILLIAM PENN HOUSE-515 E. Capitol St. Worship at Center, 4 p.m. Sundays. Various homes in summer. Call discussion 9:45a.m. except 2nd Sunday. 317 N. 6th St. 11 a.m., 543-5560. Elizabeth Willey 263-4290. Call (319) 643-5639.

FRIENDS JoURNAL October 1991 43 Kansas FREDERICK-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. 22 S. Minnesota Market St., Frederick. 293-1151 . LAWRENCE-Oread Friends Meeting, 1146 Oregon. DULUTH-Duluth-Superior Meeting. Unprogrammed Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. 749-1316, 843-4895. SALISBURY-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. First-day worship and First-day school at 9:30 a.m. Sundays, 1730 MANHATTAN-Unprogrammed. Baptist Campus Center, school and adult class 10 a.m. Carey Ave. at Glen. (301) E. Superior St. Elaine Melquist, clerk: 722-1287. 1801 Anderson, Manhattan, KS 66502. School year: 10 543-4343, or 28!1-6893. MINNEAPOLIS-Minneapolis Friends Meeting, 3125 W. a.m. silence, 11 a.m. discussion. June/July: members' SANDY SPRING-Worship 9:30 and 11 a.m., first Sundays 44th St., Mpls., MN 55410. Unprogrammed worship, 8:30 homes, 9:30 a.m. 539-2636, 539-2046. 9:30 only. Classes 10:30 am. Meetinghouse Rd. at Ate. 108. a.m.; First-day school and Forum, 10 a.m.; Semi­ TOPEKA- Unprogrammed worship 4 p.m. followed by SOUTHERN MARYLAND-Patuxent Preparative Meeting. programmed worship 11 :15 a.m. Summer worship schedule discussion. Phone: (913) 233-1698, 233-5455, or 273-6791. Worship 10 a.m. Call Ann Trentman 884-4048 or Peter is 9:00 and 10:30. (612) 926-6159. WICHITA-Heartland Meeting. unprogrammed worship Rabenold 586-1199. NORTHFIELD-SOGN-CANNON FALLS TWP.-Cannon 1:30 p.m., discussion following. St. Paul's United Methodist UNION BRIDGE-Pipe Creek Meeting. Worship 11 a.m. Valley Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. Church, 13th and Topeka. 262-1143 or 682-8735. Margaret Stambaugh, clerk, (301) 271-2789. Child care. (507) 663-7969. WICHITA-University Friends Meeting. 1840 University. ROCHESTER-Unprogrammed meeting. Call (507) Sunday school 9:30a.m., Meeting for worship 10:45 a.m. 282-4565 or 282-3310. Gene Maynard and Shelli Kadel, pastors. Phone: (316) Massachusetts ST. CLOUD-Unprogrammed meeting 3:00p.m. followed 262-0471 . ACTON-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. Harvey by second hour discussion. 1114 S.E. 9th Ave. Wheeler Community Center, corner Main and Church Sts. , ST. PAUL- Twin Cities Friends Meeting, 1725 Grand Ave., Kentucky West Concord (during summer in homes). Clerk: Jane St. Paul. Unprogrammed worship, 10:30 a.m., Weyer­ BEREA-Meeting Sunday 9 a.m. Berea College: (606) Westover, (508) 369-2465. hauser Chapel, Macalester College two blocks east. Call 986-1745. AMESBURY-Worship 10 a.m.; 120 Friend St. Call (612) 699-6995. LEXINGTON-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. (Summer-9 948-2265 or 388-3293. STILLWATER-St. Croix Valley Friends. Unprogrammed a.m.) Sundays. Box 186, Lexington, KY 40584. Phone: AMHERST·NORTHAMPTON-GREENFIELD-Worship worship at 10 a.m. Phone (612) 777-1698, n7-5651. (606) 223-4176. and First-day school10 a.m. Mt. Toby Meetinghouse, Ate. LOUISVILLE-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. 3050 Bon 63, Leverett. 548-9188; if no answer 584-2788 or 549-4845. Missouri Air Ave., 40205. Phone: 452-6812. BOSTON-Worship 10:30 a.m. First Day. Beacon Hill COLUMBIA-Meeting for worship and First-day school Friends House, 6 Chestnut St., Boston, 02108. Phone: 10:30 a.m., First-day school9:30 a.m. Presbyterian Student Louisiana 227-911 8. Center, 100 Hill St., Columbia, MO 65201 . Phone: (314) 442-8328. BATON ROUGE-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 3 CAMBRIDGE-Meetings, Sundays, 9:30 and 11 a.m. p.m. 333 E. Chimes St. Clerk: Marshall Vidrine, (504) During July and Aug., Sundays, 10 a.m. 5 Longfellow Pk. KANSAS CITY-Penn Valley Meeting, 4405 Gillham Rd. 629-5362. (near Harvard Sq., off Braille St.). Phone: 876-6883. 10 a.m. Call (816) 931-5256. NEW ORLEANS-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, DEERFIELD-GREENFIELD-Worship group Wednesday ROLLA-Preparative meeting 10:30 a.m. On Soest Rd. Sundays 10 a.m. 7102 Ferret St. (504) 885-1223 or 6:00 p.m. at Woolman Hill Conference Center, Keels Road, opposite Rolla Jr. High School. Phone: (314) 341-2464 or 861-8022. Deerfield, MA 01342. (413) n4-3431. All are welcome. 265-3725. FRAMINGHAM-Worship 10 a.m. First-day school. 841 ST. LOUIS-Meeting 10:30 a.m. 2539 Rockford Ave., Rock Maine Edmands Rd. (2 mi. W of Nobscot). Visitors welcome. Hill. Phone: 962-3061 . Phone: 877-0481. BAR HARBOR-Acadia. Unprogrammed meeting for SPRINGFIELD-Worship, First-day school 3 p.m. each worship 6 p.m. (7 p.m. June, July, Aug.). 288-3888 or GREAT BARRINGTON-south Berkshire Meeting, Blodgett First Day at Unity Church, 2214 E. Seminole St. Contact 288-4941 . House, Simon's Rock College, Alford Rd. Unprogrammed Louis Cox, (417) 882-3963. 10:30 a.m. Phone: (413) 528-1847 or (413) 243-1575. BELFAST AREA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, First-day school 9 a.m. Phone: (207) 336-2325. MARTHA'S VINEYARD-Visitors Welcome! Worship 10:30 Montana a.m. Location varies, call 693-0512 or 693-0040. BRUNSWICK-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. 333 Maine BILLINGS-Unprogrammed worship, 10:30 a.m., Meeting St. 833·5016 or 725-8216. NANTUCKET-Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m., June for Learning 11 :15 a.m. Child care. 2032 Central Avenue 15-Sept. 15., Fair Street Meeting House. After Sept. 15, or call (406) 656-2163 or (406) 252-5065. EAST VASSALBORO-Unprogrammed meeting for wor­ 15 Maria Mitchell Library, Vestal Street, 228-1690, ship 10 a.m. (9 a.m. summer). Child care. Friends meeting­ HELENA- Call (406) 449-6663 or (406) 449-4732. 228-0136, 228-1002. house, China Road, Gerald Robbins, clerk. (207) 923-3088. MISSOULA-Unprogrammed 10 a.m. Sundays. 432 E. NEW BEDFORD-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 EGGEMOGGIN REACH-First-day Worship 10 a.m. Pine. (406) 728-8643. a.m. 83 Spring St. Steven Correia, clerk. (508) 999-3798. Sargentville chapel, Rt. 175, 359-4417. NORTH EASTON-Worship 10:30 a.m. First Days, Queset Nebraska MID-COAST AREA-Unprog~ammed meeting for worship House, 51 Main St., North Easton. (508) 238-2997. 10 a.m. at former Computer Barn, Biscay Road, LINCOLN- Discussion 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m. 3319 S. Damariscotta, First-day provided, 563-3464 or 563-1701 . NORTH SHORE-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. 46th. Phone: 488-4178. Glen Urquhart School, Beverly Farms, Mass. Clerk: Bruce OMAHA- Discussion 10:30 a.m. , worship 11 ; Univ. Relig. ORONO-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 a.m. Nevin, 281 -5683. Orono Community Center. 989-1366. Ctr., 101 N. Happy Hollow. 453-7918, 289-4156. SANDWICH-East Sandwich Meeting House, Quaker PORTLAND- Unprogrammed worship, First-day school, Meeting House Rd. just north of Ate. 6A. Meeting for Nevada 10:30 a.m. 1845 Forest Ave. (Ate. 302). Call (207) 797-4720. worship Sunday 11 a.m. (508) 747.0761 . WATERBORO-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school RENO-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m. Youth Center SOUTH YARMOUTH ·CAPE COD-Unprogrammed wor­ next to YMCA, 1300 Foster Drive. 747-4623. 9 a.m. Conant Chapel, Alfred. (207) 324-4134, 625-8034. ship 10 a.m. 58 N. Main St. 362-6633. WHITING- Cobscook Friends Meeting. Meeting for WELLESLEY-Meeting for worship and Sunday school worship, First Days, 10:00 a.m. Walter Plaut, clerk. (207) New Hampshire 10:30 a.m. at 26 Benvenue St. Phone: 237.0268. 733-2191 . CONCORD-Worship 10 a.m. Children welcomed and WEST FALMOUTH-CAPE COD-Meeting for worship, cared for. Merrimack Valley Day Care Center, 19 N. Fruit Maryland Sunday, 11 a.m. Ate. 28A. St. Phone: 783-4743. WESTPORT- Meeting, Sundays. 10:45 a.m. Central ADELPHI-Worship 8:30 and 10 a.m. Sunday. Sunday DOVER-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m., sharing at Village. Clerk: Frances Kirkaldy, 636-4711 . school 10:20 a.m. (10 a.m. fourth Sun), Adult 2nd Hour noon. 141 Central Ave. Clerk: Chip Neal, (603) 742-0263, 11 :30 a.m. 1sV3rd/5th Sun. Nursery, 2303 Metzerott, near WORCESTER-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 11 or write P.O. Box 243, Dover, NH 03820. U. of Md. (301) 445·1114. a.m. 901 Pleasant St. Phone: 754-3887. GONIC- Programmed Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays. ANNAPOLIS- Worship 11 a.m. Ed. Bldg., First Baptist 10:30 a.m. Maple St. Clerk: Evelyn Lang. Phone (603) Church of Eastport, 208 Chesapeake Ave. Box 3142, 895-9877. Annapolis, MD 21403. Call Jean Christianson, clerk, Michigan HANOVER- Worship and First-day school, Sundays, 10 544-1912. ALMA·MT. PLEASANT-Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m. a.m. Friends Meetinghouse, 43 Lebanon St. (next to BALTIMORE- Stony Run: worship 11 a.m. except1 0 a.m. Discussion 9 a.m. First-day school. Clerk: Don Nagler, (517) Hanover H.S.). Clerk: Erica Brinton. July and August. 5116 N. Charles St. 435-3n3. Hom&­ 772-2941. PETERBOROUGH-46 Concord St. Worship and First-day wood: worship and First-day school 11 a.m. 3107 N. ANN ARBOR- Meeting 10 a.m., adult discussion 11 :30 school, 10:30, Sept.-June. Call for summer hours and Charles St. 235-4438. a.m. Meetinghouse, 1420 Hill St. (313) 761-7435, 761-50n. discussion times. (603) 924-6150, 673-4821. BALTIMORE/SPARKS-Gunpowder Meeting. Worship Clerk: Walt Scheider, (313) 663-3846. WEST EPPING-Unprogrammed. 10 a.m. on 1st and 3rd every First-day, 11 a.m. Call for directions. Phone: (301) BIRMINGHAM- Meeting 10:30 a.m. Brookside School First-days. Friend St. directly off Rt. 27. Clerk: Fritz Bell 472-4791 or 343-0258. Library. NE comer Lone Pine & Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills. (603) 895-2437. BETHESDA-Classes and worship 11 a.m. (year round) Clerk: Margaret Kanost (313) 3n-8811 . Sidwell Friends Lower School, Edgemoor Lane and Beverly DETROIT-Firs t-day meeting 10:30 a.m. Call341-9404, or New Jersey Rd. 986-8681 . write 4011 Norfolk, Detroit, Ml 48221 , for information. ATLANTIC CITY AREA-Worship 11 a.m., 437A, S. Pitney CHESTERTOWN-Chester River Meeting, 124 Philoso­ EAST LANSING-Worship and First-day school, Sunday, Rd. Near Absecon. Clerk: Robert L. Barnett: (609) phers Terrace. Worship 11 a.m. Clerk: Joseph Whitehill, 12:30 p.m. All Saints Church Library, 800 Abbott Road. Call 965-5347. P.O. Box 1020, Chestertown, MD 21620. (301) nB-1130. 371 -1754 or 351 -3094. BARNEGAT- Meeting for worship 11 a.m. Left side of East DARLINGTON-Deer Creek Meeting. Worship 10:30; Clerk "GRAND RAPIDS-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. Bay Ave., traveling east from Ate. 9. Anne Gregory, 734-6854. 25 Sheldon St. SE. (616) 942-4713 or 454-7701 . BURLINGTON-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Sept.­ EASTON- Third Haven Meeting, 405 S. Washington St. KALAMAZOO-Meeting for worship and First-day school May. High St. near Broad. 10 a.m. Kenneth Carroll, clerk, (301) 820-8347, 820-7952. 10 a.m., discussion and child care 11 a.m. Friends CAMDEN-NeW1on Friends Meeting. Worship First Day FALLSTON- Little Falls Meeting, Old Fallston Rd. Worship Meetinghouse, 508 Denner. Phone: 349-1754. 10:30 a.m. Cooper & 8th Sts. (by Haddon Ave.). 10:30 a.m. Clerk, Hunter C. Sutherland, phone (301) KEWEENAW- Unprogrammed worship, First-day school. Information: (609) 984-9649. 877-1635. Rt. 1, Box 114a, Atlantic Mine, 49905. (906) 296-0560. CAPE MAY- Beach meeting mid-June through Sept. , 8:45

44 October 1991 F'IuENos JoURNAL a.m., beach north of first-aid station. (609) 624-t 165. SOCORRO-Worship group, first, third, fifth Sundays, 10 110 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn: unprogrammed worship CINNAMINSON-Westfield Friends Meeting, Ate. 130 at a.m. Call 835-0013 or 835-0277. at 11 a.m. every First Day. Phone (212) 777-8866 (Mon.­ Riverton-Moorestown Rd. Meeting for worship 11 a.m., Fri., 9-5) about First-day schools, monthly business First-day school 10 a.m. New York meetings, and other information. CROPWELL-Meeting for worship 10:45 a.m. Old Marlton ALBANY-Worship and First-day school 11 a.m. 727 OLD CHATHAM-Meeting. for worship 11 a.m. Powell Pike, one mile west of Marlton. Madison Ave. Phone: 436-8812. House, Ate. 13. Phone 794-8811 . CROSSWICKS-Meeting and First-day school 9:30 a.m. ALFRED-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. each First Day ONEONTA-Butternuts Monthly Meeting. Worship 10:30 (609) 298-4362. in The Parish House, West University St. a.m. First Sunday. (607) 432-9395. Other Sundays: Coopers­ town, 547-5450; Delhi, 829-6702; Norwich, 334-9433. DOVER-RANDOLPH-Worship and First-day school 11 AMAWALK-Worship 10:30 a.m. Quaker Church Rd., N. a.m. Randolph Friends Meeting House, Quaker Church Rd. of Ate. 202-35, Yorktown Heights. (914) 271-4074 or ORCHARD PARK-Worship and First-day school!! a.m. and Quaker Ave. between Center Grove Rd. and Millbrook 737-3775. East Quaker St. at Freeman Rd. 662-5749. Ave., Randolph. (201) 627-3987. AUBURN-Unprogrammed meeting 1 p.m. Seventh-day POPLAR RIDGE-Worship 10 a.m. (315) 364-7244. GREENWICH-6 miles west of Bridgeton. First-day school worship. By appointment only. Auburn Prison, 135 State POUGHKEEPSIE-Meeting for worship and Sunday school 10:30 a.m., meeting 11 :15 a.m. Phone (609) 451-4316. St., Auburn NY 13021 . Requests must be processed 10 a.m. 249 Hooker Ave., 12603. (914) 454-2870. HADDONFIELD-Worship 10 a.m.; First-day school through Ruth Stewart, 46 Grant Ave., Auburn NY 13021. PURCHASE-Meeting fo r worship and First-day School follows, except summer. Babysitting provided during both. Phone: (315) 253-6559. 11 a.m., Purchase Street (Rt. 120) at Lake St. Meeting Friends Ave. and Lake St. Phone: 428-6242 or 428-5779. BROOKLYN-Worship and First-day school!! a.m. (child telephone: (914) 949-0206 (answering machine). MANASQUAN- First-day school tO a.m., meeting 11:15 care provided). 110 Schermerhorn St. For information call QUAKER STREET-Wo rship 11 a.m. Ate. 7 Quaker Street, a.m. Ate. 35 at Manasquan Circle. (212) 777-8866 (Mon.-Fri. 9-5). Mailing address: Box 730, New York 12141 . Phone (518) 895-8169. MARLTON -See CROPWELL. Brooklyn, NY 11201 . ROCHESTER-Labor Day to May 31 , Meeting for Worship MEDFORD-Worship 10 a.m. First-day school10:30 a.m. BUFFALO-Worship and First-day school, 11 a.m. 72 N. 9 a.m. and It a.m. First-day school!! a.m. June 1 to Labor Union St. Meetinghouse. (609) 953-8914 for information. Parade near Science Museum. Call for summer hours. Day worship at 10 a.m. with babysitting available. 41 892-8645. Westminster Rd. , 14607, (716) 271-0900. MICKLETON-Worship 10 a.m., First-day school II a.m. (609) 848-7449 or 423-5618. BULLS HEAD RD.-Worship 10:30 a.m. Sundays. N. ROCKLAND-Meeting for worship and First-day school 11 a.m. 60 Leber Rd., Blauvelt. (914) 623-8473. MONTCLAIR-Meeting and First-day school 11 a.m. Dutchess Co. , 112 mile E. Taconic Pky. (914) 266-3223. except July and Aug. 10 a.m. Park St. and Gordonhurst CANTON-St. Lawrence Valley Friends Meeting, (315) RYE-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 9 a.m., 624 Ave. Phone: (201) 746-0940. Visitors welcome. 386-4648. Milton Road. Phone (914) 967-0539. MOORESTOWN-Meeting for worship 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., CENTRAL FINGER LAKES-Penn Van, Sundays, Sept. SARANAC LAKE-Meeting for worship and First-day except 10 a.m. second Sunday Sept., last Sunday Dec., through June, 160 Main St. rear, adult and child's study school 10:00 a.m. Phone (518) 891-0299 or 523-9270. and third Sunday June. First-day school 10 a.m. Oct. to 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m. July through Aug., worship in SARATOGA SPRINGS-Worship and First-day school!! May, Main St. (Ate. 537) and Chester Ave. (Ate.) 603. homes. Phone (315) 789-2910. a.m. Phone: (518) 399-5013. Worship also at MI. Laurel Meetinghouse, June through CHAPPAQUA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and SCARSDALE-Meeting for worship, second Sunday in Sept. 10:30 a.m., Moorestown-MI. Laurel Rd. (Ate. 603) and First-day school 10:30 a.m. Ate. 120 Quaker Rd. (914) Sept. through June, 11 a.m.; July through first Sunday in Hainesport Rd. (Ate. 674). Call (609) 235-1561. 737-9089 or 238-9202. Sept. tO a.m. First-day school, third Sunday in Sept. MOUNT HOLLY-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. High and CLINTON-Meeting, Sundays, 10:30 a.m. Kirkland Art through second Sunday in June, 11 a.m. 133 Popham Rd. Garden Sts. Visitors welcome. Center, On-the-Park. Phone: 853-2243. SCHENECTEDY-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Albany MULLICA HILL-Main St. Sept.-May FDS 9:45, meeting CORNWALL-Meeting for worship and Sunday school Street United Methodist Church, 924 Albany Street. (518) for worship 11 a.m. Meeting only, June, July and Aug., 10 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Ate. 107, off 9W, Quaker Ave. Phone: 496-4463. 374-0369. NEW BRUNSWICK-Meeting and First-day school10:30 EASTON-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school STATEN ISLAND-Meeting for worship Sundays at 11 a.m. Meeting only July and Aug., 9:30a.m. 109 Nichol Ave. 11 a.m. Ate. 40. (518) 664-6567, 692-9227, or 677-3693. a.m. Information: (718) 816-1364. (201) 846-8969. ELMIRA- 10:30 a.m. Sundays. 155 West 6th St. Phone: SYRACUSE-Worship 10:30 a.m. 821 Euclid Ave. PLAINFIELD-Meeting for worship and First-day school (607) 733-7972. 10:00 a.m. Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. 225 Watchung Ave. FREDONIA- Unprogrammed meeting 10:30 a.m. Call North Carolina at E. Third St. 757-5736. (716) 672-4427 or (716) 672-4518. ASHEVILLE-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and PRINCETON-Worship 9 and 11 a.m. First-day school!! HAMILTON-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Chapel House, First-day school tO a.m., forum and child care 11 a.m. 227 a.m. Oct.-May. Quaker Rd. near Mercer St. (609) 924-7034. Colgate University. Phone: Joel Plotkin, (315) 684-9320. Edgewood Rd. (704) 258.0074. QUAKERTOWN-Worship and First-day school10:30 a.m. HUDSON-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. first and third BREVARD-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, 11 a.m. Box 502, Quakertown, 08868. (201) 782.0053. Sundays. 343 Union St. (518) 851-7954, 966-8940, or Morgan and Oaklawn Aves. (704) 884-7000. RANCOCAS-First-day school 10 a.m., meeting for 329-0401 . CHAPEL HILL-Meeting for worship 9 a.m. and 11 :15 a.m. worship 11 a.m. ITHACA-Worship 11 a.m., Anabel Taylor Hall, Oct.-May, First-day school!! :15 a.m. Child care. During June, July RIDGEWOOD-Meeting for worship and First-day school worship 10:30 a.m., Hector Meeting House, Perry City Rd., and August, worship at 10 a.m. Clerk: Marnie Clark, (919) 11 a.m. 224 Highwood Ave. June-Sept. Phone: 273-5421 . 967-9342. SALEM-Meeting for worship 11 a.m., First-day school LONG ISLAND (QUEENS, NASSAU, SUFFOLK CHARLOTTE-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and 9:45a.m. July and Aug. worship 10 a.m. East Broadway. COUNTIES)-Unprogrammed meetings for worship, 11 First-day school tO a.m., forum and child care 11 a.m. 2327 SEAVILLE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. (July/Aug. 10 a.m. First-days, unless otherwise noted. Remount Rd. (704) 399-8465 or 537-5808. a.m.) Main Shore Rd., Ate. 9, Seaville. (609) 624-1165. CELO-Meeting 10:45 a.m., near Burnsville, off Rt. 80S, SHREWSBURY-Meeting for worship and First-day school EASTERN LONG ISLAND (3 worship groups) . 455 Hannah Branch Rd., (704) 675-4456. 10:30 a.m. Ate. 35 and Sycamore. Phone: (201) 741-4138. Shelter lsland-10:30 a.m.; Summers, Circle at Quaker DURHAM-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school Martyrs' Monument on Sylvester Manor (inclement SOMERSET/MORRIS COUNTIES-Somerset Hills Meet­ 10 a.m. 404 Alexander Ave. Contact Alice Keighton, (919) weather: George Fox House, end of George Fox Lane). 489-6652. Ing, Community Club, E. Main St., Brookside. Worship 10 Winters: 96 Hempstead St., Sag Harbor. (516) 725-1132. a.m. Sept.-May. (908) 234-2486 or (201) 543-74n. Southampton-Administration Building, Southampton FAYETTEVILLE-Unprogrammed. Phone 485-5720. SUMMIT-Meeting for worship and First-day school!! a.m. College. (516) 287-1713. GREENSBORO-Friendship Meeting (unprogrammed) (July, Aug. , 10 a.m.). 158 Southern Blvd., Chatham Town­ Southold-2060 Leeward Drive. (516) 765-1132. 1103 New Garden Rd. Worship 10:30 a.m. Call (919) ship. Visitors welcome. FLUSHING-Discussion 10 a.m.; FDS 11 a.m. 137-16 294-2095 or 854-1644. TRENTON-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Hanover and Northern Blvd. (718) 358-9636. GREENVILLE-Unprogrammed meeting & First Day at 9 Montgomery Sts. Visitors welcome. Huntington-LLOYD HARBOR-Friends World College, a.m., 1110 Arlington Blvd. P. Mitchell, Clerk: (919) TUCKERTON-Little Egg Harbor Meeting. Left side of Ate Plover Ln. (516) 261-4924 (eves.). 355-7230. 9 traveling north. Worship 10:30 a.m. JERICHO-Old Jericho Tpke., off Ate. 25, just east of GUILFORD COLLEGE, GREENSBORO-New Garden WOODBURY-First-day school 10 a.m., meeting for intersection with Ales. 106 and 107. Friends Meeting. Meeting for worship: unprogrammed 9 worship 11:15 a.m. 140 North Broad St. Telphone (609) Locust Valley-MATINECOCK-10 a.m. all year, FDS a.m.; semi-programmed 11 a.m. First-day school9:45 a.m. Gary C. Dent, clerk; David W. Bills, pastoral minister. 801 845-5080, if no answer call 848-1990. Sept.-June. Duck Pond and Piping Rock Ads. New Garden Road, 27410. (919) 292-5487. WOODSTOWN-First-day school9:45 a.m., worship 11 a.m. MANHASSET-Adult class 10 a.m., FDS 11 a.m., RALEIGH-Unprogrammed. Worship 10 a.m. 625 Tower July and Aug., worship 10 a.m. N. Main St. Phone (609) Winter. (Worship 10 a.m. June - August). (516) 385-5142. Street. 358-3528. St. James-CONSCIENCE BAY-Friends Way, off WENTWORTH/REIDSVILLE-Open worship and child Moriches Rd. Adult discussion, FDS, and singing. (516) New Mexico 862-6213. care 10:30 a.m. Call (919) 349-5727 or (919) 427-3188. WOODLAND-Cedar Grove Meeting. Sabbath school 10 ALBUQUERQUE-Meeting, First-day school 10:30 a.m. WESTBURY-550 Post Ave., just south of Jericho Tpke. at Exit 32-N, Northern State Pkwy. (516) 333-3178. a.m., meeting for worship 11 a.m. Bill Remmes, clerk. (919) 1600 5th St. N.W. Clerk: Avis Vermilya, (505) 897-7093. 587-9981. GALLUP-Friends Worship Group, First Day 10:30 a.m. For information, call: 722-9004. MT. KISCO-Croton Valley Meeting. Meetinghouse Road, opposite Stanwood. Worship 11 a.m. Sunday (914) 666-8602. North Dakota LAS CRUCES-tO a.m. Sunday, worship, First-day school, NEW PALTZ-Worship 10:30 a.m. Plutarch Church. First­ FARGO-Unprogrammed meeting, 10:30 a.m. Sundays, 2610 S. Solano. 522-0672 or 526-4625. day school 10:15 a.m. every other Sunday, Sept.-June. 1239 12th St. N. 234-0974. SANTA FE-Meeting for Worship, Sundays 9 and 11 a.m. (914) 255-5678 or 5528. Olive Rush Studio, 630 Canyon Rd. Phone: 983-7241. Ohio NEW YORK CITY-At 15 Rutherford Place (15th Street), Chamisa Friends Preparative Meeting, at Brunn School. Manhattan; unprogrammed worship every First Day at 9:30 AKRON-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school. Worship and First-day school, 5 p.m. (505) 983-2073. a.m. and 11 a.m.; programmed worship at 10 a.m. on the 119 Augusta Ave. Zip: 44302. (216) 867-4968 (H) or SILVER CITY AREA-Gila Friends Meeting. 10 a.m. Call first First Day of every month. Earl Hall, Columbia Universi­ 253-7151 (AFSC). 388-3388, 536-9565, or 535-4137 for location. ty: unprogrammed worship every First Day at 11 a.m. At ATHENS-tO a.m. 18 N. College St. (614) 592-5789.

FRIENDS JouRNAL October 1991 45 BOWLING GREEN-Broadmead Friends Meeting FGC. BUCKINGHAM-Meeting for worship 11 a.m.-12. First-day MILLVILLE-Worship 10 a.m., First-day school 11 a.m. Unprogrammed worship groups meet at: school, beginning with worship at 11 a.m. Lahaska, Rtes. Main St. Dean Girton, (717) 458-6431 . BLUFFTON-Sally Weaver Sommer, (419) 358-5411. 202·263. (215) 794-7299. NEWTOWN (Bucks Co.)-W:lrship 11 a.m., First-day school FINDLAY-Joe Davis, clerk, (419) 422-7668 CARLISLE-First-day school (Sept.-May). Worship 10 a.m. 9:45 a.m. Summer worship only. 968-5143 or 968-2217. TOLEDO-Ailma Buckman, (419) 385-1718 163 E. Pomfret St., 249·2411 . NEWTOWN SQUARE (Del. Co.)-Meeting 10 a.m. Ate. CINCINNATI-Eastern Hills Friends Meeling (previously CHAMBERSBURG-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. (717) 252 N. of Ate. 3. (215) 566-4808. Clifton Friends Meeting), 1671 Nagel Road, Sunday 10 am. 263-5517. NORRISTOWN- Meeting for worship and First-day school 793-9242. CHELTENHAM-See Philadelphia listing. 10 a.m. on First Day at Swede and Jacoby Sts. Phone: CINCINNATI-Community Meeting (United FGC and CHESTER-Meeting for worship 11 a.m., Sunday. 24th and 279-3765. Mail: P.O. Box 823, Norristown, PA 19404. FUM), 3960 Winding Way, 45229. Worship from silence and Chestnut Sts., (215) 874-5860. OXFORD-First-day school 10 a.m., Meeting for worship First-day school 10 a.m. Quaker-house phone: (513) 11 a.m. 260 S. 3rd St. (215) 932-8572. Janet P. Eaby, clerk. CONCORD-Worship and First-day school 11:15 a.m. At 861 ·4353. Byron Branson, clerk. Concordville, on Concord Rd. one block south of Ate. 1. (717) 786-7810. CLEVELAND- Meeting for worship and First-day school PENNSBURG- Unami Monthly Meeting meets First-days DARBY-Meeting lor worship and First-day school11 a.m. 11 a.m. 10916 Magnolia Or. (216) 791-2220. at 11 a.m. Meetinghouse at 5th and Macoby Sts. Bruce Main at 10th St. COLUMBUS- Unprogrammed meeting 10:30 a.m. 1954 Grimes, clerk, 234·8424. DOLINGTON·MAKEFIELD-Worship 11-11:30 a.m. First· Indianola Ave. Call the Meetinghouse at (614) 291·2331 or PHILADELPHIA-Meetings 10:30 a.m. unless specified; day school11 :30-12.30. East of Oolington on Mt. Eyre Rd. Gerry Brevoort at (614) 268·2002. phone 241 -7221 for information about First-day schools. DOWNINGTOWN-First-day school (except summer DAYTON- Friends meeting FGC. Unprogrammed worship months) and worship 10:30 a.m. 800 E. Lancaster Ave. and First-day school10 a.m. 1516 Salem Ave., Am. 236. (south side old Ate. 30, '12 mile east of town). 269·2899. Phone: (513) 278-4015. BYBERRY-one mile east of Roosevelt Boulevard at OOYLESTOWN-Meeting for worship and First-day school Southampton Rd., 11 a.m. DELAWARE-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school, 6:30p.m., chapel room on the second floor of the 10:30 a.m. East Oakland Ave. CENTRAL PHILADELPHIA-15th and Race Sts. OWU Memorial Union Building. (614) 369·0947. DUNNINGS CREEK-First-day schooVMeeting lor worship CHELTENHAM - Jeanes Hospital grou nds, Fox GRANVILLE-Area worship group meets second and begins 10 a.m. NW Bedford at Fishertown. 623-5350. Chase, 11 :30 a.m. July and Aug. 10:30 a.m. fourth Sundays 10 a.m. For information, call Mike Fuson: ELKLANDS-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. May through CHESTNUT HILL-100 E. Mermaid Lane. (614) 587·4756. Oct. Ate. 154 between Forksville and Canton, Pa. FOURTH AND ARCH STS.-First and Fifth Days. KENT-Meeting for worship and First-day school 10:30 ERIE-Unprogrammed worship. Call (814) 861H)682. FRANKFORD-Penn and Orthodox Sts., 10:30 a.m. a.m. United Christian Ministries Chapel, 1435 East Main FALLSINGTON (Bucks County)-Falls Meeting, Main St. FRANKFORD-Unity and Wain Sts., Friday eve. 7:30 Street. Phone 673-5336. First-day school10 a.m., meeting lor worship 11 a.m. Five p.m. MANSFIELD-Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m., first and miles from Pennsbury reconstructed manor home of GERMANTOWN MEETING-Coulter St. and German­ third Sundays. (419) 7564441 or 289-8335. William Penn. town Ave. MARIETTA-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m. Betsey GLENSIDE-Unprogrammed, Christ-centered worship. GREEN STREET MEETING-45 W. School House Mills Club, 4th and Putnam Sts. Phone: (614) 373-2466. First-day 10:30 a.m., Fourth-day, 7:30p.m. 16 Huber St., Glenside (near Railroad Station) Ph. 576-1450. Lane. OBERLIN- Unprogrammed meeting, First-days: (216) 775-2368 or (216) 77 4-3292. GOSHEN-First-day school 10 a.m., worship 10:45 Goshenville, intersection of Ate. 352 and Paoli Pike. PARKERSBURG- Mid-Ohio Valley Friends. Phone (304) PHOENIXVILLE-Schuylkill Meeting. East of Phoenixville 422-5299 or (304) 428-1320. GWYNEDD-First-day school 9:45 a.m., except summer. and north of juncture of Whitehorse Rd. and Ate. 23. Worship 11:15 a.m. Sumney1own Pike and Ate. 202. Worship 10 a.m., forum 11:15. WAYNESVILLE-Friends meeting, First-day school 9:30 a.m., unprogrammed worship 10:45 a.m. 4th and Hight Sts. HARRISBURG-Worship 11 a.m., First-day school and PITTSBURGH-Meeting for worship and school 10:30 (513) 885·7276, 897·4610. adult education (Sept. to May) 9:45a.m. Sixth and Herr Sts. a.m.; 4836 Ellsworth Ave., (412) 683-2669. Phone: (717) 232·7282 or 232·1326. WILMINGTON-Campus Meeting (United FUM and FGC), PLYMOUTH MEETING-Worship, First-day school 11 :15 College Kelly Center. Unprogrammed worship 10:15 a.m. HAVERFORD-First-day school 10:30 a.m., meeting for a.m. Germantown Pike and Butler Pike. Barbara O lmsted, clerk, (513) 382-4118. worship 10:30 a.m., Fifth-day meeting for worship 10 a.m. POCON05-Ster1ing-Newfoundland. Worship group under during college year. Buck Lane, between Lancaster Pike WOOSTER-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school the care of North Branch (Wilkes-Barre) Meeting. (717) and Haverford Ad. 10:30 a.m. S.W. corner College and Pine Sts. (216) 689-2353 or 689-7552. 345-8664 or 262· 7650. HAVERTOWN-Old Haverford Meeting. East Eagle Rd. at POTTSTOWN-READING AREA-Exeter Meeting. Meet· Saint Dennis Lane, Havertown, First-day school and adult YELLOW SPRINGS-Unprogrammed worship, FGC, 11 inghouse Rd. off 562, 1 and 6/10 miles W. ol662 and 562 a.m. Rockford Meetinghouse, President St. (Antioch forum, 10 a.m., meeting lor worship 11 a.m. intersection and Yellow House. Worship 10:30 a.m. campus). Clerk, Betty Wagner, (513) 767-8021. HORSHAM-First-day school, meeting 11 a.m. Ate. 611 . QUAKERTOWN-Richland Monthly Meeting, 244 S. Main ZANESVILLE- Area worship group meets first and third HUNTINGDON-Worship 10 a.m. 1715 Mifflin St. (814) Street, First-day school and meeting lor worship 10:30 a.m. Sundays 10 a.m. For information, call Ginger Swank: (614) 643-1842 or 669-4038. RADNOR-Radnor Meeting for worship and First-day 455-3841 . INDIANA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, 10:30 school 10 a.m. Conestoga and Sproul Roads, It han, Pa. a.m., first and third Sundays. United Ministry, 828 Grant (215) 688-9205. St. (412) 349·3338. READING-First-day school10 a.m., meeting 11 a.m. 108 Oklahoma KENDAL- Worship 10:30 a.m. Ate. 1, 1 mi. N. of Long· North Six1h St. wood Gardens. SOLEBURY-Worship 10 a.m., First-day school 10:45 a.m. OKLAHOMA CITY-Friends Meetinghouse, 312 S.E. 25th. Sugan Rd., 2 miles N.W. of New Hope. 297·5054. Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 a.m. Quaker study KENNETT SQUARE-First-day school1 0 a.m., worship 11 group, midweek. (405) 632-7574, 631-4-174. a.m. Union & Sickles. Betsy McKinistry, clerk, (215) SOUTHAMPTON (Bucks Co.)-Worship and First-day 444-4449. school10 a.m., Adult forum 11 a.m. Street and Gravel Hill STILLWATER- Unprogrammed meeting for worship 11 Ads. (21 5) 364..0581. a.m. For information call (405) 372·5892 or 372-4839. LANCASTER-Meeting and First-day school10 a.m. 110 Tulane Terr. 392·2762. SPRINGFIELD- Meeting and First-day school, 11 a.m., W. TULSA- Green Country Friends Meeting (unprogrammed); Springfield and Old Sproul Ads. Del. Co. 328-2425. 4 p.m. worship, 5:15p.m. forum, 6:30p.m. potluck, each LANSDOWNE-First-day school 9:45 a.m., worship 11 First Day. Call for location (918) 743·6827. a.m. (10 a.m. July and Aug.). Lansdowne and Stewart Aves. STATE COLLEGE-First-day school and adult discussion LEHIGH VALLEY-BETHLEHEM- First-day school and 10 a.m. worship 11 a.m. 611 E. Prospect Ave. 16801 . adult discussion 9:30a.m. Meeting 10:30 a.m. On Ate. 512, SWARTHMORE-Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m., Oregon y, mile north of Ate. 22. forum 11 a.m. Whittier Place, college campus. LEWISBURG-Worship 10:30 a.m. Sundays. Vaughan Lit. UPPER DUBLIN-Worship and First-day school 11 a.m. ASHLAND- Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Sunday. 1150 Bldg. Library, Bucknell University. Clerk: (717) 524-0191 . Ft. Washington Ave. and Meetinghouse Ad., near Ambler. Ashland St. (503) 482·4335. LONOON GROVE-Friends meeting Sunday 10 a.m., child VALLEY- First-day school and forum 10 a.m. (except CORVALLIS-Meeting for worship 9:30 a.m. 3311 N.W. care/First-day school 11 a.m. Newark Rd. and Ate. 926. summer), Worship 11 :15 (summer, 10). Monthly meeting Polk Ave. Phone: 752-3569. MARSHALLT ON-Bradford Meeting (unprogrammed), during forum time 2nd Sunday of each month. West of King EUGENE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. Sunday. 2274 Onyx Ate. 162, 4 mi. west of West Chester. 11 a.m. 696-6538. of Prussia on old Ate. 202 and Old Eagle School Rd. St. Phone: 343-3840. MEDIA-Worship 11 a.m. (10 a.m. July- Aug.) Joint First· WEST CHESTER-First-day school 10:30 a.m., worship FLORENCE-Central Coast Meeting lor worship 11 a.m., day school 9:30 a.m. at Media, Sept.-Jan., and at 10:45. 425 N. Hight St. Carolyn Helmuth, 696-0491. Second and Fourth Sundays. (503) 997-4237 or 997-7024. Providence, Feb.-June., 125 w. Third St. WEST GROVE- Meeting for worship 10 a.m. 153 E. PORTLAND-Multnomah Monthly Meeting, 4312 S.E. MEDIA (Providence Meetlng)-Worship 11 a.m., except Harmony Road. P.O. Box 7. Stark. Worship 10 a.m. Phone: 232-2822. at 10 a.m. on the first Sunday of the month. Worship at 11 WESTTOWN-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday. SALEM- Meeting for worship 10 a.m., Forum 11 a.m. a.m. every Sunday in July and Aug. Joint First-day school Westtown School campus. Westtown, PA 19395. 9:30 a.m. at Providence MM Feb.-June; at Media MM YWCA, 768 State St., 39!H908. Call for summer schedule. WILKES-BARRE- North B ranch Monthly Meeting, Sept....Jan. Providence Rd. (Ate. 252) near 4th St. Wyoming Seminary Lower School, 1560 Wyoming Ave., MERION- Meeting for worship 11 a.m., First-day school Forty Fort. Sunday school10 a.m., worship 11 a.m., except Pennsylvania 10:15 except summer months. Babysitting provided. summer and vacations. Phone: (717) 675·2438 or 474-6984. Meetinghouse Lane at Montgomery. WILLISTOWN-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. ABINGTON-First-day school (summer-outdoor meeting) MIDDLETOWN-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. First-day 9:45a.m., worship 11 :15 a.m. Child care. Meetinghouse Goshen and Warren Ads., Newtown Square, A.D. 1. school 10:30·11 :30 a.m. Adult education 10:30-11 a.m. WRIGHTSTOWN-Ate. 413. Gathering 9:30a.m. Meeting Rd./Greenwood Ave., Jenkintown. (E. of York Rd., N. of Delaware County, Ate. 352 N. of Lima. 358-3212. Philadelphia.) 884-2865. for Worship 10 a.m. First-day school, children 10:15 a.m., MIDDLETOWN- First-day school 9:30 a.m., meeting for adults 11 a.m. BIRMINGHAM- First-day school and worship 10:15 a.m. worship 11 a.m. Seventh and eighth months worship 10-11 YARDLEY- Meeting for worship 10 a.m. First-day school 1245 Birmingham Ad. S. of West Chester on Ate. 202 to a.m. At Langhorne, 453 W. Maple Ave. Ate. 926, turn W. to Birmingham Ad., turn S. V• mile. follows meeting during winter months. North Main St.

46 October / 99/ FRIENDS JouRNAL YORK-Worship. 11 a.m. 135 W. Philadelphia St. (717) Utah Wisconsin 854-8109. LOGAN-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school. BELOIT-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. Sundays, 811 Sundays, 10:30 a.m. 220 N. 100 E. Call 563-3345, or Clary St. Phone: (608) 365-5858. Rhode Island 752-2702. EAU CLAIRE/MENOMONIE-Meeting for worship and First­ SALT LAKE CITY -Unprogrammed meeting and First-day day school, Sunday, 10:30 a.m. 1718 10th St., Menomonie, PROVIDENCE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. each First school10 a.m. Friends Meeting House, 161 E. Sacond Ave. Day. 99 Morris Ave., corner of Olney St. 54751 . Call 235-5892 or 832-{)094. Phone (801) 359-1506, or 582-{)719. GREEN BAY/APPLETON- Meeting for worship and First­ SAYLESVILLE-Worship 10:30 a.m. each First Day. day school Lincoln-Great Rd. (Ate. 126) at River Rd. 11 a.m. Contact Jill Hardy, clerk, (41 4) 337-{)904. MADISON-Meeting House, 1704 Roberts Ct., (608) WESTERLY-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school Vermont 10:30 a.m. 57 Elm St. (203) 599-1264. 256-2249. Unprogrammed worship Sunday at 9:00 & 11:00 BENNINGTON- Worship, Sundays, 10 a.m. Old First a.m., Wednesday at 7:00a.m., 12:00 noon, 5:15 & 8:30p.m. WOONSOCKET-Smithfield Friends Meeting, 108 Church barn on Monument Circle at the obelisk. (802) Children's Classes at 11 :00 a.m. Sunday. Smijhfield Road, (Ate 146-A). Unprogrammed worship 9:30; 447-7980 or (802) 442-4859. · pastoral worship 11 a.m. (401) 762-5726. MILWAUKEE-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. 3224 N. BURLINGTON-Worship 11 a.m. Sunday. 173 North Gordon Pl. Phone (414) 332·9846 or 263-2111 . Prospect St. Phone: (802) 864-7364, or (802) 863-3014. South Carolina MIDDLEBURY-Worship 10 a.m. at ParenVChild Center. Wyoming 11 Monroe Street. Middlebury. (802) 388-7684. JACKSON-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school; CHARLESTON-Worship 9:45a.m. Sundays. The Chris­ MONADNOCK-The Meeting School, Rindge. Summer, tian Family Y, 21 George St. (803) 556-7031 . Information phone: (307) 733-5680 or (307) 733-9438. 9:30. Clerk: (603) 673-4821 or 924·6150. LARAMIE-Unprogrammed worship 9 a.m. Sundays. UCM COLUMBIA-worship 10 a.m. Presbyterian Student Center, PLAINFIELD-Each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Call Hathaway, House, 1115 Grand. Call 742·5969. 1702 Greene St., 29201 . Phone: (803) 256-7073. (802) 223-6480 or Gilson, (802) 684-2261 . HOARY-Worship Sundays, 10:30 a.m. (unprogrammed), PUTNEY-Worship, Sunday, 10:00 a.m. Ate. 5, north of Grace Gifford, inland, (803) 365-6654. village, Putney. WILDERNESS-Sunday meeting for worship at 10 a.m. in South Dakota Wallingford. Rotary Building, N. Main St. Phone Kate Brinton, (802) 228-8942, or Leo Gadwallader, (802) 446-2565. SIOUX FALLS-Unprogrammed meeting 11 a.m. 2311 S. Center Ave., 57105. Phone: (605) 338-5744. VIrginia MOVING? Please let us know 8 weeks Tennessee ALEXANDRIA-Worship every First Day 11 a.m., unpro­ grammed worship and First-day school. Woodlawn Meeting in advance. Send us your CHATTANOOGA-Worship 10 a.m., discussion 11 :30 a.m. House, 8 miles S. of Alexandria, near US 1. Call (703) 335 Crestway Drive. Co-clerks: Becky Ingle, (615) 765-6404 or 455-{)194. address label if possible. 629-5914; Judy Merchant, (615) 825-6048. CHARLOTTESVILLE- Discussion 10 a.m., Worship 8:45 Otherwise, be sure to include CROSSVILLE-Worship 9:30a.m., then discussion. (615) and 11 a.m. (childcare available) except summer, Worship 484-6059 or 2n-5003. only 8:45 and 10 a.m. 1104 Forest St. Phone: (804) your name and old zip code FARRAGUT - Worship group. St. Elizabeth's Episcopal 971-8859. as well as your new address. Church. 690-5491 . FARMVILLE-Worship 10 a.m., discussion 11 a.m. JOHNSON CITY- Tri-cities, 11 a.m. Sunday; Clerk, Betsy 223-4160. Friends Journal, 1501 Cherry St. Hurst. Home: (615) 743-6975. Work: (615) 743-5281. HARRISONBURG-Unprogrammed worship, 5 p.m. Phila. PA 19102 (215) 241-7277 Catholic-Episcopal Center, 734 West Locust St. Sundays, Ate. 33 West. (703) 433-8574 or 885·7973. MEMPHIS-Unprogrammed meeting, child care 11 a.m. LEXINGTON-Maury River Meeting, First-day school and Special Studies Bldg. N. Pkwy at University, Rhodes unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. Discussion 11 a.m. Phone College. (901) 323-3196. (703) 463-9422. NASHVILLE-Meeting and First-day school10 a.m. 2804 LINCOLN-Goose Creek United Meeting for worship and Acklen Ave. , (615) 269·0225. Penny Wright, clerk. First-day school 10 a.m. WEST KNOXVILLE-Worship and First-day school1 0 a.m. McLEAN-Langley Hill Meeting. June. old Ate. 123 and D.W. Newton, 693-8540. Ate. 193. 10 a.m. First-day school, adult forum 11 a.m. NORFOLK-Worship and First-day school at 10 a.m. Texas Phone (804) 627·6317 or (804) 489-4965 for information. RICHMOND-Worship 11 a.m., children's First-day school ALPINE-Meeting for worship, Sunday, 10:30-11 :30 a.m. 11:20 a.m. 4500 Kensington Ave. 358-6185. SUBSCRIBE! on the home of George and Martha Floro. Call (915) 837-2930 for information. RICHMOND-Midlothian Meeting. Worship 11 a.m., Please enter a subscription to Friends children's First-day school11 :15 a.m. (804) 379-8506. AUSTIN-Forum 10 a.m., unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. Journal, payment for which Is enclosed. Supervised activities and First-day school for young ROANOKE-Blacksburg/Roanoke Monthly Meeting; Roa­ 0 One year $18 0 Two years $34 Friends. 3014 Washington Square. Paul Stucky, clerk. noke section, Genevieve Waring, 343-6769, and Blacksburg section, Sandra Harold, 382-1842. (Add S6 per year for postage outside North Amerka.) CORPUS CHRISTI-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. Call Charles Arguell, (512) 991-2505. VIRGINIA BEACH-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. (based on silence). 1537 Laskin Rad., Virginia Beach, VA 23451. 0 Enroll me as a Friends Journal DALLAS-Sunday 10 a.m. 5828 Worth St. Clerk, Ward Elmendorf, 826-2071; or call 821 -6543. WILLIAMSBURG-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 4 Associate. My contribution of $ ___ p.m. Sundays, First-day school 5 p.m. 1333 Jamestown is in addition to the subscription price EL PASO-Meeting at 10 a.m. Sunday. 2821 Idalia, El Road, (804) 229-6693. Paso, TX 79930. Please use the back door. Phone: (915) and Is tax-deductible. 534-8203. Please leave a message. WINCHESTER-Hopewell Meeting. 7 mi. N. on Ate. 11 (Clearbrook). Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10:15 My Name ______FORT WORTH-Unprogrammed meeting at Wesley a.m., First-day school11 a.m. Clerk: (703) 667-1018. Foundation, 2750 West Lowden, 11 a.m. Discussion follows worship. (817) 428-9941 . Address GALVESTON-Meeting for worship, First-day 10 a.m.; Washington 1501 Post Office Street. (409) 762-1785. BELLEVUE-Eastside Friends. 4160 158th Ave. SE. Wor· HILL COUNTRY-Unprogrammed worship 10:40 a.m., dis­ ship 10 a.m., study 11 a.m. (206) 747-4722 or 58Hi449. cussion 10 a.m. Kerrville, TX. Clerk: Sue Rosier (512) 698-2592. OLYMPIA-Worship 10 a.m. YWCA, 220 E. Union, except first Sunday each month in homes. 943-3818 or 357-3855. HOUSTON-Live Oak Meeting, 1003 Alexander. Meeting Address: P.O. Box 334, Olympia, WA 98507. 0 This Is a gift subscription In my name for: for worship 11 a.m. year round. Discussion 9:30a.m. except summer. Phone: clerk, Dee Rogers: (713) 358-3711 or PULLMAN-See Moscow, Idaho. Meetinghouse: (713) 862·6685 for details. SEATTLE-University Friends Meeting 4001 9th Ave. NE. Name LUBBOCK-Unprogrammed worship, Sunday morning Quiet worship First Days 9:30 & 11 a.m., Weds. 7 p.m. 10:45-11 :45 a.m. United Campus Ministries Building, 2412 547-6449. Accommodations: 632-9839. Address 13th St. (806) 745-8921 . SPOKANE-Unprogrammed worship. 747-7275 or 534-{)793. MIDLAND-Worship 5 p.m. Sundays. Clerk, Mike Gray, TACOMA-Tacoma Friends Meeting, 3019 N. 21st St. (915) 699-5512. Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m., First-day discussion 11 a.m. RIO GRANDE VALLEY-Winter worship group Sunday Phone: 759-1910. afternoons. For place call Laurie Rodriguez 381-4163 or WALLA WALLA-10 a.m. Sundays. 522-{)399. Carol Brown 686-4855. Send renewal notice SAN ANTONIO-Discussion 10:00 a.m., unprogrammed 0 to me. 0 to recipient. worship 11 a.m. at Methodist Student Center, 102 Belknap, West VIrginia San Antonio, TX 78212. Third First Days, 9:30a.m. Meeting MORGANTOWN-Monongalia Friends Meeting. Every Friends Journal, 1501 Cherry Street, for Business with potluck at rise of worship; Lori Ratcliff. Sunday 11 a.m. Phone: Lurline Squire (304) 599-3109. clerk, 13647 High Chapel, San Antonio, TX 78231 . (512) PARKERSBURG-Unprogrammed worship, first and third Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 493-1054. First Days at 10:30 a.m. Phone (304) 422-5299.

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"No man can look on God and live, live in his own faults, live in the shadow of the least self-deceit, live in harm toward His least creatures, whether man or bird or beast or creeping thing." Thomas Kelly, A Testament ofDevotion

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