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By Sharlie Conroy Ushioda Sther B!Ddle Rhoads, ·The Daughter of Edward G . I I I · · ' .. Ncwember1,1980 Q~aker F. Rl EN. .D. ·s Thought · . · · · ~ and - . OU.· ·RNA. · L TodayLife . November 1, 1980 COntents Vol. 26, No. 16 FRIENDS JOURNAL F,Wifds. Jount~~l (USPS 210-620) wu cacabllshed in l9SS a me s~r to TM FMIIII (1827-19SS) and F,Wnds lnt~llit~ll«<' (1844-19SS). It is usociated with ~ ReliaiouJ Bonzai. ............ .. .. ... .. ...... : . .. 2 Society of Friends. ' • -Wilma Gurney STAFF Rutb Kilpack and Susan Corson-Finnerty, Editors Esther B. Rhoads, 1896-1979 .. ... .. .. ....... 3 Susan Corson-Finnerty, Business Maf~Q~er - Sharlie. 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Bonzai Generations ago Nourished with lore Experienced hands A timeless revelation Packed soil and moss Conceives a pattern Around infant roots Destined for posterity. While perceiving growth Hands that chose·infant roots ,,. In future symmetry. And molded fibers as they grew Tender restraints disciplined No longer live and yet survive' Youthful branches Within textured gnarled limbs. Growing toward maturity. Life endures with everlastil)g grace Environment was created In the bonzai essence of eternity. From earth's hoard of layered rocks And stream polished pebbles. -Wilma Gurney · --~---------, --------------------~--------------------------~ 2 FRIENDS JOURNAL.. November 1, 1980 EstherR Rhoads 1896-1979 Esther Rhoads in the rubble of firebombed Tokyo (about 1947), as lunches are being cooked for Friends Girls School. by Sharlie Conroy Ushioda sther B!ddle Rhoads, ·the daughter of Edward G. among her first strong impressions, the fact that the girls and Margaret Paxon Rhoads, was born on bowed so much, that they all had ''big pompadours which E November 26, 1896, t he second daughter ·in a took them nearly an hour to fix each morning and family of four children. She grew up attending Coulter · iQterfered with all lively exercises" and that they "liked Street Meeting and Germantown Friends School and indoor games." Her assignment was to teach cooking, gFaduated frQtn" Westtown School in 1914. After her sewing, Bible, and English and share responsibilities in graduation from Westtown she -entered the Drexel the school's dormitory. Institute of Technology, from which she received a degree After her initial teaching appointment at the Friends in home economics. Then in l917 she received her first Girls Schoo.l, Esther returned to the · United States to appointment from the Women's Foreign Missionary further her education. She received a B.A. from Earlham Association (WFMA) of Friends in Philadelphia to teach College in 1921 and then returned to Japan to resume her at the Friends Girls School in Tokyo, Japan. teaching at the school. This time she intensified her own · Esther's interest in Japan dated back to her early study of the Japanese language and developed a / childhood when she had. heard her grandfather Rhoads remarkable fluency which enabled her to become tell of his impressions of Japan from his visit in 1892. Her increasingly involved in the life and development of both mother was active in the WFMA, and Esther had often the· s.chool and Japanese Quakerism. Through this participated in projects of making work bags and in involvement she gained valuable· training and experience dressing dolls to send in Christmas boxes ~o the students which prepared her well for the subsequent national and at Friends Girls School. The school had been founded in international assignments which she filled so ably in her 1887 at the home of Joseph and Sarah A. Cosand, early later years. Friends missionaries in Japan, on the suggestion of ·the Esther's ·reports to the Mjssion Board's Monthly later famous Japanese Quaker, Iriazo Nitobe, who, when Bulletin during these early years of her teaching stressed asked by the newly organized missionary society · what the daily life of the students in the school, their interests would be the best contribution it could make to Japan, and projects. Her description of "A Day in the Friends' had answered "education for women." The school's first Girls' School Dormitory in Tokyo" written in 1926 is permanent structure had been built in 1890 and each year especially interesting and gives us a lively glimpse of the the number of faculty and students had grown slowly but daily schedule of the female students of that era. steadily. When Esther first arrived at the school in 1917, "the buildings lo~ked like the pictures I had seen and the About forty-five girls with a teacher or two make warm welcome seemed very much like home." She noted, up the dormitory family. The girls help with the Sharlie Conroy Ushioda is a part-time instructor at Saddlebrook work. One group begins the day by opening the Community College, in California. A Ph.D. candidate at ,U<::LA, she sliding doors which form the south wall 9f the luis concentrated on Asian studies and Japanese history. A member of Newtown Square (PA) Meeting, she attends ·orange County (CA) building and letting in the sunshine. Another group Meeting. · helps with the meals. There is breakfast -in the FJUE.NDS JOURNAL November 1, 1980 3 ; Above: A physical education class meeting below the new Friends Girls School buildings rebuilt after the war; Left: Looking down on the tarpaper shacks' of Gila River Relocation Camp in Arizona (capacity 15,000); Below, left to right: Orie Shimazaki, Esther Rhoads, Toki Tomiyama, and Seiju Hirakawa, jour principals ofthe Friends school, in a 1956 photo. · 4 November 1, 1980 FRIENDS JOURNAL \ common room. The girls sit on the floor and ea.t established at the school such as the annual Ensoku from red lacquer tables. A busy group helps clear up (outing), Arbor Days, and Christmas meetings, which the dishes, qnother group wipes th~ hall floors and Esther thoroughly enjoyed. She was also pleased with the still another brushes up the grounds around the increased aQ,ility of the students to direct the activities of buik!ing. Special piano and organ pupils begin the Self-Government Association, and she was very 1 practicing before breakfast, taking turns until the proud when everyone was able to work together to make school bell rings at eight. Then there is school until special occasions, such as a visit of Princess Chichibu of about three with a lunch eaten hastily 'at noon in the Imperial Family, a success. Convinced of the value of order (hat most of the noon hour may be spent ·at the school in contributing to the ,spiritual and intellectual tennis or ball with the day girls. Between school and life of Ja'panese women, Esther spent much energy in supper there is an exercise hour and more free time raising funds for building expansion, and also in pointing after supper. If it be Fifth-day the collection bell out the need for intervisitation among Japanese and U.S. rings at 6:30 and the girls go to the parlor. of the Friends. American teachers' home where .Bible reading is But clouds wer:e on the horizon. By 1938 U.S. mission supplemented by hymns and victrola music. Then workers in Japan were becoming increasingly aware of there is study hour and bed. the fact that they were "guests from a country of the If it be Sixth-day there is a special stir and expec­ opposing alliance,'' and when Esther returned home to tation about supper for the group of girls who have Philadelphia for her usual furlough in 1940 (she had alsQ been helping in the kitchen finish their term of had a furlough in 1936-37), an unpleasant surprise service and they have planned and prepared a Special awaited her.
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