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WHAT IS A BLESSING?· ANATOMY OF A LEADING BLESSED ARE THEY WHO SHOUT An Among Friends Independent magazine serving the Seeds of Life Religious Society of uring the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, many of us think ofspecial Friends ways we may involve ourselves in service to the community- volunteering to D work, perhaps, in a local soup kitchen or raising funds to support a valuable Editorial project here or abroad. A letter we received this month from Costa Rica suggests one Vinton Deming(Editor-Manager), Kenneth Surron way many of us might feel led to respond. (Awciau Editor}, Claudia Wair (Amstant Editor}, Aaronjavsicas (Intern), Judith Brown Friend Mary Stuckey Newswanger wrote to describe how Monteverde Meeting (Pomy Editor) and children at the Friends School there came under the weight of a particular Production concern and decided to do something about it. One of the meeting's older members, Barbara Benton (Art Director}, Alia Podolsky Mary said, had been to Bosnia. "She returned with the sense that although their (ProductionAJSistant}, John D. Gummere (Special Projects} suffering and need is so great, what they are most afflicted by were the countless land Circulation and Advertising mines littering their country." In discussing how the meeting could respond to this Nagendran Gulendran (Marketing andA dvertising need, one member, Benigno Sanchez-Eppler, asked a question that was vivid and Manager), Nicole Hackel (CirculationAmstant} haunting: "If land mines are seeds, what kind ofseeds are we planting?" The answer Administration seemed dear: monstrous seeds of death and destruction ... not life. Marianne De Lange (AdministratitK Secretary}, Lucinda Hudson (Bookuper), Henry Freeman Monteverde Friends decided to make a contribution to an agency working (!Hvelopmmt Consultant}, Pamela Nelson internationally against land mines and to consider other ways action might be taken. (!RvelopmmtAssistant}, Roben Sutton (Volunuer) The third and fourth graders at Monteverde Friends School decided to write a letter, Board of Managers which they mailed to other children and schools. In part, the letter reads as follows: Irwin Abrams (Clerk), Lucinda Antrim, Paul Buckley, Susan Carnahan, Sue Carnell "We are a Quaker school and the students in our class are a combination of Costa (Treasurer}, Elizabeth Cazden, HelenFields, Rican, German, and American children. We are proud that Costa Rica has banned Deborah Fisch, Ingrid Holcomb, Robert Kunkel, land mines and does not have a military. We are a country that lives in peace. Mary Mangclsdorf, Rachel Mcssenger,Judy Monroe, Caroline Balderston Parry(&cording Clerk), However, we feel very close to the threat of land mines because they are present on Ruth Peterson, Lisa ~s Raymer, Margery Rubin, the Costa Rica/Nicaragua border. They were planted there during the Sandinistal David Runkel, Larry C. Spears, Larry D. 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6 Blessed Are They Who Shout ... For They Are Kingdom Believers Jodi Weisz Children are our guides to the Kingchm of God 8 Peace through Play Elizabeth Stutz Toys that promote violence must be countered by encouraging creativity. 1D What Is a Blessing? Yvonne Boeger A blessing may be many things, but above aU, it needs to be communicated. Departments ll. Anatomy of a Leading: How Way Is Opening Connie McPeak 2 Among Friends A leading may arise from unexpected and subtle openings. 4 Forum 13 On the Role of Ministers C hristopher Densmore 18 FCNL Notes While many meetings no longer have recorded ministers, the ministry 22 Reports continues. 25 News of Friends 15 Who Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize? 27 Bulletin Board Irwin Abrams As a Nobel Laureate, the American Friends Service Committee is 28 Books entitled to make an annual nomination. 29 Milestones 31 Classified 34 Meetings

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12 Setting Out Edward A Dougheny 17 Three Peacemakers Mike Heller Front cover art by Irving Amen

FRIENDS jOURNAL December 1997 3 Forum Chronologically gifted Friends; the dichotomy is false, and the using the words "Mafia," ~ traditional Quaker view is that both ideas go "crippled," "circulating," At age 81, I feel mighty lucky to be hand in hand. and "gay." If we're trying to blessed with a loving wife, good health, a Quaker pacifism is based not only on the make everyone happy, should friendly neighborhood, and a monthly teachings of Jesus, but on his life-the we stop singing "Amazing Grace?" It is meeting often providing a gathered meeting. supreme moment being his crucifixion. insensitive to the "visually impaired," after The frequency with which I have gratitude There, all the evil and hostility of the world all. for my good luck, jubilation about the confronted the infmite divine love, and love I know some of these forms of experience of peace that passeth . won. When Jesus said, "Father, forgive fellowship and education and worship seem understanding, and absence of desire to them," the victory was assured. That image destructive to some of us. I don't doubt manipulate the lives of others, differs of the cross inspires me more than any anyone's sincerity. But I'd like to ask us to significantly from what were my patterns at other image to tty to live a loving life and to keep trying hard to understand the age 18. persevere despite my abundant failures. meaning and the purpose behind each Many deteriorations, such as the growth The Old and New Testaments still have other's words, not just the form. I'd like to ofa cataract or the growing deafness of my much value in helping us live in the Light. see us avoid over-sensitivity the way we right ear, are so gradual that my visits to I also recognize the value and authenticity avoid insensitivity. doctors bring me surprises. Having learned of many non-Christian scriptures. My life And I'd like to join Ruth Ringenbach to accept an abundance of past failures, I can and thought have been influenced by many and Ruth Winifred Dahlke in thanking enjoy projects today because they reflect in other faiths (e.g., Gandhi, Martin Buber, FRIENDS JOURNAL for bringing us fresh, what I deem important for humanity, AJ. Hesche!, the Dalai Lama); I would uncensored an and worship. without worrying about what might be the describe them as reflecting the mind of Lincoln Sheets small probability ofsuccess during my Christ better than most of us Christians! Springfield, Mo. lifetime. I am not unduly distressed that However,' I believe from my experience some dangerous types of violence are that the cross of Christ is indeed the central IfJohn Calvi's choice of words is to be increasing nearby. point in history (as did Wtlliam Penn), and criticized as insensitive, offensive, and In seeking to lovingly accept whatever it is reflected in various ways in our own simply injurious, then what of William comes my way, I have a tranquility that can lives as we tty to recognize that of God in Rosenbaum's suggestion that John Calvi's cope with the external turmoil. My message every person, the Christ within. story, the story of many gay and lesbian to the 90 percent of humanity born after people, ought not to be told in FRIENDS 1916 is that you can look forward to the joys Edward Beals JouRNAL? Cenainly William Rosenbaum ofsenior citizenship if, instead of singing Unity, Maine must know that his statements, "This is not . about "God is Love," you are joyfully a view that should be fostered by the singing to yourself about your "loving j OURNAL," and "not the types of statements acceptance" ofeverything during the past TrueLove belonging in the j OURNAL," could be year. Each individual has the choice about The letters of criticism (Forurn, Oct.) interpreted as meaning that the JouRNAL whether to resent, regret, repress, etc., or to about John Calvi's article (FJ July) are so ought not to publish views that he finds lovingly accept those 12 months. Although distressing. John Calvi has been traveling in objectionable. the choice is always yours, making a choice the AIDS ministry. H e has gone to many I could agree with his letter if it stopped ~at is ~ti sfYing becomes easier with meetings teaching people how to treat their after the second paragraph in which he cites mcreasmg age. loved ones with AIDS by setting an example the words "Mafia avenger," "ugly, dumb, john R Ewbank of true faith. He puts his own hands on poor, crippled" as offensive; however, when Southampton, Pa. these modern day lepers, administering in the following three paragraphs he objects massage, kindness, compassion, and to multiple sexual relationships and the An integrated package godliness. The pettiness of fussing over the term "gay swimming hole," I have to fact that during the sexual revolution period wonder whether his objections are really I was somewhat disturbed by T. Noel he was sexually active is so beside the point. just a smoke screen for his true feelings. If Stern's article on William Penn as a "liberal It is who he is now, what he has learned, and not, then his choice of words are more than universalist" (F]Sept.), because it partitions how he has developed over time that is the troublesome and have certainly interfered Penn's theology and understanding into issue. Did he not even say this in his article? with any positive message he may have separate components-"fundamentalism" He did. The fact that he used street talk in wished to communicate. vs. "liberal universalism"-and suggests we his writing merely set the tone ofworking What William Rosenbaum advocates­ should build on the latter. I would argue with the neediest among us. Can not people silence on this issue-is deadly. That is not that Penn's Christ-centeredness (which is see truth lying behind these superficial hyperbole. I have a scar on my wrist as a not at all fundamentalist in the usual sense) disguises? He lives as the Samaritan. reminder of the time I thought I was the and his universalism are a whole, an only person on earth who had such integrated package, and we cannot Patricia Quigg "morally wrong, ill advised, and understand one without the other. Indeed, Pawcatuck, Conn. disrespectful" feelings cowards other men. early Friends, who were strongly Christ­ Yes, I am still here, but thousands of other centered, also knew that the Spirit of Christ Leave it to us Quakers to make everything gay youth, or even questioning youth, who was available to everyone; it could not be politically incorrect. First we stopped playing never heard or read that they are part of restricted to a five-letter word. There are the Underground Railroad game, then we God's creation, are not here. So ifl, as a gay frequent references in Fj regarding the stopped singing "The Lord of the Dance," man, speak with a passion or an anger that division of christocentric and universalist and now we're censuring John Calvi for seems exaggerated, it is only because I feel 4 December 1997FRIENDS]OURNAL compelled to speak for those who can no time and love into the way that hymn was Devoted leadership longer speak for themselves. written and was to be sung, and no one but the author should have the authority to Richard D. Broughton's fine appraisal as WiOiam F. Wilson change the words. If the author wanted to a participant for more than 25 years in San Francisco, Calif. say "God," then the hymn should be sung NGO conferences as a Friends World with the word "God," not "Lord," "Giver," Committee for Consultation delegate Considering the words or another word. (Viewpoint, Aug.) was inspiring and his I ask Friends to think about this from the appraisal of the UN's strengths and Ken Champney's letter (F]October) point of the author of the song. I(you had weaknesses equally wise. The role of the contains a misunderstanding that needs to spent many months, or even years writing a American Friends Service Committee from be corrected. The "f-word" was not the song, how would you feel ifsomeone the earliest years at Lake Success, combining cause of"Faith of Our Fathers" being changed the words to fit their feelings? with FWCC, deserves mention, however. omitted from the new Friends hymnal. If Personally, I would be offended. The remarkable Quaker UN program not that had been the case, "Dear Lord and only includes a Quaker presence at the UN Father of Mankind" would not be in the Caroline Engeman Sandler in New York, but with British Friends at hymnal. East Norriton, Pa. Geneva, Switzerland. Quaker House on East The Music Selection Committee had 48th Street in New York City has for half a almost 1,000 hymns submitted for cenrury been working in its quiet but inclusion. We had room only for about 350. consistent way to bring warring patties to On checking my records, I found that "Faith better understanding of each other's of Our Fathers" was omitted because not positions. It was first headed by Elmore and Elizabeth Jackson, then William Huntington filled in when the Jacksons started the first shuttle between Egypt and the U.S. State Department. They by Barrett and Kay Hollister, Mildred Thiermann, Roger and and currently Stephen and The Society of Friends has by their devotion to the UN

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gratitude for a very strong of the death and dying essays. of ideas in and among our three · preceded by the lines from and your introduction, create an tribute to the power of the subject. interesting to learn what response FRIENDS send. JOURNAL Dorothy Trippel Evanston, Ill.

january FRIENDS jOURNAL will a variety of responses to our death dying anicles. -Eds. someone International background. I hope to FRJENDS jOURNAL welcomes Forum con­ When I read Ken Champney's letter, to encourage you to ask other non-Friends tributions. Please try to be brief so we use a Quaker term, I found myself saying, General Conference Friends to contribute may include as many as possible. Limit "Friend, thee speaks my mind." We use the items for the jOURNAL I think it will enhance letters to 300 words, Viewpoint to 1,000 new hymnal every First Day in our meeting, the magazine to cover a broad spectrum of words. Addresses are omitted to main­ and when we sing a hymn that has had Quaker beliefs, ideas, and personnel. tain the authors' privacy; those wishing words changed to be a new gender or such, I Currently I am working on "making to correspond directly with authors may find myself deliberately raising my voice on friends amongst Friends" as my calling from send letters to FRJENDS jOURNAL to be that particular phrase, almost in a way to the Holy Spirit and like to encourage that forwarded. Authors' names are not to be drown out the others who want to change wherever possible. used for personal or organizational so­ the words. Marie Oesting licitation. -Eds. My feeling is that someone put a lot of Ocean Park, Wash.

FRIENDS jOURNAL December 1997 5 by Jodi Weisz .H won't be long! It won't be long!" Ed Loring, a founding member of the Open Door Community in Atlanta, Georgia, shouts his audacious eschatological shout right­ smack-in-the-middle of this delicious commu­ nity's Matthean whirl. While feeding, clothing, and sheltering hungry, shoeless, homeless friends, Ed will fabulously bellow his trumpet, "It won't be long! It won't be long!" So glorious is Ed's shout that it has become mine as well as 18 first-, second-, and third-graders Professional teachers create classrooms room that I am not deeply touched by whom I teach at an afrerschool program filled with quiet, mild, obedient kids. my "at-risk" kids' tremendous acts of in Washington, D.C. Professional teachers don't encourage kids love. Some of their especially wonderful Many days Ed's shout is the only thing to shout. Professional teachers keep things displays are their beautiful, simple, hand­ my kids and I learn together. When I under control. made thank you cards-"Kingdom invi­ shout it, the kids shout it back at me. To I dream about my children in the tations" I call them. One of my favorites, outsiders all our shouting probably seems middle of the night. As Kingdom repre­ written on a piece of flaming fluorescent like the least classroom-like thing in the sentatives on Earth, they work overtime orange paper is from: world. To kids, it's the funniest. I often in the midnight ofmy psyche: like second­ hear them explaining, "But Mom, our grader Jose's story about "MeltMan," a teacher likes it when we shout!" Our shout­ superhero who eats up stray flying bullets «~OHEONE WffO K ~E~tiJL" ing sounds hilarious because the kids do for a living. This supertall, supersoft guy lft.4 w. cf 1•cfA,. not hear it for what it is: my raw, fast has started making cameos in my dreams. ~,eeeAl, confession to them, my pure apocalyptic Oh, it won't be long! In another, my apology for all the innumerable times I third-grader Laveda and I are swinging on EYEet!ONE cf ~'/)E~tiJL, will have to ignore them. a surly playground. Suddenly, her swing ~'/)E~tiJL c, EYEet!ONE, It won't be long! Soon, you will get the snaps. Laveda falls into a mound of bro­ E 'I E e Y 0 N E cf ~EeriJU attention you deserve! It won't be long! ken glass and scary trash below. For a Soon you'll be surrounded by so many moment I pause--if! pick up that trash, role models you won't need to act desper­ I'll need a pair ofgloves. Gloveless, I ignore On its inside: ate! It won't be long! Soon your commu­ the trash and help Laveda up. She's a big nity and your government will put you girl with asthma, and she's mad. "Why do first! Soon we will no longer ignore you, I have to fall into a mess when I am trying p~, H,, 1,44, no longer punish you because we have to swing?" I hear myself shout, just as I Y'14 AM YEetl YEetl ~~A(, ignored you. Soon your caregivers will no have shouted a hundred times in waking Evnyn.e ~'/)E~tiJL, longer hit you.' Soon you will no longer life, "Oh, it won't be long dear!" Ed's cf hit each other. Soon nobody will hit an­ golden horn wakes me up, and I think of ~'/)E~'IJL cf evuy~, other, with hands, with words, with Jamal. Just yesterday during snack-time t t»,.,t e. y,,., y,,. &elceve e. ~,4 threats, with bombs. No, it won't be long! he added another detail to the divine blue­ , PO " print: "Soon that school up the street will ~ttt4 ,,,, t, ,,.,~ Jodi Weisz currently lives in Bronx, New York, have pencils and a playground to go with where she works as an immigrant rights advo­ those kids." No, notlong at all .... filM c, ~'/)E~'IJL cate and a child advocate. Not a day goes by in my urban class-

6 December 1997 FRIENDS jOURNAL Tell me again who is special? Who is you do!), you may also get overwhelmed. together, letting our little lights to shine. I teaching who to believe in God? All the messiness of neglect can seem un­ hold up the lives of Aung San Suu Kyi, Children teach us. They are our royal bearable. But soon these words will come Maha Ghosananda, Eknath Easwaran, emperors of hope. They are the purest to you, "Blessed are the poor.... Blessed who my kids call "big flashlights oflove." yogis offaith our culture's got going. They are the pure at heart. . .. Blessed are they Of course they know about King and are the first to forgive, the last to be made who mourn. . .." As these words begin to Gandhi, too, but they tend to fixate on cynical. If we are, as Ruben Alves insists, comfort, you know you are experiencing the part of the story when "those guys got "Called to live by a Love that we will never their miracle of stillness, their miracle of shot." My kids know too well that murder see," it will be children who will show opening, their miracle ofpresence . As Mary is not a tragic fate reserved for rare hero­ us how. In their everyday smiles and with child Jesus went to visit Elizabeth prophets. simple, handmade thank you cards, they with child John, this is our required work: On the playground and before leaving are inviting us to the banquet of God's that we leave our house and go and be for the day, we practice growing our hearts ever-ready, gratuitous love. Children, in with our cousin children. This is where so big that even jail cells can't imprison their countless daily acts of surrender, re­ and when the mystery ofvisitation will be them. Snack-time stories are filled with veal love's way as forgiving, believing, and revealed. That promise of a shared preg­ the adventures of nonviolent heroes and irrepressible. nancy-ofa mutuality in moment-with heroines. I once thought we would par­ · At an afterschool program up the street its potential for not one but two prophetic ticipate in vigils around the city, but now from my house, forty children are being births! When you go to visit a beloved I see that shouting is the real vocation supervised by one brave woman. (Oh, it child (named John, namedJamila, named we've been called to. Around the room we won't be long!) Recently, it struck me that Jose, named Laveda) you will know Who swarm, one more community longing to these children receive less attention from is with you and why you came. be transformed. their teacher Laura than passengers on Children are miracles sent to us, not us Yes, my kids and I, we yell. W e've been airplanes do from two, three, or even four to them. As their "at-risk" adults, we have warned that this might be off-putting to available flight attendants. Laura's kids forgotten the way to the Kingdom. Chil­ potential volunteers and possible donors. play musical chairs in a dark, musty church dren, the very poor among us, remind us Shouting helps break us out ofour fearful basement complete with leaky roo£ Pushed that love is among the small and tearful cocoons ofinsecurity, frustration, and fre­ down by many low ceilings, these kids not not the big and fearful. Schools, streets, quent desires for revenge. "It won't be only seek chairs among a shrinking circle, and basements swell with beatific teachers long!" Shouting helps their teacher ward they must leap over precarious rainbuckets, oflove, always welcoming to visitors. off the temptation to want "ship-shape placed between their rapidly disappearing My kids see the Kingdom dearly. They neatness" and "dear-cut control." Shout­ opportunities. This wonderful, dedicated tell me. It won't be long! Soon, there will ing keeps us clear about our most impor­ teacher (who volunteers her time) serves be no gunshots and more flowerpots. They tant program: the nurturance of faithful alone. She, too, has had to take up the paint pictures of playgrounds surrounded eyes, hopeful hearts, and active nonvio­ holy vocation of shouting. On the day of by luscious green grass (where did they see lent muscles of love. my visit, the kids learned the following this grass?), and they assure me such play­ Come, come, my little extremi.sts, stand shout: "Don't knock over the buckets! grounds will be "EVERYWHERE!" Soon up! Yes! Shouting is exactly the right thing Don't knock over the buckets!" there will be more schools than shopping to do when everyone is starving for affec­ When I first started visiting kids in my malls. Soon everyone will know where the tion! "Well, I don't believe you want to neighborhood, I would get overwhelmed. nearest one-room schoolhouse is. It will hit her. IT WON'T BE LONG! Stop Their day-to-day environments (for learn­ be the place teeming with parents and choking her, let's practice hugging. I be­ ing, for growing, for socializing in) taste community. Yes! It won't be long until lieve your tears are stronger than your crazy. I'll never forget the time I visited a adults spend less time in cars and more threats. I'm glad you cried instead of hit­ local elementary school where many of time tutoring kids. It won't be long until ting back. Wars are all the tears that men my kids spend the first part of their day. It we act on our belief that it is more valu­ never cried. You are strong when you cry. was lunchtime, and the overstuffed mess able to love kids than all the buying and Well, no, your Daddy probably doesn't hall was en flamed by five or more sizzling selling of things we could ever do. Yes, it know this either. IT WON'T BE brawls. A tiny, fairy-like girl fended her won't be long! Eighteen kids in Washing­ LONG!" way through a roar of flaying arms and ton, D.C., have told me so. "Soon! All the Oh, it won't be long! Soon, it will all fists to seize my leg-the only adult pair children in the world will eat as much free start making sense, this spirituality of standing in the room. Gripping as the macaroni and cheese as they want!" shouting, this spirituality of finding, this mighty-little can, she had come to seek Eighteen kids are teaching one adult spirituality of shouting to be found. Yes, not only my protection but to get an the size of belief necessary to usher in the we will come to love shouting as the answer to her burning question. "Who Kingdom: it's ENORMOUS and promise-noise ofGod's coming-mending. ARE you? Why would you come here?" LOUD-like a shout! I have whispered Come, come, adults, we have put our When you go to visit children in your to them about the secret ofsoul-force. We children last and so are at-risk. ~t us go neighborhood (Yes, it won't be long until take turns practicing the art of vigil- and visit the children. 0 PEACE THROUGH PlAY by Elizabeth Stutz workers. It was taken up by the Quaker active links have developed. Council for European Affairs, one of the In 1990-91, when I wanted to under­ he aim ofPeace through Play is to first bodies to recognize the potential take a study of out-of-school activities of transform the culture of violence harm that war toys posed to children. children up to 12 years ofage in my town T into a culture of peace by provid­ QCEA started a campaign to lobby mem­ (as part of a larger project to explore the ing opportunities for children and adults bers of the European Parliament when possibilities for creative out-of-school ac­ to realize their creative potential. This con­ these matters came before them in 1982. tivities), the Peace in the Community stitutes an extension of the thinking that At about the same time a member of project of Quaker Peace and Service pro­ Play for Life developed over the 12 years Quaker Home Service responded to an vided a grant and subsequently funded ofi ts activities. It is based on the idea that anicle I had written on this issue in The the publication of my report. This led to "real play" is essentially part of creativiry Friend and passed the subject to Quaker Play for Life ideas gaining generally wider and that play and creativity spring from Peace and Service. This depanment in publiciry, and eventually to setting up a the same root, deep in human conscious­ turn gave a great deal of encouragement, World Wide Web site. ness. As creativiry is associated with life advice, and practical help in developing Since the time when this movement and living, it is also pan ofpeace. It may be initiatives that eventually led to forming started, the issues have become incompa­ helpful to appreciate the imponance of the organization Play for Life. rably more complex. The chiefdifficulties this simple philosophy if it is seen in the Play for Life was pan of the peace lie in this complexiry. The commercial context of one aspect of today' s culture of movement during the Cold War period, and social pressures on children have taken violence. and its main function developed into an on almost unmanageable proponions. Play for Life came into being in the advisory one for parents and others in­ Added to this is the confusion that reigns early 1980s, when "war toys" suddenly volved with children's play including among many adults about the part that flooded the boys' toy market. This event various campaigning groups. Interna­ the associated technology does or should heralded the beginning of what has since tional links were formed in Common­ play in children's daily lives, how much become one of the most seriou5 threats to wealth countries such as Australia, New time they should spend with it, how much childhood, the systematic targeting and Zealand, and Canada; eastern-block control parents exen over the amount of exploitation of children by the toy, con­ countries such as Poland and the Soviet violence their children are exposed to, and sumer goods, and entenainment indus­ Union, where the dangers of introducing how this can be done. tries, using killing and horror, as well as the concepts underlying toys of violence It is inevitable that technology will semi-pornography, as the main subject caused panicular concern; and more re­ play an ever increasing role in sociery. and communications technology as its ve­ cently in Japan and Botswana, where some That this has both beneficial and negative hicle. This has played a major role in producing the "culture of vio­ lence" that is evident in our soci­ ery and is, I believe, a significant cause of today's youth crime. Al­ though the wider implications could not be foreseen at that time, it was evident that offering boys explicit replicas of sophisticated modern weaponry was introduc­ ing and stimulating ideas of kill­ ing and cruelty in their minds, especially as the "girlie" character­ istics oftoys for girls also increased. The issue of war toys became a contentious one amongst peace Elizabeth Stutz, a member ofNorwich and Lynn Monthly Meeting, Britain Yearly Meeting, has recently had op­ portunities in Paris and North America to discuss her ideas about bringing the issues described here onto the interna­ tional political agenda. Reprinted ftom Quaker Monthly Au­ gust 1997.

8 December 1997 F RIENDS j OURNAL effects is both self-evident and much de­ lives, the most effective way in the long bated. An aspect that I believe needs to be run is to provide greater opportunities for considered and acted upon is that the children and young people to experience increased use of "virtual reality" in enter­ for themselves the joys of active, imagina­ tainment is likely to have the effect of tive, and creative play and the opportu­ displacing "actual reality" to a certain ex­ nity for realizing their creativity with a tent in the lives of young people. Thus wide variety of forms and materials. It is they become further removed from first­ almost of equal importance that they hand experience, or second-hand becomes should have the opportunity to see and confused with immediate. The senses are hear the creation of others, amateur as blunted, and we become removed from well as professional-in exhibitions, mu­ our bondedness with creation. This may seums, concerts, and performances. This not produce serious problems for those should include seeing and exhibiting their who have in fact experienced life at first own creations and those ofother children hand. However, for the coming genera­ and young people. In this way the prod­ tion it is likely to mean a further loss in ucts ofcreativity are brought to life. They their sense of rootedness and direction. So stimulate questions and curiosity, and we while accepting that technology will con­ should encourage the search for answers tinue to develop, we need to understand it that are often quite difficult. By trying to better, to be in a position to foresee the_ understand a work ofart or other creation, poss ible consequences ofvarious develop­ we broaden our horizons and participate a Alternative to the Pentagon: ments, and to have a constructive influ­ little in the act of creating it. Non-violent Methods of ence on and input into how it develops. This is indeed a good antidote to the To this end, it will be necessary to passivity and negative nature of ready­ Defending a Nation foster in ourselves and in the coming gen­ made entertainment or playing on or by Franklin Zahn. Quaker scholar eration a more vigorous creative life, a watching the screen. An argument fre­ and activist, provides an exciting, searchingly questioning attitude, and the quently put forward in favor of the kind imaginary play-by-play account of ability to play imaginatively, by which of toys and entertainment so popular to­ an invasion and illustrates how it means wisdom, foresight, integrity, and a day is that they are exciting and fast. This could be defeated nonviolently. sense of justice are produced. It will also may be so, yet excitement and speed are in be necessary for those of us "for" and themselves of little value to children in The scenario helps the reader en­ "against" technology to overcome our their development and rather than satisfY­ vision a world in which international prejudices and to question both sides of ing them, these qualities usually leave them security is built upon mutual trust the argument. It is too serious a subject to dissatisfied and unable to find activities and responsibility, rather than be left to chance. for themselves. They therefore eventually intimidation and brute force. That engaging in creative activity is lead to frustration and boredom, despite enormously effective in producing posi­ their original attractions. Once children Zahn uses historical evidence of tive effects has been shown and experi­ have discovered the joy of creating things, cases in which nonviolence was enced by many, yet there are surprisingly however, they find further opportunities used successfully, to show how a few opportunities for genuinely creative for themselves that are far more engrossing disarmed United States could play. As with toys, the simpler the starting than the so-called excitements of prefabri­ maintain national security with a point and the materials used, the more cated fun. This becomes more difficult as well-trained and organized effective and enjoyable is the experience. they grow older, and new channels for civilian nonviolent defense force. In our over-sophisticated and mechanized their growing perceptions and abilities need . society we are inclined to look for ever to be found. When people have this kind 1996. 175 pages. Includes 18 more complicated methods, even with of opportunity, they become more re­ oustanding photographs of non­ regard to children's play, although play is sponsive to both Quaker silence and v iolent actions. one of the most basic, natural, and impor­ Quaker teachings, because creativity con­ ISBN 0-911810-80-3 tant forms of activity. stitutes a rich source for spiritual growth How can we, as Friends, both at home and sensibility. and in our children's meetings, deal with The kind of background suggested $16.95 (paper) plus $2.75 the pressures, violence, and confusions here proves to be of tremendous advan­ shipping and handling. inherent in today's society? Quaker fami­ tage when children approach puberty and Check/Visa/Mastercard lies are not immune, especially where the beyond, enabling young people to de­ children go to ordinary schools and peer velop their own initiative and to discover Order from: pressure is inevitably very powerful. adventurous and worthwhile activities for FOR/Bookstore, Perhaps we need to remind ourselves themselves and their groups. In this way Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960. that when taking part in the process of we take a great step in contributing to the (914) 358-4601 creation we are nearest to God. To coun­ transformation from the culture of vio­ teract the difficulties that enter children's lence to a culture of peace. D

FRIENDS JOURNAL December 1997 9 WHAT IS A BLESSING? by Yvonne Boeger lessed is the man that walketh not spirit, when we are grieving, when others ceiving them. For the most pan, this spiri­ in the counsd of the ungodly nor hate and revile us. Evidently, being blessed tual work is done in silence. At the begin- Bstandeth in the way of sinners, nor is not always a "feel good" situation. Can ning ofworship, some Friends are accus- sitteth in the seat of the scornful," my you be blessed and not even recognize it? tomed to glancing around the room, si- fervent Baptist minister used to thunder on At last I've come to believe that we are lently blessing the person in every seat. Sunday mornings. The words stirred my most truly blessed when we are living in Though it is good to be silently blessed, imagination as I sat, feet dangling, in a pew harmony with God and, by extension, there are also times when a vocal blessing is in the small brick church ofmy childhood. with the people in our lives. When we are appropriate. I longed to be blessed like the tree aware of this state of blessing and har- When I was a child I was quite sure that planted by the rivers ofwater . I wondered mony, everything we do is affected. While my parents loved me, despite the fact that how it would fed. Was God the only one realizing our minute by minute depen- I can't remember a time when they actu- who could bless you, or could people do dence on God, we are joyously aware of ally said the words. I realize now that I it, too? How did you go about getting a the need to fulfill our pan of the blessing needed to hear those words. As we send blessing? And if you got one, did it last all covenant. our young people into a tragically con- your life or

10 December 1997 FruENDS JOURNAL IANATOMY OF A LEADING How Way Is Opening by Connie McPeak God: "Is this some­ sponded "thanks, but no thanks." A few thing You want me weeks later I awoke in the middle of the to do?" The Friends night realizing that this offer was the an­ in Fairbanks are gen­ swer to another of my questions about erous, open, earnest how to follow this leading. I could sell my and have much to home, live with my parents for a while, teach, as does the wil­ and save some money to support my trip. derness. I trusted that, Way was opening! Wow! if this was a true lead­ In the spring another question sur­ ing, way would open. faced. What was I to do with my posses­ Pat Loring, in her sions? Again, an answer came almost im­ pamphlet on discern­ mediately. A friend offered to keep my ment, says that if a things in her big, empty, dry basement. leading is true it per­ The money I'd budgeted for storage could sists, brings joy, way be rightly used to help support her. opens, and the out­ The task of readying my house for sale come doesn't _cause afrer having lived there for 20 years seemed worty. This has been overwhelming. I felt paralyzed. I prayed my experience. This for help. Friends gave me the name of a desire to spend a year man who fixes everything. He came. As in Fairbanks has he worked on the house I was able to start never left. I knew that my part a little at a time, sorting, remi­ if I were to spend a niscing, and throwing out. It became, with year in the extremity prayer, a time of steady intentional work ISEPTEMBER 1996 of that northern land in preparation for the next step. I felt held I needed to be more in God's love. I put the house on the have been living with a leading, experi­ physically fit. Because of my work sched­ market in May. It sold in three weeks, and encing its unfolding, since Marty ule, neighborhood, and temperament, I we signed the preliminary papers the night Grundy and I went to visit Friends in needed some way to exercise inside my before I was to go on a nine-day contem­ IAlaska in March 1995. I had a dear, own home. The first surprising way that plative retreat. The timing did not escape strong sense that I should come back to opened was when exactly enough money me. Way opening. Bob and Amelia came spend a year: I wanted to see the seasons became unexpectedly available for me to home for a week to help readying for my 'round with the Friends of Chena Ridge acquire a treadmill. move. Kate was home for the month of Meeting in Fairbanks. I mentioned this to I knew I should go to Alaska in the July for Bob's wedding. Each of my chil­ their clerk, _and she responded by saying, spring of 1997, as I had financial and dren had a chance to spend time in their "You can be our first Friend in Resi­ parental obligations until then with both childhood home saying good-bye, help­ dence." I thought to myself that she didn't Bob and Kate in college, unattached, and ing with the packing, moving on. I didn't really know me or she wouldn't suggest unemployed. Within nine months ofeach plan this. It "just happened." Grace. Way such a thing. I was no more appropriate other Kate and Bob both left college and open mg. to be a Friend in Residence than I was to married their own true loves. Suddenly I moved into my parents' home the climb Mt. McKinley! I came back home both my children had homes and partners day afrer my father lefr for two months to to Cleveland, Ohio, thinking about go­ and lives of their own. The first barrier to sail in the South Pacific. My parents have ing to Fairbanks. I made the possibility of my leading had unexpectedly been re­ been married for 53 years and are rarely a year in Alaska an open question to moved in love. apart for more than a few days at a time. It seems to me that my being with my Connie McPeak, a member ofClev eland (Ohio) One cold January evening in 1996, as I Meeting, is Friend in Residmce at Chena Ridge was driving my parents home from the mother during this time was also a gift. Meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska. She has two airport afrer their most recent trip, they God at work. grown children, and she is a hospice nurse. said to me that if there was ever a time My employer, increasingly rigid, with­ Further reports ftom Connie will be published when I wanted to live in their home I was out any hesitations is willing to grant me in future issues. welcome to do that. I immediately re- a leave of absence. I'll keep my health

FRIENDS jOURNAL December 1997 11 asking me to be a Friend in Residence, I Exp~riential insurance, pension, and length of service. had ro look earnestly at who I am and Destgns Organizational development Way opening. Ellen Brownfain and consulting worldwide This spring when it started to look like what I bring, both good and bad. I have Prin

Get things hopping! Advertise in Friends Journal. l ~ ~ ~------~ 12 December 1997 FRIENDS JOURNAL On the Role ofMinisters by Christopher Densmore

rom the organization of the . ously to its being laid before the ~ Religious Society of Friends monthly meeting." This meant that £ Finto a structure iri the mid- the Friend who was violating Friends u 17th century to the mid- 19th cen­ testimonies (by, for.example, depart- -s tury, Quaker meetings everywhere ing from plainness in dress) could -£, were similar in having "acknowl­ expect to be visited by the overseers. ;.:l edged" ministers, elders, and over­ If he or she did not alter her or his 8 seers. In attempting to describe the conduct, she or he might be taken .§"' role of the Quaker ministers, I'm "under dealing" by the monthly E going to quote here and following meeting and possibly disowned. ~ from A Summary ofthe History, Doc­ So the leadership of the meeting trine and Discipline ofthe Society of was carried out by ministers and el- ~ Friends, prepared for London Yearly ders, who filled religious offices; over- (Y Meeting in 1790 and reprinted many seers, who could be seen as more times. secular (concerned with behavior, e.g. ex­ Ministers are not created terior issues); and the clerks, who presided The renewed assistance of the light and over meetings. Neither the office of over- power of Christ is indispensably necessary for by humans. seer nor clerk is without a spiritual dimen­ all true ministry; and that this holy influence Acknowledgment is sion, but neither office was seen as prima- is not procured by study, but is the free gift of rily providing spiritual leadership or guid­ God to chosen and devoted servants. Hence a recognition of ministry, ance to Friends. our testimony against preaching for hire ... . not the conferral of authority In a political sense, all of these offices were acknowledged or appointed by the In the language of George Fox and monthly meeting, e.g. all of the members, other Quakers, those who "preached for "x" was saying things acceptable to the which also could, if the case was necessary, hire" (e.g. were paid) and those whose Religious Society ofFriends. If person "x" remove a person from a position of au­ preaching did not derive from the proper was speaking in meeting and saying things thority and, if needful, disown the person. source were "priests" (a negative term in that were not acceptable to the corporate Ministers were acknowledged by local Quaker thinking). wisdom ofthe Society, he or she was apt to meetings, not by some distant and hierar­ From the above it follows that minis­ receive a visit from the elders. chical ecclesiastical authority. The corpo­ ters are not created by humans. A Quaker Each monthly meeting had a meeting rate discernment of the Friends meeting, meeting could not appoint someone a of ministers and elders "in order that those composed ofall members, served as a brake minister, it could only "acknowledge" that who are in the situation of ministers on the individual authority of ministers he or she (and it included "she" from the may have the tender sympathy and coun­ and elders. very start) was a minister. Acknowledg­ cil of those of either sex, who, by their The problem, as I understand it, is that ment was a recognition of ministry, not experience in the work ofreligion are quali­ the function of the elders and overseers the conferral of ministerial or pastoral au­ fied for that service." The ministers and was to strike a balance between nurturing thority. elders met together monthly to consider spiritual growth and maintaining disci­ A local meeting could have several min­ their state, the same way .the monthly pline (both spiritual and in Friends testi­ isters, male and female, or one or none. meeting met to consider and answer a set monies). What was intended to be nur­ Vocal ministry and prayer would glner­ ofquestions about the spiritual state ofthe turing could become authoritative and ally, though not exclusively, come from meeting. repressive. On the other hand, without the acknowledged ministers. The acknowl­ The other office was overseer, and the "eldering" and nurturing, the Religious edgment of ministers also said that person overseers were particularly responsible that Society of Friends was in danger of splin­ "the rules of our discipline be put into tering or regressing into ranterism where Christopher Densmore is a long-time but ir­ practice; and when any case of complaint all opinions (e.g. those coming from merely regular attender at Buffalo (NY.) Meeting and or disorderly conduct comes to their knowl­ "creaturely," that is human, sources) were chair ofthe Canadian Friends Historical Asso­ edge, to see that private admonitions, agree­ equally valid. ciation. ably to the gospel rule ... be given, previ- The Hicksite tendency was to see the

FRIENDS jOURNAL December 1997 13 authority of the ministers and elders as unduly restrictive (or simply wrong doc­ trinally), while the Orthodox tendency was to see the authority of the ministers and elders as essential to maintain the "ancient testimonies" ofthe Religious So­ ciety of Friends. Eventually, most of the meetings in the Friends General Confer­ ence gave up the practice of acknowledg­ ing particular people as ministers, though the old meetings of ministers and elders remain in the form of" ministry and coun­ sel" or some equivalent. Many meetings A non-profit and churches in the Friends United retirement community Meeting in the 19th century adopted and healthcare provider the pastoral system, with paid pastors, operated by members but did not drop the acknowledgment of the Religious of ministers who were not necessarily Society of Friends. pastors. By my observation, even in very loose Rrsidt~~tial Apartmt~~ts and nonhierarchical structures there is in­ Assisted Living/Personal Care dividual leadership. However, in non-pro­ Skilled Nursing Care grammed meetings that leadership may Foulkeways at Gwynedd be more dispersed and more fluid. Ifsome­ 1120 Meetinghouse Road . Gwynedd PA 19436 one frequently speaks in meeting, and her or his testimonies are perceived by people For more information, call Nancy B. Gold, to come from the proper source or be Director of Admissions, at 215-643-2200. edifying, then that person is fulfilling the older role ofa Friends minister whether or not the meeting goes through a formal procedure of acknowledging her or his gift in the ministry. Non-programmed Oakwood Friends School Friends are, I think, wary of making such located in the historic Hud&Jn Valley 75 miles oorth of New York City acknowledgment on the belief that if they do so, they are denying the gifts or poten­ tial gifts in the ministry of the others in the meeting or that Friends will come to ignore their own gifts and rely on the external authority and leadership of the acknowledged minister. It might be inter­ esting for Friends in non-programmed meetings to ask themselves what would change if they formally acknowledged ministers within their meetings (some do, but the practice is uncommon). The ques­ tion is not whether there are or are not leaders, but what is the basis of their au­ thority, and under what conditions lead­ ership is shared among many and passed Coed boarding and day school for grades 7-12 and postgraduate from person to person. The clerk emphatically is not the equiva­ Rigorous college p-epu-atory amirulum Small class sizes lent of a minister, but the person who Visual and performing arts Unique Senior program Strong, nurturing community Athletic p-ogram conducts the business meetings. How­ International program Community service ever, "meeting for business" is also de­ scribed as "meeting for worship with a concern for business" and it isn't possible Please contact the Admissions Office: 515 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 to separate the religious and secular con­ (914)462-4200 cerns of the Society, so the clerk should be a person with spiritual discernment, but that is not the same as ministry. 0

14 December 1997 FRIENDS jOURNAL FIFTH IN A SERIES ON QUAKER NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Friends' ---- Who Deserves C E N T R --- A L -- For over ISO years ... • Excellence in academics the Nobel Peace Prize? • Respect for the individual • Community service • A diverse student body How the AFSC Makes Its Nominations • Outstanding college by Irwin Abrams placement Friends' Central School n receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in wide variety ofrecipients, including states­ ( 61 0) 649-7 440 ext. 208 1947, the American Friends Service men, humanitarians, international law­ ICommittee became an authorized yers, religious leaders, and, in more recent nominator for future prizes; they pro­ years, champion~ of human rights. posed Mohandas Gandhi for the 1948 The AFSC Nobel Committee has for­ prize. Since then theAFSC has sent nomi­ mulated its own criteria, without expect­ G nations to the Norwegian Nobel Com­ ing the AFSC nominee to have a perfect mittee almost annually. Friends know all score on each one: 1) commitment to F too little about the work of the AFSC's nonviolent methods; 2) quality as a per­ Nobel Peace Prize Nominating Commit­ son and sustained contributions to peace s tee and the long list of AFSC nominees in such areas as justice, human dignity, Germantown Friends School over the years for which it has been re­ and the integrity of the environment; and (215) 951-2346 sponsible. 3) possession ofa world view rather than a Please come to our Open Houses: The Norwegian committee itself uses parochial concern, with potential for a • Saturdtzy, Oct.18, 2-4 p.m. the broadest criteria in making its deci­ global rather than a limited impact. • Tuesday, Nav. 11, 8:30-11 a.m. sions. Alfred Nobel wrote in his will that In its search for nominees, the com­ • Friday, Apri/10, 8:30-11 a.m. the peace prize was to be given "to the mittee is expected to include all parts of person who shall have done the most or the world, noting critical areas ofconflict, the best work for fraternity berween the and to consider how a Nobel Prize could nations, for the abolition or reduction of further a peaceful result, as well as the standing armies, and for the holding and relevance of a candidate's work to AFSC Excelling promotion of peace congresses." Nobel or other Quaker experience. planned his prizes only for persons, but Many, but not all, of the AFSC nomi­ IN A CHANGING WORLD the statutes adopted permitted the prize­ nees have been pacifists, including Andre awarding bodies also to make an award to Trocme, Wilhelm Mensching, Danilo "an institution or an association." The Dolci, Moon Ik Hwan of Korea, Quakers Swedish institutions awarding the prizes Ham Sok Han, also of Korea, and Elise for physics, chemistry, medicine, and lit­ Boulding, and the Fellowship of Recon­ Pre-K to 12th grade erature have followed N abel's wishes, while ciliation (U.S.A.) and the International 17th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway the Norwegian committee has named 17 F.O.R. Buddhists named were Sulak Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19 10 3-1284 institutions for its prizes along with the 84 Sivaraksa of Thailand and Maha individuals. Ghosananda ofCambodia. National lead­ 215-561-5900 Nobel's reference to disarmament and ers, such as J awaharlal Nehru oflndia and peace congresses reflected his interest in Premier Gro Harlem Brundtland ofNor­ the organized peace movement ofthe time, way, have been nominated, as have Dag and the Norwegian committee has indeed Hammarskjold and U Thant, secretaries­ 1997 granted prizes to peace activists, especially general of the UN. Anti-apartheid nomi­ Guilford College in the early years after the prizes were nees along with Desmond Tutu were Choir: established in 1901. I twas Nobel's phrase, Stephen Biko and Beyers Naude. Another An Offering "fraternity between nations," that enabled human rights nominee was Ibrahim Admission Office of Song the Committee to grant its prizes to such a Rugova, nonviolent leader of the Alba­ 5800 West Friendly Avenue 7:30p.m. nian minority in Serbia, strongly recom­ Greensboro, NC 27410 Irwin Abrams is a member of Yellow Spring.r (Ohio) Meeting and clerk oftht Frimds jour­ mended to AFSC by Friends in Europe. 910.316.2100 December 7 nal Board of Managm. Ht is rroising his American public figures nominated have 1.800.992. 7759 authoritativt work on tht Nobel Peace Prize, included Supreme Court Justice William FAX 910.316.2954 Quaker Eclucadon published in 1988. His most recent publication 0. Douglas, Dr. Frank P. Graham, Cesar www.guilford.edu Since 1137 is an edition ofNobel Peace Lectures. Chavez, and Norman Cousins.

FRIENDS] OURNAL December 1997 15 The naming ofJimmy Carter both in 1991 and 1997 has sparked discussion Tour England: among Friends who remembered policies they had opposed when he was in office. The Birthplace The AFSC committee was not unmind­ ful of such criticisms, but in reaching its of Quakerism decision was moved particularly by Caner's june 15-30, 1998 unprecedented peacemaking in his post­ with presidential years. Only three of the AFSC nominees have john Punshon won the prize, doubtlessly nominated by others as well: Lord Boyd Orr, director John Punshon, Professor of Quaker general of the Food and Agriculture Orga­ Studies at Earlham School of Religion, nization (1949); Dag Hammarskjold and his wife, Veronica, will lead their (1961); and Martin Luther King Jr. third group to the historic sites ( 1964). The AFSC not only chose a win­ associated with the rise of Quakerism. ner in 1949, but its very first nomination, for Gandhi in 1948, was given careful A sampling: Bunhill Fields in London, William Penn's Jordans, Pendle consideration in Oslo. After Gandhi's as­ Hill, Firbank Fell, the Quaker tapestries at Kendal, Swarthmoor Hall, sassination, the Norwegian committee the lronbridge Gorge, Coventry Cathedral, the Tower of London, York asked the advice of its Swedish partners Minster, and Earlham Hall in Norwich. about posthumous prizes, but finally an­ Experience the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford. nounced there would be no award for Travel by private bus. Accommodations in superior to first class hotels. 1948, "since there was no suitable living For further information, contact john Owen, candidate." Earlham School of Religion, Drawer 193, Richmond, IN 47374-4095 In 1973 the AFSC nominee, Bishop or phone 765/ 983- 1631. Helder Camara of Brazil, received two votes in the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee, but the other three were for Henry Kissinger and Le Due Tho, probably the most unpopular Nobel Peace Prize ever granted. When the com­ mittee chair gave the press the impression that the decision had been unanimous, the two in the minority felt they had to resign, and the matter became public, a Friends Meeting on the Mountain most unusual situation. A widespread movement of protest in the country pro­ Different Paths, Common Journey duced funds for a "Norwegian People's Prize" for Camara. At the AFSC, staff members wanted to give back the AFSC prize, but the Board settled for a joint Friends for Lesbian and Gay Concerns delegation with British Friends to ask the Nobel Committee in Oslo for more wor­ * Midwinter Gathering 1998 * thy prize winners in the future. Northern Virginia 4-H Education Center We know of other occasions when the Front Royal, Virginia AFSC came close. Desmond Tutu, the President's Day Weekend AFSC nominee in 1981, won.the prize in 1984. In 1986 and 1987 theAFSC nomi­ February 13 - 16, 1998 nated Sir Brian Urquhart, the UN ad­ ministrator ofpeace-keeping, and in 1988 * Beautiful Location * Comfortable Accomodations * the Nobel Committee gave the prize to * Good Food * Meetings for Worship * Workshops * the UN Peace-Keeping Forces. In 1991 *Junior Gathering* Entertainment* Fun* the AFSC Nobel Committee was about to nominate Aung San Suu Kyi ofBurma For more information, please contact the Midwinter Registrar: for the 1992 prize when she was an­ nounced as the winner for 1991. [email protected] 301.527.8929 * The deadline of February 1 of a given year for nominations of that year's prize to reach Oslo sets the timetable for the

16 December 1997FRIENDS jOURNAL AFSC committee. Thus in February, mitted the names ofother institutions: the the dedication, the sacred fire which fills a 1997, when the Oslo Nobel Committee Service Civile lnternationale (1957), the heart and spirit, that is what propels a at its first meeting went over the list of all joint F.O.R. nomination (1970), the movement." valid nominations received for 1997, the Committee of Cooperation for Peace in To me it is just such an individual AFSC Nobel Committee was holding its Chile (1976), and the Law of the Sea whose life can inspire the rest of us ·to do first meeting to look over its own long list Treaty (1984). In most of its nominations better with our own. This is the reason for 1998, compiled by adding to names over the years, the AFSC Nobel commit­ I have given so many years to writing from previous years those received from tees would seem to have agreed with Bar­ and speaking about the Nobel Peace Prize Friends and others in response to a wide­ oness Bertha von Suttner, Nobel's friend and its laureates, and why I feel so strongly spread solicitation. All these candidates who influenced him in including peace that all the efforts of the AFSC Nobel were then examined by AFSC committee among his prizes. On learning that insti­ Committee in discovering, researching, dis­ members in preparation for their second tutions were to be recipients, she pro­ cussing, and finally publicizing the activi­ meeting in September, when the short list tested that "they were only a form, a ties of such persons are well justified, is agreed upon. Members are then as­ body-but the soul of a society always whether or not our nominee becomes the signed a name or two to research and resides in an individual. It is the energy, prize winner. 0 write a report on, to be circulated to the others before the final meeting in Novem­ ber. Then the AFSC committee makes its choice and discusses the report to be made Three Peacemakers to the AFSC board. After board approval, after Robert Bly one or two members may draft the letter the Executive Secretary sends 1 Mohandas K. Gandhi (1931} to Oslo and also put together the I want to eat figs from a brown plate. supporting documentation to accom­ I want to evaporate like a thin cloud pany it. high In the desert sky. My life will This process represents hard, dedi­ fly outward, a flock of passenger pigeons cated work by the committee mem­ each carrying the same message. bers, with the assistance of an AFSC staff member. Is all this effort and 2 Mother Teresa (1980} the travel expense to attend the three When I have touched the dying, meetings justified, when so few of whether they are wealthy or poor, the AFSC nominees become prize winners? It is always possible of I have felt within my hands course that the AFSC may call the a lightness of feathers. Norwegian c;ommittee's attention to I have learned to surrender everything, an overlooked candidate. The best everything, everything. answer, however, has to do with what 3 John Woolman (1772} happens to the AFSC nomination. The Norwegian committee does not Others thought they knew what I was publish the names of the nominees about. and discourages nominators from The spray from the ocean wets my jacket, making their nominations public. my hair, the pages of my journal. Quaker Peace and Service in En­ I walk the deck In the evening light. gland, successor to the Friends body that was co-recipient in 1947, does The Atlantic rolls on keep its nominations confidential. as Adam and Eve's first prayers. The AFSC, on the other hand, makes a press release ofits choice, notifies its nomi­ The wind In the salis nee, and is prepared to tell the world. The lifts me like a leaf falling, AFSC has learned from its nominees that falling onto the surging waves not only does the AFSC action give them where deep answers to deep significant moral support personally, but word of"the Quaker nomination" means beneath the darkening waters. an important boost to the cause for which My Sarah understands and weeps. they are working. For the AFSC family and supporters, as well as for the wider -Mike Heller public, this publicity can also bring about important education for peace. Mike He/J.er is a member ofRoanoke {Va.) Rather ironically, in its 45 nomina­ Meeting. tions the AFSC has only four times sub-

FRIENDS jOURNAL December 1997 FCNLNotes U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Religious Freedom Restoration Act by Florence Kimball

he framers of the United States Con­ were decided against religious groups and stitution included a specific guarantee individuals. Congress and a broadbased coa­ T ofreligious freedom, the First Amend­ lition of religious and secular organizations ment. This states, in part, that "Congress shall (of which FCNL was a part) responded. As a make no law respecting an establishment of result of the joint effort, Congress passed, by religion, or prohibiting the .free exercise thereof" an overwhelming majority, the Religious Free­ The First Amendment thus provides two dom Restoration Act of 1993. RFRA re­ important guarantees about religious free­ stored the broad application of the compel­ dom: Congress is not to pass legislation that ling interest test and provided strong pro­ would establish religion (the "establishment tection for persons whose religious exercise clause"), and Congress is not to pass laws that was burdened by government. would bar people from freely exercising their In passing RFRA, Congress expressed its religious beliefs (the "free exercise clause"). view that the compelling interest test · "is a The interpretation of both clauses has stimu­ workable test for striking sensible balances lated national debate in recent years. The free berween religious liberty and competing prior exercise clause is at the center of the recent governmental interests." By passing a statute Supreme Court decision concerning the Re­ without exemptions for prisoners, public ligious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). school students, or other populations, Con­ gress demonstrated its conviction that reli­ Background to RFRA gious freedom should be guaranteed to every­ The Bible, the Church & The U.S. has a long history of recognizing one in the U.S. the importance of religious conscience and the Future of Friends expression. From the colonial era to the City of Boerne v. Flores (Papers from the 1996 Issues present, governmental bodies have frequently Boerne is a small city near San Antonio, Roundtable). Friends' varying sought to balance the interests of the govern­ Texas. The Roman Catholic congregation approaches to the Bible and ment with the individual's right to free exercise that met in a small, mission-style building in nature of the Church bear on of religion. This evolved into a legal standard the historic district had outgrown this facil­ known as the "compelling interest" test. ity. The church wanted to enlarge the build­ seeking way forward on our peace The compelling interest test says that if ing but was barred from doing so by historic witness and conflicts over homo­ government burdens the free exercise of sin­ preservation w ning laws. The Roman Catholic sexuality. cerely held religious beliefs, government must Archbishop of San Antonio, P.F. Flores, sued Edited with demonstrate that it is acting to advance a the city and invoked RFRA. The city re­ an introduc­ "compelling state interest" (such as public sponded by challenging the constitutionality tion by health or safety) and that the course of action ofRFRA. Chuck the government is following is the least re­ The case was heard first by a federal dis­ strictive (or burdensome) to religion. The trict court, which ruled in favor of the city. Fager. compelling interest test generally guided court That decision was reversed by an appellate $9.95 each decisions untill990 when the U.S. Supreme court, which held RFRA to be constitutional. (add $2.75 Court issued a decision known as Employ­ This set the stage for the case to be heard in shipping & ment Division v. Smith. the U.S. Supreme Court. handling) In the Smith decision, the Court ruled The Supreme Court heard arguments in Papers from the :;:­ that the compelling interest test would no City ofBoerne v. Fif?res on February 19, 1997. Quaker Issues ~ Roundtable ~ longer be applied so long as the law in ques­ FCNL was included on one of the 21 amicus tion was not specifically aimed at limiting the briefs filed in support ofRFRA. On June 25, Editeclwithanlntroduction Sooa br --c:tlt.Q Faoer -::,.. ·- - free exercise of religion. If the law were gener­ the Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 deci­ ally applicable and religion-neutral, the sion striking down RFRA. In writing for the To order call the Bookstore government would not be under any obliga­ majority, Justice Kennedy noted that, in pass­ 1 (800) 7 42-3150 tion to accommodate the practices of reli­ ing RFRA, Congress had exceeded its author­ gious people. The Smith decision represented ity under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment a significant break with U.S. tradition and (the constitutional provision by which RFRA · The Issues Program at ~ left people in this country-especially mem­ was applied to state and local governments). Pendle Hill bers of minority faiths-with substantially Justice Kennedy also contended that, as a 338 Plush Mill Road • limited free exercise protection. remedy for infringements on free exercise of Wallingford, PA 19086 In the first three years following Smith, religion, RFRA was far out of proportion to more than 50 cases involving free exercise the behavior it was supposed to remedy.

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FRIENDS JouRNAL December 1997 19 WIUJAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 308 Years of Quaker Education In her dissent, Justice O'Connor contended that Employment Division v. Smith had been The William Penn Charter School is a Quaker college-preparatory school wrongly decided and therefore should not be stressing high starxlards in aa¥:lemks, the arts, and athletics. Penn Charter used as a yardstick for measuring the constitu­ is corrunitted to nurturing girls and boys of diverse backgrounds in an tionality of RFRA. Rather, it was her desire atmosphere designed to stimulate each student to work to his or her that the Court use RFRA as a way of reexam­ fullest potential. Kindergarten through twelth grade. ining the free exercise clause. She explained that only after the Court first corrected its Earl J . Ball 10, Head of School interpretation of the free exercise guarantee 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 (215) 844-3460 could it properly consider RFRA. Shortly after the Supreme Court announced its decision in City ofBoerne v. Fhres, Presi­ dent Clinton, who had signed RFRA into 1897-1997 law, drafted a statement that expressed his deep disappointment with the decision. He expressed his continuing commitment to work Its great to be turning 100. Not aU homes wiU make it. to protect religious liberty to the fullest extent Longevity. Could it be our Quaker philosophy of allowed by the Constitution. cuing for older adults? Or is it our affordable residential Friends Home Are legislative remedies possible? services, Medicare & Medicaid Certified Nursing Both the House and the Senate Judiciary Home, caring staff, friendly atmosphere, closeness to at Woodstown Committees are holding hearings on the City P.O. Box 457 • Friends Drive ofBoerne v. Fhres decision. Testimony is be­ the community, delicious meals, and handsome ing offered both by members of the religious grounds? Please come visit and decide for yoursel£ Woodstown, NJ 08098 community and by experts in Constitutional Cill609-769-1500 law. Members ofthe religious community will inform Congress about the damage to reli­ gious freedom that is likely to occur as a result of the Supreme Court's decision. Constitu­ tional experts will help members of Congress explore possible legislative remedies. One legislative approach could involve re­ codifying RFRA so that it would apply to the federal government. While this approach would 1951 Delta Avenue West Branch, Iowa 52358-8507 provide some protection, it would also leave an enormous hole at the state and local level. Another legislative approach would involve recodifying RFRA so that it would apply to state and local governments based on Con­ gress' power to spend federal money or to regulate commerce. This approach could pro­ vide substantial-but not necessarily com­ plete-protection at the state and local levels. Some organizations are pursuing a consti­ tutional amendment strategy. Prior to the Su­ preme Court's decision, Rep. Istook (Okla.) had already introduced his Religious Freedom Amendment in the House. This amendment Education research informs us that in order to be effective, was designed primarily to address estab­ learning must be comprehensive. Learning must take place within many lishment clause issues. Following the decision, settings - the classroom, the home, the community, the workplace and at Rep. Istook indicated his desire to incorporate one's place of worship. Scattergood Friends School encompasses all of these free exercise issues into his amendment. elements. Our challenging college preparatory curriculum is enhanced A constitutional amendment strategy raises by donnitory living, a learning community comprised of students and those several problems. First, it requires many years who teach, a work-crew and farm program, and Friends Worship. for completion, including passage of two ma­ Value based education has been the foundation for jor hurdles: a two-thirds majority of both academic excellence at Scattergood since its founding in 1890. houses of Congress and ratification by three­ quarters of the states. Second, wording an For more infonnation, call319-643-7628, or; 319-643-7600. amendment so that it would be agreeable to World Wide Web: http://www.scattergood.org the diverse array of interests in this country E-mail address: [email protected] may be well-nigh impossible. There are sev­ Fax number: 319-643-7485 eral points of controversy. Should the amendment deal only with free

20 December 1997 FRIENDS JouRNAL exercise or should it deal with both free exer­ cise and establishment? Those who wish to The open up the establishment issue generally want to relax the strict separation of church and state that is the prevailing interpretation ofthe FGC Bookstore First Amendment. Such an effort would be vigorously opposed by many who supported RFRA. With materials to inform Should free exercise be guaranteed to all or could there be exemptions, such as for prison­ and enrich the spiritual ers, public school children, or h istoric preser­ vation issues? Many RFRA supporters con­ lives of meetings and tend that unless everyone's religious freedom is secure, anyone is vulnerable. individuals of all ages Rep. lstook's proposed amendment raises other problems and has not been embraced by a broad spectrum of the religious community. For a free catalog or to order, call: As worded, the amendment would effectively allow the religion with the largest number of 66-45 s6 adherents in a community to control such I-Soo-9 matters as the wording ofprayer s said in schools or the selection of religious symbols to be displayed on pubic property. This could sub­ 1[6 Bookstore stantiall y diminish religious freedom for persons of minority faiths in such communi­ I2I6 Arch Street, 2B • Philadelphia, PA I9I07 ties. The amendment also opens the door to E-MAIL: [email protected] the use of public funds to support parochial schools and programs. Many sincerely reli­ gious people object deeply to having their tax · money used to propagate beliefs with which they disagree. FCNL continues to oppose the lsrook amendment. Another option in the wake ofCity ofBoerne v. Flores is for each state to pass its own RFRA­ pax \'paks , 'paks \n. type legislation. Variations among such laws (e.g. exemptions for different populations, 1: '!be Iatin word rneanj ng peace 2: changes in the compelling interest test} could A period of general stability in create a patchwork of religious protection that internatiooal. affairs 3 : '!be first would vary from state to state. For those who are convinced that the free exercise of religious socially respcnsible DUtual fund. beliefs is vitally important for all individuals, this would be a sorry state of affairs. S olid investment return sro.ooo · 1G-Year Total Return: can be achieved without $60,000 . ·$10,000 lnvHtment· The Task Before Us supporting industries $50,000 . $69,729

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or piano. For them, intercessory prayer in­ Alaska Yearly Meeting volves everyone praying aloud at the same time. Supplication rises to a crescendo in a Centennial Session few minutes and then subsides to briefsilence A Quaker Conference Center At Kotzebue, July 9-14, Alaska Friends followed by the leader's softly spoken "amen." 340 HIGH STREET celebrated the 1OOth anniversary of the com­ In its own way, anointed by the Spirit, this is a P.O. BOX246 ing of Christianity to the Eskimo villages of form of"silence before the Lord." BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY 08016 the Arctic. Attendance was good, with the Business sessions were led by Sam Kotzebue Meetinghouse exceeding its 500- Williams, clerk, Larry Jones, assistant clerk, Available for day and overnight use person capacity on Sunday. Friends from and Roland Booth, general superintendent. 609-387-3875 Southwest, Wilmington, Northwest, and East­ Local Friends served as worship leaders. Most ern Region Yearly Meetings were there as business was handled by the Administrative The Bible Association of Friends guests of the yearly meeting, indigenous since Council and representatives from the village in America 1970. Each noon a bountiful potluck dinner churches. An issue surfaced in plenary session, since 1829 has offered Bibles, New Testaments, was provided. A dozen Friends from Salem, however, symptomatic of a larger struggle to and Ponions free or at cost to Friends Ohio, volunteered to help with meal service. define worship in the context ofQuaker tradi­ institutions, individuals, and others worldwide. Most of the food was gathered rather than tion: is clapping for songs appropriate? Propo­ Write to: P.O. Box 3, Riverton, NJ 08077 purchased: moose, caribou, reindeer, seal, nents cited verses from the Psalms about clap­ muktuk, goose, sour grass, etc. ping in praise to God, opponents cited verses Revelation 19:6-7 provided the theme text, about keeping silence before the Lord. The THE HICKMAN repeated daily in English and Inupiak: "Halle­ resolution, to avoid clapping, expressed a wish lujah! For the Lord God Almighty reigns. Let to retain awe before the Almighty and to us rejoice and be glad and give him glory!" It accept music as ministry, not performance. seemed to this observer that bilingual compe­ The issue illustrates a continuing tension be­ tence is greater now than 25 years ago. Once tween individual and group guidance by the during a business session, the clerk, experi­ Holy Spirit. In an effort to affirm Quaker Independent LMng and Personal Core enced in government, switched a discussion identity, the yearly meeting took action to Con~nient to shops, businesses, fully to lnupiak, saying in English, "This is a initiate a yearlong review by the churches ofits and rulturol opportunities way to hold an executive session without ask­ Faith and Practice, copies of which were dis­ Reasonable • Not{or-Profit ing visitors to leave!" tributed to all. Founded and operoted by Quakers Eskimo Friends expressed appreciation Alaska Yearly Meeting demonstrates a A 400 North ~nut Street for missionaries, beginning with Robert strong sense of community. Offerings were WestChester;PA 19380 (610)696-1536 and Carde Samms and Anna Hunnicutt. generous. For example, over $10,000 was given Older Friends related stories about how the to help families in Shungnak who lost homes Gospel of Jesus Christ freed their grandpar­ in a fire. Men and women were commis­ ents from the tyranny of shamanism. Their sioned for pastoral leadership in the villages. A One pathway to peace forefathers, under the urging of Eskimo concern was expressed about care of the meet­ leads right through the preacher Uyagaq (converted through Swed­ ings while some pastors must work outside the halls of Congress ish missionaries at Unalakleet) and Sheldon village during summer months. The Bible Jackson (Commissioner of Education), had Training School at Kotzebue, under the direc­ sent two young men by umiak and boat to tion of David Miller, continues to provide Douglas Island 2,000 miles away to secure a educational assistance. On the dosing night, a teacher. Charles Replogle, accepting their choir of 60 children sang. At each evening Ask howyou can help request as a voice from God, had gone to session young families were present. Young brinq Friends' concern for California to urge (successfully) the newly people wearing jackets labeled "Red Dog peace andjustice to Capitol Hill formed yearly meeting to send missionary Mine" or "Nashookpuk's Whaling Crew" fRIENDS COMMin"EE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION teachers to the Arctic. passed the offering plates. 245 Second Street N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 Today alcohol threatens to enslave, and Alaska Yearly Meeting enters its second several persons testified to deliverance from century with considerable strength. Like the this bondage. A fervently voiced song typified rest of us, these Quakers seek to adapt to their gratitude for God's saving grace, then culture without compromising central Chris­ and now, "Once I was bound by sin's galling tian convictions. If they cling to revivalist Ri!iiii for Students fetters; chained like a slave, I struggled in vain. modes of worship that other Friends have But I received a glorious freedom, when Jesus replaced, it is to sustain the immediacy of with Learning broke my fetters in twain." spiritual experience and the warmth of Chris­ Differences Perhaps it's this gratitude for God's grace tian fellowship. Adapt they will, but carefully. that makes the Eskimo a singing people. Be­ The biblical belief of these Children of the College preparatory • Grades 7· U • & Summer School cause the sun barely sets in the Arctic summer, Light, however, is a refreshing corrective to a Call (61 0) ~150 forinfo & a video the services are long, with much singing, pray­ sophisticated unbeliefthat marks some Friends. D ELAWARE VALLEY FRIENDS SCHOOL ing, exhorting, with perhaps a devotional talk We do well to learn from our Eskimo Friends 19 E. Central Avenue, Paoli, PA 19301 as well as a sermon. Services include welcome what the theme verse means: "The Lord God CELEBRATING A HOME OF OUR OWN! songs and village songs, and songs by groups Almighty reigns!" and individuals, ofren accompanied by guitar -Arthur 0. Roberts

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FRIENDS j OURNAL December 1997 23 lfMBY:Hwm NoT Bv 1\liGHT A VIET NAM MEMOIR fun, and Spirit. Individual Young Friends by BRONSON P. CLARK Baltimore Yearly Meeting acted as reading clerks as well as being a A spirited memoir that Epistle presence at the clerks' table during meetings brings back to life the for business. They organized small groups of Viet Nam War- through To Friends Everywhere, Young Friends, Junior Young Friends, and A \ Il l ' ,._ ,_ \ii N Oi a the eyes of an AFSC Quaker peace activist. George Fox, in 1672, spoke to the first adults for cross-generational sharing. Together, General Meeting ofMaryland Friends (which all ages answered the roll call of meetings, 516.50 includes shipping later became West River, then Baltimore worshiped, sang, danced, and enjoyed a coun­ /0 tll.ltl "tlltf tflt! f.. til 111111/t If f)ltft I /11 Yearly Meeting) on the shores of the Chesa­ try fair, a 19-century fashion show, and the Cll \I'll R()( " I'L BI ISIIII

0 confronting our differences imaginatively, not Today" in Alastair Heron, Quakers in naivete, nor foolishness, nor hiding in fear. Britain-a Century of Change 1985-1995 We can equip ourselves for adventure and CREMATION witness. Mary Lord challenged us to make As a gathered people we need to recognize Friends are reminded that the each meetinghouse a training center for non­ that our strength comes &om the same source Anna T. Jeanes Fund violence. Every attender and member should whether it is called God, Jesus, the Light, or will reimburse cremation costs. have basic skills for handling conflict and the continuing revelation ofthe Christ within. (Applicable to members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) anger. Our young people need not be de­ This eternal power is what binds us together fenseless if they choose to be pacifists. to labor in all parts of the vineyard. For lnrormalion, write or telephone SANDY BATES Examining our roots, we considered new S3SO Knox Strut growth as well. The camping and youth pro­ -Miriam D. Green, PhUadelphla, PA 19144 grams were reported full of young people, Presiding Clerk

24 December 1997 FRIENDS j oURNAL News of Friends Samson Gahungu, clerk of Burundi Yearly ~cl\Oe- ~tufties d\broAft Meeting, has been acquitted. He was impris­ oned for two years on false charges of involve­ ment in the massacre of70 Tutsi students in in OlobAl e.tueAtion 1994. Members ofMid-America Yearly Meet­ ing visited Burundi with plans to attend A Unique Experien(:e in Edu(:ation in India Gahungu's hearing on Aug. 19. The trial was postponed to Aug. 30. Friends &om Sweden and MAYM covered the expenses ofthe attor­ • Year abroad program for high school students neys. MAYM Friends held a prayer meeting in the prison on Aug. 16 that both prisoners • Excellent academic preparation at a fully accredited school and prison guards attended. David Niyonzima, exiled general secretary of Burundi Yearly Meeting, was in Bujumbura for the trial. • American high school diploma or International Baccalaureate N iyonzima said the presence ofthe Lord could be felt in the court room and in the words of • Extra-curricular activities including music, art, drama, sports, the witnesses. Gahungu was not only acquit­ ted but received damages for his false impris­ and hiking onment. Upon his release on Oct. 1, Gahungu recuperated in Bujumbura and • Students take a Winter Tour of India and volunteer in then traveled to his home in Gitega. community projects A minute on population was approved by Illinois Yearly Meeting in August. The Contact: KW International, Inc.,159 Ralph McGill Blvd. NE minute states: Room 408, Atlanta, GA 30308 Today, we are confronted with interacting problems unique in their magnitude. Among Phone: 404/524-0988 Fax:404/523-5420 the major problems are increasing numbers of people, excessive use of resources, environ­ mental degradation, loss of biodiversity, and the growing disparity between rich and poor. \\ ashington, DC/ lbltimotT .\rca All of these contribute to social and economic tensions at home and abroad. We recognize that education and understanding are the foun­ FIVE or SEVEN DAY BOARDING dation for improving lives and empowering women and men around the world. We en­ Grades 9 through 12 courage our governments at every level as well as private groups to make family planning Supervised study, planned activities for nights/weekends. accessible to all. As Friends we recognize that Five day boarders spend Saturday and Sunday at home! we are all a part of these problems, and there­ fore we need to contribute to their solutions. 0 PRE-K THROUGH 12 coED DAY ScHooL OAP COURSES On a personal basis, we seek a leading regard­ ing the number of children to have and raise. OTRAVELABROADOPPORTUNITIES OSTRONGARTS, ATHLETICS This includes alternative ways of parenting, 0 COLLEGE PREPARATORY 0 TRADITIONAL QUAKER vALUES including adoption. We also strive to live lives of simplicity and responsibility in our own use of resources. We search for solutions to these problems based on love and spiritual 16923 NoRwooo RoAD, SANDY SPRING, MD 20860 care for humans, all other creatures, and the Phone: (301) 774-7455 Fax: (301) 924-1115 earth itself As a community of faith, we seek to honor, protect, and nurture all of God's creation. Reservations are required for display ads in FRIENDS JouRNAL Display Housatonic (Conn.) Meeting approved a February issue: Reserve space by December 1. minute on same gender marriage: Ad Ads must be received by December 8. As members of the Religious Society of Deadlines Friends, we accept that there is that ofGod in March issue: Reserve space by January 5. everyone. It follows that every individual's Ads must be received by January 12. search for happiness and love guided by the Ad rate is $28 per column inch. Divine Spirit should be supported by the meet­ FRIENDS ing. Marriage can be a powerful demonstra­ Call (215) 563-8629 now JOURNAL tion of spirit-led love and commitment and a with your reservation or questions. joyous part of that path toward the Light. We

FRIENDS JOURNAL December 1997 25 Quaker Inner City School at Housatonic ·Meeting give our blessing to those guided on that path, regardless ofsexual Endowment Fund (QICSEF) orientation. Our God-given sexuality is ex­ pressed lovingly and with mutual respect when Contribute stock or cash to QICSEF. You'll increase revenue for we live in the Light. If we are to treat each Quaker Schools serving lower income inner-city children for years other equally as children of God, we will to come and improve your own tax situation. accept all people regardless of sexual orienta­ tion. When a member of Housatonic Meet­ Contact Richard B. Angell, 150 Kendal Drive ing requests marriage under the care of the Kennett ~uare, PA 19348 (610) 388-0935 meeting, the meeting approaches the couple seeking marriage with care, questioning, and guidance including support into the future. In this way, Housatonic Meeting can help to foster a world where all loving relationships are rightfully accepted. Celebrating our 40th year! TMS is devoted to experiential education A Mennonite Church was disowned for sup­ porting lesbian and gay marriages. On Oct. where learning with mind and heart take 14, members of the Germantown (Pa.) Men­ place in a farm and forest setting. nonite Church, the oldest active Mennonite We seek students who accept the challenges congregation in North America since 1683, of living with integrity in a small family met in the historic meetinghouse to hear the community based on Friends values, and results of the Franconia Conference mail-in 56 Thomas Rd. vote on whether to remove the church from Rindge, NH 03461 who are willing to take responsibility for membership. The Conference moderator read Phone: (603) 899-3366 their educational goals and spiritual growth. a letter from the Conference leadership stat­ e-mail: [email protected] Boarding Grades 9-12. ing that as of January 1, 1998, Germantown will no longer be considered a member of the Franconia Conference and that its pastor's credentials will be withdrawn. She cited the vote by Conference delegates of 81.5% in favor of the disfellowship, and 18.5% op­ posed. After questions from the congregation were entertained, one Germantown member Individuals in Community asked the moderator to stand behind her conference's decision and escort him to the door and out of the building. Richard Lichty, Germantown's pastor, then asked the Conference Minister to escort him out, representing the conference's removal of his credentials.

Controversy between Friends' Housing and Care, Inc., and local Florida Friends esca­ lates. Woodmere at Jacaranda, a planned re­ tirement community, raised several concerns as it attempted to gain nonprofit status with the state. Bill Martin, chair ofthe board ofthis development venture, had advertised Woodmere as "established by Sarasota Monthly Meeting ... and Sarasota Evangeli­ cal Friends Church." Because neither group ASCHOOL IN THE I'IOGRESSWE TWJ/TION, THE CAMBIIOGE ScHooL OF WEsToN OHEIS HIGHLY PERSONALIZED, THOUGHTFUL corporately supported the venture, Friends' COUE6E PREPAlATION EOIIII1EUKTIIAU YCUIJOUS YOUNG PEOPI.E; AN ETHICAl SCHOOL COMMUNITY BASED ON DEEP Housing and Care changed their advertising MUTUAl. TRUST AND llESPfa; APIAa WHElE llfffGRITY AND DIYfRSf1Y AlE AllfEOATED; AND AN AllfOACH WHIOt at the insistence of these groups to say "estab­ I'IAaS AS MUCH EMPHASIS ON ASKING THE liGHT QUESTIONS AS ON GIVING THE lliGHT ANSWfiS. lished by members ofSarasota Monthly Meet­ ing . . . and Sarasota Evangelical Friends (OEDIKATIQIIAL, BOAilDING AND DAY, GllADES 9-12 AND PG. CAll (617} 642-8650. Church." When the yearly and monthly meet­ ings declined their sponsorship, the group organized itself as a Friends meeting and se­ cured its 501 (c)(3) tax status as such. The The Cambridge School of Weston • 1886 organization also compiled its own "Faith and Practice" to file with its corporate papers.

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•United Nations Action Kits are now avail­ Open able from Friends Committee on National Legislation. In order to raise awareness about your and to gather support for the UN's work, FCNL has produced these action kits. For chil d's more information or to order a Peace Kit while supplies last, write FCNL, 245 Second mind St., N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002; call (202)547-6000; or e-mail [email protected]. to the

•Jennifer Elam, Pendle Hill'sCadburyScholar, World. is collecting stories of mystical experience. She is particularly interested in the stories of those who have been diagnosed with a mental ill­ ABINGTON ness related to their experience of God. To FRIENDS receive a questionnaire contact Jennifer Elam SCHOOL at Pendle Hill, 338 Plush Mill Rd., A co-educational Wallingford, PA 19086. day school g rades p re-K through 12 •A new conference and retreat center is open­ ing on the Olney Friends School campus. It OPEN HOUSE is sponsored by members of Ohio Yearly Tues., Dec. 2, Meeting in the tradition of unprogrammed 7pm Christian Quakerism. Some events sched­ For information call uled for the coming year are a marriage en­ 215-576-3956 richment weekend in February; a workshop 575 Washington Lane on reviving local economies; and a session Jenkintown, PA 19046 in June on discerning the call for vocal minis­ try. The center also offers personal retreats in a cottage. Friends interested in more infor­ mation can write Bill Taber, 61357 Sandy Ridge, Barnesville, OH 43713 or call (614) 425-1248. FRIENDS jOURNAL announces the publication of

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28 December 1997 fRIENDS J OURNAL Milestones Births/Adoptions WESTTOWN SCHOOL BensonSmith-james Keenan BemonSmith, on Aug. 1, to Gigi and ·steve Smith of Abington (Pa.) Meeting, of which Steve is a member. Ely-Graham Daniel Ely, on June 13, to Tracy and Dan Ely of Abington (Pa.) Meeting, of which Dan is a member. Evans-james Evans, on July 17, to Ellen and Peter Evans, of Haverford (Pa.) Meeting, of which Peter is a member. Wdson-Zachary james Wilson, on June 30, to Catherine Ann Harper Wilson and Bradley J. Wilson. Catherine is a member ofWilmington We invite you to discover the value ofa Westtown education... (Del.) Meeting. under the care ofthe Philadelphia Yearly Meeting since 1799.

Marriages/Unions *Challenging programs in academics, the arts, and athletics Abril-Galt-james F. Galt and Maria Isabel *Strong Quaker presence in student body and faculty Ibernon Abril, on June 27. James is a member of Abington (Pa.) Meeting. *310 day students in grades pre-K through 10 Anton-Hudson-Rama/er Benjamin Hudson *290 boarding students in grades 9-12 (boarding required, 11-12) and Heather L. Anton, on July 12. Ransaler is a *Diversity of racial, geographic, economic and religious member ofWilmington (Del.) Meeting. backgrounds among students and teachers Bourgeault-Rehnborg-Roderick Carl Rehnborg and Gweneth Kent Bourgeault, on July 5. *Weekly meeting for worship and strong sense of community Gweneth is a member ofWtlmington (Del.) are central to school life. Meeting. Brown-Goldener-&tie Goldener and Millard Westtown School, Westtown, PA 19395 (610) 399-7900 Brown II on July 21, under the care of Haverford (Pa.) Meeting, of which both are members. Deaths Crowe-Thomas j Crowe, 83, on May 2, in Northampton, Mass. , after suffering a stroke in January. Born in Westbury, Conn., Tom received his BA and MD from Syracuse University, was in the Army Medical Corps during WWII, and trained The ESR Equation: as a radiologist at the University ofRochester, N.Y. He practiced medicine in Hartford, Conn., and 1. A supportive, Christ-centered, learning community-plus Northampton, Mass., founding the radiation therapy department at Cooley Dickenson Hospi­ 2. Rigorous academics-plus tal in Northampton and later serving as that 3. Diversity of age, race, gender and faith traditions-plus institution's chief of staff. A skilled physician who cared deeply about each patient, Tom was also a 4. Afocus on personal spirituality-plus socially concerned scientist ofgreat courage. In the small, engaging classes-plus 1950s he recognized the dangers of nuclear testing, 5. Many speaking and writing vigorously in the campaign 6. Opportunities to work closely, one-on-one, with caring faculty-plus that brought about the 1963 test ban treaty. Con­ currently he worked tirelessly to educate the public 7. Aplace where family members are included. about research that pointed to smoking as a cause of cancer. A pacifist since the advent of nuclear weapons, he helped establish Physicians for Social It all adds up Responsibility, founding the Western Massachu­ settS chapter and serving as board member and secretary. Consistently concerned about social jus­ to transfonnation. tice, he traveled to Haiti as a volunteer in 1967 to create a radiology department at Hopital Albert Earlham School of Religion- Schweitzer. Tom was a founding member ofMount (A QUAKER SEMINARY OFFERJNG MAs!ER OF DMNTIY, Toby (Mass.) Meeting and was its treasurer when MAs!ER OF MINJSIRY AND MAs!ER OF ARTs DEGREES) the meetinghouse was built. In recent years he was the right answer for a solid education an ardent member ofPhysicians for Human Rights, and personal preparation for ministry. devoting long hours to writing letters on behalf of victims of injustice around the world. Described by friends and colleagues as a scholar who was Call Nancy Nelson at 1-800-432-1377 dedicated to his family and a man with a deep 228 College Avenue, Richmond, Indiana 47374 reservoir of kindness, generosity, and compassion, I

FRIENDS jOURNAL December 1997 29 Retirement Homes he lived his life quietly but tenaciously worlcing for peace and justice. Tom was for 52 years the supportive husband of Frances Hyde Crowe, a ...... of longtime staff person at Western Massachusetts American Friends Service Committee. He is sur­ vived by his wife; three children, Calthe, Jarlath, BU~ki ~~uait:~lY Meeting and Tom C rowe; five grandchildren; and cwo step-grandchildren. Emmons--Florence Hall Emmom, 94, on July 26, at Friends Homes in Greensboro, N.C. }<:./if ::~:: .:· :c:::::::::t; Florence was born in Adena, Ohio. She graduated ~F~etids' Village' Friends Home from Olney High School in 1920, taught school, then attended Earlham College. She graduated 331 Lower Dolington Road 50 S. Congress Street in 1929, and that same year married a former Newtown, PA 18940 Newtown, PA 18940 Olney classmate, Chester Wtlson Emmons ofWhat Cheer, Iowa. She devoted her life to raising their (215) 968-9222 five children, supporting Chester in his career, and -- _-,·-·.·.' .· :-~ ' ·:::-:::·~ (215) 968-3346 -::{?:;.: --~ participating in the several Friends Meetings they belonged to in Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Md., Phoenix, Ariz., and Greensboro, where they moved in 1978. Florence was preceded in death by her husband in 1985 and by her daughter, Elizabeth Smith O hle, in 1991. She is survived by cwo sons, Richard W . and Donald A. Emmons; cwo daughters, Helen E. Marshall and Nancy E. Taylor; and a sister, Bertha Hall Hawlcins. Florence had 19 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Committed to Quaker Principles. Fessenden-Samutl Fessentkn, 85, on April 13 at Foulkeways at Gwynedd, in Gwynedd, Pa., of Welcoming to All lcidney failure. Born in Philadelphia, Samuel gradu­ ated from Germantown Friends School in 1928, then went on to Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He joined the Phila­ delphia law firm of Montgomery, McCracken, Walker, and Rhoads in 1936 and married Catherine Buck Fessenden that same year. Samuel became a partner at the firm in 1951 and continued to work PENDLE HILL there until his retirement in 1978. He also taught courses at Temple University Law School. Upon retirement, Samuel was appointed as a special master for the Orphans Coun, hearing cases con­ cerning the guardianship of patients in mental hospitals throughout Pennsylvania. In the early 1950s, he and his family became members of That Our Meetings caa. Grow the Germantown Monthly Meeting, where he lfilrvey Gillmanlhlnrw, 8-Jj, 1998 served as a trustee. Samuel also served on the School Committee ofGermantown Friends School for 20 years and as treasurer for ten. He was on the board of Friends Hospital for over 30 years and was active with Yale University alumni affairs and the Chestnut Hill Community Association. Samuel was an avid swimmer, tennis player, golfer, and traveler. His wife, Catherine, died in July 1996. Samuel is survived by a daughter, Abbe Fessenden; cwo sons, Nicholas Buck and Christopher Fessenden; and six grandchildren, Helen, Jon, Rachel, Rebekah, Timothy, and Leah Fessenden. Howanh- Wilfred Henry Howarth, 82, of an aor­ tic aneurysm, on April 20, in Fon Collins, Colo. Wtlfwas born in Dundas, Ontario, in 1915. After the early death ofhis father, his mother apprenticed him as a tool and die maker. After five years of apprenticeship, he worked in the machine trade. When Canada joined England in WWII, the zipper Ext. 137 at (800) 742-~150 factory where he worked convened to malcing Brend or {610) ....,,,.. __ a,.. machine guns. Having taken seriously the teachings ofthe Anglican Church regarding lOlling, Wufso ld his tools and left the trade. Classified as a conscien-

30 December 1997 FRIENDS ] OURNAL Classified For Information call (215) 563-8829. tious objector by a govern­ two sons, Bob and Chuck; ment tribunal, Will'worked 55¢ per word. Minimum charge is $11. two grandchildren, Daniel Add 10% if boxed. 10% discount for three § on a farm and was sent to and Emily; and two sisters, consecutive insertions, 25% for six. ~ Banff. There he heard about Joyce Schmidt and Priscilla Appearance of any advertisement does not ~ a unit being sent to China Fazzino. imply endorsement by Friends Journal. ~ by the American FriendsSer­ i vice Committee and volun­ Woolf-linnea Woolf,73,on Classified Ad Deadlines: 'ciS teered. His first introduction March 10, in Sandy Spring, February Issue: Dec. 8 ,.. to Friends was during his prepa- Md. Raised in New York Ciry, March issue: Jan. 12 • ii:; ration for work abroad at Pendle . Linn devoted most ofher working Submit your ad to: ~ Hillin 1944.Aftertwoyearsdoingx­ life to volunteering in various capaci­ Advertising Manager, Friends Journal ray repair with the Friends Ambulance ties in either Quaker or other pacifist 1216 Arch Street, 2A organi~tio_ns. She worked with the Fellowship of Philadelphia, PA 19107-2635 Unit he was transferred to the AFSC to work in (215) 563-8629 Finland. He was in charge of procurement for the Reconc1hauon and later at Pendle Hill in seven workcamps held in the summer of 1947. On Wallingford, Pa., forover20years. Throughout her A~ril 14, 1947, he married Mary Barclay in a lif~, _Linn was engaged in the study ofmany paths to Accommodations Fnends ceremony in Helsinki. After the couple sp~ntual truth, including the Religious Society of returned from Europe in 1948, they lived first in Fnends,AR.E., andA CqurseinMiracks. In 1993 The Blue Idol Quaker Guesthouse could be your base yellow Springs, Ohio, where they joined the meet­ she moved to Friends House in Sandy Spring and to explore England or your Quaker roots. In rural Sussex became a member ofSandy Spring (Md.) Meeting. close to Gatwlck Airport. (easy and drect road and rail mg. To find a better climate for his asthma, they links) london. and Brighton. later moved to Fort Collins, Col., where they lived During her lengthy illness, Linn demonstrated cour­ A "tranquil oasis," The Blue Idol corrbines a Meeting­ until going to India with theAFSC in 1957. At the age and perseverance in the face of much adversity. house founded by William Penn with a peaceful guesthouse and gardens. Barpali Community Development project, Will' S~e touched the lives of many at Pendle Hill and Bed and Breakfast £22pp per night. Contact: Julie and taught village men to repair bicycles and irrigation Fnends House. It was typical of her desire to serve Jonathan Spencer, Telephone: 01144 1403-741241, pumps and later invented a rice paddy cultivator othe~ that she srr_ongly wished ro leave her physical Fax: 01144 1403-741841 . E-mail: 106700.3252@ remams for medicaf research. Linn is survived by CompuServe.com. using locally available materials. On his return from "More than just a place to stay. • India, Wilfand his family lived at Pendle Hill where two cousins, Mary E. Connelly and Walter Perry; he was manager of buildings and grounds until and her many friends at Pendle Hill and Friends Coming to DC? Stay with Friends on Capitol Hill. William House. Penn House, a Quaker Seminar and Hospitality Center in 1971. During the 1970s, the Howarths owned and beautiful, historic townhouse, is located five blocks east of operated a Rent All business in Estes Park, Colo. In Correcti~n: Th~ following notice appeared in the the U.S. Capitol. Convenient to Union Station for train and 1972 they were parr of a small group that starred a METRO connections. Shared accommodations including October 1ssue With several errors. We apologize to continental breakfast, for groups, Individuals. 515 East Capi­ co~tinuinz Friends/Universalist Unitarian Fellow­ t~e Mullin family and reprint the corrected no­ tol Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003. E-mail: ship. Wilf tau&ht at the Meeting School in Rindge, oce.-Eds. [email protected]. Telephone: (202) 543-5560 New Hampshire, from 1979 to 1980. During the Fax: (202) 543-3814. 1980s, Wilfplayed an active role in the University ~ullin-james P. MuUin, 89, on April28, follow­ Big Island Friends lnv~e you into their homes for mutual Quaker sharing. Donations. 89-772 Hua Nul Captain Frie~ds mg a st.roke, in Richmond, Ind. Jim grew up in Road, Meeting in Seattle, Wash., where he taught Cook, Hawail96704. (808) 328-8711 ,325-7323,322-3116. English as a ~nd language in a community col­ Br<>?kv1lle, Ind. J:Ie attended Wabash College in ln?i~a , and reooved a BS from the University of Comfortable, Seattle Accommodations, University Meet­ lege. As chairman of the property committee, he Ing. Private bedroom, shared bathroom with shower short helped with repairs and organized r~lar workdays Illino1s, an MS from Syracuse University in New walking distance to restaurants. Easy access to public' trans­ for the meetinghouse. In 1985 Will'began work on Yo~k, ~d ~law d~ee from George Washington portation. Donations accepted. Reservations, (206) 632-9839. a handbuilt stone house in The Retreat, Glen Ha­ Uruvers1ty m Washington, D.C. While arrending Coming to london? Friendy B&B just a block from the law_school, Jim worked at the Library ofCongress. British Museum and very close to London University. A ven, Colo. The building was declared "finished" in central location for all tourist activities. Ideal for persons 1995 when both Wilf and the Rocky Mountain Acove throughout his adult life in the Religious traveling alone. Direct subway and bus links with Heatlvow National Park celebrated their 80th birthdays. Will' Society of Friends, Jim was a member of Clear Airport. The Penn Club. 21 Bedford Place, london WC1 B and Mary began celebrating their 50th anniversary Creek (Ind.) Meeting. Following law school, he 5JJ. Telephone: (0171) 636-4718. Fax: (0171) 636-5516. by hosting 30 former Finnish workcampers. They traveled for several months, visiting Quaker centers SW Florida: Two-story, Spanish-style pool horne on canals in Paris, Vienna, and Geneva. From 1935 to 1937, to Fort Myers harbor. Edison home, Sanibel. Walk-safe spent last winter term at Pendle Hill, where a redbud quiet neighboltlood. $4().$60/ night. Berry (941) 995-1234. ' tree has been planted in Wilf's memory. Will' was he ~orked ~t~ the Emergency Peace Campaign in Ph!ladelph1a. Jun moved to Brookville to practice Pittsburgh-Well located. Affordable, third-floor (walk up) preceded in death by two sons, Robin and Daniel. g~st room~ with shared bath. Single or double occupancy. He is survived by his wife; two daughters, B. Barclay law with his father but returned to Philadelphia to ~Hchen available. Contact: House Manager, Friends Meet­ Walsh and Rachel H. Boone; two sons, David A assist in the administration of the Civilian Public Inghouse, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Service program of the American Friends Service Teiephone : ( 412) 683-2669. H?warrh an~ Paul Todd Howarth; and four grand­ Chicago-Affordable guest accommodations in historic children, Rainey and Frances Howarth and Kyria Committee. Jim was director of the CPS camps in Friends meetinghouse. Short- or long-term. Contact: and Colin Boon. Gorham and West Campton, N.H. Later he be­ Assistant Director, Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn Av­ came secretary ofthe Prison Service Committee of enue, Chicago, ll 60637. (773) 288-3066, e-mail: [email protected]. Parsons--Robm Prtston ParsDns, 67, on June 23, at AFSC and traveled throughout the country visiting men who were in prison for conscience sake. In Quaker House, Managua, Nicaragua. Simple hospitality· home in St. Petersburg, Fla. Bob received an MAin shared kitchen. Reservations: 011 -505-2~ 16 (Spanlshi 1941 he married Mary Morrissett, who was College Counseling and Education at Kent State. He worked or011-505-2-660984 (English). For general information call Secretary of the AFSC. In 1946 Jim returned to Pro-Nica (813) 821-2428. ' as a tea<:her,. counselor,_ and assistant principal at Brookville to practice law until his retirement in Nordorua H1gh School m Northfield, Ohio, and as An oasis of calm In the heart of london? Yes at the 1989. Jim was a member of the American and Quaker International Centre, where short-, medi~. and a teacher and administrator in Springfield Town­ longer-term accommodation Is available as well as confer­ ship, Ohio, until his retirement. He was very active Indiana Bar Associations. He also was a member of ence facilities. Excellent homemade food. For further several historical societies and served on the board of with the American Friends Service Commirree and information contactteiephone: (0171) 387-5648, fax: (0171) trustees ofEarlham College in Richmond, Ind., for 383-3722, or write to: 1 Byng Place, london WC1 E 7JH. the ~ent, Akron (Ohio), and St. Petersburg (Fla.) NYC-Greenwich Village Accommodation. Walk to 15th Meeongs. Bob also worked with ProNica. His work nine year~. In 1994 Jim and Mary moved to Friends Fellowship Community in Richmond. Jim was a Street Meeting. ~our people; children welcome. (Two cats in house.) Reservations: (212) 924-6520. in promoting peace and acceptance was unsur­ selfless mentor, counselor, advisor, and friend. He is passed. Bob was a proud friend to all he met and survived by his wife, Mary; four daughters, Ann looking for a creative living alternative In New York City? gr~ete? lif~ eve~ mor:ning as a gi~. His love and Penlngton Friends House may be the place for you! We are Stromquist, Beth Mullin, Martha Mullin, and looking for people of all ages who want to make a serious pnde m his family, fr1ends, and life will never be Rebecca Lough; nine grandchildren; and several commitment to a community lifestyle based on Quaker prin­ forgorren. Bob is survived by his wife of 43 years, ciples. For information call (212) 673-1730. We also have nieces and nephews. Shirley Barrett; two daughters, Stephanie and Amy; overnight accommodations.

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Courses in and Unda Chidsey, Feb. 27-Mar. 1. ethnomusicology, musicology, and studio instrument. Espe­ Read Without Apology by Chuck Fager. Assertive, Contact: Registrar, Pendle Hill, 338 Plush Mill Road, cially encourage applicants with expertise in African upbeat liberal QJaker theology for today. Historian lany Wallingford, PA 19086-6099. (61 0) 566-4507 or (800) 742- American music, music of Africa, and/or music of latin Ingle calls ~·an important addition to any QJaker library. 3150, X 142. America. Commitment to teaching excellence required. Abil­ I know of nothing el sequ~e li ke~.. .." 190 pages, $11.70 tly in instrumental perlorrnance viewed favorably. Quaker postpaid. Orders: (800) 742-3150; or from Kimo Press, Pendle Hill Seeks Applicants For Scholarships college EOE encouraging appiications from African Ameri­ P.O. Box 82, Bellefonte, PA 16823. Pendle Hill is requesting appiications for 1998-1999 cans, other minorities, and women. Inquire Drawer #65, scholarships. 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Must be experienced or peace, or showing leadership in the Religious Society of w~h geriatric care and issues of death and dying and able to Books-Quaker spiritual classics, hostory, biography, and Friends. Pendle Hill is a Quaker center for study and con­ cultivate rapport w~ staff, residents, and clients. Friends current Quaker experience, plblished by Friends U n~ed templation estabiished in 1930 as an experiment in communtly House has 100 employees, 63 single-level independent liv­ Press, 101-A Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, IN 47374 . Write for and education of the whole person. It is located on 23 acres ing apartments, six assisted living roorns, a 34-bed skilled free catalog. of wooded grounds 12 miles southwest of Philadelphia. Penn­ nursing facility, and an adu~ day health program. Respon­ sylvania. For details and appiication, please contact Uz sible for management of programs, personnel, resources, QuakerWrlters/Anlsts-ls yourworik among The Best Karnphausen, Admissions, 338 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, fundraising, and possible expansion, the Director must be of Friends? This anthology, sponsored by the Fellow- PA 19086, (800) 742-3150, ext.126. Fax: (610) 566-3679. cornfortabie w~ Quaker values and qualtly management ship of Quakers in the Arts, will be plblisl)ed in Spring Applications due by March 15, 1998. and obtain a California skilled nursing administrator's license. 1998. Categories: fiction, nonfoction, poetry, cartoons, Review of resumes will begin immediately and continue until Consider Investing in affordabie retirement property in the line drawings; awards in each category. Deadline: Janu- position is filled. Respond: FASE, 933 Mendocino Avenue, Southern Arizona high desert. Write or telephone: Karolyn ary 31 , 1998. To enter, read Santa Rosa, CA 95401. Fax: (707) 57!Hl231. first the complete Guidelines. Huffman, 901 E. Belvedere Avenue, BaHimore, MD 21212. Send a SASE to Kimo Press, P.O. Box 82, Bellefonte, Telephone: (410) 323-1749. PA 16823. Or e-mail: [email protected]. Director of Development Consider a Costa Rican Study Tour. January 29-Febru­ Pendle Hill, the Quaker Center for Study and Contempla­ ary 9, 1998, or February 26-March 9, 1998. Write Roy Joe or tion in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. seeks a qualified person (iii Bookstore. Serving Friends and seekers Ruth Stuckey, 1182 Hornbeam Road, Sabina, OH 45169, or to manage and cany out ~s fundraising program. The worldwide w~ Quaker-related books and call or fax (937) 584-2900. work involves interpreting Pendle Hill's programs in face curricula for all ages. Materials to meet needs to face meetings with individual contributors, developing Resldent(s) wanted to share in the life of a v~l 75+ interests of individuals, religious educators, proposals grant seeking strategies for institutional and and spin- member meeting. Located half an hour from the ocean and and tual communities. Free catalog of over 500 titles. Religious donors, carrying out direct mail solicitations, w~ the redwoods, and an hour north of San Francisco. Please and, education consultation. Call, wr~e. or visit: Friends Gen- help of a secretarial assistant, using Raiser's Edge soft­ address inquiries to: Resident Comm~. Redwood Forest eral Conference Bookstore, 1216 Arch Street, 2B, Friends Meeting, P.O. Box 1831, Santa Rosa. CA 95402. ware to keep records and determine schedules and Philadelphia, PA 19107, M-F 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. EST, priorities. Most of the work takes place at Wallingford and (800) 9664556, e-mail: . Study Tour of Bolivia and Its Quakers in the Delaware Valley, but some travel to other parts of Aprii15-May 2,1998 the Un~ed States is necessary. Candidates should be Worship In Song: A Friends Hymnal, 335 songs, hostoncal An unforgettable opportunity to vi~ the High Andes to broadly familiarw~h the Religious Society of Friends. The notes, indexes, durable hardcover. $20/copy (U.S. funds) promote understanding between Friends in North America, compensation package, including salary, housing, utili­ plus shipping/handling. Softcover spiral copies at same price. the UK, and Bolivia. Approximate cost from Miami $1 ,625. ties, and food, compares favorabiy to that of similar Call for quanttly rates. Order FGC Bookstore, 1216 Arch For information contact tour leaders: Ken and Pam Barratt, organizations. Candidates who do not wish to live at Street, 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107 or call (800) 9664556. 12 Redcote Court, West Kirby L48 ORR, England. Fax: 011 Pendle Hill because they have their own homes in the 44 151 6252001; Telephone: 011 44 151 6251788; Philadelphia area can be considered. Applications wel­ e-mail: [email protected]. come from all who share Pendle Hill's principles, For Sale regardless of religious affiliation, race, national origin, or Study Vacations for the Socially Concerned sexual orientation. Resumes should be sent to Daniel A. Quaker Gift Items for personal enjoyment, or Tour Guatemala with Quaker educator, Robert Hinshaw, Seeger, Executive Secretary, Pendle Hill, 338 Plush Mill leadership recogn~ion, banquet decoration, fa­ in mid-February. Also, in '98 to Sweden/Finland in June, Road. Wallingford, PA 19086. vors, fund raisers, notes, special events. Wnte the Peruvian Amazon and Cuzco/Machu Picchu in Au­ for brochure. Quaker Heritage Showcase, gust, and Nova Scotia in September. For travel w~h an Enjoy rent-free living! The Caretaker Gazette pubiishes 1 0711 N. Kittatinny, Tucson, AZ. 85737 or (800) anthropological focus, write Hinshaw Tours, 2696 West 500+ property caretaking jobs each year, worldwide. $24/ 327-2446. 160th Terrace, Stilwell, KS 66085. (913) 685-2808. year. 1845 Deane-FA, Pullnian, WA 99183-3509. (509) 332- i 0806. 32 December 1997 FRIENDS] OURNAL Executive Director of Casa de los Amlgos. We seek an Endless Mountains, Susquehanna County (Northeastern, Frankford Friends School: coed, K~. serving center city, individual to direct the service projects and coomunity of Pa). Charming, spacious four-bedroom farmhouse on 77 northeas~ and most areas of Philadelphia We provide chil­ hospitality at Mexico City Friends Center, beginning in March mountainous acres. Enjoy hiking trails along glacier carved dren with an affordable yet challenging academic program in 1998. Requirements: Spanish and English fluency, Quaker hills, beautiful views of the Starrucca creek valley, 20 miles a small nurturing environment Frankford Friends School, familiarity, experience in leadership and administration, three­ from 8k Mountain ski area. Weekends $175, or weekly 1500 Orthodox Stree~ Philadelphia, PA 19124. (21 5) 533- year convnitment. Benefits include Mexico-level professional $400. (215) 885-6346. 5368. salary and travel support. Contact Tobin Marsh, Ignacio Beautiful Vecatlon Housa. Maryland Eastern Shore. Air­ Corne vi~ Olney Friends School on cross~try Mariscal 132, 06030 Mexico, OF; telephone (525) 705-0521. YOll" Fax: 705-0771; [email protected]. conditioned, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, loft, deck. Near beach, travels, six miles south of 1-70 in the green hills of eastern golf cotXse; peaceful, wooded; $550/week. (41 0) 433-0605. Ohio. A residential high school and farm, next to Stillwater Olney Fr1e nds School appointed Frederick Cooper interim Meetinghouse, Olney is college preparation built around head for one year, effective July 1, 1997. A search is now A Friendly Maul vecatlon on a Quaker famHy organic truthful thinking, inward listening, loving community, and undelway for a permanent head of school, appointment to farm. 20 minutes to local beaches. New stone and cedar useful work. 61830 Sandy Ridge Road, Barnesville, Ohio begin July, 1, 1998. Olney is a fotX-year coeducational building with large octagonal room, skylight, ocean view, 43713. (614) 425-3655. boarding high school run by Ohio Yearly Meeting and lo­ walk-in closet, and private bath. Full kitchen, organic cated near Barnesville in rural eastern Ohio. For more lansdowne Friends School-A small Friends school for vegetable garden, and hot tlil. Bed and breakfast or bed boys and girls three years of age through sixth grade, rooted information contact Susan Smith, 3876 Hopkins Gap Road, and supper: $70 per day. Weekly and monthly rates Harrisonburg, VA 22802, telephone (540) 867-5788, &mail in Quaker values. We provide children ~h a quality aca­ available. Write or call Henrietta & Wm. Vitarelli, 375 demic and a developmentally appropriate program in a Tufiyaat@aol .com Kawelo Road, Haiku, HI 96708. Telephone: (808) 572- nlJ"Ill"ing environment. Whole language, thematic educa­ 9205. Fax: 572-6048. tion, conflict resolution, Spanish, after-school care, summer program. 110N. Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, PA 19050. Philadelphia. Sunny room available in horne friendly to (610) 623-2548. ~AM bicyclers and Quakers. Share~.long/short-term rental. School of Religion Near Penn and Drexel. Short trolley ride to Center City. $80/ Westtown School: Under the care of Philadelphia Yearly Dean of the Earlham School of Religion week. (215) 387-7962. Meeting since 1799, Westtown seeks Quaker children for The President and the Search Committee of the Earlham day (PreK-1 0) and boarding (~12). Boarding is required in School of Religion seek nominations for and expressions 11th and 12th grades. Significant Quaker presence among of interest in the position of Dean of the Earlham School Retirement Living 600 students, 80 teachers. Challenging academics, arts, of Religion. Foxdale VIllage, for Quaker-drected life care. A vibrant and athletics, in a school where students from diverse racial, Founded in 1960, the Earlham School of Religion is the caring community that encourages and supports men and national, economic, and religious backgrounds come tcr nation's first fully accredited Quaker seminary. It offers women as they seek to live life fully and gracefully in har­ gether to form a strong comOU1ity of shared values. Financial master's degree programs in preparation for ministry to mony with the principles of simplicity, diversity, equality, assistance is available. Westtown, PA 19395. (610) 3~ students from all branches of Friends, as well as other mutual respect, compassion, and personal involvement. 7900. traditions and faiths. Togetller with Earlham College and Spacious grouncHioor apartments and community ameni­ United Friends School: coed; presc~; emphasizing Conner Prairie (a living history museum), ESR is one of ties such as library, auditorium, woodshop, computer lab. integrated, developmentally appropriate curriculum, includ­ the three parts of Earlham. Enrollment currenUy numbers Entry fees $43,000-148,000; monthly fees $1,372-$2,522. ing whole language and manipulative math; serving upper 63 students (53 FTE). There are 7 full-time faculty and 3 Fees include medical care. 500 East Marylyn Avenue, De­ Bucks County. 20South 10th Street, Quakerlown, PA 18951. part-time. In 1994, ESR entered into a partnership agree­ partment F, State College, PA 16801-6269. Telephone: (215) 538-1733. ment with Bethany Theologicai Seminary (Church of the (800) 253-4951 Brethren), which shares its campus. Stratford Friends School provides a strong academic prcr Reporting to the President of Earlham, the Dean will be Friends Homes, Inc., founded by the gram in a warm, supportive, ungraded setting for the chief academic and administrative officer of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting of the Society children ages 5 to 13 who learn differenUy. Small classes Earlham School of Religion, and also Vice President of of Friends, has been providing retirement and an enriched curriculum answer the needs of the whole Earlham. Responsibilities include providing leadership to options since 1968. Both Friends Homes at child. An at-risk program for fiVe-year-olds is available. The the faculty in program and curriculum development, coor­ Guilford and Friends Homes West are con­ school also offers an extended day program, tutoring, and dination of planning activities, budget preparation and tinuing care retirement commun~ies offering summer school. Information: Stratford Friends School, 5 oversight, institutional advancement, and representation independent living, assisted living, and skilled llandillo Road, Havertown, PA 19083. (610) 446-3144. of ESR to Quaker const~uencies. · nursing care. l ocated In Greensboro, North Carolina, Qualifications Include an academic record appropriate to both communities are close to Guilford College and sev­ Junior high boarding school for grades 7, 8, 9. Small appointment as a member of the faculty and a record of eral Quaker meetings. Enjoy the beauty of four seasons, academic classes, challenging outdoor experiences, com­ successful leadership and administration. The Dean will as well as outstanding cultural, intellectual, and spiritual munity service, consensus decision making, daily work be a member of the Religious Society of Friends with a opportunities in an area where Quaker roots run deep. projects in a small, caring, community environment. Arthur firm convnitrnent to Christian Quakerism and an under­ For information please call: (910) 292-~2 or write: Morgan School, 1901 Hannah Branch Road, Burnsville, standing of decision-making within Friends' institutions. Friends Homes West, 6100 W. Friendly Avenue, Greens­ NC 28714. (704) 675-4262. Active screening of candidates will begin on November 1 boro, NC 27410. Friends Homes, Inc. owns end operates and will continue until the position is filled. Nominations, communities dedicated to the letter and spirit of Equal The Quaker School at Horsham, a valu&<:enlered elemerl­ applications, and letters of application should be &bn~­ Housing Opportunity. tary and middle school for students with learning differences. ted to: Douglas C. Bennett, !>resident's Office, Earlham, Small, remedial classes, qualified staff, serving Philadel­ 801 National Road Wes~ Richmond, IN 47374. Earlham phia, Bucks, and Montgomery Counties. 318 Meeting is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. House Road, Horsham, PA 19044. (215) 674-2875. As a Quaker educational institution, Earlham is com~­ ted to building a vigorous academic community reflecting the gender and racial diversity of society at large. We Services Offered welcome applicants from members of racial and ethnic ~~ Marriage Certificates. Fine calligraphy in traditional plain minority groups. SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE styles or decorated with beautiful, custom-designed borders. Also Family Trees for holiday gifts, births, amiver­ Camp Woodbrooke is a small Quaker camp in Wisconsin All Kendal communities and services reflect 01.1" sound saries, family reunions. Call or write Carol Simon Sexton, with emphasis on community and the environment. Seeking Quaker management, adherence to Friendly values, and Clear Creek Design, 820 West Main Street, Richmond, IN staff for summer 1998. Counselors with knowledge about respect for each Individual. Full-service continuing care 47374. (317) 962-1794. nature, woodworking, pottery, garden, canoeing, archery or retirement communities: Kendal at longwood; Crosslands • Kennett Square, Pa. Calo Valley Books: Personal attention to all phases of book campcraft. Jenny Lang (847) 295-5705 or &mail: alang@ production (25 to 5,000 copies). Typing, editing, layout, final xnet.com or www.campwoodbrooke.com. Kendal at Hanover • Hanover, N.H. Kendal at Oberlin • Oberlin, Ohio delivery. Free brochure. 346 Seven Mile Ridge Road, Monteverde Friends School needs teachers for grades 1- Kendal at hheca • Ithaca, N.Y. Burnsville, NC 28714. 12 to begin August 1998. MFS is an English-dominant, Independent living with residential services and access to bilingual school with muni-graded classes in Costa Rica's Moving to North Carolina? Maybe David Brown, a Quaker heanh care: real estate broker, can help. Contact him at 1208 Pine-wood nxal mountains. While salaries are the experience is low, Conlston and Cartrnel • Kennett Square, Pa. Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. (910) 294-2095. rich. Simple housing included. Please apply by January 31 Individualized skilled nursing care, respite care, to Jean Stuckey, Monteverde Friends School, Monteverde- Alzheimer's care, and personal care residences: We are a fellowship, Friends mostly, seeking to enrich and 5655, Puntarenas, Costa Rica T ei.JFax: (506) 645-5302. Barclay Friends • West Chester, Pa. expand our spiritual experience. We seek to obey the email: [email protected] with copy to For information call or write: Doris lambert, The Kendal promptings of the Spirit, however named. We mee~ l)lblish, [email protected]. Corporation, P.O. Box 100, Kemett Square, PA 19348. correspond. Inquiries welcome! Write Quaker Universalist Setvlce Community, lnnlsfree VIllage. Full-time volun­ (61 0) 388-5581 . Fellowship, 121 Watson Mill Road, Landenberg, PA 19350- teers needed for anemative life-sharing community with 9344. adults with mental disabilities. Duties include house parenting Friendly Financial Setvlces. Let me help you prepare for and working in the weavery, woodshop, bakery, kitchens, Schools retirement or work out an estate plan. Socially responsible and gardens of 500-acre farm in foothills of the Blue Ridge investments--my specialty. CaliJoyceMoore,lUTCF, Joyce Mountains. Must be 21, able to commit one year. Receive Westbury Friends School-Safe, nurturing Quaker Moore Financial Services at (610) 32()-3020 or &mail room, board, medicai benefits, and $160 per month. Wme: environment for 100 children, nursery--grade 6, on beautiful [email protected]. (Securities offered by Washington Square Recruiting, lnnisfree Village, 5505 Walnut level Road, Crozet, 17- acre grounds. Small classes and dedicated teachers. Secumies, 20 Washington Square South, Minneapolis, MN VA22932. Music, art, computers, Spanish, and gym. ExtendecH!ay, 55401.) vacation-holiday, and summer programs. Hall- and fuft-

FRIENDS J OURNAL December 1997 33 Friends Helping Friends Grow. Investment certificates are available from Friends Extension Corporation. These ($l Camp Woodbrooke, Wisconsin. A caring camp to make friends, have fun, develop investments promote the growth of Friends by providing low· lt~ tudios skills, and learn about the environment. cost loans to build new facil~ies or renovate existing facil~ies. For information contact Margaret Schmidt, 101 Quaker Hill Quaker leadership. 36 boys and girls; ages Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. Telephone: (765) 962·7573. ""' 7-12; two- or three-week sessions. Jenny Marriage certificates, Announcements, ln~ations, etc. Lang, 795 Beverly Place, Lake Forest, IL 60045. Do justice to your event w~h our calligraphy and award· {847) 295·5705 or e-mail: [email protected] or www. Quaker Writers & Artists! winning graphic design. (800) 763.0053. campwoodbrooke.com. Join the Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts. FQA's goal: "To nurture and showcase the l~erary, visual, musical, Wedding Certificates, birth testimonials, poetry, gifts all done in beautiful calligraphy and watercolor illumination. Journey's End Fann Camp and performing arts ~in the Religious Society of Friends, is a farm devoted to children for sessions of two to eight for purposes of Quaker expression, ministry, ~ness, Book early for spring weddings. Write or call Leslie M~chell , 2840 Bristol Rd., Bensalem, PA 19020. (215) 752·5554. weeks each summer. Farm animals, gardening, nature, and outreach. To these ends, we will offer spiritual, ceramics, shop. Nonviolence, simplicity, reverence for practical, and financial support as way opens." Help build nature are emphasized in our program centered in the an international networ1< of creative support and celebra· Summer Camps l~e of a Quaker farm family. For 32 boys and girls, 7·12 tion. Membership, $15/year. FQA, P.O. Box 58565, years. Welcome all races. Apply in December-January. Philadelphia, PA 19102. E-mail: [email protected]. Our Make friends, make music-Friends Music Camp, ages Carl & Kristin Curtis, Box 136, Newfoundland, PA 18445. Web Page: http:llwww.quaker.org/fqa. 10-18. July 5-August 2. FMC, P .0. Box 427, Yellow Springs, Telephone: {717) 689·3911 ; 0604. OH 45387. (937) 767·1311 .

UNITED STATES LA JOLLA-Meeting 10 a.m. 7380 Eads Ave. Vos~ors call Meetings 456·1020. Alabama LONG BEACH·10 a.m. Orizaba at Spaulding. A partial listing of Friends meetings BIRMINGHAM-Unprogrammed meeting. 10 a.m. Sundays. (310) 514·1730. In the United States and abroad. PATH, 409 21st Street North. {205) 592.()570. LOS ANGELES-Worship 11 a.m. at meetinghouse, FAIRHOPE-Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m. Sundays at 4167 So. Normandie Ave., L.A., CA 90037. Friends Meetinghouse, 9261 Fairhope Ave. Write: P.O. (213) 296.()733. MEETING NOTICE RATES: $13.50 per Box 319, Fairhope, AL 36533. (334) 928.()982. line per year. Payable a year in advance. MARIN COUNTY·1 0 a.m. 1n East Bl~hedale Ave., HUNTSVILLE..Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m. Sundays Mill Valley, Calij. Phone: {415) 435-5755. No discount. Changes: $8 each. in various homes. Call (205) 837·6327 or write P .0. Box 3530, Huntsville, AL 35810. MONTEREY PENINSULA-Friends meeting for worship, Sundays, 10 a .m. Call (408) 649-6615. ROYAL {Blount County)-Worship group. (205) 429·3088. OJAI·Unprogrammed worship. First Days 10 a.m. BOTSWANA Alaska Call 646-4497 or 646·3200. GABORONEi)hone (267) 347147 or fax 352888. ANCHORAGE-Call for time Mel directions. {907) 566.()700. ORANGE COUNTY-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Harbor CANADA FAIRBANKS..Unprogrammed, First Day, 10 a.m. Hidden Area AduH Day Care Center, 661 HamiHon St., Costa Hill Friends Center, 2682 Gold Hill Rd. Phone: 479·3796. Mesa, CA 92627. (714) 786·7691. HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA·(902) 461.()702 or 4n·3690. JUNEAU..Unprogrammed. For time and place, call PALO ALTO-Meeting for worship and First-day classes OTIAWA·Worship and First-day school1 0:30 a.m. {907) 586-4409. for children 11 a.m. 957 Colorado. 91A Fourth Ave. (613) 232·9923. MAT·SU..Call for time and directions. (907) 376·8281. PASADENA-Orange Grove Monthly Meeting, 520 E. TORONTO, ONTARIO-Worship and First-day school11 Orange Grove Blvd. First-day school 10 a.m., meeting for a.m. 60 Lowther Ave. (north from cor. Bloor and Bedford). Arizona worship 11 a.m. Phone: (818) 792-6223. COSTA RICA BISBEE-Worship group, (520) 432·7893. REDLAND$-RIVERSIDE.SAN BERNARDINQ.Inland MONTEVERDE·Phone 645·5207 or 645·5036. FLAGSTAFF-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day Valley Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed. Call {714) 682· school10 a .m. 402 S. Beaver, 86001 . 5364 or 792-n66. SAN JOSE..Unprogrammed meeting, 11 a.m. Sunday. Phone: 224-4376 or 233-6168. McNEAL-cochise Friends Meeting at Friends Southwest SACRAMENTO-Meeting 10 a.m. Stanford Settlement, Center, 7 1!.! miles south of Elfrida. Worship 11 a.m. 450 W. El Camino near NorthgatQ. Phone: {916) 448· EGYPT Phone: (520) 642·3894 or (520) 642-3547. 6822. CAIRQ.First, third, and fifth Sundays at 7 p .m. Call PHOENIX-Worship and First-day school10 a .m. 1702 E. SAN DIEGO-Unprogrammed worship, First Days, Johanna Ko~. 357·3653 (d), or Ray Langsten, 357· Glendale, Phoenix, 85020. 943·5831 or 955·1878. 10:30 a.m. 4848 Seminole Dr. {619) 287-4127. 6969 (d), 348·3437 (e). PRESCOTI·Worship group (602) n8·5971 or 445·7619. SAN FRANCISC().Meeting for worship and First-day TEMPE..Unprog rammed worship and First-day school school, 11 a.m., Sundays. 65 9th Street. {415) 431·7440. ELSALVADOR 10 a.m. 318 East 15th Street, 85281 . Phone: 968·3966. SAN SALVADOR-Unprogrammed meeting. Call Carmen SAN JOSE-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m., Broz 284-4538. TUCSON-Pima Friends Meeting (unprogrammed). First· discussion 11:30 a.m. 1041 Morse St. (408) 251-o408. day school and worship 8:30 and 10 a.m. and Wednesday SAN LUIS OBISPo-Three worship groups in area: (805) at 11 a.m. 931 N. 5th Ave., 85705-n23.1nformation: ENGLAND (U.K.) 594·1839, 528·1249, or 466.()860. (520) 325·3029. LONDON-Friends House Meeting, from April 1997 to April SANTA BARBARA Marymount School (above the Mission), 1998, 11 a.m. at the Free Church Federal Council, 27 Arkansas 10 a.m. Children's program and childcare. P.O. Box Tavistock Square (3 minutes from FH). FAYETIEVILLE..Unprogrammed. {501) 521-8657 or 267· 40120, Santa Barbara, CA 93140·0120. Phone: (805) 563· FRANCE 5822. 9971. SANTA CRUZ-Meeting 10:30 a.m., at Georgiana Bruce PARIS-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 11 a.m. HOPE-Unprogrammed. Call: (501) 777·5382. Kirby School, 117 Union St., Santa Cruz. Sundays at Centre Quaker International, 114 Rue de LITTLE ROCK-Unprogrammed meeting, discussion Vaugirard, 75006 Paris. Entrance at 114 bis. Phone: 01· 10 a.m., worship at 11 a.m. at 3415 West Mar1

34 December 1997 fRIENDS jOURNAL DENVER-Mountain View Friends Meeting, 2280 South GAINESVILLE-Meeting and First-day school11 a.m. LAKE FOREST-Worship 10:30 a .m. at meetinghouse. Columbine St. Worship and adu~ discussion 9 a.m. 1921 N.W. 2nd Ave. 462-3201 . West Old Elm and Ridge Ads. Mail: Box 95, Lake Forest, Worship and First-day school 10:30 a.m. Westside 60045. Phone: (708) 234-8410. worship at 363 S. Harlan, #200, Lakewood, 10 a.m. JACKSONVILLE-Meeting for worship, First Days. For Phone: (303) 7n-3799 or 235-()731 . location and time phone (904) 768-3648 or 733-3573. McHENRY COUNTY-Worship 5 p.m. (815) 385-8512. DURANGO-unprogrammed worship 10 a.m., First-day KEY WEST-Worship group Sunday 10:30. 618 Grinnell McNABB-Clear Creek Meeting. Unprogrammed worship school and aduH discussion 11 a.m. Call for location, Street in garden. Phone: Sheridan Crumlish, 294-1523. 11 a.m., First-day school 10 a.m. Meetinghouse 2 miles 247-4550 or 884-9434. LAKE WALES-Worship group, (813) 676-2199. south, 1 mile east of McNabb. Phone: (815) 882-2214. FORT COLLINS-Meeting for worship and First-day school LAKE WORTH-Palm Beach Meeting, 823 North A St. OAK PARK-Worship 10 a.m. (w~h First-day school and 10 a.m., 2222 W. Vine. (303) 491-9717. 10:30 a.m. Phone: (407) 585-8060. childcare) at Oak Park Art League, 720 Chicago Ave. Mail Address: P.O. Box 3245, Oak Park, IL 60303-3245. NORTH METRO DENVER-unprogrammed worship 10 MARATHON-Worship group. December through April, Phone: (708) 386.£172-Katherine Trezevant. a.m., conversation after. Children welcome. Colorado first and third First Days 11 a.m. 69 Tingler Lane, Piedmont Meeting, (303) 254-8123, Internet · (305) 289-1220. PARK FOREST-Worship 10 a.m. (708) 748-2266. [email protected]. ROCKFORD-Meeting for worship, First Days, 10:30 a.m., MIAMI-cORAL GABLES-Meeting 11 a.m. 1185 Sunset Friends House, 326 N. Avon. (815) 962·7373, 963-7448, Dr., 661 -7374. Clerk: David Landowne, (305) 661-4847. Connecticut or 964-()716. OCALA-11 a.m.; ad hoc First-day school; 1010 N.E. 44 HARTFORD-Meeting and First-day school10 a .m., SPRINGFIELD-First Day Worship, P.O. Box 3442, Ave., 34470. Lovely, reasonable accommodations. (352) Springfield, IL 62708, (217) 525-6228. discussion 11 a.m. 144 South Quaker Lane, West 236-2839. Hartford. Phone: 232-3631. URBANA-CHAMPAIGN-Meeting for worship 11 a.m., in ORLANDO-Meeting and First-day school 9:30 a.m. MIDDLETOWN-Worship 10 a.m. Butterfield Colleges, Un~ Illinois Disciples Foundation Chapel, 610 E. Springfield, 3 16 E. Marks St., Orlando, 32803. (407) 425-5125. A, comer of High and Lawn Avenue in Middletown. Champaign. Phone: (217) 328-5853 or (217) 344.£510. NEW HAVEN-Meeting and First-day school, Sundays, ST. PETERSBURG-Meeting, First-day school, and Teen Group 10:30 a.m. 130 19th Ave. S.E. Indiana 10:30 a.m. 225 East Grand Ave., New Haven, CT 06513. (203) 468-2398. Phone: (813) 896-()310. BLOOMINGTON-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Moores Pike at Sm~h Road. (812) 336-5576. NEW LONDON-Meeting for worship and First-day SARASOTA-Worship 9:30a.m., discussion 10:30 a.m., school10 a.m., discussion 11 a.m. Friends Meetinghouse, Cook Hall, New College. For directions, call (941) 342- EVANSVILLE-Worship 11 a.m. Sundays at Patchwork Oswegatchie Rd., off the Niantic River Ad., Watertord, 161 1 or Marie Condon, clerk, (941) 729-1989. Central, 100 Washington Ave. Conn. 536-7245 or 889-1924. TALLAHASSEE-Worship Sunday 10 a.m. 2001 Magnolia HOPEWELL-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m., discussion NEW MILFORD-Housatonic Meeting. Ate. 7 at Lanesville Dr. South. Unprogrammed. Potluck first Sunday. 11 a.m. 20 mi. W. of Richmond; between 1-70, US 40; 1-70 Rd. Worship 10 a.m. Phone: (203) 746.£329. (904) 878-3620. exit Wilbur Wright Ad., 1 1/4 mi. S.,1 mi. W. (317) 478- 4218. STAMFORD-GREENWICH-Meeting for worship 1 0 a.m. TAMPA-Meeting and First-day school10 a.m. 572 Roxbury Rd. (comer of Westover), Stamford. 11215 N. Nebraska Ave., Su~e B-3. Phone contacts: INDIANAPOLIS-North Meadow Circle of Friends, (203) 637-4601 or 869-()445. (813) 989-9261 and 977-4022. 1710 N. Talbott. Unprogrammed, worship 10 a.m. Children welcome. 926-7657. STORRS-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Comer North WINTER PARK-Meeting 10 a.m. Alumni House, Rollins Eagleville and Hunting Lodge Ads. Phone: 429-4459. College. Phone: (407) 894-8998. INDIANAPOLI5-Valley Mills Friends Meeting. 6739 West Thompson Road. Catherine Sherman, pastor. Call (317) WILTON-Worship First-day school 10 a.m. and Georgia 856-4368 for meeting times. 317 New Canaan Rd., Ate. 106. (203) 762-5669. ATHENS-unprogrammed Worship Sundays 9:30 to 10:30 MUNCIE-Friends Memorial Meeting, unprogrammed WOODBURY-L~chfield Hills Meeting (formerly a.m., followed by discussion. "The Old Jail," corner of worship 8:30a.m., First-day school 9:30 a.m., Watertown). Woodbury Community House, Mountain Rd. Pope and Meigs Streets. (706) 353-2856. programmed worship 11 a.m. 418 W. Adams St. (765) at Main St. Worship and First-day school10 a.m. Phone: 288-5680. 263-3627. ATLANTA-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. 701 W. Howard Ave., Decatur, GA 30030. David Thurman, RICHMOND-Clear Creek, Stout Memorial Meetinghouse, Delaware clerk, (404) 377-2474. Earlham College, unprogrammed, 9:15 a.m. Clerks: Cathy CAMDEN-Worship 11 a.m., (10 a.m. in June, July, Aug.), AUGUSTA-Worship 10:30 a.m. at meetinghouse, and Larry Habschmidt (31 7) 962-3362. First-day school 10 a.m., 2 mi. S. of Dover, 122 E. 340 112 Telfair St. (706) 738-8036 or (803) 278-5213. SOUTH BEND-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school Camden-Wyo Ave. (Ate. 10). 284-4745, 697-6910. BRUNSWICK-Meeting for worship at 1 0:30 a.m. at 307 9 :45a.m. (219) 277-7684,232-5729. CENTRE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. 1 mile east of Newcastle St. Call (912) 638-1200 or 437-4708. VALPARAISO-Duneland Friends Meeting. Singing Centreville on the Centre Meeting Ad. at Adams Dam Rd. Hawaii 9:45a.m., unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. Opportun~ HOCKESSIN-Worship 11 a.m. (1 0 a .m. in June, July, and Enterprises, 2801 Evans; (219) 462-9997. Aug.). First-day school 10 a.m. Sept.-May. Childcare BIG ISLAND-10 a.m. Sunday. Unprogrammed worship WEST LAFAYETTE-Unprogrammed worship at 10 a.m. at provided year round. N.W. from Hockessin-Yorklyn Rd. at potluck lunch follows. Location rotates. 176 E. Stadium Ave., West Lafayette. Call (808) 322-3116, n5-Q972. first crossroad, 1501 Old Wilmington Ad. (302) 239-2223. Iowa NEWARK-First-day school 9:30 a.m., worship 10:30 a.m. HONOLULU-S1.Kldays, 9:45a.m. hymn singing; 10 a.m. Newark Center for Creative Learning, 401 Phillips Ave. worship and First-day school. 2426 Oahu Ave., 96822. AMES-Worship 10 a.m. Sun.; call (515) 232-2763 for (302) 456-()398. Overnight inquiries welcomed. Phone: (808) 988-2714. place. ODESSA-Worship, first Sundays, 11 a.m., W. Main MAUl-Friends Worship Group. Contact: John Dart DES MOINES-Meeting for worship 10 a.m., classes 11:30 Street. (808) 878-2190, 107-D Kamnui Place, Kula, Hl 96790; or a.m. Meetinghouse, 4211 Grand Ave. Phone: 274-4717. (808) 572-9205 (V~arellis). WILMINGTON-Aiapocas Meeting. Worship 9:15a.m., at IOWA CITY-unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 a.m. 101 School Road. For information call478-7880. Idaho 3 11 N. Linn St. Call 351-2234 or Selma Conner, 338- 2914. WILMINGTON-Worship and First-day school10:30 a.m. BOISE-Boise Valley Friends. Unprogrammed worship, 4th & West Sts. Phone: 652-4491 . 9:30 a.m. First Day. (208) 345-2049. WEST BRANCH-Unprogrammed worship at 10 a.m., 2nd Sunday worship includes business: other weeks, District of Columbia MOSCOW-Moscow-Punman Meeting, Campus Christian discussion follows. 317 N. 6th St. Call: (319) 643-5639. Center, 822 Elm St., Moscow. Unprogrammed worship WASHINGTON-Friends Meeting, 2111 Florida Ave. NW 11:30 a.m. S1.Klday. Childcare. (509) 332-4323. Kansas (north of Dupont Circle Metro, near Conn. Ave.). (202) 483-3310. Unprogrammed meetings for worship are SANDPOINT-unprogrammed worship group at Gardenia LAWRENCE-Qread Friends Meeting, 1146 Oregon. regularly held at: Center, 4 p.m. Sundays. Various homes in summer. Call Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. (913) 843-3277. Elizabeth Willey, 263-4290. MEETlNGHOUSE-21 11 Florida Ave. Worship at 9 a.m. MANHATTAN-Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m. Baptist and "11 a.m. Sundays, also 7 p.m. Wednesdays. First­ Illinois Campus Center, 1801 Anderson, Manhattan, KS 66502. day school at 11 :20 a.m. June/July: members' homes, 9:30 a.m. (91 3) 537-2260, BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL-unprogrammed Sun. (913) 539-2636. QUAKER HOUSE-2121 Decatur Pl., adjacent to 11 a .m. Sept.-May, Campus Religious Center, 210 W. TOPEKA-Unprogrammed worship 9:45 a.m. followed by meetinghouse. Worship at "10 a.m. mh special Mulberry, Normal. Summer-homes. (309) 888-2704. welcome for Lesbians and Gays. discussion. 603 S.W. 8th, Topeka. First-day school and 'Interpreter for the hearing impaired at 10 and 11 a.m. CHICAGD-57th St., 5615 Woodlawn. Worship 10:30 a.m. childcare provided. Phone: (913) 233-5210 or 273-6791. Monthly meeting follows on third Sunday. Phone: WICHITA-Heartland Meeting, unprogrammed worship MONTHLY MEETING DAY SCHEDULE-(second First 288-3066. Days Sept.-June; third First Day in July) Meetings for 1 1 a .m. First Days. 14700 West Highway 54. Worship held at 8:30a.m. in the meetinghouse and 10 CHICAGo-chicago Monthly Meeting, 10749 S. Artesian (316) 262-8331. Carry-in lunch and business following a.m. in both buildings (First-day school at 10:20). Ave. Worship 10 a.m. Phone: (312) 445-8949. worship on last First Day of month. FRIENDSHIP PREPARATIVE MEETING-at Sidwell CHICAGO-Northside (unprogrammed). Mailing address: Kentucky Friends Upper School, 3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW, 1456 W. Leland, Chicago, IL 60640. Worship 10:30 a.m. Kogod Arts Bldg. Worship at 11 a.m. at 4427 N. Clark, Chicago (Japanese American Service BEREA-Meeting Sunday 9 a.m. AMERC Building, 300 Committee). Phone: (773) 929-4245. Harrison Road, Berea, KY. Call: (606) 623-7973 or (606) 986-9840. Florida DECATUR-Worship and First-day school, 10 a.m. at CLEARWATER-clerk: Priscilla Blanshard, 8333 Seminole DOVE, 788 E. Clay. Phone: Sn-Q296 or 423-4613. LEXINGTON-Meeting for worship and First-day school Blvd. #439, Seminole, FL 34642. (813) 397-8707. 10 a.m. Sundays. 1504 Bryan Ave., Lexington, KY 40505. DOWNERS GROVE-(West Suburban Chicago) Worship Telephone: (606) 254-3319. DAYTONA BEACH-Sunday 10:30 a.m. in homes. Please and First-day school 10:30 a.m. 5710 Lomond Ave. call (904) 6n-6094 or 734-3115 for information. (3 blocks west of Belmont, 1 block south of Maple). LOUISVILLE-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. 3050 Bon Air Ave., 40205. Telephone: 452.£812. FT. LAUDERDALE-Meeting 11 a.m. Information line (954) Phone: 968-3861 or 852-5812. 566-5000. EVANSTON-Worship 10 a.m. 1010 Greenleaf, 864-8511. Louisiana FT. MYERS-Meeting at Calusa Nature Center First Days GALESBURG-Peoria-Galesburg Meeting. 10 a.m. in BATON ROUGE-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. Sunday. at 10:30 a.m. Telephone: (941) 337-7027. homes. (309) 343-7097 for location. 333 E. Chimes St. Cleric Pam D. Arnold (504) 665-3560.

FRIENDS J oURNAL December 1997 35 NEW ORLEANS-unprogrammed meeting for worship AMESBURY-Worship 10 a.m. 120 Friend St. DULUTH-SUPERIOR-Unprogrammed worship and Str1days 10 a.m. 7102 Freret St. (504) 865-1675. Call (508) 463·3259 or (508) 388·3293. First-day school, 9:30 a.m. 1802 E. 1st Street, Dulu1h. RUSTON-Unprogrammed. Call: (318) 251-2669. AMHERST-GREENFIELD-Mount Toby Meeting. Worship Michael Koppy, clerk: (218) 729-7643. SHREVEPORT-Unprogrammed. Call: (318) 797-{)578. and First-day school 10 a.m. 194 Long Plain Rd. (A1e 63), MINNEAPOLI5-Minneapolis Friends Meeting, Leverett. (413) 548·9188; if no answer (413) 774-5038. Maine 4401 York Ave. South, Mpls., MN 55410. Call for times. ANOOVER-<3rahm House Wheeler St. Worship and First· (612) 926~159 . BAR HARBOR AREA-Acadia Friends. Worship 9 a.m., day school tO a.m. Contact J. Griswold (508) 475-7136. NORTHFIELD-Cannon Valley Monthly Meeting. Worship Neighborhood House, Northeast Harbor. (207) 288-3888 BOSTON-Worship 10:30 a.m. First Day. Beacon Hill (Lrlprogrammed) and First-day school, 10 a.m. Sundays. or 288-4941. Friends House, 6 Chestnut St., Boston, 02108. First Sunday each month, meets in private homes. Other BELFAST AREA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, Phone: 227-9118. Sundays, meets at Laura Baker School, 211 Oak Street., 9:30-10:30 a.m. Telephone: (207) 338-4476. Northfield. For information: Corinne Matney, 8657 Spring CAMBRIDGE-Meetings Sundays 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.: Creek Road, Northfield, MN 55057. (507) 663·1048. BRUNSWICK-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. Forum at 11 :30 a.m. 5 Longfellow Park (near Harvard Sq., 333 Maine St. 833·5016 or 725·8216. off Brattle St.). Phone: (617) 876-6883. ROCHESTER-Unprogrammed meeting. Call: (507) 282-4565 or 282-3310. CASCO-Quaker Ridge. Unprogrammed worship 10:30 CAMBRIDGE-Fresh Pond Monthly Meeting. Worship and a.m. summer only. 1814 meetinghouse always open to First-day school tO a.m. Cambridge Friends School, ST. PAUL·Twin C ~ ies Friends Meeting, 1725 Grand Ave., St. Paul. Unprogrammed worship Sunday at 9 a.m. and visitors, so. of At. 11 next to Hall's Funeral Home. (207) 5 Cadbury Road. 395~162 . 627-4705, 627-4437. 10:30 a.m., Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.; adu~ education OEERFIELO·GREENFIELD·Worship group Thursday Sunday at 9 a.m.; First-day school Sunday at 10:30 a.m.; EAST VASSALBORO-Unprogrammed meeting for 5:30 p.m. at Woolman Hill Conference Center, Keels meeting for business first Sunday of month following worship 10 a.m. Friends Meetinghouse, Stanley Hill Road, Road, Deerfield, MA01342. (413).774-3431. All are 10:30 a.m. worship. (612) 699~995 . East Vassalboro. Joyce Su1herland, clerk, (207) 923· welcome. 3141 . STILLWATER-St. Croix Valley Friends. Unprogrammed FRAMINGHAM-Worship 10 a.m. First-day school. Year worship at 10 a.m. Phone: (612) 777·1698, 777·5651 . LEWISTON-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school round. 841 Edmands Rd. (2 mi. west of Nobscot traffic 10 a.m., 29 Frye Street (off Main Street, US 202). No lights). Wheelchair Accessible. (508) 877·1261 . Missouri meeting July-August. Telephone: 933-2933. GREAT BARRINGTON-South Berkshire Meeting. COLUMBIA-Discussion and First-day school 9:30 a.m., MID-COAST AREA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, Unprogrammed: 10:30 a.m. First Day. Phone: (413) 528· worship 10:30 a.m. 6408 Locust Grove Dr. (314) 442· First-day school, 10 a.m., Friends meetinghouse, 3510 or (413) 243·1575. 8328. Damariscotta. Coming from the south on A1 . 1, tum left at MARTHA'S VINEYARO..Unprogrammed 10:30 a.m. KANSAS CITY-Penn Valley Meeting, 4405 Gillham Rd. the blinker light onto Belvedere Rd., right if coming from Hillside Village, Edgartown Ad. (508) 693-1834 or693- 10 a.m. Call: (816) 931-5256. the north. (207) 563·3464 or 582-8615. 0512. ST. LOUIS-Meeting 10:30 a.m. 2539 Rockford Ave., Rock ORONO..Unprogramrned meeting for worship 10 a.m. MATTAPOISETT..Unprogrammed 9:30a.m., Marion Road Hill. Phone: 962-3061 . Orono Commtr1ity Center. (207) 866-3892. (A1e. 6). All are welcome. (508) 758-3579. SPRINGFIELD-Sunrise Friends Meeting. Worship and PORTLAND-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school, NANTUCKET.Unprogrammed meeting each First Day, First-day school 11 a.m. each First Day at the Ecumenical 8 and 10:30 a.m. 1837 Forest Ave. (A1e. 302). Call (207) Center, SMSU campus, S. Rorence Ave. 1 0 a.m., Fair Street Meetinghouse, (508) 228-{)136. 680 797-4720. (417) 882·3963. WA TERBORO·Unprogrammed worship, First-day school NEW BEDFORD-unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 9 a.m. For details call (207) 625·8034, 324-4134. a.m. 83 Spring Street. Phone 990-{)710. All welcome. Montana BILLINGS-Call: (406) 252·5065 or (406) 656·2163. WHITING-Cobscook Friends Meeting. Meeting for NORTH SHORE-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. worship First Days 10 a.m. Jane Cook, clerk. (207) 726· Glen Urquhart School, Beverly Farms, Mass., (978) 283· GREAT FALLS·(406) 453-2714 or (406) 452·3998. 5032. 1547. HELENA-Call (406) 442·3058. NORTHAMPTON-Worship 11 a.m., adu~ discussion 9:30; MISSOULA-Unprogrammed, Sundays, 11 a.m. winter, 10 Maryland childcare. Smith College, Bass Hall, room 210. a.m. ,summer. 1861 South 12th Street W. (406) 549·6276. ADELPHI-Worship 10 a.m. Sunday. Sunday school (413) 584-2788. 10:20 a.m. (10 a.m. fourth Sun.). Adu~ 2nd hour SANDWICH-East Sandwich Meetinghouse, Quaker Nebraska 11 :30 a.m. 1sV3rdl5th Sun. Nursery, 2303 Metzerott, near Meeting House Ad. just north of Ate. 6A. Meeting for LINCOLN-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m. 3319 S. U. of Md. (301) 445-1 114. worship Sunday 10 a.m. (508) 888-4181. 46th. Phone: 488-4178. ANNAPOLIS-351 Dubois Rd. Worship 11 a.m. SOUTH SHORE-Worship and First-day school tO a.m. OMAHA-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m.; Univers~y Phone: (410) 573.0364. New England Friends Home, 86 Turkey Hill La., Hingham. Relig. Ctr., 101 N. Happy Hollow. 289-4156,391-4765. BALTIMORE· Stony Run: worship 9:30 and 11 a.m. except (617) 749-3556 or Clerk, Henry Stokes (617) 749-4383. 8:30 and 10 a.m. July and August. 5116 N. Charles St WELLESLEY-Meeting for worship and Sunday school Nevada 435-3n3. Homewood: worship and First-day school 10 a.m. at 26 Benvenue St. Phone: (617) 237.0268. LAS VEGAS-unprogrammed worship group. Call (702) 898-5785. 11 a.m. September-May, 10 a.m. June-August. 3107 WEST FALMOUTH-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Sunday. N. Charles St. 235-4438. 574 W. Fal. Hwy I A1e . 28A. (508) 398·3773. RENO-Unprogrammed worship, for information call: 329· 9400. BALTIMOREJSPARKS -<3unpowder Meeting. Worship WESTPORT-Meeting Sundays 10 a.m. Central Village. every First Day, 11 a.m. Call for directions. 636-4963. New Hampshire Phone: (410) n1-4583. WORCESTER-unprogrammed meeting for worship 11 CONCORD-Worship 10 a.m. Children welcomed and BETHESDA-Classes and worship 11 a.m. (year round) a.m. 901 Pleasant St. Phone: 754·3887. cared for. Merrimack Valley Day Care Center, 19 N. Frurt Sidwell Friends Lower School, Edgemoor Lane and St. Phone: (603) 783-4921. Beverly Rd. 966·8681. YARMOUTH-Friends Meeting at 58 North Main Street in South Yarrnou1h, Cape Cod, welcomes vis~ors for worship DOVER-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m., 141 Central CHESTERTOWN-Chester River Meeting, 124 at t Oa .m. each Sunday. (508) 398·3773. Ave. Childcare available. Clerk: Constance G. Weeks, Philosophers Terrace. Worship 11 a.m. Clerk: Yasuo (207) 439-2837, or wr~e : P. 0 . Box 98, Dover, NH 03820. Takahashi, P.O. Box 1005, Chestertown, MD 21620. (410) Michigan 778-19n. GONIC-Worship 2nd and 4th First Day, March through ALMA-MT. PLEASANT.Unprogrammed meeting. Singing December at 10 a.m. Clerk: Shirley Leslie. Phone: (603) DARLINGTON-Deer Creek Meeting. Worship 10:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Meeting for worship 9:45 a.m. followed by 332-5472. Clerk, Anne Gregory, (410) 457·9188. discussion 10:45 a.m. Clerk: Verne Bechill, (517) 463· HANOVER-Worship and First-day school, Sundays, EASTON-Third Haven Meeting, 405 S. Washington St. 4539. 1 0 a.m. Friends Meetinghouse, 43 Lebanon St. (next to 10 a.m. Kenneth Carroll, clerk, (410) 820·8347, 820-7952. ANN ARBOR-Meeting 10 a.m., adu~ discussion 11 :30 high school). Clerk: Anne Baird, (603) 989-3361. FALLSTON-L~t le Falls Meeting, Old Fallston Ad. Worship a.m. Meetinghouse, 1420 Hill St.; guest room LANCASTER-Unprogrammed meeting at the Episcopal 10:30 a.m. Clerk, Nancy Paaby, (410) 877-7245. reservations, (313) 761 ·7435. Co-clerks Pam and Phil Rectory first and third Sundays at 5:30 p.m. Check w~h Hoffer, (313) 662·3435. FREDERICK-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. First-day school Mary Ellen Cannon at (603) 788-3668. 10:15 a.m. Wednesday 5:30p.m. 723 N. Market St. BIRMINGHAM-Meeting 10:30 a.m. Brookside School NORTH SANOWICH-10:30 a.m. Contact: Webb, (301) 631·1257. Library. N.E. comer Lone Pine & Cranbrook, Bloomfield (603) 284-6215. SALISBURY-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. Carey Ave. Hills. Summer: Springdale Park, Strathmore Rd. (810) 377·8811. Clerk: Kyo Takahashi: (810) 647-3927. PETERBOROUGH·Monadnock Meeting at Peterborough/ at Glen. (41 0) 543-4343 or 957 ·3451. Jaffrey Line on At. 202. 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. (9:30 a.m. SANDY SPRING-Meetinghouse Road off Md. At. 108. DETROIT-First Day meeting 10:30 a.m. Call341·9404, or in July and August). (603) 532~203 wme 4011 Norfolk, Detro~. Ml 48221 , for information. Worship Sundays 9:30 and 11 a.m., and Thursdays WEARE·! 0:30 a.m., Quaker St., Henniker. Contact: Baker 7:30 p.m. Classes Sundays 11 a.m. First Sunday of EAST LANSING..Unprogrammed worship and First-day (603) 478-3230. month worship 9:30a.m. only, followed by meeting for school, 12:30 p.m. All Saints Episcopal Church Lounge, WEST EPPING-Unprogrammed. 10 a.m. on 1st and 3rd business. Phone (301) 774-9792. 800 Abbott Road. Accessible. Call 371 -1754 or 351-3094. First Days. Friend St. directly off A1 . 27. Clerk: Fmz Bell, SENECA VALLEY-Worship Group 11 :30 Kerr Hall, Boyds. GRANO RAPIDS-Worship and First-day schoolt0:30 a.m. (603) 895-2437. (616) 942-4713 or 454-7701. Children's program and weekly potluck. (301) 540-7828. New Jersey SOUTHERN MARYLAND-Patuxent Meeting. Worship HOUGHTON4-iancock Keweenaw Friends Meeting: tO a.m. Call Peter Rabenold (410) 394-3124. worship and First-day school first and third Sundays. ATLANTIC CITY AREA-Worship 11 a.m., 437A, S. PM ey Rd. Near Absecon. (609) 652·2637. UNION BRIDGE-Pipe Creek Meeting. Worship 10 a.m. (906) 296.0560 or 482~827. P.O. Box 487, Union Bridge, MD 21791. (301) 831·7446. KALAMAZOO-Meeting for worship and First-day school CAPE MAY-Beach meeting mid-June through Sept., 10 a.m., discussion and childcare 11 a.m. Friends 8:45 a.m., beach north of first-aid station. (609) 624·1165. Massachusetts Meetinghouse, 508 Denner. Phone: 349·1754. CINNAMINSON-Westfield Friends Meeting, Ate. 130 at ACTON-Worship and First-day school tO a.m. Harvey Riverton-Moorestown Rd. Meeting for worship 11 a.m., Wheeler Commun~y Center, comer Main and Church Sts. Minnesota First-day school t O a.m. West Concord (during summer in homes). Clerk: Sarah BRAINERD-unprogrammed meeting and discussion, CROPWELL-Meeting for worship 10:45 a.m. Old Mar~on Jeffries, 371-1619. Sundays 6:30. Call: (218) 963·7786. Pike, one mile west of Mar~on.

36 December 1997 FRIENDS ] OURNAL CROSSWI<;:KS-Meeting and First-day school 9:30 a.m. ALFRED-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. each First Day in unprogrammed worship at 11 a.m. every First Day. Phone (609) 298-4362. The Parish House, West Universny St. (212) 777-8866 (Mon.-Fri., 9-5) about First-day schools, DOVER-RANDOLPH-Worship and First-day school AM AWAL K-Worship 10:30 a.m. Quaker Church Rd., N. of monthly business meetings, and other information. 11 a.m. Randolph Friends Meetinghouse, Quaker Church Rte. 202·35, Yorktown Heights. (914) 669-8549. OLD CHATHAM -Meetilg for worship 11 a.m. Powell Rd. and Quaker Ave. between Center Grove Rd. and AUBURN-unprogrammed meeting 1 p.m. Seventh-day House, Ate. 13. Phone 794-8811. Millbrook Ave., Randolph. (973) 627-3987. worship. By appointment only. Auburn Prison, 135 State ONEONTA-8uttemuts Monthly Meeting. Worship GREENWICH-First-day school10:30 a.m., worship St., Auburn, NY 13021 . Requests must be processed 10:30 a.m. first Sunday. (607) 432-9395. Other Sundays: 11 :30 a.m., Ye GreateSt., Greenwich. (609) 451-8217. through Barbara A. Bowen, 25 Grover St., Auburn, NY Cooperstown, 547-5450 , Delhi, 829-6702; Norwich, HADDONFIELD-Worship 10 a.m.; First-day school 13021 . Phone: (315) 252-3532. 334-9433. follows, except summer. Babysitting provided during both. BROOKLYN-Worship and First-day school11 a.m. ORCHARD PARK-Worship and First-day school11 a .m. Friends Ave. and Lake St. Phone: 428-6242 or 428-5779. (childcare provided). 110 Schermerhorn St. For East Quaker St. at Freeman Rd. 662-5749. MANASQUAN-First-day school I 0 a.m., meeting information call (212) 777-8866 (Mon.-Fri., 9-5). Mailing POPLAR RIDGE-Worship 10 a.m. (3 15) 364·5563. 11 :15 a.m. Rte. 35 at Manasquan Circle. address: Box 730, Brooklyn, NY 11201. POUGHKEEPSIE-Meeting for worship and Sunday school MARLTON -See CROPWELL. BUFFALo-Worship 10:30 a.m. 72 N. Parade near 1 0 a .m. 249 Hooker Ave., 12603. (914) 454·2870. Science Museum. (716) 892·8645 for further information. MEDFORD-Worship 10 a.m. First-day school10:30 a.m. PURCHASE-Meeting for worship and First-day school10 Union St. Meetinghouse. (609) 953-8914 for info. BULLS HEAD RD.-Worship and First-day school10:30 a.m. Note new time. Purchase Street (Rt. 120) at Lake St. a.m. N. Dutchess Co., 1/4 mile E. Taconic Pky. (914) 266- Meeting telephone: (91 4) 949.0206 (answering machine). MICKLETON-Worship 10 a.m., First-day school 11 a.m. 3223. (609) 848-7449 or 423·5618. QUAKER STREET-Worship 10 a.m. Rte. 7 Quaker Street, CANTON-St. Lawrence Valley Friends Meeting, New York 12141 . Phone (518) 895-8169. MONTCLAIR-Meeting and First-day school 11 a.m. (315) 386-4648. except July and Aug. 10 a.m. Park St. and Gordonhurst ROCHESTER-Meeting for worship weekly at 8:45 a.m. Ave. Phone: (973) 746.0940. Visnors welcome. CATSKILL-tO a.m. worship. Rt. 55, Grahamsville. and 11:15 a.m., 41 Westminster Rd. at East Ave. (near November-April in members' homes. (914) 985-7409 or George Eastman House), First-day school and aduH MOORESTOWN-1 18 E. Main St. For meeting information (914) 434-3494. religious education at 10:15 a.m. On third First Days, call (609) 235-1561. CENTRAL FINGER LAKES-Penn Van, Sundays, Sept. children have junior meeting for worship (aduH-guided) MOUNT HOLLY-Meeting for worship 10:30 a .m. High and through June, 270 Lake St., rear, aduh and child's study during but separate from second meeting. On fourth First Garden Sts. Visnors welcome. Call: (609) 261-7575. 10 a .m., worship 11 a.m. July through Aug., worship in Days, children join the aduHs il second meeting. (716) MULLICA HILL-Main St. Sept.-May First-day school homes. Phone: (716) 526-5196. 271-o900. Please call ahead for the summer schedule. 9:45 a.m., meeting for worship 11 a.m. Meeting only, CHAPPAQUA-unprogrammed meeting for worship and ROCKLAND-Meeting for worship and First-day school June, July, and Aug., 10 a.m. First-day school10:30 a.m. Fhe. 120 Quaker Rd. 11 a.m. 60 Leber Rd., Blauveh. (914) 623-8473. NEW BRUNSWICK-Meeting and First-day school (914) 238-3170. RYE-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, 624 MiHon 10:30 a.m. Meeting only July and Aug., 9:30 a .m. CLINTON-Meeting, Sundays, 10:30 a.m. Kir1dand Art Road. Phone (91 4) 967.0539. 109 Nichol Ave. at Hale St. (732) 846-8969. Center, On-the-Park. Phone: 853-3035. SARANAC LAKE-Meetilg for worship and First-day school; (518) 523-3548 or (518) 891-4490. PLAINFIELD-Meeting for worship and First-day school CORNWALL-Worship w~h childcare and First-day school, 10 a.m. Wednesday at 8 p.m. 225 Watchung Ave. at E. 10:30 a.m .. Quaker Ave. Phone: 534-7474. SARATOGA SPRINGS-Worship and First-day school Third St. 757-5736. EASTON-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school 10 a.m. Phone: (518) 399-5013. PRINCETON-Worship 9 and 11 a.m. First-day school 11 a.m. Fhe. 40. (518) 664-6567 or 677-3693. SCARSDALE-Meeting for worship, 11 a.m. year round; 11 a.m. Oct-May. 470 Quaker Rd. near Mercer St. First-day school, third Sunday in Sept. through second ELMIRA-1 0:30 a.m. Sundays. 155 West 6th St. Phone: (609) 737-7142. Sunday in June, 11 a.m. 133 Popham Road, (914) 472- (607) 734-8894. QUAKERTOWN-Worship and First-day school 10:30 a.m. 1807. John Randall, clerk, (914) 476-6966. FREDONIA-Unprogrammed meeting 10:30 a .m. Call: Box 502, Quakertown 08868. (201) 782.0953. SCHENECTADY-Meeting for worship and First-day (716) 672-4427 or (716) 672-4518. RANCOCAS-First-day school tO a .m., meeting for school, 9:30a.m. 930 Albany Street. (518) 374-21 66. HAMILT ON-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Upperville worship 11 a.m. STATEN ISLAND-Meeting for worship Sundays at 11 a.m. Meetinghouse, Route 80, 3 miles west of Smyrna. Phone: Information: (718) 720-o643. · RIDGEWOOD-Meeting for worship and First-day school Marjory Clark, (607) 764-8341. 10:30 a.m. 224 Highwood Ave. (201) 445-8450. SYRACUSE-Worship 10:30 a.m. 821 Euclid Ave. HUDSON-Taghkanic-Hudson Friends Meeting. SALEM-Meeting for worship 11 a .m., First-day school Unprogrammed meeting for worship every Sunday at North Carolina 9:45a.m. July and Aug. worship 10 a.m. East Broadway. 10:30 a.m. Telephone: (518) 537·6618 or (518) 537-6617 ASHEVILLE-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and SEAVILLE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. (July/Aug. 10 (voice mail); e-mail: [email protected]. First-day school I 0 a.m., forum and childcare 11 a.m. a.m.) Main Shore Rd., Rte. 9 , Seaville. (609) 624-1165. ITHACA-Worship 11 a.m., Anabel Taylor Hall, Oct.-May, 227 Edgewood Rd. (704) 258.0974. SHREWSBURY-Meeting for worship and First-day school worship 10:30 a.m., Hector Meeting House, Perry cny BOONE-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and First-day 10:30 a.m. Rte. 35 and Sycamore. Phone: (732) 741- Rd., June-Sept. Phone: 273-5421 . school, 9 a.m. 381 E. King Street. Melissa Meyer, clerk, 4138. LONG ISLAND (QUEENS, NASSAU, SUFFOLK (910) 667-4354. SOMERSET/MORRIS COUNTIES-Somerset Hills Meeting, COUNTIES)-unprogrammed meetings for worship, 11 BREVARD-Unprogrammed meeting lor worship, 11 a.m. Communny Club, E. Main St., Brookside. Worship held a.m. First Days, unless otherwise noted. Oakdale and Duckworth Aves. (704) 884·7000. 10:30 a.m. Sept.-May. (908) 234-2488 or (908) 876-4491 . PECONIC BAY-Southampton; Administration Building, CELO-Meetilg 10:45 a.m., near Burnsville, off Fh. 80 S, SUMMIT -Meeting for worship and First-day school 11 a.m. Southampton College. (516) 283-7590 or 283-7591; 455 Hannah Branch Rd., (704) 675-4456. (July, Aug., 10 a.m.). 158 Southern Blvd., Chatham Sag Harbor, 96 Hempstead Street, 10:30, (516) 725- CHAPEL HILL-Meeting for worship 9 a.m. and 11 :15 a.m. Township. Visnors welcome. 2547; Southold, call (516) 765-1132. First-day school 11 :1 5 a .m. Childcare. During June, July, TRENTON-Meeting for worship and primary First-day FARMINGDALE-BETHPAGE-second and fourth First and August, worship at 9 and 10:30 a.m. 531 Raleigh Rd . school tO a.m. Hanover and Montgomery Sts. Children Days, preceded by Bible study, 10:30 a.m. Clerk: Judith Purvis, (919) 942-7834. Meetinghouse, welcomed and cared for. FLUSHING-Discussion 10 a.m.; First-day school11 (919) 929-5377. TU CKERTON·L~tle Egg Harbor Meeting. Left side of a.m. 137-16 Northern Blvd. (718) 358-9636. CHARLOTTE-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and Rte. 9 traveling north. Worship 10:30 a.m. JERICHO-Qid Jericho Tpke., off Ate. 25, just east of First-day school 10 a.m., forum 11 a.m. at Sharon WOODBURY-First-day school10 a.m., meeting for intersection w~h Rtes. 106 and 107. Seventh Day Adventist, 920 N. Sharon Am~y Rd. (704) worship 11 :15 a.m. 140 North Broad St. Telephone: LOCUST VALLEY·MATINECOCK-10 a.m. all year, 399-8465. (609) 845-5080, if no answer call 845-9516. FDS Sept.-June. Duck Pond and Piping Rock Rds. DAV IDSON-tO a.m. Carolina Inn. (704) 892-3996. WOODSTOWN-First-day school 9:30 a.m. Meeting for MANHASSET- Aduh class 10 a.m., FDS 11 a.m., DURHAM-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school worship 10:30 a.m. N. Main Street. (609) 358·3528. Winter. (Worship 10 a.m. June-August.) (516) 365· 10 a.m. 404 Alexander Ave. Contact Karen Stewart, New Mexico 5142. (919) 732-9630. ST. JAMES-CONSCIENCE BAY-Friends Way, off FAYETTEVILLE-Unprogrammed. Phone 485-5720. ALBUQUERQUE-Meeting and First-day school10:30 a.m. Moriches Rd. Aduh discussion, First-day school, and GREENSBORO-Friendship Meeting (unprogrammed), 1600 5th St., N.W., (505) 843-6450. singing. (516) 862·6213. 1103 New Garden Rd. Worship 10:30 a .m. Call: GALLUP-Worship group meets Sundays 10:30 a.m. Call SHELTER ISLAND EXECUTIVE MEETING-I 0:30a.m. (910) 294-2095 or 854-5155. 863-8911 or 883-4697. Summers: Circle at Quaker Martyr's Monument, GREENSBORO-New Garden Friends Meeting. Meeting LAS CRUCES-tO a.m. worship, childcare. 2610 S. Sylvester Manor. (516) 749.0555. Willers, call for worship: unprogrammed 9 a.m.; semi-programmed 11 Solano. 522-o672 (mach.) or 521-4260 (Anne-Marie & (516) 324-8557. a.m. First-day school 9:30 a.m. Hank Semmler, clerk; ISRNI). WESTBURY-550 Post Ave., just south of Jericho Tpke. David W. Bills, pastoral minister. 801 New Garden Road, SANTA FE -Meeting for worship, Sundays 9 and 11 a .m. at Exn 32-N, Northern State Pkwy. First-day school and 27410. (91 0) 292-5487. Olive Rush Studio, 630 Canyon Rd. Phone: 983-7241. child care during meeting. (516) 333-3178. GREENVILLE-Unprogrammed worship and First-day CHAMISA FRIENDS PREPARATIVE MEETING-4 p.m. MT. KISCo-croton Valley Meetilg. Meetinghouse Road, school. 355-7230 or 758-6789. worship/children's prog. at Westminster Presb. Church on oppos~e Stanwood. Worship 11 a.m. Sunday HICKORY-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school Manhattan at St. Francis. Info. (505) 466-6209. (914) 666-8602. 10:15 a.m., forum 11 :30 a.m. 328 N. Center St., (704) SILVER CITY AREA-Gila Friends Meeting. 10 a.m. Call: NEW PALTZ-Worship, First-day school, and childcare 328-3334. 388-3388, 536-9565, or 535-4137 for location. 10:30 a.m. 8 N. Manheim. (9 14) 255-5678. MOREHEAD CITY-unprogrammed. First and Third SOCORRO-Worship group, first, third, fifth Sundays, NEW YORK CITY-At 15 Rutherford Place (15th Street), Sundays, 2:30 p.m., Webb Building, 9th and Evans Street. 10 a.m. Call: 835-Q013 or 835.0277. Manhattan: unprogrammed worship every First Day at Discussion, fellowship. Bob (919) 726·2035; Tom (919) 9:30a.m. and 11 a.m.; programmed worship at 10 a.m. on 728-7083. New York the first First Day of every month. Earl Hall, Columbia RALEIGH-unprogrammed. Meeting for worship Sunday at ALBANY-Worship and First-day school11 a.m. Universny: unprogrammed worship every First Day at 10 a.m., wnh First-day school lor children. Discussions at 727 Madison Ave. Phone: 436-8812. 11 a.m. At 11 0 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn: 11 a.m. 625 Tower Street, Raleigh, NC. (919) 821-4414.

FRIENDS JOURNAL December 1997 37 WENTWORTWREIDSVILLE..Open worship and childcare BRIDGE CITY WORSHIP GROUP-1 0 a.m. at Historic KENDAL·Worship 10:30 a.m. Ate. 1, 1 mi. N. of 10:30 a.m. Call: (919) 349-5727 or (919) 427-3188. Neighborhood House, 3030 S. W. 2nd Ave., Portland. Longwood Gardens. WILMINGTON-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m., First-day school, 10:15 a.m. Contact Chris Cradler KENNETT SQUARE-First-day school10 a.m., worship discussion 1o a.m., 313 Castle St. (503) 287-6601 . 11 a.m. Union and Sickles. Robert B. McKinistry, clerk, WOODLAND-Cedar Grove Meeting. Sabbath school FANNO CREEK WORSHIP GROUP-10:30 at Dant (61 0) 444-4449. 10 a.m., meeting tor worship 11 a.m. Bill Remmes. clerl<. House, Catlin Gable School, 8825 S.W. Barnes Road, LANCASTER-Meeting and First-day school10 a.m. (919) 587-9981 . Portland. catlin Gable School is next door to 110 Tulane Terr. 392-2762. Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, near the North Dakota intersection of U.S. 26 and Oregon 217. Contact Bob LANSDOWNE-First-day school and activities 10 a.m. Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Lansdowne and Stewart FARGO-Unprogrammed meeting, 10:30 a.m. Sundays, Keeler at (503) 292-8114. Aves. UCM Building, 1239 121h St. N. (218) 233·5325. MOUNTAIN VIEW WORSHIP GROUP-10 a.m. on first and third Sundays at 601 Union Street, The Dalles, LEHIGH VALLEY-BETHLEHEM-Worship and First-day Ohio Oregon, serving The Dalles, Hood River, and school 9:30 a.m. Programs for all ages 10 :45 a.m. On AKRON-Unprogrammed worship and childcare, 1 0:30 surrounding areas. Contact Lark Lennox (541) 296- Ate. 512, 1/2 mile north of Rte. 22. a.m. Discussion and childcare, 9:30 a.m. 216 Myrtle 3949 or Jeff Hunter (541) 386-5779. LEWISBURG-Worship 11 a.m. Sundays. Vaughn Lit. Place, Akron, OH 44303; 374·0521. SADDLE MOUNTAIN WORSHIP GROUP-10:1 0 a.m. Bldg. Library, Bucknell University. Telephone: (717) 524- ATHENS-1 0 a.m., 22 Birge, Chauncey (614) 797-4636. on second and fourth Sundays at Fire Mountain School 4297. BOWLING GREEN-Broadmead Friends Meeting FGC. near Cannon Beach on the northern Oregon coast. LONDON GROVE-Friends meeting Sunday 9:30 a.m., Unprogrammed worship groups meet at: Contact Jan (503) 436.0143. childcare/First-day school 10:30 a.m. Newark Rd. and BLUFFTON-Sally Weaver Sommer, clerk, For other opportunities for small group worship, call Ate. 926. (419) 358-5411 . MuHnomah Meeting at 232-2822. MARSHALLTON-Bradford Meeting (unprogrammed), FINDLAY-Joe Davis, (419) 422-7688. PORTLAND/BEAVERTON-F anno Creek Worship Group. Ate. 162, 4 mi. west of West Chester. 11 a.m. 692-4215. TOLEDO-Ruth Taber, (419) 878-6641. Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m. Sundays, Sept.-June. MEDIA-Worship 11 a.m. (10 a.m. July-Aug.) Joint First­ Childcare. First-day school 1st and 2nd Sundays. Oregon day school 9:30 a.m. at Media, Sept.-Jan., and at CINCINNATI-Eastern Hills Friends Meeting, 1671 Nagel Episcopal School, 6300 SW Nicol Rd. (503) 292·8114. Providence, Feb.-June, 125 W. Third St. Road, Sunday 10 a.m. (513) 474-9670. SALEM-Meeting for worship 10 a.m., Forum 11 a.m. MEDIA-Providence Meeting, 105 N. Providence Rd. CINCINNATI-Community Meeting (United FGC and FUM), YWCA, 768 State St., 399·1908. Call for summer (610) 566-1308. Worship 11 a.m. Joint First-day school 3960 Wonding Way, 45229. Worship from silence and schedule. 9:30 at Providence, Feb.-June and at Media, Sept.-Jan. First-day school10 a.m. Quaker-house phone: (513) 861- 4353. Franchot Ballinger, clerk. Pennsylvania MERION-Meeting for worship 11 a.m., First-day school 10:15 except summer months. Babysitting provided. CLEVELAND-Meeting for worship and First-day school ABINGTON-First-day school (summer-{)utdoor meeting) Meetinghouse Lane at Montgomery. 11 a.m. 10916 Magnolia Or. (216) 791-2220. 9:45a.m., worship 11 :15 a.m. Childcare. Meetinghouse MIDDLETOWN-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. First-day Ad/ Greenwood Ave., Jenkintown. (E. of York Rd., N. of COLUMBUS-Unprogrammed meeting 10:30 a.m. school 10:30-11:30 a.m. AduH education 10:30-11 a.m. 1954 Indianola Ave.; (614) 291-2331 or (614) 487-8422. Philadelphia.) (215) 884-2865. Delaware County, Rte. 352 N. of Lima. (610) 358-1528. DAYTON-Friends meeting FGC. Unprogrammed worship BIRMINGHAM-First-day school10 a.m., worship 10:15. MIDDLETOWN-First-day school 9:30 a.m., meeting for and First-day school 10 a.m. 1516 Salem Ave. • Am. 236 1245 Birmingham Rd. S. of West Chester on Ate. 202 to worship t1 a.m. Seventh and eighth months worship Phone: (513) 426-9875. Ate. 926, tum W. to Birmingham Rd., tum S. 1/4 mile. 1 0-11 a.m. At Langhorne. 453 W. Maple Ave. DELAWARE-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day BUCKINGHAM-Worship and First-day school, 1 0:30 a.m. MILLVILLE-Worship 10 a.m., First-day school 11 a.m. school, 10:30 a.m., the music room in Andrews House, at 5684 York Rd. (Routes 202-263), Lahaska. Main St. Dean Girton, (717) 458-6431 . the comer of W. Winter and N. Franklin Streets. For (215) 794-7299. summer and 2nd Sundays, call (614) 362-8921. NEWTOWN (Bucks Co.)-Worship 11 a.m. First-day CARLISLE·First·day school, Meeting for worship 10 a.m.; school for aduhs and children. 9:45a.m. except summer GRANVILLE-Unprogrammed meeting at 10 a.m. For 252 A Street, (717) 249·8899. -months. 219 Court St. (off S. State St.); 3 mi. west of 1-95, information, call (614) 587-1070. CHAMBERSBURG-Meeting for worship 1 0:30a.m., exit 30. (215) 968-3801. KENT-Meeting for worship and First-day school 630 Lindia Drive, telephone (717) 261-0736. NEWTOWN SQUARE Co.)-Forum 10 a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m., UCM lounge, 1435 East Main Street. David (Del. CHELTENHAM ·See Philadelphia listing. Stilwell, clerk. Phone: (216) 869-5563. 11 a.m. Ate. 252 N. of Ate. 3. (61 0) 356-4778. CHESTER-Meeting for worship 11 a.m., Sunday. 24th and NORRISTOWN-Meeting for worship and First-day school MANSFIELD-Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m., first and third Sundays. (419) 756-4441 or 289-8335. Chestnut Sts., (610) 874-5860. 10 a.m. on First Day at Swede and Jacoby Sts. Telephone: (610) 279-3765. Mail: P.O. Box 823, MARIETTA-Mid-Ohio Valley Friends unprogrammed CONCORD-Worship and First-day school 11 :15 a.m. At Concordville, on Concord Rd. one block south of Ate. 1. Norristown, PA 19404. worship First Day mornings at 10:30. Betsey Mills Club, 4th and Putnam Sts. Phone: (614) 373-2466. DARBY-Meeting for worship and First-day school 11 a.m. OXFORD-First-day school 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m. Main at 1Oth St. 260 S. 3rd St., P.O. Box 168, Oxford, PA 19363. (610) OBERLIN-$ilent worship Sundays, 10:30 a.m., 68 S. 932-8572. Clerk: Harriet Magoon, (61 0) 932-5190. Professor. Midweek meeting Thursday, 4:15p.m.• Kendal DOLINGTON-MAKEFIELD·Worship 11-11:30 a.m. First· at Oberlin. P.O. Box 444, 44074; (216) 775-2368. day school 11 :30-12:30. East of Dolington on MI. Eyre PENNSBURG·Unami Monthly Meeting meets First Days Rd. at 11 a.m. Meetinghouse at 5th and Macoby Sts. Geoffrey OXFORD-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school, Kaiser, clerk: (215) 234-8424. 10 a.m. (513) 523-5802 or (513) 523-1061. DOWNINGTOWN-First-day school (except summer months) and worship 10:30 a.m. 800 E. Lancaster Ave. PHILADELPHIA-Meetings 10:30 a.m. unless specnied; WAYNESVILLE-Friends meeting, First-day school phone 241-7221 for information about First-day schools. 9:30a.m., unprogrammed worship 10:45 a.m. 4th and (south side old Rte. 30, 112 mile east of town). 269-2899. Hight Sts. (513) 885-7276, 897-8959. DOYLESTOWN-Meeting for worship and First-day school BYBERRY-{)ne mile east of RooseveH Boulevard at Southampton Ad., 11 a.m. WILMINGTON-Campus Meeting (FUM/FGC), Kelly 10 a.m. East Oakland Ave. CENTRAL PHILADELPHIA-Meeting for worship 11 Center. Unprogrammed worship 10:15 a.m. (937) 382· DUNNINGS CREEK-First-day schooVMeeting for worship a.m. (10 a.m. July and August). 15th and Cherry Sts. 0067. begins 10 a.m. N.W. Bedford at Fishertown. 623-5350. CHELTENHAM~eanes Hospital grounds, Fox Chase, WOOSTER-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school ERIE-Unprogrammed worship. Call: (814) 866-0682. 10:30 a.m. S.W. comer College and Pine Sts. 11:30 a.m. July and Aug. 10:30 a.m.. (215) 342-4544. FALLSINGTON (Bucks County)·Falls Meeting, Main St. CHESTNUT HILL-1 00 E. Mermaid Lane. (216) 345-8684 or 262-7650. First-day school 10 a.m., meeting for worship 11 a.m. Five YELLOW SPRINGS-unprogrammed worship, FGC, miles from Pennsbury, reconstructed manor home of FOURTH AND ARCH STS.-10 a.m. on Thursdays. 11 a.m. Rockford Meetinghouse, President St. (Antioch William Penn. FRANKFORD-Penn and Orthodox Sts., 10:30 a.m. campus). Clerk, Bruce Heckman: (513) 767-7973. GLENSIDE-Unprogrammed, Christ-centered worship. FRANKFORD-unity and Wain Sts.. Friday eve. Oklahoma First-day 10:30 a.m., Fourth-day, 7:30p.m. 16 Huber St., 7:30 p.m. Glenside (near Railroad Station) Telephone (215) 576- GERMANTOWN MEEnNG-CouHer St. and OKLAHOMA CITY-Friends Meetinghouse, 312 S.E. 25th. 1450. Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 a.m., Quaker Germantown Ave. study group, midweek. (405) 632-7574, 631-41 74. GOSHEN-First-day school10 a.m., worship 10:45 a.m. GREEN STREET MEEnNG-45 W. School House Lane. Goshenville, intersection of Ate. 352 and Paoli Pike. STILLWATER-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 11 PHOENIXVILLE-Schuylkill Meeting. East of Phoenixville a.m. For information call (405) 372-5892 or 372-4839. GWYNEDD-First-day school 9:45 a.m., except summer. and north of juncture of Wh~ehorse Rd. and Rte. 23. Worship 11 :15 a.m. Sumneytown Pike and Ate. 202. TULSA-Green Country Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed Worship 10 a.m., forum 11:15 a.m. worship 5:15p.m. Forum 4 p.m. For information, call HARRISBURG-Worship 11 a.m., First-day school and PITTSBURGH-Meeting for worship and school! 0:30a.m.; (918) 743-6827. aduH education (Sept. to May) 9:45 a.m. Sixth and Herr 4836 Ellsworth Ave., (412) 683-2669. Sts. Phone: (717) 232·7282 or 232-1326. PLYMOUTH MEETING-Worship, First-day school Oregon HAVERFORD-First-day school10:30 a.m., meeting for 11 :15 a.m. Germantown Pike and Butler Pike. ASHLAND-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Sunday. worship 10:30 a.m., fifth-day meeting for worship 10 a.m. POCONOS·Ster1ing-Newfoundland. Worship group under 1150 Ashland St. (541) 482-4335. at the College, Commons Room. Buck Lane, between the care of North Branch (Wilkes-Barre) Meeting. CORVALLIS-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. Lancaster Pike and Haverford Rd. (717) 689-2353 or 689-7552. 3311 N.W. Polk Ave. Phone: 752-3569. HAVERTOWN..Qid Haverford Meeting. East Eagle Rd. at POTTSTOWN-READING AREA-Exeter Meeting. EUGENE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. Sunday. 2274 Saint Dennis Lane, Havertown; First-day school and aduH Meetinghouse Rd. off 562, 1 and 6/10 miles W. of 662 and Onyx St. Phone: 343-3840. forum, 10 a.m., meeting for worship 11 a.m. 562 intersection and Yellow House. Worship 10:30 a.m. FLORENCE-Unprogrammed worship (503) 997-4237 or HORSHAM-First-day school, meeting 10 a.m. Rte. 611. QUAKERTOWN-Richland Monthly Meeting, 244 S. Main 964-5691 . HUNTINGDON-unprogrammed meeting for worship, 10 :30 St., First·day school and meeting for worship 10 :30 a.m. PORTLAND-MuHnomah Monthly Meeting, 4312 S.E. a.m., for location/directions call (814) 641-7139. RADNOR-Radnor Meeting for worship and First-day Stark. Meeting lor worship at 8:30a.m and 10 a.m INDIANA-unprogrammed meeting for worship, 10:30 a.m., school10 a.m. Conestoga and Sproul Roads, lthan, Pa. Sunday. First-day school, 10:1 5 a.m. Phone: 232-2822. first and third Sundays. (412) 349-3338. (61 0) 688-9205.

38 December 1997 FRIENDS J OURNAL READING-First-day school10:15 a.m., meeting 10:30 WEST KNOXVILLE-Worship and First-day school1 0 a.m. MCLEAN-Langley Hill Friends Meeting, 6410 Georgetown a.m. 108 North Sixth St. (610) 372-5345. D.W. Newton, 693-8540. Pike, Mclean. Meeting for worship 10 a.m., First-day SOLEBURY-Worship 10 a.m., First-day school10:45 a.m. school and "Second hoUI" at 11 a.m. Babysitting Sugan Ad., 2 miles N.W. of New Hope. (215) 297-5054. Texas available. (703) 442-6394. SOUTHAMPTON (Bucks Co.)-Worship and First-day ALPINE-Meeting for worship, Sunday, 10:30-11:30 a.m. in NORFOLK-Worship and First-day school at 10 a.m. school 10 a.m., Adutt forum 11 a.m. Street and Gravel Hill the home of George and Martha Floro. Call: Phone (804) 624-1272 for information. Ads. (215) 364-0581. (91 5) 837-2930 for information. RICHMOND-Worship 9:30 and 11 a.m. 4500 Kensington SPRINGFIELD-Meeting and First-day school, 11 a.m., AUSTIN-Forum 10 a.m., unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. Ave. (804) 358-6185. W. Springlield and Old Sproul Ads. Del. Co. 328-2425. Supervised activfties and First-day school for young RICHMOND-Midlothian Meeting. Worship 11 a.m., STATE COLLEGE-First-day school and adutt discussion Friends. 3014 Washington Square. 452-1841. children's First-day school11 :15 a.m. (804) 743-8953. 10 a.m. worship 11 a.m. 611 E. Prospect Ave. 16801. DALLAS-Sunday 10 a.m. 5828 Worth St. Hannah Kirk ROANOKE-Worship 10:30 a.m. Info.: Waring, (540) 343- SWARTHMORE-Meeting and First-day school10 a.m., Pyle, clerk. (214) 826-6097 or call (214) 821-6543. 6769, or Fetter, (540) 982-1 034. forum 11 a.m. Whittier Place, college campus. El PASO-Meeting at 10 a.m. Sunday. 2821 Idalia, VIRGINIA BEACH-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. (based on UPPER DUBLIN-Worship & First-day school 11 a.m. Sept. El Paso, TX 79930. Please use the back door. Phone: silence). 1537 Laskin Rd., Virginia Beach, VA 23451. through June; 10 a.m., July & August. Ft. Washington (915) 534-6203. Please leave a message. (757) 481-5711. Ave. & Meeting House Rd., near Ambler. (215) 653-Q788. FORT WORTH-unprogrammed meeting at Wesley WESTMORELAND-Unprogrammed worship. P .0. Box VALLEY-1121 Old Eagle School Ad., Wayne. Worship Foundation, 2750 West l owden, 11 a.m. Discussion 460, Colonial Beach, VA 22443. (804) 224-8847 or and First-day school10 a.m., forum 11 :10 a.m. Close to follows worship. (817) 428-9941 . Sasha @novalink.com. Valley Forge, King of Prussia, Audubon, and Devon. (61O) GALVESTON-Worship, First Day 11 a.m.; 1501 Post WILLIAMSBURG-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 688·5757. Office St. (409) 762-1785 or 740-2781 or 762-7361. 4 p .m. Sundays, First-day school 5 p.m. 1333 Jamestown WELLSBORO-Meeting/childcare 10:30 a.m. Sundays at HILL COUNmY-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m., Road, (804) 229-6693. I. Comstock Seventh-Day Adv. Sch.; (717) 324-2470/92. discussion 10 a.m. Kerrville, Tex. Clerk: Polly Clark: WILLIS WHARF-Parting Creek Worship Group 11 a.m. WEST CHESTER-First-day school 10:30 a.m., worship (210) 238-4154. Phone (757) 442·2039 10:45. 425 N. High St. Caroline Helmuth, (610) 696-0491 . HOUSTON-Live Oak Meeting. Unprogrammed worship WINCHESTER-centre Meeting, comer of Washington and WEST GROVE-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Sept.-May: adutt discussion 9:30a.m.; Picadilly, Winchester, Va. Worship 10:15 a.m. Contact 153 E. Harmony Road, P.O. Box 7. supervised activfties and First-day school for children Betty/David (540) 662-7998, or e-mail: [email protected] WESTTOWN-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday. 9:3Q-noon. At SSQQ, 4803 Bissonnet. (713) 862-6685. Westtown School campus, Westtown, PA 19395. LUBBOCK-unprogrammed worship, Sunday morning WINCHESTER-Hopewell Meeting. 7 mi. N. on Ate. 11 (Clearbrook). Unprogrammed meeting for worship WILKES-BARRE-North Branch Monthly Meeting. 10: 45-11 :45 a.m. Unfted Campus Ministries Building, 2412 13th St. (806) 799·3307 or791-4890. 10:15 a.m. First·day school11 a.m. Clerk: (703) 667- Wyoming Seminary Lower School, 1560 Wyoming Ave.• 1018. Forty Fort. Sunday school 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m. For RIO GRANDE VALLEY-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. summer and vacations, phone: (717) 825-Q675. Sundays. For location call Carol J. Brown (210) 686-4855. Washington WILLISTOWN-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. SAN ANTONIO-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. BELLEVUE-Eastside Friends. 4160 158th Ave. SE. Goshen and Warren Ads., Newtown Square, A.D. 1. Discussion 11 a.m. at Methodist Student Center, Worship 10 a.m., study 11 a.m. (425) 747-4722 or (206) Phone: (610) 356·9799. 102 Belknap. Mail: P.O. Box 6127, San Antonio, TX 547-6449. WRIGHTSTOWN-Ate. 413. Meeting for worship Sunday 78209. (21 0) 945-6456. BELLINGHAM-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m., sharing 10 a.m. lor all. First-day school1 0:15 a.m. for children, TYLER-unprogrammed. Call: (903) 725-6283. 11 :30 a.m. Children's program. Lairmont Manor, 405 adutt time variable. (215) 968-9900. Fieldston Rd. Clerk, Unda Lyman (360) 738·8599. YARDLEY-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. First-day school Utah LOPEZ ISLAND-Worship group meets weekly on Sunday follows meeting during winter months. North Main St. SALT LAKE CITY-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day 10 a.m. in homes of members. Please call (206) 468·3764 YORK-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 11 a.m. school 10 a.m. Friends Meetinghouse, 1140 South 900 or 468-2406 for information. 135 W. Philadelphia St.; clerk, Lamar Matthew: East. Telephone: (801) 359-1506 or 582-Q719. OLYMPIA-Worship 10 a.m. 219 B Street S.W., Tumwater, (717) 843-2285. WA 98502. First Sunday each month potluck breakfast at Vermont 9 a.m. Phone: 943-3818 or 357-3855. Puerto Rico BARTON-Glover Friends Meeting 9:30 a.m. Sundays. PORT TOWNSEND-10 a.m. Sunday (360) 385·7070. SAN JUAN-Quaker Worship Group. Call Faith (787) 754- Barton library basement. 525-6961 or 525-6990. PULLMAN-See Moscow, Idaho. 5937, msg/fax (787) 767-3299. BENNINGTON-Worship, Sundays 10 a.m., Senior Service SEATTLE-Salmon Bay Meeting at Phinney Center, Rhode Island Center, 124 Pleasant St., 1 block north, 1/2 block east of 6532 Phinney N.; worship at 10 a.m. (206) 282·3322. intersection of At. 7 and Main St. (At. 9). (802) 442-6010. PROVIDENCE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. each First SEATTLE-Universfty Friends Meeting 4001 9th Ave. N.E. Day. 99 Morris Ave., comer of Olney St. BURLINGTON-Worship 10:3o- 11 :30 a.m. Sunday. 173 Quiet worship First Days 9:30 and 11 a.m. 547·6449. North Prospect St. Phone: (802) 660-9221. SAYLESVILLE-Worship 10:30 a.m. each First Day. Accommodations: 632-9839. Lincoln-Great Rd. (Ate. 126) at River Ad. MIDDLEBURY-Worship 10 a.m. at ParenVChild Center. SPOKANE-Unprogrammed worship. 536·6622, 326-4496. 11 Monroe Street. Middlebury. (802) 388·7684. WESTERLY-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school TACOMA-Tacoma Friends Meeting, 3019 N. 21st St. 10:30 a.m. 57 Elm St. (401) 596-Q034. PLAINFIELD-Each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Call Hathaway, Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m., First-day discussion (802) 223·6480 or Gilson, (802) 684·2261. 11 a.m. Phone: 759·191 0. WOONSOCKET-Smfthfield Friends Meeting,108 Smithfield Road, (Ate 146-A). Worship each First day at PUTNEY-Worship, Sunday, 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Singing TAl-CITIES-Unprogrammed worship. Phone: 10:30 a.m. (401) 762-5726. from 10:15 to 10:30 a.m. First-day school for all (509) 946-4082. 9:30 a.m. Ate. 5, north of village, Putney. (603) 256-6362. WALLA WALLA-10 a.m. Sundays. 522-Q399. South Carolina WILDERNESS-Meetilg for worship 10 a.m. in Wallingford. CHARLESTON-Meeting for worship Sundays. Campus Rotary Building, N. Main St. Call Kate Brinton, (802) 228- West Virginia Ministry Office, College of Charleston. Call or wrfte for the 8942, or len Cadwallader, (802) 446-2565. CHARLESTON-Worship Sundays 10 a.m. Wellons (304) time: (803) 723·5820, P.O. Box 1665, Charleston, SC 345-86591747·7896 (work) or Leslie or Ben Carter 733· 29402. Virginia 3604. COLUMBIA-Meeting for worship and First-day school ALEXANDRIA-Worship every First Day 11 a.m., MORGANTOWN-Monongalia Friends Meeting. Every 10 a.m .. forum 11:30 a.m., Harmony School, unprogrammed worship and First-day school. Woodlawn Sunday 11 a.m. Phone: Lurline Squire, (304) 599-3109. 3737 Covenant Rd., (803) 252·2221 . Vi sitors welcome. Meeting House, 8 miles S. of Alexandria, near US 1. Call PARKERSBURG-Mid-Ohio Valley Friends. Phone: GREENVILLE-(unprogrammed) meets each First Day in the (703) 781-9185 or 455-Q194. (304) 428·6595. See Marietta, Ohio, listing. residence of Ben and Carolee Cameron at 6 Ramblewood CHARLOTTESVILLE-Discussion 9:45 a.m., worship Wisconsin Lane, Greenville, SC 29615 at 4 p.m. EST., ie. 4 p.m. EST. or 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. (childcare available). Summer 5 p.m. EDST., when ft is in effect For directions call lewis worship only 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. 11 04 Forest St. BELOIT-unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. Sundays, Shallcross at (864) 89&-7205. Phone: (804) 971-6859. 811 Clary St. Phone: (608) 365-5858. HOARY-Worship Sundays, 10:30 a.m. (unprogrammed), FARMVILLE-Quaker Lake Meeting, d iscussion 10 a.m., EAU CLAIRE-Menomonie Friends Meeting for worship Grace Gifford, inland, (803) 365-6654. worship 11 a.m. (804) 223-4160 or 392-5540. and First-day school at the meetinghouse (1718 1Oth Street, Menomonie, 235-6366) or in Eau Claire. Call: 235- Tennessee FLOYD-unprogrammed meeting and First-day school 2886 or 832-Q721 for schedule. 10 a.m. Call for directions. (540) 745-4340, or 929-4848. CHATTANOOGA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and GREEN BAY/APPLETON-Meeting for worship and First­ children's First-day school1 0 a.m. 335 Crest way Drive, HARRISONBURG-Unprogrammed worship, 4:30p.m. day school 11 a.m. Contact Reed Hardy, clerk: Sundays, Ate. 33 West. (540) 828-3066 or 885-7973. 37411 . (615) 629-5914. (414) 337-Q904. CROSSVILLE-Worship 10 a.m., discussion 11 a.m. At. 8, HARRISONBURG-Qhio YM. Unprogrammed Christian MADISON-Meetinghouse, 1704 Roberts C1., (608) Box 25. Gladys Draudt, clerk: 484-6920. worship, 10:30 a.m. (540) 867-5788 or 433-5871. 256-2249. Unprogrammed worship Sunday at 9 and 11 a.m., Wednesday at 7 a.m., 12 noon, 5:15p.m., and JOHNSON CITY-Tri-Cfties Friends (unprogrammed). Edie HERNDON-Singing 10:15 a.m. Worship and First-day 8:30p.m. Children's classes at 11 a.m. Sunday. Patrick, (423) 283-4392 or ewpatrick@ aol.com. school10:30 a.m. 660 Spring St. (703) 736-Q592. LEXINGTON-Maury River Meeting. Worship at 10 a.m. MILWAUKEE-Meeting for worship 10:15 a.m. MEMPHIS-Meeting for worship (unprogrammed) and First­ 3224 N. Gordon Pl. Phone (414) 332-9846 or 263·2111 . day school 11 a.m. Discussion 10 a.m. 917 S. Cooper, (unprogrammed), First-day school 11 :15 a.m. Phone (540) (901) 372-6130. 464-351 1. Interstate 64 West, Exft: 50, At. 850. Wyoming NASHVILLE-Adutt sharing (child care offered) 9:15a.m. LINCOLN-Goose Creek Unfted Meeting for worship 9:45 WYOMING MEETING-Unprogrammed worship: Jackson, Singing for all 10:15 a.m. Meeting for worship/First-day a.m. each First Day. First-day school 10 a.m. (307) 733-3105; Lander, 332-6518; laramie, 745·7296; school 10:30 a.m. 2804 Acklen Ave., (615) 269·0225. lYNCHBURG-Worship 10:30 a.m. 2nd and 4th First Days; Savery, 383-2625; Sheridan, 672-6779. Call for time and F. John Potter, clerk. Info: Owens, (804) 846-5331, or Koring, (804) 847-4301. place.

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