July 2002 Quaker Thought and Life Today

A BIG EVENT IN A SMALL MEETING WITH A SMALL SCHOOL "UNDER ITS CARE"

CAN LOVE REALLY OVERCOME VIOLENCE AND HATE?

ROBERT PURVIS: FRIEND OF THE FRIENDS An Among Friends independent magazine serving the Religious Tune to Mind the Light Society of Friends ecently I've had ample opportunity to reflect on the difference one person can make. My daughter has just undergone necessary elective surgery and her Editorial recovery has been a painful and complicated one. During her days of Susan Corson-Finnerty (Publishi!T' and Ex~cutiv~ R Editor), Robert Dockhorn (Senior Editor), Lisa Rand hospitalization and recuperation at home, I've been keenly aware that my {Amstant Editor}, Judith Brown {Poetry Editor), Ellen interventions on her behalf have made a tremendous difference in how much pain Michaud (Book Review Editor),). Brent Bill (Arsistant Book Review Editor}, Joan Overman (Book Review she's had to bear and how quickly her complications have been addressed. There Arsistant}, Christine Rusch (MilLstones Editor}, Julie hasn't been a roadmap in finding our way, as is true for so much in life. While she Gochenour, Robert Marks, Cameron McWhirter (News Editors), Kara Newell (Columnist), Marjorie was in the hospital, I passed by many rooms where individuals lay sick and alone, and Schier (Copyditor), Amber Graven, Elizabeth I wondered how many of them were getting the support and advocacy they needed. Markham, Nicole Perry, Molly Wilson {Interns} My daughter is now on the road to recovery, but I'm still reflecting on the impact of Production Barbara Benron (An Director), Alia Podolsky just one determined person. {Arsistant Art Dir«tor), Marrin Kelley ( W~b Managi!T) Many of the articles in this issue similarly highlight the difference individuals can Advertising, Circulation, Development make, even when the circumstances we face are ovetwhelming and our efforts seem Nagendran Gulendran {Advmising Managi!T), Nicole Hackel {Cirr:ulation Arsistant}, Melissa far too small to be anything but futile. Robert Purvis in the 19th century struggled Heyman (Administrativ~ Arsistant}, Pamela Nelson with racism, women's and human rights, protesting injustices throughout his adult (Droewpment Arsistant), Grerra Srone {Droewpment Coordinator), Kay Bacon, Ruth Peterson, Robert life, as Margaret Bacon tells us in "Robert Purvis, Friend of the Friends" (p. 20). The Surton (Volunturs) seeds that Purvis and others planted in the 19th century bore much fruit in the 20th, Administration although that work is by no means finished. In "Family" (p. 18), Helen Weaver Marianne De Lange (Office Managi!T), Tom McPeak (Accounting S!!T'Vices}, Tom Harrmann ( Voluntei!T) Horn shares a beautiful description of her response to an isolated elderly man and an Board of Trustees orphaned fawn-both offered an opportunity to thrive through caring attention Barbara Andrews, TylaAnn Burger {Treasurer}, Katharine Clark, Linda Coffin, John Darnell, freely given. JoAnn Seaver, in "A Big Event in a Small Meeting with a Small School William Deutsch (Assistant C!Lrk), Mary Ann 'Under its Care"' (p. 16), describes a process carefully worked out by members of her Downey, Walter Evans, Marsha Green {Recording to C!Lrk), Dan Hewirt, Linda Lyman, Larry Miller, meeting and members of its school community-a "visioning meeting"-that led Julian O'Reilley, Ruth Peterson, Jonathan Tamez, "renewed commitment and an enormous amount of energy" being released for the Wilmer Tjossem, Elizabeth Years (C!Lrk), Anne­ Marie Zilliacus good of all. Without the careful attention of many individuals, this positive outcome FRJENDS jOURNAL (ISSN 0016-1322) was esrablished surely would not have been possible. in 1955 as the successor roTh~ Friend (1827-1955) In "Can Love Really Overcome Violence and Hate?" 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2 july 2002 FRIENDS J OURNAL July 2002 FRIENDS Volume 48, No.7 JOURNAL Features Departments 6 Can Love Really Overcome VIOlence and 2 Among Friends Hate? Reflections on the Friends Peace 4 Forum Testimony Mary Lord 5 Viewpoint As the world is propelled towards war, we must resist the ideologies Friends and modern culture ofprivilege andforce. 23 Quaker History 14 Compassion Personified The winds ofchange Arthur Rifkin 24 Memoir The miracles that jesus worked were less-and more--than they Fighting pacifism seem. 26 Witness 16 A Big Event in a Small Meeting with a Going for the gold Small School "Under its Care" JoAnn Seaver 28 Life in the Meeting A "visioning meeting" helped heal differences between Greene Street A gift ofa Saturday morning Friends School and its parent meeting. 30 Children's Corner 18 Family Crossword puzzle HelenWeaver Horn 31 Reflection An elderly friend and a fawn iUuminate the forces ofkinship. Bicycling in a state ofgrace 20 Robert Purvis: Friend of the Friends 32 Books Margaret Hope Bacon A Young Friends ' summer bookshelf The life ofa leading Philadelphian reflects the stresses ofrace relations in the 19th century. 35 News 37 Bulletin Board Cover photo ofGreene Street Friends School (Philadelphia, Pa.) by Robert Dockhorn 39 Milestones 45 Classified

Poetry 13 My Grandma Knew What She Was Doing Helen Weaver Horn Tokyo T.v. Wiley

FRIENDS j OURNAL july 2002 3 Forum Coverage is biased viewed by peers in general society as being with one another in a humble and loving progressives but who are too often . spirit, each giving to others credit for purity I am sorry to say that I don't want you to categorized by their fellow Quakers as bemg of motive, notwithstanding differences of send me FRIENDS JouRNAL anymore. I am reactionaries or conservatives. opinion." embarrassed to have it on my table at home Jack makes a serious point that it seems Nelson Babb or the office. I don't mean this to be the time has passed when U.S. Friends West Suffield, Conn. offensive; it's just true. sincerely welcomed a wide array of Quaker The publications for the last year have beliefs, including Republicans and other less­ Do we need a new religion? been very anti-Israeli. I am afraid someone than-liberal believers. Those people who who doesn't know about Quakers will pick have studied economics and make a living in Jack Powelson said it well (FJ April). up a copy of the JouRNAL and assume that I business are too often regarded with 'That of God in every person, silent am also anti-Israeli. Many of us in my suspicion and perhaps seen as not being worship, and decisions by sense of the meeting are also very concerned about the QC--"Quakerly Correct." meeting." Maybe he and I should start. a unrelenting bias shown in FRIENDS JOURNAL. Some 160 years ago the traumatic Great new religion. But what should we calltt? I don't think you speak for Friends Separation took place. H . Larry Ingle's Quakerism? Or? anymore. The publication has become too Quakers in Conflict is an excellent account of Stanley C Marshall close to hate-mongering. the so-called Hicksite Reformation. One Pittsburgh, Pa. Katherine Kessler view of what happened then was that rural Harrisonburg, Va. Quakers chafed at how the Philadelphia An open letter to Jack urbanites were accommodating the trends of Powelson Losing an encouraging the day and insisting that their views override those held by their country conservatives. I was sorry to see that you are leaving example One may argue that there is a parallel Quakers (F] April). You speak my mind on happening today. However, in some ways the general matter of Eastern liberal How sad is Jack Powelson's resolve to there is clearly a greater and more present leave Quakers! (F] April) As another one unprogrammed Friends moving incr~~ingly dilemma. Rather than our Religious Society to expecting group consensus on pohncal, who doesn't always fit the mold, I have often tearing itself apart once more, something been encouraged by his example. social, and economic issues. We endorse the much, much worse could happen-and it politically correct view on all kinds of I think it's hard to welcome differences of may have been happening quietly for some outlook in a religious community. People "rights" with little willingness to concede time. This would be that members are no that some may be debatable or impinge on have a lot at stake in their beliefs. They longer attending since they no longer feel might be wrong about things that matter, the rights of those who disagree. comfortable at meeting. This could be the I am aware ofsome Friends who do not and that's scary, so they gravitate toward modern equivalent of the Great Separation­ support freedom ofchoice ~e~ding others who ratify their stands. It looks to me the Great (if silent) Resignation. as if the New Testament specifically pushes abortion, but who keep the1r v1ews to Ifwe discover a very small turnout of themselves. The same applies to same-sex believers to entertain an openness that may members is regularly stymieing our meetings cause discomfort. It's just more natural to marriage. for business or our attendance is dropping To lose tolerance for dissent is pushing us stick to the safety of one's own kind. off, we may ask ourselves why. It is all well Once when I longed for a weekly away from being a gathered pe?ple. I ho~e and good to form outreach committees and you will reconsider, and also wtll engage m meeting with a bunch of people who so on, but how welcoming are we to others thought pretty much as I did, someone who some much-needed plain speaking, a virtue who may have political beliefs different from we are sadly missing. knew me well said, "That would have to be a our own? How heterogeneous is our current very small congregation in a very large city." Silas B. Weeks membership in terms of occupations, Eliot, Me. Even a patient Quaker, having been treated political beliefs, and outside activities? ~ewe rudely at a public presentation, may truly a religious society or are we becommg a eventually want to be the one doing the meeting oflike-minded liberals? More informacion on the walking out. But I hope Jack Powelson's Jack's taking leave of his meeting is a - seminar exodus turns out to be only a short break concrete way ofasking these kinds of Jesus and that articles like his and like Scott questions. Our challenge is facing up ~ to I was very interested in the book review Simon's will show Friends the risky side of whether we are willing to ask the questions by Herb Dimock of Yeshua: Seeing God spiritual cloning. and then to answer intellectually and through the Eyes ofHis Child (F/ April). I_ Dee Cameron spiritually with honest hearts. If we don't, we found the review to be well wrmen and 1t El Paso, T ex. may wimess many others doing the same as aroused my desire to read the book. Jack Powelson-but without such public However, I was very bothered by one Have we become QC? notice. sentence: "The Jesus depicted by the scholars Tom Coyner of the Jesus seminar makes him seem like an Jack Powelson's "Why I Am Leaving Seoul, Korea ironic, unconventional scholar with radical Quakers" essay in the April issue should be tendencies." I have three objections to this taken as a wake-up call for the entire Quaker statement. community-regardless of their political Let's work together The first is that the Jesus seminar was not convictions. In many ways Jack's essay Shame on you, Jack Powelson! (F] April) trying to draw its own picture ofJesus. It reflects the sentiments ofa large number, From our New England Faith and was attempting to provide guidelines to albeit a minority, of Quakers who are often Practice: "Friends should endeavor to work which of the conflicting sayings ofJesus

4 july 2002 FRIENDS JoURNAL Viewpoint As we seek to do God's will, how much ofmodern culture should we incorporate? ot since 1946, when I was a se­ responsibilities, and consumerism. Their in­ Without questioning the value for in­ nior at Westtown (Pa.) Friends clusion clearly indicates that such traditional dividuals of the kinds of activities repre­ N School and attended Philadelphia topics are relevant to the world around us, as sented by the latter two categories, it still Yearly Meeting sessions, have I been has been evident in the work of Quaker out­ is possible to ask whether such interests present at a large gathering of Friends. It reach organizations for many years. could not better be pursued without the was a marvelous and lasting experience to Many of the offerings in the second cat­ need to justify them as falling under the be part of meaningful worship with that egory involve activities such as dance, walk­ rubric of Quaker concerns. number of people. I felt a sense of com­ ing, movement, chanting, working in clay, Another reflection of the culrure at mon purpose and shared values that ex­ painting, conversation-alone or in combi­ large, and a distinct change from the Quak­ emplified the essence of Quakerism. nation. What they have in common is that erism of50 years ago, is that one can now Now, many years later, the advance they are designed to promote spiritual aware­ define oneself as a young adult, gay or program of the Friends General Confer­ ness and growth. Examples include two op­ lesbian, a person ofcolor, male, female, in ence 2002 Gathering suggests a different pottunities for bicycle riding, one including recovery from drug use, or single, as well kind of gathering, in that much ofwhat is worship, the other offering a spiritual experi­ as a Friend. To my mind, these kinds of to be found in the program testifies to the ence. A workshop for women involves "gath­ identity-based groups differ in kind from growing influence of the wider culture on ering in celebration of the Goddess and Femi­ Quaker interest groups such as, for ex­ Quaker thinking. Assuming that the de­ nism." The Quaker Sweat Lodge Experience, ample, Friends in Unity with Nature. In scriptions of the workshops offered at the described as "an integral part of the Gather­ contrast to groups such as this, formed by Gathering are a representative sample of ing," provides participants with an opportu­ voluntary association, identity-based current interests in constituent meetings, nity to "build the lodge, sweat, and discuss the groups, defined by gender, sexual prefer­ it might be useful to ask ourselves what history and spiritual nature of the sweat expe- ence, skin color and the like, are based on kinds of activities members of the Reli­ nence.. " unattainable criteria for those who don't gious Society of Friends want to foster. Departures from traditional ideas of what qualify, and I believe we should ask our­ What appears to be of most concern to has been important to Friends as members of selves why we encourage them. What does present-day Quakers, exemplified by the a religious community can be seen even more the emergence of such groups within program, falls into three categories: a core clearly in subjects that seem to have neither Quakerism tell us about the state of our of traditional topics, considered either on explicit nor implicit connection to Quaker­ Religious Society? Do we want to rein­ their own terms or as problems in applica­ ism. Training in therapeutic touch is directed force our culture's reification of the selfby tion to a different world than that in toward narural healing. Familial problems are focusing on our own attributes as people? which they first originated; a variety of addressed in workshops on parenting and When workshops are exclusionary, are we nontraditional topics, said to be spiritual couples' relationships. A workshop is offered admitting at the outset that we are not in nature; and topics that focus on con­ on concerns ofaging, such as death and dying, capable of treating one another tenderly? tent that does not claim to be particularly health, sexuality, finances, jobs, etc. Another Do such groups serve to fragment our relevant to Quakerism, or in some cases, involves dealing with negative aspeCts of our­ communal activities as Friends? to have any religious connotations. selves. Still another is directed toward plan­ It is a truism that all institutions change There is abundant proof of our con­ ning for the future ofsociety. as the culture changes, and therefore not tinuing interest in Quaker faith and prac­ From these examples, one can conclude surprising that this is true of the Religious tice. Sessions on the Peace Testimony, that the Religious Society of Friends has be­ Society of Friends. But as we seek to do alternatives to violence, experiencing the come increasingly porous to influences from God's will on Earth and work for a world Inner Light, wimessing forTruth, explor­ the secular world, mirroring many of the atti­ free ofwar and oppression of all kinds, we ing Scripture, the carrying out of ministry tudes that are prevalent in the popular cul­ should ask what elements of the culture of various kinds, and other familiar issues ture. An increasing absorption with the self is we live in today should be incorporated all bear witness to the fact that there is a evident as participants are invited to share into Friends' practices to best advance defined body of historic subject matter their feelings, tell their stories, and engage in these goals. that still speaks to present-day Friends. activities to heighten their experiences in a -Martha Wilson Of note are the workshops that explore variety of contexts. Related to this concern the relationship of Quaker testimonies to with our own well-being, we may note the Martha Wilson is a memberofStom (Conn.) various aspects of contemporary life such urge for self-improvement, although no work­ Meeting. She currently attends Block Island as competitive sports, employment, civic shop description promises therapy. (Rl) Worship Group. could be considered most likely to be opposite. The third objection is that when people encountered a God who accepted, authentic. The second objection is that by the individual scholars do attempt to depict forgave, and healed them. no means did the scholars speak with one Jesus in their own names, the picture is voice or even basic agreement among definitely not ofan ironic, unconventional Cordelia M Plunkett themselves. Sometimes some scholars scholar with radical tendencies. Marcus Borg Ruckersville, Va. thought a saying ofJesus to be very describes Jesus as a spirit person, and Marvin authentic, while others thought just the Cain describes a Jesus in whose presence Continued on page 43

FRIENDS ]OURNAL}u/y 2002 5 CAN LOVE REALLY OVERCOME Reflections ear Friends, when you first can mean. invited me to speak on the Second are the actions that have ac­ Peace Testimony last sum­ on the Friends companied the statements. As the war in mer, I was working at Afghanistan apparently begins to wind FriendsD Committee on National Legisla­ Peace Testimony down, both sides in this war of terror are tion 'starting up a new program on the taking the battle to many other countries. peaceful prevention of armed conflict. I U.S. forces are already in the Philippines had been giving talks on the spiritual basis in what some believe is a violation of its ofour testimony and on the opportunities by Mary Lord constitution. Troops are also present or en presented by the emerging fidd ofconflict route to Yemen and probably Somalia. prevention. I enjoyed telling the stories of Military aid is increasing to Colombia­ was pretty swifr and clear. It is a hard heroic peacemaking being done by many intensifYing that war which until recently message to give, and probably a hard one people, including Friends in regions of was a war on drugs, and is now a war on to hear. But we live in hard times. conflict, and of the possibilities for a new terror. Troops are reported heading to the I need also to apologize to Friends com­ vision ofthe peaceable kingdom. I planned former Soviet republic of Georgia. An ing from outside the United States, be­ a speech on those lines, and I do some invasion ofiraq is almost certain, possibly will cause much of my message is directed to of that tonight. with tactical nuclear weapons. This ex­ those of us who are U.S. citizens and must After September 11, I agreed to come pansion of the war to a longer and longer face the consequences ofwhat our govern­ to Philadelphia, on loan from FCNL, to list of countries has little or no support ment is now doing. I hope what I say will work as coordinator of the No More Vic­ from our allies in Europe, except perhaps also be of value to you, and I hope that tims Campaign, American Friends Ser­ Tony Blair, or the Middle East or Asia. you dear Friends from other countries will vice Committee's response to September But it is very likely that the U.S. will help us, through your prayers and your 11 and the emerging war. In the months nonethdess, as Secretary of State Colin insights, to be faithful to our witness. since then, I found that many Friends in Powell told Congress, "go it alone." the U.S. have struggled with the Peace Recently the U.S. announced a change Testimony because they were not sure A NEW G LOBAL WAR in nuclear weapons policy-changes that what we should do instead of going to Friends, as events unfold in the world will make it more likely that nuclear weap­ war. So I had decided to respond to that around us, I very much fear that we are on ons might, for the first time in almost 60 need and to talk also about the need to the eve of a new and terrible global war. years, actually be used in war. Against the end the bombing of Afghanistan. That Even now it could be stopped, but there is backdrop ofinsider debates about whether was when I picked my title, and I will do not the will to stop it. There is rather the to use mini-nukes in Iraq, the change of some of that tonight. will to threaten and to fight, either by nuclear policy is ominous indeed. Listen­ Both my little world and the world design or lack of thought, blundering for­ ing to all of this, the board ofdirectors of around us have changed again. Tonight, I ward in a manner reminiscent ofthe events the Bulletin ofthe Atomic Scientists moved have a new task at AFSC, as the incoming that led up to World War I. The conse­ the "Doomsday Clock" two minutes closer interim director of AFSC's Peacebuilding quences of the war now beginning· will to midnight. Having served on that board Unit, following Judith McDanid's deci­ bring immense suffering to many peoples. myself for several years in the past, I can sion to return to Tucson and a very special We as Friends need to do what we can to tell you that the hands of the clock are not new job. As I was writing up the talk for stop the wars that are already spreading or moved lightly. tonight, I began to struggle-while FWCC intensifYing. But we also need to be pre­ Of course, the U.S. was attacked on Executive Secretary Cilde Grover got more pared to be Quakers in wartime-never our own soil in a despicable act that lefr and more nervous because the translators an easy experience. morethan3,000deadinNewYork, Wash­ were supposed to have had the text two What leads me to this dire prediction? ington, D.C., and western Pennsylvania. weeks ago. Finally, on Tuesday night of First, ofcourse, are the statements by U.S. These terrible attacks affected the children this week, I needed to acknowledge that I President George W. Bush and other U.S. of my own home meeting, Adelphi, which was having so much trouble with the government officials that we are in a war is near Washington. It was not widely speech that I must be working on the that will reach into many countries and reported that there were a number of wrong message. So in prayer I asked God last perhaps through our lifetime. It is the school children on the plane that went what I was supposed to say. The response decision of this government to respond to into the Pentagon. Some ofthose children Mary wrd is a member ofAdelphi (Md.) Meet­ the present crisis by promising this gen­ were playmates of the children in our ing. This address was delivered to the annual eration ofyoung adults decades ofwarfare meeting, and the adults at Adelphi had meeting ofFriends World Committee for Con­ as their inheritance. There are Friends in the task of trying to help our children sultation, Section ofthe Americas, in Philadel­ Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America understand what happened to some of phia, Pa., on Friday, March 15,2002. who know firsthand what decades of war their friends. Like me, you may have

6 july 2002 FRIENDS JoURNAL VIOLENCE AND HATE?

spiracy. In fact, many individuals were identified, arrested, and await trial in a number of countries, using just such methods. There is an International Criminal Court that will soon come into force when 60 nations ratify it. Already more than 50 have done so. The current U.S. administration rejects this treaty and re­ fuses to support or cooperate with it. As a nation, the U.S. has declared itself above the law of other nations. We might, on September 12, have supported a special tribunal like that now operat­ ing in The Hague and trying Slobodan Milosevic. We might have developed a special court or arrangement, like the Scottish court that operated in The Hague to try the perpetrators of the bombing of Pan Am 103 (on which one ofm y closest friends lost his young­ est daughter). We might take action to make fu­ ture terrorist activity less likely. We could ratify international agreements on stopping the financing of terrorist groups, but we have not yet done so. We might support efforts for bet­ ter information sharing between narionstoidentifysuchcrirni­ nals, but we have not yet done so. We might have tried to limit the trade in weap- ons to unstable regions, but instead the U.S. almost single-handedly thwarted a special United Nations con- ~ c ~ ference convened ror that ~ purpose. We might have il sought to strengthen the ~ verification procedures on ~ biological and chemical ~ weapons, but instead the ~ U.S. scuttled that conference @ also, enraging our British "The Ballad ofthe World that Was" and Australian allies who had worked six years to bring watched the documentary shown on CBS THE ROAD NOT TAKEN nations together on this treaty. We might a few days ago about the firemen in the On September 12, the U.S. immedi­ have sought to limit the spread ofnuclear World Trade Center. It gave us a small ately began to prepare for war. There was weapons technology to rogue nations sense of the horror of the day dose up. another road that might have been taken­ and others, but instead we are dismantling The attacks had to be answered-but how? the road of international law, working the international agreements that have What might we have done instead of go­ together with other nations to find and limited proliferation, and the U.S. ap­ ing to war? arrest the members of the criminal con- pears to be standing ready to resume test-

fRIENDS ]OURNALju(y 2002 7 ing of ~lUclear weapons. I could go on for WAR DOES NOT WORK somenme. This, ofcourse, is thewayofwar. Once There has been a conscious choice to started, wars are almost impossible to con­ use U.S. military force rather than inter­ For many centuries trol. They tend to spread. There are al­ national law against al-Qaida. There is a ways unintended consequences. We can­ conscious decision to expand the war to not know where the path we are now on countries with whom we want to settle the culture in will lead. What we do know is that hatred old scores (North Korea, Iran, Iraq), or and greed always breed violence, and that where we can gain access to oil {the which we aU live violence always begets violence. former Soviet republic of Georgia), or Pacifism has been called naive and un­ where we hope to regain military bases has been founded patriotic. But I ask you, which is the greater {the Philippines)-whether or not the naivete-to believe that the frustrating nations involved have any connection to in the beliefin but productive path ofusing and strength­ September 11. ening international law is the path of This is a decision to use the tools of safety, or to believe that a never-ending warfare rather than the tools of policing combat as the way worldwide war against loosely defined ter­ and international law. It is also a decision rorism fought with weapons of mass de­ to seek to weaken or prevent the develop­ that goodness struction will make us safe and secure in ment of any international structures that our gated communities? might provide an alternative to military overcomes evil. The path of war is always, as history force. As long as decisions are made by proves, the more naive. War almost never military force, the U.S., which spends now works. Even when it seems to, for a short over $400 billion a year on the military, time, or after a long struggle, it is with a has a decided advantage. This amount is military operations, crush dissent, limit horrific cost of life, and property, and more than the military budgets ofthe next human rights, and carry out atrocities­ treasure, and the fouling of the Earth, and 25 nations combined. Russia, the nation all in the name of fighting terror. Open the killing of its creatures. Almost always, with the next-largest military budget our eyes! Look and see! similar ends could have been achieved spends about $60 billion on its military India and Pakistan still stand poised for through negotiation or international law each year. {Source: Center for Defense conflict, and each side now has nuclear and peacekeeping, with far less cost. Information and FCNL.) For over a year, weapons. Indonesia's military, which only In the end, even when war seems to it has been the stated policy of the Bush a few months ago was a pariah in the work, as in World War II for the Allies, it Administration to seek "full spectrum world because of the atrocities in East is because of the quality of the peace that dominance"-to be able to do whatever Timor, has now been given a green light followed. In World War I, the soldiers the U.S. wants anyplace in the world to crush "terrorism," with grievous conse­ were just as brave, but the peace was an without fear of retaliation by its oppo­ quences for the dissident movement in excuse for revenge, and it led in a genera­ nents. That is one reason the attacks of Aceh. This summer I met a young man tion to Hitler and another, greater war. 9 I 11, using commercial aircraft as missiles from Aceh at the Peace Brigades Interna­ For some months as I have been pre­ against civilian targets, were such a shock tional conference, and I worry about him paring my talk, I have been drawn to the to the government. and his family. The Israeli-Palestinian prophet Habakkuk. It is a very small There are, of course, consequences to conflict has worsened in recent months book--only three chapters. In the first such military buildup. Other nations feel and at times descends into war. It is hard chapter Habakkuk complains to God, as they have to respond in kind. The Euro­ to tell if the recent UN resolution on only Hebrew prophets can, that injustice pean Union, friends and allies of the U.S., Palestine has come soon enough or will be and violence are everywhere. How long, confronted by a unilateralist U.S., has de­ implemented. Certainly many on both the prophet asks God, before you will act? cided it must develop a European military sides have died. Naming North Korea I thought I was supposed to use that chap­ capacity capable of acting without U.S. and Iran as part of an "axis of evil" set ter as my text tonight, and I couldn't involvement, in situations where the U.S. back, perhaps for decades, the diplomatic understand why it wasn't working. But I has no interest. Japan and Germany are, work and the work by nongovernmental discovered I was supposed to use chapter for the first time since World War II, organizations, including AFSC, that have two, God's response to the prophet's com­ sending troops outside their borders, in tried to bring those nations back into the plaint. I want to read part of it to you: what some citizens of these countries re­ international community. In the Ameri­ gard as an unconstitutional policy. China, cas, the war in Colombia is escalating I will stand at my watch post, and station believing itself to be a potential target of dangerously with peace talks broken off myself on the rampart; the U.S., is increasing military spending and a new offensive underway. It is al­ I will keep watch to see what he will say to by 17 percent. ready spreading into neighboring coun­ me, and what he will answer concerning my Confliets in those parts of the world tries. I worry about the Peace Brigades complaint. where the U.S. has an interest in oil or team and the Mennonite community in Then the Lord answered me and said: military bases are intensifying. And every Colombia. I pray for the safety of the Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, military dictator and despot is now using Peace Team delegation that Val Liveoak so that a runner may read it. the catch phrase of"terrorism" to expand is preparing to take into Colombia. For there is still a vision for the appointed

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FRIENDS ]OVRNAL ju{y 2002 9 time; it speaks of the end, and does not lie. and slays the evil enemy. If it seems to tarry, wait for it; it will surely This myth pervades our own culture in come, it will not delay. the West. Whether Gary Cooper in the Look at the proud! western movie High Noon, or Superman, Their spirit is not right in them, but the The Gospels and or with a darker veneer of the outlaw­ righteous live by their faith. Moreover, wealth is treacherous; the arro­ heroes ofcurrent times, this myth ofwhat gant do not endure. other sacred Wink terms the belief in "redemption They open their throats wide as Sheol; like . through violence" becomes the underly­ Death they never have enough. wrztzngs gzve a ing structure of our culture and actions. They gather all nations for themselves, and Make no mistake. This is a system of collect all peoples as their own. different view religious faith, often blind faith, in the of effectiveness of military force or the threat -Habakkuk 2: 1-8 (NRSV) of force--which is sometimes mistaken what power is--a for a peaceful alternative. So pervasive is I think the message is very clear. Those this myth that we speak of military force who live by greed and violence-and that different view of as "the last resort" as if it would, though characterizes us more than we want to costly, be guaranteed to work. In reality, admit-will find our own violence what human while one military force may defeat an­ turned against us. The path of war will other, a war rarely achieves any other aims. be disastrous for the U.S. as well as for beings are capable Once it starts, defeating the enemy be­ the many peoples who live in lands la­ comes the only war aim, and the original beled "terrorist." goals are forgotten. I have a close friend who has served in ofif we dare to Faith in militarism also shows up in the the White House and National Security questions not asked. We do not inquire Council in two previous administrations. trust in the power why almost $400 billion for the U.S. mili­ She told me she is frightened of the whirl­ tary-about seven times that spent by any wind this country is sowing. If you travel ofGod other nation--didn't make us safe. We do in Europe, or the Middle East, or Asia, or not ask this. We only assume we need to Africa, or almost anywhere outside the spend more-sacrificing our cities, our U.S., you will find many experienced environment, the education and training statesmen frightened about the forces this up with a hook; he drags them out with of our children and youth, the health of war is unleashing. It is a frightening time, his net. He gathers them in his seine. our people-to do so. Like the Chaldeans and I have said nothing about the damage Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes of ancient times, the nations and institu­ already done at home--not just in New offerings to his seine, for by them his tions of our time have come to worship York and Washington, but also to our portion is lavish and his food is rich." themselves and to make sacrifice to our psyches; to our democracy, with the shock­ Habakkuk complains that the weapons and our military structures as ing attack on civil liberties and democ­ Chaldeans have come to worship them­ though they were gods. racy; to the immigrants and refugees selves, their own power, and their weap­ among us; and to our economy, as we ons ofw ar, allegorically described as hook, FAITH IN GOD transfer more tens of billions to the Penta­ seine, and net. Luke and Matthew tell the story of gon and the wealthy. I believe this is what we face. We also Jesus' temptation in the desert when he live in a time when the nations and those was preparing for his ministry. According FAITH IN VIOLENCE in positions of privilege have come to to these Gospels, there were three tempta­ What propels us toward war? Why do worship their own power and the military tions. In one, Jesus was shown all the we rush toward battle in the belief that forces which they use to " ... claim dwell­ nations of the world. The tempter, Satan, combat and killing will make us safe? We ings not their own." offered Jesus dominion and power over could talk about the economic, military, Walter Wink, a theologian and author, them all. Satan urged Jesus to think of the and cultural roots of the conflict-and wrote a remarkable book, Engaging the good he could do with such power, ifonly these are important to understand. But Powers, which gives insight on the role of Jesus would worship Satan. The Gospels tonight I want to talk about belief. Again active nonviolence in the world around tell us that Jesus rejected this temptation, Habakkuk, this time in chapter one, gives us. Wink points out that for many centu­ saying, "Worship the Lord your God, and us insight. ries the culture in which we all live has serve only Him." Speaking of the Chaldean armies ofhis been founded in the belief in combat as In my mind, this is what the Peace time, Habakkuk complains: "Dread and the way that goodness overcomes evil. Testimony is really about. What do we fearsome are they; their justice and dignity This belief, dating back at least to ancient worship and trust? What do we under­ proceed from themselves." (1:7) Babylon, is the undercurrent ofour myths. stand to be the real base of power and In verse 1: 11: " ... Their own might is The ritual story is always the same: the change in the world? How does God want their god." hero is attacked by evil and almost over­ us to treat one another? And verses 1:15- 16: " . . . He [the come, but in the end, good prevails In turning away from realpolitik, Jesus Chaldeans] brings all of them [the people] through strength and skill in combat pointed to power- God's power-that is

10 july 2002 FRIENDS JOURNAL real and lasting, and he rejected the illu­ give a different view ofwhat power is-a be achieved through military power­ sion of power that lay in the nations of different view of what human beings are whether a crusade or a jihad. that time. After all, where now are the capable of ifwe dare to trust in the power Fox turned down the commission, ex­ Chaldeans of Habakkuk's time? Unless of God to transform us and the situations plaining that he " ... lived in the virtue of we are professors ofhistory we do not even of our lives. It calls us to worship not the that life and power that took away the know who they were. So too have many institutions of this world, but to worship occasion of all wars"; that he ". . . was empires come and gone--the Greeks of God and to live in faith and harmony come into the covenant of peace which Alexander's time, the Romans, the Mayan was before wars and strife were." The and Aztec Empires, the Spanish conquis­ power that takes away the occasion of tadors, and the British Empire on which war, the peace that existed before wars it was said the sun never set. All have and strife were, is the power and come and gone. Most of us carry peace of the Spirit of the love of in our blood the inheritance of God. That is the love that has both the conquerors and the the power to overcome hate people who were conquered. and violence. That is the Perhaps in our DNA we power of love that can carry the ancient memories transform even the situa­ of many conquerors and tion in which we find our­ many of the once van­ selves today. That is the quished. The stories are power oflove that sustains dimly remembered ifat all. the witness for peace Jesus left the desert and through many centuries, began a ministry of preach­ and despite persecution. ing and living the power of That is the power of love God's love for the sick, the and witness that outlasts all poor, and the people who the .empires, and all the had made mistakes in their armtes. life but wanted to make amends. He seemed to pay WHAT WE As little attention to those in power. QUAKERS CAN The message of that ministry is perhaps best summarized in Do the Sermon on the Mount, How shall we as Quakers one of the most remark­ sustain ourselves as a able and radical prescrip­ people of peace in the tions for living. In it midst of worldwide war? ! we are told to love our By living in that covenant ~ enemies, to do good to those of peace which was before "'S who hurt us, and to love wars and strife were . . . by tiS one another. living in the virtue of that life ~ As early Christians, and later and power that takes away the '<:!< early Friends, studied these teach- occasion of all war. It is not our ~ ings and the life that Jesus lived, they Quakerism, or our pacifism, or our @ came to believe that God had clearly knowledge, or skill, or emotion that over­ shown us that we were not to kill one with one another. comes hate and violence. We shall surely another. The Gospel is full of teachings Early Quakers, reading the Gospel, fail if we become proud of our virtue and about forgiveness and the power of love. found in it a vision of a different kind of traditions and become vain in our wit­ The Gospels and the Epistles that follow power than the armies then contending in ness. We shall fail if we think the power do not teach hate or violence or human the English Civil War. One of the earliest that may move through us is our owrt. vengeance. We should remember that all statements against power was from George The power is not ours, it is God's. of the world's principal religions teach Fox, who had been asked to accept a This is the foundation of what we these same principles. Universalist Friends commission in the militia. In those days, must do in our Testimony of Peace in this tend to emphasize the Light within, rather many people believed that if the good time of war. The foundation is faith in than the Sermon on the Mount, but the people could gain control ofgovernment , the power of God's love to transform teaching about how to live is the same. England could be a holy commonwealth. us and our society and to bring justice God has spoken to us in many faiths and All that was needed was military success to the poor and the oppressed. Our task is many cultures with the same message of over the corrupt government of the time. to act, as best we understand what we are love and compassion to one another and Sounds familiar, doesn't it? In our time, led to do, in obedience to that power. oflove, obedience, and faithfulness to God. we see many opposing forces each strong Our meetings and Friends churches, The Gospels and other sacred writings in the belief that God's kingdom can if they have grown lazy in their faith,

FRIENDS ]OURNAL]u(y 2002 11 need to "get ready." The time is now. more stories of active, disciplined, non­ I cannot claim wisdom as to how God violent change? will have us act. I have some suggestions of A first step in the formation of a non­ things we can usefully do now. violent movement in the United States First, we can make sure that our young against this war may begin on April 20 adults are counseled about conscientious with a student-led mobilization in Wash­ objection. We are already in a time of ington. The mobilization will, for the first persecution of COs and war tax resisters. time, begin to bring together the Colom­ Young men who do not register for Selec­ bia Mobilization, an antiwar demonstra­ tive Service in the U.S.-and there is no tion, and concerns about the global way to indicate conscientious objection economy. All have pledged nonviolence. on the form itself-lose student loans, Let us hope the police and other authori­ federal employment opportunities, and, ties also are nonviolent. in some states, driver's licenses. Young Third, we in the U.S. can ask the men must think about their registration prayers, help, and support of Friends for Selective Service, and be sure to be on throughout the world. We are not used to record with the meeting or Friends church asking for such help, but we need it. Some as COs in the event of the draft's reinstate­ of you Friends in other countries are liv­ ment. Meetings and churches also need to ing through or have lived through violent counsel young men and women who are struggles or wars in your own countries not Quakers but who need our help think­ and have much to share with us about ing through the realities of military ser­ what it means to be faithful in difficult vice. We should be helping young people times. You can also help U.S. Quakers to who are poor to find alternatives to mili­ "see ourselves as others see us." Most people tary service as a path of advancement and in the U .S. do not know what our country education. There are a number ofFriends is doing in your lands. We need to learn, organizations with good information on and where appropriate, we need to have youth, militarism, and conscientious ob­ the strength to try to change it. You can jection. Counseling young people on this help us. Friends should also remember topic also lends reality to the meeting's that we have much to learn from those discussion of the war because the youth at who are poor and from people ofcolor in risk are our own children. our own country. Here, too, we can ben­ Second, we can begin the work of non­ efit from the prayers and insights of those violent resistance. Militarism and injus­ whose experience of life in this country tice may seem very strong, and they are, may be different from our own. but nonviolence is "a force more power­ Fourth, the "historic peace churches" ful." One of the dangers of the myth of ofFriends, Mennonites, and Brethren have the power of violence is that it robs us of an opportunity to articulate a new vision the memories ofeffective nonviolent resis­ of a peaceful world that does not rely on tance. How can we say that bullies and military force to solve problems. This is unscrupulous people cannot be defeated partly the story of the road not taken on when we have the successful examples of September 12. It is also sharing the vision Mahatma Gandhi; ofthe Solidarity move­ ofhow nations, nongovernmental organi­ ment in Poland against Soviet domina­ zations, and people of faith can work to­ tion; of the Danish resistance to Hitler's gether to build the institutions that can Germany that saved thousands ofJews; of prevent most armed conflict. There is the end of legal racial segregation in the much to be learned from experience and United States with Dr. Martin Luther the literature. This is at least a whole other King's inspired leadership; of the aston­ speech! It is in fact the one I intended to ishing, peaceful transfer ofpower in apart­ give, but instead the Spirit needed us to heid South Mrica and the equally amaz­ remember that war is a terrible thing, and ing Truth and Reconciliation Commis­ that our Peace Testimony is realistic, not sion that followed; of the "people power" na.~ve. movement in the Philippines that toppled Finally, let us put on the whole armor Marcos's corrupt and brutal regime; of of God. The forces of culture, wealth, the nonviolent people-power movements nationalism, and fear against which we in Eastern Europe that brought down the contend are very powerful. Our protec­ Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall; of the tion is the power of the love of God to popular demonstrations in Chile that sustain us through what may be the dark ended Pinochet's rule; and many, many days ahead. 0

12 july 2002 FRIENDS JOURNAL Your war is packaged neatly My grandma knew what she was doing. as a pre-cut chicken-select Never, never will I see facts stacked under headlines, a packaged chicken blind again. pale as breasts in plastic wrap­ Or buy your Grade A federally­ but Grandma set me straight. inspected bloodless war.

When I was ten she yanked -Helm WeAVer Horn the biggest Leghorn from the coop. Htlm Wtavtr Horn is a membtr She made me hold her squawking ofAlhtns (Ohio) Mming. on the maple stump and chopped her head off.

Blood gushed hotly on my hand, her feet clawed air, her limpness TOKYO quivered. I felt sick to death. But Grandma made me hold her I saw in her eyes upside down and dip her her dead sons in the boiling pot, pluck out killed in the war. her feathers, split her open. Our glances held There inside, her eggs lay for iust a moment while we recognized forming. There her heart was knotted down. I had to each other- tear them out, her lungs, enemy mothers- intestines--save the liver-­ she, selling me a spool of rinse and cut her up, prying thread my knife between her joints to mend my sons' clothes so like my own two knees. and I, trying to control my sadness I had to dry and salt and Rour and my trembling hands. each piece and fry them in the spitting iron skillet. Pile them on the heated platter. -T.V.WJey bring them in to Grandpa T. V. Wtlty is a member ofSandj at the dinner table. Eat. Spring (MJ.) Meeting.

FRIENDS ]OURNALju(y 2002 13 urning Jesus into an otherworldly spirit temp­ T orarily inhabiting a male person weakens Jesus' achieve­ ment, because what seems re­ markable in a person doesn't seem so in a nonhuman, divine person. We have theologies of spirit becoming fully human, but I could never overcome my con­ viction that this makes the story into a fairy tale, and in this ver­ sion ofthe story Jesus becomes as unreal to me as Cinderella's fairy godmother. Stripped of its supernatural trappings, the Jesus story shows a man combining two attributes to a remarkable degree: compassion and courage. The wonderwork­ ing parts ofth e story obscure what we too easily pass over: Jesus was incredibly compassionate. Almost all of the most authentic sayings and actions involve trying to help people. Even more remarkable is that Jesus helped in the most com­ plete and difficult way: by help­ ing people help themselves. <:~ If someone has, or thinks one i has, extraordinary--even magi­ ~ cal-power to alleviate suffering, · ~ it must be a heady pleasure to ~ exercise that power. We all, prob­ ~ ably, have had daydreams in child- !:: hood and perhaps afterward of ~ possessing magical powers and us­ ~ ing them to obtain popular ac­ ~ claim. What power evokes grati­ ~ tude more than any other?­ ~ Healing. Bestowing wealth, fame, ::t: or even a beautiful wife (or hand­ ...... :., some royal husband) delights our fantasies in fairy tales, but healing someone from a painful, disabling illness Instead, he persuaded people to heal them­ convert to hopefulness than the down­ surpasses all these exploits in bringing the selves by faith in God's mercy. In almost trodden people to whom Jesus directed miracle-worker awesome gratitude. A su­ all cases Jesus says, "Your faith has healed his efforts. Extravagant promises of pie­ perficial reading of the Gospels suggests you," and that faith could move moun­ in-the-sky might, in the short run, con­ that Jesus did such magic, that he healed tains and bring about huge changes from vert people, but the Jesus story doesn't people by some prayer or touch. But that small beginnings, as a tiny mustard seed emphasize that. It seems as if the major is not how he did it in most instances. becomes a large bush. action has occurred offstage. The prosti­ Arthur Rifkin, a member ofManhasset (NY.) The tantalizing omission in the Jesus tute who shocks the Pharisee by wiping Meeting, is professor of Psychiatry at Albert story is how Jesus elicits such faith. It's Jesus' feet with her tears and hair in grati­ Einstein College ofMedicine. hard to imagine people more unlikely to tude is appreciative for her conversion

14 july 2002 FRIENDS JoURNAL INSTEAD OF LEAVING A TRAIL OF PASSIVE that occurred earlier. Jesus explicitly tells impressive actions: in his ordinary behav­ RECIPIENTS her that her faith has changed her, not his ior not recorded in the Gospels, when he actions. When Jesus fed the thousands he OF MIRACULOUS convinced people to have hope in God's did not magically increase the available BENEFITS, JESUS compassion. There is a Hasidic tale of a food, but, somehow, not recounted, Jesus yeshiva student who on returning from a persuaded the crowd to share its food. LEFT BEHIND visit to a famous rabbi, when asked what The healing of the paralytic in Mat­ EMPOWERED PEOPLE he had learned from him, said, "I saw him thew 9 shows an easily misunderstood WHOM HE bend over and tie his shoelaces." Jesus story. Jesus tells the paralyzed man to take must have impressed those around him in heart because his sins are forgiven. The CONVINCED TO HELP the same way; his deep commitment to teachers of the law rebuke him for blas­ THEMSELVES. compassion must have come across from pheming, meaning they thought Jesus every deed and word. claimed to have divine power. Jesus an­ The other almost incredible attribute swers, "Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins providing secret refuge to thousands of of]esus was his courage. As with his com­ are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'?" Jews fleeing the Germans. They not only passion, it is so basic a part of him that it What does Jesus mean? I think he means hid the Jews, mostly children, but passed draws no direct comment by the Gospel that we live in a universe ruled by compas­ most to safety by clandestinely conveying writers. Palestine, in his day, was a very sion, and we should tell this to people who them to Switzerland. This strikes me as a dangerous place for anyone who over­ suffer because they don't know it. This most impressive rescue of]ews during the stepped expected bounds. Jesus directly assumes, as did people in Jesus' time, that German persecution in that large num­ threatened two powerful forces: the occu­ illness comes from immorality and evil bers of people acted together for such a pying Roman power and the Jewish priestly possession. The man was paralyzed be­ long time. It wasn't dependent on the hierarchy. Anyone attracting attention and cause of his sense of guilt. Jesus means to heroic efforts ofa single person. True, the collecting large crowds would arouse ap­ say that telling him that he can walk and Protestant minister, Andre Trocme, cou­ prehension from these two powers. Once that his sins are forgiven are equivalent rageously and creatively led the effort, Jesus made a row in the temple courtyard statements. Jesus continues, "But so that but the actual rescue was done by many and attracted large crowds-so large that you may know that the Son of Man has "ordinary" people. he had to escape from them-he was a authority on Earth to forgive sins . . ."­ Just as the convincement of the people marked man. Palestine was a tinderbox of and then to the paralytic-"Stand up, Jesus healed and changed occurred off­ barely suppressed revolt. It eventually did take your bed and go to your home." "Son stage, so the mechanism by which the erupt, and the Romans destroyed Jerusa­ ofMart" most likely was an Aramaic idiom inhabitants ofLe Chambon and surround­ lem and ended the Jewish nation not long meaning a person. Jesus is saying here that ing villages became exemplary rescuers after Jesus' death. God has granted us permission to forgive defies description. One would think that Jesus must have known he faced death ourselves and each other. And once we do sociologists, philosophers, clergy, mental by stoning or crucifixion. He chose not to that, our guilt-produced illnesses go away. health professionals, and others would have stop his provocative activities or to hide This is the ultimate compassion: to let descended on Le Chambon to uy to un­ and carry on surreptitiously. When cap­ others forgive and heal themselves. derstand what happened, just as we would tured he didn't even compromise his posi­ Not only did Jesus devote himself to have wanted to examine the people tion by a futile defense. He demonstrated compassionately helping people, but he changed by Jesus. Actually, that didn't God's compassionate presence. Haggling did it in the most effective and difficult happen. The incredible story of Le with the priests and Roman officials would fashion. Instead ofleaving a trail ofpassive Chambon was not widely disseminated have lowered himself to their level. The recipients of miraculous benefits, Jesus lefr until written about in the 1970s by an Gospels give us details of]esus' trial and behind empowered people whom he con­ American college professor, Philip Hallie, death, while the most important fact tends vinced to help themselves with the tool he in his book Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed. to get lost in the melodrama: Jesus' acqui­ supplied: faith in a loving, merciful, com­ Even afterwards the story hasn't achieved escence. As the avatar of a compassionate passionate God. the prominence it deserves. God, he could best teach by showing how This reminds me of the compassion When questioned, the inhabitants of a person acts who has emptied himself of shown during World War II by the people Le Chambon rejected the role of extraor­ self-concern. As the Scottish philosopher of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in southern dinary heroism. They demonstrated the John Macmurray wrote: "All meaningful France. Starting in 1940, first under the sign of the most impressive heroism: thought is for the sake of action, and all Vichy government and later under the heroic behavior considered too ordihary meaningful action is for the sake offriend­ direct control of the German occupation, and mundane to be worthy of special ship." Jesus' greatest act of friendship was about 5,000 of the inhabitants-not a consideration. to personify compassion and present it as select, small sample--risked their lives by So must Jesus have performed his most the inherent value of the universe. 0

FRIENDS JoURNALju(y 2002 15 A Big Event in a Small Meeting with a Small·School ''Under its Care''

hiladelphia Yearly Meeting's by JoAnn Seaver space for the middle schoolers. Lack of Residential Meeting on July 18, facilities was causing attrition in the 7th 2001, explored the meaning of School House Lane in the Germantown and 8th grades. A solution was sought P"under the care of," a phrase section of Philadelphia, took its name through the possible acquisition of near­ familiar to Quakers, which refers to the from an older meeting that once stood at by land in the vicinity of the meeting­ relationship of Friends meetings to insti­ 4th and Green Street in center city. house and the school that might come up tutions such as schools and retirement Though on the same block as the meet­ for sale. Enterprising parents, including communities over which a meeting has inghouse, the school faces onto Greene an architect, a lawyer, and an accountant, oversight. In that context, I was asked to Street, this one spelled with an extra e.) were part of a team that explored acquisi­ share the following account from my per- Mine is an example of a small meeting tion and proposed the purchase to the that has a small school attached to it. The meeting, which would ultimately own the story has a happy ending, but it represents new property, as it did the school. the disconnection that, I have learned To the team's surprise, and later, its from the comments of Friends, ofren frustration, afrer many presentations in occurs between meetings and their which the team members felt they were schools, a problem that becomes apparent repeating themselves, the meeting was not when there is a crisis or a big decision to coming to consensus and a few voices be made. could be heard among meeting members Our school has about 220 children of adamant opposition. As the months enrolled from pre-K through 8th grade. rolled by, the rumblings increased. Some The school has gone through a number of members voiced a desire to tear up the changes in its 150 years of operation. It asphalt and return to "a green and coun­ started out as a girls' school and then grad­ try towne." Others had dark premoni­ ually evolved into a coed school with a tions ofa cinderblock clone ofa drugstore middle school. It is seen as a community chain rising up to oppress our view, if the school, serving families that live in opportunity were let pass. Many of us Germantown and Mt. Airy, and the who depend on the closeness ofour meet­ school population reflects the diverse ing, felt deeply disturbed at how relation­ population of these communities. The ships grew tense and divisions threatened diversity is apparent in the mix of races, to drive us apart. The school community family structures, ethnic backgrounds, felt that a precious opportunity was on economic levels, and academic strengths. the point ofslipping away and that lack of Greene Street Friends School enjoys the movement meant stagnation in the school support of its loyal parents and alumni and the lessening of support for staff and that prize its family feeling and the warm, students. spective as a member of Green Street personal attention given to the students The present head of school, Ed Meeting and as a member of the by the faculty. The school recently Marshall, on whose watch this crisis was Oversight Committee of Greene Street received good press in the Philadelphia occurring, tried to remain objective. In his Friends School. (The variation in spelling Inquirer. efforts to do so, he perceived that, though is because the meeting, which was estab­ So, what erupted as a problem? What occupying close physical space, the meet­ lished in 1829 on its present site on was the crisis that revealed the fault lines ing and the school occupy different time joAnn Seaver, a member ofGreen Street Meeting between the school community and the spaces and the two constituencies have in Philadelphia, Pa., is a retired educator. She meeting community, causing stress different purposes. Ed referred to this as a taught in Friends schools, in Philadelphia pub­ among all parties? different "here and nowness," that is, each lic schools, and at University ofPennsylvania. The problem was a need for more group experiences a different reality in its

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school when their children graduated, whenever this item for business recurred, the staff would rotate, and the small of stopping to wait upon the Spirit. After meeting would be left with an alba­ a tense discussion, it was surprising how tross. They suspected the school and we moved closer together following a parents of seeking to change the char­ period ofs ilence. Still, in that meeting for acter of the school from a small, caring business, we were amazed to realize that school with affordable tuition to being quietly, without drama, meeting mem­ among the "academic elite." bers had settled into agreement. On the other side, the school com­ On May 3, 1999, the visioning meet­ munity felt that the meeting didn't care ing went forward with a packed house; all

FRIENDS JouRNAL jury 2002 17 invited from each constituency showed gram would expand without the loss of t's strange how needing up. There was an air of expectancy, but what we most value. to feed the fawn is ·raking also one of lightness, for a major factor Our fears were that the character of a me up the same rough 0 I of discord had suddenly been removed. the school would change and move it road I used to drive to get to All recognized that the visioning meet­ away from its valuing·each individual, its ::c Henry's shack. The fawn so ing was necessary for healing and recon­ caring family atmosphere, its diversity, young and he so old. Both vul­ ciliation. That night, we had stepped out and its being an anchor in an urban nerable, both determined to ofour different here and nownesses to be neighborhood. survtve. in the same room, to engage with each What was seen as most needed for "Honey, it doesn't make other, to test this unfamiliar coming strengthening the school community sense to try to save a fawn," together, to meet face to face and hear was frequent communication and col­ Dave said when I first burst into the words of the people whom we had laboration. This recommendation has our house and told him about it each regarded as "the other." been taken up as a specific responsibili­ as I poured milk into our calf The visioning meeting's structure was ty of the Oversight Committee, though nursing bottle. "The country's simple but brilliant, thanks to the skilled all constituencies contribute. We have way overpopulated with deer guidance of our facilitator. After a brief held joint service days such as Marcin anyhow. A fox'll get it and be introduction, each person was asked to Luther King Day, begun by a parent and glad. You better just let nature write out answers to three questions. which, each year, expands. We have fre­ take its course." But the fawn The responses were to remain anony­ quent reports to the meeting from the had come right up to me and mous, though we were to indicate Oversight Committee. Members of the bleated with a sudden high cry whether we were parents, faculty/staff, Oversight Committee sit in on faculty as I had walked up the lane or meeting members. After the writing meetings from time to time to work from the mailbox. Wet-nosed, and the questionnaires were collected, a through changes as they come up. delicate, maybe only two feet panel that mixed the constituencies was Meeting members have sponsored tall, the light glowing through appointed to read aloud the responses Quakerism 10 1 classes in which school its ears. Its spotted sides were for each question to the group. parents have joined. A meeting member caved in with hunger. The questions were: first, "What are writes a regular article called "Quaker "You've sure got that moth­ three things that I value most about Corner" on aspects of Quakerism that ering instinct!" Dave whis­ Greene Street Friends School and would appears in the school's newsletter for pered, shaking his head as he not want to see lost?" parents, the Lunchbox Express. watched my efforts to feed it. The second: "When I think of the Renewed commitment and an enor­ The fawn stood splay-legged next five years in the life of the school, mous amount of energy were released over a puddle where it had been my biggest hope is ... ; My biggest fear for the good of all in the resolution of trying to quench its thirst. It lS. • . ••" our conflict. It resulted in a new com­ sniffed the big wet calf nipple, The third: "I think that the three mitment from all constituencies to work licking the milk I squirted on its things most needed to strengthen the together for the good of our shared val­ nose, but didn't take the rubber school/meeting partnership and have ues, our community, and the children teat. There was no way I would­ each party truly work together with the under our care. We see the necessity of n't try to save its life. other for the good of Greene Street regularly stepping across the divides of Henry would have shared Friends School are the following: . . .." our realities given the simple fact of our my determination not to ler this What was demonstrated that night separate everyday experiences. We rec­ fawn starve. He would have from reading aloud the responses, and ognize that misunderstanding and con­ bumped back in 'here to the later from carefully tallying them, was flict are inevitable and potentially pro­ sheep farm too, and begged a the overwhelming evidence of what we ductive when dealt with thoughtfully. small nippled bottle. He told shared. Across constituencies was a We have seen the value of building into me matter-of-factly how he remarkable agreement on what we all our ways of working frequent, systemat­ took in a bunch of his nephews valued. ic processes for low-risk and productive and nieces during the Depres­ The most commonly mentioned communication. The long period sion. That was along with feed­ positive attribute for all was the diversi­ required for the coming to a sense of the ing the younger kids in his own ty of the school (ethnic, economic, meeting had a valuable result. From family. When nobody had jobs learning style, family structure, age opposite stances we moved to a fusion of around here, he dished out food range). A near second was the closeness our views. I know personally that my he raised on his little farm to ten of the community. Parents mentioned original view changed, to be tempered or twelve a day. He never did "Quaker values" more often than meet­ by and to actually incorporate the views marry, with that speech imped­ ing members. Also highly prized was the of others. iment of his. After his mother small size of the school and the classes, We might say that the meaning of the which help create an environment in phrase "under the care or' has taken on Helen weaver Horn, writing group which each child is valued. lateral and reciprocal dimensions. 0 leader, retired counselor, peace Our hopes were that the facilities and activist, andform woman, is a mem­ the excellence of the educational pro- ber ofAthens (Ohio) Meeting. 18 july 2002 FRIENDS JouRNAL cped in the fire, though, he took in her had answered something way down deep Jima when everyone else was killed. And widowed sister. She did the cooking until in him. Out of his meager veteran's check that he still tended a row of potatoes every she broke her hip and it didn't heal right. he paid for stamps and a dozen copies. He sprmg. Cared for her bedridden 20 years until she mailed them off to every relative and And now, willy-nilly, this fawn matters passed away. friend whose address he could still lay his to me. It may be illogical but, by golly, I'm He showed me how her clothes were hands on. When a nephew's widow going to find this sheep farm and beg still folded up in a trunk under the horse replied, he brought in her letter to show some lamb formula as well as a bottle. I'm harness in the house they used to share me. "Guess she thinks I'm still of some going to mix it with warm water. I'm before the roofleaked too much. After her account," he said with shy pleasure. It still going back to the puddle on the edge of death, Henry had a coal stove and a mattered to her that his mother had died our lane again and call out, "Come 'ere.". propane cook stove moved into the shack at the house fire after she ran back in to And if that fawn doesn't part the grass­ by his well and just hunkered down there save her butter and egg money. It mat­ es and come down the bank to take the by himself for the duration. Even his tered that he had managed to graduate little nipple, I'm going to wade through watchdog had died. He painted a sign to from Ohio University in spite of being left the timothy and clover looking for the nail on the old house that read: No to support his brothers and sisters. It mat­ places it might have bedded down. Trespass God Is Watching. None of those tered that he had headed up an account­ I guess it's something about spunk, children he had fed during the '30s carne ing office for the Work Projects corning right up to me out of nowhere forward to help him out. He drew up Administration, that he had passed his like that and making connection. It's like water from the well and heated it in a ket­ exam to be an Army chaplain and sur­ life says right up in my face, "Here I am tle to bathe, but in the winter when he vived the bombing of his bunker on lwo and you are family." I can't help mysel£0 clumped into the Senior Center where I worked, there was soot in every crease on his skin. The ladies shrank back from him. He did reek of coal smoke and liniment, but I don't know, I guess I saw my dad in that tall, bent frame and those keen eyes. And when he brought me his life story, written out in longhand, slanting up page after page of unlined paper, I felt a hunger in him to which there was no way I wouldn't try to respond. I guess the very young and the very old are alike in some ways. Both need to have food, of course. But attention, too, some kind of living response. When I was leaning against a tree THE FAWN HAD by the puddle, holding that too big bottle, the fawn had bleated at me, fearful but eager. "Come 'ere, come 'ere!" I'd called back real low. It had stag­ gered off then through the tall meadow grass, but it kept crying out, time after time as I repeated, "Come 'ere, come 'ere!" When I edited and typed up Henry's life story and told him how it had moved me, he took me to him like family. I guess I fRIENDS j OURNAL jury 2002 19 cross the road from Byberry As a result of his mixed parentage, Meeting in the 19th century, Robert Purvis was extremely light­ on the northeast edge of skinned, and frequently mistaken for Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, stood white. But he identified with his mother Harmony Hall, the estate of Robert and grandmother, and through them Purvis, a colored gentleman farmer, with all.persons of color. Yet he rejected organizer of the first underground the appellation African-American. "There railroad, abolitionist, and an ardent is not a single African in the United spokesman for full equality for States," he told a Philadelphia audience in women, Native Americans, and 1886, "We are to the manner born; we are persons of color. Two of Purvis's native Americans." He was a proud and sons are buried in the meeting's sometimes bitter man. .§.:a burial ground, and near the meet­ When he was nine years old, Robert ;: inghouse stands Byberry Hall, came to live in Philadelphia with his ~ built by Purvis in 1846 and given father, mother, and two brothers. William ;: to the meeting as a place for the Purvis had intended to take his sons to ~ community to debate issues of England to educate them properly, but he ~ human rights. became ill and died, leaving an estate to "] Robert Purvis and his wife, his "beloved friend" Harriet and his sons...... "! Harriet Forten Purvis, were close Robert was educated at Clarkson Hall, .~ friends with James and Lucretia Mott. the school run by the Pennsylvania Aboli- ~ Lucretia often preached at Byberry tion Society, and at Amherst Academy in ::@ Meeting, and the Purvises attended meet­ Massachusetts. Here he developed a liter- ·~ ing at those times. Hattie Purvis, their ary and oratorical style that marked him i daughter, went to school with Lucretia's throughout his long life. i:! niece Ellen Wright and corresponded Returning to Philadelphia, Purvis J: with her for many years. Ellen had a flir­ became a businessman, buying and selling tation with the Purvises' son, Robert Jr. real estate, and augmenting the property When first son William and then Robert left to him by his father. He became in Jr. died tragically, Lucretia Mott preached time one of the richest of Philadelphia at their memorial services. blacks. He was a founding member of the Was Robert Purvis a member ofByberry colored convention movement, and of the Meeting? Henry Cadbury thought it like­ American Moral Reform Society that ly and included him in his famous study grew out of it. In 1833 he was one of two of Negro Membership in the Society of blacks to attend the founding of the Friends, published in 1934. Purvis's belief American Anti-Slavery Society, the system was very close to that of liberal Garrisonian group that proposed an Friends. He often said his religion was to immediate end to slavery. John Greenleaf deal justly and to love mercy, to treat all Whittier, also attending, wrote down his people with perfect equality. He believed first impressions: "A young man rose to FRIEND that those who struggled for justice were speak whose appearance at once arrested divinely directed. But there is no trace of my attention. I think I never saw a finer him in the minutes of Byberry Meeting, face and figure and his manner, words, OF THE nor any mention of such affiliation in his and bearing were in keeping. 'Who is he?' private papers. He remained throughout I asked one of the Pennsylvania delegates. FRIENDS his lifetime a friend of the Friends. 'Robert Purvis, of this city, a colored Robert Purvis was born in Charleston, man,' was the answer." South Carolina, in 1810, the son of a In these early years, Purvis was much well-to-do British cotton merchant, influenced by James Forten, a wealthy by Margaret Hope Bacon William Purvis, and his "beloved friend" black sailmaker and patriot. In 1832 Harriet Judah, whose mother had been a Purvis married Harriet (Hattie) Davy slave and father a Sephardic Jew. Dido Forten, Forten's daughter, a friend from Badaracka, his grandmother, had been childhood, and with her had eight chil­ born in Morocco, captured by slave kid­ dren. Harriet was of a much darker com­ Margaret Hope Bacon, a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting, is a lecturer and nappers at the age of 12, and brought to plexion than Robert, and they were some­ author of1 3 books on various aspects ofQuaker the slave market in Charleston. Here she times mistaken for an interracial couple, a history and biography, and vice president ofthe was bought by an elderly woman who circumstance that infuriated the proud Pennsylvania Abolition Society. She is writing a took pity on her,. taught her to read, and Robert. A strong supporter of women's book on Robert Purvis. left instructions that she be freed when rights, Robert encouraged Harriet to be © 2002 Margaret Hope Bacon her benefactor died. active in the Philadelphia Female Anti-

20 july 2002 FRIENDS JouRNAL Slavery Society, in the Pennsylvania Ami­ Finally, fearing for his family, he decided made but the more glaring and insulting): I Slavery Society, in the Colored Free to move to Byberry. was informed by a pious Quaker director, with Produce Association, and in several liter­ The Purvises had been members of St. sanctifYing grace, imparting, doubtless, an ary societies, and provided her with Thomas African Episcopal Church at 5th uncruous glow to his saintly prejudices, that a school in the village of Mechanicsville was household help. and Walnut, and owned a pew there. appropriated for "thine." The miserable shan­ their home on Lombard Street, the After the move to Byberry they broke In ty, with all its appurtenances, on the very line Purvises often hid escaping slaves. In their ties to this church, charging that it of the township, to which this benighted fol­ August 1837 Robert helped organize the had become proslavery, and sold their lower of George Fox alluded, is, as you know, Vigilance Committee to watch for slave pew. They might then have been expect­ the most flimsy and ridiculous sham which catchers, and to expedite the escape of ed to join Byberry Meeting. But a series of any tool of a skin-hating aristocracy have slaves through the greater Philadelphia unfortunate incidents convinced Robert resorted to, to cover or protect his servility. valley, passing them from safe house to Purvis that Friends, with whom he safe house. This was originally an interra­ worked closely on several antislavery soci­ Purvis knew that other Quakers, chief­ cial committee but became all black in eties, were not as free of prejudice as he ly those affiliated with the Pennsylvania 1839 when Purvis became its president. might have wished. Anti-Slavery Society, did not believe as Under this group, more slaves were aided He was aware of the prejudice that this school director believed. Neverthe­ on their way to Canada and freedom than Grace Douglass and her daughter, Sarah less, it hurt. At about the same time, his under the later and better-publicized Mapps Douglass, had experienced in son, Robert Purvis Jr., escorting two underground railroad headed by Wllliam being asked to sit at a separate bench in young black women, Sarah Remond and Srill. several of the city's meetinghouses. But he Annie Wood, was turned away from the n 1838, the Commonwealth of did not experience exclusion personally Franklin Institute because of their color. ~~nnsylvania ~~ consideri?g until his own children were denied access What upset him chiefly in these situations ev1smg Its constitution to restrict to the Byberry public school. In 1853 he is that the good citizens of Philadelphia, suffrage to white men only. Robert Purvis refused to pay that portion of his proper­ Quakers included, rarely rose in protest wrote a protest, "Appeal of Forty Thous­ ty tax that went to support the schools, against these gratuitous expressions of and Citizens, Threatened with Disen­ and he wrote: prejudice. franchisement, to the People of Pennsyl­ vania," which argued that blacks had I have borne this outrage ever helped build Pennsylvania and had as since the innovation upon the usual good a right to citizenship as any. Despite practice of admitting all the children his eloquence, the Pennsylvania Assembly of the township into the public schools, and at considerable expense, voted to exclude blacks. Thereafter, Purvis have been obliged to obtain the serv­ redoubled his oratory and refused to pay ices of private teachers to instruct my a portion of his state taxes. His letters to children, while my school tax is the papers on this and similar subjects greater, with a single exception, than resulted in his house on Lombard Street that of any other citizen of the town­ being repeatedly mobbed by armed men. ship. It is true, (and the outrage is

The Byberry (Pa.) Meeting grounds in 1895. Left to right: Byberry Friends School, meetinghouse, Byberry Hall, and horse sheds. Inset: Byberry Hall, built 1843-46 for antislavery meetings, because meeting members would not allow them to use the meetinghouse or school.

FRIENDS jOURNAL july 2002 21 years Robert's junior, was a poet who had been close to both Harriet and Hartie, had been a friend of Harriet's niece Charlotte Forten, and had written a poem about Joseph Purvis, a son of the Purvises who had died young. On March 5, 1878, Robert and Tacy were married in a Quaker ceremony in Bristol, Bucks County. Faced with disownment for mar­ rying a man "not in membership with Friends," Tacy withdrew her membership from Bristol Meeting. For the next 20 years Robert lived con­ tentedly with his Quaker wife, supporting her in her writing. He kept in touch with The Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavt:ey Society, 1851. Robert Purvis is in the first row, fourth from left. On the right, seated next to him, are Lucretia and James Mon. such old friends as Lucretia Mott and John Greenleaf Whirtier, and worked ew of the Quaker schools at they had every right to stay on the soil on with William Still to bring about reform is time accepted blacks, which they were born. Bur in 1853 he in the Philadelphia city government, eving that they were doing and Harriet thought for a while of mov­ always urging that more blacks be hired their duty by providing for separate edu­ ing to England, not for their own sakes, for city jobs. He was also active in the cation. The Institute for Colored Youth, bur for that of their children. Robert had cause of women's rights, representing the first on Lombard Street and then on visited England in 1832 and had been Pennsylvania Suffrage Association at Bainbridge Street, was an excellent exam­ impressed with the comparative lack of national meetings. He was proud of his ple of this. But the Byberry Friends prejudice. Ultimately they decided daughter, Hartie, who became active in School was the exception, admitting the against it, and Robert continued to decry the National Woman's Suffrage Associa­ Purvis children at various times in their colonization. In 1853 a number of anti­ tion. Hartie, he said, bore the "double educational careers. Since the school was slavery Friends, tired of restrictions on curse of sex and color." In 1888 he was small, it was not always able to provide a their activities imposed by their individual honored by Susan B. Anthony at a meet­ reacher for each of the various age groups, meetings, issued a call for the develop­ ing of the International Council of and it was then that Robert Purvis want­ ment of a new yearly meeting to be called Women held in Washington for his pio­ ed his children to be able to attend the the Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends neer stand for the rights of women. As a public schools. Robert's son Charles at Longwood. Robert and Harriet signed member of the Universal Peace Union, he Purvis, who became head of the medical the call and attended several of the yearly helped defend the rights of Native department at Howard University in gatherings, with Robert serving on the Americans. He believed that all human Washington, D.C., wrote to the Byberry antislavery committee. They did not, rights were related to one another. Friends School reunion in 1906 that he however, formally join this group. There When he died, in April1898, he was and his brothers and sisters were among had been too many disappointments with buried at Fair Hill Burial Ground along the attenders: "The approach of the early Friends in the past. with his first wife, Harriet. The papers teachers of Byberry Friends School in In 1874 Robert and Harriet Purvis carried long obituaries, and the American 1850 was instrumental in making many moved from Byberry to a house at 1601 Negro Historical Society held a large good citizens, strong men and women Mr. Vernon Street in Philadelphia. When memorial meeting at Bethel Methodist with patriotic, hearts and lofty moral Robert was appointed a trustee of the Episcopal Church. He was praised for his natures. Freedmen's Bank, they took rooms in work for human rights, not only in the Still, prejudice was everywhere. In Washington, but retained their Philadel­ antislavery cause but also in his defense of 1853 the Philadelphia Chicken Fanciers phia home. In 1875 Harriet died of the the independence of Ireland, in his effort refused to exhibit Purvis's chickens, tuberculosis that had already carried off for justice to the Indians, "in his pro­ although he had won first prize in the past two of their sons. Robert bought a lot at nounced views on the right of woman three exhibits. When he and Hartie went Fair Hill Burial Ground, doubtless and his general advocacy of the reforma­ to New York to attend the National Anti­ through his friendship with Lucretia tion of the body politic." Isaiah Wear Slavery Conventions, they could not stay Mott. Here, in addition to Harriet, he summed it up in a few words: "This great in a hotel, but had to be housed with local buried a daughter Georgiana in 1877, and man who never in his public advocacy for abolitionists and reformers, such as Abby moved his mother and two brothers from human rights was heard to urge the claims Hopper Gibbons, who were willing ro graves at St. Thomas Church at 5th and of a recognition of race but rather a for­ receive black guests. Walnut in 1887. getfulness of all racial ideas and a recogni­ Robert Purvis had long opposed the Following the death of Harriet, many tion of manhood rights regardless of American Colonization Society and its of the Purvises' old Byberry neighbors had either race, color, or previous condition of plan to persuade free American blacks to sought to console Robert. One of these servitude." emigrate to Africa and settle in Sierra was Tacy Townsend, the descendant of an He was a friend of whom Friends Leone or Liberia, insisting that he and old Quaker family in the area. Tacy, 17 could and can be proud. 0

22 july 2002 FRIENDS JouRNAL Quaker History Excelling The Winds of Change IN A CHANGING WORLD by Paul Buckley e like to think that we live ~----- FRIENDS SELECT m a fast-changing world and The following obituary originally appeared in Friends W1long for the slower pace ofan Intelligencer, February 10, 1900. Pre- K to 12th grade earlier age. Yet within the lifetime of Elkanah Fawcett (1820-1900) the /JIIuma/v[ftawcetf; 17th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway Quaker world was completely redefined. Died at his home in Frederick County, Virginia, Philade_Thia, Pennsylvania 19103-1284 Elkanah was born into Virginia Yearly nine miles south ofW"mchester, on the 18th of Sixth 215-561 -5900 Meeting, a meeting that was even then month, 1900, Elkanah Fawcett, a member and elder disappearing. To avoid involvement with of Centre (Winchester) Preparative and Hopewell slavery, Friends from the South were Monthly Meeting, in the 80th year of his age. moving en masse to the Midwesr. Ohio He was one who was faithful to known duty Yearly Meeting had just been established and was seldom absent from his meeting while his in 1813; Indiana was to come in 1821. health was so that he could attend, although his But even bigger changes were to take home was nine miles from his meeting; and until place in 1827 and 1828 when five of the within a few years he was rarely absent from the eight existing yearly meetings were split quarterly meetings (Fairfax) although held at four into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. different places, one of which was near 100 miles Further splits in Fawcett's lifetime cre­ from his home. He was one of the most regular ated most of the varieties of Friends we attenders of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, having know today. missed very few in the last 40 years, during which It is likely that most of his neighbors time he had been a consistent and much esteemed (609) 714-0100 at the time of his birth were Quakers. elder of his monthly meeting. [email protected] They all wore plain dress, used plain He married more than 50 years ago; and al­ • MARRIAGE CERTI FICATES • speech, and married each other. Those though in the selection of a companion for life he • INSCRIPTIONS • SCROLLS • who couldn't accept Quaker peculiari­ did not choose one of the same religious commun­ ties were soon disowned. Their children ion with himself she was a congenial and loving 22 New Freedom Rd., Medford, NJ 08055 r~iveda "guarded education" ina meet­ helpmeet to him. She, with six of their nine chil­ ing school. But by the time Elkanah dren, survives him, and while none of them joined married, the discipline had been relaxed his meeting, they all had great love for him and and plain clothes and plain speech were respect for his religious principles. FRIENDS C OMMI'T'T5E ON Friends Committee on rapidly disappearing. Quaker children He was one of those who suffered great loss National Legislation began attending public schools. By the during the war of the rebellion, being forced into r--tFC www.fcnl.org time he was 60, some meetings had hired the militia service of Virginia very soon afrer the 1-800-630-1330 pastors and given up silent meeting for beginning of hostilities, but steadily refusing to UNL 245 Second St., NE worship. By the time he died, the old muster or bear arms. Yet being compelled to go Washington, DC 20002 Quaker "hedge against the world" had with his company, he concluded that he might act been cut down. as cook for them rather than spend his time in We seek a world free of war & the threat of war This was also an era of great changes idleness, which duty he faithfully performed for six We seek a society with equity & j ustice for all in the wider society that tested the faith­ months, at the end of which time he was permitted We seek a community where every person's fulness ofFri ends. The greatest of these to go home, and did not afrerward return to the potential may be fulfilled was the Civil War, during which Elkanah company, and was not again molested by the South­ was drafred into the Confederate army ern troops. Although he was thoroughly loyal to the We seek an earth restored.... and suffered invasion and the occupation United States government, when the Union troops ofhis home. While many northern Quak­ took possession of the Shenandoah Valley, some of ers felt called to forsake the Peace T esti­ the commands camped on or near his farm, and mony, Elkanah offered an example of having heard he had been in the Confederate army public resistance. Only late in life did he they almost stripped him of everything they could receive paltry compensation for his losses. carry off- horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, wheat, corn, ~~ In view of the way so many aspects of flour, and meat were all appropriated for the use of this Friend's world were transformed in the army, so that at one time he and his wife did not Thailand ways unimaginable at his birth, perhaps know where the next meal for themselves and their Interdisciplinary semesters of we should be less alarmed by the absence little children was to come from; but kind neigh­ learning and adventure for high school of tranquility ofa 21st-century life. 0 bors more out of the reach of the army supplied sen iors and interim year students. them with food for a short time. It is only within Tim Ellis, 195 Montsweag Road, Paul Buckley, a QJ,uzker historian and the last few years that the Government has directed Woolwich, Maine 04579 theowgian, is a member of 57th Street him to be paid a few hundred dollars, to cover losses 207-443-5451 · Email: tellisa>gquest.org Meeting in Chicago, ILL, and attends Clear ofseveral thousand. Visit: www.gquest.org Creek Meeting in Richmond, Ind. ~----- FRIENDS ]OURNAL]ury 2002 23 Memoir Fighting Pacifism by Beth Taylor September 15, 2001: In the midst of unprec­ 1989: My lingering sorrow over losses leads edented horror, I sense we have somehow me to Biblical narratives and writers who been here before. The radio plays "Come understood-Sherwood Anderson, Flannery together now.... ""T here's something hap- O 'Connor: "We are all Christ and we are all pening here . ..."As if the lyrics for this new crucified"- and we can become the crucifiers, world are old. so easily, usually in the name of a religion, or philosophy. I join a Congregationalist Open your child's 1962: At age nine I sing the Shaker song church. The people who once hanged Quak­ "Simple Gifts," reciting '"Tis a gift to be ers on Boston Common now seem to ask mind to the world simple, 'tis a gift to be free" in our soothingly as many questions as I do about conflict, white-walled Quaker meetinghouse sur­ inequity, and race. ABINGTON rounded by lush meadows of Pennsylvania FRIENDS farmland. I adore my father's stories of our 1995: My writing takes me to fmd the family Quaker ancestors, their pacifism, their women of the boy I lusted after at age 12 when he ran SCHOOL ministers, their acts of abolition. I understand our 4-H Club meetings on sunny Saturdays that much of the world is not like us; we are before he became a Marine and died in Viet- A Quaker coeducational different. day school grades Preschool through 12 1965-1973: I lose boys I know or love to every choice they make about Viemam: battle For more information, call with the Marines; Quaker service at Quang 215-886-4350 Ngai hospital; emigration to Canada; rape in 575 Washington Lane • Jenkintown, PA 19046 a D.C. jail after a White House protest; sui­ cide because ... because? There are no words. I stand quietly in demonstrations, mourning.

1980: After first forays into writing, trying to The find the words, I show a famous writer some Storehouse of my stories. He says, "You say you're a pacifist, but you carry a gun." I am stunned, Collection The Taylor family in 2001 otMemories then intrigued. nam. Who was he, really? They say he was a .. .a Life Story service to help you 1983: I marry a man who did not protest the good Catholic: He searched for truth, found savor your memories, tell your story war, who says it is time to let go ofsorrow. He joy in others, worked for peace-Quaker and create a beautiful book- works for the government I distrust, but he words, I think. Maybe we were both soldiers a legacy for generations to come. helps find the money and ways to rebuild our in our families' ways, and peacemakers. Both! dying city; he dares to believe you can actually We invite your inquiries. and more deeply than either/or. His sister, do good from within the system. We argue. then training to be a nun, now has three boys, Marty Walton a Unda Lyman He sees the world as social groups, numbers says if there were another draft, she would 5488 Woodbridge Ln. and percentages; I see individual hearts and Dayton, OH 45429 take her sons to Canada in a minute. (800) 738-8599 minds. He pushes me to take a stand, to not be so scared of fighting our loud for what I 1996: I have three boys in our city's public believe. I don't feel like a Quaker anymore, schools. We still believe in the Dream even [email protected] nor so different. www.storehousecollection.com though it is so obviously hard. My oldest is Members, Association of Personal Historians Beth TayLor is a former member ofCheltenham beaten in the boys' room of his middle (Pa.) Meeting, aformer attender ofSouthampton school-just "because." My atavistic pacifism (Pa.) and Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting;, and a says he should walk away, turn the other current member of Central Congregational cheek. But my anger feels pure: I tell him, CREMATION Church in Providence, Rl She teaches creative sometimes, if you have tried all other solu­ Friends are reminded that the nonfiction in the Expository Writing Program in tions, it is OK to fight back. He does. He is Anna T. Jeanes Fund the Department ofEnglish at Brown University. suspended. I take him to see art for the day. I will reimburse cremation costs. She also teaches "Writing Vietnam, " which (Applicable to members of imagine my Quaker mother's gentle spirit spawned the conference and website by that Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) shaking her head sadly, then sighing, saying, name (http://www.stg. brown.edulprojectsl For information, write yes, she understands. DORIS CLINKSCALE WritingVietnamlintro.html). She is working on IS East McPherson Street, a memoir called Plain Language: A Quaker At the university where I teach, Viet­ Philadelphia, PA 19119-1617 1999: Crucible. nam veterans gather with Southeast Asian

24 july 2002 fRIENDS jOURNAL refugees to talk about how to write their Viemams. Grizzled, weary poets, journalists, is proud to announce the members of its medical fiction writers remember how the words frrst staff named among the region's tried to come. Across campus, Robert McNamara finds clear words to explain the lessons ofVietnam. I watch in disbelief as the "Top Docs" crowd of college boys casually scrutinizes this historic, old man, admiring the power he (Philadelphia Magazine, May 2002) once held. An hour earlier, a combat veteran, his spine bent over the huge gouge in his Mark Friedlander, MD: General Psychiatry chest, asked quietly: "How can you have this Daniel Gruener, MD: General Psychiatry, specializing man on campus the same day we are here?" This is the point, always: The official voice in pain management never speaks for the personal cost. And in the David Miller, MD: Geriatric Psychiatry end, when all the retrospectives and diplo­ macy move on, beyond the wounded hills, it Michael Pertschuk, MD: Eating Disorders is the veteran with the rearranged chest, or the William Uffner, MD: Geriatric Psychiatry refugee, who speaks truest memory.

2000: After years of private struggle with my Congratulations to all our docs! ._ angers and sadnesses-a child's long illness, a ~ marriage hammered into shape, my parents' !-::; slow-burn deaths-I awaken one day to real­ 'S ize my little family ship has burst through the ~ clouds and icebergs, and we are suddenly ~ sailing through a time of clarity, calm, and f grace. At the Sunday dinner table, my sons d swap jokes, tease the youngest, tweak their stodgy parents, until we are all hooting and heeing with laughter. This, I think, is peace. Friends Academy 911112001: Like everyone, I am silenced. The Founded 1876 Located on scenic Long Island, horror. The violence. Plane/building/fireball. • less than 30 miles from New York City. Plane/building/fireball. Plane.... I know the families' panic. I remember that slide into the black hole of grief. This new pain has trumped Celebrating our 125th Anniversary all others. Or has it? I imagine gray-haired 50- and 60-something men across the coun­ try, riveted to these images-plane/fireball­ their bodies stilled, remembering. I under­ stand again: Violence of any kind is utterly wrong. This is why we become pacifists. And why we must catch bin Laden, silence al-Qaida. Both/and?

February 2002: President Bush glints from the podium, tosses off a good soundbite about the "axis of evil," our new enemy, or at least Founded in 1876 by Gideon Frost for "the children of Friends and those new buzzwords that will do so much and explain the complexities ofso little, like "reds," similarly sentimented," Friends Academy is a Quaker, coeducational, inde­ "commies," "gooks." It is 1964 again, when pendent, college preparatory day school serving 750 students from age three none of the boys I loved knew such words through the twelfth grade. The school awards significant financial assistance. would kill them or uproot them within the next ten years. I try to accept what will be, to understand both sides. But on a surprisingly Friends Academy • Duck Pond Road • Locust Valley, NY 11560 warm winter day, I look at my fresh-faced Phone: 516-676-0393 • Fax: 516-671-2025 • [email protected] sons and am chilled. 0

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I watched as her parents examined the button and her father pinned it to her coat. We're She turned to show me, and then we waved good-bye to each other. Our vigil line grew to nine people. The filling up fast. peace and joy I felt continued to shine inside me, in spite of drizzling rain. Late in the hour I noticed a man who was reading our signs The first phase of Chandler from a distance, dressed in black from finger­ tips to toes. I walked over to offer him a flyer Hall's community living and button, which he accepted. units filled up in record He wanted to know who we were, if we were Christians, and whether we were funda­ time. Our newest phase mentalists. He told me he was a pacifist, too, opens soon, so there's still although not a Christian. He said he lived in the suburbs and that everybody he knows time to become part of thinks his views against bombing are crazy. the family. Come tour We talked a long while. I wondered if I was allowing myself to be distracted from my task the light-filled common of prayer. At the same time, as I looked into areas, country kitchens, his eyes, I felt as ifi was sensing the place from which his argument against war was coming. community theatre and Early Quakers might have called it the seed or intimate dining rooms. the witness, or the divine light within. Per­ haps by looking into his eyes I could nourish Talk with our chef, activities director and all the compassionate that seed or help that spark of light grow brighter. I sensed his hunger to be illuminated people whose personalized approach to aging makes every resident by that light. feel at home. Let our residents tell you about the activities-from "You're listening to me!" he exclaimed with astonishment. "Nobody does that. Usu­ art classes and fitness programs to day trips-that make their days ally I talk to myself." He dropped a hint about so interesting. Learn how affordable it is to live here. And discover God entering his life recently. When I asked about that, he told me he'd been an atheist for yourself the difference we can make in your loved one's life. most of his life but had begun to believe there might be a God. "But I don't believe in Jesus!" he insisted hastily, afraid that making space for God might open the door to lots of no­ Adult Day Program Home Health Care Nursing Care tions he firmly rejected. Aquatics Programs Hospice Care Wellness Clinic The bells rang five o'clock, signaling the Assisted Living Memory Care end of the vigil. I told him that my prayer for him was that he would come to have more direct experience of God. Every Life Has Meaning ... "I've never had an angel talk to me," he responded, and I smiled, thinking that maybe he was wrong about that. T he light I'd seen in CHANDLER his eyes stayed in my mind a long time, prompting me to continue to pray for him. Later I decided that perhaps my conversation LL with him had not been a distraction from Living The Quaker Tradition prayer, but another way to pray for God's gold to shine in all and for peace to prevaii.O A nonprofit, nondiscriminatory QUAKER facility 99 Barclay Street, Newtown, PA • (215) 860-4000

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FRIENDS ]OURNAL]u(y 2002 27 Books A Young Friends' particularly responsive chord with Quaker par­ tiful, and the illustrations bring the truth of its ems and children. Parents can use all the help sentiment to immediate relevance. Summer Bookshelf they can get in teaching peace, while children My two young children pored over each will keenly appreciate Rabbi Eisenberg Sasso's two-page spread, discussing each example and hen summer days grow long, here depiction of the raw and overwhelming qual­ offering more of their own. My six-year-old are a few books to share with your ity of anger run amok. They will futther ap­ daughter even wanted to read the actual Bibli­ ildren that will help them navigate preciate and find reassurance in her message cal text herselfafter seeing the book! The book our troubled world-plus one that will make of hope for a peaceful way through the anger is designated as being appropriate for all ages, your job as parent a little easier! to a better world. and indeed, it is. The multitude of pictures -Abby McNear offers everything from elephants dressed as people, to refugees interacting with soldiers. Abby McNear, the mother of There is something here to stimulate discus­ two and a freelance writer, is sion for everyone. I cannot think ofa lovelier a member of Evanston (IlL) book to show our children what it means to Meeting. live our faith. -Abby McNear Love Is .. Adapted from the Bible and Grandad's Prayers of the Earth illustrated by Wendy Ander­ By Douglas Wood. Candlewick Press, 2002. 29 son Halperin. Simon and pages. $16.99/hardcover. Ages 5 to adult. This Schuster, 2001. 28pages. $161 is a sweet book that takes on two heavy sub­ hardcover. All ages. This is jects, prayer and death. It tells the story of a such a wonderful book, it's boy's walks in the Minnesota woods with his hard to know where to start beloved Grandfather and their discussions in reviewing it. Love Is . . . . concerning prayer. "Did you know, boy," takes as its text the Apostle Grandad whispered, "that trees pray?" What Paul's definition oflove in I follows is a highly thoughtful analysis ofprayer, Corinthians 13, as drawn providing readers with food for thought. The from several different translations ofthe Bible. book finishes by showing how, over time, Cain and Abel: Finding the The text reads: "Love is patient. Love is kind. Grandad's lessons about prayer help his grand­ Fruits of Peace Love is not envious or boastful. Love is not son cope with his death. For Quakers, this By Sandy Eisenberg Sasso. Illustrated by joani arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its book is very appealing in its discussion of Keller Rothenberg. jewish Lights Publishing, own way. Love is not irritable or resentful. how our very lives and being can be a prayer to 2001.32 pages. $16.95/hardcover. Ages 5 and Love does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but God, and how, when we set out to change up. Sandy Eisenberg Sasso's latest book rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things. ourselves, ultimately we change the world as couldn't have come at a better time. Pub­ Love hopes all things. Love endures all things. a result. The part of the story that deals with lished just two months after September 11, Love never ends." grief over losing one we love would be reassur­ Cain and Abel explores the themes of broth­ Wendy Anderson Halperin has illustrated ing to a child who is facing such a loss. If you erly love, anger, violence, contrition, and peace­ each of these lines with a profusion ofwhimsi­ have a child with a tender heart who cannot building at the personal level for children ages cal pencil and watercolor illustrations. Each bear to even think of such a thing, the book five and up. two-page drawing offers different examples of may prove less popular as a bedtime story, It's an impressive book Rabbi Eisenberg non-loving acts on one page, contrasted with but the section dealing directly with prayer Sasso speaks to children of all faiths. She is a the way oflove on the other. Her ideas for the will be a good springboard for discussion. master storyteller and brings this ancient story various drawings came from her children, to dramatic life by fleshing out the details of friends, and relatives and reflect a wide diver­ -Abby McNear what may have transpired between the ill­ sity. The language of the text is achingly beau- fated first brothers-Cain, a farmer, who The Wind Boy murdered his brother Abel, a shepherd, in a fit By Ethel Cook Eliot. Raven Rocks ofjealous anger. Press, 2001. 240 pages. $12/paper­ The book includes some discussion ques­ back. Read aloud, 5-9 years; read tions for parents and teachers, but you may . alone, 9-12 years. Teaching the not need them. The drama of the story itself is ~ basic concepts ofQuakerism to our sure to provoke lots of questions from young children is a challenging task for listeners. (Older readers may be drawn into parents. The image of a parent si­ lively discussion-or at least contemplation­ lent and centered-down does not on the differences between this book and the begin to convey to a child the mys­ actual Biblical story.) tical experience that is taking The book features beautiful Chagall-like § place between that parent and God. illustrations, including one of exploding sky- ~ And the explanations we offer on scrapers that is of shocking relevance to Sep- ~ the tenets of our faith ofrentimes tember 11. fall short. The book is timely and needed for chil­ How wonderful then to en­ dren of all faiths right now, but will strike a counter the novel The Wind Boy Tell me more.

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1••• 111.1 ••••• 1111 ••• 1••• 11.1 •••• 11.1 ••• 111 ••••• 11.1 by Ethel Cook Eliot. This is not a Quaker PENDLE HILL book, but an exquisitely written story of two For Adults refugee children, their struggles to fit into PAMPHLETS their new European village, and their encoun­ The Natural Child: Parenting ters with the magical, the mystical, and the from the Heart divine. Kay and Gentian emigrate with their By jan Hunt. Foreword by Peggy 0 'Mara. New Subscribe Now mother after losing track of their father in the Society Publishers, 2001. 176 pages. $14.951 aftermath of war. The lives of the children paperback. Jan Hunt's eloquent work is an change dramatically when their mother hires elaboration of what she calls the Parenting Nan, a mysterious stranger from the moun­ Golden Rule: "Treat your child as you would tains, to serve as their housekeeper. Nan's like to be treated if you were in the same presence marks the beginning of wonderful, position." Adults behave as well as they are supernatural experiences for the children (think treated, and the same holds true for children. C.S. Lewis, not Harry Potter). Adults generally do not improve their behav­ Written in 1923 and recently re-released, ior when they are insulted, criticized, threat­ The Wind Boy stands on its own as an out­ ened, publicly humiliated, or beaten; in the standing piece of children's fiction. For the long run, neither do children. Quaker parent and child, however, it has an Fortunately, argues Hunt, who was a mem­ added bonus. Through essential elements of ber ofMulmomah Meeting in Portland, Or­ the plot, the book artfully illustrates Quaker egon, before moving to British Columbia concepts that can be difficult to express. Read­ where she served on the board of the Cana­ ing the book aloud to my six-year-old daugh­ dian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ter, I gasped over the chapter devoted to an Children, the seed of how to be with children explanation of how to go "deep still," or what is implanted within us. If we listen hard we Quakers would call centered-down. Thanks enough, the direction of how to act toward a to this book, my daughter finally has a clear child comes naturally. grasp ofwhat we are trying to do each Sunday The Natural Child offers a consistent and in our meeting's unprogrammed worship. compelling approach to raising a loving, crust­ Open the door to new The book also includes descriptions of en­ ing, and confident child, without resott to light for living counters with the divine, how aligning oneself coercion or manipulation. At a time when with God can produce work ofgreat beauty in Friends are enticed by the world to forget our responsibly withjoy. one's life, and speaking truth to power. None spiritual proclivities when it comes to parenting of this is done in a bludgeoning fashion, as is and, especially, education, this book is a wel­ so often the case in children's fiction. come antidote. The Natural Child is a must Recent Titles: for every meeting library, and the perfect gift • A Plea for the Poor -Abby McNear for the Quaker individual or couple expecting the arrival of a first child. John Woolman In Brief -David H Albert • Reflections from A DavidH Albert is a member ofOlympia (Wash.) Prayer Vigil for Peace In Every Tiny Grain of Sand: A Meeting, moderatorofthe Quaker Homeschool­ Child's Book of Prayers and ing Circle, and author ofthe forthcoming book John Andrew Gallery Praise Original Seeking: Homeschooling and the • Quaker Social Testi­ Edited by Reeve Lindbergh. Illustrated by Chris­ Voyage of Self-Discovery. tine Davenier, Bob Graham, Anita jeram, and mony in our Personal Elisa Kleven. Candlewick Press, 2000. 77pages. Behold I Do a New Thing: and Corporate Life $21.99/hardcover. This charming book of Transforming Communities of Jonathan Dale prayers collected by Reeve Lindbergh is di­ Faith vided into four sections-"For the Day," "For By C Kirk Hadaway. The Pilgrim Press, 6 pamphlets/year for $16.00 the Home," "For the Earth," and "For the Night"-each illustrated by a different artist. 2001. 140 pages. $15/paperback. "Churches are blamed for being oriented 2- and 3-year subscriptions The prayers come from a variety of traditions: to the past. But they really are not. They are are more economical Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Native American, oriented to a past ideal, which they can Baha'i, Muslim, and from a number of poets. never recreate." The varied, bright, and colorful illustra­ Contact: That's just one of the provocative state­ tions do much to add to this lovely volume, ments made by Kirk Hadaway in his new which would be useful both in the home Pendle Hill Publications book on congregational transformation. And and particularly in First-day schools and 338 Plush Mill Road although Hadaway's book is written prima­ Friends schools. Wallingford, rily for pastoral churches, he has much to say - joan Overman Pennsylvania to Friends, who have often been accused of joan Overman, a member of Elmira (N Y.) "ancestor worship" and glorifying our past. 19086-6099 Meeting, is the book review assistant for FRIENDS Hadaway, who is the minister for research 1-800-742-3150 j OURNAL. and evaluation at United Church of Christ's FRIENDS ]OURNAL]u(y 2002 33 Office of General Ministries, has a way ofget­ Olney Eriends School ting us over our orientation to a past ideal by asking good questions about whether we should change or stay the same. He also urges us to ask, ''What is a church?" and "Why is our church here?" and offers what he calls a "dynamic model" for congregational transformation. Living things grow, he points out, and a church that is living will lead us out of our obsession A coeducational, with a past ideal and into becoming a trans­ college preparatory, formed and transformational community. This is a book that should be read and boarding high school studied by every ministry and oversight com­ with deep Quaker roots minee. Some may have to struggle with its openly Christian stance, but it's a struggle worth the effort. -Brent Bill Brent Bill is assistant book review editor of FRIENDS joURNAL, associate director ofthe India­ napolis Centerfor Congregations, and an attender ofFirst Friends Meeting in Indianapolis.

Olney Friends School The Country of Language Barnesville, Ohio 43713 By Scott Russell Sanders. Milkweed Editions, ~lephone: 740-425-3655 1999. 131 pages. $12/paperback. Visit www.Olneyfriends.org "I began worshiping in Cambridge with the Society ofFriends, the only religious group I could find that took seriously the gospel of peace." So writes Scon Russell Sanders in this delightful offering from Milkweed's Credo series. Books in the Credo series explore "the Residential and essential goals, concerns, and practices of con­ temporary American writers whose work em­ Assisted Living phasizes the natural world and human com­ since 1891 munity," and this book certainly does that. The Country of Language consists, Sanders says, of"the stories that guide me," and they In addition to The Hickman's are grounded both in nature and humanity. "I'm wary of abstract theories and creeds that "not too big, not too small" hover in thin air," he writes, "My beliefs are size, Bill and Becky Mcilvain rooted in ordinary, earthy life." liked the retirement Sanders tells the stuffof his ordinary, earthy life in an engaging, hospitable style that in­ community's in-town location. vites the reader to self-reflection. He tells of growing up and falling in love with words. "I still feel the miraculous power in language," "There are so many things he writes. He relates his corning of age in the you can do within walking world ofth e Viemarn War, and how he learned distance. We're still driving to use writing to ask, and sometimes answer, his life's questions. now, but the day will come. . . . " The book concludes with writer Scon Slovic's concise, revelatory portrait of Sand­ Quaker-Sponsored • Homelike • Affordable • Close to Town • Welcoming Diversity ers, and a bibliography of Sanders's books, short stories, essays, and criticism, as well as 400 N. Walnut St., West Chester, PA 19380 his sound and video recordings. 610-696-1536 The Country of Language grew from Sanders's goal to "make stories, small gifrs in e-mail: [email protected] return for the great gift oflife." For those not­ www. thehickman.org so-small gifts, we readers are grateful. -Brent Bill

34 july 2002 FRIENDS }OURNAL News Personalized Care in the Friends World Committee for Consultation has appointed David Brindle as associate Quaker Tradition secretary in the World Office, London. Brindle is currently serving as pastor of Since 1896 W tlmington Meeting, and will take office when he has concluded this obligation. Brindle will take over the post from Annis Bleeke. A Quiet, Extending friendship to the people of North Home-Like Setting in a Korea, the four-member Chicago Chamber Artists performed during the Spring Friend­ Beautifully Landscaped ship Art Festival (April 14-25) held every Atmosphere spring in Pyongyang. The trip was made possible through AFSC, which has worked for peace and reconciliation on both ends of • Private Rooms, Suites and • Recreational Activities the Korean peninsula for decades and has Apartments facilitated d ialogue with the Democratic • 24 Hour Security People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The • Assistance With Activities Of Daily • Some Financial festival, in its 20th year, included 1,200 per­ Living formers in several hundred groups from nearly Assistance Available 50 different countries. "Using music as a ve­ • Emergency Response System hicle, we opened roads of communication, helping to erase misperceptions and misun­ • Three Nutritious, Home-Cooked For information please derstandings," said singer Maria Lagios. For Meals Served Daily In Elegant call856-235-4884 further information contact AFSC, 1501 Surroundings Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102, . • Linen And Housekeeping Services Moorestown, NJ 08057 Quaker House in Fayetteville, North Caro­ lina, reports that provisions in the new "No Child Left Behind Act" make students' per­ sonal information readily available to mili­ tary recruiters. Parents need to be aware that basic student contact information (name, ad­ dress, telephone number) can be given by schools to military recruiters upon request. H owever, parents may request that such in­ formation not be released for their child with­ out prior written parental consent. For more information:

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Upcoming Events •August 2-1 1-Central Yearly Meeting, Muncie, Ind. WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 Over 300 Years of Quaker Education •August 3-8-New England Yearly Meeting, N orton, Mass. The William Penn Charter School is a Quaker college-preparatory school stressing high standards in academics, the arts, and athletics. Penn Charter •Augu st 7-11-Western Yearly Meeting, is committed to nurturing girls and boys of diverse backgrounds in an Plainfield, Ind. atmosphere designed to stimulate each student to work to his or her •August 10-17-Canadian Yearly Meeting, fullest potential. Kindergarten through twelfth grade. Winnipeg, Manitoba Earl J. Ball Ill, Head of School •August 13-18-0hio Yearly Meeting (Con­ 3000 W. School House Lane, ?hiladelphia, PA 19144 servative), Barnesville, Ohio (215) 844-3460 • www.penncharter.com •August 14-18-Jarnaica Yearly Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica •August 29-September 2-North Carolina Yearly Meeting, Black Mountain, N.C. ESR ENGLAND TOUR •September 5-8-International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Cam­ With John Punshon paigns near Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by and Steve Angell Conscience and Peace Tax International. Contact Klaus Waiditschka, c/o Jugendheim JULY 14- 29, 2003 Hirschluch, D-15859 Storkow, e-mail More details at , website ; or Liz Perch, FGC, 1216 Arch St. 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107, e-mail: [email protected]>. •September 27-29-Missouri Valley Friends Conference, Oskaloosa, Kans.

Opportunities/Resources • Quaker Eco-Witness (QEW) is a network addressing public policy for an ecologically sustainable world. QEW seeks contact people to promote this witness within monthly meet­ ings. To participate or to receive the Quaker Eco-Bulletin, contactQEW, do Friends Com­ mittee on Unity with Nature, 173-B N. Pros­ Committee for Consultation • Section of the Americas pect St., Burlington, VT 05401-1607, (828) 626-2572, e-mail , ' to encourage all Friends to live in a manner spiritual tools for strengthening it in today's world, and prayerfully cons1der acuons to remam consistent with Quaker testimonies on sim­ faithful witnesses to Jesus' message, "blessed are the peacemakers." plicity, on care of the environment, and on the right sharing of world resources. Each You are invited. January 17-20, 2003, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC memo contains practical suggestions, links to 1506 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA pertinent Internet sites, and news about op-

FRIENDS ]OURNAL ]ury 2002 37 Fall Weeklong Courses porrunities to practice these testimonies. To receive "Right Sharing" send a request to the September 15-20 November 10-15 editor, Philip Harnden '. WISDOM AND COMPASSION: SACRED PATHS: •The Friends Media Project is loolcing for SILENT INSIGHT MEDITATION Rimu!AT AJouRNEY IN Friends who, through their profession, volun­ with Mary Orr MYSTICAL JuDAISM teer work, or hobbies, have an interest in mass media communication. The Friends Media with Marcia Prager October 27-November 1 Project seeks to become a new-media publish­ ing co-op and support nerwork for people FooD THAT NOURISHES November 17-22 pursuing or interested in faithful witness BoDY AND SPIRIT: EXPLORING QUAKER and storytelling through mass media, Quaker outreach, or preserving Quaker heritage in CooKING AT PENDLE HILL PRACTICE new media forms. Long range goals include a with Carol Sciarra with Kenneth Sutton retreat center to support these ends. If you andjan Hoffman would like to be a part of this group, can November 3-8 volunteer as a grant writer, or want to find out AFSC AT85: December 1-6 more, contact Dana Kester-McCabe, , or at 10603 Bishopville LEADINGS OF THE RESTORATION Road, Bishopville, MD 21813. SPIRIT IN RAciAL JusTICE WoRK with john Calvi • Linda Beekman ofSt . Petersburg (Fla.) Meet­ with PaulA lace)l Reujames M Lawson,jr., and others ing has a book in progress, documenting her work as a witness in Sarajevo, available at . The book is an PENDLE HII.I.~ extension of her Sarajevo Project, created in A QUAKER CENTER FOR STUDY AND CONTEMPIAilON 1993, which was later adopted by St. Peters­ ext. 142 · (800) 742-3150 (US) or (610) 566-4507 (worldwide) burg Meeting and supported by many meet­ 338 Plush Mill Road • Wallingford, PA 19086 ings and Quakers around the country. www. pendlehill.org · registra.r®pendlehill.org •Echando Raices/Taking Root: Immigrant and Refogee Communities in California, Texas, and Iowa weaves together stories from immigrants and refugees, scenes of community life, and perspectives from activists, scholars, and local officials. The video comes with English and Friends Home at Woodstown Spanish versions plus discussion guide. Con­ tact Literature Resources Unit, AFSC, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102, . Simply put, Friends Home at Woodstown provides friendly and affordable •"About Face: The Role of the Arms Lobby in care to older adults. Nestled in the heart of rural southern New Jersey, the Bush Administration's Radical Reversal of Friends Home has maintained a stable presence in the community for over Two Decades ofU.S. Nuclear Policy" is avail­ 100 years. Some of our primary services include: able from the Arms Trade Resource Center. E-mail Frida Berrigan , orwriteATRC, World Policy Institute, • Independent apartment living 66FifthAve., 9th Floor, NewYork, NY 10011. • Health care facility with 24-hour services •"Islamic Perspectives on Peace and Violence" • Patient and supportive staff (Special Report 82, January 2002) is available • Attention to the individual's spiritual, social, and physical needs free from U.S. Institute ofPeace, 1200 17th St. NW, Suite 200, Washington, D.C. 20036- • Closeness to the community 3011, {202) 429-3832, . • Medicare and Medicaid Certificate • Women Making Peace: Lessons Learned looks Rated one ofthe best care homes in the U.S. at the first four years ofthe pioneering Women Peacemakers Program of International Fel­ For a tour or more information, contact our Admissions Office at lowship of Reconciliation (IFOR). The 38- 856-769-1500 page publication examines the challenges fac­ ing women peacemakers, recounts success sto­ Friends Home at Woodstown ries, and looks at ways to support women's peace initiatives. Contact IFOR, Spoorstraat P.O. Box 457 • Friends Drive • Woodstown, NJ 08098 38, 1815 BK Alkrnaar, the Netherlands, .

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calling attention to the consequences of scientific Quaker through his friendship with Mary Folsom Births/Adoptions and technological "progress." In 1955 he married Blair, who in 1963 was the last remaining member Evey-Staley-Bklinl' Richard Evey-Suliey, on Jenifer Post at Haverford (Pa.) Meeting. They of West Epping Meeting, which Patrick and his March 22, 2002, to Richard Evey Jr. and Kathy raised their family in Germantown, where Elmer wife Miriam set about reviving. He was also an Staley. Kathy is a member of Boone (N.C.) served on fiscal and property committees. He joined initiator ofAU New Hampshire Friends Meeting. Meeting. in many demonstrations in Washington and Fort He supported FCNL, FOR, New England Coali­ Detrick. A founding member of the Society for tion on N uclear Pollution, Seacoast Anti-Pollu­ Social Responsibility in Science, Elmer spent the tion League, ACLU, and Alliance for the Separa­ Marriages/Unions last 25 years of his working life in research and tion of Church and State. A distinguished author­ development at Scott Paper Company. After early ity in the field of public relations, Patrick brought Cook-McPherson-Annie McPherson and retirement, he volunteered his skills on building Quaker principles to his leadership and prores­ David Cook were married on February 16, 2002, and maintenance projects, including Philadelphia sional practice. Under Patrick's leadership in the under the care of Gainesville (Fla.) Meeting, Yearly Meeting's Burlington Conference Center; '60s and 70s, the public relations firm Jackson, where Annie is a member and David an attender. conversion of a warehouse into a middle school Jackson, and Wagner worked with groups in the The meeting was held in Mcintosh, Fla. building for Greene Street Friends School; and environment, consumer, civillibetties, civil rights, replacing the roof and elevators at Stapeley in physical rehabilitation, and other movements, and Germantown. His thirst for education led to a is now considered the first public relations firm to Deaths second B.S. in General Studies from Drexel in have practiced in the area of grassroots move­ 1983. When Elmer and Jenifer relocated to Foxdale menrs. Among Patrick's proudest achievements Bock-Arlene Ruth jones Bock, 56, on October 17, Village in State College, Pa., in 1995, he served on was providing counsel and guidance to the first 2001, in Washington, D.C., of aplastic anemia. the board of State College Friends School. Elmer environmental coalition effort to protect open space She was born in Woodbury, N.J., on August 7, was predeceased by his first daughter Martha (1967) permanently through the current-use taX change 1944. Arlene participated in the 1964 Summer and his sister Evelyn (1991). He is survived by his in New Hampshire. In 1980 he was elected presi­ Project in M ississippi and was a photographer wife., Jenifer Goetz; his daughter and son-in-law, dent of Public Relations Sociery of America, and with the Southern Christian Leadership Confer­ Rebecca Goetz and John Ruziskey; two grandsons, he was active on many boards and organizations ence. She worked as youth services director for Paul James Ruziskey and Eric Nathan Ruziskey; throughout the U.S. In 1982 he founded Jackson, Anchorage Community Action Program and was and his sister and brother-in-law, Marie and David Jackson, and Wagner's research subsidiary, Dudley founder of the Aid to Women in Crisis Program. Chambers. Research, to emphasize behavior-based, qualitative She had also worked as a medical officer at the research. For over three decades he served as editor Woodbury Volunteer Ambulance Service, and as a Hewitt-Eloise (Cindy) Hewitt, 94, on January for pr rqJorter, an international public relations backcountry ranger in Michigan. A member of 25, 2002, at home in Honolulu, Hawaii. She was newsletter. Throughout his career, Patrick received Friends Meeting of Washington, she was also a born in Providence, R.I., on June 28, 1907. She numerous awards and honors, and his leadership member of Community of the Ark in Washing­ graduated from Wheaton College and earned a and passion for public relations is sorely missed. ton, D.C. In 1994, under the care of Friends fellowship in Education at Brown University. In Patrick was predeceased by his wife, Miriam Jack­ Meeting of Washington, Arlene married her part­ 1932 she married Norman Hewitt, a fellow Sun­ son. He is survived by his wife, Stacey E. Smith, ner, Molly Jones, in a ceremony that beautifully day school teacher. Cindy had a long career with and their children Alexandra Jackson and Jeremy blended Quaker traditions and Buddhist wisdom. Girl Scouts, moving from assistant leader to direc­ Jackson; his other children, Richard Jackson, Kevin Arlene enjoyed hiking, particularly the Appala­ tor for the Manhattan Girl Scout Council, then Jackson, Pamela Sadler, and Roberta Trefts; 21 chian Trail, and carefully noting edible plants executive director of Girl Scouts in Hackensack, grandchildren; 8 great-grandchildren; his brother, and mushrooms, birds, wildlife, weather phenom­ San Diego, and finally, Pasadena, where she stayed T. Michael Jackson; and his long-time partner, ena, and geology. Unknown to most Friends in for 28 years. Upon her retirement, a building was Isobel Parke. meeting, Arlene lived with the after-effects of the named in her honor. In Pasadena, Cindy joined misdiagnosis of a benign cyst that had cut off Orange Grove Meeting. In addition to meeting Mekeel-Etta Albrecht Mekee~ 87, on November oxygen to part of her brain. H er memory was work, during these years Cindy was very active 29,2001, inState College, Pa. Born December 11, affected, so that the simplest TV drama was con­ with AFSC Pasadena and FCNL. After she and 1913, she was a daughter ofJohannes and Katrina fusing; her hearing and vision were damaged; and Norman moved to H awaii Cindy joined Hono­ Albrecht. In June 1940 she married Arthur J. she suffered hallucinations. Thanks to a doctor lulu Meeting, where she served on several commit· Mekeel. A graduate of Earlham College, Etta re­ and a nurse-advocate willing to intervene with the tees. She is remembered in Honolulu Meeting.for ceived a master of arts from Bryn Mawr College insurance company, Arlene had surgery that al­ the cakes she lovingly baked for weekly Labor of and taught German at Friends Select School lowed a slow, partial healing process to begin. Love potlucks and monthly birthday celebrations. in Philadelphia. In 1949 Etta and Arthur assisted Arlene threw herself into volunteer work at meet­ After Norman's death in 1984 Cindy's nephew in postwar reconstruction in Italy under the aus­ ing, Davis House, and the National Cathedral Norman Chalmers came to live with her. During pices of AFSC. She instituted and managed a Greenhouse. She returned to the outdoors, re­ her last years, he was a loving and gentle caregiver. program wherein Quaker schools in the U.S. learning the skills of gardenin9, birdwatching and One of Cindy's last gifts to the meeting was the furnished much-needed materials to the Italian hiking that had been integral to her life. She is writing of a booklet on death and dying called schools. She also traveled to Mghanistan, Turkey, survived by her partner, Molly Jones. Pklnning Ahead: Muting our Responsibilities Whm and Lebanon, where Arthur worked for the U.S. Death Occurs. This booklet has been used as a Foreign Service. Following her husband's retire­ Goetz-Eimer Gol'tz, 73, on January 28, 1998, model by many Friends meetings as well as Earlliam ment she resided in Havertown, and in 1995 they during open-heart surgery at Danville, Pa. He was moved to Foxdale Village in State College, Pa. Etta born on April 1, 1924, in Philadelphia, Pa., and School of Religion. Cindy recently observed that was gifted in painting and played several Renais­ was raised in Germantown. As a teenager he dis­ the prospect of death is a boon in many ways, as it sance and Baroque instruments with beauty and agreed with his Lutheran minister's preaching on points us in the direction ofliving well and getting skill. She is survived by her husband, Arthur J. the "just war," and his father took him to on with good works. She is survived by her neph· ews Norman, Don, and Bob Chalmers. Mekeel; three children, eight grandchildren, and Germantown Meeting (Coulter Street), where he, four great-grandchildren. his parents, and one sister became members. He Jackson-Patrick john jackson, 68, on March 22, graduated from Central High School in January 2001, at his home in Rye, N.H. H e was born on Reeder- WiUiam Rodman (Rod) Reeder, 83, on 1942 and began studying Engineering at Drexel September 5, 1932, the elder son of Ira William December 8, 2001, at Foulkeways at Gwynedd, University. He was soon drafted and, after appeal, and Edythe MinnemaJackson. H e graduated from Pa. A lifelong member of the Religious Society of received conscientious objector status. His Civil­ Creston High School, attended Kenyon College, Friends, he was born on August 12, 1918, in ian Public Service assignments in New York, Or­ and obtained his M.Ed. from Antioch New En­ Philadelphia, Pa., to Anna Richardson Paxson and egon, and Delaware, set him on his way to a gland. In his youth, Patrick was an active member William Kitchin Reeder, and grew up in Langhorne lifelong concern: building a peaceful society by of the Congregational Church. He became a as a member of Middletown Meeting. He gradu-

FRIENDS ]OURNALju(y 2002 39 GuideOne Insurance is America's leading insur­ er of religious institutions, and has been pro­ ated in 1935 from George School, received a bach­ tecting Friends houses of worship and schools elor's degree in Mathematics from Columbia Uni­ versity in 1940, and earned a master's degree in for more than 20 years. In fact, since 1979, Mathematics from Brown University in 1941. GuideOne has been the Friends Insurance During WWII he was in the Civilian Public Ser­ Group property and casualty insurer of choice. vice as a conscientious objector. An associate of the Society ofActuaries and a member ofth e American To arrange for a FREE premium quotation, and Academy ofAcruaries , Rod worked for Penn Mutual to learn more about GuideOne Insurance, call Life Insurance Company in Philadelphia from 1941 until his retirement in 1983. On June 17, 1950, he 1-877-448-4331 ext. 5429. G~· ln s u r~nte married Grace Marie Hoyle. When the couple settled in Abington in 1951 he transferred his mem­ bership to Abington Meeting, where he served as treasurer, a member of the Committee of Over­ seers, and on the Abington Friends School Commit­ tee. H e also served on several committees in Phila­ Individuals in Community delphia Yearly Meeting. Afrer retirement he was a volunteer driver for Meals on Wheels, and an avid gardener and traveler. H e is survived by his wife of 51 years, (Grace) Marie Hoyle Reeder; a son, Allen Rodman Reeder; and a sister, Jean Reeder Dew. Rogers-Edward F. (Ed) Rogers, 88, on February 25, 2002, at home in Middletown, N.J. He was born in New York City on December 20, 1913, grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y., and received undergraduate and Ph.D . degrees from Fordham University. He did postgraduate work at Univer­ sity of Illinois with biochemist Roger Adams. Ed­ ward spent 35 years in pharmaceutical research with Merck and Company, where his most impor­ rant patent, which he attributed to his work with Dr. Adams, was for the development of Amprollium, an antibiotic that was used in chicken feed corn. Effective against the chicken disease coccidiosis, this antibiotic contributed to Ed's longsranding efforts to feed the world. Working with Shore Citizens for Better Housing in the early ASCHODI..JIIfiiiO&IBfMliMIIJJII4. THEGu ... I -.···- CDUBifMNIMlllfRJIIIIBJlC7UIU.faMUS ...s..fliiiiii;MI ...... ____....._._ '60s, he often took one or more of his children with him to test real estate offerings for racially MU1UAL ftiiJSTAIIDIIlSI'fCijAIWI.._,_,._,...... segregated housing practices. His opposition to the IWISASMIICIIM'IIASIS,.ASIMDI'.... f ...... , IfilL Vietnam War led him to become a member of Shrewsbury Meeting, which he served for the rest of his life in many capacities. He counseled young men facing the drafr, served as secretary for New Jersey ACLU, cofounded the Middletown Village Civic Association, helped establish the first shelter for the homeless in Monmouth County, and served The Cambridge School of Weston • 1886 on the county board responsible for allocating funds for low-cost housing. In the early '80s he and another Quaker, Grace Schaffel, recognized the need for a soup kitchen in Red Bank, and created the agency that has today become Lunch Break. H e was an avid Mets fan, gardener, acrostic puz­ The Meeting School zler, and he enjoyed poker and checkers. In August 56 Thomas Road, Rindge, NH 03461 200 1 he competed in the national tournament of the American Checker Federation in Las Vegas. Organic Farm H e will be remembered for being the liberal con­ ~ rare breeds, active student involvement science that shone brightly for 50 years in the middle of conservative Middletown. As a final / Caring Quaker Community gesture, he donated his body to the Robert Wood putting faith into practice in our daily lives Johnson Medical School for use in research. Ed Progressive Secondary Education was predeceased by his first wife, Ann Fleming. He day/boarding, small classes, hands-on learning is survived by his wife, Bettie Pefia Rogers, whom he married in 1994; five sons, Peter E. Rogers, David E. Rogers, Sam E. Rogers, Benjamin E. Rogers, and Joel E. Rogers; three stepchildren, Emily Pefia Murphey, Susan Pefia, and Ted Pefia; 12 grandchildren; and six step-grandchildren. email:office@ meetingschool.org (603) 899-3366 www.meetingschool.org Surprenant-Deanna Ruth Surprenant, 54, in Grand Junction, Colo., on April20, 2001, due to

40 july 2002 FRIENDS j OURNAL acute subdural hematoma. Born in Baltimore, Md., on Christmas day, 1946, Dee was the only child of Nelson and Ruth Rickards. She earned a BA in Philosophy at Washington College and a master's in Social Work from University of Maryland. As a licensed social worker she focused on family therapy, child and adolescent abuse and protection, foster care, and permanency for children. She married Charles Surprenant on September 26, 1974, in Centerville, Md., and they moved to Colorado, settling in Denver and then Durango. The couple and their young family began attending rhe Durango Worship Group in 1978, and when the meeting was established in 1980, Dee became a member. Over the years she served several rimes as clerk, recording clerk, and on the ministry and oversight committee. D ee and Charlie regularly attended Intermountain Yearly Meeting together, where Dee had served on the continuing and watching committees and, ar the time ofher death, was co-clerk of the committee on ministry and counsel, co-clerk of the meeting, and a board member of the violence prevention coalition and the sexual abuse treatment ream in Durango. On the meetinghouse grounds an autumn blaze maple has been planted in her memory, and Friends fed The strength of F RIENDS JoURNAL is in its readers, so we want to add honored to rend to the nurture and growth of this some new ones! tree, remembering Dee's contributions to the spiri­ tual sustenance and growth of Durango Meeting. Send us the names of up to six individuals who are not currently She is survived by her husband, Charlie Surprenant; four sons, Steve Surprenant from Charlie's first subscribers,* but who you know would enjoy the JOURNAL. marriage and his wife Betsy; Jason Horwath from Dee's first marriage, his wife Kathryn, and beloved We'll send each of them three free issues (along with a gift card from granddaughter, Emily Ruth; and two sons together, you)-and we'll extend your own subscription by one month for each Blake Surprenant, and Evan Surprenant and his wife Theresa. friend, meeting member, or attender whose name you send to us (up Thiermann-Mildred Hunter Thimnann, 84, on to six months). December 1, 200 I, in State College, Pa. Born *(and who have not been for two years) April 28, 1917, in Epsom, Om., she was the daughter ofRev. Ernest Hunter and Mabel Dunbar. Raised in Toronto, Mildred graduated from Jarvis Collegiate and Victoria College with a degree in l. Name: 5. Name: ______humanities. Throughout her youth she was active Adruess: Adruess: ______in United Church of Canada, and she met her husband, Stephen Thiermann, at a United Church work camp reunion in Hamilton, Ont. The couple's Zip ______Z ip ___ __ 1943 marriage ceremony in T oronro's Metropoli­ 6. Name: ______tan Church was presided over by three ministers: 2. Name: her father and two brothers, all members of the Adruess: Adruess: ______clergy. During WWII, Mildred and Stephen worked as psychiatric aides in mental hospitals in ______.Zip ___ __ Ohio and Pa., before relocating to Gwynedd, Pa., Zip where Mildred became interested in Quakerism. 3. Name: In 1948 the couple moved to Palo Alto, Calif., where they raised their four children, and Mildred Adruess: became a leader in religious education for her Please extend my current meeting. In 1967 the couple moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where Mildred helped to host anum­ Zip subscription: ber of Quaker conferences for diplomats. Fluent in 4. Name: Name:------French and conversant in other languages, she Adruess: Adruess: ______helped serve the cause ofpeace through diplomacy and outreach during the Vietnam era. Returning to the U.S. in 1972, she served her community of Zip ------~P·---- Swarthmore, Pa., as president ofWILPF, director ofadmissions at Pendle H ill, and, shonly thereaf­ ter, director of Quaker H ouse at the UN in New FRIENDS 1216 Arch Street, 2A, Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835 York. She was also a committed freedom writer for Fax: (215) 568-1377 Amnesty International. Afrer retirement Mildred JOURNAL and Stephen moved to Foxdale Quaker Commu­ [email protected] FJo7o2 nity in State College, Pa., where both joined State

FRIENDS ]OURNALjury 2002 41 My Pennswood studio apartment College Meeting. Mildred was an accomplished comes with player of the recorder and piano, a writer and 3 living rooms, srudent ofpoetry , a knowledgeable bird watcher, a wildflower enthusiast, and, at her cottage in 3 dining rooms, a library, Muskoka Lakes, Canada, a fine sailor and swim­ game room, craft room, mer. She was also a most capable caretaker ofseven grandsons. Mildred is survived by her husband, fitness center, concert hall, Stephen Thiermann; daughters, Susan Giddings, greenhouse, patio, fields, Jennifer Sheridan, Emily Doub; a son, Carl meadows, woods Thiermann; and seven grandsons. Ullmann-Janet Wallace Ullmann, 96, on Sep­ and a river. tember 3, 2001, in Lake Forest, Ill. She was born Pennswood Village - a retirement community on June 23, 1905, in Saltillo, Mexico, to William in historic Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Mary McQuat Wallace, Presbyterian mission­ aries. Until age eight Janet lived in her parents' Penns wood Village provides a complete range of housing and mission school in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City. ln 1913, because ofth e Mexican Revolution, health care accommodations. Quaker directed, we believe in she relocated with her mother and siblings to Palo a vibrant environment enriched by our timeless Quaker values. Alto, Cali£ After graduating from Palo Alto High School, Janet attended Stanford University and University of Chicago, from which she graduated Pennswood Village in 1927. She studied in Paris, chen taught Spanish 1382 Newtown-Langhorne Rd., and French at the secondary level in La Jolla, Newtown, PA 18940-2401 Cali£, and Lake Forest, Ill. She remained fluent in Spanish throughout her life and maintained friend­ Call Judy Dzelzkalns for information ships with friends in Mexico and Central America. www.pennswood.org On April 30, 1931, she married Sruau Ullmann. The couple seeded in Illinois, where Janet contin­ ToU Free (888) 454-1122 ued to reside for her remaining 70 years, and the (215) 504-1 122 EQUAL HOUSING couple raised their four children. H er determina­ OPPORTUNITY tion to seek God amidst a fellowship of equals led her to the Society of Friends, which she joined in 1965. She remained an active and devoted mem­ ber of Lake Forest Meeting. She was active in the World Federalists, a past president ofth e League of Women VoterS, and a teacher in the Waukegan Head Statt program. She joined m e civil rights movement at its beginning, corresponding with Announcing Baltimore Yearly Mauin Luther King, Jr., marching in demonstra­ tions, and meeting with South Mrican leaders of Meeting's First Annual the anti-apartheid movement. Shortly afrer a hik­ ing trip to Nepal in 1969, Sruau passed away. All-Camp Alumni Gathering Ten years ago, at age 86, Janet traveled to N icara­ gua as a pauicipant as a Witness for Peace, a project based on the hope chat the U.S.-funded Labor Day Weekend, Catoctin Conrras would be less likely to terrorize supporters Quaker Camp, Thurmont, M D of the Sandinisra government if U.S. citizens were present to witness such activity. On Janet's 95th August 30 - September 2, 2002 birthday her children distributed a beautifully bound collection of her poems chat they had pub­ A ll counselors, staff and past campe rs w ho went to lished. Despite serious physical ailments, Janet at­ tended meeting for worship until shortly before Catoctin, Shiloh, Opequon, Teen Adventure, or her death. She is survived by her daughter, Mary U. Kruse; three sons, Thomas S. Ullmann, Laurence Keewadin are welcome. E. Ullmann, and Stuatt E. Ullmann Jr.; 12 grand­ children; and four great-grandchildren. Tell your camp friends about this event! Solution to crosswordp uzzle (p.30) More information and directions available at: Across: 15. Faith 5. Prayer http://www.bym-rsf.org/camping!Aiumni.htm 1. Meeting 17. Silent 9.NS 4.Wait 18. Peace 11. God 6.Re 12. Trust To register or for more information please call Jos h Ri ley or 7. Youth Down: 14. Know Ja ne Meggi nson at t he BYM office at 301-77 4-7663 . 8. Listen 2. Truth 15. Find Please register before August 15 , 2002 so we can plan to feed you. 10. Light 3. Quiet 16. H ope 13.Speak 4. Worship

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Pass it on hypnotized into killing by uniforms, medals, International Criminal Coun (which the flying flags, marching bands, employment, U.S. has refused to ratify) that will be In your March issue, Megan Oltman's college, and travel. It is our brothers and empowered on a permanent basis to indict article, "Parenting with the Peace sisters that we kill. The world is our and try individuals for war crimes, crimes Testimony: Practical Tools for Creating a country-God gave the world to all of us. It against humanity, and genocide. Peaceful Home" (F]Mar.), mentions that is humankind that has created barriers with Scott Simon said, "America lacked the her husband designed a website about the their governments, their visas, passports, and will to use its military might to prevent those book being reviewed. Can you pass on the greed. murders." Is it our role to play policeman in website address? Victor Hugo said that the chief cause of this world just because we have the most KatiSowiak war is the armament of nations. Major guns? I agree that we need to prevent Newtown, Pa. General Maurice agrees, saying, "I went into genocide, but working through the UN and the British Army believing that if you want the new ICC would seem more productive Editor's note--We're glad to give you the peace you must prepare for war. I believe than going it alone, since we as a nation will website address: . now that ifyou prepare for war you will get always be accused of futthering our own war.'' interests in such affairs, which is what any What about Quakerism? I never thought I'd have to write a letter "great power" does. like this to FRIENDS JoURNAL. His most thoughtless comment is "in Does no one else find it strange that the confronting the forces that attacked the posting for the position of American Friends Dorothy Scott Smith World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Service Committee Pacific Mountain Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. United States has no sane alternative but to Regional Director (F] April) encourages wage war... " Such is the standard political everyone under the sun to apply--except More responses to Scott line, but at the very least this position lacks Quakers? Or that knowledge about imagination. We have the ingenuity to Quakerism is not even a requirement in Simon's article invent all sorts of weapons and strategies for their advettisement for a Director? using force; have we no ingenuity when it I'm not a Quaker, but teach a course at comes to strategies for waging peace, or Marti Matthews Eastern University on "Nonviolence and extracting justice without bloodshed? There Peacemaking." Some Quaker friends shared Oak Park, Ill. are many alternatives we could have tried, Scott Simon's article ("Reflections on the including various types of negotiation/ Events of September 11" F]Dec. 2001) and War is never the solution mediation work, and numerous positive the ensuing commentary. I have the approaches dealing with the root causes of I read Daniel Coston's letter ("Are only following reaction. enmity. We could have worked through the peaceful means acceptable in all cases?" F] Simon seems unimpressed with the ad UN in various ways. Using the moral May) with horror-horror that he wrote it hoc War Crimes Tribunal trying Milosovic. "jujitsu" advocated by Gene Sharp in The and that FRIENDS JoURNAL printed it. This is I presume he would be opposed to the Politics ofNonviolent Action, we could have why we have one war after the (surprise!) dropped food instead other. ofbombs, offered to build Betty Williams Perkins irrigation systems and hospitals wrote, "War is not the solution with the money we're blowing to any problem. It more often on jet fighters and missiles. than not creates thousands more Scott Simon makes no problems!" In World War II, we attempt to identify the causes should have nonviolently of terrorism. His simplistic captured Hitler and put him in a answer to why they hate us so hospital until he was well. much is "because they are I loved the quote regarding psychotics." Although he inmates by Leanore Goodenow disavows "reprisal or revenge," in an interview with Shirley labeling the action "self­ Ruth in Friends Bulletin: defense" doesn't make it "Quaker prison visitation is anything other than revenge­ based on the deeply felt striking out blindly at an conviction that there is 'that of invisible enemy with the result God' in every inmate. This belief that we recklessly destroy the has led Friends to seek ways to most vulnerable, defenseless help inmates discover their country we can reach. divine potential and become When Simon talks of saving useful members of the lives, of course he means communiry." American lives. But we lack any As Eugene V. Debs said, "I guarantee that bombing would no more teach children Afghanistan back to the Stone military training than teach Age will prevent terrorist them arson or robbery or attacks in the future. Further, if assassination." Let us not be we take a God's-eye view,

FRIENDS ]OURNALfu& 2002 43 American lives are no more valuable than Afghan lives or any other. When we calculate the cost-benefit ratio of military force, it's high time we factored in all those other non-American lives, the invisible people even our bombardiers don't see when . . . where each resident they mop their deadly load on terrified enjoys a comfortable, villagers. Towards the end of his piece, Simon secure and caring quotes George Orwell, returning from the environment Spanish Civil War and finding his own country so close to fascism, "sleeping the ... where newcomers deep deep sleep." With the Patriot Act and quickly feel at home and other intrUSions on our personal rights in the name ofdefending our homeland against long-time residents find terrorism, are we not sneaking closer to new delights every day fascism? I quote a Quaker friend, Genevieve Ritzman: "A nation that leads the world, by far, in producing weapons of mass destruction, that has used the atom bomb, A Quaker Sponsored Continuing Care Retirement Community that has American troops in 120 countries, • Independent Living • Assisted Living • Skilled Nursing Care that makes a missile defense system the top national priority (all before 9/11), isn't 6300 Greene Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144 exactly 'sleeping the deep deep sleep."' 215-844-0700 Gordon Bennett EQUAL...,..... Coatesville, Pa. Visit our Internet site at: www.stapeley.org OPPORTUNITY

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A Chinese lan­ Richmond, IN 47374, or call (765) 962·7573; other artistic Friends around the country; and help create guage and history program is shared with other area e-mail: , a new chapter in Quaker history. Membership: $24/yr. schools on a consortium basis. The curriculum in· or check out our website: . FQA, P.O. Box 58565, Philadelphia, PA 19102. e-mail: eludes community service requirements and opportu· . Web: . nities for internships in Washington, D.C., and a You're In good company w1th Fnends Umted Press au­ student year abroad. Educational and extracurricular thors, including Douglas Steere, Howard Thunman, Daisy Costa Rica Study Tours: V1s1t the Quaker Community in activities are enriched by the school's presence in the Newman, John Punshon, Tom Mullen, Doug Gwyn, l ouise Monteverde. For information and a brochure contact Sarah nation's capital. Send cover letter and resumes to Wilson, Wil Cooper, T. Canby Jones, D. Elton Trueblood­ Stuckey 01 1·506-645·5436. Write: Apdo. 46-5655, Office of Personnel Services, Sidwell Friends School, and, of course, George Fox, John Woolman, and William Monteverde, Costa Rica, email: , or 3B25 Wi sconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016. Penn. l nsp~rat1on, humor, fiction, and history that take you to , or call in the USA (937) 584·2900. the roots of Quaker beginnings, belief, and beyond. Write Frtends may well enjoy , learn, and deepen from a week· 101-A Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374 tor a free long experience in facilitated personal awareness groups. Real Estate catalog or call (BOO) 537·BB39. . Nonsectarian; our 36th year. The Jolla Program, (760) La Beautiful large lot (almost an acre) in Ecovillage cohousing 7B9·4794; e-mail . community in northern Virginia. Forty miles from Washing­ For Sale To consider mountain view retirement property, near a ton, D.C. (MARC train to D.C. is 2 miles away), nestled in the Friends center, visit or write Roy Joe tranquil countryside of l oudoun County. Share 160 acres, Peace Fleece yams batting In 35 colors; kits, buttons, & and Ruth Stuckey, 11B2 Hornbeam Road, Sabina, OH 45169. good county schools, trees, streams, pond, and common needles. Sample card $3.00. Yam Shop On The Fanm, 1235 house in your eco-built home with community of others. Red Run Road, Stevens (lane. Co.) PA 1757B. (717) 336· (703) 471-1276 or . 5B60. Personals Opportunities Rentals & Retreats AFSC/DAVIS HOUSE In Washington, D.C. seeks names Concernedc5ineks_ A Frtendly Maul Vacation on a Quaker organic fanm , of couples interested in serving as Temporary House close to local beaches, local stone and cedar cottage with Managers for international guest house. Periods of one Concerned Singles links compatible, socially conscious large octagon room and picture window with view of the month +. Call Keith or l olly (202) 232-3196. singles who care about peace, social justice. racism, Pacific. Private entrance, full kitchen, organic garden, gender equity, environment. Nationwide. All ages. and hot tub. Bed and breakfast-$90 per day. Write or Adult Cultural Term In France (ACTIF)-Four to ten weeks Straight/Gay. Since 1984. Free sample: Box 444-FJ, call Henrietta and Wm. Vitarelli. 375 Kawelo Road, Haiku, 1n Montpelher (South of France). See website for details. l enox Dale, MA 01242; (413) 445·6309; . .concernedsingles.com>. Cabin rentals on Isolated Vermontfarm. Propane utilities, Quaker. House Ann Arbor has periodic openings in a six· lake, surrounded by protected land. Contact Caroline Bailey person Intentional community based on Friends principles. Single Booklovers, a national group, has been getting unattached booklovers together since 1970. Please write . at (B02) 258·4544, , or . . .q haa> Box 117, Gradyville, PA 19039, or call (610) 35B·5049. Cuemavaca, Mexico: Families, friends, study groups enjoy Pendle Hill Summer Programs Positions Vacant this beautiful Mexican house. Mexican family staff provide July 7- 14: High School Youth Camp excellent food and care. Six twin bedrooms, with bath and July 14-1B: Kado: The Way of Flowers with Marcia Arnertcan Frtends Service Committee own entrance. Large living and dining room, long terrace Shibata ' Pacific Southwest Regions/ Director with dining area and mountain and volcano views. Large July 14-19: Handweavlng, with Mary Barnes and Robyn Quaker, social change, and humanitarian service nonprofit garden and heated pool. Close to historic center and trans· Josephs organization seeks Regional Director to be based in Pasa· portation. Call Edith Nicholson (110) 52·777·31B0383 Cen­ July 19-21: Inquirers' Weekend: Basic Quakertsm dena, CA. The director is responsible for overall leadership tral Daylight time B a.m.-10 a.m. with Chel Avery and Kenneth Sutton ' and operation of the region, including: mgmt. and staff Rustle Wrtter's Retreat - Smoky Mountains. Total soli· July. 21-25: Photography as a Healing Art, with Jan supervision, volunteer support and guidance, fundraising tude in 50+ acres of wooded hills, magnificent, panoramic Ph1lhps . and oversight of a budget of $1 million. The region has view of Smokies Range, close to Pigeon Forge. $1,000/ July 26-30: Creating Extraordinary Books and Prints offices and programs in southern Calif., N. Mex., Hawaii, month. (B65) 429·1B07. with Judy Derickson ' and Ariz. Requires strong commitment to nonviolence, ex­ July 26-30: Living Your Creative Journey, with Richard perience in community organizing, program development, Chincoteague Island, Va. Off-season (before 6/15 or after Watson implementation and oversight, and 4 years of mgmt. and 9/3): Two adjacent, fully equipped vacation homes; sleep B July 26-30: Writing for Publication, with Tom Mullen staff supervision. Women, people of color, people with dis· or 10. Walk to town, bike to Assateague Island National July 31-August 4: Transformation In Stone, with Bar­ abilities, and lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are encour· Seashore, birdwatch anywhere. Polite pets penmitted. Weekly bara Tam aged to apply. Please send resume and cover letter by July rates $420, $490 respectively; weekend costs half. (703) July 31-August 4: The Sacred Ordinary, with Carrie 31, 2002, to: Regional Director Search Committee-AFSC, cl 44B·B67B or . Newcomer o Jane Krause, 980 Fair Oaks Avenue, Pasadena, CA Seeking qulat? Healing? Deeper prayer? Study time? August 4-8: Living an Unbalanced Life: Centering 91103, fax (626) 791·2205, e-mail: . Individual retreat facilities. $30/day room, board and guid· (and not) Through Clay, with Ma~ory Zoet Bankson See: , AA/EOE. ance if desired. Beautiful mountain views, hiking trails. Faith August 14-18: Fossil Mud and Dreams: Shaping Clay, Resident. Redwood Forest Friends Meeting, Santa Rosa, based and interfaith. East Mountain Retreat Center, Lois With Robert Turner Calif. Residents perfonming hospitality and caretaking du· Ro-Director (UCC minister and lgnatian spiritual direc­ August 14-1B: Drumming Into Unity, with Bob Jones ties are sought for a dynamic Friends meeting north of San tor). Blake Buel Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230·1450. August 14-1B: Furniture Restoration, with Tom Janik Francisco. Post inquiries to Resident Committee, RFFM P/F: (413) 528-6617. Website: . and Box 1831, Santa Rosa, CA 95402. July 7-12 and 21- 26; August 1B-23: Splrtt ual Life En· Cape May Beach lovers, feel the sand in your toes. rtchrnent, with Nancy Bieber Interns, 9-12 month commitment beginning January, June, Centrally located. beautiful, new 4-bedroom Cape, sleeps For more infonmation contact: Pendle Hill, 336 Plush Mill or September. Assist with seminars and hospitality at Will· B, central air, 2 1/2 baths. l arge kitchen with all conve­ Road, Wallingford, PA 19086-6099. (BOO) 742·3150, ex­ iam Penn House, five blocks from U.S. Capitol. Room. niences. $1,450 per week July and August. Great week· tension 142. . board, and small stipend. WPH, 515 East Capitol Street, SE, end and off-season rates. Edie at or Washington, DC 20003. (4B4) 232·6222.

46 july 2002 FRIENDS }OURNAL Cape May, N.J., Beach House-weekly rentals; week­ Rancocas Friends School: Pre-K, half and full day, after • Marriage Certificates end rentals in off-season. Sleeps 12+. Great for family school care, quality academic and developmentally appro­ • Calligraphy reunions! Block from beach. Close to mall. Ocean views priate program with Quaker values. Affordable tu~ion , finan­ • Graphic Design from wraparound porch. Call: (718) 398-3561. cial aid. 201 Main Street, Rancocas (Village), NJ 08073. • Note Cards (609) 267-1265. Fax: (856) 795-7554. •Illustration Pocono Manor. Beautiful. rustic mountain house suitable for Ahimsa Graphics, 24 Cavanaugh Ct., Saunderstown, AI gatherings. retreats, and reunions. Seven bedrooms. Friends Meeting School. Serving more than 100 stu­ 02874- . (401) 294-7769 or (888) 475-6219. Three full baths. Beds for 15. Fully equipped. Deck with dents on 50+ acres in southern Frederick County between mountain view. Hiking trails from back door. Weekends or 1-270 and 1-70. Coed, pre-K to grade 8. Strong academ­ VIsit on the Web by the week, May through October. Contact Jonathan Snipes: ics, Quaker values, small classes, warm caring environ­ Over 30 color photos of illustrated and calligraphed wedding (215) 736-1856. ment, peace skills, Spanish, and extended day program. certificates realistically hand-drawn in colored inks. Ketubahs, 3232 Green Valley Road, Ijamsville, MD 21754, (301) gay celebrations of commitment, and non-Quaker examples. 798-0288 . Browse information, ideas, and easy, online form for fast Retirement Uving estimates. E-mail Jennifer Snow Wolff, Friends House, a Quaker-sponsored retirement commu­ Frankford Friends School: coed, Pre-K to grade 8; serv1ng a birthright Friend, for no-obligation, sample vows. We don't nity in Santa Rosa, California, offers one- and two-bedroom center city, northeast, and most areas of Philadelphia. We spam. Allow one month for certificates. provide children with an affordable yet challenging aca­ garden apartments or more spacious three-bedroom, two­ Friendly Financial Services. Let me help you prepare for bath homes for independent living. Immediate occupancy demic program in a small, nurturing environment. Frankford may be available. An assisted-living home, a skilled nursing Friends School, 1500 Orthodox Street, Philadelphia, PA retirement or work out an estate plan. Socially responsible 19124. (215) 533-5368. investments-my specialty. Call Joyce Moore, LUTCF, Joyce facility, and adult daycare services are also available on Moore Financial Services at (610) 968-6127 or e-mail . (Securities offered by Washington Square Se­ Francisco with convenient aocess to the Pacific coast, red­ curities, 20 Washington Square South, Minneapolis, MN wood forests, cultural events, medical services, and shop­ academic classes, challenging outdoor experiences, com­ ping. Friends House, 684 Benicia Drive, Santa Rosa, CA munity service, consensus decision making, daily work 55401 .) 95409. (707} 538-0152. . projects in a small, caring, community environment. Arthur We are a fellowship, Friends mostly, seeking to enrich and Morgan School, 1901 Hannah Branch Road, Burnsville, expand our spiritual experience. We seek to obey the prompt­ Walton Retirement Home, a nonprofit ministry of Ohio NC 28714. (828) 675-4262. Yearly Meeting since 1944, offers an ideal place for retire­ ings of the Spirit, however named. We meet, publish, corre­ spond. Inquiries welcome! Write Quaker Universalist Fel­ ment. Both Assisted Uving and Independent Uving facilities Sandy Spring Friends School. Five- or seven-day boarding are available. For further information, please call Nirmal or lowship, 121 Watson Mill Road, Landenberg, PA 19350- option for grades 9-12. Day school pre-K through 12. Col­ 9344. Diana Kaul at 740-425-2344, or write to Walton Retirement lege preparatory, upper school AP courses. Strong arts and Home, 1254 East Main Street, Barnesville, OH 43713. academics, visual and performing arts, and team athletic Moving to North Carolina? Maybe David Brown, a Quaker Foxdate Vltlage, for Quaker-directed life care. A vibrant programs. Coed. Approximately 480 students. 140-acre cam­ real estate broker, can help. Contact him at 1208 Pinewood and caring community that encourages and supports men puslessthananhourfrom Washington, D.C.,and Baltimore, Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. (336) 294-2095. and women as they seek to live life fully and gracefully Md. International programs. Incorporating traditional Quaker Celo Valley Books: Personal attention to all phases of book in harmony with the principles of simplicity, diversity, equal­ values. 16923 Norwood Road, Sandy Spring, MD 20860. production (25 to 5,000 copies). Typing, editing, layout, final ity, mutual respect, compassion, and personal involvement. (301) 774-7455, ext. 158. . delivery. Free brochure. 346 Seven Mile Ridge Road, Spacious ground-floor apartments and community ameni­ Come visit Olney Friends School on your cross-country Burnsville NC 28714 ties such as library, auditorium, wood shop, computer lab. travels, six miles south of 1-70 in the green hills of eastern CCAC Accredited. Reasonable fees include medical care. Ohio. A residential high school and farm, next to Stillwater 500 East Marylyn Avenue, Department F, State College, PA Meetinghouse, Olney is college preparation built around 16801-6269. For more information, call Lenna Gill at (800) truthful thinking, inward listening, loving community, and ~ tud; os 253-4951 useful work. 61830 Sandy Ridge Road, Barnesville, Ohio 43713. (740) 425-3655. Stratford Friends School provides a strong academic program in a warm, supportive, ungraded setting for chil· Marriage certificates, invitations, etc. Do justice to your dren ages 5 to 13 who learn differently. Small classes and event with our calligraphy and award-winning graphic an enriched curriculum answer the needs of the whole design. Check , or phone toll-free child. An at-risk program for five-year-olds is available. (800)763-0053. SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE The school also offers an extended day program, tutor­ ing, and summer school. Information: Stratford Friends Kendal communities and services reflect sound manage­ School, 5 Llandillo Road, Havertown, PA 19083. (610) East Main Street ment, adherence to Quaker values, and respect for each 446-3144. H ENRY 1501 FREEMAN Centerville, IN 47330 individual. 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We provide children with a quality academic vice agencies, Pendle Hill, FGC, and many other Friends Kendal at Granville • Granville, Ohio and a developmentally appropriate program in a nurturing organizations. Independent Jiving with residential services: environment. Whole language, thematic education, conflict Coniston and Cartmel • Kennett Square, Pa. resolution, Spanish, after-school care, summer program. Nursing care, residential and assisted living: 11 0 N. Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, PA 19050. {610) Summer Camps Barclay Friends • West Chester, Pa. 623-2548. Advocacy/education programs: Night Eagle Wilderness Adventures, in Vermonf s Green Untie the Elderly • Pa. Restraint Reduction Initiative Mountains, is a unique primitive camp designed to build a Kendal Corporation Internships Services Offered boy's self-confidence and foster a better understanding of For Jnfonnatlon, call or write: Doris Lambert, The Kendal native peoples and their relationship with the earth. Activi­ Corporation, P.O. Box 100, Kennett Square, PA 19348. YogaLife Institute Classes/Retreats in Ki ng of Prussia, ties tend to spring from the natural environment and teach (610) 388- 5581. E-mail: . Phoenixville, Media, Newtown Square, Skippack, boys to rely on their own ingenuity. Through community Jenkintown, Pa. See . living and group decision making, campers learn to live and Director, Robert Butera, MDiv. (Earlham), PhD in Yoga. play together in a spirit of cooperation rather than competi­ Friends Homes, Inc., founded by North Carol­ (61 0) 265-5800. tion. For 40 boys , ages 1(}-14. Two, four and eight week ina Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends, has sessions available. We invite you to look at our website: been providing retirement options since 1968. Custom Marriage Certificates, and other traditional or or contact us for a full Both Friends Homes at Guilford and Friends decorated documents. Various calligraphic styles and wa­ brochure: 802-773-7868. 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FRIENDS ]OURNAL]ury 2002 47 A Campaign for a New Century Life Income Plans

V The Bam, 1938 l our gift to one of our life income plans can entitle you to receive income as well as various tax benefits. For instance, you will receive a current income tax deduction for a portion of the gift and reduce or eliminate the capital gains tax on long-term appreciated assets. On the death of the income beneficiary (you and/or another person) , Pendle Hill will have use of the funds to further its mission. Life income plans include:

A CHARITABLE GIFf ANNUITY A GIFI' roOUR PoolED lNooME FuND A CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRUST In exchange for a gift of cash or Sometimes described as a We are happy to work with you securities, we will agree to pay you "charitable mutual fund", and your financial advisors to a guaranteed, fixed annual income income from our Pendle Hill create an individual income for your lifetime. This income may Pooled Income for the Future arrangement that suits your start now or at a later date, such Fund is based on the earnings unique circumstances. as retirement. The rate of the performance of the Fund. annuity is based on the ages of the annuitants.

If you want to learn how you can make an Barbara Parsons investment, not only In Pendle Hill, but Director of Development also in the future of the Religious Society of Pendle Hill Friends, please contact: 338 Plush Mill Road Wallingford, PA 19086-6099 800.742.3150, ext. 132 E-mail contributlons@pendlehill. org www.pendlehlll.org