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FRIENDS AND THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT A PRAYER FOR THE CHILDREN· PENN-CRAFT REVISITED Among Friends ldltor-ll•na..,. Vinton Deming AaHCIIIte ldltor Melissa Kay Elliott Moving Beyond Heartbreak Art Director Barbara Benton Advertlalng M•n...,. arlier that week we had a presidential primary in Philadelphia. Bill Clinton Catherine Frost and Jerry Brown both came to town. Frankly, the Phillies attracted more Clrcul.uon •ncl Promotion interest and enthusiasm. Political rallies were small, there were very few Nagendran Gulendran E ~Mttlng Services posters or bumper stickers, none of the normal hoopla. In short, Philadelphia James Rice and Susan Jordhamo made a large, collective yawn. Most people I know seemed totally resigned to ~•lle~c•• Edward Sargent another year of candidates 1\veedledum and 1\veedledee. BookkHper But by week's end, things in our country came unglued. The Rodney King jury James Neveil said "not guilty," L.A. went up in smoke, and the national political climate went ldltoMI Aaals.. nt Timothy Drake up for grabs. Some new issues were finally added to the political agenda: jobs, Yolunt.ers racism, the (in)justice system, housing, the role of police in communities, the Jane Burgess, Anders Hansen, Emily Conlon Bo.nlolll•n...... neglect of our cities-these just as starters. 1989-1992: Jennie Allen (Secretary), Richard Often, it seems, it takes such a human tragedy as the L.A. riots (and Atlanta Eldridge (Assistant Clerk), Bernard Haviland, Eric Larsen, Marcia Mason, Janet Norton, and San Francisco and Seattle and all the other cities where the rumblings were David Samuel, Carolyn Sprogell, Wilmer heard) to wake us up to the reality. We need such a crisis, it seems, to pull us out Tjossem, Alice Wiser 1990-/993: Clement Alexandre, Marguerite of our lethargy. 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2 June 1992 FRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 FRIENDS Volume 38, No. 6 JOURNAL Features Departments 7 Friends and the Israeli-Palestinian 2 Among Friends Conflict Stephen Zunes 4 Forum Who are the real allies? 5 VIewpoint

10 Defending the Homeland Special Section on Children: Jonathan Torop A U.S. expatriate settles on the West Bank. 25 Witness 14 Vignettes from the World of Friends 26 Young Friends Elizabeth Claggett-Borne 26 Parent's Corner Openness involves risk, change involves pain. 27 Life of the Meeting 16 "The Way my Heart Gets Open" Melissa Kay Elliott 28 Books This Ugandan Friend shares his dreams, observations. 18 Penn-Craft Revisited 32 Reports RobertS. Vogel 34 News of Friends The AFSC pioneered in its homesteading project in western Pennsylvania. 36 Bulletin Board 20 A World of Made 38 Calendar Joseph E. Fasciani 40 Milestones Whatever happened to 'a world of born'? Classified 21 Jesse Holmes, Liberal Quaker 42 Meetings T. Noel Stern Iconoclastic, he challenged- and defended Friends. 24 Coming Out to God Elliott Robertson What do you struggle to accept about yourself?

Cover quote from bulletin board at St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem Photo by Denis Doyon, courtesy of American Friends Service Committee

Aw•rd-wlnnlng c•rtoon: see News of Friends, p•ge 35.

FRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 3 Forum

The AFSC 75th Thoughts on membership Thank you for the superb issue (FJ Membership in the Society of Friends April) celebrating the AFSC's 75th is membership in a particular monthly anniversary. meeting. One who joins Friends usually I was sorry there was no mention of has experience with a meeting for the AFSC's Institutional Service Units worship, and joins because that particular (ISUs), in which college student group experience is meaningful, volunteers spent the summer working in comfortable, or supportive. It can be the crowded back wards of public mental disillusioning to discover later that other hospitals. Before the advent of major meetings are not exact copies, and that tranquilizers so changed the environment all kinds of variety exists. Why is it that of these institutions, these young people, we feel too fragile to expose our carrying out a long-held Quaker concern diversity? Diversity has been around a for "persons of disturbed mind," long time. Why else would Isaac valiantly spent every day entertaining, Penington write in 1659, "And mark, it befriending, and just bringing their is not the different practice from one cheerful energy to these often neglected another that breaks the peace or unity, and abandoned souls. but the judging of one another because As the volunteer leader of the last ISU a six week period in our meeting by 50 of different practices"? at Ypsilanti State Hospital, my own life percent. The victim not mentioned in the Surely one of the things that needs to was certainly changed, as I then spent the edited version is heterosexual. This is an be discussed at the time of the clearness remaining 30 years of my social work important point. committee or visitation for membership is career. in the field of mental health. And You see, it is not only gay and lesbian the fact that in joining a monthly I am sure none of those students people who are victims of these crimes. I meeting one is also joining a quarterly has ever been indifferent to the many recently heard that a 17-year-old boy in meeting and/ or regional meeting, and a issues that continuously arise in this area San Diego was attacked and killed yearly meeting, and that variety is bound of human need. because his attac)

4 June 1992 FRIENDS JOURNAL After the Peace Accords in El Salvador hank you for publishing Henry ule set in the accords for demilitarization/ Guatemalan newspapers also had daily ac­ Freeman's article on El Salvador disarmament, and land tenancy issues. The counts of land takeovers and forcible T (FJ March). His description of the schedule set for disarmament in the accords evictions. spiritual and emotional effects of accom­ has already been delayed by both sides­ As far as I, as a U.S. citizen, am con­ panying the Salvadoran people have pro­ and each feels justified in its delay and at­ cerned, there are other disturbing issues. vided a valuable added dimension to factu­ tacks the other's. As a result, there has not Will our government continue to finance al reports of events in El Salvador. been the sort of restructuring of the mili­ the military? Will the process of change in I was able to visit Henry and El Salvador tary-security forces into civilian controlled El Salvador and the rest of Central America in March and to witness the changes in the police forces that the government prom­ take place with a minimum of violence, or country brought about by the signing of the ised; nor have the guerrillas withdrawn in­ will human rights violations make true de­ peace accords between the government of to fixed bases as they agreed to do. mocracy impossible? Will reconstruction El Salvador and the FMLN guerrillas. Most The land tenancy issue is more complex, funds rebuild roads and electric facilities, obviously, heavily armed soldiers are no involves thousands of civilians as well as as the government plans, or will the people longer deployed throughout the cities and former combatants, and has its roots in the and the services they need be emphasized? countryside. Former military checkpoints injustice which brought about the war. The And finally, does anyone care? A jour­ on the highways as well as almost all the current struggle pits titular landowners nalist friend told me, " There's just no in­ bunkers guarding strategic positions stand against people who occupy the land in terest in stories from here now that the empty. Where the soldiers are seen, they many parts of the country. While the ac­ shooting has stopped." Quakers have long appear more relaxed and friendly. The cords grant certain land tenancy rights to held concerns about the care of the victims sounds of the city at night no longer include the people who live in areas under guerrilla of war after the end of hostilities, and have explosions and bursts of automatic rifle fire. control, the government has forcibly evict­ also been concerned about the "war against Young men are not being pulled off of bus­ ed some communities. (The term hardly the poor" that is institutionalized injustice. es or rounded up in parks to be forced in­ does justice to the experience-a large I urge Friends to continue to hold the peace to military service. group of heavily-armed soldiers or police process in the Light, and to continue to act Many people recounted the outburst of enter a community, frequently before on their concerns about justice for the peo­ joy and hopefulness during the final days dawn, and force people to abandon their ple of Central America. of the negotiations. Memories are still vivid houses and some or all of their possessions, Val Liveoak of the huge celebrations in the plazas of the which are then bulldozed and the land sur­ Austin, Tex. capital and other cities when the accords rounded by armed guards. Sometimes the were signed. However, by March some of people are taken away in trucks, and some­ the euphoria had worn off, and the hard times they are left to fend for themselves.) work of building peace with justice was un­ The government and some landowners derway. Many problems continue, and claim that some of the squatter communi­ hope is frequently mixed with skepticism ties were set up illegally, in areas not truly and a wait-and-see attitude. under guerrilla control at the time the ac­ The media are filled with accounts of vi­ cords were signed. I believe that in some olent street crime, to cite the concern most cases this charge is true, having heard of often mentioned by Salvadorans with whom considerable movements of people from the I spoke. Some observers were unsure if more longstanding settlements of refugees there were in fact more incidents of crime, and displaced people in the last few or if there was just more publicity about months. But I also was told that some of the problem-which not coincidentally the communities that have been evicted strengthened the arguments of law-and-or­ have indeed been settled for a longer period der advocates against disarming the security of time, in some cases for years, but the forces. A few politically motivated crimes landowner had not attempted to reclaim the such as death squad-type killings and de­ land because of nearby fighting. struction of the offices of popular organ­ These and other issues will continue to izations have also occurred. shape the peace process as it develops. · There seemed to be two main obstacles Throughout Central America the issue of to completing the peace accords: the delay land tenancy remains one of the most crit­ by both sides in complying with the sched- ical. During my trip, Honduran and expressed in the advice to committees lives of many draft-eligible young people. that meet with applicants for I searched carefully for any reference membership. to the camps in Puerto Rico, and could Heather C. Moir find none. At that time I was classified Chocorua, N.H. as a CO, had just fi nished a pediatric residency, and was assigned to a national importance. I was immediately psychiatric hospital in Harrisburg, Pa. hired by BSC to go to a CPS camp in More CPS memories But M.R. Ziegler, of the Brethren Service Castaner, Puerto Rico, where Herman ' Committee, decided there was a better Will was director. My relationship to I enjoyed the Civilian Public Service way to use my training. We called CPS was a bit unorthodox: I was a reviews very much (FJ January). They personally on General Hershey, and bonafide CO in a CPS camp, but recalled many memories and emotions Ziegler was instrumental in having my employed rather than drafted. relating to that significant time in the classification changed to occupation of The remarkable young men at Castaner

FRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 5 built a 26-bed hospital in vacated an act for helping heal ourselves and are just (with few exceptions) government buildings, literally from enable some in the States to come out of unemployable. The issues in scraps obtained from discarded hospital denial might be to initiate a new kind of jurisprudence raised by the FJ review of equipment they got from various pilgrimage. To do this I suggest we Goa/walking's I-9 section (pages 183-190) hospitals on the island. This Castaner follow the lead of the Vietnam Vets a re therefore irrelevant to Quakers who hospital, along with its OPD and various Restoration Project. They returned to now find themselves coerced against clinics, provided most of the medical care Vietnam to acknowledge the suffering conscience and covenant to make the for about 100,000 people. I was there they had caused, made their amends by attestation in order to earn a living. until CPS terminated, and the BSC then rebuilding a clinic they had destroyed, Rather, the situation provides a current continued to operate the hospital with the and asked for forgiveness from the context for a recurring query about our Church of the Brethren. Vietnamese. religious society's efforts to empower its At a 40th reunion of the Castaner Is it time some of us began such members to live faithfully: Do our campers I was delighted to see that the pilgrimages? We could go in any size meetings and schools open ways to make Castaner General Hospital, now groups-from two or three to one rather than earn a living for those who expanded in the building of the former hundred or more-to every area where are excluded from employment for vanilla plant, was a flourishing modern we have fought a war. We could reasons of conscience? medical institution. I see this hospital as acknowledge the harm we have done, be As Gerrard. Winstanley emphasized a wonderful and permanent gift to an prepared to make amends suitable to the when Quakers and Diggers were still impoverished community. The community area, and ask forgiveness. undifferentiated, an adequate community is no longer impoverished, largely due to If we are faithful to our charge and response to this concern is bound to the presence of the hospital. The hospital blame no one, judge no one, this tiny redeem the land and preserve its is now fully owned and operated by the trickle of people might grow, just as the creatures. community without outside help or Vietnam Vets project is growing. Perhaps Jim Corbell control. such an example might help bring the Benson, Ariz. I believe that the two other camps in awakening we need to become a peaceful Puerto Rico had similar experiences-the people. (F J would like to hear from individual Mennonites at La Plata, and the Friends Peacemaking now seems to be a Friends and Quaker employers on this at Zalduondo with Dr. Asa Potts. I do healing as well as political process. issue. -Eds.) not know their present status. Perhaps our efforts may be more fruitful if we add this dimension to them. Francis W. Helfrick, M.D. Support needed Manchester, Conn. Gene Knudsen Hoffman Santa Barbara, Calif. I am currently a member of Rockland I was in CPS three and a half years (N.Y.) Friends Meeting. For eight years, and have always valued the experience I felt called to work actively in support highly. I often think about the work, the No 1-9 compliance of the grass roots development work in fellows, the endless conversations that El Salvador, in my area of expanded my horizons more than either I need to correct an unintentional specialization-community health. I college or graduate school. The misstatement in the review of my book, worked and lived in El Salvador, initially Powellsville, Philadelphia Jaundice, and Goa/walking (FJ September 1991). Pat with the Lutheran church and in recent Big Flats units either were run by the and I aren't employers and don't expect years with the Salvadoran Foundation for AFSC when I was there or were strongly to be, but if we were, we would not force the Promotion of Social and Economic influenced by the AFSC. employees to comply with the I-9 Development, FUNSALPRODESE. My Since those years, I have tried to do attestation. Moreover, we would not join work with these institutions was always my share of thinking about what the or support any Quaker meeting, service closely linked with Friends. requirements are of a world at peace. Of organization, or school that requires its I have been in the States since 1988 to course, I reject the model of a prison, employees to sign the 1-9, and we seek to complete a degree in public health, and insist rather on situations where the support those Quaker institutions that always with my sights set on returning to maximum amount of participation is refuse to comply. El Salvador. I am currently attempting to possible and strongly encouraged. I figure The l-9's subversion of deep-rooted raise the approximately $6,000 needed for that there are two basic needs for a U.S. Quaker testimonies (for human rights and one year's living expenses there. I am political life that is healthy: against forced apostasy) now pervades looking for any direct sources of support • We need the maximum number of the Society of Friends, institutionally as or suggestions on where I might turn. experienced, responsible citizens in public well as personally, but most of us share (Tax deductible contributions may be office. an embarrassed reluctance to notice. To made through Rockland Monthly • We need the maximum number of whatever extent teachers who refuse to Meeting, 60 Leber Rd., Blauvelt, NY experienced, responsible citizens out of make the attestation are now excluded 10913, earmarked "Salvadoran Fund.") office who are running for public office. from employment even by Quaker schools, the Society of Friends faces Carol Tobkes Wilbur Dunbar some particularly crucial choices about its South Nyack, N.Y. Wooster, Ohio evolutionary direction. In relation to these choices, many wild rumors and painful misunderstandings could be FRIENDS JOURNAL welcomes contri­ A healing process corrected if someone-the FRIENDS JouRNAL?-would bring the issue out in butions from readers. Submissions I have long recognized that we in the the open by publishing a survey of the to Forum should be no longer than U.S. are in denial about the terrible I-9 decisions and practices -or Quaker 300 WOfdS, Viewpoint 1,000 words. suffering we have inflicted through our institutions in the United States. Space is limited, so we urge Friends wars, invasions, massacres, and efforts to Job seekers who refuse to make the 1-9 to be succinct. control other people. It occurs to me that attestation are violating no statute. They

6 June 1992 fRIENDS JOURNAL Friends and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Stephen Zunes tant. Similarly, the reluctance of the civil rights, disarmament, and the envi­ American Friends Service Committee to ronment, disagree with us so vehemently he ongoing Middle East peace more forcefully address the question of on the Middle East. conference brings hope for the large-scale unconditional aid to Israel It is also a difficult subject to address Tpossibility of bringing an end to the and its occupation forces by the U.S. because at the heart of the conflict is na­ violence, oppression, and hostility in government has also led to criticism. tionalism, a concept contrary to our uni­ that troubled region. Still, there are Most of the critical comments direct­ versalist ethic. Many Friends see the many unresolved issues, and it appears ed at us, however, have come from the nation-state as a temporary historical the Middle East will be the major foreign other direction, by those who accuse phenomenon long past its peak. Nation­ policy issue facing us for some time to Friends of harboring some kind of bias alism is seen as a divisive phenomenon come. against Israel, and- by extension­ when greater unity and cooperation is Many Friends supported the presiden­ against Jews as well. required. It feels uncomfortable, there­ tial candidacy of Iowa Senator Tom Many Friends have difficulty address­ fore, to support " national rights," par­ Harkin, despite his rabidly anti-Palestin­ ing the Middle East at all. We often lack ticularly of a religious identification such ian positions, his strident support for the historical, geographical, and cultural as Judaism. Israel's right-wing government, and his awareness to make reasoned opinions. Unfortunately, as long as any histor­ opposition to United Nations peace ef­ We may feel uncomfortable with con­ ically-oppressed people-be they Jews forts. Indeed, Harkin's position on the flict, and Israeli-Palestinian issues bring or Palestinians-are faced with the twin Israeli-Palestinian conflict is well to the many emotions to the surface. Despite threats of annihilation and assimilation, right of the Bush administration, leav­ the fact that, perhaps more than any sin­ and as long as the nation-state is the only ing many Arab-Americans to wonder if gle Christian denomination, we have realistic means in today's world through Friends really find their concerns impor- worked against anti-Semitism-including which a people's cultural, social, relig­ impressive aid programs for Jewish sur­ ious, and political institutions can be Stephen Zunes is director ofthe Institute for a New vivors of the Holocaust -we get accused safeguarded, the right of national self­ Middle East Policy (INMEP) and attends Univer­ of being insensitive to Jewish concerns determination still must be defended. sity (Wash.) Meeting. He is available for lectures, as a result of our support of Palestinian In the case of the geographic area workshops, and trainings on the Middle East peacemaking. Inquiries and contributions are rights. We feel deeply hurt when our known as Palestine, where two peoples­ welcome: INMEP, Box 95192, Seattle, WA 98145 Jewish friends, many of whom we have Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs­ (206) 780-9619. worked with closely on issues such as both have legitimate historical claim, .... Demonstration at a Pa lestinian activist's funeral In Jerusalem , 1989

7 - ... be less than totally "balanced." An Israeli Friends certainly should be balanced Peace Now demonstration In when it comes to Israelis and Palestini­ Tel Aviv, 1989 ans as people. Both peoples are equal under God. Both deserve the right to a national homeland in Palestine. Both deserve freedom from violence and op­ pression. The AFSC and other Quaker bodies have supported just such princi­ ples for more than 20 years. Still, there are those who, even while acknowledging the hard-line policies of the Israeli government, feel many Friends are inappropriately taking sides rather than focusing exclusively on reconcilia­ tion. Clearly, reconciliation is the goal. Yet, while it is certainly appropriate to encourage Arabs and Israelis to recognize that of God within even their adversar­ ies, to negotiate, and to break down prej­ udices and stereotypes, is it reasonable to simply encourage " reconciliation" without first requiring justice? Can we tell the Palestinians they should "recon­ cile" with Israelis who maintain a brutal military occupation? The current state of Israeli-Palestinian relations is a clear­ partition appears to be the least bad al­ nized that the Palestinians are a key cut case for recognizing the concept ternative. Therefore, U.S. Friends have player in the Arab-Israeli conflict and that, "If you want peace, work for traditionally recognized that such a two­ that the PLO- for better or worse- is justice." state solution was the most reasonable essentially the Palestinian government At the same time, we should be con­ means of resolving the conflict and have and should therefore have a role in the scious of the fact our traditional sym­ challenged those governments, including negotiation process, Friends have been pathies for the underdog and our dis­ our own, that fail to recognize this reali­ accused by some right-wing pro-Israeli trust of the ideological mainstream have ty. Given the interdependence of Israel groups of being ''terrorist sympathiz­ at times led Friends to take a more reac­ and an independent Palestine and the ers," arguing that if Friends advocate tive position than is justifiable. For ex­ necessary cooperation in economics, se­ dialogue with an organization, we must ample, our revulsion at attacks by our curity, and other matters, nationalism also support that organization's worst government against Third World nations need not lead to national chauvinism. historical elements. Even more moder­ have sometimes led some Friends to The American Friends Service Com­ ate critics accuse the AFSC and other naively rationalize the authoritarian and mittee, as well as individual Friends, Quaker bodies and individuals working militaristic tendencies by certain govern­ have worked for many years for such a for Middle East peace of being "pro­ ments and liberation movements. This, settlement and for peace and justice PLO" and "anti-Israel." A more ap­ regretfully, has sometimes occurred re­ throughout the whole region. We have propriate response, these critics argue, garding Middle East issues as well. called for Arab recognition of Israel, Is­ is for Friends to take a more balanced Our awareness of the repression of raeli recognition of Palestine, and the re­ position and to stress reconciliation be­ Israeli occupation forces in the occupied nunciation of violence by all sides. In re­ tween Israelis and Palestinians and not territories, the brutal bombing of civil­ cent years, we have seen a remarkable "take sides." ian targets in Lebanon, and the Israeli transformation among the Palestinians­ It is important to recognize, however, government's intransigence at negotia­ and even in the leadership of the Pales­ that the PLO and most Arab states now tions often makes it difficult to recog­ tine Liberation Organization, which has advocate mutual recognition and a two­ nize how deep-seated is the fear, dis­ included terrorist groups within its um­ state solution, have accepted Security trust, and anxiety among Israelis, as well brella-toward accepting the state of Is­ Council resolutions advocating the prin­ as among Jews elsewhere. Not that this rael and downplaying armed resistance ciple of land for peace, have renounced justifies Israeli repression anymore than of Israeli occupation of their land. Be­ the use of violence against unarmed the historic mistreatment of Palestinians cause Friends have been among the ear­ civilians, and advocate face-to-face nego­ justifies terrorism, but understanding liest and most persistent U.S. contacts tiations between representatives of their the psychological roots of the behavior for PLO officials, and since we have people's own choosing. The Israeli gov­ can better enable us to listen, be in dia­ been consistent in our calls to the Pales­ ernment rejects all of these positions, an logue, and become peacemakers. tinians for greater moderation, we can intransigence made possible by the more What may seem to be a perfectly rea­ take at least partial credit in aiding this than $4 billion of unconditional U.S. aid sonable position for Friends-i.e., Pales­ transition. sent annually. Some might ask, there­ tinian self-determination, tying U.S. aid Unfortunately, because we have recog- fore, if it's really wrong for Friends to to Israel to human rights concerns-may

8 June 1991 FRIENDs JoURNAL seem to a Jew like a call for Israel's ment, undermining the last vestiges of rather than the broader exploitative glob­ destruction. Such feelings are based on Labor Zionism's commitment to social­ al economic system and their own elites deep-seated terror from centuries of op­ ism, non-alignment, and cooperation who benefit from such a system. pression. Friends must go to great with the Third World. While Palestinians are the most imme­ lengths; therefore, to reassure supporters What is most unsettling is how close­ diate victims of U.S. policy in the Mid­ of Israel that our concerns are based on ly this policy corresponds with historic dle East, ultimately Israel is, as well. Not principles of peace and justice, not on anti-Semitism. Throughout Europe in only is such an analysis more accurate, some hidden anti-Semitic agenda. We past centuries, the ruling class of a given it also offers individuals currently defen­ need to stress that Israeli security and country would, in return for granting sive about criticism of Israel a greater Palestinian rights are not mutually ex­ limited religious and cultural autonomy, opportunity to join in a movement for clusive, but mutually dependent. set up certain individuals in the Jewish Israeli-Palestinian peace. We must con­ community to become the visible agents vince such "supporters of Israel" that of the oppressive social order, such as continued U.S. "support" will likely in­ .. tax collectors and.money lenders. When crease Israel's militarization and isola­ Israel will not be secure the population would threaten to rise up tion in the world community, encourage against the ruling class, the rulers could greater intransigence by its enemies, and until It realizes instead blame the Jews, sending the may lead to Israel's destruction. wrath of an exploited people against con­ Israel will not be secure until it recog­ Its true allies are venient scapegoats, resulting in the po­ nizes its true allies are the Palestinians groms and other notorious waves of re­ and other Arabs, not Western powers. 1118 Palisllnlans pression that have taken place through­ Most Israelis are of Middle Eastern and other Arabs, not out the Jewish diaspora. (Sephardic) background; Israel is cultur­ The idea behind Zionism was to break ally, linguistically, and geographically Westem powers. this cycle through the creation of a Jew­ tied to the Middle East; its history of ish nation-state, where Jews would no oppression more closely parallels that of longer be dependent on the ruling class the Arabs and other Third World peo­ .. of a given country. The tragic irony is ples than elite elements in the West; Jews Friends also need to resist accepting that, as a result of Israel's inability to have historically been far safer in the anti-Jewish stereotypes that exaggerate make peace with its Arab neighbors, the Arab and Islamic world than among the financial and political power of U.S. creation of Israel has perpetuated this Western Christendom. Can you imagine Jewry, recognizing that U.S. support for cycle on a global scale, with Israel be­ a Middle East that combines Israeli tech­ the Israeli government and opposition ing used by Western imperialist powers­ nology, Palestinian industriousness, and to Palestinian rights are based not on an initially Great Britain and France, more Arabian oil wealth? This is what the aU-powerful lobby, but by the same elite recently the United States-to maintain United States government, through its interests that lead the United States to their interests in the Middle East. There­ divide-and-rule policies, is trying to pre­ support any right-wing pro-Western fore, one finds autocratic Arab govern­ vent. This is also what Friends- along government and oppose any Third World ments and other Third World regimes with Jews, Arabs, and others-must nationalist movement. The United States blaming "Zionism" for their problems help create. 0 "supports" Israel for what that coun­ try has done for U.S. interests. Israel has successfully crushed radical nationalist movements in Lebanon and Jordan, as well as Palestine. It has kept Syria, which was allied with the Soviet Friends are invited to consider and justice in the Middle East, are we Union, in check. It has been a conduit these queries in addressing the Israeli­ thoughtful about avoiding identifica­ for U.S. arms to regimes too unpopular Palestinian conflict: tion with organizations or individuals in the United States for openly granting 1. Do we hold both peoples in the who do not share these principles? direct military assistance, such as South Light, recognizing each of their histor­ S. Rather than focus on past atro­ Africa, Iran, and Guatemala. Israeli ies, their struggles, their desires, and cities by either side or fine points of military advisors have assisted the Nica­ their fears? historical debate, do we instead focus raguan Contras, the Salvadoran junta, 2. Do we challenge stereot~. ra­ on resolving the conflict in ways that and foreign occupation forces in Namib­ cism, and other forms of prejudice meet the legitimate needs of both ia and Western Sahara. Israel's secret against both Jews and Arabs when­ sides? service has assisted the U.S. in intel­ ever we come across them? 6. Do we recognize our own gov­ ligence gathering and covert operations. 3. Do we hold fast to principles ernment's culpability in dividing the Israel has cooperated with the U.S. mili­ (human rights, self-determination, in­ historically-oppressed peoples of the tary-industrial complex with research ternational law, nonviolence) and Middle East? Are we working to and development for new jet fighters, avoid partisanship regarding political change policy to one that supports Star Wars, and other advanced weapons bodies (the Israeli government, the peace, justice, and reconciliation? technology. PLO) or ideologies (Zionism, anti­ As a result, the United States has been Zionism, Arab nationalism)? Stephen Zunes encouraging the most chauvinistic and 4. In working politically for peace militaristic elements in the Israeli govern-

FRIENDs JOURNAL June 1991 9 Defending the Homeland by Jonathan Torop

Every morning he runs twice around her health. I wanted the girls to get a He moved Gush Etzion's two-mile perimeter. He taste of life as Americans before they grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where his came to Israel for the rest of their lives." lolhe Wesl Bank parents attended a conservative syna­ His daughters Ilana, Karen, Orah, and gogue. After his bar mitzvah, he went Haviva are 'eight, six, five, and three. lor lhe admirable reason on a summer program in Israel. "It was "Also, I wanted to get a good start as then-at age 14-that I knew I wanted a lawyer. I earned a lot of money work­ to be an orthodox Jew and live in Israel. ing in Washington. Working in Tel Aviv, IIIII he wanled himself I realized that these were my people, to­ I earn half of what I used to make." gether after two millennia. Orthodox Most West Bank settlers commute to and his family Judaism meant I followed the same rules work in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. From practiced for 3,000 years. Walking in Gush Etzion, Jerusalem is 30 minutes lollve a Jewish life. Jerusalem, I heard the same prayers away, and Tel Aviv is just under an Jews chanted in the time of Solomon." hour's drive. A house in Jerusalem or Kochba touches the blue knitted kipa Tel Aviv costs three to four hundred covering his thick black hair. " In Amer­ thousand dollars. House prices in Israel ica, Jews know their ancestors arrived are listed in dollars because the value of at Ellis Island around the turn of the U.S. currency fluctuates less than the century. But before that? I have a vague shekel. A large home in the West Bank picture of my mother's parents living in overlooking terraced hills and rows of Vilnius, and my father's father making olive trees costs half the price of a Jeru­ hen 38-year-old lawyer David shoes in a shetl on the Black Sea's north salem or Tel Aviv house. Kochba moved to Israel in shore. Kochba points out that the residents WJune 1987, he left a ten-room "Because it's impossible to know of Gush Etzion feel more of a sense of Washington, D.C., townhouse and two about our history, we buy into Ameri­ community than Jews living in other golden retrievers. Kochba, his wife, ca's Christian heritage. In Washington, parts of Israel. "As you know, inside Rebecca, and four daughters moved to my children came home from school Israel proper, Jews feel a kinship from the West Bank settlement of Gush Etzion talking about Christopher Columbus. I living in a Jewish state. We feel that kin­ because the Torah commands Jews to told them that Columbus's boss, King ship even more at Gush Etzion: w·e risk move to Bretz Israel. However, some Ferdinand, kicked the Jews out of Spain our lives every day." people point out that the Torah does not and Sicily the same year Columbus sailed Kochba is aware that some people be­ specify settlement in the West Bank. to the New World. I realized then it was lieve orthodox Jewish settlers are Orthodox Jews first settled in the time for my kids to come to Israel and zealots. When I met him the week be­ West Bank on April 4, 1968. Several learn about their Jewish ancestors who fore, he shook my hand and said, "Hi. Jewish families, led by a rabbi, moved lived in the Holy Land." I'm the fanatic." Over one shoulder he into a hotel in Hebron and refused to I ask Kochba why it took him until carried a blue bag stuffed with books leave. The rabbi and his followers de­ age 38 to move here. His wife walks in­ and manila envelopes. Over his other manded access to the Islamic mosque to the living room carrying a tray with shoulder hung an Uzi submachine gun. that covers the cave where Isaac buried two cups of Arab coffee surrounded by Most settlers carry guns. The army Abraham. By 1990, over 70,000 settlers triangular Jewish pastries-hamantash­ trains settlers to use Uzis. One night a lived among the West Bank's 1. 7 million en. Like all married orthodox women, month, Kochba and two other men Palestinians. Rebecca covers her hair with a scarf. guard Gush Etzion, patrolling the peri­ Kochba and I sit in his living room. Two dark strands fall over her left eye. meter of the 200 houses. He is five feet, ten inches tall, and fit. Putting down the tray, she brushes the hair under her scarf and walks toward At five o'clock this May afternoon, A 1990 graduate of Wesleyan University, Middle­ the kitchen. Kochba picks me up in front of my town, Conn., Jonathan Torop will be going to graduate school in Near Eastern studies at Prince­ Kochba says, "My mother, who died house in Baka. Two weeks before, a ton this fall. His story is based on experiences he last year, lived in Potomac, Maryland. U.S. woman had told me her father's had on one of several trips to the Middle East. I needed to be close to her because of law partner lived in the West Bank and

10 June 1992 FRIENDS JOURNAL worked in Tel Aviv. Here, I think, is the to, so the knitted circle of cloth sits loose perfect opportunity to meet a settler-a on his bald pate. As we drive off, the U.S.-born graduate of Columbia and wind from Kochba's van blows the yel­ New York University Law School, an low skullcap off his head. educated man with my own belief in the Socialist Zionists founded Gush Etzion value of the individual. This man might in the 1920s. Gush Etzion means "the call himself a fanatic, but he is an in­ Block of Etzion." Block refers to the telligent, rational U.S. citizen who came settlement as both a block of houses and to the West Bank for the admirable an ideological block where the residents reason that he wanted himself and his have similar beliefs. The settlement Top: In family to live a Jewish life. gained notoriety in 1948 when Arabs Inset: A high wire fence sepa,.tes the road from Dhelsheh ratug.. camp. I've never outgrown my childhood massacred a busload of teenagers on fascination with guns, and these settlers their way to work at the settlement. As are like cowboys with their Uzis and we drink our coffee, Kochba shows me pistols. I feel empowered seemg Jews a book with newspaper photographs of have leaned their machine guns against who stand up for themselves. I am also their dismembered bodies. the nearest olive tree. A boy, about five, interested in talking to settlers because A few months after the massacre, at rides by on a dirt bike. His father, with they give reassuring answers to the Pal­ the height of the 1948 War of Indepen­ both hands on the red banana seat, nods estinian-Israeli conflict: God gave Pales­ dence, Gush Etzion's settlers prevented in response to Kochba's wave. tine to the Jews; after 2,000 years of per­ the Jordanian Legion, the best of the five Kochba takes me on a tour of Gush secution, we must defend our homeland. Arab armies, from reaching Jerusalem. Etzion. We pass scores of white-walled, When Kochba and I drive into the set­ After the war, David Ben-Gurion, Is­ two-story houses with red-tiled roofs. tlement this afternoon, we stop at the rael's first prime minister, credited the We stop in the parking lot of a yeshiva gate post just beyond the rainbow­ settlers with playing an instrumental role attached to a synagogue shaped like a framed sign that says, "Welcome to in defending Jersusalem. huge A-frame house. "Orthodox Jews Gush Etzion!" Kochba introduces me to As we drive into the settlement, don't have to serve in the army-but the guard, a man about 40 with a fringe Kochba waves to men in their front these yeshiva boys volunteer. Starting at of brown hair around his head. He yards-some sit on lawn chairs and age 18, they spend half a year in the ar­ doesn't have enough hair to clip his kipa others wash their cars. Most of the men my, half a year in the yeshiva, and so

FRmNDs JouRNAL June 1992 11 on. They complete their three-year tour clients who'd invite me to their weddings ble civil war between settlers and the in five years. Because they're so inspired and parties. Now they say, 'Sorry, I can't Israeli army. by God and Israel, they're some of the invite you. My friends will think I'm col­ I ask Kochba about his political lean­ best fighters in the IDF." laborating with Jews.' This is sad. We ings when he lived in the United States. A 20-foot guard tower rises next to let the Arabs use our bank and store." "I voted for Mondale in 1984. My par­ the temple. A young man, about 20, This afternoon, as we drive into Gush ents were Democrats and so am I. My stands at the top of the tower. He holds Etzion, I see a Palestinian on a bike who D.C. law firm was one of the first in the an M-16, and the shadow from the bar­ leaves his ID with the bald gatekeeper city to try to hire more black lawyers. rel falls onto the roof of the synagogue. and peddles toward the bank. In Israel, I'm more to the right." During our tour of the settlement, What does Kochba think about a Kochba shows me the school, and a Palestinian state? " There already is a He made the choice 50-foot oak shading the playground. " If Palestinian state-it's called Jordan." we gave back Judea and Samaria, the He stands up and smooths the wrinkles to become an Orthodox Arabs could put a gun next to the swing­ on his pants by running his palms down set and shell Tel Aviv," Kochba tells me. his thighs. "Rebecca-we're ready to Jew and move to Israel. In the distance, 35 miles away, I can see eat." He puts his right hand on my Tel Aviv and the Mediterranean. shoulder. Thick black hair grows on his "After 1948, when we lost the settle­ fingers. "Over 50 percent of Jordanians Now he was pointing a ment to Jordan, the settlement's foun­ are Palestinians. Judea and Samaria ders would stand on the Jordan-Israel belong to the Jews. God said to •n at a alrl Just a little border and look at this oak-it is one Abraham, 'Unto they seed will I give of the tallest trees in Judea and this land.' " older than his daughters Samaria.'' During the late afternoon drive from because she was At the Kochbas' house, he introduces Jerusalem to Gush Etzion, the sun hangs me to his daughters. The three-year-old, a fist's height about the hills. The dark Interfering. Haviva, shows him a yellow butterfly western ridges, with their dull and cold she drew that day in her religious school. stones, hold the coming night. Near Two school systems exist in Israel-one Bethlehem Kochba says, "On this hill secular, one religious. The parents Abraham stopped with Isaac on their His earlocks brush the shoulders of his choose which one they want. Kochba way to Jerusalem. And that hill-the black suit. The beginnings of a beard sends his daughters to the religious one with the olive trees-was the site of grow on his face. The Torah forbids or­ school located next to the synagogue, in a battle between the Maccabees and the thodox Jews to use a razor. a three-story building with barred Romans.'' " Who won?" I ask. "We I ask Kochba if he misses anything windows. did," he says. from the States. The phone rings. Kochba speaks to Kochba realizes that his presence on "I miss going to the movies. The near­ the caller in Hebrew. I catch a few the West Bank leads to bloodshed. Dur­ est theater is in Jerusalem, and I don't words-"tonight" and "eight o'clock." ing the drive he says, ''Why should we like to make the drive at night more than. Kochba hangs up. " That's a man who stop now? The settler movement is the I have to." lives near the yeshiva. We're meeting to­ logical extension of Zionism-settling in Why not? morrow night to discuss strengthening the Holy Land. We endure threats to our "I've been stoned by Palestinians five our militia. The army doesn't do enough lives. Settlers like David Ben-Gurion, times. The first time, two boys shattered to protect us so we're going to take our who came to Eretz Israel in 1906, worked my windshield and I almost drove off security into our own hands." the same rocky land just a few miles the road. I put in plastic windows." I'd The government leases guns to settlers. away and protected their families from noticed a billboard a mile beyond Beth­ The army encourages any Jew who lives the same Arabs. Now we're living in the lehem that advertised stone-proof win­ or even works on the West Bank to carry actual Hebrew kingdom. dows for $1 ,500. "1\vice, driving my an Uzi or a pistol. Since the initifada's "Pre-1967 Israel was not the ancient daughters home from Jerusalem, I've beginning in December 1987, settlers Jewish homeland: this part is. The Jews been stoned. The girls have bad dreams have shot more than 100 of the over 700 lived here, in the mountains of Judea for nights. It's scary when ten stones hit Palestinians killed. Palestinians, using and Samaria. The Philistines lived along your car. That's why I carry this gun. rocks and firebombs, have killed ten set­ the coast, the Edomites in the Negev If my car broke down because too many tlers. The settlers-despite their guns­ desert, and Gentiles in the Galilee." rocks hit it," he says, "and I got out to fear for the safety of their families. What about the fact that the settlers find a phone, I could get stoned to "The intifada and the Arab-Jewish built their settlements on confiscated death: That's happened to two settlers conflict is a battle of wills" says Palestinian land? since the start of the intifada. Kochba. " The Jews are losing. If we "Israelis living in pre-1967 Israel "I lived better in Washington. There give up Judea and Samaria, we disobey think they're morally superior to set­ aren't many kosher restaurants around the Torah and God. That's when I go tlers. What they forget is that our policy here." He points at the field of olive back to Washington." Kochba is an ex­ of removing Arabs from the land is no trees gr

12 June 1992 F'RmNDS JOURNAL blue glazed clay scratched with Hebrew Isaac and Abraham stopped before en­ letters. tering Jerusalem. I hear Kochba fumbling in his office. Kochba switches on the radio. The an­ A drawer opens and closes, and he nouncer says a few wor:ds in Hebrew, strides, into the room, carrying an Uzi and Israeli pop music comes on-He­ over his shoulder. He carries the brew, synthesizers and a drum machine. machine gun easily, as if it were a The sound of the drum machine mixes camera. He smiles at his wife and jams with a bang as a rock hits my window. a seven-inch clip into the weapon. Kochba stops the van. Slinging his Uzi Climbing into his Chevy Astro van over his shoulder, he steps onto the with the plastic windows, Kochba says, black pavement. A girl-no more than "The road to Jerusalem is especially un­ 12-stands in front of the fence. In her ~ safe near the Arab refugee camps around right hand she holds a rock. Sixty per­ ~ Bethlehem.'' I soon see what he means. cent of Palestinians throwing stones are ~ ~ We drive for five minutes, and the 13 and under. ~ lights of an Arab village appear on my The girl wears a white dress, and lace & Palestinian children, 1991 left. The highest lights top the minarets fringes her collar and sleeves. Her long of the mosques. At night the city is brown hair falls half onto her shoulders, Gurion toured the town and asked an quiet, and I see no division: the lights and half into her dress. Dust coats her aide, 'Why so many Arabs, why did you of the police station and the lights of a black, patent leather shoes. not expel them?' Do you know what family that lost their 12-year-old son Sweat drips down my temple and a­ Ben-Gurion said in '48 about Judea and look the same. cross my cheek. About half of the 600 Samaria? 'The Arabs of the land of Is­ Passing the village, the road dips Palestinians killed in the intifada were rael have only one function·left to them: toward Jerusalem. On my right are three children. If Kochba shoots this girl, it to run away.' " square, cement buildings, each about 30 will just be another headline. Kochba points to the terraced fields. feet wide. I assume they are stores de­ Climbing out of the van, I say, "Mr. "Our ancestors, the Hebrews, were the spite the steel shutters stretched across Kochba." "Shut up," he says and points first to use 'terrace agriculture.' Our their fronts. the gun at the girl. Kochba made the forefathers built the walls that hold up We drive for one minute, and I realize choice to become an orthodox Jew and the Arab's olive trees. a high-wire fence has begun along the move to the ancient biblical kingdom. ''There are 22 Arab states and one right side of the road. The fence is 20 Now he's pointing a gun at a girl just Jewish state. Creating a 23rd Arab state feet high- like a giant baseball backstop a little older than his daughters because on Jewish land ignores our historical running for half-a-mile. Beyond the she's interfering. right to have our own country.'' fence I see countless cement houses. I point at Kochba and say, "Mr. We drive along a typical West Bank There are no street lights in the camp, Kochba- don't shoot her.'' Kochba road-twisting around hills dotted with just several lamps outlined behind thick isn't listening. He says to the girl, rocks covered with yellow lichen. Even curtains. No one walks among the square "Don't throw that or I'll shoot you.'' though Kochba has lived in Israel for houses, but I see three men standing The girl raises her right hand. I wonder just three years, he drives like an behind the fence. I see their dark faces, if she speaks English-she must realize Israeli- fast. He passes a white Mini as darker moustaches, and dark shirts a she'll get killed if she throws the stone. we go around a steep turn and past a size too large. One of the three has his The girl raises the stone as high as her sign for "Rachel's Tomb-Three km." collar turned up around his neck. ear. Kochba lowers his head towards the The leading cause of death in Israel is Kochba hits the van's brakes. We slow Uzi's sight, and the gun's black metal auto accidents, not war. from 55 to 15 miles per hour. Pulling the pushes into his cheek. Over the sound Uzi from his feet onto his lap, he clicks of the van's engine, the Israeli pop music Kochba's wife serves us a four-course off the safety. plays from the radio. My legs sweat and dinner: matzoh ball soup, gefilte fish, "You see, Jonathan," he says, his my boxer shorts stick to my crotch. chicken, and apple pie. The Kochbas' eyes intently on the houses, "this is the The girl drops the stone. It lands in back yard has a sand box with plastic Dheisheh refugee camp. The IDF put up the dirt on the side of the road. She shovels next to a red Big Wheel with this fence because the Arabs in the camp walks backwards along the fence­ tassels coming out of the handle bars. threw stones at passing cars. The Arabs toward a slit in the chain links five feet Kochba sees me looking outside through know I'm a settler because of my yellow away. Kochba lowers the Uzi. The gun the sliding glass doors. "Who has walked license plate. If they see me driving fast leaves a white mark where it pressed in­ across our back yard?" he asks me. they'll think I'm scared. But when they to his cheek. "Let this be a lesson to "David? Solomon? The Prophets?" see me driving slowly, they'll know I you, little girl. Don't throw rocks at us. After dinner, we stand around the have a gun and that I'll get out and start We live here too-treat us like neigh­ table, and Rebecca sings a prayer in her shooting if they throw a rock at me.'' bors." She pushes her body through the soprano voice. Then Rebecca and the We poke along as if there really were fence and runs into the camp. oldest daughter, Ilana, clC(ar the dishes. a baseball game on the other side of the Kochba climbs into the van, revs the Kochba excuses himself. The six-year­ fence and we were peering in, watching motor, and turns up the radio. What old, Karen, opens the olive-wood door, the pitch, watching the batter hit the ball else can I do but get in for the ride to letting out the family cat. Above the into the stands. But where the stands Baka? Climbing into my seat, I close the doorknob, I see a three-inch musuzah- should have been was the hill where door. 0

Flu:ENDS JOURNAL June 1992 13 Friends as part of my body, will I have to give up something precious to me?" Vignettes from the Fruth that God's work is being done even though it doesn't feel good was requjred for this trip. I want to share some vignettes, stories World of Friends highlighting some spiritual learnings when Friends from diverse traditions converge. I. On Saturday night a marimba band played at the hotel in Honduras. Latino Friends are forbidden to dance. One U.S. Friend, call her Lisa, loved dancing, especially the salsa. Several Western Friends, mostly young people, also danced that night. The next morning Lisa talked with Luis, the co-facilitator of the worship-sharing group who com­ mented on the sin of dancing and how glad he was that during the dancing, he and other Latino Friends had joined in a spontaneous worship-service to pray for the gathering. Lisa felt bad, really bad. Was she wrong for dancing? What could she say to Luis? Apologize? Dis­ Scenes at the World Gathering of miss it as a cultural barrier? She couldn't Friends (above) In Kenya and (below) by Elizabeth Claggett-Borne move through this difference of theirs: In Honduras o become part of a world con­ she felt separated from God, and un­ ference you need openness, will­ clear what was right. Could God's love T ingness to learn, and lots of imag­ really join those who differ? She sat ination. Try to imagine: What would it disconcerted in the plenary Sunday wor­ be like for all the Friends in the world ship. Then she heard the words "No to be one body? This was the challenge person can diminish your relationship for participants of the 1991 World Con­ with me, your God." ference of Friends. God spoke clearly to Lisa. The mes­ Taking a major trip like one to the sage was what she needed; one of those world conference involves the tasks of unforgettable experiences when after visas, passports, raising funds, taking feeling cast out, one is restored by grace. off work, leaving family members be­ No one but ourselves can take away the hind (some who are dependent on you). closeness of God. I may feel guilt or I A harder task is the psychological and may avoid or lie about the Truth. I may spiritual preparation. Are we open to be changed and even changed profoundly? Change usually involves some amount of pain. Quaker travelers took the risk, usually forfeiting a summer vacation. The risk was one that left many of us disturbed, pushed out of our comfort zones. Our spiritual connection with God was shaken. In meeting others who pray, thjnk, and come up with different conclusions than the Friends I associate with in New England, I am caused to ask, "Are you saying, God, that we are on the wrong track? Do I have to take these other types of Friends seriously? If I accept these Kenyan or Bolivian Elizabelh C/agge/1-Borne /raveled in !he minislry for six weeks among Honduras and Gualemala ~ Friends in !he summer of 1991. She is a member ~ of Friends Meeling of Cambridge (Mass.). t;:;

14 June 1992 fRIENDS JOURNAL feel isolated from those around me, but ..,. In The Netherlands Thou are always here. I, and all of us, always have the option of returning to the pure love and intimacy of the divine. If we can just put ourselves in that re­ much singing (although we like singing), ceptive place, grace sweeps us away. very rarely a direct praying to God, rare­ ly the mention of Christ and examples II. of Christ among us, few confessions or recommitments to a Christian way of We are inundated with the tradition life. And Friends get very impatient if that God is all-knowing and all-power­ one speaks longer than eight minutes, ful. However, this is just one aspect of because we have a dire need to return the divine. God is not always powerful to the precious silence. and strong. Val Ferguson, from London Can we find ways to vocalize our won­ Yearly Meeting, asked in her address for der at all the gifts given to us? Can we us to consider the powerless God. What more intentionally spend time praising is it like to pray and respond to the part all the marvels around and within us? of God which is powerless? God is as de­ How can we do it without sounding pendent on humans as we are dependent trite? We take so much of living for on God. We are God's hands and feet. granted. Everytime we eat a healthy meal This highlights how we are co-creators or spend time being amazed at acts of with God. love, or listening to a friend, or singing Lucy Anderson, an evangelical Friend, in joy, we are breathing life into God. ended her talk in Honduras with a When we speak in reverence of the many similar story. During World War II the tice and still forgive our transgressors? ways God acts in our life we open doors statue of Christ in a French village was To me they exist on differing planes. for miracles to happen. If we are sensi­ shattered by bombs. The villagers pains­ Justice is often asked in the community, tized to miracles, we will be able to rec­ takingly collected pieces of the statue with the clarion of prophets. It is for all ognize them as they occur. and restored it almost entirely. How­ who are hurt, not an individual. Forgive­ If we dwell in meeting for worship ever, the hands could not be found. The ness is meaningful when done personal­ mostly on problems and political dis­ statue was reconstructed in its original ly, with a change of heart. Both require tresses, we weaken our hope in solving place with the inscription, "I have no God. them. When we dwell more on faith, hands but yours." beauty, and trust, rather than on hor­ IV. rors and pain and injustice, then God III. can work more freely. Even if a future How tolerant and flexible are we in In the Netherlands conference a holocaust is before us, we cannot give our meetings for worship? In the United it more power in our souls than we give Japanese, Susumu Ishitani, started his States I sense a lot of distress and worry eternal love. Let us learn from our Afri­ talk: "I apologize for any hurt my coun­ when we speak to God during unpro­ can Friend then; give thanks and praise try or my actions have done to anyone grammed meetings. We Quakers agonize present. All communication begins with and gratitude in all ways to the Great aloud in worship. Items of su'ffering or Spirit. this." It was a deep and solemn moment. personal quandaries are more likely to (Many European Friends still live with be shared in worship than testimonies or the impact and scars from World War cheerful experiences. What does this in­ v. II). We need to learn how to say we're dicate about our prayer? In what frame Are we clear that meetings for wor­ sorry for the deep hurts. Many Friends of mind are we approaching God? On ship are corporate prayer? During wor­ struggle with forgiveness in worship: the third day of the Honduran confer­ ship, in the privacy that silence provides, sometimes it's too much to expect others ence in one worship sharing group there do we address Christ or the divine di­ to forgive you or wonder why you can­ was a tense silence; different styles were rectly? Are we confident that God is here not forgive. What if forgiving our abus­ making Friends ill at ease. In the middle to answer our prayer? How much of the er (enemy) diminishes our own fragile of this an African asked, "Where is the silence is individual and how much is for self-love? Maybe an apology is an impor­ praising of God? We must make our cor­ the group? Are we so attached to the si­ tant starting place. We need to learn porate thanksgiving more central to our lence because we come to unprogrammed how to be graceful in saying "it over and worship." meetings expecting t9 get individual over again. Then God may open the door The form of vocal ministry in my un­ needs met more than coming to listen to of forgiveness. I felt the need of forgive­ programmed tradition is somewhat pre­ corporate leadings? ness at the conference just because my scribed. It's short, no more than five Worship-sharing is an anomaly to foreign style can hurt; and I need to for­ minutes, maybe with a quote at the mes­ Friends outside of North America and give others who are different from me. sage's core, maybe an ethical dilemma, Europe. My worship group at the world I was reflecting on forgiveness. An ar­ sometimes horror or anger at some as­ conference was a fascinating, yet some­ ticle I read contrasted forgiveness and pect of the world. We quote and talk what awkward, hybrid of prayer group justice. It said justice excludes forgive­ more about early Friends than other and worship sharing. The African and ness. It said forgiveness always heals; Christians and the Bible. What doesn't Latino Friends could instantly flip justice rarely does. Can we demand jus- happen in our meetings? There's not through the Bible and use a passage that

FRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 15 was relevant to someone's spiritual jour­ them with oil in the name of the Lord. The ence. The three epistles describe the con­ ney. A Honduran Friend was impressed prayer of faith will save the sick, and the ference as a tree growing from a seed to by how many of the children in my meet­ Lord will raise them up; and anyone who has a sapling, and optimistically to one bear­ ing could read, and at how seldom they committed sins will be forgiven." ing fruit. No unity was evident, no uni­ read the Bible. How many of us speak I was able to let my rational mind rest, ty to suggest that we planted one tree of our personal relationship to Jesus and I prayed as I have never experienced with nourishing fruits to offer the world. Christ? Do we Friends have insurmount­ before. (The translators did have a quick Quaker delegates from New England did able theological differences or do we just recovery.) sense with gladness that the conference use different metaphors to describe the prepared the soil to plant this tree in the same Holy Spirit? future. I felt so convicted by the power of Epilogue Questions pour out of me. I do sense prayer among these Friends. After the A group of delegates from New Eng­ many Friends opened themselves and struggle of listening to foreign stories land gathered to reflect on the confer­ commited to walking closer with God. in foreign languages, Juan Garcia said ence. Many expressed concern for the fu­ I learned much about the power of pray­ (in Spanish}, "I believe Christ is work­ ture of Quakerism. Are we giving major er, forgiveness, the Bible; that devotion ing in us right now. Christ works if we energy and support to our youth? Have to God can be found in many styles of are faithful and we pray unified as one we tried to make Quakerism such a safe worship; and to see unexplored sides of body. As the first Christians performed faith that it holds no risks? If we were God. With these impressions, I pass on miracles, we can also, if we believe all in prison (as were whole meetings of the torch of the world conference to strongly, without doubt. Two members Friends in the 1600s), would our children you, to all of you. May you put your im­ (translators at the gathering) have been know enough or have enough conviction aginations to exploring how best we can very sick. Let us have the power of to carry on the Quaker faith? Do we spur the health of our body. We camiot prayer work through us in the same spir­ show our children, through the example ignore these Friends, just as a leg it that James in 5:13-15 spoke of: of our lives, that faith requires taking wouldn't ignore a foot. No, in truth, we Are any among you suffering? They should risks? Friends, are we too comfortable? need to act knowing that our body man­ pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing If so, what should we do about it? ages best when all of its parts work co­ songs of praise. Are any among you sick? In all honesty, we concluded there was operatively. May we plant this tree of They should call for the elders of the church no unified message all Friends can say Quakerism together and may we bear and have them pray over them, anointing that emerged from the world confer- fruit for all to eat. 0

By what reason do we call ourselves eter Kutosi, a young man from Quakers? Is it by tenets of faith-un­ Uganda, sat facing me on a 'The Way spoken in some cases, but still silently P wooden school chair in Chavakali agreed upon? Is it by biblical founda­ School, Kenya. We were strangers, our tions or historical entitlement? Is it by faces and clothing and ways different right actions, by our social concerns and and puzzling to each other, bound only My Heart peace testimony? by both calling ourselves Quaker. We Those who attended the 1991 Fifth peered at each other through dim light World Conference of Friends faced from the classroom windows, the morn­ Gets startling, often uncomfortable, eye-open­ ing outside still overcast. Peter had ing encounters. Behind each was the agreed to spend a few precious minutes question: What does it mean to be a with me out of the hubbub of the Fifth Friend? As one Young Friend declared World Conference of Friends, telling me Open' in an emotional plenary session in about himself. Kenya, "After being here, I no longer Peter wore dress slacks and a sparkl­ know whether to call myself Quaker." ing white shirt, with the collar open at by Melissa Kay Elliott Elizabeth Claggett-Borne, in the pre­ the neck and cuffs buttoned carefully, ceding article, declared with painful the whiteness framing his dark face and honesty, "no unity was evident." In hands. His forehead had a roundness, spite of that, her thought-provoking a gentleness, and his voice was low­ stories about encounters at the gather­ pitched and modest, his answers some­ ings were full ofhope in presenting some times accompanied by a sidewise glance of the questions that arose. to see if his openness met with a fair She challenged us to find hope for our hearing. Not a large person, he carried Society by looking into the faces and himself with a kind of contained grace, hearts and lives of people who are liv­ a peacefulness, an economy of gesture, ing their faith and inspiring others. With an internal dignity. that in mind, the following article is the As he talked, a sketchy picture emerged first in a series ofsketches about Friends Melissa Kay Elliott is associate editor of Friends from the World Conference and where Journal, a member of Corvallis (Oreg.) Meeting, their Quaker faith leads them. and attends Chestnut Hill (Pa.) Meeting.

16 June 1992 F'IuENDS JOURNAL job in a government ministry. However, information from people in pther coun­ the ministry couldn't pay him, so he had tries on how to organize projects, get to move on, eventually landing a job more funding, set up social facilities, with the Ministry of Tourism. Then the and to start correspondences. In addi­ country's hotels were looted during a tion to pursuing those questions, he was war, and that job came to an end, too. struck by the differences he found among Since then- a period of several years­ Friends. He said he was used to more he hasn't been able to find employment. strictness of dress, behavior, and types That's not to say he hasn't found of food eaten. In Uganda, people take work, though, because there is plenty to responsibility in their personal appear­ do among Friends. He became secretary ance for not giving others cause for of his village meeting, then of his quar­ jealousy. Items would not be worn that terly meeting, and now is secretary of called attention to the wearer, and be­ the youth program of his yearly meet­ havior would be kept low-key for the ing. He not only arranges meetings and same reason. keeps minutes, but creates projects that Another difference was in the way put young people to work and. raise time and meals were handled. " In money for the church. "We organize Uganda, we would come together for youth, pull them from poverty, get small one purpose and discuss it until we go jobs for them, bring in money for the to sleep. Then we would get up the next church to help needy members." The morning and make our own meals," he work is always manual labor, such as said. digging pit latrines, building mud hous­ One of the cross-cultural experiences es, or making bricks. It gives the young spoke deeply to him, however: silent people something to do and improves worship. It was a new experience, and ! Peter Kutoal living conditions. For instance, money in describing it, he spoke quietly, but from selling bricks goes toward sending with conviction about how it affected of a young person eager to put his faith abandoned children to school. him. " I find it is the way my heart gets to work. He talked of a practical and As Peter talked, the old Quaker saying open. I like it." He carried home the often frustrating attempt to build com­ came to mind, "Work is love made visi­ hope that he could find several people munity, to draw people into the Friends ble." Peter, however, put it in African to share silent worship with him, but, church with projects for the good of all. terms: "The people who are looking on with characteristic circumspection, he And he talked with weariness about the can see the difference between someone felt cautious about disturbing others. part played by lack of resources. He who believes in God and someone who "The people in Uganda are not used to wants Ugandan Friends to know and be doesn't by the work they are doing. silence . . . . I would not want to do any­ known by other Friends throughout the Positive works make a difference in peo­ thing to cause people to leave the world. That desire comes from wanting ple's lives." church." to reach out and be connected to and The stumbling block is always money: Learning more about silent worship supported by the world family of Quak­ money for supplies, money for educa­ and Quaker history are two of the ers. It also comes from an awareness of tion, money for basic necessities, money reasons he would like to establish more how difficult the spiritual search can be to give people a hand up-money that connections with Friends outside Ugan­ in far-flung places where people have lit­ isn't there. Peter is aware of this need, da. If he could send a message to Quak­ tle access to knowledge or resources­ touching as it does every aspect of their ers in other parts of the world, it would or even to historical information. efforts, but he wants to find ways for be this: " There are Quakers existing in Peter was born and baptized a Catho­ people to help themselves, rather than Uganda, and those Quakers are practic­ lic, becoming a Quaker in 1985. When depending on handouts. "The African ing Quakerism in darkness. They are not he talks about what drew him to Friends tendency is to ask for money. I would aware of the history of Quakerism. You and how he lives that out, it is a story rather see them take care of them­ can't expect people to learn when there about a down-to-earth faith. "It is selves." is no source of information. Quakers Quakerism that has shown me the Light. Then he told me about the latest from other parts of the world should Most of the Quaker people in my area youth project at his church. They built help provide information. It will not on­ were not drinking, not immoral. When a 40-by-26-foot building from poles and ly bring people to Quakerism, we will be I joined them, I felt it was a group where mud, with a papyrus roof, to house 600 bringing people to God." D I could build my future." Friends chicks. The plan was to eventually sell helped him build his house, too. He lives eggs and increase the size of the flock. Peter Kutosi would be interested in in a compound with his mother, father, The money would go to the church's en­ hearing from Friends throughout the brothers, and sisters. He has a wife and tertainment committee, to be used for world and would particularly appreciate three children, and they raise subsistence events to attract more people. However, receiving material on Quaker history, food on their plot of land, which helps when he left home for the conference, silent worship, social activities and greatly in view of the unemployment there was no money to buy more feed games, comparisons between Quakerism problem. or to get medication for the chicks. and other denominations, material for As a child, he went to Protestant Part of the reason he went to the children, and Bible study. He receives schools, and after high school he got a World Conference was to get practical mail at P.O. Box 129, Mbale, Uganda. fRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 17 Revisited

the ambitious plans of the Penn-Craft and retraining of displaced miners de­ Community Association. Although the pended on the interest and support of Penn-Craft story has been told before, industry, organized labor, and private it might help to review the history of this organizations working together. The pioneer experiment in homesteading. Service Committee successfully rallied In the depths of the depression of the support of leaders of management and by RobertS. Vogel 1930s, Pres. Herbert Hoover asked the labor. Andrew Mellon, Eleanor Roose­ AFSC to oversee the feeding of children velt, Doris Duke, and others endorsed the American Friends Service under the Children's Bureau. At one the project, and $300,000 was raised in Committee celebrates its 75th an­ time, the AFSC was feeding 40,000 chil­ contributions from U.S. Steel Corpora­ 1\niversary, it can still point with dren a day in 41 counties of Pennsyl­ tion and others. The 200-acre Isaiah humble pride to Penn-Craft, the 55-year­ vania, West Virginia, Maryland, Ken­ Craft farm near Brownsville and Repub­ old self-help community it helped devel­ tucky, Illinois, and Tennessee. This lic in the once-rich bituminous coal dis­ op in the coal mining area of southwest­ brought the AFSC to Fayette County, trict was purchased, and Penn-Craft was ern Pennsylvania. This Fayette County Pennsylvania, where it found that 96 of underway. community of 210 persons has recently 152 coal mines were worked out or closed Clarence Pickett, Homer Horris, David been declared a historic district by the down, miners were out of work, and 30 Day, Levinus Painter, Errol and Mary U.S. Department of Interior. To cele­ perc~nt of the population was on relief. Peckham, and Henry Regnery all played brate the occasion, a Pennsylvania state The housing situation was desperate. important roles in the project. By Feb­ historical marker was dedicated on No­ Funds were needed to improve the coal ruary 1937, 250 families had applied for vember 8, 1991 , a date that coincides company " patch" houses, but the min­ one of the 50 one-and-a-half-acre plots. with the move of the first family into the ers simply did not have the finances. Errol Peckham was in charge of select­ first completed stone house in 1939. Later, under Pres. Franklin D. ing the eligible families. Homesteaders Many changes have taken place over Roosevelt, the U.S. government began had to be miners, partially or wholly un­ the past decades. There are few of the experimenting with reviving homestead­ employed between 35 and 45 years of original homesteaders still alive, but the ing, hoping that back-to-the-land proj­ age. The families had to represent a Penn-Craft spirit continues into the sec­ ects would help reduce the ever-increas­ cross-section of the mining population: ond and third generations. In 1991 I visit­ ing relief rolls. Out of this concern, the Croats, Slovaks, Welsh, Poles, Ruman­ ed the community, met community lead­ Congress created the Division of Subsis­ ians, English, Russians, Syrians, Italians, ers, and learned about the changes and tence Homesteads under the Depart­ Germans, and African Americans. Dis­ ment of Interior in 1933, which led to tressed miners with large families were Robert S. Vogel is a member of Orange Grove creation of the Rural Resettlement also given some priority. Friends Meeting, Pasadena, California. He is a free-lance writer and clerk of the Development Administration. Before actual construction of homes, Committee ofFriends World Committee for Con­ The AFSC became convinced that the roads had to be built, electricity and sultation, Section of the Americas. only hope for successful resettlement water lines laid. The Craft farmhouse

18 June 1992 FRmNns JouRNAL and cow shed served as a community other jobs: carpenters, masons, plumb­ ment could ever be repeated. Observed center and office. In those formative ers, etc. Today the second generation is the now-retired George Constable, who years, more than 200 college and high college educated, and many have become came to Penn-Craft as a teen-ager, "Im­ school students volunteered for summer professionals in their fields." Valerie agine the youngsters of today hauling work camps and also provided leader­ Gallet, widow of Louis Gallet, was lav­ sand, loading lumber, digging sewer ship for youth organizations. Home­ ish in her praise of the AFSC, which lines, shifting cement bags, and digging steaders amassed labor-hour credits, helped get a loan to purchase modern out foundations of a house without the which were used to offset construction machinery for the knitting mill. She said benefit of new-fangled equipment." costs of the houses. Costs were also kept that people who live in Penn-Craft have In commenting on being included in down by using local resources: the build­ a great love for the place and a great the National Register of Historic Places, ing stone came from abandoned coal pride in living there. The spirit of Penn­ Lou Orselene, whose grandparents were mines: sand was produced by the com­ Craft remains strong and is growing. homesteaders, said, "Penn-Craft was munity's stone crusher; the lumber was Recently, Penn-Craft Community As­ structured on the American ethic. Besides harvested from blighted chestnut trees. sociation, Inc., was granted tax-exempt the educational and preservation bene­ A cooperative grocery store was found­ status from the IRS. It is currently seek­ fits, Penn-Craft's national recognition ed; frozen food lockers were installed; ing to raise funds for several projects. is a positive step forward. If we utilize the old Craft farmhouse became the Top priority is $50,000 to purchase and our important heritage, it will improve community center, library, health clinic, renovate the old knitting mill and con­ our quality of life. Preserving our birth­ and canning kitchen; the Redstone Knit­ vert it to a community center. A feasi­ right is the path to a better life for our ting Cooperative Mill was started to give bility study has just been completed with children.'' · employment to women and unemployed a grant from the local congressman. Ac­ Thomas Logston summarized his own miners. cording to Penn-Craft Community News, experience: "I think the project devel­ The total cash outlay for each house the association is "seeking to work clos­ oped in all of us a sensitivity, a lack of was $2,000 in a 20-year loan from the er with the youth of our community area selfishness .... The goals now are much AFSC at 2 percent interest. With the through programs such as Penn-Craft the same as those back then: to become coming of World War II, the mines re­ baseball teams. Work needs to be done initiators. Continue the enterprise as our opened, and all 50 families were able to on the playground and ball park." An­ founders did before us. Penn-Craft is a pay off their loans ahead of time. Today other committee is at work compiling community that is still becoming." D the stone houses are selling, when avail­ historical information about Penn-Craft. able, for about $30,000. It would welcome pictures and articles. The address of Penn-Craft is RD #1, As the community prospered, some­ It is doubtful if the Penn-Craft experi- Penn-Craft, East Millsboro, PA 15433. thing of the original spirit of enthusiasm and cooperation waned. The cooperative grocery store was sold; the frozen food locker plant removed; the Craft farm­ house-community center was sold. In 1954 Louis Gallet, who was hired to manage the knitting mill, bought the mill and moved its operations to Union­ town, where it currently manufactures form-fashioned sweaters under the label of Louis Gallet, Inc. The old knitting mill building was sold, but now stands empty. Now there appears to be a resurgence of the spirit of community with many second-generation homesteaders return­ ing. Many of the "chicken coops" that ~ served as temporary shelters during :;:

home construction have been converted (.)~ into comfortable, insulated, livable !Z homes. And although the economic base "<: has declined, some residents work at the Hillman Barge Co. in Brownsville, while others find employment in industries and service jobs. The Reverend Thomas Logston, son of one of the homesteaders and current- ~ ly president of the Penn-Craft Commun- ~ Pllge 18: Penn-Crllft Community, 1942 ity Association, feels that the spirit of ~ Inset: A Pennsylv•nl• hlstorlc•l m•rker Penn-Craft remains and is healthy. He '0- Above: Workers •t Pllnn-Crllft's kniHing ;:-;. mill, 1942 said, "Not only did Penn-Craft help ~ Left: Author Bob Vogel with • Penn-Crllft miners build houses, it trained them for 8 resident •t her home, 1991

FRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 19 A WORLD OF MADE awoke at 2:00 this morning, with an by Joseph E. Fasciani If I had to select one line of writing image immediately in mind. I do not from all that has been written as the most I know if it was a dream I was awak­ it too has paid a price for our demands significant, most meaningful, it would ening from or an image that I wakened and abuses. have to be this one, from e. e. cumm­ into, but it was totally convincing. I saw It strikes me that our attitude toward ings's poem, "pity this busy monster, the world in its entirety as a globe, and the biosphere is but a larger scale exten­ manunkind not": "a world of made is it was terribly clear to me that human­ sion of the same mindset that allows us not a world of born." For me, this kind had gone far beyond colonization to create zoos and "wilderness areas." covers all of our Western history, myth­ of the planet: it had been made into a Our conditional reality has itself become ology, and culture, right from biblical series of continental plantations. conditional upon our delusion that we Creation to the spotted owl. I would like Because we live on the surface of the are perfectly competent managers-creat­ to see this taught to every citizen quite planet, with only a few of us ever being ors of entire continents. Our supreme re­ early on, so that it became basis for one's elevated so that we may see it as world, ligious belief and Manifest Destiny can ethos, serving to inform all choice and we tend to have a limited horizontal per­ be united into one battle cry: "Today decisions. spective. We do not look over, but rather Disneyland; tomorrow the world!" A world of born created and sustained look into it, on edge. So it is very dif­ As usual, Will Shakespeare said it best: us, but we seem hell-bent to condemn ficult for our ken and imagination to that origin and replace it with what understand or acknowledge that, as a Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight, Thomas Berry has so aptly named species, humans have encompassed an past reason hunted.... "Wonderworld." What has come to Mad in pursuit and in possession so; entire planet. If this has happened else­ had, having, and in quest to have, haunt us is the horror of our Wonder­ where in the universe, we do not know. extreme .... world relentlessly becoming wasteworld, Our situation is acutely unique. All this world knows, yet none knows well, one which turns on us as poisoned air, We like to think that we live in a to shun the heaven that leads men to this land, and water. But what if this is not natural world, one which is a vast pano­ hell . a temporary aberration; what if this is ply of wilderness and farm­ only one stage in humankind's land, cities and desert, tundra progressive history, an unfold­ and forest. ing as we approach our lem­ But this is nothing more than ming-nature? a fiction of our imagination; And what if, like those fore­ such a world ceased being reali­ doomed creatures, .:Ve are des­ ty some hundreds of years ago, tined for a periodic rise of sui­ perhaps as late as 1650 CE. For cidal overpopulation, a purga­ humankind is no longer a series tive climax preceded by ever­ of isolated settlements sur­ rising crime, violence, wars, all rounded by the natural world. of the behavioral sink, indeed, The reverse is our true state: sewer? Is this not Nature? Or what little natural world re­ at least, our nature? mains is now reduced to but a As a poet, I believe some of few islands in a sea of immense the answers we seek are to be human overpopulation. found in what poets have to tell If one were to carefully ex­ us. They write from wisdom, amine the most detailed world not knowledge, and have been globes and maps, it would be­ around as long as records have come apparent that we have existed, and that's a great deal consumed, displaced, or oc­ more than can be said for pres­ cupied virtually every portion idents. Here is one such answer, of all the land areas. That from Gerard Manley Hopkins, which we have inflicted upon a poet-priest who held much of the ocean-the only aspect of ~ what Father Thomas Berry creation remaining that still ~ now writes as his concern: surrounds us and keeps us-is not obvious, but we know that What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wilderness? Let them Copyright © 1991 by Joseph E. Fasci· ani, who is a member of Eastside be left, (Wash.) Meeting. He is a prisoner at 0 let them be left, wilderness Steilacoom, Wash. His background is and wet; in horticulture and landscape archi­ long live the weeds and the tecture. wilderness yet! 0

20 June 1992 FRIENDS JOURNAL Table, an inter-denominational group in Media, Pennsylvania, in the late 1930s, Jesse Holmes, his iconoclasm pleased most of the at­ tenders, but not all. One listener cried desperately, "You're taking my religion away from me!" To that Jesse retorted, "I don't want your religion. Keep it!" Liberal Quaker Jesse forgot to add that each person should respect the views of others, no matter how sharply he or she disagreed. I attended the large reception at Jesse's by T. Noel Stern home in Moylan in 1938 where he de­ clared his candidacy for Socialist Gover­ pay tribute to Jesse Holmes, liberal nor of Pennsylvania, an election that he Friend, and to his " L.etter ·to the lost overwhelmingly. In the same period, I Scientific Minded." The letter was I enjoyed two sessions of the Progressive printed as the lead in Friends Intelli­ Friends, where Jesse was presiding clerk gencer (a predecessor of FRIENDS JouR­ for a dozen years. An independent body, NAL) , in mid-February 1928. It was the Progressive Friends had a meeting­ distributed in slightly modified form by house at Longwood near Kennett the Advancement Committee of Friends Square, Pennsylvania. The meeting had General Conference, with additional begun in 1853 or earlier and finally dis­ signatures. The statement sought to at­ banded in 1940. It represented Quaker­ tract scholarly people to the Society of ism in its most reformist mode. Friends, with significant success. It of­ Jesse's "Letter to the Scientific Mind­ fers a model for liberal Quakers today. ed" was liberal and iconoclastic, expres­ Despite, or perhaps because of, Jesse's sing dissatisfaction with religious dogma. reputation as a "dangerous radical," he The Intelligencer's editors noted that the was an outstanding voice for liberal, letter sought to reach thousands of peo­ Hicksite Quakerism from World War I ple over the world to whom religion had until his death in 1942-almost half a become "intellectually chaotic, ethical­ century ago. Jesse was a whirlwind on the ly confused, organizationally antiquat­ Swarthmore College campus, throughout ed"-using the words of Harry Emer­ -' A c•rlc•ture of the United States, and abroad. His life Jesse Holmes son Fosdick of Riverside Church, in and work have been described by Albert New York City. J. Wahl in Jesse Holmes: A Quaker's The problem arose, wrote Jesse Affirmation for Man (1979, Friends Holmes, because "the church is essen­ United Press, Richmond, Indiana). tially a medieval institution which has Jesse's outreach was wide. He con­ carried over into a scientific age, and tributed frequently to the lntelligencer, therefore an anachronism and unfitted spoke on the Chautauqua circuit, and How might the to its time." Religion could not demand addressed the Congress Party of India. beliefs that were grotesquely out of After World War I, Jesse Holmes trav­ legacy of such keeping with probability. eled to Europe for the American Friends Jesse noted that the Christian church Service Committee to review Quaker progressive Friends accepted doctrines such as the Apostolic volunteer relief projects in several coun­ or Nicene Creed, and inerrancy of the tries. He visited Soviet Russia to learn reach a broader Bible, the virgin birth of Jesus, along about its experiment in Communism. with miracle stories in the Old and New Jesse Holmes badgered Philadelphia spectrum of testaments. He indicated that his article Quakers to take a stronger stand on so­ had nothing to say to those who were cial reform. seekers today? satisfied with such a faith. Although a staunch Friend, Jesse Jesse Holmes said that Quakers were Holmes recognized the kinship of liberal When I was a Swarthmore College stu­ not a church but a Society of Friends. Quakerism to other liberal religious dent in the early 1930s, I knew " Ducky" The Society made no claim to be an au­ groups, and presided over the National Holmes at a distance. Familiar were his thoritative body that settled questions of Federation of Religious Liberals. In that white mane, moustache, and Van Dyke, doctrine or historical fact. His letter he was universalist. his piercing gaze and Mephistophelean made no mention of evangelical Quaker expression, pointed chin, rounded stom­ meetings, which had a different T. Noel Stern is clerk of Sandwich Quarterly ach, and gray, sweeping cloak. Students approach. Meeting and serves on the Archives Committee and in Jesse's comparative religion class Although the Society of Friends de­ Permanent Board of New England Yearly Meet­ ing. For many years he has been professor of spoke enthusiastically of his teaching as manded no uniform belief, Jesse said it political science at the University ofMassachusetts, informative, colorful, broadening. had a great deal of unity. Its greatest Dartmouth. When Jesse spoke to the Round unity was probably in its acceptance of fRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 21 the Sermon on the Mount as the ideal erly be called Christian, which has for which humankind should constant­ To Holmes, nothing to fear from science and which ly strive. Friends did not have a creed, demands no medieval credulities of in­ but a common purpose to determine the God was not an telligent people. He invited his readers meaning of right and wrong. He item­ to examine our faith and to see whether ized a number of social goals, including historical character, they wished to become Friends. the right of people to life, liberty, and The version of the letter circulated by the largest possible happiness. Jesse but rather the the Advancement Committee of Friends noted that Quakers opposed war but did • General Conference had four co-signers not demand conformity to pacifist belief. conunonexpenence along with Jesse Holmes. A second FGC The letter waited until its mid-point of humankind, edition had a slightly different list of co­ to mention God, where it described God signers-including Dean Roscoe Pound as "the unifying influence which makes of Harvard Law School and Paul H. men long for a brotherly world" and as which bound it Douglas, later a U.S. senator. The FGC the "Chief Imperative of human exis­ into document was slightly briefer concern­ tence.'' God was not an historical char­ unity. ing social justice, and a shade less acter, but rather the common experience iconoclastic than Jesse Holmes's original of humankind, which bound it into uni­ cerning the divinity of Christ. Toward article. GOD appeared in capitals, as did ty. Jesse noted that Friends have used the end of the letter he observed, "We RIGHT and WRONG. different terms for God, including the do not know whether God is a person Albert Wahl reports that FGC distrib­ seed, the Christ within, the inspeaking as we are persons or not." uted 20,000 copies, and a number of na­ word, the super-self, the world father. In conclusion, Jesse Holmes asserted tional magazines reprinted the article, Several passages expressed doubt con- that Quakers have a faith that can prop- including the Atlantic, Christian Cen- To the Scientifically-Minded

This letter was drafted by Jesse H. of the present generation. The Church Holmes in an effort to voice a concern proposes as essentials of faith the Apos­ We find ourselves to reach the thousands ofpeople world­ tolic or Nicene Creed, the inerrancy of associated with wide to whom religion, as Harry Emer­ the Bible, the virgin birth of Jesus, and son Fosdick put it, appears to be "in­ the verity of the miracle stories of the a kind of larger and tellectually chaotic, ethically confused, Old and New testaments. This article has organizationally antiquated. " It was nothing to say to those who are satisfied nobler self which first published in Friends' Intelligencer, with such a faith; what follows is for February II, I928. - Eds. those who cannot accept it. will enable us to be I would call the attention of those for or a large and increasing number whom creeds and statements such as the kind of persons of the people of Christendom those quoted above are mere phrases F the organized Christian Church is without reality for life and conduct, to we most deeply failing to supply the needed religious ele­ the Society of Friends commonly called ment. This is due primarily to the fact Quakers. It makes no claim to be a long to be. that the church is essentially a medieval church in the sense of being an author­ institution which has carried over into itative body which can settle questions a scientific age, and is therefore an an­ of doctrine, or of historical fact. It is a achronism and unfitted to its time. The Society of Friends. Friends claim no efforts of its more intelligent leaders­ authority but owe each other friendli­ ty of Jesus, but is rather due to what we the so-called modernists-to adapt it to ness. They have no common creed, and regard as a fundamental longing of man­ the present has failed and there is no such unity-of which there is a great kind for a world based on friendliness prospect that any such movement will deal-as there is among them is merely and good will. Our unity consists, there­ succeed in the near future. Our young due to the fact that impartial minds, fore, in having a common purpose, not men and women are being trained in working on the same conditions, arrive a common creed; and our common pur­ schools and colleges to think in scientific at similar conclusions. However, we de­ pose determines once and for all the terms, and the whole trend of our times mand no unity of opinion, but find in­ meaning of right and wrong. Right- is is scientific. It is not possible for a relig­ terest and stimulus in our many dif­ that which serves the end of a human so­ ion which ignores or opposes this attitude ferences. I suppose our largest unity is ciety based on good will to all men; and which demands beliefs which are agreement on the Sermon on the Mount wrong- is that which hinders or thwarts grotesquely out of keeping with proba­ as the ideal for which mankind should that end. On this basis we undertake to bility, to serve the purpose of the com­ constantly strive. This agreement is not test the organization of society, interna­ ing generation or the scientifically trained at all a blind acceptance of the authori- tional policies, and all human institu-

22 June 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL tury, and Harper's. The pamphlet ap­ ter that now seem sexist. The 1928 essay ers form a vigorous, sturdy, and endur­ peared on the literature desks of many speaks of "men" as if they were all hu­ ing branch of Friends- although we Friends meetings into the 1950s. In a manity. It speaks of the World-Father cannot begin to speak for all Quaker­ Spanish version, the letter was ad­ but not the World-Mother. It does not dam. A new letter might note that dressed, "A los Intelectuales." Time speak of homosexual Friends. liberal Friends are caught in the spirit of said that the letter was the beginning of I would like to see a new letter go Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, but are "probably the most vigorous effort in forth today, which would build on the uncomfortable with dogmas formed more than a century (by Quakers to win) statement issued by Jesse Holmes and after Jesus' death, such as the Nicene converts." Time was unaware Friends his co-signers. It would be addressed not Creed of 325 A.D. liked to be "convinced" rather than merely to the scientific minded or to in­ We need to build on the legacy of converted! tellectuals, but to a broader spectrum Jesse Holmes and other progressive If Jesse Holmes were alive today, he composed of open-minded seekers. A Friends of the past, and to espouse our might wish to change phrases in his let- new letter might note that liberal Quak- conviction with confidence. D .... A group portreltof the Progreaalve Frienda at Longwood (Pa,J Meeting, 1840

tions. Our opposition to war is based on mankind by which they are bound to­ over it doesn't seem probable that the a conviction that war is a hindrance to gether into unity. We find that element unifying power by which we love human­ the world family, but we do not exclude present in the lives of men in all ages and ity is just another individual like the rest those who do not have the conviction. among all races, and we find it every­ of us, but greater. Rather we seem to fmd Many of us feel that our industrial sys­ where among our fellows today. The ourselves associated with a kind of larger tem is on the wrong track, but this is not longing for truth and for right is based and nobler self than our everyday selves, a doctrine to be accepted but a problem upon it. Men in all ages have given their and which we recognize as that which to be solved; it must be tested by its serv­ lives rather than disobey this inner voice, will, if obeyed, save us from missing the ice on the whole to humanity. So also this inner light. mark, and enable us to be the kind of with the problems of property, of race But why should we call this God? person we most deeply long to be. prejudice, of social classes, and indeed Names are not of vital importance, but Whatever God may be, and whatever all human problems. Our purpose is a it has seemed to us that this human ex­ life may be, we are not insured against friendly humanity organized so far as or­ perience is what every age has called by loss, suffering, and death. But there is ganization is necessary for effective that name. Man has personified it and historically and in fact an element of good-will among men endowed with in­ created all sorts of mythologies about it; life, a power beyond our normal every­ alienable rights to life, liberty, and the he has substituted his mythologies for day selves which enables us to rise above largest possible happiness. obedience, he has made priesthoods and loss and suffering, and to face life and I suppose an objection that will arise institutions which have intruded be­ death alike without fear and with man­ in the minds of Seekers, to such a state­ tween him and his nobler self-but this ly hearts. A Society of Friends is or ment is that there has been no mention is the ultimate reality of all faith. We should be a group of people of good will of God. But this would be due to a fail­ have never been very particular about in alliance for mutual support in mak­ ure to understand the meaning of that names if our meaning is·made plain. We ing that element of life the commanding much abused word, at least as we Friends have called this element of life the seed, element. We Friends do not succeed in understand it. God means to us just that the inner light, the inner voice, the Christ doing this by any means. But at least we unifying influence which makes men long within, the inspeaking word, and various have a faith w.)lich we believe may pro­ for a brotherly world; and our whole re­ other things. We are quite willing to wel­ perly be called a Christian faith, which ligion is built on the assumption of God come more names, "the power not our­ has nothing to fear from science and as the Chief Imperative of human exis­ selves that makes for righteousness" which demands no medieval credulities tence. To us God is not an historical sounds all right, the hidden dynamo, the of intelligent people. Character like Caesar or Alexander, con­ super-self, the world father are proper We invite such people to examine our cerning whom we must read in books, symbolisms. Of course we do not know faith and see if they do not belong with sacred or otherwise. God is rather the whether God is a person as we are per­ us. name of certain common experiences of sons or not. When we look ourselves Jesse H. Holmes fiuENDS JOURNAL June /992 23 COMING T TO GOD

by Elliott Robertson he discourse among Friends in re­ one of genuine celebration of myself and sponse will help me to have a more godly cent months and years has includ­ all my attributes-including my gayness, response to my going bald as well. I ex­ Ted a good deal of debate about my skinniness, and all those physical pect, however, that I may have to come homosexuality. As a vast array of opin­ and psychological characteristics I've out to God about this one on an ongo­ ions have been flying about, there have always struggled with accepting. ing basis for some time to come. been ample occasions for many of us What do you struggle with accepting who are gay to have our sense of self­ about yourself? Whether you're gay or worth tested, particularly for those of straight, there's very likely something us who are in the process of coming to Whether you're gay you may want to come out to God about. terms with our sexual orientation. When If it's the way your nose looks, come out confronted with arguments against the or straight, to God; don't get cosmetic surgery. Let comparative worthiness or wholesome­ God know how you feel about it, and ness of homosexual relationships from there's very likely listen for a response from the one whose other members of our meeting or in the love is limitless. You may be surprised articles and books that have examined something you may when you find yourself in love with your the "issues" around sexuality and sex­ wonderful nose eventually! ual orientation, it is natural for those of I used to always take "created in the us who are homosexual and are not en­ want to come out image and likeness of God" to be a refer­ tirely comfortable with our sexual orien­ ence to our spiritual nature. Now, how­ tation to doubt the possibility of being to God about. ever, I am wondering if it might also both whole and gay at the same time, have a second meaning. Perhaps the af­ or, alternatively, to doubt the authentic­ firmation that we are created in God's ity of our homosexual nature. More importantly, I knew in my heart image also means that my gayness and I was experiencing this very struggle that were I to come out to God about my neighbor's straightness are in God's within myself not long ago. Doubts my sexuality and experience acceptance image, that my baldness and my neigh­ about the holiness of my sexuality had of it, my struggle with self-acceptance bor's full mane are in God's image, not crept into my consciousness despite my would then dissolve as I'd be able to to mention my skinniness and my neigh­ general ease and at-home-ness with my easily join in God's acceptance. (After bor's heavy-set body as well. This second sexual orientation. It occurred to me in all, God judges with righteous judgment meaning makes a great deal of sense in a flash of inspiration that what I need­ from the highest point of view, the point light of what follows the assertion of ed to do was to come out to God. I had of view afforded from Heaven, so it God creating us in His image-that is, never spoken to God about my being would be arrogant of me to trust my "male and female, He created them." gay; God knows everything about me judgments more than God's.) Similarly, in the past I have often after all, so it had never occurred to me It wasn't until a week or two passed thought of God as principle or law, and to do so. Yet this idea of coming out to that I actually sat down and said, "God, therefore a recognizer of only the inner God had me excited. I knew in my heart I have something to tell you," but when light within each of us and nothing more that if I were to take a moment to come I did, God's response was just as I had or less than this light. Now, however, I out to God, God's response would be expected it would be. Now that I have have started to consider that God might one of full and complete acceptance of come out to God about my sexuality, I also be highly involved with us personal­ me and of my gayness, and probably intend to come out to God about my re­ ly, and that God's love for us might rec­ Elliott Robertson is an a/lender of 15th Street ceding hairline. I already know what the ognize and celebrate both our souls and Meeting in New York city. response will be, and I trust God's re- our creatureliness. 0

24 June 1992 FRIE NDS JoU RNAL Witness A New Generation of Volunteer by Harold Confer

arly Quaker work camps chalked up an impressive list of successful proj­ E ects. Conscientious objectors of World War I also worked with the ideal of the com­ mon good in mind, and Friends who went to Europe to help rebuild after that war left a legacy of clinics, schools, homes, and roads. Later, they went on to provide leader­ ship in the American Friends Service Com­ mittee and other organizations. In the proc­ ... A work cemp volunt.., ess, the AFSC developed a youth services end her new friend division, which offered work camp experi­ ences for Quaker and other young adults. f workers move pert During World War II, Quakers worked in of e roof freme relief and service projects, and again, after­ ward work campers went out to attempt to their community-building skills to make their appropriate places. heal some of the wounds of the war. working and living together a pleasant ex­ The result has surpassed the organizers' But this time there was a little more socie­ ample of a life well-lived. greatest expectations. The group has served tal wisdom, and, instead of war reparations, In the last ten years or so in Washington, more than 20 different client organizations, there came a Marshall Plan that made these D.C., there has evolved a work camp organ­ many of whom report that their ministry to small Quaker efforts of healing seem puny. ization, Washington Quaker Workcamps the world is much broader and more effec­ Indeed, one of the positive legacies of the war (WQW), which attempts to meet those criter­ tive because of work camp assistance. Some was our government's peace-time efforts to ia. It has developed strong leaders, led by a young adult international volunteers have rebuild Europe and Japan. Another legacy strong board of directors. It has found more found careers with client organizations. was that the efforts of work campers were useful projects than time to meet them, and Work campers have built basketball and called into question. The United States was it fills all its work camps and could run more, volleyball courts, covered pavilions and pic­ entering the era of the civil rights struggle. coordinating a summer work camp program nic tables. They are now helping eight low­ As ethnic consciousness became a societal sponsored by the Mennonite Board of Mis­ income families build their own homes co­ force, it became increasingly questionable to sions, called "Group Venture," that serves operatively, the third such housing project put all-white work campers in urban and about 100 young people and adult leaders. for work campers. This summer there are rural black communities. Every volunteer It has run two international work camps in plans to recruit some 15 skilled craftspeople, and every community member knew. these which participants built projects of great im­ physiotherapists, and educators to assist the work campers could, and most would, walk agination, stretching those involved and national church of Sweden in renovating a away from these scenes of poverty and go showing them what is possible. Out of this children's orphanage in Romania. back to their comfortable communities. has come a new generation of volunteers with However, there is still a problem raising And so, with many misgivings, the AFSC a sense of service. funds, perhaps because old prejudices die . laid down the work camp program in 1962. WQW serves many different faith com­ hard. The new generation of volunteers and It would take a new sense of vision and ar­ munities, yet everyone worships together, us­ leaders who are transforming their world in ticulation of purpose, and a new generation ing silence to unite them in the common task modest ways are seeking support from of volunteers before this could change. of service. This also becomes the time when Quakers and Quaker organizations. For in­ In the 30 intervening years, governments participants get honest about their responsi­ formation, contact Harold Confer, Wash­ have tried development programs with vary­ bilities to the host community. The rest of ington Quaker Workcamps, 1225 Geranium ing levels of success. To date, the best efforts their communal time together flows from St., N.W., Washington, DC 20012, of government have not abolished poverty, this responsibility, with other tasks taking telephone (202) 722-1461. 0 ignorance, and disease or built a strong, self­ reliant society. Is there a role here for a new generation of work campers, with leaders who under­ stand the validity of earlier criticisms? Such ieaders would need to have building and other skills, be willing to teach them to young adults, and take responsibility for keeping the work campers on the job until completed. They would define, with the host communi­ ty, reasonable and attainable tasks and use

Harold Confer is executive director of Washington Quaker Workcamps.

FRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 25 Young Friends A Prayer for the Children

e pray for the children who put And we also pray for those who stare at Fairy, even after they find out who it really chocolate fingers on everything, photographers from behind barbed wire, who is, who do not like to be kissed in front of W who love to be tickled, who stomp have never bounded down the street in a new the school bus, and who squirm during in puddles and ruin their new pants, who eat pair of shoes, who have never played "one services. candy before supper, and who can never find potato, two potatoes," and who are born in And we also pray for those children whose their shoes in the morning. places we would not be caught dead in and nightmares occur in the daytime, who will that they will be. eat anything, who have never seen a dentist, We pray for the children who give us sticky who are not spoiled by anyone, who go to kisses and fistfuls of dandelions, who sleep bed hungry and wake up hungry, who live with their dog, and who bury their goldfish, and move and have no address. We pray for who hug us so tightly, and who forget their those children who like to be carried and for lunch money, who squeeze toothpaste all those children who have to be carried, for over the sink, who watch their fathers shave, those who give up and for those who never and who slurp their soup. give up, for those who will grab the hand of And we also pray for those who will never anyone kind enough to offer it, and for those get dessert, who have no favorite blanket to who find no hand to grab. · drag around behind them, who watch their For all these children, Adonai (God), we fathers suffer, who cannot find any bread pray today, for they are all so precious. to steal, who do not have any rooms to clean up, whose pictures are on milk cartons in­ Ina J. Hughs stead of on dressers, and whose monsters are real. (Reprinted, with appreciation, from the We pray for the children who spend all of Montclair [N.J.] Meeting Newsletter, March their allowance by Tuesday, who pick at their 1992) food, who love ghost stories, who shove dirty clothes under the bed, and who never rinse the bathtub, who love visits from the Tooth

Parents' Corner Looking After One's Brother

Y daughter and her husband ar­ got comfortable in a chair, and then Luke To be able to care for another requires all rived home to find four-year-old was carefully placed in his arms. Ben saw three of these characteristics: the attitude of M Ben curled around his eight-month­ how floppy Luke's head was and was shown wanting to, knowledge about the other, and old brother, Luke. Both were fast asleep. how to support it. A few days later, Ben skills. Too often we assume that if children Luke, the baby-sitter told them, had cried wanted to share some toys with Luke, so he or adults truly want to give care, they will be uncontrollably when his parents left. The and his mother discussed what would catch able to do so. When children are rough or give baby-sitter was about to call them when Ben Luke's attention (bright, sharp colors) and inappropriate toys, it is too easy to assume came in, smiled at Luke, got some favored how Luke could grasp the toy (by its being they do not really care, while the situation toys, and started playing with him. The tears placed directly into his fist). As Luke grew, may be they simply do not know what is ap­ stopped; Luke joined in the play with smiles Ben played rougher. His mother reminded propriate or how to provide care. Have you and laughter. Finally tired, the two snuggled him, "Look at Luke's face. What is he tell­ ever thought about how much the Good down together. ing you. Does he like that game?" Through Samaritan needed to know to bind up the The next morning, his parents thanked Ben such experiences, Ben learned how to care wounds of a man left half dead? for looking out for his brother. Ben beamed for his brother. If we want our children to be able to care, with pleasure; he knew he could make Luke Children, to be able to care for another, we must be open to opportunities of model­ happy. need to want to. But wanting to is not ing the desired behavior, giving them infor­ Ben's ability to care for his brother had enough. They also need information and mation, and teaching them useful skills. not come "naturally." There were many skills. Ben needed information; he needed to Children who know how to care gain a steps in his learning how. The night Luke was know that the newborn needed support for sense of competence. Ben beamed when his born, Ben learned how to hold him. First Ben his head and how he could pick up a toy. Ben parents relayed what the baby-sitter reported. needed skills: how to hold Luke's head safe­ Ben was learning about himself as one who This is the sixth in a series of articles by Harriet ly, how to place a toy in his hand, how to cares. He was learning a way he could con­ Heath on the role of Quaker values in parenting. pick up signals about Luke's experience of tribute to the lives of those around him. FRIENDs JoURNAL invites readers to share letters, a game when Luke couldn't say it in words. comments, and articles on their experiences in In mastering all this. Ben learned he could Harriet Heath parenting. provide care for his baby brother.

26 June 1992 FRIENDS JOURNAL Life of the Meeting THE HICKMAN OF CONCORD QUARTERLY MEETING Children in Meeting r.:

How do we impart our spiritual values to At the same time, in Quaker meeting, I our children? As Friends, we prefer to "let transcend my earthly existence, and I sense 100 Year History our lives speak, "rather than proseletyzing, Spirit. A Personal Care Home but that approach may lack directness when How can I share this heartfelt spirituality • Reasonable Rates • Not-for-profit dealing with a squirming child in meeting for with my children? How do I impart to them • Quaker Tradition worship. What, then, are the words we use this transcendent experience? When they at­ In Town Location convenient to nurture things of the Spirit in budding tend meeting, they join me for a lengthy 15 to Shops and Businesses lives? Here are two reflections/rom Friends: minutes and then depart to First-day school. 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Don't we close our eyes hear the cries of babies. I identify with the and shut our children.out? But children can­ restlessness of children and youth eager to not love whom they must compete with for move their limbs. How tender I feel when I attention, are jealous or afraid of. Nor can hear an infant nursing at her mother's breast. any of us. For me, children speak in vivid ways that Suppose, therefore, that during the short I am often too timid to admit, much less ex­ time our children spent with us, we tried to press. Their honesty, spontaneity, and heart­ listen to them the way we listen for God­ felt response teach us a great deal. I am learn­ silently, intently, giving each child our full ing from these little people, who may, in and undivided attention. Would the children some ways, be spiritual giants compared to not feel warm acceptance of who they are adults who try to be "of God." while at meeting? 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28 June 1992 FRIENDS JOURNAL Widely acclaimed for Music. Drama and the Arts. Grades 9-12; Friends Co-E.ducational says: "Our spirituality is our opening to one them the face of God." Boarding and Day another as whole human beings, our rever­ In times of pain or disappointment, we ence for our earth and all its creatures, and need to help our child come to terms with im­ our drawing ever closer to the divine source perfection and see it, in the words of Matthew OaKwood of sustaining love we call God." The book Fox, " not as a sign of God's absence [but School has ten chapters in two sections: "How Can as] a sign that the ongoing creation is no easy I Be a Spiritual Nurturer?" and " How Does thing." A whole chapter gives guidelines for Contact Brian Fry My Child Grow Spiritually?" plus a 20-page responding to difficult questions. Director of Admissions appendix of resources. Communities, as well as individual parents Oakwood School 515 South Road In becoming parents, says the author, we provide spiritual nurture. A family and a Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 embark on a spiritual journey ourselves; our faith community can both provide the exper­ (914) 462-4200 spiritual nurture of our children is a journey iences of loving, supportive connectedness together. It is exploring with our child ways that can enable a child to learn and value and, :======to "attend to the divine presence in every­ in turn, contribute to a sense of connected­ Fyfe & Miller day life," sharing with them our own glimp­ ness with all life. A family can be a spiritually ses of a reality deeper than what we can see nurturing community in three ways: as a liv­ FUNERAL SERVICE and touch, our own sense of mystery and ing embodiment of the spiritual (in which 7047 Germantown Ave. wonder. It is teaching not a religion but an people are valued above things), as a com­ Philadelphia. PA 19119 attitude. "Ours is not to mold our child ac­ munity of shared memories, and as a giver cording to our own vision, but to help her of perspective. on outer events. (215) 247-8700 become the person she was born to be." Spiritual nurture is not about ideal behav­ James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller The author believes that a little child has ior or about another world. Interest in the Simple earth burial an innate, exuberant spirituality that shows less fortunate is not for the purpose of be­ and cremation service itself in total absorption in the wonder of the ing good, or for making God happy, but be­ available at reasonable cost. moment, constantly seeing the extraordinary cause we feel connected with them, as other in what we overlook as ordinary. In our jour- parts of our own larger family. Fitzpatrick sees prayer as not necessarily You could be speaking or even listening but as "living in the spirit of the whole." In this sense, she LEFT OUT! sees a child's play as prayer, in its total ab­ Reservations for display ads in FRIENDS sorption in the present moment. She suggests JOURNAL are now required. many ways spirituality can be fostered Issue: August. Reservations must be through imaginative and exploratory play; made by June 8, 1992. All ads must be she also suggests ways of using silence with received by June 15, 1992. children, sharing simple vocal prayer, and us­ ing guided meditations. Issue: September. Reservations must be A chapter on children's changing readiness made by July 13, 1992. All ads must be for spiritual understandings draws on the received by July 20. 1992. framework of faith stages developed by Don't be left out! Call (115) 141-7279 James Fowler. Each stage represents a differ­ now for your reservation. ent cognitive, moral, and social way of ap­ proaching the transcendant. James Fowler's CREMATION ideas incorporate concepts from Piaget, Friends are reminded that the Erikson, and Kohlberg and give a helpful Anna T. Jeanes Fund framework for understanding,. children's will reimburse cremation costs. growing edges at different ages-how they (Applicable to members of will try to make sense of what we tell them Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) and what they will be able to understand. For information, write or telephone RICHARD R. BETfS 500-B Glen E

FRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 29 Est. 1689 WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Kindergarten through 303 Years of Quaker Education Twelfth Grade was horrible enough to give me bad dreams. They offer vivid images of real people liv­ Operated under Charter issued by William Penn. The William Penn Charter ing out their own very different values and School is a Quaker college-preparatory school committed to nurturing in girls affecting their children in many intentional and boys the education of the mind, the quickening of the spirit, and the and quite unintentional ways. development of the body. Penn Charter stresses high standards in academics, the arts, and athletics. Maybe the bottom line on "spiritual nur­ Friends are encouraged to apply both as students and as teachers. ture'' is that though much of what we give our children to help them grow is intentional Earl J . Ball Ill, Headmaster and can indeed help them on their journey, 3000 W. School House lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 the most important thing we give them is the (215) 844-3460 example of our own way of being in the world. Our teaching, the kind and level of support we give them, and the kind of human Imagine a vacation so relaxing relationship we build with them will never you fee/like part of the scenery. be fully intentional or under our control or even known to us-and what they take from Experience a fann vacation: it and us to build into their lives will in the - Experience animal life first hand end depend on their own choices. - Explore hundreds of acres of pristine wilderness Mamie Clark - Participate in activities of fann life • Relax in a peaceful, simple Mamie Clark is from Chapel Hill, N.C., and atmosphere serves on the FRIENDS JouRNAL Board of - Enjoy beautiful scenery Managers. -Excellent family get-away Open Year Round, Groups Welcome, Private Accommodations, Meals Available Reviews ~WOODS COURT ______~ Fresh Winds of the Spirit By Alan Kolp. Friends United Press, One bedroom apartments available for people age 60 Richmond, Ind., 1991. 143 pages. and above. Applications to be put on waiting list $9.95/ paperback. Friends already have a great deal of con­ are being accepted. temporary material available about George Fox by such eminent and readable scholars Thomas Lyons, Administrator as Hugh Barbour, Lewis Benson, T. Canby Jones, John Punshon, and others. While Friends Home at Woodstown most of these writers do mention George Woodstown, NJ 08098 Telephone (609) 769-1500 Fox's internal struggle and conversion, their lWOODS TOWN primary focus tends to be external. They look at Fox and his times, or the theological content of Fox's message, or at the Society of Friends that Fox helped create. Join the more than 60,000 people who Alan Kolp, in a major contribution, looks at the spirituality of George Fox, at Fox from read COMMUNITY JOBS every month. the inside, as reflected in Fox's journal and Whether you are looking for a job at a other writings. Over and over again, the reader is challenged to understand the pro­ non-profit organization or you already found religious experiences that made George Fox the person he became. have one and you want practical and Among the numerous and evocative defin­ inspirational information to help you do itions of spirituality that are found in this book, this reviewer's favorite is that spiritu­ that job better, COMMUNITY JOBS is the ality is the art of growing closer to God. Alan Kolp shows how Fox learned as he went newspaper for you. along. Spirituality is clearly a discovery, a ·: ------0 $29.00/lndividual for 3 months ------NAME--:------,: process, and not a single event. The author : (3 Issues) ADDRESS: : also provides important re-interpretations of : 0 $39.00/lndividual for 6 months : several key events, such as Fox's vision on : (6 Issues) : : 0 I've enclosed an extra $20 for CITY: : Pendle Hill. ! overseas delivery STATE: ! The book deals with various stages of L_<~~-~~-"f!'~~!~'!-~~~~~!~-'!'!~~~-~~~----~1~~------J George Fox's spiritual awakening, from his ACCESS: Networking in the Public Interest • 50 Beacon Street • Boston, MA 02108 initial wrestling with despair to his broken­ (617) 720·5627 • Fax (617) 720·1318 FJ2192 ness of heart, to his great discovery "that

30 June 1992 FRIEND S JouRNAL there is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition." Later chapters deal with Fox's many revelatory openings and his vi­ sion of "a great people to be gathered." A key feature of the book is the way Alan Kolp challenges us to give serious considera­ tion to the imagery in George Fox's writing. Only by taking Fox's images and visions seri­ ously, can we begin to feel the power that drove the founder of Quakerism. A temptataion for modern Friends is to think that we can know George Fox better than Fox knew himself, thereby making us somehow superior in understanding to Fox. Alan Kolp helps us avoid this temptation by taking us into the spiritual conditions of Fox's life, not just into his writing. The book is enriched by a wealth of quota­ tions, not only from Fox, but from a wide spectrum of contemporary writers on the spiritual life, ranging from Thomas Merton, Abraham Hesche!, and Henri Nouwen to Sallie McFague and Rosemary Haughton. The book is worth reading for its quotations alone. Alan Kolp's writing is deeply Christian in tone, and he clearly sees George Fox in a Christian light. However, the tone of the book should not cause trouble to Friends who have difficulty with some parts of Chris­ tian spirituality. For this reviewer, Alan Kolp fulfills one of the prime qualifications for a good writer: I could not have written this book, but he takes me to places I know about. Fresh Winds of the Spirit is well worth the atten­ tion of all Friends. where black regiments were trained. The il­ Comical and Humorous Messages, Famous Joshua Brown lustrations are lively and will be exciting to Quakers, etc. young readers. The result is a triple-threat book. First of Joshua Brown is a member of Adirondack (N. Y.) Margaret Hope Bacon all, the items reported are well-chosen and Meeting, where he serves as pastor. well-written: it is a book you can sit and read Margaret Bacon is a member ofCentral Philadel­ just for the enjoyment of it. Next, it is a phia (Pa.) Meeting and is author of many books reference book, a source of anecdotes and on Quaker history including Valiant Friend, a bio­ information. Organized as it is, it can be a Lucretia Mott: graphy of Lucretia Moll for adults. very useful source of themes and illustrations Friend of Justice for writing and speaking assignments. (Yes, we will be using it; you can count on that.) By Kem Knapp Sawyer, with introduction Quaker Meeting: Finally, it can be an excellent source of by Rosalynn Carter. Discovery A Risky Business leading and learning, the best inspirational Enterprises Ltd., 134 Middle St., Suite messages compiled from many years of meet­ 210, Lowell, MA 01852, 1991. 48 pages. By Eric W. Johnson. Dorrance ing experiences, both by the author and by $17.95, or $7.95/paperback. For children Publishing Co., Inc., 643 Smithfield St., many other people. Just one short sample: ages 6-10. Pittsburgh, PA 15222. 1991. /10 pages. "It comes down to this: People are to be Just in time for the bicentennial of the $10/paperback. loved and things are to be used .... Im­ birth of Lucretia Mott in January 1993, the It would be misleading to say that Eric morality occurs when things are loved and first really complete and accurate children's Johnson has written an interesting and worth­ people are used." book on the life of the Quaker abolitionist while book. A much more accurate statement All things considered, the book does fail has been published. Carefully researched, is that he has collected and organized an in­ on just one major point: It never does suc­ and written in a lively and compelling style, teresting and worthwhile book. ceed in justifying its title that Quaker meeting this book will introduce young readers to the Quaker Meeting: A Risky Business is a truly is a Risky Business. excitement of Lucretia Mott's life, from her compilation of interesting information, per­ Nantucket childhood to work for peace after sonal observations, inspiring messages, out­ Frank Bjornsgaard the Civil War. Without talking down to her rageous happenings, and humorous anecdotes young readers, the author presents Mott's in and about Quaker meetings. For our con­ Frank Bjornsgaard, a member ofDoylestown (Pa.) adherence to nonresistance even when preach­ venience, these are grouped by subject: Out­ Meeting, is retired and on the Board of Managers ing to the soldiers of Camp William Penn, rageous Happenings, Quaker Weddings, of FRIENDS JOURNAL.

FRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 31 Reports A Quaker Sponsored Retirement Community Friends for Lesbian and ~1ft CZRJilAKTOWrt Gay Concerns • Contemporary Apar1ments For An • Personal Care Residence For Independent Ufestyle Assisted Uving The Midwinter Gathering of Friends for • Fully Licensed Nursing Home •In Continuous Operation Since 1904 Lesbian and Gay Concerns (FLOC) took • Convenient To Cultural And • Secure, Beautiful Grounds place Feb. 14-17 at Cambridge Meetinghouse Educational Centers and Episcopal Divinity School in Massachu­ 6300 Greene St. setts. In addition to daily worship, interesting Philadelphia, PA 19144 (215) 844-0700 workshops, and terrific food, the gathering featured a concert by Canadian singer Lucie Blue Tremblay. FLOC was founded in 1972 and is an as­ sociation of lesbian, gay, and non-gay Friends who seek spiritual community within the Re­ WHAT KIND OF A WORLD ligious Society of Friends. These are the queries that helped this DO YOU WANT? year's 200-plus attenders focus on the theme "Making Light: The Lighter Side of Our Faith Journeys": • In the midst of fears, pains, and injus­ tice, do we call upon our joys as a means of healing and renewal? Are we aware when our humor becomes self-deprecating, dis-empow­ ering, and homophobic? • Do we take time to be silly? Do we allow ourselves to be free to make fools of our­ selves? Do we appreciate our own human fallibility? Environmentally Sound? Peaceful? • Do we celebrate our same-gender bond­ With Equal Opportunity? ing/love in the Society of Friends without fear Concerned About World Development? but with respect for each others' boundaries? • Can we as men and women share our Then Consider different styles of expressing joy and humor with each other? • Does simplicity include pearls? PAX WORLD FUND* The significance of this last query at first A mutual fund that invests in companies: eluded this writer. Then at the last meeting ___ exercising pollution control for worship a Friend spoke of the oyster's a­ ___ producing life-supporting goods and services bility to take a grain of sand-an adversity­ ___ not involved in weapons production and transform it into an object of beauty and joy. She asked how each of us had handled ___ with fair employment practices pain, sorrow, rejection, and discrimination in ___ promoting some international development our own lives. Pax World is a no-load, diversified mutual fund designed for those who wish to develop I considered how I viewed adversity in my income and to invest in life-supportive products and services. IRA and Keogh plans life. Had I used it as an opportunity to grow available. Minimum investment $250. and learn? Where there once was pain, is there • Pax World Fund is the only mutual fund in the nation affiliated with a Foundation that, now joy in my life? The FLOC Gathering for eight years, has supported tree planting in areas of the deforested Third World. helped me realize that it is our Quaker faith This is not a solicitation in those states where the securities have not been qualified. and community that gives me renewal and strength. I hope and pray that my life can A prospectus containing more complete information about PAX WORLD FUND, including always be like the oyster's. I know that we all charges and expenses, will be sent upon receipt of this coupon. Read it carefully before are all pearls in God's perfect ocean. you invest. Send no money. 0 Regular Account To: PAX WORLD FUND, INC. 0 Send IRA Packet Robin Austin 224 State Street 1-8Q0-767-1729 0 Simplified Employer Pension Plan Portsmouth, N.H. 03801 0 403 (b) Pension Plan (For further information about FLOC's ac­ Please send me a free prospectus and information on Pax World Fund. tivities or newsletter, write to Bruce Grimes, P.O. Box 222, Sumneytown PA 18084.) Name ------­ A~~" ------City, Zip ------Yokefellow Conference Occupation ------The 39th annual Yokefellow Conference Telephone No. 0 Day______o Evenin'\1------was held at Earlham College on March 27-28. FJ-6192 With more than 500 people in attendance,

32 June 1992 FRIENDS JoU RNAL FRIENDS UNITED MEETING the conference featured addresses by D. Elton SEEKS GENERAL SECREfARY Trueblood, and by U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield. to begin approximately January 1, 1993 The gathering brought together a broad ecu­ menical group heavily weighted with members The General Secretary is at the forefront of the spiritual life of the Religious Society of Friends. of FUM. The General Secretary is responsible for the overall The eagerly anticipated appearance of 91- administration of FUM central office staff and serves as a year-old D. Elton Trueblood began the gath­ vital link between constituent yearly meetings and FUM ering. He is the author of 36 books, spent central offices. many years as professor at Earlham, and has been called ''the dean of the church renewal movement" in the United States. He is presi­ An applicant should be an active member of the Society of dent of Yokefellows International and found­ Friends, have leadership and management abilities, be ed the Yokefellow movement, which takes its familiar with programmed and unprogrammed traditions and name from Christ's call to discipleship, be willing to travel. "Take my yoke upon you" (Matt. II :29). The movement encourages "commitment, Your application should include a resume, salary history, discipline, ministry, and fellowship" among three references and a one page description of your its members. Over the years, the Yokefellow involvement in the Society of Friends. movement has evolved into an ecumenical group with a strong Quaker core. Current­ Inquiries or application should be sent to: ly, James Newby, editor of Quaker Life, directs the work of the movement. Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Oreg.) gave a stir­ David Brock, Search Committee Clerk ring keynote address Friday evening. He is 4715 North Wheeling· Avenue senior Republican member of the Senate Ap­ Muncie, IN 47304 propriations Committee, a leading advocate of human rights, and a long-time critic of (317) 284-6900 U.S. arms sales. His talk focused upon the need for spiritual renewal throughout socie­ Application deadline: July 1, 1992 ty and for those in government service. "We are in a time in which we need to encourage one another," he said. Landrum Bolling, former president of Earl­ ham and the Lilly Endowment, was sched­ uled to appear on Saturday, but he was unex­ pectedly asked to travel to Moscow to encour­ age release of political prisoners in the for­ mer Soviet Union. Hal Owens, director of the Rising Sun Yokefellow Center, spoke in his place. "We are called to be servants," said Owens, "servants to one another, and to all whom we meet on the way." Newtown, PA 18940 Elton Trueblood concluded the conference with an address on the emergence of the Yokefellow's prison ministry. A pre-confer­ ence meeting of 26 ex-prisoners was held in conjunction with the Yokefellow Conference. Elton Trueblood said, "If you are a Chris­ tian, you are a minister. You can help others in ways no one else can. Many of us are sad, lonely, in hardship, and we need to face it together." As an unprogrammed Friend in the com­ pany of others from a span of religious tradi­ tions, this writer found the conference to be encouraging to view the spiritual witness among those who came together. Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, Qeorge School is a co­ educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9- 12. Larry Spears The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values & includes: • Courses on 41evels of difftculty • lntemadonal Baccalaureate (18) (Readers wishing information on the Yoke­ • Advanced Placement (AP) • lntemadonal workcamps fellow Movement may write to the Yokefel­ • EngUsh as a Second Language (ESL) • Required community service low Institute, 920 Earlham Drive, Richmond, • Foreign study • Required full-year courses in the a.rts IN 47374.) • 13 interscholasdc sports for boys a girls For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 2 15/ 968-3811

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Known among her news colleagues as the ''attack Quaker,'' cartoonist Signe Wilkinson of the Philadelphia Daily News won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Signe's cartoons have appeared in FRIENDS JOURNAL, nudging Quakers about such things as traditionalism and political correctness. In an acceptance speech made at the newspaper, she thanked some of her suppliers of material: Saddam Hussein, George Bush, Clarence Thomas, ... and "the divine" Ted Kennedy. She is the first woman to win jour­ I nalism's highest honor for editorial car­ toonists. She credited her Quaker upbring­ EARLHAM SCHOOL ing with her life-long assumption that she OF RELIGION could do anything she wanted to do. "Every­ A Quaker Seminary serving all Oiristian body is given some gift to use in life. I wish denominations all people had that sense that their gifts are Preparing Men & Women to Serve valuable, that you can work with them and Pastors • Chaplains • Teachers Campus Ministers • Church Adminisrators trust them." Her newspaper career started Peace & Justice Workers with reporting for the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pa. Later she became an edi­ Inquiries are welcome. Write or call: torial cartoonist at the San Jose Mercury News, and moved to the Philadelphia paper Earlham School of Religion Q1urktr Mi"istry. A" I" flitllliml to Trll1lSform'ltUm in 1985. She is a member of Willistown (Pa.) 228 College Avenue, Meeting. Richmond, fndiana 47374 1-800-432-1377 A shut-down of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant-cause for rejoicing among the many who have demonstrated there in past years and those who oppose nuclear weapons-will be followed by a massive clean-up o f the site. Then there will be an at­ tempt to restore the environment in the area. This news comes from the Rocky Mountain Peace Center in Boulder, Colorado, which planned to hold a massive demonstration in the event the plant had started weapons pro­ i Pendle Hill balances duction again there this past winter. solitude and community, Chief Seattle's famous speech about the en­ contemplation and action vironment is not authentic, according to the so gracefully that all January 1992 issue of Befriending Creation. who come can be Apparently, it was developed in 1970 by Ted refreshed. ~ Perry, for pay from the Southern Baptist Convention, to write a film script for a televi­ -Elise Boulding sion program on pollution. He drew on an adaptation of Chief Seattle's speech that was based on notes taken at the actua l speech in 1854. T he original speech makes up only about 25 percent of Ted Perry's finished PENDLE HILL manuscript. The original speech is far more A QUAKER CENTER FOR disturbing than the subsequent creation and STUDY AND CONTEMPLATION tells more of the hurt and mistreatment one might expect to be voiced by a Native Amer­ I ican at that time. Quakers a nd non-Quakers alike come to Pendle Hill for spiritual enrichment Increasing intervisitation among Friends is and study. The Pendle Hill community welcomes you whether for an Baltimore Yearly Meeting's response to the evening lecture, a short-term sojourn, a weekend conference, or a ten-week proposal to split Christians away from peo­ reside ntial term. For more information call or write: ple of other beliefs in Friends United Meet­ ing. The proposal for separation, made last Pendle Hill, Box F, 338 Plush Mill Road, year by Friends Church-Southwest Yearly Wallingford, PA 19086 • (215) 566-4507 Meeting, is known as the Minute on Realign­ New toll-free number 1-800-742-3150 ment. Baltimore Friends plan to send mem­ bers to annual sessions of other yearly meet-

34 June 1992 FRIENDS JOURNAL rehabilitation department. Other changes in the construction program included new labor, delivery, and recovery rooms and a neonatal intensive care unit in the maternity. suite.

The first Friends school west of the Pecos and east of the Grand Canyon will open in Albuquerque, N.M., in September 1992. The school will begin this year with kindergarten through grade three and add fourth and fifth grades in the next two years. The school will be grounded in Quaker principles and pro­ cedures. The curriculum will emphasize the natural setting of the region and a mix of peoples and cultures of the Southwest: Hispanic, Pueblo, Navajo, African Ameri­ can, Quaker, and others. For information, write to Albuquerque Friends School, 1600 5th St., N.W., Albuquerque, NM 87102- 1302, or call (505) 884-0054.

When Edward Hicks painted his Peaceable Kingdom series, he probably had no idea his U.S. E'NE".RSY fbuc..y images would eventually provide inspiration for bus stop art. Friends in Canberra, Australia, used his work and Fritz Eichen­ ings to communicate on the subject. For fur­ Above: burg's woodcut on the same theme in design­ ther details, contact Baltimore Yearly Meet­ One of Slgne ing their prize-winning entry in a local com­ ing Office, 17100 Quaker Lane, Sandy Wilkinson's petition. The shelter is shaped like a small, Spring, MD 20860. Pulitzer Prize. round hut, with round windows and a flat winning cartoons top. The mural shows a boy holding a big Elise Boulding and John Punshon visited and Right: Slgne, by Slgne rabbit, with a cheetah, kangaroo, butterflies, spoke at Guilford College on separate occa­ koala bears, lion, lamb, snake, and other sions in March. Elise was Distinguished animals under a tree-all in full color. Quaker Visitor for 1992, spending several Twenty-five people helped paint it. The prize days on campus. During that time, she met was $300 worth of bus service, which with student groups and presented lectures Canberra Friends used to attend yearly about occupations in peace studies, econom­ meeting. ics, Soviet studies, the Middle East, and relief work. She has written and co-authored nu­ is held every First Day at 10 a.m. in the A peace pole-a hand-made, hand-painted merous books related to world conflict, Wesley Center at North 32nd Street on the post with a peace message in several lan­ peace studies, and women in society. University of Southern Mississippi campus. guages-was presented to the American John Punshon came to Guilford to ad­ The acting clerk is Timothy Lillie, 26988 Friends Service Committee on April 20. It dress the North Carolina Yearly Meeting Mcinnis Loop, Hattiesburg, MS 39402, now stands in the courtyard at Friends Cen­ Ministers Association. His talk was " Quaker telephone (601) 261 -11 50 or 266-5236. ter in Philadelphia, Pa. An anonymous donor Identity and Current Challenges of Friends.'' presented the peace pole to the AFSC for its He reflected on Friends' experiential and The new executive director of Evangelical work toward peace. The Peace Pole Project scriptural roots and the reputation given Friends Mission will be Norval Hadley. On was started in Japan by the Society of Prayer Friends by the world. He said Quakers are July I he will replace the retiring James Mor­ for World Peace, a non-profit, non-denomi­ now led to find leaders who will challenge ris, who served in that role for 12 years. national organization. The project was and empower us to serve effectively in a Norval Hadley has worked in World Vision launched to uplift international harmony, world of widespread dehumanization. Organization for 28 years, most recently in rather than conflict, by keeping thoughts of U.S. ministry and prayer ministry. He is ac­ peace ever-present in people's minds. So far, There is now an unprogrammed Friends wor­ tive in Evangelical Friends International and people have dedicated more than 65,000 ship group in Mississippi. The group in Hat­ has been pastor and general superintendent peace poles in 84 countries, on every conti­ tiesburg started meeting in September 1991 of Northwest Yearly Meeting. nent. The poles stand six feet tall when plant­ with two people and increased to six by No­ ed and are inscribed on fo ur sides with the vember. After putting out the word about A new hospital at the campus of Jeanes message, " May peace prevail on Earth." The the worship group through Friends organiza­ Health System is part of a $42 million pro­ message is available in 32 languages, in­ tions, one inquiry was received from a gram of construction and renovation. Jeanes cluding American Sign Language. The poles woman 90 miles away. Prior to this, Missis­ is located in Jenkintown, Pa., and is the on­ are made by the Peace Pole Makers USA in sippi was the only state without an organ­ ly acute care general hospital in the United the woods of northern Michigan. Informa­ ized Friends group of any persuasion. The States under the guidance of Quakers. The tion is available from The Peace Pole Proj­ new worship group welcomes travelers and hospital has five floors, including a state-of­ ect, 3239 Sacramento St., San Francisco, CA visitors to their meeting for worship, which the-art laboratory and fully equipped 94115 , telephone (415) 563-0708.

FRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 35 DELAWARE VALLEY FRIENDS SCHOOL Bulletin Board a secondary school for students with unique learning needs. • "A Better State of Things," words drawn increasing need for nonviolent problem-solv­ The full college preparatory curriculum has in­ from th·e work of Lucretia Mott, will be the ing in human rights, ecological development, tellectually challeng'ing courses supported by theme of the 1992 annual conference of and education. Donations have fallen off in explicit teaching of organizational skills. Friends Association for Higher Education. recent months, and organizers speculate it is Teacher student ratio is 1 to 5. Fine arts as well It will be held at Bryn Mawr College on June because there is a myth that peace has come as outdoor education are integral to the program. 19-23. Margaret Hope Bacon, Quaker writer to Central America. Subscriptions to the and historian, will be the keynote speaker. center's newsletter are $10 a year. For infor­ For information call: (215) 526-9595 Workshop topics will include such things as mation or to make a donation, write to CAP, On the campus of Harcum Junior College conflicts in Quaker higher education, Quaker Apartado 1507-1000, San Jose, Costa Rica, in Bryn Mawr, Pa. origins of the capitalist spirit, Friends and Central America. Irene McHenry, Head Taoism, religious roots of activism, a look back at Civilian Public Service, and war tax • Do you give care to others in your family, resistance. Cost is up to $210 for individuals, meeting, work place, neighborhood, com­ Bringing Frieirds' Concerns depending on the package chosen for meals, munity, world? Would you like to explore for Peace & Justice to Congress Since 1943 housing, and sessions. Family rates are avail­ the dimensions of this service as a Friend? Wnle. or call (2021547·4343 able. To register, contact the Office of Con­ Three extended weekends will be offered in tor ac11on sugges110fl tape ferences and Events, Campus Center, Bryn 1992-1993 by the School of the Spirit. The Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, tele­ weekends will take place at Pendle Hill in phone (215) 526-5058. Wallingford, Pennsylvania. The course is en­ titled "Called to the Ministry of Caregiving • FRIENDS JOURNAL would like to receive and Oversight." Dates are Sept. 3-8; Jan.

0 your meeting's newsletter. We find this to 14-18, 1993; and May 28-31, 1993. Leaders be one of the best ways to keep in touch-in will be Sandra Cronk, Kathryn Damiano, Vir­ addition to Friends who call and visit us. We ginia Schurman, Jane Brown, David Martin, regularly scan the newsletters for news, Dorian Bales, and others. Planners have a names, humor, insights, people who have in­ strong commitment to make this series afford­ teresting ideas, good writing, and anything able to all, and so encourage those interested • m~a~~ C~J'ClFlcaces else that tells us how the Spirit percolates in to call and discuss costs. For more informa­ o awa120s •lt2SCJZ1pctons o all parts of the country. We sometimes even tion, contact Kathryn Damiano, School of • t;112ct2 announcemencs • find correspondents we can turn to for book the Spirit, 450 Bancroft Road, Moylan, PA be5t0125 • reviews and inside tips. Would you be inter­ 19065, telephone (215) 891-6796. • '41200C1n

36 June 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL environmental degradation by changing per­ sonallifestyles. It offers practical suggestions to help people move toward cooperatives, community banks, etc. For information, write to Quaker Peace and Service, Friends House, Euston Road, London NWI 2BJ, England.

• Thousands of peace-oriented textbook covers are being distributed to middle and • Scattergood Friends School is a co-educational, college high school students by the Peace Is Possi­ preparatory, boarding and day high school for 50 students ble Bookcover Project. For information, write to the project at 173 North Prospect St., Burlington, VT 05401. • Excellent success in placing graduates in colleges and universities • The universal declaration on Nonviolence, • 4 :1 student to faculty ratio developed by a Catholic monastic organiza­ • Small classes and attention to the needs and interests of individuals tion and the Dalai Lama, is available from • Extensive outdoor and farm experiences Katherine Howard, OSB, St. Benedict's Convent, 104 Chapel Lane, St. Joseph, MN • Caring and supportive community life 56374-0277. • Emphasis upon cooperation rather than competition • Affordable tuition with extensive financial assistance • Witness for Peace is looking for volunteers who will accompany Guatemalans from their refugee camps in Mexico back to their regions in Guatemala. For information, write For additional information, or to arrange a visit, to WFP, 1105 Sapling Place, Raleigh, NC call or write, Director ofAdmissions , Scattergood Friends School, 27615, telephone (919) 856-9468. Route 1, Box 32, West Branch, lA 52358 (319) 643-7600 • Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC) is promoting the "Freedom Bracelet" as a means of expressing solidarity with political prisoners of the apartheid regime in South Africa. Each bracelet is engraved with the name of a political prisoner. Proceeds are used for small grants to groups working non­ violently for freedom, justice, and peace in Southern Africa. For information, contact CALC, Third World Caucus, Box 1987, Decatur, GA 30031 , telephone (404) 377- 1983.

• The Hands Project is an ongoing pro-peace art project that has the goal of collecting more than 100,000 individual handprints on orange postcards to send to the United Nations in recognition of those who were killed by U.S. bombs and their after-effects in the Persian Gulf War. The project is sponsored by Safety Orange, a loosely organized group of artists, The Women's Bible Commentary teachers, and media workers producing a Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe, Editors peaceful protest against war and militarism. 1bis ground-breaking work of 41 outstanding For information, write to Safety Orange, Box 9023, Madison, WI 53715-0023. scholars considers each book of the Bible and shows how women's perspectives affect the • Partners for Peace in the Middle East is a clearinghouse to coordinate and promote interpretation of biblical texts. " ... a landmark effective action on a national and local level in interpretation." -Walter Brueggemann and to amplify the voices for peace all over Hard $19.95 the United States. The group seeks coordina­ tors for every state to assemble committees At your bookstore, or call toll &ee 1-800-227-2872 representing all the organizations working for Middle East peace in their area. For in­ formation, write to Nonviolence Interna­ WESTMINSTER/JOHN KNOX PRESS 100 Witherspoon Louisville, 40202-1396 tional, P.O. Box 39127, Wash., DC 20016, Street, KY telephone (202) 745-0701.

FRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 37 • "Live simply so that others may simply • Information about the late George L. live" will be the theme of the Young Adult ("Shorty") Collins (1892-1991) is requested Friends of North America 1992 summer gath­ by his biographer, Colleen R. Watson, 146 ering, to be held in McNabb, Ill., July 5-12. Rodonovan Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051 , The group encompasses Friends from a vari­ telephone (408) 243-0485. Shorty Collins was ety of traditions. The gathering includes a birthright Friend whose family joined the workshops, worship, Bible study, meeting for Baptist Church when they moved to Califor­ worship with a concern for business, music, nia when they found no Friends meeting in and play. It is an experiment in Quaker liv­ the area. He became an ordained Baptist ing with emphasis on community, learning • Listings of counter-Quincentenary events minister, working as campus pastor at the about Friends, deepening faith, and nurtur­ are available in Quintessence, a monthly University of California, Berkeley; Colorado ing spiritual gifts. Cost: $135, with scholar­ calendar and directory of things t_o partici­ School of Mines; University of Wisconsin; ship help available. For information, contact pate in. For a copy, contact Paul Eagle, 152 and San Jose State University. He was also Francis Elling, 2514 Montana, Lawrence, KS Summer St., Medford, MA 02155, telephone a member and leader in the Fellowship of 66046, telephone (913) 749-0642. (617) 395-9934. Reconciliation.

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JUNE ico. Cost: $225. Deadline for registration: May 30. a Junior Gathering for younger Friends, a separate program for high school Friends, field trips, a store May 29-June 1-Northern Yearly Meeting, at For information, contact Cynthia B. Taylor, Apt. fu ll of books and Quaker handicrafts, centers for Camp Lucerne, Qautoma, Wis. Contact Laura F-1, 1208 Candelaria Rd., N.W., Albuquerque, NM singles, men, women, and those interested in Uni­ Fraser, 3078 Lake Elmo Ave. N., Lake Elmo, MN 87 107, telephone (505) 344-7871. ty with Nature concerns. Dormitory housing and 55042, telephone (612) 777-4948. 18-21-Lake Erie Yearly Meeting, at Olney Friends camping available, with or without meals. Cost for School, Barnesville, Ohio. Contact Martha Grundy, 1-12-Earth Summit of the United Nations Confer­ individuals: up to $340, with lower prices available 2602 Exeter Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118, ence on Environment and Development (UNCED), for youngsters and family arrangements. Late fee telephone (216) 923-2144. in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Conference will gather of $40 for registrations after May 26. Contact FGC, heads of state to plan strategies to halt degrada· 19-23-Friends Association for Higher Education 1216 Arch St., No. 2B, Phila., PA 19107, telephone tion of the environment and strengthen national and annual conference, at Bryn Mawr College. Theme: (215) 561-1700. international efforts to promote environmentally " A Better State of Things . . . " See brief in Bulletin sound development world-wide. Board. JULY 6-7-Switzerland Yearly Meeting, at Hotel Righi 20-26-Nonviolence training program, to take place 2-14-Quaker United Nations Summer School, Vaudois, Glion sur Montreux, Switzerland. near Toronto, Ontario, Canada, sponsored by held annually for young people 20-25 years of age, Peace Brigades International for its volunteers for in Geneva, Switzerland. Features introduction to 10-13- lntermountain Yearly Meeting, at Ft. Lewis peace teams in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Sri the work of the UN, visits to specialized agencies, College, Durango, Colo. Contact Martin Cobin, Lanka. Session is split into orientation and train­ films, discussions, and outings. For details on future 1720 Linden Ave., Boulder, CO 80304, telephone events, write to the Personnel Department (QUNSS), (303) 442-5047. ing. Cost of the orientation is $50; cost of the en­ tire package is $150. For information, contact Peace Friends House, Euston Road, London NWI 2BJ. 10-14-Rocky Mountain Yearly Meeting, at Quak­ Brigades International, 333 Valencia St., Suite 330, 5- 12-"Live simply so that others may simply er Ridge Camp, Woodland Park, Colo. Contact San Francisco, CA 94103, telephone (415) 864-7242. live, " the Young Adult Friends of North America's Stanley Perisho, 3350 Reed St., Wheat Ridge, CO 21-24-Seminar for high school students at William 1992 summer gathering, to be held in McNabb, 80033, telephone (303) 238-5200. Penn House, Wash., D.C., on the global environ­ Ill. See brief in Bulletin Board. 12- 14-"Spirituality for Quakers of Catholic De­ mental crisis. Sponsored by Lake Erie Yearly 8-12-Alaska Yearly Meeting, at Kotzebue, scent," led by Phil Mullen, and Mary Rose Meeting. Briefings and meetings with policy makers, Alaska. Contact Robert Sheldon, Box 687, O'Reilley. To be held at Pendle Hill, Wallingford, advocates, and activists, plus opportunities to tour Kotzebue, AK 99752, telephone (907) 442-3906. Pa. Cost: $135. Enrollment limited to 30. Contact the local area. Cost: $225, with possibility of schol­ Extension Office, Pendle Hill, Wallingford, PA arship help. For information, contact Tom Rodd, 6-11-Nurturing Children and Our Spiritual 19086, telephone (215) 566-4507. 264 High St., Morgantown, WV 26505, telephone Journey: A Family Week with Harriet Heath and (304) 296-8611. John Scardina, at Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pa. 12-14-"Let Spirit Sing," a workshop at Woolman Cost: $300. Contact Extension Office, Pendle Hill, Hill, Deerfield, Mass. Explores how singing can 24-27-Southwest Yearly Meeting, at Rose Drive Wallingford, PA 19086, telephone (215) 566-4507. enrich spiritual life and strengthen faith. Led by Friends Church, Yorba Linda, Calif. Contact Sarah Pirtle. Also included is a children's meeting, Charles Mylander, P .O. Box 1607, Whittier, CA 6-12-Multicultural youth work camp celebrating led by the Erickson family of Monadnock (N.H.) 90609, telephone (213) 947-2883. the American Friends Service Committee's work Meeting. Cost: $70. For information, call (413) with Native Americans and the AFSC's 75th an­ 26-28-Friends Gathering in Christ, at Sandy 774-3431. niversary. To be held on an Indian reservation in Spring Friends School, Sandy Springs, Md. Regis­ Montana. Contact Jonas Davis or Joe Kalama, 12- 16-Third International Conference in Holistic tration deadline was May 15 . For more informa­ telephone (206) 632-0500. Education, at Lake Eufala, Okla. Theme: "Educat­ tion, call Virginia Schurman, (410) 327-2357. ing in a Multicultural World." Goal is to create a 7-10-Western Gathering of Friends, at Lewis and 26-28-Conference of Quaker Historians and Ar­ network of communities implementing multicultural Clark College, Portland, Oreg. Includes Friends chivists, at Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio. holistic education. Sponsored by Global Alliance from these yearly meetings: Canadian, Intermoun­ Contact Ina Kelly, (513) 382-6661, ext. 207. for Transforming Education, telephone (404) tain, North Pacific, Northwest, Pacific, South­ 458-5678 . 26-28-Norway Yearly Meeting in Oslo. Contact west, and Rocky Mountain. Keynote speaker: Vennenes Samfunn Kvekerne, Meltzersgt. I, No. Douglas Gwyn, author and pastor of Berkeley 14-21-Joint service project on Native American 0257 Oslo 2, Norway. (Calif.) Friends Church. For information, contact rights and Hispanic community development, co­ Ann Stever, 715 37th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122, sponsored by Intermountain Yearly Meeting and the 27-July 4-I 992 Gathering of Friends General Con­ telephone (206) 322-8492. American Friends Service Committee. Friends will ference at St. Lawrence University, Canton, New tour southwest Colorado and northern New Mex- York. Speakers, workshops, interest groups, music,

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George Newkirk, Correspondent, 4910 Northeast 16th dation. He and his wife, Charlotte, moved to Ken­ Street, Ocala, FL 32671 . (904) 236-2839. dal at Longwood in 1986, where he became a mem­ Taylor-Betty Taylor, 75, on Jan. 15 , at a Friends Beacon Hill Friends House is a Quaker-sponsored ber of the meeting. He was a member of the retirement home in Dublin, Ireland, after an illness residence of 21 interested in community living, spiritual American Chemical Society and the American of some months' duration. Her given name was growth, peace, and social concerns. All faiths welcome. Association of University Professors, a Fellow of Kathleen Ruth. She was a member of Church town Most openings June, September. Please apply early. For information, application: BHFH, 6 Chestnut Street. Boston, the American Association for the Advancement Friends Meeting in Dublin. In 1965 she went to MA 02108. (617) 227-9118. work for Herbert Hadley in the Philadelphia, Pa., of Science, and the 1962 chairman of the American Tidioute Friendly Eagle B&B. Peaceful oil rush town, N.W. Conference of Academic Deans. His wife preced­ office of Friends World Committee for Consulta­ Pa., Allegheny River, forests, chamber music; children ed him in death in 1990. He is survived by a son, tion, in preparation for the 1967 Friends World welcome. Box 222 Tidioute, PA 16351. (814) 484-7130. William E. Cadbury, 111; a daughter, Sarah Cad­ Conference. Afterward she worked as Raymond Ann Arbor Friends Meeting has a guest room available bury Giddings; a sister, Eleanor Cadbury; and Wilson's secretary at Friends Committee on Na­ in Friends Center, $15 a night, 3-night limit, reservations three grandchildren. tional Legislation. In October 1969, she became needed. (313) 761-7435. Joughin-Louis Joughin, 85, on Oct. 15, 1991, at Rowland Leonard's secretary at Philadelphia Year­ Hawaii-Island of Kaual. Cozy housekeeping cottages. ly Meeting, and, after his retirement, she worked Peace, palms, privacy. $75/2 nightly. 147 Royal Drive, his home in The Woodlands, Texas. Born in Mon­ Kapaa, HI 96746. (808) 822·2321. treal, Canada, he grew up in New York City and for Dick Bansen. Twelve years later, she retired and returned to Ireland. One of her special pleas­ The Berkshlres, Maasachusetts. Baldwin Hill Farm Bed received a doctorate in comparative literature from & Breakfast. Box 125, RD3, Great Barrington, Mass. 01230, Harvard in 1932. For the next 12 years he taught ures was travel. The most exotic of her journeys (413) 528-4092. A Friends Victorian farm homestead of 450 at the University of Texas (Austin), Sarah was to India in 1969, when she visited her son, who acres on a Berkshire mountaintop. Spectacular views all Lawrence College, the City University of New was working as an engineer, building a Friends around with warm hospitality and full country breakfasts. school in Sohagpur, Madha Pradesh. She was es­ Close to golf, skiing, concerts, drama, museums, shops, York, and Columbia University. During these trails, and restaurants. Open all year. Pool, hiking, maps years, his interest evolved in social history, focus­ pecially gifted in making friends, in loving people, and they were always welcome at her hearth. After and menus. ing on civil liberties and academic freedom. He NYC-Greenwich Village Bed & Braakfast. Walk to 15th was active in the Texas Civil Rights Fund and in she returned to Ireland, her correspondence with Street Meeting. 1-4 people; children welcome. (Two cats the 1950s was a staff member of the American people whom she knew in the United States was in house.) Reservations: (212) 924-6520. Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C., where voluminous. She is survived by her son, Michael Cambridge, England. B&B, historic old rectory. Ensuite he later went to work for the American Associa­ Taylor, and his wife, Iris; and two grandsons. rooms. Peaceful surroundings. Easy access. Also long stay tion of University Professors, retiring in 1972 as Trickey-Ruth Cawthon Trickey, 75, on Nov. 12, accommodation. (44) 223-861507; fax: (44) 223-441276. associate secretary. He then led seminars on civil 1991, in Whittier, Cali f. She married Bev Trickey Quaker House, Chicago. Short- and long-term, inexpen­ sive accommodations available in historical Friends liberties, history, and the law, and spoke world­ on June 18, 1937. During World War 11 they worked meetinghouse in Hyde Park. Meal options also available. wide. His writings were published in numerous for Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach, Calif. She For reservations, call (312) 288-3066. books, articles, and reviews. He became involved worked on the Campus Afloat program at Chap­ A homely base In the heart of London? Short-, medium-, in Quaker activities in the late 1950s, joining man College from 1966 until her retirement in and long-term accommodation available with excellent Friends Meeting of Washington, D.C., and later 1978. Throughout her life, she volunteered time whole-food meals. Also meeting rooms tor workshops, lec­ transferring his membership to Bethesda (Md.) and energy to many community organizations, and tures, and conferences. Contact: Quaker International Cen­ Meeting, where he served on numerous commit­ was a founding member of several local organiza­ tre, 1 Byng Place, London WC1E 7JH; Tel: 071-387 5648. tees. During that time he served on the American tions. She worked with the League of Women Vot­ Simple low-cost lodging for individuals and groups. Seminar planning available. Quaker center on Capitol Hill. Friends Service Committee Corporation and on ers, Girl Scouts of America, All Nations Festival, William Penn House, 515 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, the AFSC's Middle Atlantic Region Executive the United Nations Association, and the Interfaith DC 20003. (202) 543-5560. Committee. He moved to The Woodlands in 1988. Peace Ministry. She and her husband attended London? Stay at the Penn Club, Bedford Place, London He is survived by his wife, the former Jean Orange County (Calif.) Meeting for many years. WC1 B SJH. Friendly atmosphere. Central for Friends Templin; their daughter, Celia K. Joughin/ She became a member in the 1980s and was clerk House, West End, concerts, theater, British Museum, Thompson; three children from an earlier marriage of its Peace and Social Concerns Committee. She university, and excursions. Telephone: 071-636-4718. (to the late Beatrice White): Beatrice Maude and her husband traveled often, visiting people in Washington, D.C., sojourners welcome in Friends' home Britain, Yugoslavia, New Zealand, Australia, and in pleasant suburb nearby. By day, week, or month. For Garcia, Lucia Deaville, and William Joughin; 12 details call: (301) 270-5258. grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. elsewhere, and sharing their adventures with others Looking for a creative living alternative in New York City? Polson-Jean Alyce Polson, 44, on Dec. 31, 1991. when they returned. She is remembered for her en­ Penington Friends House may be the place for you! We are She was a birthright member of Stony Run (Md.) during sense of humor, her courage and high looking for people of all ages who want to make a serious Meeting. She attended Friends School in Baltimore, ideals, her love of home and family, her sense of commitment to a community lifestyle based on Quaker prin­ and George School. She received her B.S. degree adventure, her intelligence and awareness of world ciples. For information call (212) 673-1730. We also have overnight accommodations. in speech pathology from Bloomsburg State Col­ events, her great interest in people, and the lov­ ing commitment she and her husband shared in Mexico City Friends Center. Reasonable accommoda­ lege, taught in Lancaster County (Pa.) schools, and tions. Reservations recommended. Casa de los Amigos, moved in 1972 to Virginia Beach, Va., to pursue their marriage, which lasted more than 50 years. Ignacio Mariscal 132, 06030 Mexico D.F. 705-0521. She is survived by her husband, Bev Trickey, and interests in psychic/spiritual questions and the Case Hebarto Seln Friends Center. Reasonable accom­ Edgar Cayce readings. In 1977, she married 20 nieces and nephews. modations. Reservations. Asociacion Sonorense de los

40 June /992 FRIENDS JOURNAL Amigos, Felipe Salido 32, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Positions Vacant December 1992. Welcome house sitting or exhange. Verne Friends Meeting, Sundays 11 a .m. Phone: (011-52-621) Bechill, 185 Pineview Dr., Alma, Ml48801. (517) 463-4539. 7-Q1-42. Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors seeks Youth Outreach Program Director. CCCO provides counse~ Rentals & Retreats Books and Publications ing and legal help for people facing the draft and people who need discharge from the military, either as conscien­ For rent: three bedroom furnished period dwelling, Book about Jesus by Jewish layman who explains 436 tious objectors or for other reasons. Director position is for newly refurbished, wnhin the grounds of Cork Friends Meet­ reasons why his ancestors rejected Jesus. $2.95 for 96- a new program targeting people of color, women, and work­ ing, Republic of Ireland. Minimum 6 mo. lease. IR £400/mo. page abridged or $19.95 for full 320-page volume: Jesus ing class youth. Qualifications include willingness to travel Contact: Barclay P. Clibborn, Milboro, Orchard Road, Cork, Mishegahs by Yoesh Gloger. Add $1 for postage or ask your and ability to make public presentations. Military experience Rep. of Ireland. Tel.: STD Code + 021-541768. a plus. Military or draft counseling experience useful, but bookstore to order from Gloger Family Books, 630G Em­ Large house located V• mile from city limits of small pire Blvd., Brooklyn, NY 11213 not required. Experience with Apple Macintosh desirable. Salary is $21 ,000/year with health benefits and vacation. Georgia town. Beautiful scenic view, privacy. Call: (706) Full job description available upon request. Contact: Terry 468-8978. George Fox's volume Works (1831 edition) are back L. Kessel, 2208 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146. (215) Adirondacks. Housekeeping cabins on quiet, unspoiled in print-at a g reat price. New introductions by Douglas 545-4626. lake. Fireplaces, fully equipped; June through September. Gwyn and others. Library bound, acid-free paper. Priced (609) 654-3659; or write Dreby, Cranberry Lake, NY 12927. at $167.50 for 8 volumes. Sets may be ordered with $40 FGC Gathering position open: Assistant Conference Bald Head Island, N.C. Lovely panoramic view of ocean, deposit with balance due upon safe arrival. This set Coordinator. Full-time, year round position with Friends dunes, lagoon and golf course from 4 bdrm, 2 bathroom, would be a wonderful, lasting gift for your favorite meet­ General Conference starting in September 1992, assisting comfortably furnished house with wrap-around deck. 14 ing library. Prospectus available. Orders: George Fox with registration and other logistics for the annual Gather­ miles of beach, championship golf, tennis, croquet, swim­ Fund, Inc., c/o Dan Davenport, P.O. Box 15142, ing of Friends. For job description and application, please ming and· fishing. 13,000 acres of maritime wilderness. Portland, OR 97215. contact Marty Walton, FGC, 1216 Arch Street 2B, Philadadelphia, PA 19107. Application deadline is July 31 . Many birds and wildflowers. No cars on island. Peaceful, friendly. Activities for children. Rental by day or week. (215) Goshen School seeks Head starting summer 1993. The Realignment pre-school through grade 5, 185 enrollment, is under the 699-9186. Nine Views Among Friends care of Goshen Monthly Meeting. Applicants should have Celo, N.C. Spacious vacation bungalow. Enjoy nearby Now In Print: Texts ot the Autumn 1991 Pendle Hill a firm grounding in Quaker tenets, experience in teaching, river, mountain hiking, peaceful and beautiful setting; 'h Evening Lecture series. These well-attended lectures administration. Send letters of application or nomination to: mile from Friends Meeting. $50/night for two. $10 each ad­ probed a question central to the life of Quakerism in the Search Committee, Goshen Friends School, 814 N. Chester ditional person. Call Nan Fawcett: (704) 251-5826. '90s. Contributors included Stephen Main, Elizabeth Road, West Chester, PA 19380. Gorgeous ocean view, private tidewater beach, 40 acres Watson, William Taber, Dan Seeger, and others. The Pendle Hill Maintenance. Needed: solid skills in plumb­ woods and blueberries. Cozily furnished, three bedroom messages shared in this searching series of dialogues ing, carpentry, electronics or mechanics, and lively interest house; $450/week, two week minimum. Separate cabin and are now available in one volume. A valuable resource bunkhouse, primitive accommodations for three to five; for discussion groups and individual study. Send $10.00 in using them in a Quaker education community. Modest salary. Generous benefits, including housing and full board. $125/week, two week minimum. Convenient to Bath, Booth­ plus $2.00 postage to Pendle Hill Bookstore, Box J, Wall­ bay, and Freeport, Maine. E. Muench, (617) 862-2839. ingford, PA 19086. Phone orders (215) 566-4514. Apply to: Denny O'Brien, Pendle Hill, Wallingford, PA 19086. (215) 566-4507. New Hampshire: farmhouse, two bedrooms plus, furnished, Pima Monthly Meeting (931 N. Fifth Ave., Tucson, AZ. quiet location, hiking, swimming, canoeing, near North Con­ Books-Quaker spiritual classics, h1story, b1ography, and 85705) seeks Friend-in-Residence couple/individual by way shops and restaurants. $200/week. Do nald Smith, 115 current Quaker experience, published by Friends United autumn. Apartment and utilities offered. Resume and let­ William St., East Williston, NY 11596. (516) 742-3699. Press, 101-A Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, IN 47374. Write ter of interest to Search Committee by September 1. for free catalogue. Southwest France. Restored fifteenth century manor Walton Retirement Home, a ministry of the Ohio Yearly house in hamlet near Bergerac in beautiful Dordogne. Ping­ Meeting (Conservative) seeks a retired, live-in nurse, R.N., pong, t.v. , and bikes. Castles, prehistoric caves nearby. For Sale or LPN. Room and board and a small stipend will be pro­ Sleeps six. Spring through Fall, $1,000/month. July-August vided. Please contact: Nirmal Kaul, Manager, Walton $500/week. Winter (no central heat) $200/month. Call Jean Who are Quakers? Lively, Informa­ Retirement Home, 61675 Roosevelt Road, Barnesville, OH Grant: (414) 748-2690. :\KIJ~ tive, for outreach and education. 43713. Phone: (614) 425-2635. Vermont. Comfortable housekeeping cabins in Mt. Holly Ot New videol 27 min., VHS, by Claire Assistant Director for Quaker intentional community in near Appalachian Trail. Simple, secluded, swimming, VIDEO Simon. $26.50 plus $3.00 postage. Chicago. Responsibilities include managing guest room boating. Diane Webb, 55 Spring Park Ave., Jamaica Plain, Quaker Video, P .O. Box 292, operations, supervising food budget, preparing meals, and MA 02130. (617) 552-2088. Maplewood, NJ 07040. assisting directors. Some cooking experience necessary. Room, board, stipend. Ideal for graduating college student. Beautiful small farm overlooking China Lake in central For job description or information, write or call: Program Retirement Uvlng Maine near Quaker country. An hour to Camden, Portland, Directors, Quaker House, 5615 So. Woodlawn Ave., Bangor, Bar Harbor, Brunswick, and Sugarloaf ski area. Chicago, IL 60637. (312) 288-3066. Foxdale Village, a Quaker life-care community. Fully improved 1840 Cape, 3-plus bedrooms, solar sun American Friends Service Committee seeks regional ex­ Thoughtfully designed cottages complemented by attrac­ space, and attached garage. For sale, or lease with option ecutive secretary for New England region, based in Cam­ tive dining facilities, auditorium, library, and full medical pro­ to purchase. A second residence possible. $180,000. If in­ bridge, Mass. Responsible for overall administration, pro­ tection. Setting is a wonderful combination of rural and terested, call: (207) 445-4477. gram operation, personnel and budget administration, university environment. Entry fees from $38,()()()..$105,000, public interpretation of AFSC activity. Requires: campatibil~ monthly fees from $1,045-$1,925. 500 East Marylyn ty with principles, philosophy of Friends and AFSC; per­ Avenue, Department F, State College, PA 16801 . Higher Education sonal commitment to nonviolence and promoting affirmative Telephone: (800) 253-4951 . Education for a small planet-B.A. degree by living what action; demonstrated experience providing staff support The Hamed. Lovely old house and carriage house on quiet, you learn in U.S., Costa Rica, England, Israel, Kenya, India, and supervision; administrative experience including finan­ residential, tree-lined street south of Media, Pa. Meals China, Japan. Language, homestays, field internships. cial management, budgeting; strong communications skills; served in main house. Short walk to train . Eleven units. 505 Semester and academic year. Friends World Program, Box familiarity with social change, religious, advocacy, com­ Glenwood Avenue, Moylan , PA 19065. (215) 566-4624. 0, LIU-Southampton, Southampton, NY 11968. Tel: (516) munity, and Friends groups. Contact: Search Committee, 283-4000. AFSC, 2161 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140, by June 15. AFSC is an affirmative action employer. Opportunities Mature, hospitable Friend sought for 1-2 year term as Schools Resident for Santa Fe Friends Meeting beginning mid­ United Friends School: coed; K-6; emphasizing integrated, Consider a Costa Rican study tour. February 4-15, 1993. September 1992. For information packet please send let­ developmentally appropriate curriculum, including whole Call or write Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey, 1182 Hornbeam ter of interest to Search Committee, 630 Canyon Road, language and manipulative math; serving upper Bucks Road, Sabina, OH 45169. Phone: (513) 584-2900. Santa Fe, NM 87501 . (505) 983-7241. County. 20 South 10th Street, Quakertown, PA 18951 . (215) Minister: Active meeting in rural Maine seeks Friends 538-1733. minister with gifts in children and youth ministry, preaching, Personals John Woolman School. Rural California, 9th-12th grades. visitation, and church growth. Send resume to: Durham Preparation for college and adulthood, small classes, car­ Single Booklovers gets cultured, single, widowed, or Friends Meeting, c/o Carol Marshburn, 17 Bates St., Yar­ ing staff, work program, service projects. Board, day. 12585 divorced persons acquainted. Nationwide, run by Friends. mouth, ME 04096. Jones Bar Road, Nevada City, CA 95959. (916) 273-3183. Established 1970. Write Box 117, Gradyville, PA 19039, or Quaker Intentional Community seeks two new members call (215) 358-5049. The Meeting School celebrates the transition from youth for two-year terms, beginning this summer. Shared living to adulthood by encouraging students to make decisions Classical Music Lovers' Exchange-Nationwide link be­ and meal arrangements in historical Friends meetinghouse in their own lives in a Friends (Quaker) boarding high school tween unattached music lovers. 1 (800) 233-CMLS, Box 31 , in Chicago. Ideal for Friends new to Chicago. For informa­ Pelham, NY 10803. in southern New Hampshire. We emphasize experiential tion, write or call: Program Directors, Quaker House, 5615 education, striving for innovative and challenging aca­ So. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60637. (312) 288-3066. demics while working with consensus and equality regard­ Concerned Singles Newsletter links compatible singles less of age. Teenagers live on campus in faculty homes. who care about peace, social justice, and the environ­ The school is based on simplicity, honesty, the peaceful ment. National and international membership. All ages. Rentals or Hospitality Needed resolution of conflict, the dignity of physical labor, mutual Since 1984. Free sample: Box 555-F, Stockbridge, MA trust and respect, and care for the earth. Admissions: The 01262. Quaker professor and wife looking for temporary hous­ ing in Oakland, California area, late August through mid- Meeting School, Rindge, NH 03461 . (603) 899-3366.

FRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 41 Stratford Friends School provides a warm, supportive, TUCSON-Pima Frients Meeting (unprogrammed). 10 a.m. ungraded setting for children ages 5 to 13 who learn dif­ 931 N. 5th Ave. Information: 884-5155 or 327-8973. . ferently. Small classes and an enriched curriculum answer the needs of the whole child. An at-risk program for 5-year­ A partial listing olds is available. Information: Stratford Friends School, 5 Arkansas llandillo Road, Havertown, PA 19083. (~15) 446-3144. of Friends meetings LITTLE ROCK-Unprogrammed meeting, First-day school A value-centered school for learning disabled elementary In the United States and adult discussion at 9:45 a.m., worship at 11 a.m. at students. Small, remedial classes; qualified staff serving Quapaw Quarter Methodist Church, 1601 S. Louisiana. Philadelphia and northern suburbs. The Quaker School at and abroad. Phone (501) 224-5267. Horsham, 318 Meeting House Road, Horsham, PA 19044. MEETING NOTICE RATES: $12 per line per year. (215) 674-2875. Payable a year in adv11nce. No discount. Changes: $8 each. CaiHornla Services Offered ARCATA-11 a.m. 1920 Zehndner. (707) 677-0461. Electrical Contractor. Residential and commercial installa­ BERKELEY-Unprogrammed meeting. Worship 11 a.m., tion and repairs. (Phila., Pa., suburbs.) Call Paul Teitman: CANADA 2151 Vine St. at Walnut. 843-9725. (215) 663-0279. BERKELEY-Strawberry Creek, 1600 Sacramento. P.O. EDMONTON-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. First Day. Box 5065. Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. Loans are available for building or improving Friends For location and other information, contact David Millar meetinghouses, schools, and related facilities. We are (403) 988-9335. CHIC0-10 a.m. singing; 10:30 unprogrammed worship, Friends helping Friends to grow! For information contact children's class. 2603 Mariposa Ave. 345-3429. HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA-469-8985 or 477-3690. Katheryn E. Williams, Friends Extension Corporation, 101 CLAREMONT-Worship 9:30 a.m. Classes for children. Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. Phone: (317) OTTAWA-Worship and First-day school10:30 a.m. 91A 727 W. Harrison Ave., Claremont. Fourth Ave. (613) 232-9923. · 962-7573. (Affiliated with Friends United Meeting.) DAVIS-Meeting for worship, First Days, 9:45a.m. 345 L. Restoration Contractor (Friend). Repair and restoration TORONTO, ONTARIO-Worship and First-day school11 St. Visitors call 753-5924. a.m. 60 Lowther Ave. (North from cor. Bloor and Bedford). of historic buildings from cornerstone to lightning rods. FRESNO-Unprogrammed meeting. Sunday 10 a.m. Child Period carpentry, timber framing, stone masonry, plaster­ COSTA RICA care. c/o CSPP 1350 M St. 222-3796. ing, slating, tinwork, etc. Structural diagnosis, repair, and GRASS VALLEY-Singing 9:30a.m., meeting for worship rebuilding a specialty. Consulting services for owners (free MONTEVERDE-Phone 61-09-56 or 61-26-56. 9:45 a.m., discussion/sharing 11 a.m. John Woolman to Friends meetings and groups; traveling stipend re­ SAN JOSE-Unprogrammed meeting, 11 a.m. Sunday. School campus, 12585 Jones Bar Road. Phone 273-6485. quested). References by request; Inquiries welcome. Phone 24-43-76 or 33-61-68. HEMET-Meeting for worship 9:30 a.m ., 26665 Chestnut Marcus Brandt, 35 Curley Mill Road, Chalfont, PA 18914. Dr. Visitors call: (714) 925-2818 or 927-7678. (215) 997-21.17. FRANCE LA JOLLA-Meeting 10 a.m. 7380 Eads Ave. Visitors call Quaker Unlveraallst Fellowship is a fellowship of seekers PARis-Worship Sundays 11 a.m. Centre Quaker, 114, rue 459-9600 or 456-1 020. wishing to enrich and expand Friends' perspectives. We de Vaugirard. LONG BEACH-1 0 a.m. Orizaba at Spaulding. 434-1 004. meet, publish, and correspond to share thoughts, insights, LOS ANGELES-Meeting 11 a.m. 4167 S. Normandie. and information. We seek to follow the promptings of the GERMANY Visitors call 296-0733. Spirit. Inquiries welcome! Write QUF, Box 201 AD 1, HEIDELBERG-Unprogrammed meeting 11 :00 a.m. Sun­ Landenberg, PA 19350. MARIN COUNTY-10 a.m. 177 East Blithedale Ave., Mill days Hauptstrasse 133 (Junior year). Phone 06223-1386. Valley, CA. Phone: (415) 382-1226. Wedding Certificates, birth testimonials, invitations, an­ MONTEREY PENINSULA-Friends meeting for worship, nouncements, addressing, poetry, gilts all done in beautiful GUATEMALA Sundays, 10:00 a.m. Call (408) 649-8615 or (408) 373-5003. calligraphy and watercolor illumination. Book early for GUATEMALA-First and third Sunday. 324740 evenings. spring weddings. Write or call Leslie Mitchell, 2840 Bristol OJAI-Unprogrammed worship. First-days 9 a.m. Call Rd., Bensalem, PA 19020, (215) 752-5554. 646-4497 or 646-3200. MEXICO ORANGE COUNTY- Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Harbor MEXICO CITY-Unprogrammed meeting, Sundays, 11 Area Adult Day Care Center, 661 Hamilton St., Costa Mesa, Socially Responsible Investing a.m. Casa de los Amigos, Ignacio Mariscal 132, 06030, CA 92627. (714) 786-7691. Using client-specified social criteria, I screen in­ Mexico 1, D.F. 705-0521. PALO ALTO- Meeting for worship and First-day classes vestments. 1 use a financial planning approach to port­ for children 11 a.m. 957 Colorado. folio management by identifying individual objectives and NICARAGUA PASADENA-Orange Grove Monthly Meeting, 520 E. designing an investment strategy. I work with individuals MANAGUA- Unprogrammed Worship 10 a.m. each Sun­ Orange Grove Blvd. First-day school 10 a.m., meeting for and business. Call: Sacha Millstone; Ferris, Baker Watts; day at Centro de los Amigos, APTDO 5391 Managua, worship 11 a.m. Phone: 792-6223. member NYSE, SIPC. (202) 429-3632 in Washington, Nicaragua. 66-3216 or 66-0984. REDLAND5-RIVERSIDE·SAN BERNARDINO- Inland Val­ D.C., area, or (800) 227-0308. ley Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed. Call (714) 682-5364 SWITZERLAND or 792-7766. General Contractor. Repairs or alterations on old or GENEVA-Meeting for worship and First-day school10:30 SACRAMENTO-Meeting 10 a.m. Stanford Settlement, historical buildings. Storm and fire damage restored. John a.m., midweek meeting 12:30 p.m. Wednesdays. 13 av. 450 w. El Camino near Northgate. Phone: (916)452-9317. File, 1147 Bloomdale Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19115. (215) Mervelet, Quaker House, Petit-Saconnex. SAN DIEGO-Unprogrammed worship, First Days, 10:30 464-2207. a.m. 4848 Seminole Dr. (619) 583-1324. Moving to North Carolina? Maybe David Brown, a Quaker UNITED STATES SAN FERNANDO VALLEY-Unprogrammed worship, First real estate broker, can help. Contact him at 1208 Pinewood Days, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; 15056 Bledsoe, Sylmar. Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. (919) 294-2095. Alabama 360-7635. BIRMINGHAM- Unprogrammed meeting. 10 a.m. Sun­ Family Relations Committee's Counseling Service SAN FRANCISCO-Meeting for worship, First Days, 11 days. Creative Montessori School, 1650 28th Court South, (PYM) provides confidential professional counseling to in­ a.m. 2160 Lake St. Phone: 752-7440. Homewood. (205) 933-7906 or 328-2062. dividuals, couples in most geographic areas of Philadelphia SAN JOSE-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m., Yearly Meeting. All counselors are Quakers. All Friends, FAIRHOPE-Unprogrammed meeting 9 a.m. Sundays at discussion 11:30 a.m. 1041 Morse St. (408) 251-0408. Friends Meetinghouse, 1.2 mi. east on Fairhope Ave. Ext. regular attenders, and employees of Friends organizations Write: P.O. Box 319, Fairhope, AL 36533. SAN LUIS OBISPO-Meeting for worship 9:30 a.m. are eligible. Sliding fees. Further information or brochure­ Sunday. Cal-Poly University Christian Center, 1468 Foothill contact Arlene Kelly, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA HUNTSVILLE-Unprogrammed meeting 10:00 a.m. Sun­ Blvd., San Luis Obispo, CA. (805) 543-0995. days in various homes. Call (205) 837-6327 or write _P.O. 19102. (215) 988.0140. SANTA BARBARA-Marymount School (above the Box 3530, Huntsville, AL 35810. Mission), 10 a.m. Children's program and child care. P.O. Box 40120, Santa Barbara, CA 93140-o120. Phone: Alaska 965-5302. CLASSIFIED AD ANCHORAGE- Unprogrammed. Call for time & directions. SANTA CRUZ-Monthly Meeting 10:00 a.m., Louden (907) 248-6888 or 345-1379. Nelson Community Center. Clerk: Eleanor Foster, DEADLINES FAIRBANKS-Unprogrammed, First Day, 10 a.m. Hidden 423-2605. Hill Friends Center, 2682 Gold Hill Rd. Phone: 479-3796. SANTA MONICA- First-day school and meeting at 10 a.m. ISSUE DEADUNE JUNEAU- Unprogrammed. First Day 9 a.m. 592 Seatter 1440 Harvard St. Phone: 828-4069. Street. Phone (907) 586-4409 for information. SANTA ROSA-Redwood Forest Meeting. Worship 10 August 1992 June 15, 1992 a.m. Phone: (707) 542-1571 for location. Sept. 1992 July 20, 1992 Arizona VISALIA-Worship 10:30 a.m. 17208 Ave. 296, Visalia. FLAGSTAFF-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day (209) 739-7776. Submit your ad to: school 11 a.m. 402 S. Beaver, 86001. WESTWOOD (West Los Angeles)-Meeting 10:30 a.m.; McNEAL-Cochise Friends Meeting at Friends Southwest University Religious Conference, 900 Hilgard (across from Advertising ~anager Center, 7'1• miles south of Elfrida. Worship 11 a.m. Phone: SE corner UCLA campus). Phone: (213) 208-2113. Friends Journal (602) 642-3894 or (602) 642-3547. WHITTIER-Whitleaf Monthly Meeting, Administration 1501 Cherry Street PHOENIX-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. 1702 E. Building, corner Painter and Philadelphia. Worship 9:30 Glendale, Phoenix, 85020. 943-5831 or 955-1878. a.m. P.O. Box 122. Phone: 698-7538. Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 TEMPE- Unprogrammed, First Days, 10 a.m., child care YUCCA VALLEY-Worship 2 p.m. Church of Religious provided. 318 East 15th Street, 85281. Phone: 968-3966. Science, 7434 Bannock Trail, Yucca Valley. (619) 365-1135.

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• Colorado Florida CHICAGO-AFSC, Thursdays, 12:15 p.m. 427-2533. BOULDER-Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m. Phone: CLEARWATER-Worship 10 a.m. St. Paul's School, Oct.· CHICAG0-57th St., 5615 Woodlawn. Worship 10:30 a.m. 449-4060 or 494-2982. May (homes June-Sept.) Co-Clerks: Paul and Priscilla Monthly meeting follows on third Sunday. Phone: 288-3066. COLORADO SPRING5-Meeting Sunday at 10 a.m. at 19 Blanshard. 8333 Seminole Blvd 11439, Seminole, Fl34642. CHICAGO-Chicago Monthly Meeting, 10749 S. Artesian. N. Tejon, basement level, Colorado Springs, CO. Tel: (719) (813) 397-8707. Worship 11 a.m. Phones: 445-8949 or 233-2715. 685-5548, shared answering machine. Address: Colorado DAYTONA BEACH-Sunday 10:30 a.m. in homes. Please CHICAGO-Northside (unprogrammed). Worship 10:30 Springs Friends Meeting, P.O. Box 2514, Colorado Springs, call (904) 677-6094 or 672-6885 for information. a.m. For location call (312) 929-4245. co 80901-2514. FT. LAUDERDALE-Worship group. (305) 523-6169. DECATUR-Worship 10 a.m. Mildred Protzman, clerk. DENVER-Mountain View Friends Meeting, 2280 South FT. MYER5-Worship 12 noon. Contact (813) 334-3533 or Phone 422-9116 or 877-0296 for meeting location. Columbine St. Worship and adult religious education 9 a.m. in Naples, {813) 455-8924. DEKALB-Meeting 10:30 a.m. Please call for location. Worship and First-day school, 10:30 a.m. Worship at 12100 GAINESVILLE-Meeting and First-day school11 a.m. 1921 (815) 895-5379, (815) 758-1985. W. Alameda, Lakewood 10 a.m. Phone: 777-3799. N.W. 2nd Ave. 462-3201. DOWNERS GROVE-(West Suburban Chicago) Worship DURANGO-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m., First-day JACKSONVILLE-Meeting for worship, First Days. For and First-day school 10:30 a.m. 5710 lomond Ave. (3 school and adult discussion 11 a.m. Call for location, location and time phone (904) 768-3648 or 733-3573. blocks west of Belmont, 1 block south of Maple). Phone: 247-4550 or 884-9434. KEY WEST-Worship group Sunday 10:30. 618 Grinnell 968-3861 or 852·5812. ESTES PARK-Friends/Unitarian Fellowship. Unpro­ Street in garden. Phone: Sheridan Crumlish, 294-1523. EVANSTON- Worship 10 a.m. 1010 Greenleaf, 864-8511 . grammed worship 10 a.m. Phone: 586-2686. LAKE WALES-Worship group, (813) 676-2199. GALESBURG-Peoria-Galesburg Meeting. 10 a.m. in FORT COLLINS-Meeting for worship and First-day school homes. (309) 343-7097 for location. 10 a.m. 493-9278. LAKE WORTH-Palm Beach Meeting, 823 North A St. 10:30 a.m. Phone: (407) 585-8060. LAKE FOREST- Worship 10:30 a.m. at meetinghouse. TRINIDAD AREA-Worship 10 a.m. every First Day, 3 Elm West Old Elm and Ridge Rds. Mail: Box 95, lake Forest, St., Cokedale. Clerk: Bill Durland (719) 847-7480. MELBOURNE-10:30 a.m. FIT campus (Oct.-May). (407) 676-5077 or 777-1221 . Summers call. 60045. Phone: (708) 234-8410. MIAMI-CORAL GABLES-Meeting 10 a.m. 1185 Sunset McHENRY COUNTY-Worship 10 a.m. (815) 385-8512. Connecticut Or., 661-7374. Clerk: Doris Emerson, 1551 Slavatierra McNABB-Clear Creek Meeting. Unprogrammed worship Drive, Coral Gables, Fl 33134. (305) 661-3868. 11 a.m., First-day school 10 a.m. Meetinghouse 2 miles HARTFORD-Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m., OCALA-Sundays 10 a.m. 1010 N.E. 44 Ave., 32671 . south, 1 mile east of McNabb. Phone: (815) 882-2214. discussion 11 a.m. 144 South Quaker Lane, West Hartford. George Newkirk, correspondent, (904) 236-2839. OAK PARK-Worship 10 a.m., First-day school and child Phone: 232-3631. ORLANDO-Meeting and First-day school10 a.m. 316 E. care 10 a.m., Oak Park Art League, 720 Chicago Ave. MIDDLETOWN-Worship 10 a.m. Center for Humanities, Marks St., Orlando, 32803. (407) 425-5125. Phone: (708) 386-8391 . 10 Pearl St. Phone: 347.()866. ST. PETERSBURG-Meeting, First Day School, and Teen PARK FOREST-Thorn Creek Meeting. 10:30 a.m. NEW HAVEN-Meeting and First-day school, Sundays, Group 10:30 a.m. 130 19th Ave. S.E. Phone: (813) Sunday. (708) 748-0184. 9:45a.m. At Connecticut Hall on the Old Campus of Yale 896-0310. QUINCY-Friends Hill Meeting. Unprogrammed worship 10 University. Clerk: Bonnie Mueller, 25 Tuttle Ave., Hamden, a.m. 223-3902 or 222-6704 for location. CT 06518, (203) 228-0579. SARASOTA-Worship 11 a.m., discussion 10 a.m. Women's Resource Center, 340 South Tuttle Ave. Clerk: ROCKFORD-Meeting for worship, First-days, 10:30 a.m. , NEW LONDON-Meeting for worship and First-day school Ann Stillman, 355-8193 or 359-2207. Friends House, 326 N. Avon. (815) 962-7373, 963-7448, or 10 a.m., discussion 11 a.m. Friends Meeting House, 964-0716. Oswegatchie Rd., off the Niantic River Rd., Waterford, STUART-Worsh ip group. (407) 286-3052 or 335-0281. Conn. 536-7245 or 889·1924. May through October (407) 287-0545. SPRINGFIELD-Meeting in Friends' homes, unpro­ TALLAHASSEE-Worship Sunday 4 p.m. United Church, grammed 10 a.m. Eve Fischberg and Steven Staley, Route NEW MILFORD-Housatonic Meeting. Rte. 7 at Lanesville 111 , Box 83, loami, ll62661. (217) 624-4961 . Rd. Worship 10 a.m. Phone: (203) 746-6329. 1834 Mahan Dr. (US 90 E). Unprogrammed. Potluck first Sunday. (904) 878-3620. URBANA-CHAMPAIGN- Meeting for worship 11 a.m. 714 POMFRET-1st and 3rd First-days of each month. 10:30 W. Green St.. Urbana. Phone: (217) 328-5853 or 344-5348. a.m. 928-6356 or 928-5050 for more information. TAMPA-Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m.; Hillsborough Developmental Center, 14219 Bruce B. STAMFORD-GREENWICH-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Downs Blvd. Phone contacts: 238-8879 & 977-4022. 572 Roxbury Rd. (corner of Westover), Stamford. (203) 637-4601 or 869-0445. WINTER PARK-Meeting 10 a.m. Alumni House, Rollins College. Phone: {407) 894-8998. STORRS-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Corner North Indiana Eagleville and Hunting Lodge Rds. Phone: 429-4459. BLOOMINGTON-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Moores WILTON-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. 317 New Georgia Pike at Smith Road. (812) 334-3674. Canaan Rd., Rte. 106. (203) 762-5669. AMERICU5-Piains Worship Gr. 11 a.m. Fran Warren, EVANSVILLE-Worship 11 a.m. Sundays at Patchwork WOODBURY-Litchfield Hills Meeting (formerly Water­ Koinonia, Rt. 2, Americus 31709. Phone Fran (912) Central, 100 Washington Ave. town). Woodbury Community House, Mountain Rd. at Main 924-1224, or Gene 824-3281 . FORT WAYNE-Maple Grove Meeting, unprogrammed St. Worship and First-day school10 a.m. Phone: 263-3627. ATHENS-Worship 10 to 11 a.m. Sunday, 11 to 12 worship. Phone Julia Dunn, (219) 489-9342, for time and discussion Methodist Student Center at U. of GA campus, place. 1196 S. lumpkin St., Athens, GA 30605. (404) 548-9394 HOPEWELL-Unprogrammed worship 9:30 a.m .• or (404) 353-2856. Delaware discussion 10:30 a.m. 20 mi. W. Richmond; between 1-70, CAMDEN-Worship 11 a.m., First-day school1 0 a.m. 2 mi. ATLANTA-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. 701 W. US 40; 1-70 exit Wilbur Wright Rd., 1V• mi. S., 1 mi. W. S. of Dover. 122 Camden-Wyo Ave. (Rte. 10). 284-4745, Howard Ave., Decatur, GA 30030. 478-4218. 697-7725. AUGUSTA-Worship 10:30 a.m. at Meetinghouse, 340 INDIANAPOL15-North Meadow Circle of Friends, 1710 CENTRE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. 1 mile east of Telfair St. (404) 738-8036 or 863-7684. N. Talbott. Unprogrammed, worship 10 a.m. Children Centreville on the Centre Meeting Rd. at Adams Dam Rd. CARROLLTON -Worship First and Third Sundays. 114 welcome. 926-7657. HOCKESSIN-First-day school10 a.m., worship 11 a.m. Oak Ave., Carrollton, GA 30117. Contact Marylu (404) PLAINFIELD-Unprogrammed worship 8:30 a.m., meeting N.W. from Hockessin-Yorklyn Rd. at first crossroad. 832-3637. for study and discussion 9:30a.m., programmed meeting NEWARK-First-day school9:30 a.m., worship 10:30 a.m. MONTICELLO-Contact Franklin lynch. 468-8978. for worship 10:40 a.m. 105 S. East St. at the corner of U.S. Newark Center for Creative Learning, 401 Phillips Ave. ST. SIMONS-Weekly meeting for worship in homes, 11 40 and East St. David Hadley, clerk; Keith Kirk, pastoral (302) 368-7505. a.m. Call (912) 437-4708 or 1200. minister. (317) 839-9840. ODESSA-Worship, first Sundays, 11 a.m. STATESBORO-Worship at 11 a.m. with child care. {912) RICHMOND-Clear Creek Meeting, Stout Memorial 764-6036 or 764-5810. Visitors welcome. Meetinghouse, Earlham College. Unprogrammed worship WILMINGTON-Worship 9:15a.m., First-day school10:"30 9:1 5 a.m. Clerk: Hugh Barbour (317) 962-9221. a.m. Alapocas, Friends School. SOUTH BEND-Worship 10:30 a.m. (219) 232-5729, WILMINGTON-Worship and First-day school10:30 a.m. Hawaii 256-0635. 4th & West Sts. Phone: 652-4491. HONOLULU-Sundays, 9:45a.m. hymn singing; 10 a.m. VALPARAISO-Ouneland Friends Meeting. Singing 11 :00 worship and First-day school. 2426 Oahu Ave. Overnight a.m., unprogrammed worship 11:15 a.m. First United inquiries welcomed. Phone: 988-2714. Methodist Church, Wesley Hall, 103 N. Franklin St., 46383. District of Columbia MAUl- Friends Worship Group. Contact: John Dart (808) Information: (219) 462-4107 or 462-9997. WASHINGTON-Friends Meeting, 2111 Florida Ave. NW 878-2190, 107-0 Kamnui Place, Kula, HI 96790; or (808) WEST LAFAYETTE-Unprogrammed worship at 10 a'". (north of Dupont Circle Metro, near Conn. Ave.). 483-3310. 572-9205 (Witarellis). at 176 E. Stadium Ave., West lafayette. Unprogrammed meetings for worship are held on First Day at: Idaho FLORIDA AVE. MEETINGHOUSE-Worship at 9 a.m. and •11 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Wed. Discussion at 9:30 MOSCOW-Moscow-Pullman Meeting, Campus Christian a.m. on First Days. First-day school at 11:20 a.m. Center, 822 Elm St. , Moscow. Unprogrammed worship 11 Iowa a.m. Sunday. Childcare. (509) 334-4343. •Interpreter for the hearing impaired at 11 a.m. AMES-Worship 10 a.m. Ames Meetinghouse, 427 QUAKER HOUSE-2121 Decatur, adjacent SANDPOINT-Unprogrammed worship group at Gardenia HaW1horne Ave. Information: (515) 292-1459, 292·2081 . meetinghouse. Worship at 10 a.m. Center, 4 p.m. Sundays. Various homes in summer. Call SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL-3825 Wisconsin Ave. Elizabeth Willey 263-4290. DES MOINES-Meeting for worship 10 a.m., classes 11:30 NW, in the Arts Center. Worship at 11 :00 a.m. a.m. Meetinghouse, 4211 Grand Ave. Phone: 274-4851 . TACOMA PARK-Worship group, worship third First IOWA CITY-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 a.m. Day in members' homes. Contact Nancy Alexander Illinois 311 N. linn St. Call 351·2234 or Selma Conner, 338-2914. (301) 891-2084. BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL-Unprogrammed Sun. 10:30 WEST BRANCH-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m., WILLIAM PENN HOUSE-515 E. Capitol St. Worship. a.m. Sept.-May, Campus Religious Center, 210 W. discussion 9:45a.m. except 2nd Sunday. 317 N. 6th St. at 11 a.m. 543-5560. Mulberry, Normal. Summer-homes. (309) 454-1328. Call (319) 643-5639.

FRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 43 Kansas FREDERICK-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. 22 S. Minnesota Market St.. Frederick. 293-11 51. LAWRENCE-Oread Friends Meeting, 1146 Oregon. DULUTH-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school, 9:30 Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. 749-1316, 843·4895. SALISBURY-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. First-day a.m. Sundays, 1730 E. Superior Street. Robert Turner, MANHATTAN-Unprogrammed. Baptist Campus Center, school and adult class 10 a.m. Carey Ave. at Glen. (301) clerk, (218) 724-6216. 543-4343, or 289-6893. 1801 Anderson, Manhattan, KS 66502. School year: 10 MINNEAPOLIS-Minneapolis Friends Meeting, 3125 W. a.m. silence, 11 a.m. discussion. June/July: members' SANDY SPRING-Worship 9:30 and 11 a.m., first Sundays 44th St., Mpls., MN 55410. Unprogrammed worship, 8:30 homes, 9:30 a.m. 539-2636, 539-2046. 9:30 only. Classes 10:30 a.m. Meetinghouse Rd. at Ate. 108. a.m.; First-day school and Forum, 10 a.m.; Semi­ TOPEKA-Unprogrammed worship 4 p.m. followed by SOUTHERN MARYLAND- Patuxent Preparative Meeting. programmed worship 11 :15 a.m. Summer worship schedule discussion. Phone: (913) 233-1698, 233-5455, or 273-6791. Worship 10 a.m. Call Ann Trentman 884-4048 or Peter is 9:00 and 10:30. (612) 926-6159. WICHITA-Heartland Meeting, unprogrammed worship Rabenold 586-1199. NORTHFIELD·SOGN-CANNON FALLS TWP.-Cannon 11 :00 a.m., First Days. Room 113, St. Paul's United UNION BRIDGE-Pipe Creek Meeting. Worship 11 a.m. Valley Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. Methodist Church, 13th and Topeka. (316) 262-8331 . Carry­ Margaret Stambaugh, clerk, (301 ) 271-2789. Child care. (507) 663-7969. in lunch and business following worship on last First Day ROCHESTER-Unprogrammed meeting. Call (507) of month. Massachusetts 282-4565 or 282-331 o. WICHITA-University Friends Meeting, 1840 University. ST. CLOUD- Unprogrammed meeting 3:00 p.m. lollowed Sunday school 9:30a.m. • Meeting for worship 10:45 a.m. ACTON-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. Harvey by second hour discussion. First United Methodist Church, Gene Maynard and Shelli Kadel, pastors. Phone: (316) Wheeler Community Center, corner Main and Church Sts., 302 S. 5th Ave. 262-0471. West Concord (during summer in homes). Clerk: Edith Gilmore, 371-1619. ST. PAUL- Twin Cities Friends Meeting, 1725 Grand Ave., St. Paul. Unprogrammed worship, 10:30 a.m., Weyer­ Kentucky AMESBURY-Worship 10 a.m.; 120 Friend St. Call hauser Chapel, Macalester College two blocks east. Call 948-2265 or 388-3293. BEREA-Meeting Sunday 9 a.m. Berea College: (606) (612) 699-6995. 986-1745. AMHERST-NORTHAMPTON-GREENFIELD-Worship STILLWATER-St. Croix Valley Friends. Unprogrammed and First-day school10 a.m. Mt. Toby Meetinghouse, Ate. worship at 10 a.m. Phone (612) 777-1698, 777-5651 . LEXINGTON- Meeting for worship and First-day school10 63, Leverett. 548-9188; if no answer 584-2788 or 549-4845. a.m. Sundays. 1504 Bryan Ave., Lexington, KY 40505. Phone: (606) 223-4176. BOSTON-Worship 10:30 a.m. First Day. Beacon Hill Mississippi Friends House, 6 Chestnut St., Boston, 02108. Phone: LOUISVILLE-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. 3050 Bon 227-9118. HATTIESBURG- Unprogrammed worship, each Sunday Air Ave., 40205. Phone: 452-6812. 10 a.m., Wesley Foundation. 210 N. 32nd St.; child care CAMBRIDGE- Meetings, Sundays, 9:30 and 11 a.m. During July and Aug. , Sundays, 10 a.m. 5 Longfellow Pk. available. (601) 261-1150. ' Louisiana (near Harvard Sq., off Brattle St.). Phone: 876-6883. BATON ROUGE-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 3 DEERFIELD-GREENFIELD- Worship group Thursday 5:30 Missouri p. m. 333 E. Chimes St. Clerk: Marshall Vidrine, (504) p.m. at Woolman Hill Conference Center,. Keats Road, COLUMBIA-Discussion and First-day school 9:30, 629-5362. Deerfield, MA 01342. (413) 774·3431 . All are welcome. worship 10:30 a.m. 6408 Locust Grove Or. Call (314) NEW ORLEANS-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, FRAMINGHAM- Worship 10 a.m. First-day school. 841 442-8328 for information. Sundays 10 a.m. 7102 Ferret St. (504) 885-1223 or Edmands Ad. (2 mi. W of Nobscot). Visitors welcome. KANSAS CITY-Penn Valley Meeting, 4405 Gillham Ad. 861-8022. Phone: 877-0481. 10 a.m. Call (816) 931-5256. GREAT BARRINGTON-South Berkshire Meeting, Blodgett ROLLA- Preparative meeting 10:30 a.m. On Soest Ad. Maine House, Simon's Rock College, Alford Rd. Unprogrammed opposite Rolla Jr. High School. Phone: (314) 341-2464 or BAR HARBOR- Acadia. Unprogrammed meeting for 10:30 a.m. Phone: (413) 528-1847 or (413) 243-1575. 265-3725. worship 6 p.m. (7 p.m. June, July, Aug.). 288-3888 or MARTHA'S VINEYARD-Visitors Welcome! Worship 10:30 ST. LOUIS-Meeting 10:30 a.m. 2539 Rockford Ave., Rock 288-4941. a.m. Location varies, call 693-0512 or 693-0040. Hill. Phone: 962-3061 . BELFAST AREA- Unprogrammed meeting for worship, NANTUCKET- Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m., June SPRINGFIELD-Worship, First-day school 3 p.m. each First-day school 9 a.m. Phone: (207) 338-2325. 15-Sept. 15., Fair Street Meeting House. After Sept. 15, First Day at Unity Church, 2214 E. Seminole St. Contact BRUNSWICK- Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. 333 Maine 15 Maria Mitchell Library, Vestal Street. 228-1690, Louis Cox, (417) 882-3963. St. 833-5016 or 725-8216. 228-0136, 228-1002. EAST VASSALBORO-Unprogrammed meeting for wor­ NORTH EASTON-Worship 10:30 a.m. First Days, Queset Montana ship 10 a.m. (9 a.m. summer). Child care. Friends meeting­ House, 51 Main St., North Easton. (508) 238-2997. BILLINGS-Unprogrammed worship, 10:30 a.m .• Meeting house, China Road. Gerald Robbins, clerk. (207) 923-3088. NORTH SHORE-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. for Learning 11 :15 a.m. Child care. 2032 Central Avenue MID-COAST AREA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship Glen Urquhart School, Beverly Farms, Mass. Clerk: Bruce or call (406) 656-2163 or (406) 252-5065. 10 a.m. at former Computer Barn, Biscay Road. Nevin, 281·5683. HELENA-Call (406) 449-6663 or (406) .449·4732. Damariscotta, First-day provided, 563-3464 or 563-1701. NORTHAMPTON-Worship 11 a.m., discussion 9:30; child MISSOULA-Unprogrammed 10 a.m. Sundays. 432 E. ORONO- Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 a.m. care. Smith College, Seelye Hall 28. (413) 584-2788. Pine. (406) 543-8497. Orono Community Center. 989-1366. SANDWICH-East Sandwich Meeting House, Quaker PORTLAND- Unprogrammed worship, First-day school, Meeting House Rd. just north of Ate. 6A. Meeting for Nebraska 10:30 a.m. 1845 Forest Ave. (Ate. 302). Call (207) 797-4720. worship Sunday 11 a.m. (508) 747-0761 . LINCOLN-Discussion 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m. 3319 S. WATERBORO- Unprogrammed worship, First-day school SOUTH YARMOUTH-CAPE COD-Unprogrammed wor­ 46th. Phone: 488-4178. 9 a.m. Conant Chapel, Alfred. (207) 324-4134, 625-8034. ship 10 a.m. 58 N. Main St. 362-6633. OMAHA- Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m.; University WHITING-Cobscook Friends Meeting. Meeting for WELLESLEY-Meeting for worship and Sunday school Aelig. Ctr., 101 N. Happy Hollow. 289-4156, 558-9162. worship, First Days, 10:00 a.m. Walter Plaut, clerk. (207) 10:30 a.m. at 26 Benvenue St. Phone: 237-0268. 733-2191 . WEST FALMOUTH-CAPE COD-Meeting for worship, Nevada Sunday, 11 a.m. Ate. 28A. Maryland RENO- Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m. Youth Center WESTPORT - Meeting, Sundays, 10:45 a.m. Central next to YMCA, 1300 Foster Drive. 747-4623. ADELPHI-Worship 8:30 and 10 a.m. Sunday. Sunday Village. Clerk: Frances Kirkaldy, 636-4711. school 10:20 a.m. (10 a.m. fourth Sun). Adult 2nd Hour WORCESTER-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 11 New Hampshire 11:30 a.m. 1sV3r d/5th Sun. Nursery, 2303 Metzerott, near a.m. 901 Pleasant St. Phone: 754-3887. U. of Md. (301) 445-1114. CONCORD-Worship 10 a.m. Children welcomed and ANNAPOLIS- Worship 11 a.m. Ed. Bldg., First Baptist cared for. Merrimack Valley Day Care Center, 19 N. Fruit Church of Eastport, 208 Chesapeake Ave. Box 3142, Michigan St. Phone: 783-47 43. Annapolis, MD 21403. Call Jean Christianson, clerk, ALMA-MT. PLEASANT- Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m. DOVER-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m., sharing at 544-1912. Discussion 9 a.m. First-day school. Clerk: Don Nagler, (517) noon. 141 Central Ave. Clerk: Chip Neal, (603) 742-0263, BALTIMORE-Stony Run: worship 9:30 and 11 a.m. except 772-2941. or write P.O. Box 243, Dover, NH 03820. 10 a.m. July and August. 5116 N. Charles St. 435-3773. ANN ARBOR- Meeting 10 a.m. , adult discussion 11 :30 GONIC-Programmed Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays. Homewood: worship and First-day school11 a.m. 3107 N. a.m. Meetinghouse, 1420 Hill St. (313) 761·7435, 761-5077. 10:30 a.m. Maple St. Clerk: Evelyn Lang. Phone (603) Charles St. 235-4438. Clerk: Walt Scheider, (313) 663-3846. 895-9877. BALTIMOREISPARKS -Gunpowder Meeting. Worship BIRMINGHAM-Meeting 10:30 a.m. Brookside School HANOVER-Worship and First-day school, Sundays, 10 every First-day, 11 a.m. Call for directions. Phone: (41 0) Library. N.E. corner Lone Pine & Cranbrook, Bloomfield a. m. Friends Meetinghouse, 43 Lebanon St. (next to 771-4583. Hills. Summer: Springdale Park, Strathmore Rd. (313) Hanover H.S.). Clerk: Erica Brinton. BETHESDA-Classes and worship 11 a.m. (year round) 377-8811 . Clerk: Margaret Kanost, (313) 373-6608. NORTH SANDWICH-10:30 a.m. Contact: Webb, (603) Sidwell Friends Lower School, Edgemoor Lane and Beverly DETROIT-First-day meeting 10:30 a.m. Call341·9404. or 284-6215. Rd. 986-8681. write 4011 Norfolk, Detroit, Ml 48221, for information. PETERBOROUGH-46 Concord St. Worship and First-day CHESTERTOWN-Chester River Meeting, 124 Philoso­ EAST LANSING-Unprogrammed Worship and First-day school, 10:30, Sept.-June. Call for summer hours and phers Terrace. Worship 11 a.m. Clerk: Joseph Whitehill, school, 12:30 p.m. All Saints Episcopal Church Lounge, 800 discussion times. (603) 924-6150, 673-4821 . P.O. Box 1020, Chestertown. MD 21620. (301) 778-1130. Abbott Road. Accessible. Call 371 -1754 or 351-3094. WEST EPPING-Unprogrammed. 10 a.m. on 1st and 3rd DARLINGTON-Deer Creek Meeting. Worship 10:30; Clerk GRAND RAPIDS-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. First-days. Friend St. directly off At. 27. Clerk: Fritz Bell Anne Gregory, 734-6854. 25 Sheldon St. SE. (616) 942-4713 or 454-7701 . (603) 895-2437. EASTON- Third Haven Meeting, 405 S. Washington St. KALAMAZOO-Meeting for worship and First-day school 10 a.m. Kenneth Carroll, clerk, (301) 820.8347, 820.7952. 10 a.m., discussion and child care 11 a.m. Friends New .Jersey FALLSTON-Little Falls Meeting, Old Fallston Rd. Worship Meetinghouse, 508 Denner. Phone: 349-1754. ATLANTIC CITY AREA-Worship 11 a.m., 437A, S. Pitney 10:30 a.m. Clerk, Hunter C. Sutherland, phone (301) KEWEENAW-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school. f-jd. Near Absecon. Clerk: Robert L. Barnett: (609) 877-1635. At. 1, Box 114a, Atlantic Mine, 49905. (906) 296-0560. ll65-5347.

44 June 1992 FRIENDS J OURNAL BARNEGAT-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. Left side of East LAS CRUCES-tO a.m. Sunday, worship, First-day school. MT. KISCO-Croton Valley Meeting. Meetinghouse Road, Bay Ave., traveling east from Ate. 9. 2610 S. Solano. 522-0672 or 526-4625. opposite Stanwood. Worship 11 a.m. Sunday (9t4) 686-8602. CAMDEN-Newton Friends Meeting. Worship First Day SANTA FE-Meeting for worship, Sundays 9 and 11 a.m. NEW PALTZ-Worship, First-day school and child care 10:30 a.m. Cooper & 8th Sts. (by Haddon Ave.). Olive Rush Studio, 630 Canyon Rd. Phone: 983-7241. 10:30 a.m. 8 N. Manheim. (914) 255-5678. Information: (609) 964·9649. Chamisa Friends Preparative Meeting at Brunn School. NEW YORK CITY-At 15 Rutherford Place (15th Street), CAPE MAY-Beach meeting mid-June through Sept., 8:45 Worship and First-day school, 4 p.m. (5 p.m. Daylight Manhaltan; unprogrammed worship every First Day at 9:30 a.m., beach north of first-aid station. (609) 624·1165. Savings). (505) 473-9110. a.m. and 11 a.m.; programmed worship at 10 a.m. on the CINNAMINSON-Westfield Friends Meeting, Ate. 130 at SILVER CITY AREA-Gila Friends Meeting. 10 a.m. Call first First Day of every month. Earl Hall, Columbia Universi­ Riverton-Moorestown Rd. Meeting for worship 11 a.m., 388·3388, 536-9565, or 535-4137 for location. ty: unprogrammed worship every First Day at 11 a.m. At First-day school 10 a.m. SOCORRO-Worship group, first, third, fifth Sundays, 10 11 0 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn: unprogrammed worship CROPWELL-Meeting for worship 10:45 a.m. Old Marlton a.m. Call 835-0013 or 835-0277. at 11 a.m. every First Day. Phone (212) 777-8866 (Mon.­ Pike, one mile west of Marlton. Fri., 9·5) about First-day schools, monthly business meetings, and other information. CROSSWICKS-Meeting and First-day school 9:30 a.m. New York (609) 298-4362. OLD CHATHAM-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. Powell ALBANY-Worship and First-day school 11 a.m. 727 House, Ate. 13. Phone 794-8811 . DOVER-RANDOLPH-Worship and First-day school 11 Madison Ave. Phone: 436-8812. a.m. Randolph Friends Meeting House, Quaker Church Rd. ONEONTA-Bulternuts Monthly Meeting. Worship 10:30 ALFRED-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. each First Day a.m. First Sunday. (607) 432·9395. Other Sundays: Coopers­ and Quaker Ave. between Center Grove Rd. and Millbrook in The Parish House, West University St. Ave., Randolph. (201) 627-3987. town, 547·5450; Delhi, 829·6702; Norwich, 334·9433. AMAWALK-Worship 10:30 a.m. Quaker Church Rd., N. HADDONFIELD-Worship 10 a.m.; First-day school ORCHARD PARK-Worship and First-day school!! a.m. of Ate. 202·35, Yorktown Heights. (914) 271-4074 or East Quaker St. at Freeman Rd. 662-5749. follows, except summer. Babysilting provided during both. 962-3045. Friends Ave. and Lake St. Phone: 428·6242 or 428-5779. POPLAR RIDGE-Worship tO a.m. (315) 364-7244. AUBURN-Unprogrammed meeting 1 p.m. Seventh-day MANASQUAN-First-day school tO a.m., meeting 11 :15 worship. By appointment only. Auburn Prison, 135 State POUGHKEEPSIE- Meeting for worship and Sunday school a.m. Ate. 35 at Manasquan Circle. St., Auburn NY 13021 . Requests must be processed 10 a.m. 249 Hooker Ave., 12603. (914) 454-2870. MARLTON - See CROPWELL. through Ruth Stewart, 46 Grant Ave. , Auburn NY 13021. PURCHASE-Meeting for worship and First-day School MEDFORD-Worship 10 a.m. First-day schoolt0:30 a.m. Phone: (315) 253-6559. 11 a.m., Purchase Street (Rt. 120) at Lake St. Meeting Union St. Meetinghouse. (609) 953-8914 for information. BROOKLYN-Worship and First-day school 11 a.m. (child telephone: (914) 949-0206 (answering machine). MICKLETON-Worship 10 a.m. , First-day school!! a.m. care provided). 110 Schermerhorn St. For information call QUAKER STREET-Worship 11 a.m. Ate. 7 Quaker Street, (609) 848-7449 or 423-5618. (212) 777-8866 (Mon.-Fri. 9-5). Mailing address: Box 730, New York 12141 . Phone (518) 895-8169. Brooklyn, NY 11201. MONTCLAIR-Meeting and First-day school 11 a.m. ROCHESTER-Labor Day to May 31, Meeting for Worship except July and Aug. 10 a.m. Park St. and Gordonhurst BUFFALO-Worship and First-day school, 11 a.m. 72 N. 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. First-day schoolt1 a.m. June 1 to Labor Ave. Phone: (201) 746-0940. Visitors welcome. Parade near Science Museum. Call for summer hours. Day worship at 10 a.m. with babysitting available. 41 892-8645. Westminster Rd. , 14607, (716) 271-0900. MOORESTOWN- Meeting for worship 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., except 10 a.m. second Sunday Sept., last Sunday Dec., BULLS HEAD RD.-Worship 10:30 a.m. Sundays. N. ROCKLAND-Meeting for worship and First-day school 11 1 and third Sunday June. First-day school 10 a.m. Oct. to Dutchess Co., 12 mile E. Taconic Pky. (914) 266-3223. a.m. 60 Leber Rd., Blauvelt. (914) 623-8473. May, Main St. (Ate. 537) and Chester Ave. (Ate.) 603. CANTON-St. Lawrence Valley Friends Meeting, (315) RYE-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 9 a.m., 624 Worship also at Mt. Laurel Meetinghouse, June through 386-4648. Milton Road. Phone (91 4) 967-0539. Sept. 10:30 a.m., Moorestown-MI. Laurel Rd. (Ate. 603) and CENTRAL FINGER LAKES-Penn Yan, Sundays, Sept. SARANAC LAKE-Meeting for worship and First-day Hainesport Rd. (Ate. 674). Call (609) 235-1561 . through June, 160 Main St. rear, adult and child's study School; (518) 523·1899 or (518) 523·3548. MOUNT HOLL Y-Meeling for worship.t0:30 a.m. High and 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m. July through Aug., worship in SARATOGA SPRINGS- Worship and First-day school11 Garden Sts. Visitors welcome. Call (609) 261·7575. homes. Phone (315) 789·2910. a.m. Phone: (518) 399·5013. MULLICA HILL-Main St. Sept.-May FDS 9:45, meeting CHAPPAQUA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship and SCARSDALE-Meeting for worship, second Sunday in for worship 11 a.m. Meeting only, June, July and Aug., 10 a.m. First-day school 10:30 a.m. Ate. 120 Quaker Rd. (914) Sept. through June, 11 a.m.; July through first Sunday in NEW BRUNSWICK-Meeting and First-day school 10 :30 737-9089 or 238-9202. Sept. tO a.m. First-day school, third Sunday in Sept. a.m. Meeting only July and Aug., 9:30a.m. 109 Nichol Ave. CLINTON-Meeting, Sundays, 10:30 a.m. Kirkland Art through second Sunday in June, 11 a.m. 133 Popham Rd. (201) 846-8969. Center, On-the-Park. Phone: 853·2243. SCHENECTADY-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Albany PLAINFIELD-Meeting for worship and First-day school CORNWALL-Meeting for worship and Sunday school Street United Methodist Church, 924 Albany Street. (518) 10:00 a.m. Wednesday at 8:00p.m. 225 Watchung Ave. 10:30 a.m. Ate. 107, off 9W, Quaker Ave. Phone: 496-4463. 374-0369. at E. Third St. 757-5736. EASTON-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school STATEN ISLAND-Meeting for worship Sundays at 11 PRINCETON-Worship 9 and 11 a.m. First-day school!! 11 a.m. Ate. 40. (518) 664-6567, 692·9227, or 677-3693. a.m. Information: (718) 816-1364. a.m. Oct.-May. Quaker Rd. near Mercer St. (609) 924-7034. ELMIRA-10:30 a.m. Sundays. 155 West 6th St. Phone: SYRACUSE- Worship 10:30 a.m. 821 Euclid Ave. QUAKERTOWN- Worship and First-day schoolt0:30 a.m. (607) 733-7972. Box 502, Quakertown, 08868. (201) 782-0953. FREDONIA- Unprogrammed meeting 10:30 a.m. Call North Carolina RANCOCAS-First-day school 10 a.m., meeting for (716) 672-4427 or (716) 672-4518. ASHEVILLE- Unprogrammed meeting for worship and worship 11 a.m. HAMILTON- Meeting for worship tO a.m. Chapel House, First-day school10 a.m., forum and child care 11 a.m. 227 RIDGEWOOD-Meeting for worship and First-day school Colgate University. Phone: Joel Plotkin, (315) 684·9320. Edgewood Rd. (704) 258-0974. 11 a.m. 224 Highwood Ave. HUDSON-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. first and third BOONE- Unprogrammed worship 10 :30, Catholic Campus SALEM-Meeting for worship 11 a.m., First-day school Sundays. 343 Union St. (518) 851·7954, 966-8940, or Ministries Build., 901 Faculty St. For info., call: (919) 9:45a.m. July and Aug. worship tO a.m. East Broadway. 329-0401. 877-4663. Michael Harless, clerk. SEAVILLE- Meeting for worship 11 a.m. (July/Aug. 10 ITHACA-Worship 11 a.m., Anabel Taylor Hall, Oct.-May, BREVARD- Unprogrammed meeting for worship, 11 a.m. a.m.) Main Shore Rd. , Ate. 9, Seaville. (609) 624·1 165. worship 10:30 a.m., Hector Meeting House, Perry City Rd., Morgan and Oaklawn Aves. (704) 884-7000. SHREWSBURY-Meeting for worship and First-day school June-Sept. Phone: 273-5421. CELO- Meeting 10:45 a.m., near Burnsville, off Rt. so S, 10:30 a.m. Ate. 35 and Sycamore. Phone: (201) 741-4138. LONG ISLAND (QUEENS, NASSAU, SUFFOLK 455 Hannah Branch Rd., (704) 675-4456. SOMERSET/MORRIS COUNTIES-Somerset Hills Meet· COUNTIES)- Unprogrammed meetings for worship, 11 CHAPEL HILL-Meeting for worship 9 a.m. and 11 :15 a.m. ing, Community Club, E. Main St. , Brookside. Worship 10 a.m. First Days, unless otherwise noted. First-day schooltt:t 5 a.m. Child care. During June, July a.m. Sept.-May. (908) 234-2486 or (201) 543·7477. and August, worship at 10 a.m. Clerk: Mamie Clark, (919) EASTERN LONG ISLAND (3 worship groups) 967-9342. SUMMIT- Meeting for worship and First-day school 11 a.m. Sag H.arbor: 96 Hempstead St., Sag Harbor. (516) (July, Aug., 10 a.m.). 158 Southern Blvd., Chatham Town­ 725-2547. CHARLOTTE- Unprogrammed meeting for worship and ship. Visitors welcome. Southampton: Administration Building, Southampton First-day school tO a.m., forum and child care 11 a.m. 2327 TRENTON-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Hanover and College. (516) 287·1713. Remount Rd. (704) 399-8465 or 537-5808. Montgomery Sts. Visitors welcome. Southold: 2060 Leeward Drive. (5t6) 765-1132. DURHAM-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school TUCKERTON-Little Egg Harbor Meeting. Left side of Ate FLUSHING-Discussion 10 a.m. ; FDS 11 a.m. 137-16 tO a.m. 404 Alexander Ave. Contact Alice Keighton, (919) 9 traveling north. Worship 10:30 a.m. Northern Blvd. (718) 358-9636. 489-6652. WOODBURY- First-day school tO a.m., meeting for HUNTINGTON-LLOYD HARBOR- Friends World FAYETTEVILLE- Unprogrammed. Phone 485·5720. worship 11 :15 a.m. 140 North Broad St. Telphone (609) College, Plover Ln. (516) 261-4924 (eves.). GREENSBORO- Friendship Meeting (unprogrammed) 845-5080, if no answer call 848-1990. JERICHO- Old Jericho Tpke., off Ate. 25, just east of 1103 New Garden Rd. Worship 10:30 a.m. Call (919) WOOOSTOWN--First-day school 9:45 a.m., worship 11 a.m. intersection with Rtes. 106 and 107. 294-2095 or 854-5155. July and Aug., worship tO a.m. N. Main St. Phone (609) LOCUST VALLEY-MATINECOCK-10 a.m. all year, GREENVILLE-Unprogrammed worship and First-day 358-3528. FDS Sept.-June. Duck Pond and Piping Rock Ads. school. 355-7230 or 758-6789. MANHASSET-Adult class 10 a.m. , FDS 11 a.m., GUILFORD COLLEGE, GREENSBORO-New Garden Winter. (Worship 10 a.m. June · August). (516) 365-5142. Friends Meeting. Meeting for worship: unprogrammed 9 ST. JAMES- CONSCIENCE BAY-Friends Way, off a.m.; semi-programmed 11 a.m. First-day school9:45 a.m. Moriches Rd. Adult discussion, FDS, and singing. (516) Gary C. Dent, clerk; David W. Bills, pastoral minister. 801 862·6213. New Garden Road, 27410. (919) 292-5487. New Mexico SHELTER ISLAND EXECUTIVE MEETING-10:30 a.m. HICKORY-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school Summers: Circle at Quaker Martyr's Monument, 10:15, forum 11 :30. 328 N. Center St., (704) 324-5343. ALBUQUERQUE-Meeting, First-day school 10:30 a.m. Sylvester Manor. (516) 749-0555. Winters: 96 Hepstead RALEIGH-Unprogrammed. Worship 10 a.m. 625 Tower 1600 5th St. N.W. Clerk: Avis Vermilya, (505) 897-7093. St. , Sag Harbor. (516) 324-8557. Street. GALLUP- Friends Worship Group, First Day 10:30 a.m. WESTBURY- 550 Post Ave., just south of Jericho Tpke. WENTWORTH/REIDSVILLE-Open worship and child For information, call: 722·9004. at Exit 32-N, Northern State Pkwy. (516) 333-3178. care 10:30 a.m. Call (919) 349·5727 or (919) 427-3188.

FRIENDS JOURNAL June 1992 45 WILMINGTON-Unprogrammed worship 11 :00 a.m., FLORENCE-Central Coast Meeting for worship 11 a.m., MEDIA-Providence Meeting, 105 N. Providence R'd. (215) discussion 10:00 a.m., 313 Castle St. Second and Fourth Sundays. (503) 997-4237 or 997-7024. 566-1308. Worship 11 a.m. Joint First-day school9:30 at WOODLAND-Cedar Grove Meeting. Sabbath school tO PORTLAND-Multnomah Monthly Meeting, 4312 S.E. Providence, Feb.-June and at Media, Sept.-Jan. a.m., meeting for worship 11 a.m. Bill Remmes, clerk. (919) Stark. Worship 10 a.m. Phone: 232·2822 . MERION-Meeting for worship 11 a.m., First-day school 587·9981. SALEM-Meeting for worship 10 a.m., Forum 11 a.m. 10:15 except summer months. Babysitting provided. YWCA, 768 State St., 399-1908. Call for summer schedule. Meetinghouse Lane at Montgomery. MIDDLETOWN-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. First-day North Dakota school 10:30-11 :30 a.m. Adult education 10:30-11 a.m. FARGO-Unprogrammed meeting, 10:30 a.m. Sundays, Pennsylvania Delaware County, Ate. 352 N. of lima. 358-3212. 1239 12th St. N. 234-0974. MIDDLETOWN-First-day school 9:30 a.m., meeting for ABINGTON-First-day school (summer-outdoor meeting) worship 11 a.m. Seventh and eighth months worship 1G-11 9:45a.m., worship 11 :15 a.m. Child care. Meetinghouse a.m. At Langhorne, 453 W. Maple Ave. Rd./Greenwood Ave., Jenkintown. (E. of York Rd., N. of Ohio Philadelphia.) 884-2865. MILLVILLE-Worship 10 a.m., First-day school 11 a.m. Main St. Dean Girton, (717) 458-6431. AKRON-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school. BIRMINGHAM- First-day school 10 a.m., worship 10:15 119 Augusta Ave. Zip: 44302. (216) 867·4968 "(H) or a.m. 1245 Birmingham Ad. S. of West Chester on Ate. 202 NEWTOWN (Bucks Co.)-Vb"ship 11 a.m., First-day school 253-7151 (AFSC). to Ate. 926, turn W. to Birmingham Rd., turn S. Y• mile. 9:45a.m. Summer worship only. 968-5143 or 968·2217. ATHENS-10 a.m. 18 N. College St. (614) 592-5789. BUCKINGHAM-Meeting for worship 11 a.m.-12. First-day NEWTOWN SQUARE (Del. Co.)-Meeting 10 a.m. Ate. 252 N. of Ate. 3. (215) 566-4808. BOWLING GREEN-Broadmead Friends Meeting FGC. school, beginning with worship at 11 a.m. Lahaska, Rtes. Unprogrammed worship groups meet at: 202·263. (215) 794-7299. NORRISTOWN-Meeting for worship and First-day school CARLISLE-First-day school (Sept.-May). Worship 10 a.m. 10 a.m. on First Day at Swede and Jacoby Sts. Phone: BLUFFTON-Sally Weaver Sommer, clerk, (419) 358· 279·3765. Mail: P.O. Box 823, Norristown, PA 19404. 5411 . 163 E. Pomfret St., 249·2411. FINDLAY-Joe Davis, (419) 422-7668 CHAMBERSBURG-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. (717) OXFORD-First-day school tO a.m., Meeting for worship TOLEDO-Rilma Buckman, (419) 385-1718 263-5517. 11 a.m. 260 S. 3rd St. (215) 932-8572. Janet P. Eaby, clerk. (717) 766-7810. CINCINNATI-Eastern Hills Friends Meeting (previously CHELTENHAM-See Philadelphia listing. PENNSBURG-Unami Monthly Meeting meets First-days Clifton Friends Meeting), 1671 Nagel Road, Sunday 10 a.m. CHESTER-Meeting for worship 11 a.m .• Sunday. 24th and 793-9242. at 11 a.m. Meetinghouse at 5th and Macoby Sts. Bruce Chestnut Sts., (215) 874-5860. Grimes, clerk, 234-8424. CINCINNATI-Community Meeting (United FGC and CONCORD-Worship and First-day school 11 :15 a.m. At PHILADELPHIA-Meetings 10:30 a.m. unless specified; FUM), 3960 Winding Way, 45229. Worship from silence and Concordville, on Concord Ad. one block south of Ate. 1. First-day school 10 a.m. Quaker-house phone: (513) phone 241·7221 for information about First-day schools. 861·4353. Byron Branson, clerk. DARBY-Meeting for worship and First-day school11 a.m. Main at 10th St. · CLEVELAND-Meeting for worship and First-day school BYBERRY-one mile east of Roosevelt Boulevard at 11 a.m. 10916 Magnolia Dr. (216) 791·2220. DOLINGTON·MAKEFIELD-Worship 11-11:30 a.m. First· day school 11 :30-12.30. East of Dolington on Mt. Eyre Ad. Southampton Rd., 11 a.m. COLUMBUS- Unprogrammed meeting 10:30 a.m. 1954 DOWNINGTOWN-First-day school (except summer CENTRAL PHILADELPHIA-Meeting for worship 11 Indianola Ave. Call the Meetinghouse at (614) 291·2331 or a.m. (10 a.m. July and August). 15th and Cherry Sts. Gerry Brevoort at (614) 268-2002. months) and worship 10:30 a.m. 800 E. Lancaster Ave. (south side old Ate. 30, 'h mile east of town). 269-2899. CHELTENHAM -Jeanes Hospital grounds, Fox DAYTON-Friends meeting FGC. Unprogrammed worship Chase, 11:30 a.m. July and Aug. 10:30 a.m. and First-day school tO a.m. 1516 Salem Ave .• Am. 236. DOYLESTOWN-Meeting for worship and First-day school Phone: (513) 426-9875. 10:30 a.m. East Oakland Ave. CHESTNUT HILL-100 E. Mermaid Lane. DELAWARE-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day DUNNINGS CREEK-First-day school/Meeting for worship FOURTH AND ARCH STS.-10 a.m. on Thursdays. school, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., room 311 of the Hamilton· begins 10 a.m. NW Bedford at Fishertown. 623-5350. FRANKFORD-Penn and Orthodox Sts., 10:30 a.m. Williams Campus Center at Ohio Wesleyan University. ERIE-Unprogrammed worship. Call (814) 866-0682. FRANKFORD-Unity and Wain Sts., Friday eve. 7:30 (614) 369·0947. FALLSINGTON (Bucks County)- Falls Meeting, Main St. p.m. GRANVILLE-Area worship group meets second and First-day school tO a.m., meeting for worship 11 a.m. Five GERMANTOWN MEETING-Coulter St. and German· fourth Sundays 10 a.m. For information, call Mike Fuson: miles from Pennsbury reconstructed manor home of town Ave. (614) 587-4756. William Penn. GREEN STREET MEETING-45 W. School House KENT-Meeting for worship and First-day school 10:30 GLENSIDE-Unprogrammed, Christ-centered worship. Lane. a.m. United Christian Ministries Chapel, 1435 East Main First-day 10:30 a.m., Fourth-day, 7:30p.m. 16 Huber St., Street. Phone 673-5336. Glenside (near Railroad Station) Ph. 576-1450. MANSFIELD-Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m., first and GOSHEN-First-day school 10 a.m., worship 10:45 PHOENIXVILLE-Schuylkill Meeting. East of Phoenixville third Sundays. (419) 756-4441 or 289·8335. Goshenville, intersection of Ate. 352 and Paoli Pike. and north of juncture of Whitehorse Rd. and Ate. 23. MARIETTA-Mid-Ohio Valley Friends unprogrammed GWYNEDD-First-day school 9:45 a.m., except summer. Worship 10 a.m., forum 11 :15. worship First Day mornings at 10:30 o'clock. Betsey Mills Worship 11:15 a.m. Sumneytown Pike and Ate. 202. PITTSBURGH-Meeting for worship and school 10:30 Club, 4th and Putnam Sts. Phone: (614) 373-2466. HARRISBURG-Worship 11 a.m., First-day school and a.m.; 4836 Ellsworth Ave., (412) 683-2669. OBERLIN- Unprogrammed meeting, First-days: (216) adult education (Sept. to May) 9:45a.m. Sixth and Herr Sts. PLYMOUTH MEETING-Worship, First-day school 11:15 775-2368 or (216) 77 4·3292. Phone: (717) 232-7282 or 232-1326. a.m. Germantown Pike and Butler Pike. PARKERSBURG-Mid-Ohio Valley Friends. Phone (304) HAVERFORD-First-day school 10:30 a.m., meeting for POCONOS-Ster1ins-Newtoundiand. Worship group under 422·5299 or (304) 428·1320. worship 10:30 a.m., Fifth-day meeting for worship 10 a.m. the care of North Branch (Wilkes-Barre) Meeting. (717) WAYNESVILLE-Friends meeting, First-day school 9:30 during college year. Buck Lane, between Lancaster Pike 689-2353 or 689· 7552. a.m., unprogrammed worship 10:45 a.m. 4th and Hight Sts. and Haverford Rd. POTTSTOWN-READING AREA-Exeter Meeting. Meet· (513) 885-7276, 897-4610. HAVERTOWN-Old Haverford Meeting. East Eagle Rd. at inghouse Rd. off 562, 1 and 6/10 miles W. of 662 and 562 WILMINGTON-Campus Meeting (United FUM and FGC), Saint Dennis Lane, Havertown, First-day school and adult intersection and Yellow House. Worship 10:30 a.m. College Kelly Center. Unprogrammed worship 10:15 a.m. forum, 10 a.m., meeting for worship 11 a.m. QUAKERTOWN-Richland Monthly Meeting, 244 S. Main Barbara Olmsted, clerk, (513) 382-4118. HORSHAM-First-day school, meeting 11 a.m. Ate. 611. Street, First-day school and meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. WOOSTER-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school HUNTINGDON-Worship 10 a.m. 1715 Mifflin St. (814) RADNOR-Radnor Meeting for worship and First-day 10:30 a.m. S.W. corner College and Pine Sts. (216) 643-1842 or 669-4038. school tO a.m. Conestoga and Sproul Roads, lthan, Pa. 345·8664 or 262· 7650. INDIANA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, 10:30 (215) 688-9205. YELLOW SPRINGS- Unprogrammed worship, FGC, 11 a.m., first and third Sundays. United Ministry, 828 Grant READING-First-day school tO a.m., meeting 11 a.m. 108 a.m. Rockford Meetinghouse, President St. (Antioch St. (412) 349·3338. North Sixth St. (215) 372·5345. campus). Clerk, Betty Wagner, (513) 767·8021 . KENDAL-Worship 10:30 a.m. Ate. 1, 1 mi. N. of Long· SOLEBURY- Worship 10 a.m., First-day school! 0:45 a.m. ZANESVILLE-Area worship group meets first and third wood Gardens. Sugan Rd., 2 miles N.W. of New Hope. 297·5054. Sundays 10 a.m. For information, call Ginger Swank: (614) KENNETT SQUARE- First-day school tO a.m., worship 11 SOUTHAMPTON (Bucka Co.)-Worship and First-day 455-3841. a.m. Union & Sickles. Betsy McKinistry, clerk, (215) school tO a.m., Adult forum 11 a.m. Street and Gravel Hill 444-4449. Ads. (215) 364-0581. LANCASTER-Meeting and First-day school tO a.m. 110 SPRINGFIELD-Meeting and First-day school, 11 a.m., W. Oklahoma Tulane Terr. 392·2762. Springfield and Old Sproul Ads. Del. Co. 328-2425. OKLAHOMA CITY- Friends Meetinghouse, 312 S.E. 25th. LANSDOWNE-First-day school and activities 10 a.m. STATE COLLEGE-First-day school and adult discussion Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 a.m. Quaker study Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Lansdowne and Stewart Aves. 10 a.m. worship 11 a.m. 611 E. Prospect Ave. 16801. group, midweek. (405) 632·7574, 631·4174. LEHIGH VALLEY-BETHLEHEM-Worship and First-day SWARTHMORE-Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m., STILLWATER-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 11 school9:30 a.m. Programs for all ages 10:45 a.m. On rte. forum 11 a.m. Whittier Place, college campus. a.m. For information call (405) 372-5892 or 372-4839. 512, 'h mile north of rte. 22. UPPER DUBLIN-Worship and First-day school 11 a.m. LEWISBURG-Worship 10:30 a.m. Sundays. Vaughan lit. Ft. Washington Ave. and Meetinghouse Ad., near Ambler. Bldg. Library, Bucknell University. Clerk: (717) 524-0191 . VALLEY-First-day school and forum 10. a.m. (except Oregon LONDON GROVE-Friends meeting Sunday 10 a.m., child summer), Worship 11:15 (summer, 10). Monthly meeting ASHLAND-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Sunday. 1150 care/First-day school 11 a.m. Newark Rd. and Ate. 926. during forum time 2nd Sunday of each month. West of King Ashland St. (503) 482-4335. MARSHALLTON-Bradford Meeting (unprogrammed), of Prussia on old Ate. 202 and Old Eagle School Ad. CORVALLIS-Meeting tor worship 9:30a.m. 3311 N.W. Ate. 162, 4 mi. west of West Chester. 11 a.m. 696-6538. WEST CHESTER-First-day school 10:30 a.m., worship Polk Ave. Phone: 752·3569. MEDIA- Worship 11 a.m. (10 a.m. July-Aug.) Joint First· 10:45. 425 N. Hight St. Carolyn Helmuth, 696-0491. EUGENE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. Sunday. 2274 Onyx day school 9:30 a.m. at Media, Sept.-Jan., and at WEST GROVE-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. 153 E. St. Phone: 343-3840. Providence, Feb.- June., 125 W. Third St. Harmony Road. P.O. Box 7.

46 June 1992 FRIENDS JOURNAL WESTTOWN-Meeting tor worship t 0:30 a.m. Sunday. RIO GRANDE VALLEY-Winter worship group Sunday West VIrginia Westtown School campus, Westtown, PA t9395. mornings. For location call Carol J. Brown 686-4855. MORGANTOWN-Monongalia Friends Meeting. Every WILKES-BARRE-North Branch Monthly Meeting. ' SAN ANTONIO-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. Sunday t1 a.m. Phone: Lurline Squire (304) 599-3109. Wyoming Seminary Lower School, t560 Wyoming Ave., Discussion t1 a.m. at Methodist Student Center, 102 Forty Fort. Sunday school t O a.m., worship tt a.m., For PARKERSBURG-Unprogrammed worship, first and third Belknap, San Antonio, TX 78212. Third First days Meeting First Days at 10:30 a.m. Phone (304) 422-5299. summer and vacations, phone: (7t7) 675-2438 or (7t7) for Business with potluck at the rise of business; Lori 825-0675. Ratcliff, clerk, t3647 High Chapel, San Antonio, TX 78231 . WILLISTOWN-Worship and First-day school t O a.m. (5t 2) 493-1054. Wisconsin Goshen and Warren Ads., Newtown Square, A.D. t . BELOIT-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. Sundays, 811 WRIGHTSTOWN- Ate. 4t3. Gathering 9:30a.m. Meeting Utah Clary St. Phone: (608) 365-5858. for Worship tO a.m. First-day school, children tO:tS a.m., LOGAN-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school. adults tt a.m. EAU CLAIRE-Menomonie Friends Meeting for worship and Sundays, 10:30 a.m. 220 N. 100 E. Call 563-3345, or First-day school at the Meetinghouse (1718 10th Street, YARDLEY-Meeting for worship t 0 a.m. First-day school 752-2702. Menomonie, 235-6366) or In Eau Claire. Call 235-5686 or follows meeting d uring winter months. North Main St. SALT LAKE CITY-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day 832-072t for schedule. YORK-Worship. tt a.m. t 35 W . Philadelphia St. (7t7) school10 a.m. Friends Meeting House, t61 E. Second Ave. GREEN BAY/APPLETON-Meeting for worship and First· 854-8t09. Phone (801) 359·1506, or 582·0719. day school t1 a.m. Contact Peri Aldrich, clerk: (414) 865-7148. Rhode Island Vermont MADISON-Meeting House, 1704 Roberts Ct., (608) PROVIDENCE- Meeting for worship tt a.m. each First BENNINGTON-Worship, Sundays, 10 a.m. Old First 256-2249. Unprogrammed worship Sunday at 9:00 & t1 :00 Day. 99 Morris Ave., corner of Olney St. Church barn on Monument Circle at the obelisk. (802) a.m., Wednesday at 7:00a.m., 12:00 noon, 5:15 & 8:30p.m. Child ren's Classes at 1t :00 a.m. Sunday. SAYLESVILLE-Worship t 0:30 a.m. each First Day. 447-7980 or (802) 442·4859. Lincoln-Great Ad. (Ate. t26) at River Ad. BURLINGTON-Worship 11 a.m. Sunday. 173 North MILWAUKEE-Meeting for worship t0:30 a.m. 3224 N. Gordon Pl. Phone (414) 332·9846 or 263-211t. WESTERLY-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school Prospect St. Phone: (802) 660-9221 . t0:30 a.m. 57 Elm St. (203) 599-t264. MIDDLEBURY-Worship tO a.m. at Parent/Child Center. Wyoming WOONSOCKET -Smithfield Friends Meeting, t08 11 Monroe Street. Middlebury. (802) 388-7684. Smithfield Road, (Ate t46-A). Unprogrammed worship 9:30; PLAINFIELD-Each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Call Hathaway, JACKSON- Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school; pastoral worship tt a.m. (40t) 762-5726. (802) 223-6480 or Gilson, (802) 684-2261. Information phone: (307) 733-5880 or (307) 733-9438. PUTNEY-Worship, Sunday, 10:00 a.m. Ate. 5, north of South Carolina village, Putney. WILDERNESs-Sunday meeting for worship at 10 a.m. in BEAUFORT/FRIPP ISLAND-Unprogrammed meeting, tt a.m. First Day, in homes. Call Diane or Ash Kesler: (803) Wallingford. Rotary Building, N. Main St. Phone Kate Brinton, (802) 228-8942, or Leo Cadwallader, (802) 446-2565. 838-2983. MOVING? CHARLESTON- Worship 9:45 a.m. Sundays. The Chris­ VIrginia tian Family Y, 2 t George St. (803) 556-703t. Please let us know 8 weeks COLUMBIA-worship t O a.m. Presbyterian Student Center, ALEXANDRIA-Worship every First Day t1 a.m., unpro­ in advance. Send us your t 702 Greene St., 2920t . Phone: (803) 256-7073. grammed worship and First-day school. Woodlawn Meeting House, 8 miles S. of Alexandria, near US t. Call (703) HOARY-Worship Sundays, t0:30 a.m. (unprogrammed), address label if possible. 765-6404 or 455-0194. Grace Gifford, inland, (803) 365-6654. Otherwise, be sure to include CHARLOTTESVILLE-Discussion 10 a.m., Worship 8:45 and 1t a.m. (childcare available) except summer, Worship your name and old zip code South Dakota only 8:45 and 10 a.m. t 104 Forest St. Phone: (804) as well as your new address. SIOUX FALLS-Unprogrammed meeting tt a.m. 23tt S. 971-8859. Center Ave., 57t05. Phone: (605) 338-5744. FARMVILLE-Worship 10 a.m., discussion 11 a.m. Friends Journal, 1501 Cherry St reet 223-4t60. Phila., PA 19102 (215) 241 -71 IS Tennessee HARRISONBURG-Unprogrammed worship, 5 p.m. Sundays, Ate. 33 West. (703) 433-8574 or 885·7973. CHATTANOOGA-Worship t 0 a.m., discussion tt :30 a.m. 335 Crestway Drive. Co-clerks: Becky Ingle, (6t5) LEXINGTON-Maury River Meeting, First-day school and 629-59t4; Judy Merchant, (6t5) 825-6048. unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. Discussion 11 a.m. Phone (703) 463-9422. JOHNSON CITY-Tri-cities, tt a.m. Sunday; Clerk, Betsy Hurst. Home: (6t5) 743-6975. Work: (6t5) 743-528t. LINCOLN-Goose Creek United Meeting for worship and Catholic-Episcopal Center, 734 West Locust St. First-day school 10 a.m. SUBSCRIBE! MEMPHis-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school McLEAN-Langley Hill Meeting. June. old Ate. 123 and Please enter a subscriptio n to Friends tt a.m. year round. S.E. corner Poplar & E. Parkway. (90t) Ate. 193. tO a.m. First-day school, adult forum t 1 a.m. 323-3t96. NORFOLK-Worship and First-day school at 10 a.m. journal, payment for which is enclosed. NASHVILLE-Meeting and First-day school t O a.m. 2804 Phone (804) 627-6317 or (804) 489·4965 for information. 0 One year $18 0 Two years $34 Acklen Ave., (6t5) 269-0225. Penny Wright, clerk. RICHMOND-Worship tt a.m., children's First-day school {Add S6 per year for postage outside North America.) WEST KNOXVILLE-Worship and First-day school tO a.m. 11 :20 a.m. 4500 Kensington Ave. 358-6185. D.W. Newton, 693-8540. RICHMOND-Midlothian Meeting. Worship 11 a.m., 0 Enroll me as a Friends journal children's First-day school11 :15 a.m. (804) 379-8506. Associate. My contribut ion of S ___ Texas ROANOKE- Blacksburg/Roanoke Monthly Meetings. Roa­ noke: call Genevieve Waring, (703) 343-6769. Blacksburg: is in addition to t he subscript ion price ALPINE-Meeting for worship, Sunday, t 0:30-tt:30 a.m. call Sandra Harold, (703) 362-6t85. and is tax-ded uctible. in the home of George and Martha Floro. Call (9t 5) 837-2930 for information. VIRGINIA BEACH-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. (based on silence). 1537 Laskin Aad., Virginia Beach, VA 23451 . My Name AUSTIN- Forum t O a.m., unprogrammed worship t t a.m. Supervised activities and First-day school for young WILLIAMSBURG-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 4 Friends. 30t 4 Washington Square. Paul Stucky, clerk. p.m. Sundays, First-day school 5 p.m. 1333 Jamestown Address ------Road, (804) 229-6693. DALLAS-Sunday tO a.m. 5828 Worth St. Clerk, Ward Elmendorf, 826-207t: or call 82t·6543. WINCHESTER-Hopewell Meeting. 7 mi. N. on Ate. 11 (Clearbrook). Unprogrammed meeting tor worship 10:15 EL PASO-Meeting at tO a.m. Sunday. 282t Idalia, El a.m., First-day school 11 a.m. Clerk: (703) 667-t0t8. Paso, i'X 79930. Please use the back door. Phone: (9t5) 534-8203. Please leave a message. Washington FORT WORTH-Unprogrammed meeting at Wesley 0 This is a gift subscription for: Foundation, 2750 West Lowden, tt a.m. Discussion follows BELLEVUE-Eastside Friends. 4t60 158th Ave. SE. Wor­ worship. (8t7) 428·994t . ship tO a.m., study tt a.m. (206) 747-4722 or 587-6449. Name GALVESTON-Meeting for worship, First-day tO a.m.; OLYMPIA-Worship 10 a.m. 2t9 B Street S.W., Tumwater. t 50t Post Office Street. (409) 762- t785. First Sunday each month; potluck breakfast at 9 a.m. Address HILL COUNTRY-Unprogrammed worship t0:40 a.m., dis­ Address: P.O . Box 334, Olympia, WA 98507. Phone: cussion tO a.m. Kerrville, TX. Clerk: Sue Rosier (5t2) 943-3818 or 357·3855. 698-2592. PULLMAN-See Moscow, Idaho. HOUSTON-Live Oak Meeting, t003 Alexander. Meeting SEATTLE-University Friends Meeting 4001 9th Ave. NE. for worship tt a.m. year round. Discussion 9:30a.m. except Quiet worship First Days 9:30 & 11 a.m., Weds. 7 p.m. summer. Phone: clerk, Dee Rogers: (713) 358-3711 or 547-6449. Accommodations: 632-9839. Send renewal notice Meetinghouse: (7t3) 862-6685 for details. SPOKANE-Unprogrammed worship. (509) 536-6622 or 0 to me. 0 to recipient. LUBBOCK-Unprogrammed worship, Sunday morning (509) 747-7275. 10:45-tt :45 a.m. United Campus Ministries Building, 24t2 TACOMA- Tacoma Friends Meeting, 3019 N. 21 st St. Friends journal, 1501 Cherry St reet, 13th St. (806) 745-892t . Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m., First-day discussion 11 a.m. MIDLAND-Worship 5 p .m. Sundays. Clerk, Mike Gray, Phone: 759-1910. Philadelphia, PA 19102-1 497 (915) 699·5512. WALLA WALLA-10 a.m. Sundays. 522-0399.

fRIENDS J OURNAL June 1992 47 Quaker Children's Story Collections

Fire in the Valley Lighting Candles in the Dark

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