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J>E(; J>IIILLIJ>S 0:'\ .\RT, .\CTI\.IS\1, A:'\D JOY • 11.\:'\:'\.\11 B.\R:'\.\RD: A LIBER.\L Ql .\KER IIERO Editor-Manager Among Friends Vinton Deming Associate Editor Kenneth Sutton Confronting Militaristn Assistant Editor Timothy Drake Art Director n mid-November the men's group of my meeting cosponsored a discussion with Barbara Benton three Latin American COs actively opposing militarism in their countries. They Production Assistant were traveling with Raymond J. Toney, staff member for the National Alia Podolsky I Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors (NISBCO). A potluck Development Consultant Henry Freeman supper brought 25 or so Philadelphia-area Friends together for a first-hand report on Marketing and Advertising Manager militarism in Chile, Colombia, and Honduras. Nagendran Gulendran Luis Cardenas, a Chilean Mennonite, has been active with a regional human Secretary Cheryl Armstrong rights organization addressing the issue of conscientious objection. Luis reports that Bookkeeper there is very little church support in Chile for the CO position. He has helped to form James Neveil a CO network within Chile and seeks to expand it to other countries as well. Poetry Editor Ricardo Pinzon, from Colombia, started working with COs there about six years Judith Brown ago, helping to form an organization committed to nonviolence. Like Luis, Ricardo Development Data Entry Pamela Nelson wants to exert pressure on his government to recognize the CO position. Currently Intern there is no option in Colombia for an individual acting out of conscience to do Cat Buckley alternative service. The Colombian military also has many sinister approaches to Volunteers inducting young people into the military with or without their assent. Jane Burgess, Emily Conlon, Marguerite Clark, Carol MacCormack, Jack Mongar, Robert Sutton Oscar Duenas, the third visitor, is from Honduras. Like Luis, he also is active in Board of Managers the Mennonite church. 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6 Blending Art, Activism, and Joy: 4 Forum An Interview with Peg Phillips Lyn McCollum 18 Witness Widely known as Ruth Anne in TV's Northern Exposure, Friend 20 Reports Peg Phillips is also using her drama skills to help young people in prison. 23 News of Friends 11 Hannah Barnard: A Liberal Quaker 24 Bulletin Board Hero 25 Calendar Chuck Fager Strong Quaker women have always been part ofour history, 26 Books though not always part ofour history books. 28 Milestones 13 Bobbie Lee: How Does a Concern Arise? 29 Classified Charles E. Thomas An injustice rooted in racism produces the seed ofa simple Poetry witness. 14 Dear Augusta 9 Chalice of Green Paul Buckley Ann Stokes It is our common humanity that makes us friends ofJ esus. Family 16 Swarthmoor Hall: A Powerhouse Dane Cervine for Friends Angus J. L. Winchester 10 Sestina for Alice Th e home ofMargar et Fell was a nurturing center for early Linda H. Elegant Quakerism. Britain Yearly Meeting hopes it will serve a similar A Few Pencil Marks purpose for modern Friends. Terence Y. Mullins In Equal Beauty Alice Mackenzie Swaim 15 Luke 10:30-42 Margaret Lacey

All of us at Friends Journal send warm New Year's wishes. Seated, front: Cat Buckley. Left to right, front row: Nagendran Gulendran (Gulen), Timothy Drake, Barbara Benton, Pam Nelson, Alia Podolsky. Back row: Kenneth Sutton, Vinton Deming, Jim Neveil.

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3 Forum

Another approach Jerusalem, which happened 40 years after Jesus' death. It is a diatribe against Jews and Barry L. Zalph writes eloquently about Judaism. It documents a later period in the the vegetarian choice (FJ Oct. 1995). I too history of the church when it came into seek the Truth and have considered conflict with Judaism. This was a basic earnestly in the Light his list of eight concern of the church after the year 70. But observations as guides for this topic. this passage is not alone in showing traces Ruminant animals not only convert oflater influences; they exist on every page inedible plant materials into meat for of the Gospels. humans but for all carnivorous and When looked at omnivorous animals as well in what has objectively, the been given the descriptive title of the "food message of Jesus, chain." I'm sure Quakers generally know where it can be retrieved, that being an omnivore isn't limited to is hardly unique. In evaluating humans. the Gospel records, a prominent New I certainly unite with Friend Barry in continuing decline if we are to continue Testament scholar, Rudolf Bultmann, wrote: deploring the practices that debase animals, being the largest exporter of food and "The concepts of God, world, and man, of and I hope we can continue to "make provide quality food to U.S. citizens at the law and grace, of repentance and inroads" with such inhumane conditions. I cost of about eight percent of disposable forgiveness in the teaching of Jesus are not include hopes for better working conditions income. new in comparison with those of the Old for employees in slaughterhouses and meat Consider the world as an apple: If cut Testament and Judaism, however radically packing plants. into quarters, 3/4 is water and 1/4 is land to they may be understood. And his criticism The final item quotes Albert Schweitzer's live on. If you cut the land into quarters, 1/4 and interpretation of the Law, in spite of its concept on injury to any kind oflife and the is desert, I /4 mountains, 1/4 tundra (or too radicality, likewise stands within the scribal importance of never going beyond the cold to live on), and 1/4 for life as we know discussion about it, just as his eschatological unavoidable. Death for all God's creatures, it. Cut that last quarter and 1/4 is too preaching does within Jewish apocalyptic." great and small, becomes sooner or later an swampy, 1/4 too dry, 1/4 too rocky or steep, The church did not preserve the words of unavoidable fact of our existence. and 1/4 is for living. Peel that last quarter. Jesus because he was a great teacher, a For me personally, the conclusions differ, The piece of "peel" left is what the world radical reformer, or a fascinating and I feel uncomfortable with the analogy has for producing food! personality. The church originally drawn. I'm not, nor ever have been, a user of We have to look at the whole picture and proclaimed him as the Son of Man, the mind-altering drugs; likewise, I do not treat it with care. Please look at the truth and coming Messiah, who wi ll soon usher in the approve of gambling or the use of violence. I pass it on. Messianic Age. The identification of Jesus enjoy eating vegetables, fruits, and nuts, yet Suzanne P. Lamborn with the Divine Man who descended from I like modest amounts of animal protein. Nottingham, Pa. heaven by means of a miraculous birth was I take major exception to the conclusion a later development in the Hellenistic world, that my non-vegetarianism dulls my where the Gospels were written. awareness to the voice of the Spirit in my In the message What we have in the New Testament is life or that it "desensitizes me to the Blanche Zimmerman (FJ June 1995) has the message of the earliest church as it was suffering of other creatures." I accept the attempted to separate the teachings of Jesus defining itself at the end of the first century. ethical and physiological problems (the message) from the teachings about This message is composed of adapted associated with being part of the world I Jesus (the myth). This is not as easy as it accounts of sayings and actions of Jesus inhabit, and I rejoice in my attitudes' and seems. For over 100 years, New Testament together with the church' s own theological actions' alignment with the spiritual scholars seeking to find the hi.storical Jesus thoughts about him and God and humanity guidance I try to follow daily. have attempted to solve this problem. The and the world. They are bound together in a Ruth W. Marsh results of this search are most meager. The unified whole. The New Testament is a Houston, Tex. bulk of scholarly opinion ranges from the proclamation of the earliest church, which belief that only a limited amount of material identified itself as the eschatological There are many Friends who feel in the Gospels is authentically traceable to community. This is the clue to its proper strongly that being a vegetarian is Jesus to the view that practically none of it understanding. important-just as important to some as the is. Joseph W. Letson abolition movement was in the past. Having The early church transmitted the Yellow Springs, Ohio farmed with cows as a dairy farmer and teachings of Jesus, but it did not do so before that with pigs, I have a different view. mechanically. His words were tailored to fit Not the last We treated our animals with kindness and the churches' needs and concerns. They enjoyed their personalities. When they were edited, expanded, altered, and, in some Peggy Gwynn' s poem " Indian Hannah" became old or disabled we saw that they cases, maybe even fabricated. (FJ Oct. 1995) refers to "Hannah... that went to the butcher for a quick death. I find Matthew 22:1- 14 is a good example of aged Indian, last of the Lenni Lenapes. . .." this kinder than allowing a prolonged such doctoring. In the form in which this Hannah may indeed have been the lone illness. parable now stands, it cannot be an authentic representative of her people in Penn's Currently about one percent of our saying of Jesus. And it certainly is not an Woods, since the Lenape, or Delaware, had population are actually farmers (down from account of a "loving God who opens his been pushed much farther west by the end of nearly 98 percent before our country was a arms to all the people in the world." the 18th century; but she was by no means nation). The main reason farmers go out of However, the reason for doubting its the last. business is that there is no profit. Somehow authenticity is not its view of the deity but A Quaker Algonkianist, Bruce Pearson, we are going to have to overcome this the fact that it reflects the siege of has quite recently published The Delaware

4 January 1996 FRJENDS JOURNAL Language with Lucy Blalock and James Should we even revise our language to ''black," there is a dilemma; which one to Rementer, the two remaining speakers of the purge it of supposed patriarchical choose? And what about the other 14? An language in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. There assumptions? Peg Morton thinks we should, interesting current usage in many surveys is are a few more speakers in Anadarko, since she considers that such language the use of"Hispanic Surname (could be of Oklahoma, and in Canada, but all are reinforces a world that is best understood as any race)." elderly. Within a few years Lenape and patriarchical and whose victims are 4. Peg mentions "Lord" as harking back many other Native American languages will predominantly women. But this would be to to medieval times; "king" goes back to be preserved only in books and recordings, endorse one controversial theory, which times before the Bible; "King of Kings" puts like the DNA of an extinct species, awaiting itself has unfortunate consequences in the reference deity in patriarchal charge of some day for a still-unimagined technology encouraging us all to define ourselves as • the entire group of tyrants as well as the rest that will revive them. The Lenape will still victims, and overlooks the extent to which of us; "royal blood" is demeaning to the rest exist without their language, of course, but a women and men share responsibility for the of us and has the problems mentioned vital part of their culture will have been lost. evil in the world. above. While our own religious commitment is 5. "God must have been with him/her," Robert S. Richmond to the fundamental equality between men referring to a survivor of an accident, act of Knoxville, Tenn. and women, does that grant us the right to war, etc., automatically denegrates those [email protected] legislate language for those whose religious who did not survive; otherwise it implies commitment is expressed in gendered limitation of God's ability, compassion, or P.S. The Delaware Language is terms? Sometimes inclusive language can attention to intercessory prayers. published for the Delaware Tribe of Indians, become another form of exclusion. Rather Bob Blossom 108 South Seneca, Bartlesville, OK 74003, than search for a completely inclusive Sag Harbor, N.Y. by Yorkshire Press, 6248 Yorkshire Dr., language, perhaps we should more modestly Columbia, SC 29209, telephone review our own conception of equality and As I think back to 17th-century England (803) 776-7471. ask the following questions: Do we rely too and the appearance of George Fox and the heavily on the conception of ourselves as Children of the Light, these nonconformists victim? In our search for justice are we able decried the difference among levels of Indirect influence to discriminate between the important and human beings, asserting that all are equal in Growing up in the Methodist church I the trivial issues? Are we able to recognize the sight of God. An important part of their didn 't know any Friends in our community. the ambiguity of language and resist the testimony was their use of plain language, However, I do recall that the Quakers and temptation to see offense where none ex ists? which discarded the distinctions used in George Fox were spoken of admiringly. I address between social classes. had a positive image of Quakers from John Hillman Doubtless under the impact of the childhood on. Peterborough , Ontario democratization of society caused by the Later, I realized that my father had grown colonization of North America and its up among Quakers in rural Quaker City, Peg Morton's article was very good and conscious development into a nominally Ohio. I later found out this was a hotbed of covered important ground. The basic classless nation, English-speaking peoples Conservative Friends, centered in thought--concern about the meaning and almost universally abandoned use of the old, Barnesville. My dad must have been results of our habits of language use--can intimate second person singular form of influenced subtly by Friends but he didn't be extended to a number of areas: speech, with everyone equalized by being acknowledge it. Through him, I may have I. Personal pronouns can result in a "me just "you." Today there are but a few been predisposed to unite with Friends in versus you" atmosphere-your thought vs. families and groups of Friends who still use my early 40s. my thought- an opposition especially to be the plain language. Ironically, in his 80s he declared affinity avoided when trying to make progress How would it be to return to this old with the Quakers. He was not in a position toward a better understanding of the truth. practice? We might thereby reclaim a to act upon it. I am fairly certain that I An unseemly projection of personal pride wonderfully effective means for fostering a indirectly influenced his motion. implicitly devalues the reader or hearer. real intimacy with those to whom we want Like father, like son, like father? 2. Superlatives are seldom accurate and to be closest. have some of the aspects of the above ("I'm What does thee think of this idea? Maurice Boyd really better than you"); are used for Washington, D.C. emphasis but often will be an obvious Charles E. Moran, Jr. overstatement leading to automatic Free Union, Va. devaluing of foll owing statements; "the best Use of language team (player, beauty, restaurant, etc.) in the world" is often used as though it is realistic "I'll give it my best shot." Peg Morton instead of poetic, and leads to what might be FRIENDS JouRNAL welcomes Forum con­ wonders whether the use of this expression called the "sin of the superlative." tributions. Please try to be brief so we reinforces violence and should therefore be 3. Using the "racial" characterization of a may include as many as possible. Limit on the list of forbidden expressions (FJ Oct. parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, or letters to 300 words, Viewpoint to 1,000 1995). Rastafarians have gone a long way to great-great-grandparent to classify one as a words. Addresses are omitted to main­ purge their language of any word or syllable "black" or a "Jew" (as Hitler did) or an tain the authors' privacy; those wishing that might be negative, but should Friends "Indian" (as the U.S. government and to correspond directly with authors may again adopt a peculiar language code? It Native Americans do) to classify a person of send )etters to FRIENDS JOURNAL to be seems odd to be asked to do so, especially the current generation puts the forbears of forwarded. Authors' names are not to be since this expression derives not from any different characterization in a used for personal or organizational so­ violence but from a play in a game such as demeaning status. When one of the most licitation. -Eds. tennis. distant forbears is "Indian" and one is fRIENDS J OURNAL January 1996 5 Blending Art, Activism, and Joy: An Interview with Peg Phillips by Lyn McCollum saying, "See, dreams really do come true." silent worship where you sort of heal, and I enjoyed interviewing her last June you can feel that God is there. There's ressed casually in faded slacks, when she came to Boise, Idaho, to emcee that, and when I can't go to meeting, I'm t-shirt, and sandals, Peg Phillips • a fundraiser. fortunate that I live alone, so I have quiet. Dshuns pretensions. A small woman I'm able just to shut the world out. Just with a baritone voice, her sparkling eyes Do you have confidence in the tum off the telephone. Sit and read, medi­ convey humor and purpose. future? tate, work, or listen to music, and toss Widely known as Ruth Anne, the 75- I'm almost in despair about the world's everything out and refresh my spirit. We year-old shopkeeper in TV's Northern problems, but I also feel an impetus to do all have to do that. I used to do that when Exposure, Phillips is a member ofEastside something about them, like all the others I was raising kids, and they were all teen­ Meeting in Bellevue, Washington. Peg who are trying valiantly. agers. That gets to be a pretty hectic time, believes people need frivolity and fun. I believe that each one of us who is and you live with it all day, every day, She speaks with the confidence of some­ discouraged, who believes that we're go­ and you worry about everything, about one who has spontaneously seized good ing for broke by fouling our nests, must their heartbreak, or where they're going, times whenever they've come her way. cling to our own best instincts and work, or what they're doing, and you can't make For example, when she was an accoun­ because public opinion is formed by pri­ a life for them. You have to think of tant and single parent of four, someone vate people. Every single good law that yourself and keep yourself whole and gave her a dishwasher. She and the chil­ was ever passed was dreamed up by some­ spiritually healthy. dren talked about it, then "sold the damn body. And I think we have to badger our thing" so they could go to Disneyland! senators and representatives, local and When you feel God's presence, Not one to fade into retirement, Phillips national. We have to take an active part in do you feel a calming as if life decided at age 65 to enroll in the Univer­ government, for one thing, on environ­ will be okay? sity of Washington's drama program. mental issues. People say, "What can one Uh huh (nodding yes). I have a feeling Forty years older than any other student, person do about it?" Well, if one person, that I'm seeing inside myself, beyond she got all the "good ol' roles" and took multiplied by 10 million, does nothing, what's right here. I get a more eternal time to be zany, like singing on street what's going to happen? So I think it is feeling, that today or next week isn't all comers with one of her classmates. Her absolutely incumbent upon those of us that is, that everything is very large, and granddaughter Ginny told her, "Now your who are running scared to do our part, that this, too, shall pass. inappropriate behavior has a place to be even though it seems to us to cause only a appropriate." Her offbeat TV role brought ripple, or no ripple at all. And the more When you're working with kids in her an Emmy nomination and her first discouraged we get, the more we have to drama, do you feel they, too, are generous pay checks, which she eagerly work. searching for a sense of calm or dispensed to family members and a wide are they just involved in the assortment of charities. When people ad­ Because you're so actively trying excitement of what they are vise her to save her money, she responds, to make social changes, you creating? "Why? For my old age?" must also find a quiet place to Both. The kids I work with are serious In 1987 Peg started a drama program recharge. Where is that? felons. We rarely do plays, because some at Echo Glen Children's Center, a juve­ Well, I go to meeting. Silent meeting is of them aren't good readers. Ifa couple of nile correctional facility in Snoqualamie, a great recharger for me. It's an hour of the kids in the class can't read the script, Washington, a continuation ofthe there's a sense offailure, and that's kind of volunteerism she's done not what we're about. So we do since the 1960s. When she's not improvisations and mime and that teaching drama to teenage fel­ kind of thing. What we do depends ons, she's introducing her hand­ book, Drama for Locked-in Kids, to other correctional facilities across the country~ When she mentions fledgling drama pro­ grams elsewhere, Phillips grins, Peg Phillips with Anne and Bill St. Germain, also Lyn McCollum is a freelance writer members of Eastside who attends either the Boise (Idaho) (Wash.) Meeting, on the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship or set of Ruth Anne's store the Boise Valley Meeting. in Northern Exposure

6 January 1996 FRJENDS JOURNAL on their individual and group I'm concemed about temperament and how they recidivism. Do any of feel that week. We get won­ them feel It's helped derful, hilarious improvs, just them adjust to life? marvelous, the funniest things None ofthem has said any­ in the world, and you wouldn't thing, and we don't see them think you would from kids after they get out. There's no that are in prison. In drama after-care in Washington. everything just drops away. The kids are thrown right Then we get some very back on the streets or in the poignant things. There is one abusive homes they came exercise we do called "Inter­ from. So I guess we've view the Expert." One person worked with more than 400 is on stage, like a TV inter­ kids, and I've heard from only viewer, and the other is off­ four of them after they got stage and is invited to come out. on as if he or she is an expert However, Patti Berntsen, on something. That usually the associate superintendent works very well. One time of the institution, a wonder­ we had some older girls who ful woman who made our .. took it beyond our suggestion program possible, said that ·~ and had a panel that went into the kids who've taken drama, ~ the good and bad of rap mu­ like Martin, Keith, and ~ 0... sic. That was clear off the Ephesians, haven't come

FRIENDS JOURNAL January 1996 7 Have you heard from any of from us, from the way we live, not from matter with you?" (She laughs) It's easier those kids? talking. Talk's cheap. But I think we have for me because they don't want to talk Yes, and I left there over 20 years ago. a right as parents or mentors to expect our back to their grandmother. A young per­ I got into Echo Glen because I missed children to develop a humane, caring, son can't get away with what I do, but troubled kids. I think some of our kids decent, responsible approach to life. If it I've never had discipline problems. who have a Jot of material things are at doesn't happen, we have every right, in­ least as troubled as our street kids, if not deed an obligation, to let them know that What has been your favorite more sometimes, when they learn to ex­ what they're doing is not appropriate and question in an interview setting? pect so much. That's one thing I like won't do and that we won't put up with it At my first press conference, one in about my kids at the institution: They are 'cause we have a right to live, too. I ache Los Angeles with about 15 reporters, I ordinary kids in extraordinary circum­ and feel for the kids up there [at Echo was asked, "Do you draw on any spiritu­ stances. All kids are ordinary, but these Glen] who are arsonists, rapists. But I ality in your acting work?" I answered kids have never had it. They'd like to have a right to expect them to treat me yes, unequivocally, because I think we have it, but they've never had a decent well and treat each other well. I expect draw on our spirituality in everything we life, and they don't know what it's like. the same of my children, my grandkids, do. In order to get into a character, you So there's a certain arrogance missing in and they expect that of me. We have to must somehow get an awareness of the them that I find in some upper-middle­ take responsibility for our own actions. God within every person. class kids who have everything and ex­ pect everything. The kids I see have been Who do you admire? What do you see the planet hungry, abused. They don't expect any­ A black lady·in her late 50s who runs a looking like 30 years from now? thing. [During the drama sessions] some little grocery store in a ghetto in Seattle I can see it practically destroyed 30 are grateful, some off-hand, but they all and caters to kids. She makes hot dogs years from now if we go on with this come back. Once we asked the kids why and things in her hangout for kids. She's greed, thinking of economic factors and they signed up for drama. One kid, Sky, called Mama, and everybody knows if disregarding spiritual factors that sustain raised his hand and said, "Hey, you guys the kids are at Mama's, they're all right. I life. We have to teach people to enjoy always show up." admire her. That's her life. She runs her life, so they'll want to fight for it. We little business and supports herself but can't have a negative attitude. Ifl went up What can a parent give to his or lets everybody know that kids are wel­ to Echo Glen saying, "You kids are so her child? What matters to a kid? come at her place. If kids don't have bad," it would be worse than no good. We The first word that comes to mind is enough money to buy anything, she gives have to enjoy, really enjoy, walking "expectations." This is what I mean: I it to them. But she's like I am with the through a forest or hearing good music, think we should expect our kids to be­ kids at Echo Glen: God help you if you the whole thing. We can't fight from a come responsible, caring citizens. That start to use anybody. All you have to say frightened stance. We've got to have a absolutely goes without saying. There is if you see manipulative behavior is "Get clear head. Our sense of love comes from no explanation necessary. It has to come off it!" or "For God's sake, what's the an ability to laugh and feel joy. CJ

ow, there are a gotten a single person in. eighth year at Echo Glen Children's couple of things "Ruth Anne" packed the Center. A couple ofyears ago, I turned NI'd like to tell you houses.) the site direction of the Theatre In­ about that probably weren't Since I work with incar- side program at Echo Glen over to a covered in my Boise inter- cerated kids, my outrage and two splendid young people, Jim view. (Since I'm known throughout activism is principally directed to the Dunlap and Luann Olsen, and have our persuasion as a "wordy" Quaker prison system. So, a couple of years ago, been concentrating my efforts on rather than a "weighty" Quaker, you'll Laura Magnani (who works in the crimi­ spreading the word about the value of probably be taken aback by length of nal justice program in AFSC's San Fran­ drama work in the kids' lives. So far, this letter.) cisco office) and I got together, and I cut a like programs are off and running in I'd like to comment on the some­ bunch of radio spots concerning the death Covington, Kentucky; Wichita, Kan­ what unseemly access to public opin­ penalty, the "three-strikes-you're-out" fi­ sas; Boise, Idaho (still working ion accorded to anyone who appears asco, and other criminal justice issues. through the bureaucracy); and regularly on national TV! Millions of Early this year, Laura and her colleagues Loomis, California. people see you every Monday night from the Philadelphia office carne to I figured it out. Our program at so they listen to what you have to say Seattle and we made some more spots. Echo Glen reaches about 75 kids a as a private citizen (particularly if All this is by way of saying that those of year. If a scant 1,500 people in the you're an old woman), and those of us actors who are fortunate enough to United States were to share their en­ us who hold strong views are allowed land a job that makes us somewhat fa­ thusiasm (bird watching, woodwork­ to air those views. For instance, I was mous on TV have an opportunity to sway ing, dance, anything) with 75 kids a asked to speak at the kickoffs for the public opinion that no other group of year we'd reach 960,000 of our at­ gay and lesbian marches in Boise and people has. It's a wonderful perk in a risk kids every year! Seattle, and the attendance was mag­ somewhat shoddy business. nificent. ("Peg Phillips" wouldn't have Then, the kids. We've just finished our - Peg Phillips

8 January 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL Chalice ofGreen

The dense green downed. Unable to stand up to wind that would not secede, cold brittled right into its trunk. This hemlock, with needles more plentiful than memories, fell uphill among friends.

Walking in woods all my life I had seen many fallen. Giant-stepped over them, sprawled thighs either side, slipped eyes under curled · lichen and brown fungus roofing secret caves. Yet in my own small country of pointed firs, this fall caught on my marrow.

She who loved trees died under a mountain ash, Family out-walking her prime. At ninety-three she had taken Family waiting to spring upon a picnic close to maiden hair is deep the world rested her head for a maiden in the bone a new voice, dream put her wedding ring a new design, on her right hand wife of my soul, a new weave in this and slept into death. body and mind fabric of family twined This woman, my Mother in the passage of years this bone of my bone, spent her life longing for light; this shared flesh, transformed parents this deep mystery when she touched, oh brief seconds. whose bold act of the tie It was she who sat me at three created me from nothing that binds in the pine needles, to hear one generation to another dark silence catch light brother through the years. through heaven-fed limbs. sister becoming the adults Dane Cervine Her dream became vision, we saw from afar lightening my grief down the hemlock's root through rich grandparents earth into magenta, magnified aunts and uncles and magnificent. a great crowd of forbears My rushing heart who forged into the future, carries this body, without restraint, my present to a chalice of green where moss thickens, loss deepens. now my child Ann Swkes waits in the ethers, buried Ann Stokes, of West Chesterfield, in the tissue and marrow New Hampshire, wrote this poem of this new for her mother, Lydia B. Stokes, father and mother who died on July 14, 1988. to be Dane Cervine lives in Santa Cruz, California.

FRIENDS JOURNAL January 1996 9 Sestina for Alice A Few Pencil Marks

She doesn't die. She goes on Jiving. A few pencil marks in a book that you read She sits, legs limp as windsocks on still days. bring you alive again in my mind, Her vision stretches out lonesome as the sagebrush your way of responding eagerly of an airstrip in Wyoming. She listens for eddies of wind to words spoken, written, or in print and wonders if there are any young fish with the whole of yourself, with a kind in the pools left by the spring melts. of personal engagement as if the feel of idea or emotion, the appeal She cannot find her teeth. The jello melts of meaning, carried not a hint on the tray before her. She watches TV: living but the whole burden of thought designed color in shades of green and yellow. Mushy white fish to kindle you to anger, joy, or ecstasy. for lunch, never spring trout. Yam to wind brought by the daughter-in-law who comes Wednesdays Terence Y. Mullins and Sundays with magazines, peppermints, a new hairbrush.

A cow moose comes high-stepping through the sagebrush followed by a stumbling calf, after the snow melts. In Equal Beauty She goes out to watch them. In the fresh wind she feels alive, sees the first green spikes of sage, Jiving Snow is not prejudiced. after the cold. Harley does not come out. For three days Like God's forgiveness he has been sick, won't touch his bread or fish. it falls in equal beauty on palaces and pigsties, rocks and trees, On the morning Harley dies, she goes fishing. not larger snowflakes for a lovelier place She wraps him in a quilt and walks away through the sagebrush or small misshapen ones to the timber. She follows the creek up all day to fit the shiftless and Jess fortunate. until she is high on the plateau where snow melts Snow is not prejudiced; in patches. She and the creek are the only Jiving It lays its cleansing peace things moving in the huckleberry. No trees block the wind. on laughing mouths or faces tom by pain. For one immaculate, transfigured hour, She casts until dark, until the wind earth lies silent and lovely has made her stiff with cold and she catches no fish. as it might have been were we more wise. Harley is dead but she is still living and she comes home stumbling through the sagebush Alice Mackenzie Swaim to him, slumped in his quilt. The lamp melts away the dark, the fire warms her and she sits till daylight

beside him, brushes back his hair, and sees her days stretch out alone. At daybreak she hears a mourning dove when the wind dies, and the bird's grief becomes hers. The tears melt. Tears for Harley, for her, for wind and fish. When her son comes, he lands his small plane in the sagebrush and he takes her away, but she goes on living.

Her days have no measure, no seasons, no fish, but she hears the wind moving through the sagebrush. This present melts away and she goes on living.

Linda H. Elegant

Linda H. Elegant is a writer ofpoetry and prose who lives in Portland, Oregon. Terence Y. Mullins lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A native ofScotland , Alice Mackenzie Swaim lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

10 Hannah Barnard-- A LIBERAL QUAKER-- HERO by Chuck Fager iberal Quakerism has both a dis­ similar use of churches by Friends. When ters differently, however. They were a tinguished history and a distinc­ the (male) elders nixed the idea, Barnard group of incipient liberals who rejected Ltive religious message, but over­ defended it with what the clerk consid­ such literalist readings of the Bible, espe­ all, liberal Quakers have not done well ered "uncommon tenacity," to the point cially where the texts contradicted such either at recalling this history or declaring where she and her delegation were told to central Quaker convictions as the peace the message. I believe the work of re­ leave the session. testimony. These internal dissenters­ membering our history and rethinking our Some historians believe it was from sometimes referred to as "New Lights"­ faith is of continuing importance. In a this confrontation, over a seemingly mi­ also became increasingly persuaded that time of resurgent conservatism, religious nor item of practice, that her later troubles it was unQuakerly to make such doctrinal as well as political, this effort may be of over doctrine sprang. correctness a central particular use to those who are dissenters The London Quaker part of Quaker faith in from the new establishment. It can pro­ establishment was the first place. They vide us with a cloud of witnesses from then taking on an Barnard found thereby challenged a whom we can draw support and strength. evangelical version of Friends in Ireland key assumption of the The roll of liberal Quaker heroes and orthodoxy that would establishment, namely heroines is long and notable, but in my hold sway there for debating matters of the importance of cor­ mind one name, that of Hannah Barnard, over half a century. rect evangelical doc­ always seems to move to the front of the This establishment wa1; peace, and the trine, especially regard­ list. It is as if she elbows her way past did not welcome chal­ Bible. Specifimlly, ing the Bible. other, better-known figures and demands lenges to its dicta, on As Barnard later priority attention. matters small or large, the question put to wrote, "I found myself As I read the record, that's how she from anyone, and reduced to the alterna­ was-not at all shrinking and deferential particularly from her was: Did God tive of either believing but assertive and bold. An " uppity women. Having al­ indeed command that the Almighty's na­ woman," indeed, and the record suggests ready taken the elders ture and will were it was her boldness that eventually got her on in a matter ofprac­ the ancient changeable like that of in trouble. tice, Hannah Barnard a finite man or that it In 1797 Hannah Barnard was a re­ was soon embroiled Israelites to make never was his positive spected woman ministerofHudson (N.Y.) in controversy on war on their will and pleasure for his Meeting, who felt a religious concern to matters of doctrine. rational creatures to de- travel among Friends and others in the The new conflict enemzes, as stroy one another's lives British Isles. That year her meeting is­ emerged after in any age of the world." sued a certificate, a " traveling minute," Barnard moved on to recorded in the Thus facing this choice, which was duly endorsed by the quarterly visit Ireland. There Hebrew S"'criptures? she opted for an infal­ meeting and New York Yearly Meeting. she found Friends de­ lible, peaceable God Arriving in the British Isles with a woman bating matters of war, and a fallible, warlike companion in 1798, Barnard spent ten peace, and the Bible. Bible. months traveling more than 2,000 miles, Specifically, the question put to her was: Hannah Barnard joined with the "New visiting and preaching. Particularly in Did God indeed command the ancient Lights" and traveled among Irish Friends, Cornwall, she attracted many Methodists Israelites to make war (of a genocidal sort advocating their views in a spirited, ar­ to her public meetings. in several cases) on their enemies, as re­ ticulate fashion, again meeting also with This ecumenical opening seemed worth corded in the Hebrew Scriptures? nonFriends. When she finished her tour, pursuing, and at the 1799 session of Lon­ This way ofpo sing the issue was prob­ Dublin Yearly Meeting gave her a certifi­ don Yearly Meeting, Barnard and a del­ ably not accidental. Just a year before, cate that said she had ministered "to gen­ egation ofwomen Friends urged the yearly there had been a peasant uprising against eral satisfaction" and expressed the hope meeting hierarchy to permit the occa­ English overlords, which British troops that she might be "favoured to continue" sional use of meetinghouses by ministers had put down very brutally. Many Irish her religious labors. of other denominations in exchange for Friends, as people of substance, were In pursuit of this objective, Barnard likely on the side of this imperial form of returned to London and applied to the A member of Langley Hill (Va.) Meeting, Chuck Fager works for the Pendle Hill Issues "law and order," and pointing to the scrip­ Meeting of Ministers and Elders for a Program. Chuck is a writer whose recent tural massacres as justification for con­ certificate to continue her travels in Ger­ topics include "high points ofliberal Quaker temporary official violence was not a new many. Other reports ofher work and mes­ history." form of rationalization. sage, from alarmed evangelicals, had also © 1995 C. Fager There were Irish Friends who saw mat- made their way to London, and in May

FRffiNDs JouRNALJanua~J996 11 1800 the elders rejected her request. She weighty male Friend noted regretfully her to have fateful results for the Religious was soon directed to "desist from preach­ willingness to challenge opponents of Society of Friends. But that's another ing" and to return home as soon as pos­ whatever stature, she replied that she was story. Hicks visited Barnard in Hudson in sible. They even offered to pay for her indeed ready "to meet any person, or 1824. A year later she died peacefully at passage, which she indignantly refused. even the whole world, while I felt con­ home. The chief charge against her was that scious innocence." In 1838, more than a decade after she denied the full truth and authority of Again, though, she lost and by mid- Barnard's death, Joseph John Gurney, the Scripture. Informally she was accused of 1802 had been disowned for showing "a most famous British evangelical Quaker . all manner of heresies. Barnard fought caviling, contentious disposition ofmind." of his day, detoured from a trip down the the charges, insisting that her conclusions She remained unrepentant, writing to a Hudson River specifically to preach his were in harmony with the original Quaker British supporter that "under the present gospel in Hudson, in the lair of "the he­ conviction that the leading of the Spirit state of the Society I can with humble retical Hannah Barnard." within was the final measure of truth and reverent thankfulness rejoice in the con­ I think I understand part ofwhat moved not outward Scripture, however inter­ sideration that I was made the Instrument him. There's something seminal and preted. "Nothing is revealed truth to me, of bringing their Darkness to light." Such memorable about Barnard's story. For as doctrine," she declared, "until it is sealed banishment, however, did not bring an one thing, the version of Quakerism she as such in my mind, end to her ministry. articulated and championed has persisted through the illumina­ In the Religious and even flourished. For another, there­ tion of... the word of I found myself Society of Friends pressive orthodox reactions to it have like­ God, the divine light, or out, she re­ wise become a depressingly familiar fea­ and intelligence, to reduced to the mained faithful to ture of our history. which the Scriptures alternative of either the Quaker peace Similarly, Barnard carried on her min­ ... bear plentiful tes­ testimony, later or­ istry decades before Lucretia Mott and timony." believing that the ganizing a peace other Quaker women activists helped in­ She spoke her con­ society whose vent what we know today as feminism. victions with great Almighty's nature and meetings soon be­ Yet her assertiveness and eloquence in vigor. For instance, will -were c!Ulngeahle came larger than stating her case, her tenacity in her own when asked about a those at Hudson behalf, her refusal to bow to male author­ verse in the First like tluzt ofa finite Friends Meeting. ity, and her indomitability even in isola­ Epistle of John ("For Asked once if the tion and defeat have hardly been bettered there are three that man or tiUlt it never breach between her by the self-conscious sisters who came bear record in heaven: was his positive will and the meeting later. the Father, the Word, was irreparable, For some reason, however, Hannah and the Holy Ghost: and pleasure for his Barnard replied, Barnard's story has received but scant and these three are with a fine dig at attention from many of the more promi­ one." 1 John 5:7), she rational creatures to Quaker process, nent Quaker histories. Elbert Russell's recalled that, "I felt that it was not, be­ Th e History of Quakerism and John not the slightest hesi­ destroy one another's cause when the Punshon's Portrait in Grey mention her tation in saying I be­ lives in any age ofthe meeting understood only briefly in passing; Larry Ingle's lieved it to be a cor­ that it "had accused Quakers in Conflict says little more. Even rupt interpolation, for 'WOrld. me wrongfully, Margaret Bacon's Mothers of Feminism the very purpose of they had only to slights her, perhaps because Barnard was establishing the ab- confess it, and I more of a "grandmother" of the move­ surd and pernicious doctrine of the Trin­ could freely forgive them." ment. ity in Unity, some ages after the first Hannah Barnard's case was famous The most extensive treatments are in promulgation-of the gospel." (Inciden­ among Quakers of her time and for de­ the first volume of Rufus Jones's The tally, almost all modem biblical scholars cades afterward; a spate ofpamphlets and Later Periods of Quakerism and a 1989 agree that the verse is a late interpolation, books appeared, arguing the issues one study by David Maxey in Quaker His­ and most recent translations omit it.) way or the other. The breach she exposed tory. Perhaps Jones empathized with her; Even one of her critics grudgingly ad­ continued to widen. In Ireland, most of certainly he had taken his share of brick­ mitted she was "remarkably voluble and the ''New Light" Friends either resigned bats from a new generation of orthodox eloquent in delivery," but her appeals were or were disowned. heresy-hunters. rejected, and fmally she boarded a ship When Elias Hicks preached at the Despite its obscurity, Hannah for New York. The London elders were Hudson meetinghouse in 1819, Barnard Barnard's story is in many ways the pro­ not fmished, however. They sent copies was reportedly in the audience. Hicks totype, or better the archetype, of liberal of their indictment ahead of her, and by was told she said his message had greatly Quakerism. No wonder I imagine her el­ the time Barnard arrived home in Hudson, moved her, in part because his ideas were bowing her way to the front of the long in late 1801, she found that disciplinary identical to those for which she had been line ofliberal Quaker heroes. Joseph John proceedings against her were underway disowned. Gurney wrote to his children that he be­ there too. Hicks's religious witness was similar lieved he had done well in his preaching Again she defended herself stoutly, to Barnard's, not least in the fact that it at Hudson, and perhaps he did. and again her very assertiveness was was evoking the opposition of the evan­ But Hannah Barnard did pretty well added to the charges against her. When a gelical establishment, opposition that was herself. D

12 January 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL Bobbie Lee: How Does a Concern Arise? by Charles E. Thomas y family moved to the South in Other unusual circumstances were men­ Gradually, a story of life in Mississippi the late 1970s so I could take a tioned but unspecified, at first. Finally for poor black farmers emerged. Life M job that was interesting and tech­ there was a showdown, and the boss ac­ wasn't too bad; they could grow their nically demanding. New Orleans was a cused Bobbie Lee of stealing ten gallons food, and often their homes were decent delightful city in many respects. I had of gas over the summer season. It was if not great. Mostly they drove old pickup often said it was a great city to visit for missing from the accounting in some way. trucks and had old tractors that had been fun. I enjoyed my job but noticed that the I could never figure out how there was through many lives on wealthier farms. remnants of sociaVracial problems were that close an accounting for gas, as the more than a minor inconvenience to mi­ mowers and tractors were often in use in obbie Lee's daughter Ruby was norities, even in large organizations. the hot sun, and there had to be evapora­ entering her senior year at the uni­ Then came the move to Mississippi in tion loss and spillage. Nonetheless, it was Bversity, and they were very short 1983. We were nearly the only Friends in my estimation that $10-12 of gas was of money for books, tuition, and other Mississippi at the time, though Friends less than the "stretch" of one travel college expenses. Suddenly it became General Conference did locate a young voucher. clear to me that there might be a small doctor and his wife who lived about 80 I was one of the offending scientists way to make amends for what I had come miles away, near Jackson. My family and who had loaned Bobbie Lee small change to think of as blatant injustice. With a few I felt isolated, spiritually and culturally. before pay day. At the time, I often stopped phone calls and a letter to our monthly My project leader and I had had minor and said hello to Bobbie, but I didn't have meeting in New Orleans, we arranged a conflicts while the project was located at time to know very much about him per­ small scholarship for Ruby. We inter­ headquarters in New Orleans. Personnel sonally. viewed her and her family to document problems just looked different, and we her special need at the time and within a had had confrontations over how indi­ he project leader called a meet­ couple of weeks had money to assure her viduals were treated. Our unit's move to ing, and everyone was told that a tuition, with a little left over for books and Mississippi removed the authority of T certain individual was suspected incidental expenses. middle management, and social sensibil­ of impropriety in borrowing money and Ruby graduated from college the fol­ ity moved by more than a few miles; it misusing government property. In es­ lowing spring and then moved away to seemed like a few decades, too. sence, Bobbie Lee was threatened with take a job in Memphis, Tennessee (or Our project leader seemed to relish the suspension more by implication than fact. maybe some other southern city). It was a move. He traveled frequently and was not I was extremely embarrassed by this kan­ very small success, but at least some good known as one to pinch pennies on his garoo court behavior and said so during had come from the injustice that set it all vouchers: everything carefully legal, but the meeting. That sealed my fate: I was in motion. stretched to the limit. Occasionally, his no longer a team player, now persona non It has made me think, after these years, hiring practices raised the eyebrows of grata. It made me feel I had some com­ that I probably would never have spent nearly everyone, including the personnel mon ground to share with Bobbie that much time talking with Bobbie manager, but he limited these excesses to Lee. Lee had the boss not made those a few select positions, while following A week or so later, as accusations, and I probably the rules on most appointments. He fol­ I rode my bike to work would not have found out that lowed the rules most of the time but bent one morning, I came his daughter was in such need them often enough to his own whim or upon Bobbie Lee at that time. My concern was advantage. walking along the somehow dependent on the All during the second summer of our dirt road. First I boss's lack of one. time in Mississippi, Bobbie Lee Smith, a asked him As I look back on this senior citizen of African descent, worked where his car small effort, I am clearer that outside in the hot Mississippi sun keeping was, and he this was an important coinci­ the grounds in good condition. He had said, "Well, Mr. Charlie, dence in God's cosmos, and that been a farmer on a small acreage not far if they're gonna accuse when we open ourselves to lis­ west of town, but was now well into his me of stealing gas, I just tening with our heart, often we 60s. leave my car at the find a way to implement God's Near the end of the summer, the boss Jitney Jungle [a justice when worldly inequi- began making inquiries into the propriety grocery store ties seem their worst. It has of Bobbie Lee occasionally borrowing $5 with a large taught me that there are often or more near payday from some of the parking lot] and walk the rest of the way. opportunities to live our faith .::; scientists, money that was seldom repaid. I felt angry and upset about this, but it if we are open to them. We ~ Charles Thomas is a member ofN ew Orleans began a series ofdaily conversations about must continually be open -~ (La.) Meeting. home, family, and other human things. to them. D Q:;

FRIENDS JOURNAL January 1996 13 Dear Augusta Newtown, PA 18940

by Paul Buckley

D ear Augusta,

How are you doing these days? It seems like months since I last saw you. I saw Jesus yesterday and thought you'd be in­ terested in hearing about it. I heard some­ one knocking a little after noon, and when Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, George School is a co­ I opened the door, there he was, doubled educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. over and gasping for breath. He looked The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values and includes: like he'd run for miles-his hair was a • Courses on 4levels of challenge • International Baccalaureate (IB) mess, his clothes in disarray, and he had • Advanced Placement (AP) • International workcamps • English as a Second Language (ESL) • Required community service bruises on one knee and both elbows. I • Foreign study • Required full-year courses in the arts helped him to the couch and went into the • 13 interscholastic sports for boys and girls kitchen to get him a glass of water. For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 215/579-6547. Poor man! By the time I came back, he had fallen asleep. He was so tired he didn't have the energy to take off his sandals. But- and this is so typically Jesus-he had his feet dangling awk­ wardly over the edge so he wouldn't get dirt on the upholstery. I took off his sandals and shook the dust from them at the doorstep. He should never have been running in those old The ESR Equation: things. One of ~e straps had rubbed a blister and then broken it open on his left 1. A supportive, Christ-centered, learning community-plus foot, just above his little toe. I was able to 2. Rigorous academics-plus wash his feet without waking him, but the 3. Diversity of age, race, gender and faith traditions-plus ointment must have stung him-he sat up 4. Afocus on personal spirituality-plus with a start. It turned out to have been another case 5. Many small, engaging classes-plus of mistaken identity. I swear every crack­ 6. Opportunities to work closely, one-on-one, with caring faculty-plus pot, loonie, and bully boy this side of 7. Aplace where family members are included. Jordan thinks Jesus is the guy they are looking for. Most of them are harmless, and you know Jesus- he has that way of talking to them. They must each think It all adds up they're the only person alive the way he listens so intently. to transfonnation. This crowd was different, though. They insisted he was someone he's not (an all Earlham School of Re~on- too common occurrence, I'm afraid), and (A QUAKER SEMINARY) when Jesus tried to explain, they got hos­ the right answer for a solid education tile. He's as good as anyone I know at and personal preparation for minisby. defusing that kind of situation, but when

Call Nancy Nelson at 1-800432-1377 Paul Buckley, a member of 57th Street (Ill.) 228 College Avenue, Richmond, Indiana 47374 Meeting, lives south of Chicago and is listed I in The Directory for Traveling Friends.

14 January 1996 FRJENDS JoURNAL one of them showed a knife, Jesus thought rial before it's going to sell. that running was the kindest thing for all We had lentil soup and bread for sup­ concerned. I'm just grateful my house per- no fish! You remember what hap­ was nearby. One of these days, he's not pened the last time he had fish! I offered going to be so lucky. I really worry about him wine, but he said that the water was him, Gussie. He's so trusting and vulner­ just as good. able, and you know he hangs out in the This morning, he set off on foot. No wrong parts of town at the wrong times of money- as usual. I gave him a 20, and he day with the wrong sorts of people. insisted that someday he would pay me Well, he stayed for the afternoon and back. Somehow, I know he will. I always pretty soon was his old selfagain. He told feel I owe him much more than he owes one ofhis stories- the one about the sower me. and the seed- I've heard it half a dozen Hope all is well with your family; stop times (at least!), and I still don't get it. He by next time you're in town. I'd love to said it'll come to me in time, but it seems see you. to me that he could stand to be a little Paul more explicit- you know, spell things l:l out for folks- if he wants to reach a mass audience. He says he'll think about that, but I expect that we' re going to need some rewrite men to work over his mate-

Luke 10:38-42

I saw his point immediately, and came as well to sit in the circle around him, pondering how I could have been so mistaken for so long.

The talk filled my thirsty soul as pure water, after long labor, fills the parched throat.

The afternoon wore on; I had a few second thoughts, felt the tug of many obligations still unmet, but, trusting his word, I stayed where I was.

Once or twice I thought his eyes rested on me with a kind of question. I saw him watching her too. No, surely not: not Mary, who'd made the right choice first time around.

At any rate, he did not speak of earthly food. If there is one thing you can count on, in our master, it is that he never needs to change his mind. I knew he could not wish me back in the kitchen.

Late in the evening, when we were ready for sleep, some ofthe men brought the broken loaves from midday; we washed them down with water from the well. It was not enough- I'd planned a market trip midafternoon- but everyone had a little.

I wonder if I can sleep; I confess to body-hunger, but my spirit has dined on richer bread, and I'm content Margaret Lacey to lie awake all night if necessary, certain that lives and writes in Richmond, by sundown tomorrow, he will have revealed to us, Indiana. She is a souls' life assured, how bodies live. member of Iowa Yearly Meeting, Margaret Lacey Conservative.

FRJENDS JOURNAL January 1996 15 Swarthmoor Hall: A Powerhouse for Friends by Angus J. L. Winchester ~ ~ f all the places associated with the Atlantic sometimes went out of their reposed and meditated"; the "substantial ~ George Fox and the early days of way to visit Swarthmoor Hall when trav­ old bedstead with carved posts" on which ~ 0 Quakerism, Swarthmoor Hall, eling on religious visits to meetings in he was said to have slept and which, it ~ near the small town ofUlverston in north­ northwest England. In 1749 Daniel was said, "any of his followers is permit- ..;: west England, stands preeminent. The tall Stanton ofPhiladelphia visited, noting that ted to occupy for a night"; and the bal­ and rather somber stone manor house, it was "where George Fox belonged in cony at fJist-floor level from which he dating from the late 16th century, was the his time." Thomas Scattergood had a preached to the people in the orchard home of Judge Thomas Fell and his wife strong sense of the history of the Relig­ below. Margaret when, in June 1652, the young ious Society of Friends and harked back Writing a local history of the area in George Fox arrived there fresh from his to early Friends at several points in his 1885, Charles Bardsley, the vicar of encounter with the Westmorland Seekers. journal of his travels to England in 1797. Ulverston, commented: "Many a pious The story of how Fox convinced After attending Swarthmoor Meeting, he pilgrimage has been made to Swarthmoor Margaret Fell and her children of the "took a walk to see the remains of the old Hall and the quaint meetinghouse adjoin­ truth of his message while the judge was hall, where Judge Fell lived. It is in a ing.... It is the Mecca of the Philadel­ away from home is well known, as is that ruinous condition, having gone much to phian." Perhaps not surprisingly, the dramatic moment when the judge con­ decay." William Savery, visiting in the farmer's wife in the 1890s began to offer fronted him on his return. Although he same year, walked into Ulverston "by the lodgings there in the little sitting room did not become a Quaker, Judge Fell was paved way on which the [Fell] family that had been Judge Fell's parlor, and in sympathetic to the cause and allowed Fox used to walk" and was shown the ancient which he was said to have sat and listened to make Swarthmoor his base. monthly meeting minute book from Fox's to Fox preaching. A letter to the British During the heady early years of the day. Such visits may have been infre­ Friend in 1896, reporting that accommo­ Quaker movement, Swarthmoor Hall be­ quent and restricted to the elite of travel­ dation was available, said that the hostess came the calm, nurturing center of the ing ministers, perhaps particularly those was "a thrifty body and . .. a good cook, spreading network of traveling preach­ from the United States, but they suggest (she] boards her company very satisfac­ ers, anchored by Margaret Fell's loving that Swarthmoor occupied a special place torily for 5 shillings per day a head, in­ concern for all. One of the early preach­ in the collective Quaker consciousness. cluding everything." ers, William Caton, wrote: "After my great By the middle of the 19th century, The memory of the events at travels I always found it a place of re­ visitors would be shown the features as­ Swarthmoor was honored by transferring freshment to me, both for soul and body." sociated with Fox: the study "where he the name (in its older form, Swarthmore) When George Fox married the wid­ to new Quaker institutions. The flrst and owed Margaret Fell in 1669, her home most notable of these was Swarthmore became his as well, though the longest he College, founded by Hicksite Friends in spent there was under two years, between Pennsylvania in 1864. The college repre­ 1675 and 1677, when he completed the sented a radical experiment in coeduca­ dictation of his journal. Many of the great tion and the name Swarthmore probably names of early Quakerism visited appealed particularly to leading women Swarthmoor, including William Penn, Friends of the day because of its close who stayed there in 1676. association with Margaret Fell. The estate was sold by Margaret Fell's At the time that Swarthmore College grandson in 1759 and the manor house was being built, a second Quaker venture subsequently became an ordinary farm­ borrowed the name. Swarthmore Farm, a house. Parts fell to ruin and were demol­ "model farm" or practical school of agri­ ished. The remainder presented a sorry culture at High Point in Guilford county, picture of neglect by the late 18th cen­ North Carolina, was established in 1867 tury, a crumbling shadow of a formerly by "The Baltimore Association ofF riends proud manor house. to advise and assist the Friends in the The connection with the mother and Southern States." The association's aim father of Quakerism was remembered, was to rebuild Quaker work in the South and "public" Friends from both sides of in the aftermath of the Civil War. The third U.S. borrowing of the name Angus Winchester is a member ofLancaster was New Swarthmoor, an old farmhouse (England) Meeting and teaches history at in the Mohawk valley ofNew York. From Lancaster University. He is a member ofth e 1969 to 1974 this was the base for a group Swarthmoor Hall management committee. of radical Young Friends deeply involved

16 January 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL and 1919. London (now Brit­ ain) Yearly Meeting acquired DELAWARE VALLEY the property in 1954. Resident FRIENDS ScHOOL wardens have since welcomed Morris & Montgomery Avenues visitors, both Friends and Bryn Mawr, Pa. nonFriends, from all over the For Students with world and have introduced them Learning Differences to the history of the house. College preparatory, Grades 7-12 Since the 1950s the " 1652 Summer School country" of northwest England has become a focus for orga­ Come to an Open House nized Quaker groups making (610) 526-9595 for info & video, pilgrimages to the sites associ­ "Learning with a Difference" ated with the early history of in resistance to the Vietnam war and keen Friends. For many pilgrims Swarthmoor to live out the Quaker testimonies to equal­ Hall has been a place ofparticular signifi­ One pathway to peace ity, simplicity, and environmental con­ cance, where they have found not just leads right through the cern. It was an exciting, controversial ex­ cold facts of history but a real sense of halls of Congress periment and has been described by inspiration. The lives of the early Friends Thomas Bassett in Quaker Crosscurrents have challenged seekers to live out their as "a household of faith that tried to keep faith in their own lives. The remarkable God at the center of its personal and col­ atmosphere of peace and timelessness has lective struggles." The community chose drawn many to return. Ask how you can help the name New Swarthmoor because they Living within easy reach of bring Friends' concern for saw their base as "a place to rest and talk Swarthmoor, I have been privileged to peace and justice to Capitol Hill things over after presenting their radical become a frequent visitor in recent years. FIUENDS COMMlTIEB ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION testimony," in the same way that old Visits can be memorable experiences: 245 Second Street N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 Swarthmoor Hall had provided a nurtur­ spring and summer bring warm sunshine ing base for an earlier generation of and soft breezes to the calm of the garden; Friends. come fall, the visitor enters through a CREMATION During the present century Swarthmoor blaze of virginia creeper spreading up the Friends are reminded that the Anna T. Jeanes Fund Hall has continued to be a place of pil­ ancient wall of the house, to sit beside a will reimburse cremation costs. grimage and has come back into Quaker leaping log fire in the main room. I find (Applicable to members of hands. In 1912 the estate was bought by that Swarthmoor Hall helps me to capture Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) Emma Clark Abraham, a descendant of in my imagination, and thus to make more For information, write or telephone SANDY BATES Thomas and Margaret Fell, who lovingly real, the powerful stirrings of the spirit S3SO Knox Slreel restored the manor house between 1913 out of which Quakerism was born. 0 Phlladtlphla, PA 19144 Swarthmoor Hall Appeal Oakwood School n 1992 a feasibility study was un­ work in April. dertaken to explore possible uses ln Britain Yearly Meeting we feel that I I for Swarthmoor Hall in the future. we hold Swarthmoor Hall in trust for the Grades 7-12 and Postgraduate Britain Yearly Meeting decided to de- worldwide family of Friends. We em­ Friends Boarding and Day School velop Swarthmoor Hall as a place of re­ barked on the appeal in faith, hoping to treat and study, in the hope that it might realize a vision, namely that Swarthmoor Emphasis on: again become a spiritual powerhouse for Hall will again become a nurturing base • College Preparatory Curriculum Friends. Extra accommodation will be for the spiritual life of Quakerism. We • Challenging Senior Program needed for Friends coming on retreat, and hope Friends in the United States and - Learning Center a new residential wing is planned, de­ Canada will share this vision and feel • Personal Growth signed to be in sympathy with the plain drawn to contribute to the appeal. Our • International Program exterior of the manor house and contain­ vision for the 21st century is that the • Visual and Performing Arts ing study bedrooms for up to 14 home of Margaret Fell and George Fox • Sports Program retreatants. The hall will remain open to may become a mecca for Friends from all pilgrims and other visitors. four comers of the earth. For a tour and more information These ambitious plans need a substan­ Friends who wish to support the contact: tial financial investment. An international Swarthmoor Hall Appeal should send their Oakwood School appeal was launched to raise the £500,000 contributions, earmarked "Swarthmoor 515 South Road needed to build the new wing and to carry Hall Appeal," to FWCC, Section of the Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 out essential renovation of the hall itself. Americas, 1506 Race Street, Philadelphia, Telephone:(914) 462-4200 The Swarthmoor Hall Appeal Committee PA 19102. Fax:(914) 462-4251 hopes to begin building and restoration -Angus Winchester

FRIENDS JOURNAL January 1996 17 CONTINUING QUAKER VALVES IN Witness HELPING 11PERSONS DEPRIVED OF 1HE USE OF 1HEIR REASON" Friends Hospital continues to apply the Nurturing a principles of moral treatment supported by our Quaker founders in the provision New South of outpatient, partial hospital, residential, home health, and inpatient seroices for adults, adolescents, and older adults with Africa emotional and mental disorders. We also have special programs for eating disorders, substance abuse, and stress and chronic pain. by Elizabeth Boardman can National Congress (ANC) for decades A..l:~ has pressed for the end of racism, for the ..&l!i\I~~&... practice of pacifism (of a pragmatic sort), for 4641 Roosevelt Blvd. a time when many idealists in the FRIENDS the involvement of women, and for equal H s p T AL Philadelphia, PA 19124 United States are in a rather jaded 0 1 opportunity for all people in education, gov­ 215•831•4600 mood, hope is coursing in South Africa. Political energy is running high and ernment, and the economic arena. change is happening at every level of govern­ In 1989 the tiny Quaker community in ment and society. There is a sense of eager­ Capetown established the Quaker Peace Cen­ 0 ness and change everywhere. Maybe human­ tre, where a hard-working, racially integrated kind in South Africa, having learned from corps of some 20 paid and volunteer staff mi s~kes everywhere else, will figure out how members are trying to apply these Quaker/ to do it right, how to develop a fair, non-racist ANC principles to the hugely challenging society. There is also a sense of anxiety that work of helping South Africa to "do it right." maybe they will "blow it." A major problem for the new government • m~a(je ce}'c1pcaces South Africa's very name for years repre­ is to find effective ways for the entrenched, • aw~s ·lt2SCJ'tpctons " sented racism and oppression of the worst white bureaucrats and the newly arrived, black • 51"c12 atmouncemencs • kind. Now South Africa represents social appointees with ANC backgrounds to work •

18 January 1996 FRJENDS JoURNAL Est. 1689 was denied the right to work in most fields is WilliAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Kindergarten through probably the biggest challenge for South 306 Years of Quaker Education Twelfth Grade Africa. The Quaker Peace Centre has staff Operated under Charter issued by William Penn. The William Penn Charter members working on the development of new School is a Quaker college-preparatory school corrunitted to nurturing in girls ~~:<~. enterprises- poultry farms, truck gardens, and boys the education of the mind, the quickening of the spirit, and the dress shops, construction projects, and oth­ deveJoprnent of the body. Penn Charter stresses high standards in academics, ers-that can be run by and for newly enfran­ the arts, and athletics. chised citizens. ln all of these projects, the Quaker Peace Friends are encouraged to apply both as students and as teachers. Centre is modeling to other nongovernmental Earl J . BalliD, Head of School organizations what their new role can be, now 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 that "resistance" is no longer appropriate and (215) 844-3460 "the movement" has changed. For these non­ profit political advocacy and service organi­ zations, this change is very confusing. It is also exacerbated by the "brain drain" of many of their ''best'' people to the new government Quaker Education Since 1784 positions opening up at all levels and by the drop in funding, especially from international sources where it is mistakenly thought that • Residential and Day Programs the important work in South Africa has been • Nursery Through Grade 12 completed. • Coed Student Body of no The work has barely begun. The field has been cleared, it is true. But now the planting • Inquiries from students and teadlers encouraged. and nurturing of a new society begins. The conditions are promising, but many things could go wrong. So the work is exceedingly important, and the Quaker Peace Center de­ serves our admiring support and thanks. 0 MOSES BROWN SCHOOL To learn more about Friends' work in 250 Lloyd Avenue • Providence, R.I. 02906 • 401·831·7350 South Africa, contact Quaker Peace Centre, 3 Rye Road, Mowbray, Cape Town 7700, South Africa, telephone (021) 658-7800,/ax (021) 686-8167, e-mail [email protected]. - Eds.

Scattergood offers a rigorous college preparatory program for approximately 60 students, grades 9 through 12, in a caring, close-knit community of boarding students and resident staff living and working together in a beautiful rural setting.

• Coeducational • Graduation requirements include Quaker Studies and an off-campus community service project • Strong programs in the arts Four-year Spanish language program with work-camp experience in Mexico • Daily campus and farm work crews • Outdoor and wilderness programs • Cooperation emphasized over competition • More than one-third of students and staff have Quaker backgrounds Projects of the Quaker Peace Centre: (top, page 18) garment To learn more about Scattergood, or to arrange a visit, contact the Director ofAdmissions, worker trainees; Scattergood Friends School. 1951 Delta Avenue, West Branch, Iowa 52358-8507, (left) children do a "peace phone(319)643-7638.FAJ((319)643-7485. dance" on Constitution Day; Under the care of Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (C) since 1890 (above) the Sheepskin Project fRIENDS JOURNAL January 1996 19 Reports Friends Iowa (Conservative) Yearly also continues its capital campaign. One evening we heard from three visitors Music Meeting from the AFSC Chicago, Ill., office - Eloise Yearly meeting, held in Paullina, Iowa, Chevrier, fundraiser for the North Central Camp July 25-30, 1995, was a time for making and Region and the Great Lakes Region; renewing acquaintances with the wider circle Mpatanishi Fundishi, who accompanied a A unique of Friends, as well as hearing reports from youth delegation to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, summer program Quaker organizations, functioning on com­ Japan, in 1994; and an intern. They showed a for ages 10-18 mittees, and dealing with yearly meeting busi­ short video of the delegation entitled With ness. The theme, "Change in Our Lives: A Our Own Eyes. Yearly meeting also hosted July 7-August 4 Time for Growth," was further developed by interest groups, including one led by Gretchen at Barnesville, Ohio visiting Friend John Punshon. Hall, of FCNL, discussing the Arms Trade. A report on proposed restructuring of the For brochure, write: Two new meetings were welcomed into FMC, P.O. Box 427, the yearly meeting: Omaha (Nebr.) Meeting, yearly meeting was discussed. It suggested Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 which had been. a preparative meeting, and shortening the yearly meeting by one day to Decorah {Iowa) Fellowship of Friends. We make more time for interest groups and work­ Phone 513-767-1311 or 513-767-1818 celebrated one evening with cake, lemonade, shops, hiring staff to help with junior yearly and watermelon. meeting, and gathering information about pos­ Eloise Cranke, American Friends Service sible sites for yearly meeting. Friends decided Coming to D.C.? Committee Regional Director, reported on a not to shorten the yearly meeting but we did approve hiring staff. Stay with Friends on Capitol Hill new program on immigration rights, espe­ cially Hispanic. The ongoing Flood Recovery There was a period of silence at the Sev­ Program is identifying grassroots leadership enth Day business session following the WILLIAM PENN HOUSE and priority projects in Elwood, Kans., and in recorder's report. People spoke in memory of 515 East Capitol St. SE Des Moines, Iowa. The program in Pine Ridge, Beth Clampitt, Don Ogren, and Bobbie Welch, as well as other deceased members. Washington, DC 20003 S.Dak., is trying to recapture the Lakota lan­ guage via youth camps, a radio station, sacred There also was levity- singing and folk ceremonies, and establishment of a buffalo dancing after evening programs, and a talent Individuals, Families and Groups herd. Pine Ridge is in the poorest county in show Saturday evening. $25 to $40 the United States. -Sherry Hutchinson Seminars on Current Issues Jon Fisch reported for Friends Committee (From The Friendly Line, Aug. 1995) for Schools, Colleges, and Meetings on National Legislation. Jon, who is clerk of the FCNL Policy Committee, said a new leg­ (202)543·5560 islative secretary wi ll be appointed to fill a lllinois Yearly Meeting [email protected] vacancy. Members of Illinois Yearly Meeting gath­ Gary and Nancy Guthrie, Iowa Peace Net­ ered July 26-30, 1995, amidst the corn and work {lPN) staff, reported that lPN held two soybean fields of north central Illinois. Our 1996 New Call to Peacemaking gatherings and theme, "Living Lightly on the Earth," was Distinguished hosted the Midwest conference of the Na­ ever present, beginning with Roy Treadway's tional War Tax Resistance Coordinating Com­ opening address on overpopulation. He called Quaker Visitors Guilford mittee. lPN is concerned about the growing us to consider how our ethical and religious January.U influence of the military in schools. We were approaches to reproductive issues may relate College asked to support the bill to establish a Peace to the sustainability oflife on earth, with a fair Diane Allen Admission Office Tax Fund and efforts to inactivate Selective chance for all. 5800 West Friendly Avenue Scott Simon Service by putting it on deep standby. Young Friends wrestled with weighty is­ Greensboro, NC 27410 The Archives Committee reported on its sues again this yearly meeting. Three young Signe Wilkinson plans to seek a grant from the Iowa Humani­ Friends joined adults to develop guidelines 910-316-2 100 ties Board to microfilm yearly and monthly for future communication procedures. The FAX 910-316-2954 Quaker Educadoa meeting minutes and membership records. Youth Oversight Committee discussed meet­ http://www.guilford.edu Slau 1137 Scattergood Friends School reported that ing more frequently during the year and ex­ Ken Hinshaw has been named the school's panding and improving teen programming. new director. He and his wife, Belle, have The question at hand was whether the com­ been Scattergood farm managers, and Ken mittee should handle this alone or with the has held additional Scattergood positions. entire yearly meeting community. Young. Belle will continue as solo farm manager. Friends showed great interest as indicated by Scattergood's 60 students visited Olney their high attendance. Friends School in Barnesville, Ohio; took a Attenders saw how productive business play, The Trial of William Penn and Wil/am sessions can be when committee work is wor­ A Quaker Conference Center Mead, on the road to meetings and Friends shipfully and diligently pursued over the year, 340 HIGH STREET organizations; and visited William Penn House or several years if needed. Many sensed an P.O.BOX246 in Washington, D.C. The farm report said improvement in our care for one another as BURLINGTON, they grew lots of fruits and vegetables, and we attended to the business needs ofthe meet­ NEW JERSEY 08016 sold some. Several students stayed during the ing and our care for the world. We saw a Available for day and overnight use summer to work on the recently certified or­ convergence of committee work, represent­ 609-387-3875 ganic farm. It's an educational component ing several years of concern and experience, that generates its own cash flow. Scattergood uniting behind a new standing committee on

20 January 1996 fRIENDS JOURNAL Small classes, strong FRIENDS academics in a Other workshop subjects included Friendly SELECT supportive, caring First-day schools, the Romanian medical min­ SCHOOL environment istries, and living lightly with self-limited re­ emphasizing Quaker values. sources. Rich fiiendships and a sense of sup­ portive community emerged among those • Pre-K thru 12th watching toddlers during Sandbox Worship Day School Sharing. Teen workshops ranged from con­ e • After School Program flict resolution, lead by Wayne Beneson, to • Summer Day Camp Yoga, lead by Betty Clegg. Mark Robinson blessed the teens with a sense of continuity 17th & the Parkway through small affinity groups and trust­ Philadelphia, PA building workshops. (215) 561-5900 Our annual talent show brought Eldora Spielberg, who wove for us the brilliant sto­ ries ofthe life and works ofJ ane Addams. We were regaled with a wonderful story about where the wind comes from, several Friends read poetry and prose, art work painted by a late Friend was shared, and the musical tal­ ents of Friends were again offered. We then adjourned to the front lawn for our traditional night of folk dancing. For years, we have had lively singing be­ • Quality care in the Quaker tradition. Quaker Volunteer Service and Training. This fore supper. This year we had a deeply mov­ expanded group will continue a work camp ing song in our memorial meeting for worship • 42 apartments for independent liv­ for our own youth, and it will begin network­ that carried into our business session. When ing. 60 private personal care rooms. ing among Quaker-sponsored work opportu­ perennial song-leader Judith Gottlieb gave 120 nursing home beds. nities across the country. this year's Jonathan Plummer lecture, she was Having gone a year without a field secre­ joined by an enthusiastic chorus, whose an­ • Peace of mind. Supportive medical tary, we appointed Barry Zalph from Louis­ them became part ofher moving presentation, and social services throughout your stay. ville, Ky., to travel and minister among us, " Flow Afresh in Me." We learned that the with emphasis on conflict resolution. We also most basic of our needs are not always the • An active lifestyle in a beautiful. formally recognized the immense work done most simple to obtain. graceful setting. by our clerk-coordinator, Mary Nurenberg, Once more, with vision and fiiendship re­ and we established a mechanism for support­ newed, we set forth to continue in our home • Meals, housekeeping. transporta­ ing the additional work she has undertaken. meetings the life of our Religious Society of tion, cultural and social activities. We recognize and explicitly support Mary's Friends. work as the ministry of administration. - !1/inois Yearly Meeting • A history of caring since 1904. We were asked to consider a statement on same-gender unions. Although some of our monthly meetings have undertaken such Baltimore Yearly Meeting Stapeley In Germantown unions, this was the first time the yearly meet­ In the sunshine and heat of Baltimore 6300 Greene Street ing embarked on a process to consider "Sexu­ Yearly Meeting's 324th session, held at Wil­ Philadelphia. PA 19144 ality, Commitment, and Marriage." We ex­ son College, Chambersburg, Pa., July 31- pect to be careful and thorough, engaging in a Aug. 6, 1995, it was hard to comprehend the Call Carol Nemeroff process of corporate discernment and draw­ once-in-500-years flood at our Camp Shiloh Admissions Director ing on our history as well as the new movings on June 27, 1995. Over 20 inches of rain fell (215)844-0700 ofGod ' s Spirit. in 24 hours and the Middle River carried We were visited by more staff representa­ I ,000 times its normal fl ow. Through the grace tives from the American Friends Service Com­ of God, camp staff and buildings were largely mittee than in recent years. We continued to spared, although the landscape was irrevoca­ Educational excellence · struggle with issues surrounding the AFSC, bly changed. Our neighbors suffered loss of but as the various field representatives en­ life, homes, and bridges. We saw firsthand for over 200 years tered into the life of the annual session, we the power of nature to transform the earth. experienced and appreciated the rebuilding of Our relationship with our neighbors was trans­ bridges. formed also as we became part of the commu­ Elizabeth and George Watson, who were nity through Camping Program Secretary Rex part of this yearly meeting over 50 years ago, Riley's relief efforts. returned to bring us their many gifts. George's We know, too, God's power to transform wisdom from years of AFSC involvement our inner landscapes. Often landscapes and helped us immensely in our business delib­ attitudes develop slowly, revealing change erations. Elizabeth was again our teacher and only with hindsight or distant vision. Frank caregiver as she delivered an address on "Re­ Massey, our general secretary, urged us to be naming the Planet." alert and ready for change. We celebrated the 110 East Main Street, Moorestown, NJ George Watson led a well-attended work­ addition of three new monthly meetings this 609-235-2900 ext. 227 shop on "Quaker Values and Life Choices." year: Quaker Lake (Va.), Patuxent (Md.), and

FRIENDS JOURNAL January 1996 21 Midlothian (Va.). We committed to nurture our children by the addition of youth coordi­ Fyfe & Miller nators on the quarterly and half-yearly meet­ FUNERAL SERVICE ing levels and a Youth Programs Committee 7047 Germantown Ave. on the yearly meeting level. The yearly meet­ ing joyfully assumed oversight of the Friends Philadelphia, PA 19119 Peace Team Project. (215) 247-8700 Our Junior Yearly Meeting adapted our James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller theme, "Living Truth in the World," by ask­ Simple earth burial ing that we "Share the Light with ME." Our and cremation service Spiritual State of the Yearly Meeting report available at reasonable cost. noted a concern to ground our children more thoroughly in Quakerism. As we realize that we must share and live our Truth with our chil­ dren, we ask ourselves, "Are we willing to VERMONT hear Truth, to Jearn Truth from our children?" We celebrated an important milestone in Adventure 1995- the 200th anniversary of Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Affairs Committee. The Farm & Wilderness summer camps Mark Tayac and his two young sons of the POLITICS QUAKER STYLE offer challenging adventures for children Piscataway Nation and James Edwards of the A History of the Quakers from 1624 to 1718 ages 9-17 in a nurturing atmosphere. Seneca Nation blessed us with their presence, by John H. Ferguson Farming, canoeing, hiking, swimming, sharing the beauty and truths of their culture A new book about the Quaker founding fathers and work projects & crafts are offered on un­ and traditions in song and in dance. Teaching their influence on the tumultuous political life of spoiled lakes deep in the Green Moun­ about the diversity of Native American cul­ 17th-century England, which was characterized by tains, 57 years under Quaker leadership. tures, they emphasized being in harmony with persecution, ideological conflicts, and a gradual Write or call Linda M. Berry, creation. They taught us the Friendship Dance movement towards toleration. Based on years of Farm & representing the sacred circle of life. Each original research. By the former chairman of politi­ Wilderness, step of the dance is a prayer. cal science at The Pennsylvania State University. HCR 70, Marlene Pedigo, a founding member of Published Oct.1995, 216 pp. Box 27, the Chicago Fellowship of Friends, lives her $21 paper (ISBN 0-8095-1101-0) Plymouth, Truth in ministry to youth in an urban housing $31 cloth (ISBN 0-8095-0 I 0 1-5) VT 05056 project. She stressed the importance of re­ The Borgo Press, P.O. Box 2845, San Bernardino, (802) claiming the message of early Friends who CA 92406 USA. Phone: (909) 884-5813. Visa!MC. 422-3761 went out eagerly to proclaim Truth, knowing Truth will order our lives. From Truth comes justice and righteousness. She left us with the query, "Are you willing to let the Truth fl ow from you into the world?" Seeking the truth of actions of 50 years ago, Katina Mason of Bethesda (Md.) Meet­ ing interviewed residents of Le Chambon sur Lignon, France, and Los Alamos, N.Mex. By carefully but truthfully answering the Nazis and the Vichy government, the village of Le Chambon managed to save 5,000 Jews. At Los Alamos, those in search ofsc ientific truth, and with a sincere desire to save lives, created a devastating bomb. We pondered these parables during a candlelight vigil; together with Japanese students, we remembered the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima, Japan, and all victims of war. Never again! In the Carey Memorial Lecture, FUM Gen­ eral Secretary Johan Maurer challenged us to face the difficulties that often accompany truth­ fulness. He felt led to present the yearly meet­ ing with a draft of ethical guidelines for FUM and invited input and discussion. All during the week, Johan could be found talking and listening, listening and talking. Friends wanted to be heard. We think fondly of Friends laboring to­ gether throughout the world, seeking Truth and divine guidance. We pray to be faithful and ask your prayers for us. Let us work together to heed the Inner Christ.

- 1995 B YM Epistle

22 January 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL News of Friends JOURNEY'S END FARM CAMP is a farm devoted to children for sessions of two to eight weeks each summer. Farm animals, garden­ Quakers in Burundi are making progress death penalty to be unconstitutional. (See FJ ing, nature, cenmlcs, shop. Nonviolence, simplic­ ity, reverence for nature are emphasized in our with their work to heal the wounds of tribal News, Dec. 1995) In Gambia, however, the prognm centered in the life of a Quaker farm violence that swept across that Afiican nation situation is just the opposite. The military family. For thirty-two boys and girls, 7-12 years. over two years ago, killing an estimated dictators of Gambia who overthrew an elected Welcome all nces. I 00,000 people. Fighting between the major­ government in 1994 decided in August 1995 CARL & KRISTIN CURTIS ity Hutus and the minority Tutsis erupted to reinstitute the death penalty, which was Box 136, NEWFOUNDLAND,PA 18445 following a coup in October 1993. Among the repealed in that country in 1993. Nigel Phone: (717) 689-7552; 3911 thousands of innocent Burundians caught in Ashford, vice president of the International the initial violence and resulting reprisal kill­ Society for Human Rights, pointed out the ings were eight pastoral students and two irony of the decision: "If Captain Yahya workers at the Friends Centre in Kwibuka. Jammeh and his co-conspirators are ever (See "A Visit to Burundi," July 1995, and brought to trial for overthrowing the constitu­ .... 1 ••• ...... FJ News, Feb. 1994 and Sept. 1994) tionally elected government of President ...·· .•. Anne Bennett and Martin Wilkinson, rep­ Jawara, they will be subject to the death pen­ Germantown resentatives from the World Regional alty for treason." (From Toward Freedom, - • friends Programme of Britain Yearly Meeting's November 1995) . Sci-' Quaker Peace and Servic;, recently traveled . to Burundi to meet with David Niyonzima, State College (Pa.) Meeting has found unity 150 general secretary of Burundi Yearly Meeting, on same-gender marriage after a long pe­ and representatives from other churches and riod of prayerful and open consideration. The Celebrating 150 years agencies working in the area. Peace projects following minute was approved on May 7, of dynamic Quaker were begun by Burundian Friends even be­ 1995: Education. fore the waves of tribal violence had sub­ It is our belief that it is consistent with sided. Their continuing work includes bring­ Friends' historical faith and testimonies that (215) 951-2346 ing together members ofth e Hutu and Tutsi to we practice a single standard of treatment for rebuild houses destroyed by war; organizing all committed relationships. We therefore af­ relief supplies of food and housing materials; firm that our monthly meeting will hold mar­ establishing a peace committee at Kibimba riages under our care, following traditional that brings together leaders from both sides to clearness and approval procedures, for both sort out problems and build trust; starting a opposite-gender and same-gender couples, NEW RELEASE peace theater group that is stunning and edu­ when one or both partners participate in our FROM cating audiences by reenacting bloody inci­ community and share our religious experience. dents from the civil war; and establishing a Gary J. Fosmire, clerk of State College .BARCLAY PRESS peace center at Gitega. Burundian Friends Meeting, writes that the meeting "found the plan to offer more accommodation, acquire process of discovering this unity to be a joy­ A Quaker Religious Thought more equipment and a truck for transporting ous and affirming one which has opened our Monograph supplies, and hire a full-time peace worker. sensitivities to one another. We feel blessed In September 1995 Quaker Peace and Ser­ to have been able to consider the issue on its • vice agreed to provide financial assistance so merits rather than under the need to respond SPEAKING Friends in Burundi can recruit a peace worker to a particular couple. We are grateful to have and expand the peace center. It is hoped that been able to consider the experience of other ASA flUEND the peace center in Gitega can establish a meetings during our process by reading and network of peacemaking that might eventu­ discussion, and we hope that sharing our good ally expand to Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. news will, in tum, be helpful to others." In Kibimba, the army and displaced people from one community have taken over a com­ Alice Paul was saluted by the United States plex of buildings established by missionaries Postal Service on Aug. 18, 1995, with a stamp from Mid-America Yearly Meeting, which issued in her honor. A ceremony was held at includes a school and a hospital. The staff of Paulsdale in Mt. Laurel, N.J., Alice Paul's the hospital had deserted their work in fear of birthplace, to coincide with the 75th anniver­ the soldiers nearby. That has now changed sary of the ratification of the 19th Amend­ and the hospital is back in operation follow­ ment, which gave women the right to vote. ing the arrival ofSusa n Seitz, a nurse from the Among Alice Paul's greatest achievements United States. Her presence and example have was persuading Congress to include the cat­ encouraged staff to return. egory of sex in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, For more information or to make a dona­ thus making it illegal to discriminate against a $12 plus postage and handling tion to support Friends' work in Burundi, person on the basis of gender. She was also available from: involved with the Equal Rights Amendment contact Quaker Peace and Service, Friends Barclay Press 800/ 962-401 4 House, Euston Rd., London NWI 2BJ, UK, and, while in Geneva AFSC Bookstore 818/791-1978 telephone(071)387-3601, fax (071)387-1977. during World War II, (From Quaker News, October 1995) ·~ she provided sanctu­ Friends General Conference ... 800/ 966-4556 c'l ary for Jews escaping Death sentences for 453 South African pris- <; Nazi Germany. A Pendle Hill Bookstore 800/742-3150 oners have been replaced with life impris- ~ dedicated Friend, Quaker Hill Bookstore 800/537-8838 onment, following a June 6, 1995, decision <.-) Alice died in 1977 at by South Afiica's highest court that found the ::::i the age of 92.

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24 January 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL Pox World is a no-load, The Fund does not invest diversified, open-end, in weapons production, AFSC Middle East Program, 980 North Fair balanced mutual fund nuclear power, or Oaks Ave., Pasadena, CA 91!03, telephone designed for those who PAX the tobacco, alcohol, (8 18) 791-1978, fax (818) 791 -2205. (From wish to receive income or gambling industries. Friends Bulletin, September 1995) and to invest in life­ Various types of 0 R L D 1 supportive products and . I accounts are available: services. Pox invests in F U N D Regular Accounts, IRAs, Calendar such industries as pollu­ __ I Educational Accounts, tion control, health care, Custodial Accounts for JANUARY food, clothing, housing, For a free prospectus and Minors, SEP-1 RAs, Auto­ education, energy, and other materials call toll-free: matic Investment Plans, 4-7-Evangelical Friends International-North and 403(b) Pension Plans. leisure activities. 1-800-767-1729 America Region. Contact John Wi lliams, 5350 Minimum investment is $250. Broadmoor Circle, NW, Canton, OH 44709, tele­ Therefore, wi th Pax there Pax World Fund shares Send no money. Past perfor­ phone (2 16) 493-1660. ore social as well as are available for sole in all mance is no guarantee of 5-7-"Workshop fo r Social Action Trainers," led economic dividends. 50 states. future results. by George Lakey at William Penn House in Wash­ ington, D.C. The workshop will increase training A SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FUND skills, teach new techniques, and allow partici­ Ten-Year Total Return pants to network with other trainers. Contact Greg Average Annual Rate of Return Howell, William Penn House, 515 E. Capitol St., For Pcr1od End1ng 9/30/ 95 $28644 Washington, DC 20003, telephone (202) 543-5560, 1 Year: 18.01 % fax (202) 543-38 14, e-mail dirpennhouse@ 5 Years: 10.07% igc.apc.org. 10 Years: 11.10% 19-21-"Acting Together: Beyond Racism, Be­ 15 Years: 11.80% yond Enemies, Beyond Barriers," a conference led by Juliet Spohn Twomey and Allan Solomonow at Quaker Center, Ben Lomond, Calif. Participants will discuss how to make their commitment to transform society relevant to the '90s and beyond; examine nonviolence in the post-Cold War world; experiment with ways to understand and begin to "unlearn" racism and other barriers; and develop a model ofpeaceshaping that integrates the pain and suffering of those around the world with those in local communities. Cost is $1 10. Contact Quaker Center, P.O. Box 686, Ben Lomond, CA 95005, telephone (408) 336-8333. 19-21-"Beyond Management: Friendly Govern­ ance," a weekend at Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pa., for board, trustee, or oversight committee mem­ bers, as well as staff heads of Friends organiza­ tions. Participants will identify Quaker beliefs, prac­ tices, and decision-making processes and explore the concept of leadership and its place in govern­ J ...a11 educatio11 for all times ance. Contact Laura Melly, The Friends Board and Training Support Project, 320 Spencer Rd., Devon, PA 19333. 20--Growing Communities for Peace presents - "Removing Obstacles to Peace," a conference for Academic Symposium teachers implementing conflict resolution with chil­ dren ages three and up. Participants will learn and Keynote Speaker practice teaching the peace table process using an interactive approach, and gain perspective on per­ Juan Williams sonal challenges to teaching and modeling peace­ making skills. Cost for the workshop is $40. The Reporter for The Washington Post program is also available at participants' locations. Contact Growing Communities for Peace, 16542 Author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 Orwell Rd. No., Marine, MN 55047, telephone (612) 433-4303. will address the topic 26-28--"Quaker Silent Retreat," at Camp Hous­ "I SO Years of Climbing: Where do we go from here?" ton, Gold Bar, Wash. Sponsored by Pacific North­ west Quarterly Meeting, the gathering is a tempo­ rary intentional community in which silence is January 19, 1995, 8 p.m.• Open to the public fundamental to fellowship through meetings for Call for reservations: (610) 649-0859 worship, vegetarian meetings for cooking and eat­ ing, and unscheduled time. Young Friends willing to accept the discipline of silence are welcome. Cost is $40 and the registration deadline is Jan. 12. Friends' Central School, 1101 City Avenue, Wynnewood, PA Contact Gloria Todor, 4039 9th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98105, telephone (206) 632-9839.

fRIENDS JOURNAL January 1996 25 ~~.... ~ Books ~I:1@P~ ... I Silver Rights her "covering" of religious faith that had made HAVERFORD ~ all the good things happen. By Constance Curry. Algonquin Books, In 1989 Connie Curry renewed her rela­ 851 l.me Pre-School-Grade VI Chapel Hill, N.C., 1995. 258 pages.$21.951 tionship with Mae Bertha Carter, interview­ Havelford, PA Coeducational ing her and members of her family for the (610}{)42-2334 Extended Day hardcover. In 1965 Mae Bertha and Matthew Carter AFSC's oral history project. The result of Frieros School is devoted exclusively to enrolled seven of their children in the previ­ these interviews is the basis for Silver Rights, d~~~~ooMilim~isoo ously all-white schools of Drew, Mississippi, the term many blacks used instead of civil academic excellence and Quaker values under a "Freedom of Choice" plan designed rights, which lacked poetry, as Alice Walker Fri<...U Sc:Mol WMedgar Evers, Carters, in fact, were the only family in Drew Emmett Till , the Reverend Martin Luther Ceri!ficates to take the risk. As a result their landlord King. Connie Curry writes a well-paced nar­ DIANE AMAROTICO • CAlliGRAPHY & DESIGN ordered them off the land they were share­ rative that provides the reader with the proper 215 I 766-8797 cropping, their credit at the plantation store framework, while keeping attention riveted was terminated, and their house was shot into on the individuals who made the history of by night riders. At school the seven Carter their day. One cannot read this book without THE HICKMAN children, the only blacks in their classes, were coming away freshly inspired by the strength, harassed, peppered with spitballs, ostracized, courage, and faith of the people who make and taunted. Even the teachers entered into social change happen. the persecution, complaining that the children Friends will read Silver Rights with great needed a bath, though in fact they bathed interest, not only as a review of a segment of every morning before catching the bus, and recent history, but for the inspiring story of preventing any white children from showing Quaker involvement in the life of one coura­ Independent L.Mng and Personal Core them any courtesy. geous black family. Through the AFSC, Boul­ Convenient to shops, businesses, The Carter fa mily's courage and plight der (Colo.) Meeting took an interest in the and cultural opportunities came to the attention of the American Friends Carters, and was ultimately able to provide Reasonable • Not-for-Profit some needed support during the worst years Founded and operated by Quakers Service Committee's Jean Fairfax, and in 1966 Constance Curry, a field worker for AFSC, the family endured, and to enable some of @ 400 North Walnut Street was sent to visit the Carters. This was the their members to develop personal fri end­ WestChester,PA 19380 (610)696-1536 beginning of a ten-year relationship between ships with the family. Friends will also take AFSC and the embattled family, during which pleasure in the fact that Mae Bertha's mother, AFSC helped in many ways, finding alterna­ Luvenia Noland, had spent a year at Southland DISCOVER QUAKER PHILADELPHIA tive housing for the Carters and employment Institute in West Helena, Arkansas, a school Two-hour walking tours of William Penn's opportunities, while Friends who had heard founded by Quakers at the end of the Civil original city of brotherly love, in honor of about the Carters through AFSC supplied War. Here Luvenia Noland went to school for Penn's 350th birthday. clothing, medical supplies, and sometimes nine months, was taught by qualified teach­ Send a SASE for schedule to: QUAKER food to keep the fa mily going. ers, and learned more than she had in the TOURS, Box 1632, Media, PA 19063. The saga of the Carter family was ulti­ previous six years. Although she went no mately a success story. The NAACP Legal further in school, Luvenia taught her children Defense and Educational Fund brought a law­ to believe in education, a belief which made suit for the Carters against the Drew school her grandchildren willing to endure persecu­ FRIENDS CAMP district, with Marian Wright Edelman, then a tion for the sake of decent textbooks and South China, Maine young attorney, handling the case. They ulti­ qualified teachers. mately won, resulting in the Drew schools Silver Rights should be on every meeting * Ages 7-17 becoming fully integrated in 1970, although and First-day school book shel( * Coed - Residential the whites countered by withdrawing their * Non-competitive children and placing them in a segregated - Margaret Hope Bacon * $510 for 2 weeks private school. Seven of the Carter children graduated from Drew and from the University Margaret Hope Bacon is a member of Cen­ A unique c-amp program which in­ of Mississippi, the previously all-white "Old tral Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting and editor of dudes international campers, Quaker Miss." Wilt Thou Go on My Journey. community living, decision making, As her own problems became less press­ peace communications center, crafts, ing, Mae Bertha became a community leader, drama, sports, water activities, and pushing for better education for black chil­ other creative program<;. dren and for black representatives on the school Teaching Peace: Toward Call or write: board. She made several trips to Washington, Cultural Selflessness Susan Morris, Director D.C., to lobby for civil rights issues, and was P.O. Box 84 ultimately honored by the University of Mis­ By Thomas J. Lasley 11. Bergin & Garvey, E. Vassalboro, ME 04935 sissippi and the Wonder Woman Foundation. Westport, Conn., 1994. 188 pages. $49.95. (207) 923-3975 Mae Bertha Carter was not changed by these Concerns about developing values within honors and continued to believe that it was our children, about decreasing violence in our

26 January 1996 fRIENDS J OURNAL Left: Mae Bertha Carter, who, in 1965, sent seven of her children to desegregate an all-white Mississippi school system

port for values held by most Quakers. He panion to "gospel order," while used 32 times, encourages-even demands- that we include is not the all-embracing category. "Nonvio­ values· in the curriculum, use teaching tech­ lence" itself carries that weight as "a way of niques that support those values, and that we active Peacemaking that both resists evil with­ consciously provide role models for our chil­ out doing evil and insists on truth and justice dren. through love." "We are called to recognize - Suzanne Hogle the divine in every human being," even those "labeled as enemies or nonhuman." Suzanne Hogle is a special education teacher "A theology of nonviolence," Dear states, and an adjunct faculty member for local uni­ "begins with the historical Jesus ... . versities in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. A mem­ For the Christian, Jesus reveals to us both ber of Cleveland (Ohio) Meeting and long who God is and what it means to be a human time peace activist, she teaches an Alterna­ being. Jesus embodies nonviolence and is the tives to Violence course. reference point for a theology ofnonviolenc e." What an insight for updating Fox's "I live in the virtue of that life and power that takes The God of Peace: Toward away the occasion of all wars." Fox's use of virtue is an archaic or obsolete sense that the a Theology of Nonviolence Oxford English Dictionary defines as: "The society, and increasing nonviolent skills in By John Dear. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, power or operative influence inherent in a conflict management are part of our daily N.Y., 1994. xii + 212 pages. $16.95/ supernatural or divine being." Jives. We hear these concerns voiced not only paperback. · The "upside-down vision of life" in the in our meetings but also in our neighbor­ No ivory-tower theoretician, John Dear Sermon on the Mount "calls us to be poor, hoods, our places of work, and continually and others had spent seven months in a North mournful, meek; to hunger and thirst for jus­ from all of the media. Carolina jail at the time the book's foreword tice; to be merciful and pure in heart; to be Thomas Lasley II has thoroughly devel­ was written, for pouring blood on an F 15-E peacemakers, willing to be persecuted for oped his ideas for creating the value of self­ fighter jet capable of dropping nuclear bombs. justice's sake. Such qualities form the core of lessness which he· sees as a necessary tran­ He has interceded for death row prisoners, the way of nonviolence. Actual and spiritual scending value. He defines selflessness as shared the suffering of urban homeless, and poverty ground the authentic life of nonvio­ "similar to altruism and extra-centeredness been on peace and justice missions to Haiti lence." Twenty chapters in all spell out the where the person learns to feel with and for and El Salvador. derivation and application of nonviolent the­ others." Lasley's book, which contains de­ In 1985 he visited the Jesuit University in ology. There also is a vision of "a Church that tailed references relating to the development El Salvador. Even then, "bullet holes marked is more communion than hierarchy, more ser­ of values, provides theory, background docu­ their house, the dining room table, even the vice than power, more circular than pyrami­ mentation, and examples from other periods chair" he sat on at dinner. He was just begin­ dal, more loving embrace than" knee-bending of time and differing cultures. Persons in­ ning studies at the Jesuit School of Theology before authority. volved with determining values for school in Berkeley, California, when six of the El Nonviolence "challenges those Christol­ settings will find the book helpful not only in Salvadorian priests were assassinated along ogies concerned only with obeying the gov­ selecting goals and values but also in devel­ with Elba and Celina Ramos on November ernment, fulfi lling religious observances, and oping a rationale for their choices. Lasley 16, 1989. Together with 150 others he knelt in getting to heaven on our own." It "needs to go draws our attention to the fact that the original prayer at the entrance to the San Francisco beyond the 'Jesusology' of peace, which is impetus for the establishment of public edu­ Federal Building to protest further U.S. aid to bound only to the ethical teachings of the cation in Massachusetts was to provide moral El Salvador. They were arrested for "disturb­ historical Jesus," and to liberate "Christology education and character formation. In more ing the peace." itself from the dead theologies used to justi fY recent years many have come to believe that Unlike his six other books on nonviolence, the world's violence." "Nonviolent resistance" education should be value-free. this one was written not for experts "but for liberates "both the oppressed and the oppres­ In reality values are always implicit in the the average North American Christian whose sors." John Woolman would be pleased to schools. Currently those of individualism and faith seeks understanding in an age of ram­ hear that, and also Gustavo Gutierrez's use of competition are primary. Our culture struggles pant poverty and incomprehensible violence." "universal love." with the conflict between the pursuit of suc­ Dear sees nonviolence as "much more than a There is much more in resonance with cess and the value of caring for one another, political strategy . . . . a spiritual principle" Quaker views. I' ll end with a quotation from between unbridled competition and self­ from which we can understand life in "all its Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I've seen too effacing cooperation. Lasley sees the United dimensions." much hate to want to hate, myself, and I've States' burgeoning growth of interpersonal Applying the viewpoints of Mohandas seen hate on the faces of too many sheriffs, aggression and violence as by-products of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Dorothy too many White Citizens Councilors, and too selfishness and. an acquisitive spirit. If we Day, in particular, the book looks with "suspi­ many Klansmen ... to want to hate; and every want a more cooperative society, he believes cion on any theology or ideology that sup­ time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a we need to begin in school to use win-win ports the status quo of institutional violence" burden to bear." strategies, mastery learning, and cooperative or violence in any form. Nonviolence em­ May we, like King, have "the strength to learning. If we want less aggression, we must braces Latin American liberation theology of love," as he titled one of his books. begin by appreciating and praising young chil­ the type that does not advocate 'just revolu­ -Dean Freiday dren, and developing within them confidence tion," as well as feminist liberation theology, and a willingness to share. and it sees 'just war" theory wholly inad­ This is not a book for casual, light reading equate for the mass carnage and ecological Dean Freiday, a member ofManasquan (N.J.) but a thoroughly documented study for the despoliation of modem warfare. Meeting, is the editorofBarclay's Apology in serious reader. Lasley gives academic sup- "Gospel nonviolence," a congenial com- Modem English. fRIENDS J OURNAL January 1996 27 FRIENDLY LEADERS Milestones TRANSLATE YOUR CORE BELIEFS Births/ Adoptions INTO EFFECI1VE ORGANIZATIONAL ACI10N Dodd-Kelly Elizabeth Dodd, on Aug. 2, 1995, Quaker methods underlie the strongest modern management techniques. to Laura and Mel Dodd, of Atlanta (Ga.) Work with a Friendly organizational consultant who shares your values and Meeting. has put them into dynamic practice in family business, school, human service Ersek-Bethany Mae Marshburn Ersek, on Aug. agency, and corporate settings. Public or private sector, any locale. 6, 1995, to Carol Marshburn and John Ersek, members of Durham (Maine) Meeting. 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Grizzard-Cutler-Broce Cutler and Emily Monday, Dec. 11 - Lower & Middle School Appleby Grizzard, on Sept. 9, 1995, under the care ofTwin Cities (Minn.) Meeting, of which Monday, Jan. 15- Lower & Middle School Bruce is a member. Emily is a member of Carlisle Monday, Feb. 19 - All School (Pa.) Meeting. Keil-McGuire-Michae/ McGuire and Lauren 9 a.m.- 11 a.m. Keil, on July I, 1995, under the care of Ridgewood (N.J.) Meeting, of which Lauren is a member. Lanc-Grodsky- David Grodsky and Patricia (Paddy) Lane, on May 27, 1995, under the care of Butternuts (N.Y.) Meeting. Norton-Dolph-Ormsby Dolph and Nancy Norton, on May 27, 1995, under the care of Ithaca (N.Y.) Meeting, of which Nancy is a member. Reumert-Jones---Lawrence Jones and Madeline We invite you to discover the value Reumert, on June 3, 1995, under the care of ofa Westtown education -a 200-year-old tradition. Binghamton (N.Y.) Meeting, of which Lawrence is a member. Westtown School is a Quaker, coed school, offering a day school Smith-BogdonofJ-Phi/ip Bogdonoffand in grades pre-K through 10 and boarding in grades 9 through 12. Jil/aine Smith, on June 17, 1995, under the care Pre-K class starts at age 4-112 with extended day available. of Ithaca (N.Y.) Meeting. Southam-Gerow-Michae/ Gerow and Kimberly Please contact the Admissions Office Southam, on Sept. 3, 1995, at and under the care Westtown School, Westtown, PA 19395 • 610-399-7900 of Haverford (Pa.) Meeting.

28 January 1996 fRIENDS JOURNAL Deaths Her loving, gracious spirit, and her sparkling, danc­ Peters. The American Friends Service Committee ing eyes uplifted anyone in her presence. Mary helped Hans obtain the proper affidavits for his Buskirk-Philip Buskirk, 77, on Jan. 30, 1995, in was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, family and found him a job with Quaker farmers in Mcintosh, Fla. Phil grew up in Kalamazoo, Mich., Bob, in 1992. She is survived by a son, Robert; a New Jersey. His family arrived from Germany in and spent time in Limona, Fla., and Onaway, Mich. daughter, Alice; and a grandchild. 1939, and his wife asked for a divorce. Devastated, As a boy he was afflicted with poliomyelitis and Hans finally agreed and then went to live for the used crutches or a cane when walking. During Knopp--Fay Honey Knopp, 76, on Aug. I 0, 1995, next five months at the Scattergood Refugee Hos­ World War II he worked in the U.S. Department of at home in Shoreham, Vt., of cancer. Born in tel in Iowa. He took a job as a gardener in Des Censorship, but began to consider a commitment Bridgeport, Conn., Honey studied at the Hartford Moines, Iowa, where he met Doris Holly. The to peace work when the United States dropped Art School, the New School for Social Research, couple were married in 1942. Hans served in the nuclear bombs on Japan. Phil later did freelance and the University of California at Los Angeles. U.S. Army as an enemy alien during World War II, work in San Francisco, Calif., and worked for a She married Burton Knopp in 1941, and they were became a U.S. citizen, and later earned a master's public relations firm. Through their children's in­ longtime residents ofWestport, Conn., before mov­ degree in social work. During this time, he and volvement in First-day school, Phil and his wife, ing in 1979 to a log home built by their family in Doris started a family and joined Des Moines Frances, began attending and soon joined Berke­ Vermont. She had a successful career as a mer­ Valley Meeting. In 1951 they moved to Rockford, ley (Calif.) Friends Church. Phil became aware of chandise manager and buyer for a chain ofwomen's Ill., where Hans was a family case worker and a the work of the American Friends Service Com­ clothing stores in Connecticut. Honey began her school social worker. During this year he was mittee and took a job with the Community Rela­ long association with Friends when a Quaker Peace reunited with his children from his first marriage. tions Division doing fair housing work in Rich­ Caravan came to Bridgeport in 1939. She attended ln 1952 Hans and Doris helped found Rock Valley mond, Calif. In the 1950s he worked for the AFSC Wilton (Conn.) Meeting and eventually became a (Ill.) Meeting and became involved in lllinois in San Jose, Calif. Phil was a member of San Jose member in 1962. She served the New York Metro­ Yearly Meeting. In the 23 years of his retirement, (Calif.) Meeting (then College Park Association of politan Region of the American Friends Service Hans gardened, wrote poetry and letters, did book­ Friends) from 1954 to 1967, and directed the Santa Committee during the mid-1960s as a member of keeping for several groups, enjoyed playing Ger­ Clara County Equal Opportunity Commission for its executive committee and as interim executive man folk songs on the piano, and spent time with three years before returning to the AFSC. The secretary. Honey later served as projects director his family. Hans was preceded in death by his son, Buskirks studied Israeli Hebrew and moved to of AFSC's National Peace Education Division in Wallace Lane Peters, one month before his own Haifa, Israel, where Phil worked with Palestinians Philadelphia. She was the coordinator for the Cen­ passing. He is survived by his wife, Doris Peters; and Israelis on racial integration and civil rights tral Committee for Conscious Objectors and coun­ two sons, John and Stephan; a daughter, Ann; two issues. In 1967 the Burskirks spent time at Pendle seled many young men about the draft during the sons from his fi rst marriage, Till and Michael; II Hill in Wallingford, Pa. Before the first term was Vietnam War. Her efforts as a peace and civil grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. over, the AFSC had asked Phil to join the Poor rights activist took her to Geneva in 1962 to protest People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., and then the effects of A-bomb tests on children, to Missis­ to be a public relations representative and work on sippi in 1964 to arrange for interracial dialogue school desegregation in the South. Frances, how­ among women, and to the Paris Peace Conference ever, wanted to return to California, and the couple in 1971 to support a negotiated peace in Vietnam. Classified divorced. Upon retiring from the AFSC, Phil moved In 1968 Honey cofounded Prisoner Visitation and to Florida and began working with Haitian refu­ Support. She was designated a Quaker "minister of For Information call (215) 241-7279. record" and later became one of only two people 55¢ per word. Minimum charge is $11 . gees in 1972. He joined Miami (Fla.) Meeting and Add 10% if boxed. 10% discount for three worked with a refugee center, where he learned permitted to visit any federal prison in the United consecutive insertions, 25% for six. Haitian Creole. In 1994 Phil and his wife, Bobby, States. In 1971 she established the Prison Research Appearance of any advertisement does not whom he married in 1975,joined Gainesville (Fla.) Education Action Program, which later became imply endorsement by Friends Journal. Meeting. Phil is survived by his first wife of 29 the Safer Society Program and Press, to research Classified Ad Deadlines: years, Frances; a daughter, Martha; three sons, and advocate for crime prevention, especially in­ March issue: January 16 Charles, Philip, and James; six grandchildren; and volving treatment of sexual offenders. Under her April issue: February 12 leadership, the Safer Society Press published over Submit your ad to: his wife of20 years, Rosamund (Bobby). Advertising Manager, Friends Journal 20 books, studies, manuals, and videos for the 1501 Cherry Street Goldsmith-Mary Glass Goldsmith, 80, on Feb. treatment and prevention of sex-related crimes. Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 20, 1995, in Charlotte, N.C., of cancer. Mary was Honey also served as a consultant to state and local Fax: (215) 568-1377 born in Raleigh, N.C., and received a BA from governments and was a member of numerous na­ Longwood College in Farmville, Va. She subse­ tional task forces and commissions. She received quently earned a master's degree in education from countless awards imd honors for her work. In addi­ Accommodations Columbia University in New York City, where she tion, Honey was an artist, an avid gardener, a home met Robert Hillis Goldsmith. The couple married Ocala, Florida, Meetinghouse: Two twin-bedded rooms canner, and a folksinger. Honey is survived by her with private baths, spacious living areas, huge yard; fully in 1942 and lived in New York, Pennsylvania, and husband of 54 years, Burton Knopp; a daughter, equipped. Reasonable. 4910 NE 16 Street, 34470. Maryland while Bob taught college English and Sari Biklen; a son, Alex Knopp; four grandchil­ (904) 236-2839. Mary raised their two children. In 1955 Bob took a dren, Noah and Molly Biklen, and Jessie and job at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Va., As You Like It Bed & Breakfast Association of New Andrew Knopp; two sisters, Isabelle Yolen and York. Accessible, affordable, attractive accommodations where the family lived until his retirement. Mary Sylvia Wittenberg; and a brother, Leonard Irving. available throughout Manhattan. Apartments and guest taught art and English in elementary and second­ rooms. (212) 695-3404. arv schools in the area. She was active in commu­ Peters-Hans Peters, 89, on Jan. 15, 1995, at Visiting Britain or Ireland? Home Exchange can con­ nity and college activities, supported the local home in Rockford, Ill. Hans was born Albert nect you with Friends and others for exchange of homes Democratic Party, and participated in the Emory Johannes Potschk in Dresden, capital of the state or hospitality. Home Exchange, P.O. Box 567 , women's group. Following Bob's retirement in of Saxony. As a member of the German Youth Northampton, MA 01061. (413) 268-0219. 1977, the Goldsmiths moved to Charlotte, N.C., Movement, he worked with groups of children Washington, D.C., sojourners welcome in Friends' home and began attending Charlotte Meeting. Mary joined orphaned during World War I, and later graduated in pleasant suburbs nearby. By day, week, or month. For the meeting in 1983 and served on the hospitality from a German school for social work. At that details call (301) 270-5258. committee and on ministry and counsel. She was a school, he met and married Lotte Rothschild. They Big Island Friends invite you into their homes for mutual Quaker sharing. Donations. HC1, Box 21-0, Captain regular volunteer at Crisis Assistance Ministry, had only begun raising a family when Hans was Cook, HI 96704. (808) 328-8711 , 325-7323, or 322-3116. delivered meals to shut-ins, assisted families with brought before the Nazi Party Court and threat­ NYC-Greenwich Village Accommodation. Walk to 15th hospitalized relatives, and worked with the Salva­ ened with being sent to a concentration camp un­ Street Meeting. One-four people; children welcome. (Two tion Army. Mary enjoyed music, theater, literature, less he divorced his Jewish wife. They applied for cats in house.) Reservations: (212} 924-6520. poetry, and art, as an observer and a creator. She immigration visas to the United States, but only Hawaii-Island of Kaual. Cozy housekeeping cottages. loved using her hands to work in her garden or to Hans was allowed to leave. He arrived in New Peace, palms, privacy. $60-$80/nightly. 147 Royal Drive, create works of beauty with clay, paint, and fiber. York City in 1938 and changed his name to Hans Kapaa, HI 96746. (808) 822-2321.

fRIENDS J OURNAL January 1996 29 Chicago-Affordable guest accommodations in historic Arthur Morgan School. Small junior high board ing school Friends meetinghouse. Short- or long-term. Contact: As­ seeks houseparents for 1996-97 school year. Positions sistant Director, Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn For Sale also include a mix of. other responsibilities- teaching Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. {312) 288-3066, p-nugent@ Mid-Coast Maine. Old cape, newly painted, carefully and (academics and/or electives- music, art, etc.), leading uchicago.edu. tastefully restored. Four bedrooms, three fu ll baths, spa­ work projects and outdoor trips, maintenance, gardening, cious remodeled kitchen, large attached post and beam cooking, bookkeeping. Intimate community of staff and Coming to London? Friendly B&B just a block from the barn/garage. Oil-fired hot water heat with two supple­ students; consensus run. Simple living; beautiful moun­ British Museum and very close to London University. A mentary wood stoves. Porch with screen/glass patio doors tain setting. Contact or send resume to: Sarah Delcourt, central location for all tourist activities. Ideal for persons overlooking 13+ acres with woods, open fields, beaver AMS, 1901' Hannah Branch Rd., Burnsville, NC 28714. traveling alone. Direct subway and bus links with Heathrow pond, sunset views. Near Mid-Coast Meeting in (704) 675-4262. Airport. The Penn Club, 21 Bedford Place, London WC1 B Damariscotta. $159,000. Bartram Cadbury. (603) 643- Friends Camp needs talented counselors who can teach 5JJ. Telephone: {0171) 636-4718. Fax: {0171) 636-5516. 8520. . crafts, pottery, sports, canoeing, sailing. Also needs EMT, Looking for a creative living alternative in New York Bible Software Clearance. Entire Bible: 8 versions + WSI, and certified lifeguards, head and assistant cooks. City? Penington Friends House may be the place for you! reference library, $19 & up. DOSIMAC/Windows/CD-ROM. Help us build a Quaker community, where you can put We are looking for people of all ages who want to make a (800) 991-3004, ext. 510. Harvest Ministries, P.O. Box your faith into practice. Call or write: Susan Morris, Direc­ serious commitment to a community lifestyle based on 6304, Olympia, WA 98502. Quaker principles. For information call (212) 673-1730. tor, P.O. Box 84, E. Vassalboro, ME 04953, {207) 923-3975, e-mail: [email protected]. We also have overnight accommodations. Marketplace available to you! Commemorative items, Quaker dolls, coffee mugs, and more. Send for FREE Westbury Friends' School, a small but growing N-6 Quaker House, Managua, Nicaragua. Simple hospitality; brochure. Quaker Heritage Showcase, P.O. Box 35637, school in Nassau County, L.l., N.Y., seeks a Head fo r shared kitchen. Reservations: 011 -505-2-663216 (Span­ Tucson, Arizona 85740-5639. July, 1996. Extensive teaching experience and working ish) or 011-505-2-660984 (English). knowledge of child development essential, administrative SW Florida: two-story, Spanish-style, pool home on ca­ experience and training desirable. Please send resume nals to Fort Myers harbor. Edison home, SaQibel. Opportunities to Search Committee, Westbury Friends' School, 550 Walk-safe, quiet neighborhood. $30-$60/night. Berry, Post Avenue, Westbury, L.l., NY 11590. (941) 995-1234. Lutheran Volunteer Corps seeks individuals House Manager at William Penn House. Oversee hos­ interested in working for 1-2 years in a social pitality functions at Quaker seminar center on Capitol Hill Audio-Visual justice agency, living with 4- 7 others in inten­ in Washington, D.C. Room and board, health and pen­ tional community, and exploring a simplified sion benefits, cash salary. Sympathy with Friends WHO ARE QUAKERS? by Claire Simon: Describes lifestyle. Open to all faith traditions. Contact: testimonies, maturity, willingness to work hard, cooking Friends' worship, ministry, and decision-making. Excel­ LVC, 1226 Vermont Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20005. skills required. Position open January 1. Resume and lent tool for outreach and education. $26.50 (appr. 27 (202) 387-3222. cover letter, or request for information, to Greg Howell, mins.). Director, William Penn House, 515 East Capi\ol Street, Also available: CRONES: Interviews with Elder Quaker Friends for Lesbian and Gay Concerns {FLGC) Mid­ Washington, DC 20003. Telephone (202) 543-5560, Fax Wome~ l aire Simon's first program. Quaker women winter Gathering, February 16-19, 1996. "Broadening (202) 543-3814, e-mail [email protected]. speak unselfconsciously about their lives, being Quaker the Circle of Love" at YMCA Camp Copneconic, Fenton, Vermont Adventure: The Farm and Wildern ess camps women, and their feelings about aging and death. Re­ Mich. For information: Dave Anderson, P.O. Box 215, seek cooks and counselors for a nine-week summer duced to $15 (appr. 20 mins.). Fremont, Ml49412. (616) 828-4953. program. Skills in cooking, farming, canoeing, hiking, Please add $3 for postage wi th your swimming, carpentry, and crafts. Quaker leadership, di­ order and allow three weeks for delivery. Travel-Study In 1996 for the Socially Concerned Join Quaker educator, Robert Hinshaw, on anthropol· versified community. Write or call: Phil M. Tobin, Farm Quaker Video, P.O. Box 292, Maplewood, and Wilderness, HCR 70, Box 27, Plymouth, VT 05068, NJ 07040. ogy-focused tours to Guatemala (winter), Scandinavia (June), Peruvian Amazon and Andes (August), or Nova {802)422-3761 . Scotia (September). Write or call Hinshaw Tours: Box Part-time au pair. 2 y.o. hours/job negotiable. Private Books and Publications 412, Allenspark, CO 80510; (303) 747-2658. space/kitchen. Annie and Peter. (61 0) 399-0684 Foxdale Village, a Quaker-directed Continuing Care Com­ Special Offer to meetinghouse libraries and readers of Quaker House Intentional community seeks residents. munity, is seeking an Executive Director. The position is this magazine: Peter Brock's Brief History of Pacifism Share living and meal arrangements in historic Friends available March 1 , 1996, at the retirement of the incum­ From Jesus to Tolstoy ($9.95/paperback) is available at meetinghouse. Common interests in spirituality, peace, bent Exec. Dir. Persons interested should write or fax 50% off until 12/29/95. Send check for $8 (includes ship­ and social concerns. One- or two-year terms. Directors, their resume and other supporting materials to Search ping/handling) and N.Y. sales tax if applicable to: Syracuse Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn Ave~ue, Chicago, IL Committee, c/o H. Amos Goodall, Jr., 328 South Atherton University Press, 1600 Jamesville Avenue, Syracuse, 60637. (312) 288-3066, [email protected]. Street, State College, PA 16801. Fax {814) 237-5601. New York 13244, or call (800) 365-8929. Mark order: Special Quaker Offer Consider a Nicaragua/Costa Rica Study Tour. Febru­ Head of School. A strong, growing Quaker pre-school ary 10-22, 1996. Write Roy Joe or Ruth Stu ckey, 1182 and elementary school seeks an experienced administra­ Heron Dance: A newsletter of high ideals, of the search Hornbeam Road, Sabina, OH 45169, or call or Fax (513) tor with leadership skills, a vision for Friends education, for a life of meaning. The meaning behind service. A 382-2869. and a strong commitment to Quaker values. A committed celebration of beauty. Write for a complimentary issue or School Committee, under the care of Goshen Monthly send $27 to subscribe. P.O. lox 318, Westport, NY Meeting, along with teachers and parents, is just com­ 12993. Performing Arts & Music pleting a new long range plan. A talented, dedicated, and experienced staff provides an exciting program to 185 Songs that build community. Free catalog of songbooks/ students that engenders enthusiasm for learning and New 1995-S6 FGC Bookstore Catalog-An annotated recordings. Kids' music, environmental songs, Pete growing and responding creatively to all of life's joys and list of over 500 Quaker titles for adults to children. Free Seeger, group singing resources. 50% discounts on Rise challenges. Goshen Friends School serves the greater from Friends General Conference Bookstore, 1216 Arch Up Singing by carton. Annie and Peter Blood-Patterson, West Chester, Pa., area and welcomes a diversity of staff 22 Tanguy Road, Glen Mills, PA 19342. (610) 399-0684. Street 28, Philadelphia, PA 19107. Open Monday-Friday, and students. Send resume and letter to Search Commit­ 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Call or visit to consult about religious Royale Musicke-Renaissance and Baroque music for tee, 814 North Chester Road, West Chester, PA 19380 education materials. {800) 966-4556. your wedding, party, or special occasion. Classical guitar by January 15, 1996. and recorder/flute duo. (609) 858-9374. Quaker Intern. Year-long, Philadelphia-based, paid in­ Quaker Books. Rare and out-Quaker Life, ten 1ssues annually, $19.95. News of Fnends unattached booklovers together since 1970. Please write Powell House is the New York Yearly Meeting Confer­ worldwide; encouragement in Christ; energy for evange­ Box 11 7, Gradyville, PA 19039, or call (610) 358-5049. ence and Retreat Center, located in rural Columbia County, lism; peacemaking, faithfulness in the Holy Spirit, and about 25 miles east of Albany, New York. Programs are renewal; discussion of issues important to Friends' fu­ offered for both adults and young people. The Youth ture. For a free sample, Friends United Meeting, 101 Positions Vacant Program offers 20 or more events to youth in grades 4 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. (317) 962-7573. through 12. During these weekend pro grams Quaker Camp Woodbrook, a small Quaker camp in Wisconsin values are affirmed, and self-esteem, spiritual growth, Books-Quaker spiritual classics, history, biography, with emphasis on environment, seeks staff for summer and a spirit of community are nurtured. Powell House is and current Quaker experience, published by Friends 1996: CIT Coordinator, Health Care (EMT or First Aid seeking a married couple to serve as Co-Directors of the United Press, 101-A Quaker Hill Dr., Ri chmond, IN 47374. Instructor), Counselors-woodworking, pottery, garden, Youth Program. The Youth Directors are responsible for Write for free catalogue. or nature. Jenny Lang; (847) 295-5705. the spiritual and administrative work required to plan and

30 January 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL lead youth conferences, and for guidance and support to Friends, are you receiving monthly payments on a young people who attend. This work is done under the Mortgage/Trust Deed and need cash for any reason? I direction of the Powell House Director. All members of Schools can help you sell all or a portion of the payments to give the small staff cooperate to support the work of the whole Sandy Spring Friends School. Five-or seven-day board­ you the cash you need. Call Richard Butler collect at Center. ing option for grades 9-12. Day school preK through 12. (303) 530-2156. The positions of Youth Directors become available in College preparatory, upper school AP courses. Strong summer 1996. For further information please contact: Guide To Unconventional Colleges. Free information: arts and academics, visual and performing arts, and Victor Campbell, 811 23rd Street, Dept. F, Sacramento, Ann Davidson, Director, 524 Pitt Hall Road, Old Chatham, team athletic programs. Coed. Approximately 400 stu­ CA 95816. NY 12136. (518) 794-8811. dents. 140-acre campus less than an hour from Service community, lnnlsfree Village. Volunteers live Washington, D.C. International programs. Incorporating Still looking for a book? Free search. Sperling Books, and work with adults with mental disabilities on a farm in traditional Quaker values. 16923 Norwood Road, Sandy 160 E. 38th Street, 25-EFJ, New York, NY 10016. the Blue Ridge Mountains. Must be 21, able to stay one Spring, MD 20860. (301) 774-7455, ext. 158. year. Receive room, board, medical benefits, and $160/ The Meeting School: a Quaker alternative high school We are a fellowship, Friends mostly, seeking to enrich month. Recruiting, lnnisfree, Ate. 2, Box 506, Crozet, VA for 30 students who want an education and life-style and expand our spiritual experience. We seek to obey 22932. promoting Friends testimonies of peace, equality, and the promptings of the Spirit, however named. We meet, Chorus Director for Friends Music Camp: someone simplicity. Students live in faculty homes, sharing meals, publish, correspond. Inquiries welcome! Write. Quaker with experience, who will challenge this group of 10- to campus work, silence, community decision making. Char­ Universalist Fellowship, 121 Watson M1ll Road, 18-year-olds to realize its potential and who'd enjoy be­ acteristic classes include: Conflict Resolution, Native Landenberg, PA 19350-9344. ing part of our month-long, Friendly community experience. American Studies, Ecology, Human Rights, Alternative Write or phone FMC, P.O. Box 427, Yellow Springs, OH Housing, Mythology, Quantum Physics. College prepara­ . Soc]~¥ Responsible Investing . 45387. (513) 767-131 1. tory and alternative graduation plans. Wooded rural setting Using client-spec1f1ed soc1al cntena, I screen Invest­ near Mt. Monadnock; organic garden, draft horses, sheep, ments. I use a financial planning approach to portfolio Winthrop Center Friends Church, a small programmed poultry. Annual four-week intensive independent study management by identifying individual objectives a~d de­ meeting in south central Maine near the state capitol, projects. The Meeting School, 56 Thomas Road, Rindge, signing an investment strategy. I WOFk~th 1nd1v1duals seeks a full-time pastoral minister. The position is avail­ NH 03461. (603) 899-3366. and businesses. Call Sacha Millstone; RayiTIOn

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