December 1996 Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today

A Gift of Presence Peace "Within" and "Without" • Ughton Death Row

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7 Light on Death Row 2 Among Friends Jan Arriens In the text ofthis year's FRIENDS JOURNAL Cadbury Event, a speech 4 Forum delivered July 4, 1996, at the Friends General Conference Gathering in Hamilton, Ontario, Jan Arriens shares his 4 Viewpoint experiences ofcorresponding with U.S. prisoners on Death Row. 22 Witness 12 A Gift of Presence Nancy L. Bieber 23 Reports Simple awareness brought a whole new vision ofcommunion. 28 News of Friends 14 Being Jewish at Christmas 31 Bulletin Board Roberta Spivek Underneath a pretense ofmu lticulturalism, U.S. society remains 31 Calendar quite Christian. 32 Books 16 Peace ''Within" and ''Without" Michael True 37 Milestones Peace is a process oftransformation that must proceed both inwardly and outwardly. 39 Classified 18 The First Quaker Nobel Peace Prize Winner 42 Meetings Irwin Abrams Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1946 for her lifelong contributions to international peace. 20 The Jewel Box Elizabeth A. Cyders Friends Joumal staff What treasures are we storing up? (from left), first row: Vinton Deming, Marianne De Lange, Poetry Claudia Wair, Pam Nelson, 15 My Father's Eyes Nancy Siganuk, James T. Dooley Riemerman Nagendran Gulendran (" Gulen"). 17 Listening for the Second row: Kenneth Sutton, Voices of Angels Timothy Drake, Michael S. Glaser Alia Podolsky, Barbara Benton. Missing from the picture i s Nicole Hackel. Background: the statue of William Penn, atop Philadelphia City Hall.

FRIENDS JOURNAL December 1996 Forum

Live simply I particularly found the discussion of dominant values in the marketplace in The article by Jonathan Dale, Racistn, Jonathan Dale's "Rediscovering Our Social "Rediscovering Our Social Testimony" (FJ Testimony" (FJ Sept.) very challenging and Sept), is timely and sorely needed A inspiring. I share his concern for the overt prayerful approach to the myriad decisions Quakers, commercialization of our daily Jives. We are of daily life and thought for how our actions constantly bombarded with the "world of might, or might not, as Jonathan Dale puts getting and spending." and the it, "be congruent with a divine preference " I would like to challenge myself and is obviously to be recommended. My ' other Quakers to examine the need to buy concern is that, in our response, we try to and consume "ad nauseum." We should be avoid the oversimplification of some ofthe Underground ~teful for ou.r Quaker heritage of living c~rrent thinking. The popular slogan, "Live s1mply and bemg guided by the Inner Light, s1mply that others may simply live," sounds not the ''blue light special" that some stores Railroad awfully good, but it does not bear analysis. offer. For example, Jonathan Dale raises the If we as Quakers don't try to control question whether we need strawberries in consumption and be conscious of our Game February. The immediate answer is simple: spending habits, who will? of course not In the United States our winter Myra Jo Dreyer heard confusion, concern, and some­ strawberries probably come from Central Boulder, Colo. times anger from white Friends about America. I have seen strawberry fields in I the way the Underground Railroad game Honduras abandoned when the price of was canceled at the Friends General Con­ strawberries fell too low. As a result the ference Gathering this summer. As I lis­ people who would have earned much Praise for technology I agree with the aims of those concerned tened, I wondered if canceling the event, needed wages in the fields were while the right thing to do, would have unemployed. Truck drivers who would have about the place of technology in our lives (FJ Aug.). Yes, we should avoid the unintended negative consequences. transported the crop to the airport lost this I was glad to see Vanessa Julye's article freight. I have often seen remarks to the undesirable side effects of how we live and not let ends override means. We should be explaining her perspective as an African effect that if we stopped consuming coffee American (FJ Oct.), but I am concerned or rubber, etc., the land used for these export open to simple alternatives and reach out to each other and find our place in nature. But about next steps. Communication about race crops could produce needed food for the an9 racism is always a two-way process local population. In the case of the please, dear reader, consider the possibility that technology and science and reasoning fraught with potential misunderstandings strawberry fields, this did not happen. The on everyone's part. Too often, I have seen fields were left untended until such time as can help us achieve these goals. There is no contradiction in this. solutions that make the problem worse. We another crop appeared attractive to grow. If need to look carefully at how whites and no crop appears, the land might be sold by Technology didn't invent our problems; people have just used technology to make people of color experience these events be­ the owner, but local, landless, poor peasants fore proceeding. would certainly not be in a position to buy it. the problems worse. Anti-technology didn't solve our problems before, and it won't I write from two related perspectives. I Land reform is a very complicated matter have been working with people ofall races and is not going to occur because we do not solve them now, because it directs our attention away from the conditions that ?n intergroup relations and social equity buy strawberries in February. 1ssues for a number of years. I am also a There are other, perhaps very good, cause us to behave in undesirable ways. Ah, for a simple, down-to-earth view, convinced Friend of Jewish background. reasons why we should not buy strawberries As such, I share with Vanessa Julye the in winter, but we need to understand the one that leads us to value nature above all else, to avoid metaphysical speculation, and w~nderful, but sometimes humbling and complicated chain of events connected to pamful, experience of living in a culture our actions. If we do not buy the to care about what we see and feel. That would be enough. very different from the one in which I was strawberries, do we at the very least give raised. I have also watched Quakers ofJ ew­ that amount o~ money to an agency helping Osborn Cresson Monteverde, Costa Rica ish background flinch when Friends use poor peasants m underdeveloped countries phrases that remind them of both past and to develop their own employment present persecution. opportunities? Perhaps we need to change Quality Questions by whites about canceling the t~e slogan to "Live simply, so that you can game shared several themes. The first point gtve more to aid organizations that help I continue to be amazed at the quality of others." The whole question of how much each FRIENDS JouRNAL issue. In August I '!'e give, and to whom we give it, is very particularly liked "On Sunflowers," the Important, and I would appreciate some poem "Grounding," and the excellent "On Feathered Friend artic~es ?n that the~e in these pages. Right Revisiting the Apostle Paul." After hearing from the Editor that he shanng IS also a dally decision and needs James Lehr would like more information about "Quaker our prayerful attention. Kennett Square, Pa. parakeets" (Among Friends, Aug.), I wrote Evamaria Hawkins to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. I Rockville, Md. received a prompt answer from Anne James, Thank you for not using slick paper or color for the FRIENDS JouRNAL. Ralph and I an education assistant. She sent me an both appreciate the quality of the magazine. excerpt from The Audubon Encyclopedia of North American Birds, by John K. Terres, Jane Cook 1991, on the monk parakeet (Myiopsitta Pembroke, Maine monachus), also called the "Quaker

4 December 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL of confusion involved the messages heard currence of singling out one African Ameri­ in anger and confusion that people ofcolor from Friends of color about why the event can to serve on every committee that whites would consider the Underground Railroad should be canceled. Many understood that think should have multicultural representa­ ''their history" only. To the implication people of color were offended that an event tion, regardless of whether or not the indi­ that all whites were the same, whites acted about African American history should be put vidual has any interest or expertise on that as strongly as African Americans did to on without consulting them. White reactions topic. practices that give them similar messages. -to this message were mixed. Many people These actions say to African Americans Whites in the United States have never recognized that people of color should be that whites see them as an undifferentiated been unified around issues of race. Some involved in planning events regarding the Af­ mass. They perceive these behaviors as simi­ whites actively participated in the institu­ rican American experience. They were sorry lar to thinking that all people of color are tion ofslavery. Some whites benefited from to hear that Friends of color had not been poor, uneducated, or lazy. it indirectly and never recognized the in­ involved in the planning process earlier. A The second misunderstanding regarding justice. Some whites, like John Woolman, significant minority, however, did not under­ the Underground Railroad game involved a Lucretia Mott, and the many lesser known stimd why Friends of color should protest this feeling that people of color overreacted by Quakers involved in the Underground Rail­ event. They could not, fathom how African seeing the simulation only as a game, which road, worked actively with people ofcolor Americans saw racism in staging the Under­ demeaned the African American experience. to abolish slavery. White experience is ground Railroad game. Here it is important to understand how imme­ very different from that of Afiican Ameri­ This viewpoint stemmed from a combina­ diate the pain ofpersecution is to people from cans, but it is a collective history. tion of different definitions of racism and an oppressed subculture. The same distinctions exist today. Re­ incomprehension of the experience of Afri­ The other day, I watched a film in which alizing these many different responses to can Americans within white-majority institu­ there was a scene where Jews who were try­ inequality provides the key to creating a tions. To many whites, racism means "treat­ ing to escape France during the Second World truly diverse community within the Relig­ ing people differently because of the color of War, in a system very much like the Under­ ious Society of Friends. Racism involves their skin." In this definition, racism involves ground Railroad, were led into an ambush by both the structure ofsociety and individual intentional acts by individuals against other the people supposedly helping them. As I attitudes. It is not a white disease that can people. In this view, putting on a simulation watched this scene, I felt personally terrified. be "cured" but a process that needs both game about the Underground Railroad had The danger was very real even though this whites and people ofcolor working on the nothing to do with racism because it was was a film about events 50 years ago and I many layers to create change. intended to help whites understand the Afri­ live in a society where my background set- _ One important first step involves con­ can American experience. dom affects my actions. sciously including the concerns of people African Americans often see the situation I remembered how upset I was in high of color, but we must resist the often­ very differently. Many people of color define school when gentile students did not take a repeated strategy of simply privileging the racism as structural inequality. Institutions presentation on the Holocaust as seriously as voices of people of color while whites are considered racist because their structures I thought they should. My outrage was the retreat to the background in confused si­ are controlled by whites and organizational same as the people of color thinking that the lence. We must listen carefully to each practices limit the participation of people of children would fail to comprehend the deadly other and understand that our very different color. In this view, scheduling the Under­ potential ofthe Underground Railroad. experiences provide multiple perspectives. ground Railroad game without consulting Examples of anti-Semitism like that film We should share stories and collectively people of color first is an example of racism scene were used to teach me that I should redesign programs so they serve everyone. because it reveals how white structures ex­ distrust all Christians. The history of slavery We must also understand that a diverse clude people of color on an issue of direct has often been used as a way to warn Afiican Religious Society of Friends will never concern to them. American children about the continued exist­ involve everyone feeling or acting the This situation also shows how good inten­ ence of racism in the same way. In these same. We should endeavor to move to­ tions can go awry. Like this event, many lessons, past experiences become "my his­ ward the world envisioned in the 1968 efforts to promote multiculturalism backfire tory," something that outsiders did to "my Philadelphia Yearly Meeting minute on because of unintended consequences. Afri­ group" in the past and could potentially do racism where: "Love does not recreate our can American Friends often report that white again if all of "us" were not careful. brother in our image; it recreates us both in Quakers treat them as representatives of their These stories often portray all whites as relation to each other, united like limbs of race, failing to see them as individuals. (How probable racists. There is little room in this one body yet each distinctly himself." embarrassing when a white Friend says "Hello, understanding of race relations for positive Mary" to Jeanne, when Mary and Jeanne do white actions. Whites caught this assumption Jo Anne Schneider not look alike!) Others report a common oc- in the discussion at FGC. They voiced it most Philadelphia, Pa. parakeet" because of its coloration: "wings "tractable and intelligent ... has Matter!)" (FJ Oct.), is a well-intentioned mostly blue, soft Quaker gray over head and predilection for sunflower seeds and com effort to highlight problems Friends have in breast." I have not been able to find a ... does not migrate . .. wingbeats are spreading Quakerism. But it is also a self­ colored picture of the bird but hope to. rapid ... is aggressive and drives other serving, self-satisfying piece whose subtext birds from feeders .... " -Eds. says to me that the author is pretty happy - Eleanor Loft with the Religious Society of Friends and its Sharon, Conn. failure to attract minorities and others to our meetings. In this sense it reflects the kind of The briefarticle you sent was colorful Friendly outreach upper-middle and upper class bias that has enough! We see both differences and David Albert's article, "Some Notions on long plagued Friends; it is part of the similarities to the human Quaker species: Why Friends Meetings Do Not Attract problem rather than a way forward. the Quaker parakeet is described as Minorities (or Much of Anyone Else for that I would like to suggest that Friends of the

fRIENDS JOURNAL December 1996 5 17th century attracted others because they David Albert's article reminds me again groups and meetings in areas or among had a word to speak to their age; they were of a major reason why I have stayed, once people who are presently underserved by certainly not tiny enclaves of people trying attracted by the corporate silent seeking Friends? Can nonpastoral Friends work with to hoard the Truth they had encountered. form of worship-the presence in Friends Friends United Meeting (or other servant George Fox, James Nayler, and the other (and unique to Friends in my experience) of structures) to start new pastoral meetings earliest Friends didn't even set out to change the delightful, ever-present possibility of and vice versa? Can we experiment with the world. Instead they preached, at every being ambushed by holy joy. I am persuaded worship styles that combine the best of opportunity they could seize, that the inward that Teilhard de Chardin spoke Truth when unprogrammed and programmed traditions Christ they knew had caused them to rise he said, "Joy is the most infallible sign of to reach those who are joyful finders as well above the world's standards and live like the presence of God." as sincere seekers? (Those groups overlap, I members of a new kingdom. With the word James Baker realize!) of life at their disposal, they invaded Lombard, Ill. Friends United Meeting is considering churches arid cathedrals, villages and city undergoing a thorough "spiritual audit" of precincts alike, leaving no place they could Thank you for the excellent articles by ourselves, at the grassroots as well as the get to untouched. David H. Albert and Bruce Bush on racial organizational level, to help us understand Their word led them to challenge paying and social diversity in Friends meetings. I our spiritual strengths and weaknesses, the tithes in the name of people who were being would not measure the effectiveness of these nature of the fabric that holds us together, ripped off, to refuse to doff their hats to their articles by whether all readers agree with and more effective ways to communicate ''betters," and to refuse recognition of them, but by the quality of the conversation our identity to today's world. In the accepted practices of social deference. And they might succeed in kicking up among meantime, I hope FRIENDS JOURNAL readers they did not feel called upon to use the kind Friends. will be among those who keep this of big words that I am using to demonstrate I hope the energy Friends put into important conversation going. their convictions. Instead they marched into widening our appeal does not come from Johan Maurer towns and challenged the authorities, guilt or from wanting to be liked by those Richmond, Ind. sometimes even stripping naked to do so; we identify as "desirably 'diverse,' "to use they were not above invading the halls of Bruce Bush's phrase. As part of a more Bruce Bush, in "The Fine Line of Parliament and bringing proceedings to a fiuitful approach to increasing our Diversity," assumes that the Peaceable halt. Their actions truly spoke louder than attractiveness, and to supplement the points Community has arrived in the Religious their words. made in David Albert's good article, I'd like Society of Friends and the larger U.S. Frankly, I grow tired of the kind of to suggest these queries: society. There is no fine line, however, analysis that David Albert has offered. 1) Do we have a passion to be in a rather a large chasm. The first bridge over Quakerism will become more attractive to Christian community that reflects the this chasm is to admit that racism, prejudice, others when it breaks out of the tight little universality of God's love? Ifthe vision is and discrimination still exist among Quakers molds we forced God's revolutionary Spirit there, the results will eventually follow. and that attempts to belittle and deride those into. It's high time for FRIENDS JouRNAL to 2) Do we differentiate the core of Friends of us who wish to create a more inclusive commission some articles that will speak messag~t . intimacy, and obedience in Religious Society of Friends only dig the such words, else we are destined to remain a relation to God; mutual accountability and chasm deeper. tiny, insulated bunch of well-educated, well­ prayer-based decision-making in the True diversity means that all people are off "Friends." intimate community of those relating to God accepted wholeheartedly as they are without Larry Ingle this way- from the cultural forms in which attempts to push them into the traditional Chattanooga, Tenn. we have expressed this core from time to Quaker culture of mostly European time? I am convinced that, in this world extraction. A greater diversity is enriching We do not commission articles, but we where so often spiritual and social for us all as it broadens our horizons. We do invite Friends to take offthe wraps (not oppression are linked together, Friends faith who have families that are more diverse than necessarily their clothes) and respond to and practice can have universal appeal; it the majority of the Religious Society of Larry Ingle 's comments. - Eds. was never meant to result in little spiritual Friends do not wish to be relegated to the aristocracies, however other side of the chasm. Rather, we ask that eo "progressive" in their own eyes. all throw their boulders of prejudice and ·~ 3) Instead of agonizing over racism into that chasm and begin to fill it up. ~ theoretical diversity, can we ~ work on practical accessibility? David Zarembka and Mary Jackson J! It is important that our doors Baltimore Yearly Meeting's "' and rooms be physically Families of Diversity ~ accessible to all conditions and .S that our spiritual household be FRI EN DS JouRNAL welcomes Forum con­ ~ accessible as well, not barred tributions. Please try to be brief so we ·~ by obscure jargon and may include as many as possible. Limit ~ unspoken rules and other subtle letters to 300 words, Viewpoint to 1,000 U hurdles. words. Addresses are omitted to main­ ~ 4) Do we have members tain the authors' privacy; those wishing ~ who feel led to start worship to correspond directly with authors may send letters to FRIENDS JouRNAL to be l forwarded. Authors' names are not to be ':; A barefoot George Fox used for personal or organizational so­ ~ rails at "the bloody city licitation. -Eds. ~ of Llchfield."

6 December 1996 FRIENDs JoURNAL by Jan Arriens should have been able to say exactly what I was feeling, but was unable to express. I remember breaking down at that point. I wrote to all three prisoners. All three Friends Journal replied. The first to do so was a man Cadbury Event, called Leo Edwards. I had never received a letter that had moved me more. He had July 4, 1996, been on death row for six years. His letter ended with the words, "May God be be­ Hamilton, Ontario tween you and harm and all the empty places you walk." How could someone in ne evening in November 1987 the bleakest and darkest ofsituations worry I had nothing in particular to about the "empty places" in which I 0 do and idly switched on the walked? television. It was a program about a Shortly afterwards, I received a letter young African American executed in from a man called Sam Johnson. It turned Mississippi, which I had earlier de­ out to be Sam who had spoken the words cided not to watch, as I thought it that had affected me so much. He wrote would be altogether too depressing. that he was from Rochester, N.Y., that he Within minutes I was riveted. had been on death row for six years, and Fourteen Days in May remains the that he was innocent. "I haven't seen any most compelling television documen­ of my family since I've been here; and I tary I have ever seen. For reasons that never knew that loneliness could hurt so remain obscure, the BBC was per­ very much. I don't mean to cry upon your mitted to take its cameras into the shoulder but speaking about this place maximum security unit of Parchman one can fmd very little that's happy to Penitentiary in Mississippi in May speak about." 1987 and film the last 14 days in the The letters were very far removed from life of Edward Earl Johnson. my stereotype picture of death row pris­ As the documentary proceeded, oners as subhuman monsters. Here were the viewer felt a terrible sense of people reaching out and displaying com­ impotence at what was happening, passion, sensitivity, and insight. I showed which was so manifestly wrong­ the letters to others, who also began writ­ whatever one's views on the death ing. My local meeting organized that most penalty. Edward Earl Johnson radi­ English of events, a cream tea in a village ated a very special quality: a quiet garden, and publicity of this curious event charm, honesty, and simplicity. in the local Cambridge newspaper at­ Guards, the chaplain, the attorneys­ tracted about 30 correspondents. Through all expressed their liking for Edward this we also learned that the brilliant young Earl and clearly did not want the ex­ English death row lawyer who had repre­ ecution to proceed. sented Edward Earl, Clive Stafford Smith, The voice of humanity, however, then based in Atlanta, came from near came from the least expected quar­ Cambridge, and I met him that summer. ter: the other prisoners. Three other I also got in touch with Amnesty Inter­ prisoners were interviewed in the film. national, who were highly enthusiastic The words of one, in particular, af­ and supportive. fected me profoundly. At ten past ten Later in 1988 the Quaker weekly The in the evening, less than two hours Friend published excerpts from Sam's before the scheduled execution, one letters. In one letter he wrote: "In spite of of the prisoners said quietly but with all this I still believe in mankind. These great feeling: "Everyone here is dy­ people and this experience have taken me ing tonight, a part of them. I can so low that I have to 'reach up' to touch never be the same after this. We're bottom, but I still believe in mankind." supposed to be vicious and cruel, but In another he wrote: this goes beyond anything that any­ one could ever do." For the first year or so I was filled to the brim My overwhelming reaction was with pure hatred over what had happened to one of astonishment that a prisoner me. Losing all I had and everyone I loved filled me so full of hatred I almost did go Jan Arriens is an English Quaker ofDutch crazy. All of it drained out of me when it descent. He studied at Cambridge, spent dawned upon me that I had to stop thinking ten years as a diplomat in the Australian about all I had lost and start thinking about Foreign Service, and has been a freelance what I could gain, even from the worst of translator for the.past 17 years. positions a person could be in.

FRIENDS JOURNAL December 1996 7 As a result of this publicity about 30 Quakers by their family and friends. This is why the throughout Britain began writing as well. LifeLines correspondence can be so important to them. had been born. Last April I met a man, John Nixon, aged 68, What we rapidly discovered was not only that whom I had also spoken to in 1988. In the the men displayed qualities we had not expected intervening seven years, he had not had an­ to encounter on death row, but that they almost other personal visitor. A man of 27 whom I invariably told the same story. They were all met in 1988 had not had a personal visitor in poor. All had received bad legal repre­ all the four years he had been on death row. His letter ended with sentation. Many were African Ameri­ I know that many of you know a great deal can. The vast majority came from bro­ about death row, but others of you may not, the words, "May ken homes and had suffered from vio­ and it may be as well to outline the overall lence and sexual abuse in childhood. situation. There are at present a little over God be between you Their parents were often alcoholics. 3,000 men and 49 women on death row in the and harm and all the Many had little education, had gotten United States. A number have been there hooked on drugs in their teens, and since the death penalty was reintroduced in empty places you ended up on death row in early adult­ 1976. Until recently, a map of the United hood. Some had been juveniles at the States shading in the executing states was walk." How could time of the crime. It became apparent virtually a map of the Confederacy in the to us just how easy it was to end up on Civil War, with the five main executing states someone in the death row in the United States. While being Texas, Florida, Virginia, Louisiana, bleakest and there are deeply disturbed men and and Georgia. Illinois has now also become a women on death row, there are also major executing state. darkest of situations many essentially "normal" people of Since1976 there have been about 330 ex­ whom we can truly say, "There but for ecutions and nearly 1,500 convictions or sen­ worry about the the grace of God go I." tences have been reversed. What these fig­ Their backgrounds were really ures mean is that out of a total ofa little over "empty places" in brought home to me in late 1988, when 4, 700 people who have entered the portals of which I walked? I went to the United States to meet death row since 1976, just under 7 percent Sam and the others. Leo Edwards told have been executed and in a little over 30 me that he thanked God for being on death row. I percent ofcases the state is saying, "We got it asked him what on earth he could mean. He wrong. You should never have been there in explained that death row had been the first period the first place." This figure of30 percent can of real stability in his life. In his words, it had only rise, as more men have their sentences given him an appreciation of love and of life that or convictions overturned after many years he had never had before. Sam Johnson told me in the appeals process. that in comparison with his classmates, his lot was The system of nine different courts that a fortunate one, as most had either met violent prisoners can go through is designed to en­ deaths or were drug addicts on the streets of New sure the ultimate certainty for the ultimate York. punishment But mistakes are still made. What The way in which the death penalty in the it shows above all is that the death penalty United States punishes life's losers was graphi­ cannot be both just and humane: rush it cally brought out by a Californian death row through and innocent people will die, try to attorney, Jay Pultz, who spoke at a LifeLines be just and it becomes a hideous, protracted conference in 1994. Jay said that one ofhis clients cat-and-mouse game. This to me is one ofthe had told him he was one ofsix boys from the same biggest arguments against the death penalty, urban kindergarten class who had all ended up on although it is not often made. The death pen­ death row. We are, surely, dealing here not with alty is also about the way that society deals individual criminal pathology but with a social with those most at its mercy. It is essentially phenomenon. Here, it seems to me, U.S. society is about revenge and retribution and provides like a boiling cauldron. The death penalty is an no room for compassion, remorse, or change. attempt to keep the lid on the cauldron, whereas A few words about LifeLines. In all we what needs to be done is to douse the fires- the have probably put the best part of5,000 people fires of broken families, drug abuse, and lack of in Britain and Ireland in touch with prisoners gun control. on death row. We also have members in a We also discovered the extraordinary lengths large number of European countries and in of time that ·people spend on death row. One of Australia. In 1991 I put together a book of the original three I wrote to, John Irving, was extracts from the prisoners' letters, entitled sentenced to death at the age of 20. When I met Welcome To Hell. A few months later, in him, he had been there for 12 years. His death early 1992, the BBC screened a film based on sentence was overturned last year, at the age of one of the chapters in this book, about the 39. He had spent his entire adult life-and halfhis correspondence between a retired music total life-on death row. teacher in England, Mary Grayson, and Ray Many of the men are abandoned and rejected Clark in Florida during the last few months of

8 December 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL his life. In response I received an aston­ my life. You showed me wrong because I can the prisoners' stories, and they may feel ishing 6,500 letters from people wanting be with you totally, I'm not afraid to express they have to "come on strong" in order to to write. By no means all joined, but it my hurts to you or my fear nor afraid to tell prove themselves. One woman wrote back was in that year that the organization re­ you who I am. That alone means so much to that there was no need for the prisoner to ally took off. I am glad to say that Wel­ me when I had closed myself up from every­ do this, but that she accepted him as he come To Hell is being republished early one, keeping the door to self locked up, I was. He wrote back saying that no woman next year in the United States, by North­ had ever said this to him be­ eastern University Press in Boston, Mass. fore. Time and again, women Many people have told me that Welcome have found that if they can To Hell is one of the most powerful and hold firm at this point, the two moving books they have ever read. A can then work through dis­ number ofBritish prisoners are even writ­ torted and unrealistic roman­ ing to death row inmates as a result ofthe tic feelings and fantasies to book. reach the clearer waters of LifeLines has a quarterly newsletter, genuine friendship: something and we hold two conferences each year, many ofthe men say they have for which we fly out speakers from the never experienced before, and United States. Speakers have included which they come to regard as Clive Stafford Smith and Sister Helen one of the most valuable Prejean, before she wrote her book Dead things in their lives. Man Walking. We have regional groups Sometimes the problems and "coordinators" for each of the states, are unexpected. One woman who provide a vital link between the cor­ recently wrote to a man in respondents and the prisoners. Right from -o Texas on some new primrose the outset we decided that we should be .~ notepaper she had bought. She nonpolitical and not campaign. We also ':; said she was using it as it have a team of voluntary counsellors to ~ cheered her up and gave her a help a LifeLiner when the prisoner he or ~ lift. she is writing to faces execution and to ~ The prisoner took this to deal with the problems that come up in ~ be a coded message that the the correspondence. '<:"' paper was impregnated with At present LifeLines has around 1,500 ~ drugs and wrote back com­ members, but the total number of people plaining: "I have eaten all four writing is much greater-probably around don'thave to place masks over the face of my pages of your letter, but I don't feel any 3,000--as people join, start writing, and real self. different." then drop out of the organization. For Last year I attended a clemency hear­ But what, you may ask, about the vic­ several years now, we have been able to ing in Louisiana held on Maundy Thurs­ tims and their families? Are we concen­ say that every prisoner on death row want­ day. The prisoner, Antonio James, was trating on the wrong people? ing a pen pal has been given one. Many facing his thirteenth death date. During a I remember a woman in Ireland who write to more than one person. For some recess I was introduced to him by Sister was writing to a prisoner, also in Georgia, prisoners, in fact, the correspondence has Helen Prejean. Antonio faced execution who was deeply troubled by what he had become an almost full-time office job. four days later, and this poorly educated done and asked her whether he should Most of us writing to them feel that the man was, quite literally, pleading for his write to the victim's parents for forgive­ prisoners have given us as much or more life. Despite the enormous stress he was ness. He wished to do so, but was held than we have given them. To share with under, he reached out his manacled hand back by the fear of rejection, which had someone under such a terrible threat-no and, with tears in his eyes, said that "the been such a big theme in his life. Slowly matter what they have done-is to be love and support I received from two and prayerfully, she-an Irish Catholic­ given an extraordinary glimpse into the English ladies I didn't know before was persuaded her Southern Baptist friend to triumph of the human spirit in adversity. one of the most beautiful things that ever take the risk. He wrote. By return he We have also found the correspondence happened in my life." received a letter saying that the parents to be far more equal and two-way than we Antonio James was unexpectedly understood and forgave him. had ever imagined. Several hundred letter­ reprieved, but was executed in March this Within LifeLines, one of our mem­ writers have now gone to the United Stat~ year. bers, Lesley Moreland, a Quaker, asked if. to visit the. person they got to know so But there are also other problems in she could write to a prisoner on death row well on paper. the correspondence. The main ones are after her own 23-year-old daughter, Ruth, . What can the correspondence mean to money and sex. Nearly all the prisoners had been murdered. Lesley came to a the prisoner? An African American man are male and most of the British corre­ crossroads in her life. She decided to write whom I met in Georgia writes to a much spondents-85 percent-are female. The to someone on death row as she felt the older woman in a small town near combination ofneed y, intensely deprived need to hold on to the difference between where I live in England. Johnny once men and compassionate women is obvi­ the act of murder and the whole person. wrote to her: ously a potentially explosive one. Diffi­ The man in Texas she wrote to happened You know I never thought I could ever care culties in forming relationships with the to have lost his own mother in a murder; about a person or truly trust anyone again in opposite sex are often an integral part of Lesley has been to Texas to meet him and

FRJENDS JoURNAL December 1996 9 his family. She also met the victim's family there. times upliftingly- how the men were thrust In 1995, after years of discrete and patient nego­ back on their own resources in the solitude tiation, Lesley managed to visit in prison the and deprivation of their cells. Some were all young man who had murdered her daughter. but broken by the experience, but others had Equally as remarkable is the story of another risen above it. Nothing summed it up better LifeLines member, Leanne, who as a child of 13 than the words of Willie Reddix in Missis­ was raped, stabbed, beaten with a brick, and left sippi: "Sometimes you can be so still you can for dead. But to this day she feels hear the grass grow. Sometimes you can be To share with forgiveness and hopes that her attacker so still you can hear the voices of the children has overcome his anger-although she who must once have played even in fields someone under such knows that he has gone on to rape like these." Another prisoner spoke of the again. She writes, peace of mind he had developed in prison, a terrible threat-no The physical torture or death of this calling it the "quiet light." matter what they boy would not help me in any way. Would When I met Leo Edwards in 1988, it was this family's suffering ease my own just three months after he came within 12 have done-is to be family's suffering? No. There would be no hours of execution. He heard on the radio 'balancing' the scales. It would only have that he had been given a stay. He had given given an created more victims, more suffering, more up hope. Talking to this poorly educated heartache. As an 'almost victim' I give the man who had looked death in the face was extraordinary glimpse death penalty the definite thumbs down. an experience I shall never forget. He told into the triumph of Leanne, too, is writing to a prisoner me that he had made his peace, and that under sentence of death. death no longer held any fear for him. Eight the human spirit in These two members of our organi­ months later he was dead. zation both spoke at our 1994 confer­ Sam Johnson wrote to me that he some­ adversity. ence held in Edinburgh. Other speak­ times thinks oflife as an hourglass, with each ers included Pat Bane, the chairperson moment being a grain of sand. Perhaps when of the U.S. organization Murder Victims' Fami­ we die the hourglass is turned over and all the lies for Reconcilation, and Betty Foster, the mother sand runs through again without our being of a juvenile offender executed in Georgia in able to change it. 1992. She too was a victim. I don't really know if life is as I've tried to de­ I have often wondered what it is about death scribe it or not, but, if it is, and if I love all that I row that can affect those of us writing to the can this day, if I laugh all that I can this day, if I condemned men so deeply. Part ofthis is because give all of the happiness that I can this day, if I do it touches the depths of the human psyche. As I the least amount of bad that I can this day, then see it, we all live in three kinds of prison. First of when this day comes back to me I won't want to all, there is the physical prison of our particular change it even if I could. circumstances-the country and house we live Some years ago, my meeting in Cam­ in, our bodies, and our physical limitations. Sec­ bridge "adopted" Sam: we even obtained spe­ ondly, there is the emotional prison of our minds cial dispensation from London Yearly Meet­ and personalities. Thirdly, we are in a spiritual ing, and he is an Associate Member of prison, in the sense ofliving in the mystery, or as Hartington Grove Meeting: the only Friend Paul put it, seeing through a glass darkly. We in the world, as far as I know, with that status! may have a sense of inner awareness, or a sense In late 1992 I attended Sam's resentencing of presence, and occasionally people have tran­ trial in Vicksburg, Va., and am glad to say scendent experiences that change their lives. But that he had his sentence overturned and is off for the most part the intimations of another di­ death row. mension of consciousness are subtle, tantalizing, In the last few months, another man I write and elusive. to, Mike Lambrix in Florida, has come very Now prisoners are, of course, very obviously close to the end of his appeals. He has been in physical confinement: on death row they spend on death row for 13 years, and is now aged 23 hours a day in a steel and concrete cage. In 36. By his own confession he arrived on terms of the second category, our psychological death row as an alcoholic and a drifter. A few imprisonment, prison is also a deeply traumatiz­ months ago Mike wrote to me that he was ing experience, in which many of the weak­ nearly executed in 1988. He writes: nesses, fears, and pains that put people there in the first place are made far worse. In these cir­ The morning of the scheduled execution I woke up literally in a cold sweat. It was more than just a cumstances, it is to me deeply inspiring to find nightmare; it was an "out of body" experience. I prisoners who retain and indeed develop their didn't just dream it, I physically felt it, even the humanity and inner spiritual resources, seem­ execution. And awoke just as the bright light ingly against all the odds, in this human hell. consumed everything. The immense light I sensed I remember that when I met the 12 prisoners as I was awaking was not a physical, environmen­ on death row in Mississippi and Georgia in 1988, tal light, as that obviously would have been no­ it was very evident- sometimes painfully, some- ticed by the guards who stood watch over me.

10 December 1996 FRJENDs JOURNAL This light I can only describe as that sense of Quakers were imprisoned for their be­ Which brings me to the situation in the light people experiencing "near death" expe­ liefs in the early days, and George Fox's United States. Here I feel I must tread riences describe. Journal is of course full of his experi­ with great caution. It is not for me to He goes on to say that this was the day ences in prisons. come barging in with insensitive sugges­ when God died for him and when he lost In the United States, as you know far tions and criticism. I can only speak to the sense of presence he had always had better than I do, early Quakers were per- you out of our experience in LifeLines before. and from the Quaker tradi­ And although that may sound as if I deny tion. God-1 do NOT. Rather, it's my belief that Some U.S. Friends have God is the collective consciousness, that eter­ told me that the Quaker re­ nal inner-self. sponse to the death penalty I must admit that there are times since the has been oddly muted. But "death" ofthat former perception ofGod when there have been enormously I really miss that "personal" feeling. The way encouraging developments this transformation of my spirituality came among Quakers of late. The about, it allows me to relate to the anguish Friends Committee to Abol­ Jesus felt at the moment ofhis death-how he ish the Death Penalty was set cried out "why hast thou forsaken me," as I think that he too felt that absence and empti­ up in 1993. Recently, hun­ ness of the spiritual inner-self. Yet equally so, dreds of Quaker activists for I truly believe that I did not actually lose the FCADP handed out litera­ anything, but I gained a new and "more en­ ture at cinemas where Dead lightened" perspective of what this thing we Man Walking was showing. call "God" is, and more importantly, whereas Friends helped collect the before I could only wonder if there was life 20,000 signatures to abolish after "death," I am now unequivocally con­ the death penalty that were vinced that not only is there "life" after mortal delivered to President death, but that we "lived" before this mortal Clinton-a magnificent and existence. Our "personal" God is a reflection ofour spiritual selfishness, and as long as we inspiring achievement- to want to possess it, then we are limited in our mark the 20th anniversary of growth and perception of collectiveness. the reinstatement of the death penalty. Several yearly meet­ I think these words have much to say ings have adopted minutes re­ to us Quakers. I am anguished that Mike, affirming their opposition to who is right at the end of his appeals, may secuted by the Puritans in the Massachu­ capital punishment. be dead in three months. [Mike Lambrix setts Bay Colony and four Quakers were What lessons have we learned in lost his appeal in the Florida supreme executed around 1660: the Boston Com­ LifeLines, and what can we impart to court in September.- Eds.] Mike is not mon martyrs. you? representative of the men and women on In 1959, marking the tercentenary of In the first place, by being deliberately death row, but, as we have seen with Sam those events, Henry Cadbury wrote in nonpolitical, we have, I believe, para­ Johnson, nor is he unique. There are many, FRIENDS JOURNAL, "The best memorial is doxically achieved far more than had we many men who, in their long years of doubtless the recognition of the principles set out to campaign. This is because we incarceration under threat of death, have for which men [sic] died and the practice have focused on the human face of death grown enormously in the spirit. of them in our life today." row. People have asked to write because, This meeting point between imprison­ William Penn rejected ''the wicked­ like the rest of us, they have been im­ ment and the spiritual life is integral to ness of exterminating, where it was pos­ pressed by the human qualities they have our Quaker experience. At the very start sible to reform," and Pennsylvania set a seen or read about, qualities they had not ofhis ministry, Fox had his famous vision lead in the abolition of the death penalty. expected to encounter on death row. In in which: "I saw also that there was an In Britain, Elizabeth Fry's work visiting your campaigning, I think you will be far ocean of darkness and death, but an infi­ women prisoners carried forward the more effective if you focus on individual nite ocean oflight and love, which flowed Quaker tradition ofpenal reform. She and human beings and bring their stories to over the ocean of darkness." What we others also worked steadfastly for aboli­ the attention of the public. One case that often tend to overlook is the preceding tion. In the long and often shameful his­ people can relate to-no matter what the passage, in which Fox writes of being tory ofcapital punishment in Britain, Harry man may have done-can get through to shown all sorts of depravities by the Lord. Potter has written: "One Christian group people in a way that no learned argu­ "Why should I be thus, seeing I was never alone stands out: at every turn, running ments or statistics ever can. addicted to commit these evils?" he cries. every society, campaigning everywhere, With this in mind, I am wondering "And the Lord answered that it was need­ were the Quakers. They alone, as a Chris­ whether individual meetings might ful I should have a sense ofall conditions, tian body, were completely and absolutely "adopt" a prisoner. You could write to how else should I speak to all conditions; opposed to the death penalty." The death him, individually or as a meeting. You and in this I saw the infinite love ofGod ." penalty was abolished in Britain 30 years might even be able to visit him. You Prison and imprisonment are deeply ago, and in Canada 20 years ago, while it could, indeed you should, get in touch burned into the Quaker consciousness. is just over 20 years since it was reintro­ with his defense attorney before drawing Some estimate that as many as one in five duced in the United States. public attention to his case. By getting to

FRIENDS JOURNAL December 1996 11 know him, he would become a real per­ son, as we have discovered. This in turn would help in portraying him to the wider community as a human being- whatever his frailties. I have brought with me de­ tails on a number of prisoners who would A GIFT dearly welcome such support. Secondly, a plea. Many abolitionists are putting forward life without parole as an alternative to capital punishment. De­ OF PRESENCE spite the temptation, I hope you will not do so. To me, life without parole is a in Colombia, and I talked about my daugh­ doctrine of despair and but one small by Nancy L. Bieber ters away at college. rung up the moral ladder from the death When we finished, Rita invited me penalty. ast winter was a record­ into her house to warm up with a cup of Finally, I wonder whether it might be breaker for much of the coffee and a piece of her shoofly pie. possible for minutes to be adopted. The Lnortheastern United States. Nestling the hot cup of coffee snugly in following text draws on the minute of It certainly was here in Pennsylva­ my cold hands, I looked around. "You've Philadelphia Yearly Meeting: nia; snowier than even the grand­ repainted your kitchen, haven't you? I We affirm our unwavering opposition parents could remember, it seemed like that yellow color, and the cabinets to capital punishment, which has been a to go on forever. One day in late make a wonderful contrast." deeply felt testimony ofFriends since the February, after we had received yet Rita's eyes lit up, "Yes, it used to be establishment ofour Religious Society in another half-foot or so to whiten the brown but it never pleased me. Now this the 17th century. Where the sanctity of street-side drifts, I sat at my desk is much better." human life has been violated, we must looking out at my shrouded garden The pie was good, just made yesterday comfort those who have suffered, but not and my neighbor's house. Suddenly, and freshly heated in her microwave. We repeat that violation. True security lies in I noticed my 75-year-old neighbor sat in comfortable silence for a moment, our reverence for human life and our Rita shoveling out her driveway. enjoying the reward ofour labor, reveling recognition ofthe godliness in us all, what­ I had lived next door to Rita for in warmth after cold, in stillness after ever we may have done. almost 20 years. I knew her for a exertion. I was conscious of my pleasure I know that opposing the death strong and independent woman who in this ordinary day. Coffee and shoofly penalty will not be easy for U.S. Friends, raised her own vegetables, raked pie are familiar desserts in this area of the as the tide of public opinion is running so her own leaves, and, yes, shoveled world. I could imagine kitchens all over swiftly in the opposite direction. But I her own snow. But this winter was Lancaster County, where neighbors and hope that you, supported by Friends else­ a bad one, and Rita usually had a families were sitting down together for where, such as in Canada and Britain friend with a snowplow come and coffee and shoofly pie, relaxing and talk­ will do so. We owe this to our Quake; dig her out. ing after shoveling out their driveways principles, to that Light within ourselves Today was an awfully cold day once more. that recognizes that of God in every man to be shoveling snow. I watched and woman, no matter where they may be Rita for a few minutes then dropped omehow this snowy day, this sit­ or what they may have done. And we owe my book and headed for the closet ting together and quietly talking it to our Quaker heritage, to the light still to pull on my boots and coat. Grab­ Samid the smell of coffee and the shining today of those who were impris­ bing my own shovel, I tramped smooth molassesy flavor of the pie, put oned for their beliefs, to the light of those across the garden to join her. "I on a glow not entirely explained by neigh­ who died on Boston Common. We owe it thought I'd lend a hand," I said, borly friendship and the tingle of slowly to the light of those Friends who, down "when I saw you tackling this big warming fingers and toes. It held me in a the centuries and in many countries, have driveway yourself. Shoveling can sudden awareness of tastes and smells, of done so much for the improvement of be fun to do together." colors and sounds, as if they all were prison conditions and the abolition of the "Oh, I don't mind it," she re­ abruptly intensified, like a sound just risen death penalty. And, dear Friends, most of plied. But we worked side by side above the threshold ofmy conscious hear­ all we owe it to the light cast by the Sam companionably, bending to our ing or like a gradual lightening of the sky Johnsons and ·Mike Lambrixs of this tasks, and talked, as neighbors do, that unexpectedly reveals shapes that were world- a light sometimes like a giant of the hardships of the winter, ofthe there all along. beacon effortlessly crossing the Atlantic carelessness ofthe snowplow crews, "Ah, so this is it," I thought. "This is and sometimes flickering but never quite and of how late spring would be. ... this is ... well, life, living. I'm living, going out; a light shining from the darkest She told me ofher missionary friend right now this minute. Sitting, eating, and most improbable of places. 0 Nancy L. Bieber, a member of drinking, talking. I'm alive." Lancaster (Pa.) Meeting and a psy­ I looked across at Rita, seeing her more LifeLines can be contacted at 96 chologist, is a recent graduate of the clearly. Her curly white hair, her slippered Fallowfield, Cambridge CB4 IPF, United Shalem Institute's program on spiri­ feet padding about her kitchen, her sweater Kingdom, e-mail 101702.1425@compu­ tual direction. and warm slacks, her quiet voice discuss- serve.com, or write to U.S. LifeLines c/o Vinton Deming at FRIENDS JoURNAL

12 December 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL ing how beneficial she found her micro­ Here in this kitchen, the transforming wave. This was Rita, a never-to-be­ miracle had happened, and I was in the repeated human being. And this moment, middle of it. As MIRACLES which seemed so ordinary, actually was Being mindfully present erased bound­ unique, a never-to-be-repeated gift. I aries. When I really listened to Rita, when GO, IT MAY wanted to treasure it, to live it as com­ I opened myself to this moment and let pletely as I could. Rita in, I found she was more thail my HAVE BEEN AN I wanted to be "mindful," as Thich neighbor. She was family, an intimate Nhat Hanh says in Miracle of Mindful­ part of me. The bonds that joined us were ness, to this present day, this present mo­ far stronger than the differences of our ORDINARY ment. "Mindfulness," he says, "is the lives. Beyond the microwaves and the miracle which can call back in a flash our snowshovels, Wf! had in common our ach­ AND dispersed mind and restore it to whole­ ing muscles and a pride in jobs well done, ness so that we can live each minute of a pleasure in color and a concern about UNSPECTACULAR life." distant friends, a fear ofdying alone and a Being fully engaged in sitting at Rita's capacity for loving; all the basic stuff of ONE, ·suT kitchen table, fully present to this small our common humanness. jewel of a neighbor, fully savoring the Joined together in a community of two, HOW taste of the pie and the warmth of the what we had eaten was more than pie and coffee, being fully here and now in all of coffee. It was more like bread and wine, my being, that's what it was. Being fully the transforming elements of a commun­ INFREQUENT engaged transformed this moment into a ion that fills us so that we can go forth miracle. The distance between the ordi­ renewed. A new springiness of step and IT HAS BEEN nary and the miraculous is not so far that lightness of heart, a centeredness of soul it cannot be traveled in an instant. and a free generosity of spirit, these are FOR ME. "People," Thich Nhat Hanh goes on to the gifts of neighborly communion. say, "usually consider walking on water Just as all moments are sacred miracles or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real and we only recognize the sacredness miracle is not to walk either on water or in when we are mindful, so all thin air, but to walk on earth." pie and coffee shared with a neighbor is sacred, o have my feet firmly on the transformed by our ~:::::JIJII•iiiii: earth-and to know where my intention and the T feet are. To be eating shoofly miracle of God' s pie-and to be attentive to the pie. To good gifts into sac­ listen to Rita-and to really listen to Rita. rament. As miracles go, it may have been an Bidding Rita ordinary and unspectacular one, but how farewell, I pulled on my infrequent it has been for me. Too rarely boots again, hoisted my am I mindful of the moment itself. I lean snowshovel onto my forward to the next one, all attention on shoulder, and, filled with what has not yet happened. I lean back­ more than food, walked wards, replaying what is gone. Some­ out the door. D where in between my leaning, the present slips quietly through, unnoticed by me. Like a child playing a game of hopscotch on one foot, I'm unbalanced, always look­ ing to the next square. But now I had stopped. At this mo­ ment both feet were walking on the earth.

FRIENDS JOURNAL December 1996 ··-·· 13 he wreath my neigh- of Jewish heroism, dreidel bors nailed to our games, toys, and homemade Tbuilding's front door this presents; as an adult I've devel- morning was real, not ersatz, oped private rituals, including evergreen. Fragrant and round, latke (potato pancake) dinners it filled our foyer with the scent with friends and quiet, medita- not of city streets but of a for- tive evenings in front of the est. When I picked up the mom- menorah. ing newspaper, pine needles Ironically, my negative feel- clung to my slippers. Along ings about the commercializa- with the candles lighting their tion and secularization of a windows, my neighbors were Christian holy day don't reflect preparing our three-apartment my feelings about Christmas brownstone for Christmas, a gift music and decorations, which I to the street. like, or about Jesus, a figure Rather than enclosing me in I've come to admire through a circle of goodwill, however, liberation theology and Central my neighbors' decorating zeal America solidarity work. In- left me feeling angry and stead, my feelings are probably defensive. Like many Jews, akin to those of many Chris- and undoubtedly like members tians who'd like to reclaim the of other religious minorities, I day's spiritual, private, signifi- feel Other at Christmas, a six- cance. week season extending from My problem with my neigh- before Thanksgiving to well bors' wreath, in other words, after New Year's. From the was not with the wreath itself, poinsettias decorating most which was beautiful, but with workplaces to department store their failure to communicate carols to my annual quest for about it. Whether out of igno- nondenominational gift wrap, ranee or insensitivity, their uni- the United States reminds its lateral decision to declare our citizens that, underneath the common space a Christian one pretense of multiculturalism, .§ was as defeating of the season's this is a Christian country after ~ aspirations toward love and uni- all. Anti-Semitic myths of ~ versa! humanity as the "How Jewish influence notwithstand- ~ dare you presume I'm Chris- ing, December teaches all of <:t1 tian?" button a Jewish friend us that the reins of power rest ------dons each December. The is- firmly in Christian, mainly Protestant, nantly Jewish members of our secular sue, for me, is less about "rights" than hands. peace group. Perhaps not surprisingly, about civility and courtesy-qualities that The older I get, and the more in touch both these painful conflicts partly involved seem in short supply as we limp toward with my Jewish identity and my family's fellow Jews, since the season seems to the millenium. Many of these tensions Holocaust experiences, the more tension summon forth a wide spectrum of feel- seem most acute not in public areas being I feel around Christmas. Several years ings and family history relating to assimi- contested in the courts but in private or ago, I clumsily protested when a small lation, identity, and observance. semi-public spaces: workplaces, stores, peace group I belonged to scheduled a My own family's behavior is confus- apartment buildings. Our failures, on an Central America forum on the first night ing. My parents proudly celebrated only individual and collective basis, to ac­ of Chanukah. Although the organizers Jewish (and secular American) holidays, knowledge and respect each other's dif­ had been sensitive enough to check with but my mother's parents celebrated both · ferences and to apply conflict resolution several (nonobservant) Jewish members Christmas and Jewish holidays in pre- skills when our needs conflict have led to first (who'd assured them-accurately- Nazi Berlin, and many of my in-laws, of today's dysfunctional United States, riven that Chanukah's considered a "minor" German Jewish stock, celebrate both by repressed anger, widespread feelings Jewish holiday), they went ahead with Chanukah and Christmas. Both Jewish of being "dissed," lawsuits, and violence. the event even though many Central and non-Jewish friends and relatives send While I could have fired off an angry America activists are Jewish, and many me Christmas cards, to which I respond letter or asked my Jewish landlord to in­ Jews celebrate the first night ofChanukah with an assortment of Rosh Hashanah tervene, I decided to try the harder route: as a symbol of Jewish family and sur- greetings, Chanukah presents, and "peace to talk to my neighbors. When I did, after vival. Last year, a Jewish friend and I on earth" UNICEF cards. I am grateful taking all day to muster the courage, argued over the Christmas party a Jewish for my parents' teaching; for me, and they apologized: we were new in the build­ activist was throwing for the predomi- probably for most Jews, Chanukah is not ing, arid they hadn't thought to ask us. a "lesser Christmas" but a meaningful They also mentioned, as I knew they Roberta Spivek is a Philadelphia, Pa., writer eight-day period in its own right. As a would, their Jewish friends who celebrate and editor. child, it was rich in family closeness, songs Christmas.

14 December 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL I didn't ask my neighbors to their Santa Claus flag unfurled over remove the wreath, but to agree on our front door. a mutual decision-making process In our case, my neighbors and I in the future. Like other members agreed to talk-a tiny victory for My Father's Eyes of minority groups, I carefully civility, on one street in one city. saw, I Imagine choose the issues on which to take But I'm tired of the internal battle a stand; our building shares a com­ that every December brings: rainy twilight In a VIennese Park, mon heating system, too, and keep­ whether and when to swallow my shiny kasbmlen nuts, some cnashed ing warm is more important to me, anger or risk feeling too ''pushy" on a daily basis, than symbols of and oversensitive, too "Jewish." I and bleeding bitter juices identity. In fact, I'd almost decided don't believe the burden of asking Into the asphalt. An old man In sldelocks not to make an issue of the wreath not to be rendered invisible should at all, until I came home to fmd rest on my shoulders. 0 pleaded, then howled, then cnambled silent amid the kastanlen.

A Sweet New Year My father's ...., perhaps, osh Hashanah, which usually occurs in September, is the he.cl a midnight rustling, RJewish New Year and one of the Jewish High Holy Days. During Rosh Hashanah, one reflects on the past year and crisp uniforms In the doorway, confronts the new one with revitalized hope. One of the most the scrape of spit-shined boots. important aspects of Rosh Hashanah is the blowing of the Across the courtyn, a single light bulb Shofar, a ram's hom. The practice has many meanings: it was used to call the tribes of Israel together for meetings, to warn of glowed through fog. 1be uniforms dlsa...,...... dangers, and to denote celebrations. It is said that the blowing of with the father the ram's hom will be heard before the coming of the messiah. of my father During the Rosh Hashanah service, the Shofar is sounded in different ways to correlate to ancient specifications, culminating Into that dim light forever. towards the Kitula Gidola, a long and continuous blowing, as long as the blower can manage. Rabbi Walter Rothschild of Beneath you, Father, great wheels Leeds, England, and I, with the help of Hannah Kneucker on the begin to tum, cnashlng gravel piano, were charged with leading the liberal Jewish community on clean sliver ralls. First slow of Vienna to bring in a sweet new year. There was one problem: we could not find anyone who could or would blow the Shofar. and powerful then fast Rabbi Rothschild assured us that he had an alternative plan. and powerful, downhill When it came time in the service for the Shofar to be blown, or uphill, so .._.. to tell In the dark, there was a pause. Then out of the front row, a little girl about ten, with long braids framing her face, slowly stood, gave her your mother beside you ha.. 't a clue sweater to her mother, and walked over to the rabbi, her father. but squeezes your hand so .._.. He handed the ram's hom to the child, who looked out at the It hurts, and the clicking of the wheels silent and shocked members of the congregation. Then she put the Shofar to her lips and on the ancient Hebrew commands on the track Is so fast, blew the hom perfectly. Each ancient tone was carried beyond so loud that someone panics and the room and outside to the Danube canal below, mingling with pulls the cord and screams STOP the blasts from other synagogues in Vienna. It was the first time I had seen the sound of the Shofar bring and It stops an entire room of people together in silence and awe. After twenty years later In America holding the Kitula Gidola until her face turned purple, the little as my life begins. girl from Leeds gave the hom back to her father and returned to her seat smiling ear-to-ear. Later she said, "Nobody else would -James T. Dooley Riemermann do it. I play trumpet, after all." -SonatHart James T. Dooley Riemerman is a member ofTwin Cities Reprinted with permission from the Falll996 Ear/hamite. (Minn.) Meeting.

Sonat Hart received a fellowship to explore Jewish life and literature in Germany and Austria upon her graduation from Earlham College in 1995.

FRIENDS JoURNAL December 1996 15 hat is the relationship between "inner" peacemakers struck me as ab­ inner and outer peace? Is it pos­ stract, merely academic, even wind-baggy Peace Wsible to coordinate our efforts and self-indulgent. The fact that discus­ for personal transformation and for social sions of inner peace often depended upon change? Must our efforts "to build the insights and practices from cultures far beloved community" await our "straight­ removed from the stresses and strains of ''Within'' ening up the mess that's inside," to quote U.S. culture aroused my suspicion as well. a line. from My Fair Lady? I had been down that road before, where For years, I avoided facing these ques­ belief was more valued than insight and and tions straight on, for various reasons. For practice, and where someone in charge one thing, people more concerned with had the final word, however limited his or "inner" than "outer" peace appeared to her experience or demonstrated compe­ be looking for an excuse not to act politi­ tence. ''Without'' cally against war and injustice. They im­ Also, the fact 1hat these issues pre­ plied that the ordinary activist was too sented themselves all at once kept me at a flawed in character to alter the conditions standstill. Perhaps I just wasn't ready to he or she deplored. Anxious to dismiss hear any of the good advice available anyone critical of the status quo, they from people well disciplined in "inner" by Michael True behaved as if resisters were more respon- peacemaking. Or maybe I had just forgot­ ten that magic word essential to changing myself, as well as the world around me: START. Once initiated, the effort opened whole new areas of exploration central to personal peace, and to social change as well. Living in China off and on during a seven-year period helped prepare the way. Many Chinese learn to cope with stress and to achieve inner peace in the midst of a harsh environment and an occasionally cruel culture. Although no expert at tai chi or related practices, I saw how crucial these disciplines are to a people long schooled in adversity. Living among people embued with the spiritual insights of Daoisrn, "the way," transformed my understanding of what it means to be re­ ligious and deepened my religious faith. Several books related to Buddhism and Hinduism have been helpful in under­ standing the links between inner and outer peace. The first and most practical is Tools for Transformation: A Personal Study, by Adam Curle, an English Quaker and one sible for chaos than those who never chal­ of the founders of Peace Studies. It was lenged publicly the violence of the status not so much Curle's arguments as it was quo. the spirit evoked by his writing that helped Another reason for my failure to ex­ me to appreciate links between personal plore the relationship between inner and transformation and social change. On oc­ outer peace was the amount of energy it casion, specific passages made the con­ took to work on two fronts at once. How nection evident, even explicit. could I take time to resolve my own psy­ In the introduction, for example, Curle chic struggles with peace, when there says that it is "an absurd illusion to con­ was so much awry in the public order? sider that we can work for peace, which Besides, with all the nickle-plated gu­ means to be actively involved with people rus afoot, whom could I trust in a search who are behaving in an unpeaceful way, for equilibrium? Much of the language of if we are inwardly turbulent and ill-at­ ease; or to help people change their lives Michael True, a member of Worcester-Pleas­ for the better if our own existence is dis­ ant St. Meeting, in Worcester, Mass., is the ordered and impoverished; or to educate author ofAn Energy Field More Intense Than if our own human potential has not been War: The Nonviolent Tradition and Ameri­ sufficiently led out." In reflecting upon can Literature. his long experience as a mediator among

16 December 1996 FRJENDS JoURNAL warring parties in Asian and African coun­ appreciation for the connection between tries, he returns again and again to the inner and outer peace was Approach to interdependence of inner and outer peace Vedanta, by Christopher Isherwood, the as well as of all living things. late novelist whom Gore Vidal regarded ~ Elsewhere, Curle emphasizes his pro­ as "the greatest prose writer in English." 0I~~~~~~ found distrust of the dualistic implica­ A brief memoir about the "conversion" • Quality care in the Quaker nadition. tions of "spiritual" and "material" dichot­ of a religious skeptic, it describes omies, implicit in Western religious and Isherwood's growing interest in the teach­ • 42 apanments for independent living, philosophical thought "I find it more help­ ings of Ramakrishna and Vedanta fol­ 60 private personal care rooms, 120 nursing home beds. ful to think that we are all, in our separate lowing realization on the eve of the Sec­ spheres, engaged in the quest for reality. ond World War that he was a pacifist, but • Peace of mind. Supportive medical And reality is neither spiritual nor mate­ without any clear religious basis. In prose and social services throughout your rial, the concern of either politicians or both concrete and disarming, Isherwood stay. clergy; it is as it is." dramatizes his assent to truth in a manner A similar, and relevant, insight informs reminiscent of the great John Henry • An active lifestyle in a beautiful, Diana Eck's remarkable book, Encoun­ Newman. In the process, Isherwood graceful setting. tering God: From Bozeman to Banaras, achieved an inner peace in a world gone • Meals, housekeeping, transportation, about the fluidity of religious traditions mad for war. Shortly afterward, he worked cultural and social activities. and how they alter us, as we alter them, with the American Friends Service Com­ over time. "Sometimes they dry up in arid . mittee in Philadelphia; then the Vedanta • A history of caring since 1904. land; sometimes they radically change Society; and later, the gay liberation move­ course and move out to water new terri­ ment. Stapeley In Germantown tory.... We do not know how we will Also relevant to the relationship be­ 6300 Greene Street change the river or be changed as we tween inner and outer peace is John Kabat­ Philadel phia, PA 19144 experience its currents." Zinn's Wherever You Go, There You Are, Call Carol Nemeroff Another publication that increased my a book about simple, effective ways of Admissions Director being attentive. Kabat-Zinn shares (215) 844-0700 with Curle a sense of respectful­ ness---of"mindfulness" and "wake­ G fulness." This powerful exercise, fol­ Listening lowing a quotation from Victor Weisskopf, suggests the spirit of Coming to D.C.? for the Voices Kabat-Zinn's approach: "Try: Stay with Friends on Capitol Hill Thinking that your life is at least as ofAngels interesting and miraculous as the moon or the stars. What is it that WILLIAM PENN HOUSE How c.~ my mind, stands between you and direct con­ 515 East Capitol St. SE tact with your life? What can you do filled with the commerce of r~Um, Washington, DC 20003 to change that?" listen for the voices of angels? Taking some liberties with the Individuals, Families and Groups exercise, one might alter the focus $25 to $40 Engaged In the world as I am, from the natural universe to peace­ Seminars on Current Issues will I ever be home making: "Try: Thinking that inner peace is at least as complex and for Schools, Colleges, and Meetings to receive them, miraculous as outer peace. What (202)543-5560 stands in the way of your acknowl­ [email protected] waiting as I Imagine they do, edging and appreciating elements of the peaceable kingdom around you? for the soul How might you extend that peace to struggle less without and within?" In trying to apprehend-if not Friends' for that eloquent silence comprehend-the relationship be­ --~-c E- -- N - T R A L tween achieving peace in my own For over 150 years ... when both mind and mouth psyche and constructing peace in .eat rest. the larger world, I keep returning to • Excellence in academics these experiences, both personal and • Respect for the individual -MichaelS. Glaser literary. In a process of discovery • Community service that is surprising and liberating, they • A diverse student body helped me to understand aspects of • Outstanding college MichaelS. Glaser is a professor oflit erature nonviolenc~, conflict resolution, and placement and creative writing at St. Mary 's College, peace studies that I should have at­ Friends' Central School St. Mary's City, Md. tended to long ago. Needless to say, ( 61 0) 649-7 440 ext. 208 it is only a beginning. 1:1

FRIENDS JoURNAL December 1996 17 1he First Quaker Nobel Peace by !twin Abrams

Friends begin to think about how form," it was ''the dynamic force of the ''went through a long and painful struggle, to commemorate next year's 50th active love through which their religion and never felt that I had reached a clear A anniversary of the Nobel Peace was expressing itself in multifarious ways, and consistent conclusion." Knowing only Prize that was shared by the American both during and after the war." When she too well the evil of Hitlerism from her Friends Service Committee and the Brit­ returned to live in Wellesley, Mass., in work with Jewish and other refugees, she ish Friends Service Council in 1947, it is her last years, she transferred her mem­ fmally concluded that this evil had to be well to be reminded that 1996 is the 50th bership to Cambridge (Mass.) Meeting. vanquished, and she supported the war. anniversary ofthe prize that Quaker Emily In 1915 Emily Balch was already a She declared, "I am not an absolute paci­ Greene Balch, a leader of the Women's distinguished social scientist when she fist," but she kept her memberships in International League for Peace and Free­ joined Jane Addams and the intrepid in­ WILPF, Fellowship ofReconciliation, and dom, shared with John Mott ofthe YMCA ternational band of women who vainly War Resisters International, and she gave in 1946. She was only the third woman to attempted to stop World War I by per­ full support to conscientious objectors. win the prize, after Baroness Bertha von suading statesmen of both neutral and She frankly admitted, "I realize that my Suttner in 1901 and Jane Addams in 1931. belligerent states to agree to a mediation position is neither very definite nor very Emily Balch (1867- 1961), raised as a process. She then tried to prevent U.S. consistent. How can one be either when Unitarian, joined Friends in 1920 when intervention in the conflict and continued an irresistible force meets an unmovable she was in Geneva establishing the inter­ her opposition after the United States en­ obstacle in one's own mind?" Her WILPF national headquarters ofWILPF. She ap­ tered the war. This brought about her friends recognized her anguish, under­ plied to London Yearly Meeting, prefer­ dismissal from Wellesley College, end­ stood her reservations about absolutism ring to avoid the divisions of American ing a teaching career of 20 years. She in ethics, and were familiar with the prac­ Quakerism. What attracted her to Friends continued to work for peace for the rest of tical dimensions ofher idealism. Bertram was not only "their testimony against war, her life, both through WILPF and indi­ Pickard, Quaker representative at Geneva their creedless faith, nor their openness to vidually. She was granted the Nobel Prize who had watched her at work in her suggestions for far-reaching social re- as the acknowledged dean and intellec­ League ofNations days, told her, "One of tual leader of the United States peace the most attractive things about your paci­ Irwin Abrams serves as clerk of the FRIENDS movement. fism is that it combines the wisdom of the JouRNAL Board ofManag ers and is a member When the United States again went to political serpent and the harmlessness of of Yellow Springs (Ohio) Meeting. war after Pearl Harbor, she said that she the Quaker dove." After the war the U.S. section of WILPF de­ cided that it had been long enough since the Nobel Prize for Jane Addams and now it was time to attempt to secure one for their other surviving eminent cofounder. Mercedes Randall organ­ ized the campaign, and in examining her records at the Swarthmore Col­ lege Peace Collection, we can see what an extraor­ dinary job she did in the

Emily Greene Balch (third row, left) and .g"' other U.S. delegates <.> from the Woman's ~ Peace Party at the d 1915 International ~ Peace Congress, ~ where the Women's ~ 0 International ...,1:: League for Peace ;;: and Freedom was ~ V) formed

18 December 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL JOURNEY'S END FARM CAMP is a farm devoted to children for sessions of Prize Winner two to eight weeks each summer. Farm ani­ mals, gardening, nature, ceramics, shop. Non­ violence, simplicity, reverence for nature are emphasized m our program centered in the life of a Quaker farm family. For thirty-two boys and girls, 7-12 years. Welcome all races. Apply in December~anuary. Emily Greene Balch CARL & KRISTIN CURTIS (1867-1961) Box 136, Newfoundland, PA 18445 Phone: (717) 689-3911; 0604 emment, rather she perceptively iden­ tified the strands of nonpolitical con­ nectedness that were moving the world Expt:riential to international unity, such as those Destgns Organizational development Ellen Brownfain. and consulting worldwide with which the special agencies of the Principal & Friend Specializing in team building, United Nations were concerned. Any 415-241-1519 leadership development and true international unity, she always 1218 Leavenworth St. diversity training. Ask about held, must have a moral quality and SF CA 94109-4013 our upcoming spirit quests . .. possess the quality ofhumanity. In conclusion she gave her prescrip­ tion for peacemaking:

We are not asked to subscribe to any uto­ pia or to believe in a perfect world just around the comer. We are asked to be 851 Buck Lane Early Birds Haverford, PA Extended Day patient with necessarily slow and groping (610)642-2334 advance on the road forward, and to be ready for each step ahead as it becomes practicable. We are asked to equip our­ A COEDUCATIONAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL selves with courage, hope, readiness for PRESCHOOL THROUGH SIXTH GRADE six weeks time she had. Four typists were hard work, and to cherish large and generous kept busy sending out a stream of letters, ideals. Friends School welcomes snul.ellls of o.~~y race including 92 to scholars, politicians, and She turned over most of the prize religion and natiortal or etMic origin other public figures, each one personally money to WILPF, as Jane Addams had signed by philosopher John Dewey, ask­ done. In 1955, concerned about the wid­ ing for their cooperation. The archives of ening gulfbetween the United States and the Norwegian Nobel Committee, now China, she wrote a poem that was a "letter open through 1946, demonstrate how of love," addressed to "Dear People of many nominations and letters of support China." This is the last stanza: these efforts generated. They also show Let us be patient with one another, the influence of the eloquent biographical And even patient with ourselves. sketch by John Herman Randall Jr., the We have a long, long way to go. husband of Mercedes. He was an eligible So let us hasten along the road, nominator as a professor of philosophy, The road of human tenderness and and all the other documents collected were generosity. sent to Oslo along with his own letter of Groping, we may find one another's nomination. hands in the dark. Chairman Gunnar Jahn of the prize committee, in the speech of presentation In response the Chinese minister of at the award ceremony in December 1946, health invited Emily Balch to China as recounted Emily Balch's "lifelong inde­ her personal guest. Emily declined, not 185 1 Quakerdale has blended hiscory, vision and fatigable work for peace" and declared, because she felt too old to travel-she Christian values co streng then "She has taught us that the reality we seek was then 88-but because she felt she youth and their families. must be earned by hard and unrelenting was too old to be of any use when she got Treatmenr services encourage toil in the world in which we live, but she there. positive change for teens ;m9 their families, empowering them has taught us more: that exhaustion is Such was Emily Greene Balch, the co face the future with hope. unknown and defeat only gives fresh cour­ first Quaker Nobel Peace Prize winner, a For information on how you can age to the man whose soul is fired by the remarkable woman with a brilliant mind, help build Quakerdale's sacred flame." a caring and selfless spirit, a sense of endowment for the 21st century Emily Balch entitled her Nobel lec­ humor, and most important of all, with call or write: ture, postponed until April 1948, "To­ what the Nobel chairman called "the sa­ Donna Lawler, Director of Development ward Human Unity or Beyond National­ cred flame," what she herself had de­ (Phone 515-497-5294) ism." She pointed out the dangers of na­ scribed in others as "the dynamic force of Box 8 N ew Providence, lA 50206 tionalism but advocated no world gov- active love." D

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FRIENDS JOURNAL December 1996 21 Witness Life in the New South Africa by Petronella Clark

arly on the morning of April27, 1994, while it was still dark, I drove past EGordon's Gym, which had been trans­ formed into an election station. There was still an hour before the doors would open, but already a long queue had formed. This was 1::! the day so many of us had hoped for and ~ worked for in different ways; to my surprise, ~ tears rose to my eyes. Pictures and stories of g that day have since flashed 'round the world- Jl the long queues, waiting patiently and cheer­ The South African military was once a dreaded sight in black com­ fully, even in the rain; the camaraderie; the munities, but is now welcomed as a stabilizing force. This photo was sense of a glorious historic moment. Over taken on the day DeKierk conceded the election to Mandela. previous weeks, I had helped prepare observ­ ers, who would be inside the polling stations, there is a horrific level of unemployment and rior to most township schools. Big organiza­ and peace monitors, of whom I was now one, destitution. The major urban centers are sur­ tional obstacles are being encountered in the who would be roaming outside. We had been rounded by "townships," many consisting of changeover from racially based school sys­ trained in conflict resolution skills; we had sub-economic housing and shacks of second­ tems to each of the nine provinces having its been warned not to take unnecessary risks. hand building materials, cardboard, and plas­ own department of education. The Western Now that the day had come, we found we tic. Most of the inhabitants lack saleable skills Cape (where I live) is particularly slow and were not needed-and never have I been so and must therefore earn a living though casual conservative-too many people have vested happy not to be needed! work; one sees men sitting at certain places interests in maintaining the status quo. Al­ I suppose we must accept that what has on major highways waiting hopefully for a though there is a great need for teachers in the followed must inevitably prove an anticli­ farmer or builder to offer them a day's job. An new educational dispensation, there is not max, that the election was only the beginning easy alternative is what a Friend euphemisti­ enough money to pay them, so many well­ of the new South Africa and that its viability cally calls "the redistribution of wealth." This qualified teachers (including myself) are un­ is something we all must continue to work may range from simple housebreaking (not so or under-employed. for. But we all had great expectations that simple when this happens to oneself- ! speak A major cause of ill feelings is "Affirma­ could not be realized overnight. from recent experience of burglary!) to vio­ tive Action" whereby the number of blacks It is easier for outsiders to see the changes lent muggings and car-hijackings. Much crime (and other members of "disadvantaged" than for us, ofcourse. People who return after is related to gangs that have proliferated in the groups, including women) in high places is several years absence comment on the great townships and to drug trafficking. being increased; thus, in theory, a black woman transformation in attitudes, the new sense of The economic situation has been wors­ is more likely to get a particular job than an freedom, the relaxed relationships between ened by the perception of the outside world equally qualified white man. As there is a different ethnic groups. . that now that Apartheid has gone, South Af­ severe unemployment problem at all levels For some of us, the biggest adjustment has rica no longer needs their help; alas, help is anyway, this causes much insecurity and re­ been to redirect our focus. In the bad old days, needed more than ever to rebuild in sentment. we could all unite in opposition to Apartheid. Apartheid's aftermath. Some South Africans view the ful\lre with Suddenly we have found ourselves under a On a more cheerful note comes the prob­ despondency, seeing steady decline of stan­ Government of National Unity, with police lem of political correctness. My husband, for dards, both material and moral; others, like who are our friends, and faced with all sorts of example, was classified as "Cape Coloured" me, are more optimistic. On the one hand I problems we were able to neglect before, but under the old regime, while I was "White." see the horrific, rising crime rate; on the other, which now need us to agree on solutions. "White" is still used, as is "Black" (although I I rejoice in my ability to walk and talk freely The worst problem, I think most would remember a time when it was nearly as disap­ with anyone of any color. The slums and concur, is crime resulting from poverty. The proved of as "Native" or, horror, "Kaffir"). shantytowns are still there, but their occu­ world's economy has been depressed ever What, however, does one use to describe those pants can go to the same beach as me, travel­ since the oil crisis of the mid-1970s; in South who are neither white nor black? Some insist ing on the same bus, train, or taxi as me, and Africa this has been compounded by the on the term "so-called Coloured" while oth­ we can admire the beauty of the Cape Penin­ misdirection of resources into the furtherance ers say "Coloured and proud of it"! ("Brown" sula together without fear of suspicious po­ of Apartheid, from the enormous proportion might be an alternative-but we all are shades licemen harassing us. Only II years ago, my of taxes used to pay for duplication of ser­ ofbrown or pink.) marriage was unrecognized in South Africa vices for different ethnic groups to the delib­ The old Group Areas, regulating residence and our children were, by South African law, erate destabilization, both political and eco­ by race, still exist, but the white areas are not only illegitimate but illegal. Now a mem­ nomic, of neighboring states. Consequently becoming more integrated as those who can ber of our Quaker meeting in Cape Town is afford it move in from the townships. The one of the black women Members of Parlia­ Petronella Clark is a member of Cape West­ schools are similarly becoming integrated, ment, married to a white husband. The new ern (S. Africa) Meeting and Central and South­ with many pupils daily traveling far to attend South Africa may not be perfect, but that need ern Africa Yearly Meeting. formerly white schools, which are still supe- not stop us aiming for perfection. · 0

22 December 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL Reports Pox World is o no-load, The Fund does not invest diversified, open-end, in weapons production, Epistle of New York Yearly balanced mutual fund nuclear power, or designed for those who PAX the tobacco, alcohol, Meeting wish to receive income or gambling industries. ond to invest in life­ 0 R l D Various types of On July 21-27, 690 Friends, including supportive products ond accounts ore ovoiloble: 190 children and more than 125 first-time services. Pox invests in F U N D Regular Accounts, IRAs, attendees, gathered for New York Yearly such industries os pollu­ Educational Accounts, Meeting's annual sessions at Silver Bay, N.Y. tion control, health core, Custodial Accounts for For a free prospectus and After completing the new Faith and Prac­ food, clothing, housing, other materials call toll-free: Minors, SEP-IRAs, Auto­ tice last year, we find ourselves, in this, our education, energy, ond 1·800·767·1729 matic Investment Pions, leisure activities. ond 403(b) Pension Pions. 301st year, with time for reflection. At the 224 Sta te Street opening of our week together, Edward (Ted) Portsmouth, NH 03801 Minimum inwestment is $250 . Peny's message encouraged us to think ofthe Therefore, with Pox there http://www.greenmoney .com/pax Send no money. Post perfor­ ways in which individuals and groups ex­ ore social os well os Pax World Fund shores ore mance is no guarantee of clude others. This young Friend told us of his economic dividends. available for sole in all 50 states. future results. difficulty in making the transition from Junior A S 0 C I A L R E S p·o N S I B I L I T Y F U N D Yearly Meeting to the adult Yearly Meeting,

with its many divisions and cliques, each with Avcr.lyl• Annual Rate of Return Ten· Year Total Retum its separate language and set of rules. We tell for Per1od Eruhng 6/ 30/ 96 $24801 different stories about who we are and cling 1 Veer: 19.96% tenaciously to them instead of wrestling lov­ 5 Veers: 8 .63% ingly to tell our story together. 10 Years: 9.51% Elizabeth Watson, speaking to the same 15 Years: 12.25% concern from her wealth of experience, urged that we accept the differences between us. She urged us to apply the transfonning power of humility and love within the Religious Society of Friends in order to be peacemakers in the world beyond our meetings. She re­ called the active witness of New York Yearly Meeting Friends in past years toward healing both the meeting and the earth, and she saw the opportunity for us to bring that witness into the future. She reminded us of the power of ordinary people to tum things around, and encouraged us to "dwell in possibility." Anne Thomas, in Bible study, spoke to the theme ofinclusiveness , using the text ofGen­ esis 1:26: "Then God said, 'Let us make hu­ o-m Friends N-Ti.S.. man kind in our image according to our like­ rrom Fri"'. G.aeot•l ness. . . . ' " She suggested that no one is the c..c.~ Bookatet•! image of God; all ofus together make up the PI~ · image of God, and God is not complete until •K>C all of us are included. She also brought up Ted ·-_- ... General Peny's theme of developing new spiritual ...... --­ _ practices, as she encouraged us to reenter the ""- great stories of the Bible and retell them in a way authentic to us. The title of her week­ Conference long study, "Beginning and Beginning Again," refers to her theme that creation occurs when A Rnoun:c Guide: for a people is renewed or rededicated; as when the Israelites passed through the Red Sea. Quak e r Mat e rials At Junior Yearly Meeting Bible study, led Bookstore by Ann Davidson, everyone participated. In fact, as they acted out the story of how Jesus cured the man with palsy, there were three children with palsy and two Jesuses. The en­ Callt-800-966-4556 for the new 1996-1997 tire group focused on the theme of commu­ nity-building. Adults were asked questions Catalog with over 120 New Titles! about their relationship with God and how they would explain a supreme being. We real­ ized again how much we want our young . people to stay with us and continue the yearly 1216 Arch Street, Suite 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107 meeting's work. We need their prayers. (800) 966-4556 e-mail: The yearly meeting staff is beginning to use a nonhierarchical structure. Our valued

FRIENDS JoURNAL December 1996 23 friend and general secretary, Joseph A. speak out of the gathered meeting about the the lawn-ultimate frisbee being a favorite­ Vlaskamp, is retiring. Joe challenged us to be Presence in their lives, their love for their and included younger Friends in the activi­ a people of God for the benefit of others, monthly meetings, and their hopes for yearly ties. Other activities, such as a trip to a nearby poised to move into the future. In worship meeting. In business, Ministry and Counsel prairie, augmented their business meetings. A bubbling with laughter, we expressed our grati­ approved the recording as ministers of Mark concern for the budget process and use of tude for Joe's 20 years of service. Caughon, associate pastor at Holly Spring contributions to the Youth Oversight Fund We have thought and spoken much this (N.C.) Meeting, and of Lee Lane, pastor at led to a request of Finance Committee to year of our rich past, our present, and our Plainfield (N.C.) Meeting. These recordings assist in managing this money. Young Friends future. Margery Rubin's photograph exhibit were later recognized and approved by the are hoping to send a good-sized contingent to recalled the last 15 years in the language of yearly meeting. the December 1997 YouthQuake at Guilford faces. We remembered and celebrated dear Yearly Meeting approved Clifford College in Greensboro, N.C. friends and drew inspiration from them. For Winslow as its clerk for the next year. In other In our morning business meetings we de­ the last event ofour tercentenary, the Alterna­ business, yearly meeting noted with regret the veloped an outline of our work together for tives to Violence Project showed us resources withdrawal of Quaker Heights (N.C.) Meet­ the coming year. Technology proved to have we already have to meet future challenges. ing and Community (N.C.) Meeting over their pluses and minuses as we enjoyed the ben­ Another resource is the Gospel Order packet liberal differences with the yearly meeting on efits of an excellent microphone system but developed by Ministry and Counsel for con­ issues such as biblical interpretation; approved fretted over a near loss of meeting minutes in sideration by monthly meetings. As we move the laying down of Friends Extension Corpo­ the recording clerk's laptop computer. A bud­ forward with faith, we find it important to ration; affirmed the Statement of Purpose of get that included reductions in contributions pause and remember to treat each other with Friends United Meeting; recognized North­ to organizations outside IYM but increases in tenderness. We pray that love will inspire the east Friends Fellowship in Raleigh, N.C., as a the general fund for yearly meeting needs was ministry to which we are called. preparative meeting under the care of accepted, noting that the past several years' Contentnea Quarter; approved a request from trial ofallowing children to attend lYM at no -steven W. Ross, clerk Bethel (N.C.) Meeting to be relieved of yearly charge had not affected the budget adversely. meeting responsibilities because of its aging The Ad Hoc Committee on Work lovingly and reduced membership; and requested that helped Friends see the importance of our at­ North Carolina Yearly a committee study issues raised by the con­ tention to service within lYM and gave rec­ Meeting (FUM) cerns of Bethel Meeting. ommendations for streamlining our efforts. A Adjourning the business sessions, Clifford beautiful example of the joy of work was The nurturing witness in ministry, educa­ Winslow summed up the gathering with the depicted in the report and photo album of the tion, and the peace testimony of five Quaker comment, "The Friends process does work. It spring workcamp that brought together 39 women from throughout the history of North is not easy. We have to work at the process. lYM Friends to paint the 120-year-old meet­ Carolin.a Yearly Meeting inspired this year's But it works." inghouse. The Volunteer Service and Train­ sessions, Aug. 7-10, on the campus ofGuilford -Robert Marks ing Committee is planning a national gather­ College in Greensboro, N.C. The five women ing for April 1997 to promote workcamps and were Abigail Overman Pike, 1709-1781; volunteer opportunities for Friends. The Ad Mary Chawner Woody, 1846--1928; Mary Hoc Committee on Sexuality, Commitment, Mendenhall Hobbs, 1852-1930; Ruth illinois Yearly Meeting and Marriage asked Friends to approve the Reynolds Hockett, 1901-1985; and Miriam Friends of Illinois Yearly Meeting gath­ use of a Listening Project to explore these Lindsay Levering, 1913-1991. Each came ered for their 122nd annual sessions in issues with our meetings. Interested Friends alive as "Quaker Women: Stepping Out From McNabb, Ill., July 31-Aug. 4. More than 230 attended a workshop led by Barry Zalph, lYM the Past." As a part of the Vision 400 program people attended. Yearly meeting processes field secretary, and Herb Walters, founder of celebrating the tercentenary ofthe yearly meet­ went remarkably smoothly this year due to the Listening Project, and later formed a steer­ ing in 1997, the dramatic monologues staged the organization ofour clerk coordinator, Mary ing committee to plan for implementation of during the first evening session set a tone of Nurenberg, the work of the planning commit­ the project in the coming year. The Faith and unity and purpose for this 299th gathering. tees, and the helpful spirit ofattendees. Practice Committee presented a letter to The overall theme was "Carolina Quaker Our first address, by Kenneth lves, helped Friends on the process of involving monthly Women: A Heritage of Equality." Leading us focus on this year's theme: "Embracing meetings in discussions related to writing our the morning Bible studies was Sandi Fulton, a Our Heritage: Friends for the New own Faith and Practice. memberofHigh Point (N.C.) Meeting. Louise Millennium." An illustrative chart showed Workshops were well attended this year. Wilson, a North Carolina Quaker who founded the trends in membership by branches of Dan Seeger's on "Peacemaking in a Post­ Virginia Beach (Va.) Meeting and is a former Friends since the 1830s, and a final query Cold War World" was appreciated, as were principal of Friends School in Virginia Beach, challenged us as we look ahead: "What interesting presentations on mysticism, Elias Va., spoke at the evening sessions. She re­ positive visions do you have for the Religious Hicks, Couples Enrichment, religious educa­ minded North Carolina Friends that all are Society of Friends of the future?" A rousing tion, and sexuality. Our worship-sharing called to witness, together with the Spirit of talk by past IYM field secretary Paul groups were rich, as always, and we benefited God, to the present moment and to the future. Schobernd framed our religious body as a by many visitors this year. The Plummer Lec­ Business sessions were free of the intense patchwork quilt, each of us being a square ture, given by Tom Stabnicki, led us into deep divisions over sexual orientation and New that rounds out the whole. On Saturday reflections on our spirituality and prayer life. Age philosophies that marked other recent evening, Dan Seeger, executive secretary at Friday night dancing under a nearly full yearly meetings. Afternoon workshops pro­ Pendle Hill in Wallingford, Pa., and a moon brought together a large, multigenera­ vided opportunities for constructive dialogue Universalist Friend, spoke thoughtfully and tional group of light-footed Friends. Singing about the deep concerns among Friends in helpfully of our Christian heritage and what on the porch each evening before dinner; the North Carolina Yearly Meeting. The Friday place it might have in our contemporary faith music, poetry, and dramatics of the variety morning session of Ministry and Counsel be­ and practice. show; and sitting on the outside benches gave came a worship service as Friends were led to High school Friends organized games on opportunities for friendship and sharing of

24 December 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL our many individual gifts throughout the week. The school had 48 students last year, and 55 staff live out a sense ofcall and passion through this year. Director Ken Hinshaw said the AFSC. Jon Fisch, of Paullina {Iowa) Meeting - Becky Westling, Peggy Sphor, $13,500 tuition makes it the least expensive and clerk of Friends Committee on National and Marti Matthews Quaker boarding school in the U.S. Ken and Legislation's Policy Committee, reported that his wife, Belle, Scattergood's farm director, it is necessary for FCNL to go after the mili­ Iowa Yearly Meeting toured other Quaker schools and said the tary budget to cut goverment spending. Iowa dorms and academic offerings are compa­ Peace Network co-coordinators, Gary and (Conservative) rable, but Scattergood has fewer sports offer­ Nancy Guthrie, said the organization, sup­ ings. Capital improvements, including new ported by Iowa's Historic Peace Churches Iowa Yearly Meeting, Aug. 6-ll, was a construction to expand the boys' dorm, show and the United Methodist Church, has for 20 melange of business sessions (long at times), Scattergood is a place people care about. years worked for hope amidst despair. evening programs, committee meetings, in­ Many children were at Junior Yearly Meet­ Four workshops ran concurrently on three terest groups, and-new to the format-work­ ing, and many adult volunteers worked with afternoons. The choices were "Alternatives to shops. Beyond all these was the chance to them. With an expanded program this year, Violence," led by John Shafer of Friends for a renew acquaintances and visit on the campus the need to hire an adult leader came up Nonviolent World in Minneapolis, Minn.; of Scattergood Friends School, near West repeatedly. The yearly meeting decided to "Discernment," led by Marty Grundy ofCleve­ Branch, Iowa. It was the I 19th gathering of add this cost to the budget. land (Ohio) Meeting; "Writing in the Spirit," Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative). The Advice and Query Review Commit­ by Margaret Lacey from Richmond, Ind.; and The ambience was enhanced by two visi­ tee has completed its work and was laid down. "Spiritual Grounding with Clay," by Jean tors from Kenya, Eli Ogaola and David A reprinting of our Discipline was approved Graham from Austin, Tex. Neyole, members ofone oftwo meetings that with inclusion of the new Ad vices and Que­ Marty Grundy spoke one evening about changed from programmed to unprogrammed ries as well as an updated page on new monthly "The Niceness Syndrome," a title used in a worship after Eli and others attended the meetings. Appointment of a Discipline re­ FRIENDS JouRNAL article. She said that while Friends World Committee for Consultation view committee was approved. being nice can be equated with being tolerant conference in Kaimosi, Kenya. One afternoon there were verbal reports and accepting, there is a temptation to remain Scattergood School is the yearly meeting's from Quaker organizations. Beverly Reddick, superficial so as not to challenge each other. principal project, although our annual contri­ Associate North Central Regional Director, In the process, we "avoid the important stuff." bution is a relatively small part of its budget. said American Friends Service Committee Other evening programs included a panel on Consider a gift that k1sts aU year- and beyond!

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FRIENDS JoURNAL December 1996 25 Oakwood Friends School spiritual diversity; an open discussion on an­ located in the historic Hudoon Valley 75 miles oorth of New York City ger; and slides and stories about early Friends and Scattergood. Songfests, folk dancing, and a talent show followed the evening programs. Many interest groups were offered, such as one on the environment, led by Don Laughlin of West Branch. Don pointed out that electric cars (he has one) are an interim solution to climate change. Junior Yearly Meeting made items to sell for the benefit of Heifer Project International. Young Friends' activities included a two-day workcamp in Muscatine, Iowa, where they painted a house, worked in a park, and served a noon meal in a soup kitchen. Michael Luick-Thrams brought copies of his newly published book about the Scattergood Hostel for refugees from Hitler's Coed boarding and day school for grades 7-12 and postgraduate Germany during World War II. The book, entitled Out ofHitl er's Reach: the Scattergood Hostel for European Refugees 1939-43, is Rigorous college prepu-atory rurricuh..un Small class sizes the result of interviews and correspondence Visual and performing arts Unique Senior program with the surviving refugees and their families Strong, nurturing corrrnunity Athletic program and contains many photos. [ntemational program Community service Deb Fisch, of Paullina (Iowa) Meeting, spoke at the Sunday pre-meeting about how one participant in the writing workshop wrote Please contact the Admissions Office: 515 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 about "Chardin moments"- moments of be­ (914)462-4200 ing aware of the Divine. The more we allow ourselves to listen to the still small voices of ourselves and others, she said, the more often the Chardin moments come. -sherry Hutchinson and Reva Griffith WESTTOWN SCHOOL 1996 Baltimore Yearly Meeting Epistle To Friends everywhere, "In the presence of the living God: be patterns ... be ex­ amples." Late into one evening at Baltimore Yearly Meeting's 325th session, August 5- 11 , groups ofall sizes and ages could be glimpsed around the Wilson College campus in Chambersburg, Pa. Youth and elders alike werejourneying . . . blindfolded, linked by bands to a guide .. . under blankets hidden from "patrols." At We invite you to discover the value of a Westtown education... "Arch Street Meeting" cider and cornbread under the care of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting since 1799. refreshed us before the final race to freedom. We were on a reenactment of the Under­ ground Railroad, prefaced by remarks from *Challenging programs in academics, the arts, and athletics Anthony Cohen, who this summer retraced *Strong Quaker presence in student body and faculty an actual route of escaping slaves by foot, rail, *310 day students in grades pre-K through 10 boat, and horseback from Sandy Spring, Md., to Arnherstburg, Ont. The reenactment, as *290 boarding students in grades 9-12 (boarding required, 11-12) with this year's theme, was an attempt to *Diversity of racial, geographic, economic and religious connect with our Quaker past. It was impor­ backgrounds among students and teachers tant to us to relearn our role in history, the example of earlier Friends, and to learn that *Weekly meeting for worship and strong sense of community the Underground Railroad is still being used are central to school life. to help individuals fleeing persecution. We, too, are called to leave behind the ordinary and accustomed and to become like Westtown School, Westtown, PA 19395 (610) 399-7900 strangers in a strange land. Margery Larrabee

26 December 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL ?~ .'~' FRIENDS WORLD called us to witness to God: to be a living ~ PROGRAM mystery and to live in ways that do not make sense if God does not exist. Using the full context of George Fox's quote that was our LIVE, STUDY & WORK IN OTHER CULTURES theme, she encouraged us to use practices to help us surrender to that ofGod, tell our truth, WHILE EARNING YOUR BACHELOR'S DEGREE and listen deeply. Early this year a Langley Hill (Va) Meet­ ing member took the burnings of three Year and semester programs in Japan, churches in Alabama as a personal call. By China, Israel, India, Kenya, England or summer, groups of various ages, faiths, na­ Costa Rica tions, and races were working together there under the auspices of Washington Quaker plus Workcamps and Langley Hill Meeting. Many A year-long program in Comparative of our members joined this effort, building Religion & Culture in Japan, India both structures and community. AND Israel Minutes for work as Friends in Residence were returned with appreciation from the Ala­ Experiential/earning tflrougfl cultural immersion . bama workcamps and from Woodbrooke academic seminars , and independent field study make Quaker Study Centre in England. We con­ Friends World the educational experience of tinue to support members whose lives preach a lifeti me. through work with youth programs and camps, Friends World Program, Box CN Quaker teaching and writing, and population Long Island University concerns. The yearly meeting recognized new 239 Montauk Highway loNGIslAND calls for individuals to work with Navajo com­ Southampton. NY 11968 munity development and Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty. (516) 287~8475 ~~ Sharing epiphanies that send us along a different path is part of call and accountabil­ ity. Frank Massey, our general secretary, dared to show us his reality, to share his difficulty in naming and accepting his gifts. Now we as a community are called to walk encouragingly over the earth and to support each other's search to be faithful to God. Our lively Junior Yearly Meeting explored in many ways the theme, "Walk lightly o'er the earth." They contributed with maturity and imagination, helping to plan and produce the spirit-led reenactment of the Underground Railroad and LEARNING FROM YESTERDAY. all-age workshops. The Carey Memorial Lecturer, Kara Lee Newell ofthe American Friends Service Com­ mittee, brought us back to the ground of our action-living in God's presence:

We practice the presence of God just as we LIVING WITH RESPECT FOR practice the piano, or dance, or an athletic maneuver.. .. This practice or exercise of the presence of the living God is very difficult, but rewarding in direct relationship to the amount of effort and attention we give it. As we develop our spiritual muscles, our lives TODAY AND TOMORROW. themselves acknowledge God, they become patterns and examples, as Fox said We pray for unity within ourselves and Foulkewa1;s with other communities and that we may be ATGWYNEDD:/. examples to each other. In our Spiritual State of the Meeting reports, we attempt to speak of our conflicts honestly, to share of ourselves. ~ We left yearly meeting with a query echo­ ~ ing in our souls: Have you considered that the I 120 M eetinghouse Road . Gwy nedd PA 19436 voice you'd like to be still or be able to ignore 215/643-2200. N ancy B. Gold, Dir. of A dmissions entirely is actually the one you most need to Accredited by the Continuing C are Accreditation Commission listen to, heed, and obey?

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29 .Join Friends in searching together take years. David Jackman, associate repre­ According to David Jackman, "Experts are for peace testimonies sentative at QUNO-New York, reported ''the already sharing ideas on how the parties might treaty text was approved by a vote of 158-3, bring the treaty into force even if all the 44 in the post with five abstentions. In the strangely quiet don't sign. The CTBT text itself offers the cold-war world ... conference room, a smattering of applause possibility ... of accelerating the ratification from the gallery was the only sign that marked process." The Pendle Hill 1997 the CTBT's passage." On Sept. 24, U.S. Presi­ dent Bill Clinton was the first to sign the Correction: In the October issue's News of Quaker Peace treaty. By Oct. 15, over 100 other states had Friends, the Dalai Lama's brother and other also signed, but of the 44 named states that Tibetan monks visited George School m Roundtable must ratify the treaty, four had not yet signed. Newtown, Pa., not Newtown Square, Pa.

(Continued from page 29) forgive my trespasses if I hold this grudge David's own contributions to the recon­ against you.' In the Bible Jesus says, 'So if ciliation process include helping to found you are offering your gift at the altar, and the Kibimba Peace Committee, which pro­ there remember that your brother has some­ Daniel Seeger, Director of motes dialogue between Hutus and Tutsis. thing against you, leave your gift there be­ Pendle Hill, on He was also involved in the distribution of fore the altar and go; first be reconciled to "Current Friends relief aid to displaced Tutsis. your brother, and then come and offer your Peace Concerns Looking to the future, he sees many gift.' Since Burundi is a Christian country, and Challenges­ changes that Burundi must face to ensure a we, the various churches, are preaching An Overview." peaceful coexistence between the two eth­ love. These principles are so powerful and I nic groups. "Our educational system has to think that is how some people are able to change to be Tutsi and Hutu inclusive. You act positively. can't expect peace in the future when only "People have to search, think, and pray one ethnic group is [educated). And those and see what can be done to stop the cycle in school must learn peace, how to share of violence. And we will realize that it is the country." forgiveness." Realizing that such forgive­ Before leaving Burundi, David's own ness is difficult when the lives of loved family experienced the adversities of war. ones have been lost, Niyonzima looks at it "[My children] are small and do not under­ practically: "When you forgive someone, stand the background of the war, but they who's done you wrong, it is a great, great have seen people killed, they have hidden, challenge to him. I mean, it's hard for him spent nights outside the house, so they know or her to grasp! 'Why should you [forgive Lon Fendall, Sallie King, what it means to encounter physical vio­ me]? How can you do that?' This is the distinguished leading schola r in lence. We are trying to help them under­ thing we want people to put into practice. evangelical Quaker Buddhist-Christian stand by not being biased and by teaching We have to live together, Hutu and Tutsi, so peace scholar: dialogue: "Engaged tolerance. Since my wife is a Tutsi and I am we have to learn mechanisms for peaceful "Can We Bring Buddhism," basis Hutu, these children should find it easier to cohabitation or we' II wipe one another out." Christ-Centered and disciplines for understand." When our time together ended, I was Friends to the peace and justice. David feels he was called to his role as left not with images ofa war-ravaged coun­ Peace Table? What we can learn. peacemaker. "The peace issues discussed try but rather with pictures of David's ideal at several Quaker conferences I've attended Burundi-homes, churches, and businesses Martin Luther King, Jr. caught my attention. When the situation in rebuilt; schools that teach all children; equal Burundi became so difficult and the vio­ housing and employment opportunities. Holiday Weekend lence erupted ... I felt, 'You cannot preach More than that, I was inspired by this soft­ love and a relationship with God and forget spoken and deeply spiritual person, a man Jan. 17-19, 1997 your relationship with your neighbor.' I felt whose optimism is infectious and whose Arch Street Meeting I needed to help others relate to one an­ faith is solid. From our conversation I found other, to put the faith into practice. And I new meaning in the words "faith and prac­ House in Philadelphia remember that in the Bible it says that faith tice," and by his example I've seen forgive­ without work is dead. People can go to ness transformed from a passive expres­ For More Information: church, they can recite, sing, but to me sion to an active mode of reconciliation. Write: Pendle Hill Issues what matters is how that is translated into Returning to the office after the interview, I everyday life in their communities, in their felt strangely aglow. After describing my places of work, in their schools. So I felt time with David and the almost giddy feel­ ~;~g~~:h Mill Road that God was calling me." ing that resulted, a fiiend named the effect Wallingford, PA 19086 David's example of putting his faith that this encounter had on me: "Grace," he Phone: 1 (800) 742-3150 into practice goes beyond simply working told me, "You've been graced." D for peace. Central to his vision of peace is I E-mail : [email protected] the role of forgiveness. "There are people To support peace efforts in Burundi, send Visit the Pendle Hill Page who have forgiven one another. They say, contributions to: AFSC/Burundi Peace on the World Wide Web: 'OK, I know that you killed my loved one, Fund, Development Department, 1501 http://www.quaker.org/pend/e-hill but I am a Christian, I cannot pray to God to Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1479.

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• A prison correspondence project has begun The focus issues, which are selected each to link incarcerated men and women with month under the guidance of Friends Com­ Quakers who are willing to be pen pals. Let­ mittee on National Legislation, range from ters are sent to a post office box, then repack­ curbing the military and the arms trade to aged and forwarded to their recipients to pro­ building a safe, healthy, and affordable social Valuable tect the anonymity of correspondents' ad­ order at home and abroad. The Campaign, dresses. Letters from prisoners pass through begun by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Resources the same process. There are many inmates in Peace Committee, is now a joint effort with U.S. prisons that have little or no contact with Baltimore Yearly Meeting Peace Committee the "outside," and Friends are needed to par­ to facilitate and encourage Friends in their ticipate in this ministry. For more informa­ monthly meetings to witness directly to law tion, contact Gene Hillman and Sally makers. For information on how your meet­ Rickerman at P.O. Box 75, Kennett Square, ing can participate, contact the PYM Friends PA 19348. (From the September issue ofBal­ Peace Committee, 1515 Cherry St., Philadel­ timore Yearly Meeting's Interchange) phia, PA 19102, telephone (215) 241-7232, fax (215) 567-2096. •Looking for nonviolent toys for a young Friend this Christmas? Christian Peacemaker •December l marks the annual observance of Teams has revised and updated its informa­ World AIDS Day. Sponsored by the World tional materials on alternatives to violent toys Health Organization and the American Asso­ and games. A General Resource Packet in­ ciation for World Health, this year's theme is cludes worship guides, helps congregations "One World, One Hope." The UN Program and groups define toys of violence, identifies on HJV/AIDS estimates there are more than the problems associated with violent play, and 20 million people worldwide currently living suggests alternatives. An Action Packet con­ with HIV/AIDS. Philadelphia Yearly tains specific information on organizing public Meeting's Quaker Ministry to Persons With witness, alternative toy fairs, and other public AIDS is requesting that Friends participate in events that can draw attention to the issue. For the worldwide prayer for people with HIV/ more information, contact CPT, P.O. Box AIDS at 2 o'clock on that Sunday. 6508, Chicago, IL 60680-6508, telephone for (312) 455-1199, e-mail [email protected]. Calendar Modern •The Population Concerns Committee of Friends Friends Committee on Unity with Nature is DECEMBER soliciting manuscripts for its forthcoming 25-Pemba Yearly Meeting, Chake Chake, Tan­ from the Papers from the ~ OUakerTheolo!lv -· book, Population Is People: A Quaker Reader. zania. Contact P.O. Box I 00, Chake Chake, Pemba, Issues Roundtable = Tanzania. They are looking for contributions from indi­ Program a t (...... ~= =e=---u. viduals who have exj>erience or knowledge to 27-30-Peacemaker Congress III, "Joining the Pendle Hill t______""""'_ ' - __.,. share about a concern that is exacerbated by Nonviolent Struggle: Getting in the Way," in Wash­ rapid population growth. The following que­ ington, D.C. 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Manuscripts must 4507 or (800) 742-3150. be submitted by December 31 to FCUN Book 30-Jan. !-Powell House's Annual Family New To order call the Bookstore Project, c/o Elizabeth Schmidt, l 026 SW A Year's Celebration, centered on the theme of 1 (800) 742-3150 St., Richmond, IN 47374. (From the Septem­ "Stars," and Jed by Gordon and Sandy Clark. Con­ E-mail: [email protected] ber/October issue a/Befriending Creation) tact Powell House, 524 Pitt Hall Rd., Old Chatham, or http://www.quaker.org NY 12 136-3410, telephone (5 18) 794-8811, e­ •Since its inception in 1989, the Legislative mail [email protected]. The Issues Program at Letter Writing Campaign has stimulated over JANUARY Pendle Hill 25,000 letters and postcards sent by Friends at 3-5-The annual New Year's Silent Retreat at meetings to their members of Congress and Woolman Hill in Deerfield, Mass. Cost is $90. 338 Plush Mill Road the President. 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FRIENDS JOURNAL December 1996 31 Wtlmington College Books VIce President up reluctantly by Indiana Yearly Meeting af­ for Academic Affairs and Gentle Invaders: Quaker ter years of effort by Alida Clark, the Indiana Dean of the Faculty Women Educators and Friend who also founded the college. Alida Wilmington College seeks candidates for Clark envisioned multitudes ofAfrican Ameri­ the position of Vice President for Academic Racial Issues During the cans in yearly meetings throughout the South, Affairs and Dean of the Faculty. The suc­ but genteel Quaker racism, along with other cessful candidate will be responsible for all Civil War and important factors, prevented her vision from areas of academic affairs. He/she will Reconstruction coming to realization. Eventually, in 1925, provide visionary leadership in a consen­ Indiana Yearly Meeting sold Southland Col­ sus-based, shared-governance college and lege and laid down Southland Monthly Meet­ will effectively manage all on and off-cam­ By Linda B. Selleck. Friends United Press, pus academic programs and academic sup­ Richmond, Ind., 1995. 312 pages. $15.95/ ing. Nothing remains of the college but its port units, including the Library, the Skills paperback. endowment, now a scholarship fund under Center, the Center for Service Learning and This magnificent book is an introduction the care of Friends United Meeting. And noth­ Career Resources, the Honors Program, to the first Civil Rights Movement (1863- ing remains of Southland Monthly Meeting the Peace Resource Center, and the Aca­ 1876) and the enormous Quaker role in it. except the Quaker church in DeWitt, Arkan­ demic Records Office. Linda Selleck has delved into Quaker archives, sas, affiliated with Central Yearly Meeting. Wilmington College is a four-year, resi­ especially those of Indiana Yearly Meeting at Or shall we say, as Linda Selleck does, that dential, undergraduate college founded by Earlham College and back issues of Friends the multitudes of Friends all over the world the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Review, and unearthed a treasure trove of who are people of color are one enormous in 1870. The College's character has been memorial to Southland Monthly Meeting and shaped by the liberal arts, its Quaker heri­ fascinating material. Friends can take pride in tage, a career-oriented focus, and a com­ most of this history, though we must be to Alida Clark and her fellow Quaker mis­ mitment to preparing students for leader­ ashamed of some of it, too. Our spiritual an­ sionaries? ship and service. Currently 1,100 students cestors acted with extraordinary courage in a are enrolled on the main campus and major terrible time, and their story deserves to be in 23 fields of study. The full-time teaching known throughout the Religious Society of faculty number 58, with the majority hold­ Friends. Gentle Invaders is an excellent first ing the doctorate or an appropriate terminal step toward that end. degree in their field. The academic calen­ As the Civil War went on, the federal dar is organized by semesters. A ten-year government set up the Freedmen's Bureau to old branch campus in northern Cincinnati provide relief and education for the newly serves 460 part-time adult students, and a second branch will open next fall in eastern freed slaves. Sometimes the relief was direct, Cincinnati. Since 1978 the College has but sometimes it was indirect, provided been a leader in providing education to the through religious and charitable groups. incarcerated, and currently enrolls 400 de­ Friends, other churches, and charitable orga­ gree-seeking students in three correctional nizations also set up their own relief, educa­ facilities. tion, and missionary projects (though even Candidates must possess a terminal de­ then Friends tended to avoid proselytizing). gree in a discipline related to the curriculum An unknown number of Friends, including of the College; successful teaching and conscientious objectors on furlough from the academic administrative experience, ide­ ally in a liberal arts college; personal integ­ Union army, worked for the Freedmen's Bu­ rity; commitment to high academic stan­ reau. Probably more than a thousand Friends dards and expectations; excellent interper­ went south directly under Quaker auspices. sonal and communication skills; a reputa­ (The names of several hundred women are tion for accessibility; a commitment to re­ listed in an appendix.) All these don't include spect the College's Quaker heritage; and a North Carolina Friends who didn't go south willingness to be involved in the wider com­ because they were already there, but do in­ munity. clude African American friends of Friends Quaker preacher Sarah Smiley Wilmington, Ohio, is in the southwestern who were sent to the South by Friends to part of the state and is conveniently located teach. Probably even the small African Ameri­ This is only one of dozens of provocative in rural Clinton County within a one-hour can churches of the time did not mount an questions that Gentle Invaders brings to our drive to three major metropolitan areas: attention, either implicitly or explicitly. Some Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus. Its cur­ effort comparable to the small and divided rent economic vitality and high quality of life Religious Society of Friends. examples: caused Wilmington to be designated as The U.S. governement shut down the Apparently, the first Civil Rights Move­ one of the 100 best small towns in the U.S. Freedmen's Bureau in the late 1860s, but kept ment was far larger than the second Civil Candidates should submit a letter of in­ troops in parts of the South until 1876. These Rights Movement (1954-1968). Surely, far terest together with a resume, and the troops protected African Americans and those more Quakers took part in the earlier move­ names, addresses, and telephone num­ helping them from a southern white reign of ment. Why? bers of four references to Director of Per­ terror, including Ku Klux Klan activity. Most Both civil rights movements concentrated sonnel, Wilmington College, 251 Ludovic northern Friends left the South by 1876, but in on voting rights and education rather than Street, Pyle Center Box 1187, Wilmington, a few places-notably the Arkansas Delta economic rights. Why? Was this right? OH 45177-2499. Review of application I used to think that truly massive postwar materials will begin on November 1, 1996, where Indiana Yearly Meeting had major and will continue until the position is filled. projects such as Southland College for black Quaker relief, involving both private and gov­ Wilmington College is an Equal Opportu­ students- northern Friends remained active ernment money and thousands of Quaker re­ nity and Affirmative Action Employer. Women well into our century. Linda Selleck has cour­ lief workers (as well as countless local work­ and minorities are encouraged to apply. age: she tells the story of the mostly black ers), began with AFSC work in Europe after Southland Monthly Meeting of Friends, set World War I. Obviously this is not so. Were

32 December 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL the Quaker efforts during and after the Civil Quaker Inner City School War the model for the post-World War I Quaker efforts, and thus for later ones? Endowment Fund In the years after the Civil War, Friends set up many schools for Afiican Americans A small group of well integrated Quaker schools are doing a throughout the South. Eventually, some of terrific job in inner city environments. Help them gain needed these schools became public schools for Am­ can Americans, often before local public endowments to provide long-term financial stability. For infor­ schools for whites existed. Shall we credit mation contact Imogene Angell, 150 Kendal Drive, Kennett Friends with the creation ofthe public schools Square, PA 19348. (610) 388-0935. not only in Pennsylvania, New York City, and Indiana, but also in North Carolina, Vir­ ginia, Mississippi, and other southern states? The Civil War is usually said to be the great turning point in U.S. history, the time FRIENDLY LEADERS when we changed from an agricultural nation to an industrial nation. Isn't the Civil War the TRANSLATE YOUR CORE BELIEFS great turning point in U.S. Quaker history also? Weren't most Friends rapidly assimi­ INTO EFFECI1VE ORGANIZATIONAL ACI10N lated into the general culture after the war? Quaker methods underlie the strongest modem management techniques. Why don't Friends study our earliest "mod­ Work with a Friendly organizational consultant who shares your values and em" history, as well as our earliest history? has put them into dynamic practice in family business, school, human service Linda Selleck avoids one important ques­ agency, and corporate settings. Public or private sector, any locale. tion in her book. It is an open secret among 0RGANIZATIONALI>Eva.oPMENT•CHANGEMANAGEMENT•TEAMBunJ>ING•WoRKPROCESS Friends that some Indiana Friends were closely REDESJGN•INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP RoLE CoNSULTATION•'CoUABORATIVE I..EAoERSmP' linked to the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s. TIWNING•CoNfllcr RESownoN• AlnANCE I>Eva.oPMENT The book does not mention this. When I read the book, I assumed that Ku Klux Klan influ­ GEMINI ALLIANCE DIANE CANO, PRINGPAL ence in Indiana Yearly Meeting was partly responsible for the sale of Southland College 327 FOURTH STREET#1R, BROOKLYN, NY 11215 in 1925. Now that I have discussed this matter DHCANO®AOL.COM PH.: (718) 832-0678, FAX: (718) 832-3684 with Selleck several times, I know that Selleck is certain that Ku Klux Klan influence in Indiana Yearly Meeting had little or nothing to do with the sale of the college and the laying down of Southland Monthly Meeting. Since this subject is one of Selleck's areas of SANDY SPRING expertise, I must accept her judgement. How­ ever, I do believe that she should have raised the matter in the book and explained her con­ FRIENDS clusions there. But don't let this problem put you off. One SCHOOL· could go on and on about the good things included in Linda Selleck's book. Don't miss out. Read it. - Jeremy Mott Jeremy Mott is a member ofRidgewood (N.J.) Meeting. • Boarding Option Grades 9 to 12 • Day: Pre-K through 12 Five or seven day programs Outstanding college preparatory curriculum Whole Life Economics: based on traditional Quaker values Revaluing Daily Life By Barbara Brandt. New Society Publish­ e Upper School AP courses e Strong arts and athletics programs ers, Philadelphia, Pa., 1995. 243 pages. e Required community service e Travel abroad opportunities $14. 95/paperback. What, me? Read about economics for plea­ Situated on 140 acres in historic Quaker country, an hour's drive sure? The subject was much too difficult. from Washington, D.C., Baltimore, or Annapolis. Worse still, it was irrelevant for most people. The economics I knew was about corpora­ tions, big government, and massive profits For further information: SANDY SPRING FRIENDS SCHOOL, BOX 3, and losses. Oddly, it never occurred to me 16923 NORWOOD ROAD, SANDY SPRING, MD 20860 that the system could be changed. Luckily, Phone: (301} 774-7455 Fax: (301} 924-1115 I discovered Barbara Brandt's wonderful,

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- Peri Phillips McQuay Peri Phillips McQuay is a writer who lives in Westport, Ont., and attends Thousand Islands (Ont.) Meeting.

In Our Own Voices: I Four Centuries of American Women's Newtown, PA 18940 Religious Writing Edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary Skinner Keller. HarperCollins, San Francisco, Calif., 1995. 467 pages. $30/ hardback. "As long as God is male, male is God," once proclaimed radical theologian Mary Daly. Now editors Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary Skinner Keller, each already known for several books ofChristian feminist theology, present an anthology of scholarship that traces U.S. women's experience in as­ suming their own religious authority. While the editors' main intent is not to argue for the Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, George School is a co­ femaleness of the Deity, the effect of their educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. book is to challenge the assumption that male­ The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values and includes: ness is next to godliness in most of the relig­ • Courses on 4levels of challenge • International Baccalaureate (IB) ious traditions that have shaped our culture. • Advanced Placement (AP) • International workcamps The book presents ten chapters, each con­ • English as a Second Language (ESL) • Required community service sisting ofa review essay followed by excerpts • Foreign study • Required full-year courses in the arts from primary sources. It is rich in documenta­ • 13 interscholastic sports for boys and girls tion and supplementary photographs. Indi­ For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 215/579-6547. vidual chapters feature women's voices from

FRIENDS JOURNAL December 1996 35 the Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish traditions; Native American and African American women's voices; and women's experiences within the social reformist, missionary, evan­ gelical, and utopian traditions. Asian Ameri­ can and Latina women, as well as Buddhist and Muslim women, are discussed briefly. The issue of women's ordination receives special attention. In Our Own Voices features women from Puritan Anne Hutchinson to contemporary Abington Friends School Wiccan Starhawk who have challenged the androcentric interpretation and application of Scripture. Most chapters also present a sam­ A Quaker co-educational college preparatory day school pling of conservative women's voices. While for students in Preschool through Grade 12 most of the essays take the form ofhistorical description, the final two chapters-"Ameri­ can Indian Women," by Ines Maria Talamantez, and "Growing Pluralism, New Dialogue," by coeditor Ruether-assume a much more theoretical tone, in part because For more infonnation, please call the authors of the primary source material the essayists offer are, themselves, scholar-activ­ 215-886-4350 ists. Several writers remind us that, to Native American and African American women in particular, sweeping assertions that female power and spirituality have historically been devalued are ethnocentric and inaccurate. The need has existed for a comprehensive work ofthis kind. Inevitably, though, the scope of the editors' study proves too broad for a single volume. Its careful scholarship is ad­ mirable, as is its recovery of the words of many obscure, as well as renowned, women. However, few topics are covered in depth, and excerpts at times seem to be arbitrarily presented out of context. To a reader used to taking pride in the Friends tradition of equal­ The ESR Equation: ity of the sexes and the audibility of Quaker women, the small amount of space this book 1. A supportive, Christ-centered, learning community-plus devotes to Quaker women may seem disap­ pointing; on the other hand, it helps promote 2. Rigorous academics-plus our awareness of the strength, diversity, and 3. Diversity of age, race, gender and faith traditions-plus longevity ofU.S. women's religious activism. This book illustrates the extent to which 4. A focus on personal spirituality-plus religious dogma, as well as what one writes 5. Many small, engaging classes-plus about it, reflects, consciously or not, one's 6. Opportunities to work closely, one-on-one, with cartng faculty-plus political situation as well as one's culture. In one of its last excerpts, Elisabeth Schussler 7. Aplace where family members are included. Fiorenza exhorts us to "a hermeneutics of remembrance, which recovers all biblical tra­ ditions and texts through a feminist historical reconstruction." In Our Own Voices recovers words that are essential to a fuller understand­ ing of a wide range of religious traditions in ~ ~~rittion. the United States. Earlham School of Religion- - Nancy Culleton !... QUAKER SEMINARY OFFERING Ml.sn:R OF DMNTJY, Nancy Culleton is a member of Wrightstown MA5n:R OF MINISJRY AND Ml.sn:R OF ARTS DEGREES) (Pa.) Meeting. She lives with her family in the right answer for a solid education Newtown, Pa., on the campus of George and personal preparation for minisb.y. School, where she teaches English and is Associate Director ofCollege Guidance. Call Nancy Nelson at 1~1377 I 228 College Avenue, Richmond, Indiana 47374

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Births/Adoptions Bell and Graham Wedderburn Bell. Alden-Sarah Anne Alden, on June 27, to Bibler-Wolter G. Bibler, 84, on April 3, in Chi­ Kathleen and Mitchell Alden. Mitchell is a cago, Ill. Born in Stanhope, Iowa, he grew up on a member of Gwynedd (Pa.) Meeting. farm in Hoyt, Kans., and graduated from Park College near Kansas City in I 933. While pursuing Independent U'ting and Personal Core Drake-Noah Andrew Drake, on July 5, to a graduate degree in chemistry at the University of Convenient to shops, businesses, Barbara and Andy Drake. Andy is a member of Chicago, Walter began attending Indiana Avenue and culaJrol opportunities Montclair (N.J.) Meeting. (Ill.) Meeting. There he met Grace Coppock, whom Reasonable • Not-for-Profit Flanagan-John Richard Flanagan, on Aug. 9, he married in 1938. In that year he began 37 years Founded and operated by Quakers to Laura Roberts and Dennis Flanagan. Laura is a of work as an analytical chemist at a pharmaceuti­ member of Gwynedd (Pa.) Meeting. cal laboratory. Walter became a member of Chi­ @ 400 North Walnut Street cago (Ill.) Meeting, where he served as a trustee, West Chester, PA 19380 (61 0) 696-1536 Goode-Claire Stewart Gunnell Goode, on July treasurer, and as a member of Peace and Social 18, to Kate Gunnell and Christopher Goode, both Concerns and Ministry and Counsel Committees. members of Northside (Ill.) Meeting. He was valued for his quiet humor, his soul-felt Leeser-Emi/y Jane Leeser, on Aug. 5, to Tracy messages in meeting for worship, and his courage Leeser and Alexander MacLure Leeser, both to speak truth to difficult issues. He served on the Small classes, strong . members ofByberry (Pa.) Meeting. Executive Committee ofthe American Friends Ser­ FRIENDS academics in a vice Committee in Chicago and on the National supportive, caring Schwartz-Benton McKay Schwartz, on July 4, SELECT Committee of the Friends Committee on National to Noelle Perot Schwartz and Dan Schwartz. environment Legislation, and he was a founding member of the SCHOOL Noelle is a member of Gwynedd (Pa) Meeting. emphasizing Quaker Friends Committee on Legislation of Illinois and values. WeUhofer- John Peter Wellhofor, on July 2, to Wisconsin. Walter was deeply committed to im­ Joanne Lahner and Peter Wellhofer. Joanne is a proving race relations, working against racial seg­ • Pre·K thru 12th member of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of regation and serving on several Chicago-area coun­ Day School Philadelphia (Arch Street) (Pa.). cils for human relations. He also organized qraft­ • After School Program counseling services at Chicago Meeting during the e • Summer Day Camp ~annagesAJnions Vietnam War. Walter loved music, singing, and working in his vegetable garden. After retirement, 17th & the Parkway BeUedin-Forman-Chris Forman and Dawn he served as a volunteer guide at the Chicago Belledin, on June I, at and under the care of Falls Museum of Science and Industry and as a judge at Philadelphia, PA (Pa.) Meeting. school science fairs. He and his wife rarely missed (215) 561-5900 the sessions ofWestem Yearly Meeting and Friends Blackburn-Denson-Deidra Denson and Alice United Meeting, and he periodically attended New Blackburn, on June 22, at Friends Meeting of York Yearly Meeting and the Friends General Washington (D.C.). Conference Gathering. He was deeply committed 0 Gambino-Broffman-Neal Tharson Broffman to the growth and renewal of the Religious Society " and Elisa Gambino, on June 14. Neal is a of Friends. Walter is survived by his wife of 58 member of Friends Meeting of Washington years, Grace C. Bibler; two sons, Glen and George (D.C.). Bibler; a daughter, Nancy Gold; and two grand­ Hermey-Fetter- A//en Hutcheson Fetter and sons, Jared and Lyle Bibler. Daniel/e Elisabeth Hermey, on May 26, under the Bronson-Elizabeth Cattell Bronson, 87, on June • m~a(je ceJ'ClFtcaces care of Baltimore (Md.) Meeting, Stony Run, of 21, at home in Karsville, N.J. Elizabeth was born in • awa120s • msqztpctons • which Allen is a member. Plainfield, N.J., and grew up in Fanwood, N.J. She was a graduate of Bernard College and received a · et~rn announcemencs • SaUadin-Baganz-Mark Douglas Baganz and • Ci~eGCln(j C3.£b 00Sl(jt2S • Laurie Sal/adin, on June 29, at and under the care doctorate in psychology from the New School for of Gunpowder (Md.) Meeting. Mark is a member Social Research. Elizabeth worked as a psycho­ •1t2Vtcactons • sc~otlS of Wilmington (Del.) Meeting. therapist, achieving acclaim for her success with homicidal and suicidal patients. Elizabeth and her husband, Eugene, were partners in working for .:llanz~:l:TNTesr Deaths peace, human and civil rights, and for a concept 609~7tl6-1tlZ+ BeD-Barbara Morrish Bell, 84, on Feb. II, at they called earth spirituality. They worked for a Sandy Spring, Md., Friends Retirement Center. decade at the UN in New York City in conjunction Born in Burnley, England, Barbara earned her art with the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Both lead­ teacher's degree in 1932 and taught high school ing members of the Green movement, they were drawing and painting. She came to the United prolific writers regarding the historical transition States in 1960 and taught art to elementary stu­ from a materialistic, secular society to a holistic Display Ad Deadlines dents at Germantown Friends School in Philadel­ society. Members of 15th Street (N.Y.) Meeting, phia, Pa. She later became a member of German­ the Bronsons were instrumental in bringing to that Reservations are required for display ads meeting prominent speakers from the UN and the town (Pa.) Meeting. In retirement, Barbara lived in in FRIENDS j OURNAL. Troy, Va., before moving to Friends Center in peace movement. Elizabeth later transferred her Maryland. Barbara loved to help others through membership to Lehigh Valley (Pa.) Meeting. February issue: Reserve space by Dec. 2. work with Meals on Wheels, reading to the blind, Elizabeth is survived by her husband, Eugene Ads must be received by Dec. 9. and generous gifts to various charities. She en­ Bronson. March issue: Reserve space by Jan. 6. joyed fishing, singing hymns, reading poetry and Hartsough-Ruth Goodell Hartsough, 86, on April Ads must be received by Jan. 13. plays (she acted in 69 plays and directed several 28, at Friends House in Santa Rosa, Calif. Ruth was others), and doing calligraphy. It was her art (pot­ born in Ephratah, N.Y., grew up in the Adirondack Ad rate is $28 per column inch. tery, painting, sculpture, and other forms) and act­ Mountains ofNew York and the Green Mountains Call (215) 241-7279 ing that were most responsible for allowing her to of Vermont, and graduated from Ohio Northern with your reservation FRIENDS be a contented, happy, and unselfish individual. University and Hartford Seminary, where she met or questions. JOURNAL Barbara is survived by a niece, Jennifer Bell her husband, Ray Hartsough. The Hartsough fam­ Newton; and two nephews, Alister Wedderburn ily lived at Tanguy Homesteads, an intentional

FRIENDS JoURNAL December 1996 37 interracial community outside Philadelphia, Pa., for 25 years. Ruth and Ray also lived for several years in a cottage on Depoe Bay, Oregon. Ruth and Ray worked as a team serving churches and com­ munities in Ohio and Iowa. They joined the Relig­ ious Society of Friends in 1950 and were beloved WilliAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 members of Gwynedd (Pa.), Middletown (Pa.), 307 Years of Quaker Education Multnomah (Oreg.), Salem (Oreg.), and Redwood (Calif.) Meetings. Ruth's peace activities included The William Penn Charter School is a Quaker college-preparatory school many protests to end conscription, military in­ stressing high standards in academics, the arts, and athletics. Penn Charter volvement in Central America, and nuclear weap­ is committed to nurttuing girls and boys of diverse backgrounds in an ons testing and production. Ruth was a teacher in public schools and a teacher of religious education atmosphere designed to stimulate each student to work to his or her in churches. She enjoyed prayer, writing poems, fullest potentiaL Kindergarten through twelfth grade. playing the organ, gardening, hosting friends in her home, and painting. At Friends House, Ruth Earl J. BalliD, Head of School hosted the daily morning meditation group in her 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 apartment since 1984. She is fondly remembered (215) 844-3460 for her beautiful smile; the flowers, paintings, and poems she shared with others; and her friendliness to all she met. Ruth was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Ray Hartsough, in 1991. She is survived by two sons, David and Paul; and four grandchildren, Peter, Heidi, Chester, and Andrea. FRIENDS HoME AT WooDsToWN Keeney-Chester Keeney, 80, on Jan. 3, at Friends House in Santa Rosa, Calif. Chet, also known as A Q]taker-Sponsored Retirement Facility "Doc" to his family, was born in Kansas City, Mo., and grew up on dust bowl farms in Oklahoma. He • One-bedroom Woods Court • 60-bed Medicare & Medicaid lived as a peacemaker and was a conscientious Apartments for People over 60 Certified Nursing Home objector during World War II. He became a mem­ • Residential facility with • Pastoral Setting ber of the Religious Society of Friends in the early 1950s and worked for peace and justice through­ community dining • Caring, supportive staff out his life. In his friendships, family, and daily life WOODSTOJVN • Delicious, nutritious meals he lived the spirit of these beliefs with gentle loving ways as a community activist and mediator. P.O. Box457, Friends Drive • Woodstown, NJ 08098 • (609) 769-1500 Chet was a founding member of McHenry County (Ill.) Meeting and San Fernando Valley (Calif.) Meeting. He first worked as a carpenter, becoming a journeyman and developing a love of woodwork­ ing. Later he worked as a research engineer for 27 years and wrote two technical books. He also en­ joyed gardening, reading, music, and his family. Chet is survived by his wife of 53 years, Betty Keeney; four daughters, Sara, Wilma, Annamay, and Katherine; a son, George; eight grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; and two brothers, Ben and Bill Keeney. Scattergood offers a rigorous college preparatory program for approximately Luvaga-/saac Imbwaga Luvaga, 61, on June 5, in Athens, Ohio, where he had come for his sixty students, grades 9 through 12, in a caring, close-knit community of boarding daughter's PhD graduation from Ohio University. students and resident staff living and working together in a beautiful rural setting. Isaac was presiding clerk of East Africa Yearly Meeting-North and a member of Maliki (Kenya) • Coeducational Meeting. A lifelong Friend, Isaac worked as a • Graauation requirements include primary school teacher and headmaster for over 30 years. Following retirement in 1988, he volun­ Quaker Studies and an off-campus teered full-time in Friends Church work. His cen­ community service project tral concern was for reconciliation among East • Strong programs in the arts African Friends. In 1994 he and his wife, Esther, • Four-year Spanish language moved to Bongoma District, Kenya, to assist a program with work-camp struggling meeting. Before coming to the U.S., experience in Mexico they had just finished baking 8,000 bricks for a new meetinghouse. He is remembered as a joyful • Daily campus and farm work crews and generous man. Isaac is survived by his wife, • Outdoor and wilderness programs Esther Makungu Luvaga; a daughter, Ebby, and a • Cooperation emphasized over son, Benjamin, who are studying in the U.S.; four competition other daughters and four other sons in Kenya; and • More than one-third of students and · several grandchildren. staff have Quaker backgrounds Neely-Frances E. Neely, 75, on June 19, at her home at Friends House Retirement Community in To learn more about Scaltergood, or to arrange a visil, contacttM Director ofAdmissions, Sandy Spring, Md., of cancer. Born in Asbury, Scattergood Friends School, 1951 Delta Avenue, West Branch, Iowa 52358-8507, Mo., and raised in California, Frances graduated phone (319) 643-7628 or (319) 643-7600, FAX (319) 643-7485. from Pomona College. She earned a master's de­ gree in political science from the University of Under the care oflowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (C) since 1890 California, Berkeley, and did graduate work in economics at American University in Washington,

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Send check for and Military Policy, and with the Washington $35 plus $3.95 postage and handling to: New England Inter-Religious Staff Council. She was editor of Classified Ad Deadlines: Historical Video, P.O. Box 581, Old Mystic, CT 06372- 0581. Sorry, credit cards not accepted. FCNL's newsletter, and she worked on civil rights February issue: December 9 and civil liberties issues, disarmament, economic March issue: January 13 development, the Middle East, the United Nations, Submit your ad to: security and peacekeeping, firearms control, and Advertising Manager, Friends Journal and Wood: Historic Quaker Meet- --""''''""--lng Houses of theN-Yorlr Yearly Native American legislation. 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Section of the Americas If this speaks to your oondition, please notify Stan Becker, Executive Secretary 3822 Tudor Arms Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21211 or e­ The FWCC Section of the Americas seeks a Friend for mail: [email protected]. Costs will be appointment as Executive Secretary beginning March minimal. location will depend on addresses of respon­ ConcernedUing/is_ 1998. dents. Concerned Singles Newsletter links oompatible, so­ The Section of the Americas administers a portion of cially conscious singles who care about peace, social FWCC's worldwide work of developing oommunication Women In Winter: Grounded in Body and Soul, led by justice, civil rights, gender equ~, and the environment. and cooperation among Friends of varying backgrounds Patricia McBee, will be held near West Chester, Pa., Nationwide. All ages. Since 1984. Free sample: Box 444- and traditions. The Section's Executive Secretary em­ January 24-26, 1997. It is a time for women to nurture FJ, l enox Dale, MA 01242, or (413) 445-6309. ploys and supervises staff in the Philadelphia, our inward selves where the seeds of our outward lives Pennsylvania, U.S.A., offiCe and elsewhere in the Ameri­ develop. Contect: Patricia McBee, (215) 34~959 . cas to assist Friends in their worship and work together. The position requires close coordination with FWCC Upcoming Conferences At Pendle Hill Positions Vacant offtees and Sections around the world and oonsiderable New Year's Celebratlon: choice of three workshops: Monteverde Friends School needs K-12 teachers to travel. Applicants should have deep experience of the Reading and Wrltlng as Contemplative Practlce, Mary begin August 1997. MFS is an English-dominant, life of their own yearly meetings or groups and an active Rose O'Reilley; Celebratlng Your Playful Spirit, l ouise bilingual school with multi-graded classes in Costa Rica's awareness of Quaker faith and practice among other Brill; Silent Retreat, Elizabeth McClung. Includes evening rural mountains. While salaries are low, the experienc is groups. fun; New Year's Eve candlelight worship. Dec. 29-Jan. 1. rich. Simple housing included. Please apply by January A full job description and application form can be ob­ Our Stories, Cosmic Stories, and the Biblical Story, 31 to Jean Stuckey, Monteverde Friends School, tained from: FWCC Section of the Americas, 1506 Race Walter Wink and June Keener-Wink, Jan. 1o-12. Monteverde-5655, Puntarenas, Costa Rica Tei JFax: (506) Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Telephone: (215) 241- Insight and Action (for staff and board of Quaker organi­ 645-5302. email: [email protected]. 7250. Fax: (215) 241-7285. zations), John Carnell and Karen Thomas, Jan. 31 -Feb.2. Arthur Morgan School. A small junior high boarding The oompleted applications should be returned to the Basic Quakerism, Oliver Rodgers and Barbara Platt, school seeks several houseparents for '97- 98 school Clerk of the Search Committee: Neil H. Hartman, 110 S. Feb. 7-9. year. Positions also include a mix of other responsibili­ Church Street, Moorestown, NJ 08057, U.S.A., for re­ Grieving and Gaining In Our Transitions, Bill Ratliffe, ties-teaching (academics and/or electives-music, art, ceipt by January 31, 1997. Feb. 7-9. etc.), leading work projects and outdoor trips, mainte­ An Equal Opportunity Employer Clerking, Betty Polster, Feb. 28-March 2. nance, gardening, cooking, bookkeeping; and Writing Your Memoirs, Margaret Hope Bacon, March administration. Intimate community of staff and students; Internship In Long Term Care, offered by The Kendal 3-6. consensus run. Simple living; beautiful mountain setting. Corporation to develop leadership in the field of serving Contact: Registrar, Pendle Hill, Box F, 338 Plush Mill Contact or send resume to: Shan Overton or Sherrill older adults. Designed for undergraduate and graduate Road, Wallingford, PA 19086-6099. (610) 566-4507 or Senseney, AMS, 1901 Hannah Branch Road, Burnsville, students, the program provides ten-week internships in (800) 742-3150. NC 28714. (704) 675-4262.) long term care administration, possibly including such Cemp Woodbrooke, a small Quaker camp in Wisconsin areas as board development, finance, fundraising, grant with emphasis on the environment, seeks staff for sum­ writing, human resources, health care services, informa­ Right Uvellhood Opportunity. Part-time. Home-based. mer 1997. Counselors with skills in woodworking, pottery, tion services, marketing, nutrition services, public policy, Organic food. Nurture health, be prosperous with ethical, garden, campcraft or nature. Jenny lang (847) 295-5705. and strategic planning. Open to all qualified candidates visionary oompany. Requires commitment Training pro- email: [email protected] with preference given to minority students or members of vided. (800) 927-2527, ext. 1442. the Religious Society of Friends. The Kendal Corporation Earlham College, Tenure track pos~ion in Music Theory will pay a stipend; students are responsible for living and Orchestra Conductor. Assistant Professor M.M.IM/ costs and transportation. Placements may begin at any 1997 Study Vacatlons lor the Socially Concerned A-ABQ/Minimum. Position to begin fall 1997. Workload time after April 1, 1997. Deadline for applications is February 1, 1997. Contact: loraine Deis inger, The Kendal Tour Guatemalan preoolumbian, colonial, and contem- includes teaching courses in music theory and oonduct­ ing the college orchestra; ~al responsibilities include Corporation, P.O. Box 100, Kennett Square, PA 19348. poraryoommun~ies 12/31-111 1,2/18-311, or over Easter (610) 388-5524. Fax: (610) 388-5589. 3122-4!2 with Quaker educator, Robert Hinshaw-30 years administration of the instrumental studio program. Appli­ research/service among Maya Indians. Also, to the Pe- cants with ability in performance will be viewed favorably. ruvian Amazon and Cuzco/Machu Picchu August 2-17, Commijment to teaching excellence is required. Haverford College and Nova Sootia in late September. For travel with an Earlham, as a Quaker college, continues to build a Haverford, PA 19041 anthropological focus, write Hinshaw Tours, 2696 W. vigorous academic commun~ that reflects the gender Haverford College seeks candidates for the following 160 Terrace, Stilwell, Kansas 66085. (913) 685-2808. and racial diversity of the society at large. We specifically tenure-track positions, at the rank of assistant professor: invite and enoourage applications from African Ameri­ Anthropology: Social and cultural anthropologist of any cans and women. area of East Asia l etter of application, C.V., writing Apply with letter of application, v~e. tape, and placement sample, and names of three referees by Dec. 2 to: Dr. Choose life for ourselves, our animals, our planet. No- file, including three letters of recommendation address­ risk to experience and share from home, a Douglas Davis, Chair, Anthropology Search Committee. opport un~ Ing the candidate's teaching ability to: whole food through a oompany of holistic people. Ask Mary Gerald Groemer, Music Department Convenor, Drawer Fine Arts: Painter who will teach Drawing and Painting McCurry, [email protected] or (800) 927-2527 ext. 5216. 48, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374-4095. to a diversity of students at all levels of the curriculum. Review of applications will begin January 5, 1997, and Master of Fine Arts degree or equivalent. letter of appli­ cation, C.V., official transcripts and appropriate continue until the pos~ion is filled. Consider a Costa Rican Study Tour January 30 to certifocations, course descriptions, 20 slides of applicant's February 10, 1997, with an optional five-day extension to Friends Select School seeks an experienced adminis­ painting and drawing, and three letters of reference Nicaragua. Write Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey, 1182 Horn­ forwarded by Dec. 2 to: Dr. Lucius Outlaw, Chair, Fine beam Road, Sabina, OH 45169, or call Lori Musselman, trator to lead its upper school (grades 9--12). Applicants Ms Search Committee. telephone: (513) 382-2869. for this position should have teaching experience and the ability to work with students, teachers, and parents. Religion: Scholar of Judaic Studies with broad training Consider Investing In affordable retirement property in Friends Select is a oo-educational, college preparatory in the academic study of Judaism and a committed program of scholarly research in one or more areas of the southern Arizona high desert. We envision a support­ school in Center City Philadelphia. The school carri es out ive community of friends (Friends) enjoying one another its mission in a manner reflective of the spiritual and specialization within the field. letter of application, C.V., and the spacious, dry climate near an established Friends social concerns of the Religious Society of Friends. Re­ dossier including transcripts, and three letters of reoom­ mendalion 2 to: Annette Barone, Secretary, meeting. To be part of the planning process, or merely to sume and letter to Rose Hagan, Head of School, Friends by Dec. gain more information, write Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey, Select, 17th and The Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103. Religion Search Committee. 1182 Hornbeam Road, Sabina, OH 45169. Sandy Spring Friends School is seeking an Upper School AAIEOE; to diversify ~s faculty and enrich its curriculum Head to begin work July 1, 1997. There are many quali­ and the life of the College, Haverford encourages women Quaker House Intentional community seeks residents. ties that the school is seeking in its next Upper School and minority candidates to apply. Share living and meal arrangements in historic Friends Head, but, minimally the successful candidate will have meetinghouse. Common interests in spirituality, peace, Upper School teaching experience and be comfortable Haverford Meeting seeks Office Manager four morn­ and social concerns. One- or two-year terms. Directors, with Quaker process. Contact: Ken Smith, Head of School, ings weekly. Should be good communicator, familiar with Quaker House, 561 5 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, ll Sandy Spring Friends School, 16923 Norwood Road, Quakerism, and computer~ompetenl Phone Howard P. 60637. (312) 288-3066, [email protected]. Sandy Spring, MD 20860. Wood, M.D., clerk, (610) 642-9963.

40 December 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL Director, Monteverde Friends School. MFS is an En­ Westtown School: Under the care of Philadelphia Yearly glish~m ina nt , bilingual school in Costa Rica's rural A Friendly Maul vecatlon on a Quaker family organic Meeting since 1799, Westtown seeks Quaker children for mountains with 65 students in multi-graded classes from farm. 20 minutes to local beaches. New stone and cedar day (PreK-10) and boarding (9-12). Boarding is required preschool to grade 12. We seek individuals who share building with large octagonal room, skylight, ocean view, In 11th and 12th grades. Significant Quaker presence Quaker values, have experience with Quakerism and/or walk-in closet, and private bath. Full kitchen, organic among 600 students, 80 teachers. Challenging academ­ Quaker institutions, are bilingual English-Spanish, love vegetable garden, and hot tub. Bed and breakfast or bed ics, arts, athletics, in a school where students from diverse children and wor1

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NICARAGUA BERKELEY-Strawberry Creek, P.O. Box 5065, 524-9186. Meetings Unprogrammed worship 9:30 a.m. at Shelton's Primary MANAGUA-unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. each Sunday Education Center, 3339 Martin Luther King Jr. Way. at Centro de los Amigos, APTDO 5391 Managua, A partial listing of Friends Nicaragua. Telephone first: 66-3216 or 66-0984. CHIC0-10 a.m. singing; 10:30 am. unprogrammed meetings in the United States worship, children 's class. 2603 Mariposa Ave. 345-3429. and abroad. UNITED STATES CLAREMONT-Worship 9:30am. Classes for children. 727 W. Harrison Ave., Claremont. Alabama MEETING NOTICE RATES: $13.50 per DAVIS-Meeting for worship, First Days, 9:45a.m. line per year. Payable a year in advance. ATHENS.Umestone Co. worship group, (205) 230-3006. 345 L St. Visitors call 753-5924. No discount. Changes: $8 each. BIRMINGHAM-Unprogrammed meeting. 10 am. Sundays. FRESNO-Unprogrammed meeting. Sunday 10 a.m. 2219 PATH, 409 21st Street North. (205) 592.0570. San Joaquin Ave., Fresno, CA 93721. (209) 237-4102. FAIRHOPE-Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m. Sundays at GRASS VALLEY-Meeting for worship 9:45am., Friends Meetinghouse, 9261 Fairhope Ave. Wr~e: P.O. discussion/sharing 11 a.m. John Woolman School Box 319, Fairhope, AL 36533. (334) 928-0982. BOTSWANA campus, 13075 Woolman Ln. Phone: (916) 26!>-3164. HUNTSVILLE-unprogrammed meeting 10 am. Sundays HEMET-Meeting for worship 9:30 a.m., 26665 Chestnut GABORONE-Kagisong Centre. 373624 or 353552. in various homes. Call (205) 83Hi327 or wr~e P.O. Box Dr. Vis~ors call (714) 92!>-2818 or 927-7678. 3530, Huntsville, AL 35810. CANADA LA JOLLA-Meeting 10 a.m. 7380 Eads Ave. Visitors call ROYAL (Blount County)-Worship group. (205) 429-3088. HAUFAX, NOVA SCOTIA-(902) 46Hl702 or 4n-3690. 45&1020. OTTAWA-Worship and First-{jay school10:30 a.m. Alaska LONG BEACH-10 a.m. Orizaba at Spaulding. (310) 514-1730. 91 A Fourth Ave. (613) 232-9923. ANCHORAGE-Cal lor time and directions. (907) 56&0700. LOS ANGELES.Worship 11 am. at meetinghouse, TORONTO, ONT ARlO-Worship and First-{jay school 11 FAIRBANKs-Unprogrammed, First Day, 10 a.m. Hidden a.m. 60 Lowther Ave. (north from cor. Bloor and Bedford). 4167 So. Normandie Ave., L.A., CA 90037. Hill Friends Center, 2682 Gold Hill Rd. Phone: 479-3796. (213) 296-o733. COSTA RICA JUNEAU-Unprogrammed. For time and place, call MARIN COUNTY·10 a.m. 177 East Blithedale Ave., (907) 586-4409. MONTEVERDE-Phone 64!>-5207 or 645-5036. Mill Valley, Calif. Phone: (415) 435-5755. MAT-SU-Gall for time and directions. (907) 376-8281. SAN JOSE-Unprogrammed meeting, 11 am. Sunday. MONTEREY PENINSULA-Friends meeting for worship, Phone: 224-4376 or 233-6168. Arizona Sundays, 10 a.m. Call (408) 649-8615 or (408) 373-5003. EGYPT BISBEE-Worship group (520) 432·7896. OJAI-Unprogram med worship. First Days 10 a.m. FLAGSTAFF-Unprogrammed meeting and First-{jay CAIRO-First, third, and fifth Sundays at 7 p.m. Call Call 646-4497 or 646-3200. Johanna Kowitz, 357-3653 (d), or Ray Langsten, 357- school 10 a.m. 402 S. Beaver, 86001. 6969 (d), 348-3437 (e). McNEAL-cochise Friends Meeting at Friends Southwest ORANGE COUNTY-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Harbor Center, 7 112 miles south of Elfrida. Worship 11 a.m. Area Adult Day Care Center, 661 Hamilton St., Costa FRANCE Phone: (520) 642-3894 or (520) 642-3547. Mesa, CA. 92627. (714) 786-7691. PARIS.Meeting for worship 11 a.m. Sundays. Centre PHOENIX-Worship and First -{jay school 10 a.m. 1702 E. PALO ALTO-Meeting for worship and First--1878. for ch ildren 11 a.m. 957 Colorado. Phone: 4!>-48-74-23. Office hours: Wednesday 2:30-5. PRESCOTT-Worship group (602) 778-5971 or 44!>-7619. PASADENA-Orange Grove Monthly Meeting, 520 E. Orange Grove Blvd. First-{jay school 10 a.m., meeting for GERMANY TEMPE-unprogrammed worship and First-

42 December 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL SAN LUIS ~ISPO-Three worship groups in area: (805) ODESSA-Worship, first Sundays, 11 am., W. Main MAUl-Friends Worship Group. Contact: John Dart 594-1839, 528-1249, or 466-0880. Street. (808) 878-2190, 107-D Kamnui Place, Kula, Hl96790; or SANTA BARBARA Marymount School (abo..e the Mission), WILMINGTON-Worship 9:15 a.m., First-day school (808) 572·9205 (Vitarellis). 10 a.m. Children's program and childcare. P.O. Box 10:30 am. Alapocas, Friends School. 40120, Santa Barbara, CA 9314Q-0120. Phone: (805) 563- WILMINGTON-Worship and First-day school 10:30 a.m. Idaho 9971. 4th & West Sts. Phone: 652-4491. BOISE-Boise Valley Friends. Unprogrammed worship, SANTA CRUZ-Meeting 10:30 a.m., at Georgiana Bruce 9:30a.m. First Day. (208) 345-2049. Kirby School, 117 Union St., Santa Cruz. District of Columbia MOSCOW-Moscow-Pullman Meeting, Campus Christian SANTA MONICA-First-day school and meeting at 10 a.m. WASHINGTON-Friends Meeting, 2111 Florida Ave. NW Center, 822 Elm St., Moscow. Unprogrammed worship 1440 Harvard St. Phone: 828-4069. (north of Dupont Circle Metro, near Conn. Ave.). (202) 11 :30 a.m. Sunday. Childcare. (509) 332-4323. SANTA ROSA-Redwood Forest Meeting. Worship 10 a.m. 483-3310. Unprogrammed meetings for worship are held SANDPOINT-Unprogrammed worship group at Gardenia at: 1647 Guerneville Ad. Phone: (707) 578-3327. Center, 4 p.m. Sundays. Various homes in summer. Call FLORIDA AVE. MEETINGHOUSE-Worship at 9 a.m. Elizabeth Willey, 263-4290. SEBASTOPOL-Apple Seed Friends. Worship 10 a.m. and "11 a.m. Sundays, also 7 p.m. Wednesdays. First­ 167 No. High Street, P.O. Box 1135. (707) 823-7938. day school at 11 :20 a.m. Illinois VISALIA-Worship 10:30 am. 17208 Ave. 296, Visalia QUAKER HOUSE-2121 Decatur Pl., adjacent to BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL-Unprogrammed Sun. (209) 739-7776. Meetinghouse. Worship at "10 am. 11 a.m. Sept.-May, Campus Religious Center, 210 W. WHITnER·Whitleaf Monthly Meeting, Administration "Interpreter for the hearing impaired at 10 and 11 a.m. Mulberry, Normal. Summer-homes. (309) 888-2704. Building, corner Painter and Philadelphia Worship FRIENDSHIP PREPARATIVE MEETING-at Sidwell CHICAG0-57th St., 5615 Woodlawn. Worship 10:30 a.m. 9:30a.m. P.O. Box 122. Phone: 698-7538. Friends Upper School, 3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Monthly meeting follows on third Sunday. Phone: Colorado Kogod Arts Bldg. Worship at 11 a.m. 288-3066. WILLIAM PENN HOUSE WORSHIP GROUP-515 E. CHICAG~hicago Monthly Meeting, 10749 S. Artesian BOULDER-Meeting for worship 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Capitol St., SE. (202) 543-5560. Worship at 9:30 a.m. Ave. Worship 10 a.m. Phone: (312) 445-6949. Childcare available. First-day school 10 a.m. Phone Mary Hey at (303) 442-3638. Florida CHICAGO-Northside (unprogrammed). Mailing address: 1456 W. Leland, Chicago, IL 60640. Worship 4 p.m. at COLORADO SPRINGs-Meeting Sunday at 10 a.m. at CLEARWATER-clerk: Priscilla Blanshard, 8333 Seminole 3344 N. Broadway, Chicago (Broadway United Methodist 701 East Boulder Street, Colorado Springs, Colo. Tel: Blvd. #439, Seminole, FL 34642. (813) 397-6707. Church), lower level. Phone: (312) 929-4245. (719) 685-5548. Address: Colorado Springs Friends DAYTONA BEACH-Sunday 10 :30a.m. in homes. Please Meeting, P.O. Box 2514, Colorado Springs, CO 80901· DECATUR-Worship and First-day school, 10 a.m. at cail (904) 677-6094 or 734-3115 for information. 2514. DOVE, 788 E. Clay. Phone: 87Hl296 or 423-4613. FT. LAUDERDALE-Meeting 11 am. Information line (954) DOWNERS GROVE-(West Suburban Chicago) Worship DENVER-Mountain View Friends Meeting, 2280 South 566-5000. Columbine St. Worship and adult discussion 9 a.m. and First-day school10:30 a.m. 5710 Lomond Ave. Worship and First-day school 10:30 a.m. Westside FT. MYERs-Meeting at Lee County Nature Center First (3 blocks west of Belmont, 1 block south of Maple). worship at 1020 Upham St., Lakewood, 10 a.m. Phone: Days at 10:30 a.m. Telephone: (941 ) 336-7027. Phone: 96&3861 or 852-5812. (303) 777.!J799. GAINESVILLE-Meeting and First-day school 11 a.m. EVANSTON-Worship 10 a.m. 1010 Greenleaf, 864-6511 . DURANGO-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m., First-day 1921 N.W. 2nd Ave. 462-3201. GALESBURG-Peoria-Galesburg Meeting. 10 a.m. in school and adu~ discussion 11 a.m. Cail for location, JACKSONVILLE-Meeting for worship, First Days. For homes. (309) 343-7097 for location. 247-4550 or 864-9434. location and time phone (904) 768-3648 or 733.!J573. LAKE FOREST-Worship 10:30 a.m. at meetinghouse. ESTES PARK-Friends/Unitarian Fellowship. KEY WEST-Worship group Sunday 10:30. 618 Grinnell West Old Elm and Ridge Ads. Mail: Box 95, Lake Forest, Unprogrammed worship 10 am. Phone: (303) 588-5521. Street in garden. Phone: Sheridan Crumlish, 294·1523. 60045. Phone: (708) 234-6410. FORT COLLINs-Meeting for worship and First-day school LAKE WALEs-Worship group, (813) 678-2199. McHENRY COUNTY-Worship 5 p.m. (815) 385-6512. 10 am., 2222 W. Vine. (303) 491-9717. LAKE WORTH-Palm Beach Meeting, 823 North A St. McNABB-Clear Creek Meeting. Unprogrammed worship NORTH METRO DENVER-Unprogrammed worship 10 10:30 a.m. Phone: (407) 585-8060. 11 a.m., First-day school10 a.m. Meetinghouse 2 miles a.m., conversation after. Children welcome. Colorado MARATHON-Worship group. January through April, south, 1 mile east of McNabb. Phone: (815) 882-2214. Piedmont Meeting, (303) 254-6123, Internet second and fourth First Day 11 a.m. 69 Tingler Lane, OAK PARK-Worship 10 a.m. (with First-day school and [email protected]. (305) 289-1220. childcare) at Oak Park Art League, 720 Chicago Ave. TRINIDAD-Unprogrammed worship, 10 a.m. every First MIAMI-CORAL GABLES.Meeting 11 a.m. 1185 Sunset Mail Address: P.O. Box 3245, Oak Park, IL 60303-3245. Day, 605 W. Pine St., Trinidad, Colo. Clerk: Bill Durland, Dr., 661 -7374. Clerk: David Landowne, (305) 661-4847. Phone: (708) 386-6172-Katherine Trezevant. (719) 846-7480. OCALA·11 a.m.; ad hoc First-day school; 1010 N.E. 44 PARK FOREST-Worship 10 am. (708) 746-2266. Connecticut Ave., 34470. Lovely, reasonable accommodations. (352) QUINCY-Friends Hill Meeting. Unprogrammed worship 236-2839. 10 a.m. 223.!J902 or 222-6704 for location. HARTFORD-Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m., ORLANDO-Meeting and First-day school 9:30 a.m. discussion 11 am. 144 South Quaker Lane, West ROCKFORD-Meeting for worship, First Days, 10:30 a.m., Hartford. Phone: 232.!J631. 316 E. Marks St., Orlando, 32803. (407) 425·5125. Friends House, 326 N. Avon. (81 5) 962-7373,963-7448, ST. PETERSBURG-Meeting, First-day school, and or 964-0716. MIDDLETOWN-Worship 10 a.m. Butterfield Colleges, Unit Teen Group 10:30 a.m. 130 19th Ave. S.E. A, corner of High and Lawn Avenue in Middletown. URBANA-CHAMPAIGN-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. 714 Phone: (813) 896-0310. W. Green St., Urbana. Phone: (217) 328-5853 or 344- NEW HAVEN-Meeting and First-day school, Sundays, SARASOTA-Worship 9:30a.m., discussion 10:30 a.m., 6510. 10:30 a.m. Worship sharing Wednesdays 7:30p.m. 225 Cook Hall, New College. For directions, call (941 ) 342- East Grand Ave., New Haven, CT 06513. (203) 453-3815. 1611 or Marie Condon, clerk, (941) 729-1989. Indiana NEW LONDON-Meeting for worship and First-day STUART-Worship group. October-May. (561) 335-0281. BLOOMINGTON-Meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Moores school 10 a.m., discussion 11 a.m. Friends Meetinghouse, Pike at Sm~h Road. (812) 336-5576. Oswegatchie Ad., off the Niantic River Rd., Waterford, TALLAHASSEE-Worship Sunday 10 a.m. 2001 Magnolia Conn. 536-7245 or 889-1924. Dr. South. Unprogrammed. Potluck first Sunday. EVANSVILLE-Worship 11 a.m. Sundays at Patchwork (904) 878.!J620. Central, 100 Washington Ave. NEW MILFORD-Housatonic Meeting. Ale. 7 at Lanesville Rd. Worship 10 a.m. Phone: (203) 746-6329. TAMPA-Meeting and First-day school10 a.m. FORT WAYNE· Friends Worship Group meets for 11215 N. Nebraska Ave., Suite B.!J. Phone contacts: discussion and unprogrammed worship. Phone Vincent STAMFORD-GREENWICH-Meeting for worship 1 0 a.m. (813) 989-9261 and 977-4022. Reddy (219) 424-5618 for time and place. 572 Roxbury Ad. (corner of Westover), Stamford. HOPEWELL-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m., discussion (203) 637-4601 or 869-0445. WINTER PARK-Meeting 10 a.m. Alumni House, Rollins College. Phone: (407) 894-8998. 11 a.m. 20 mi. W. of Richmond; between 1-70, US 40; 1-70 STORRS.Meeting for worship 10 a.m. Corner North exit Wilbur Wright Rd., 11/4 mi. S.,1 mi. W. (317)478-4218. Eagleville and Hunting Lodge Ads. Phone: 429-4459. Georgia INDIANAPOLis-North Meadow Circle of Friends, WILTON-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. ATHENs-Worship and First-day school 10 to 11 a.m. 1710 N. Talbott. Unprogrammed, worship 10 a.m. Children 317 New Canaan Rd., Ale. 106. (203) 762-5669. Sunday; 11 to 12 discussion. Athens Montessori School, welcome. 926-7657. WOODBURY·Utchfield Hills Meeting (formerly Barnett Shoals Rd., Athens, GA 30605. (706) 353-2856 or INDIANAPOLIS.Valley Mills Friends Meeting. 6739 West Watertown). Woodbury Community House, Mountain Rd. 548-9394. Thompson Road. Catherine Sherman, pastor. Call (317) at Main St. Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. Phone: ATLANTA-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. 856-4368 for meeting times. 263-3627. 701 W. Howard Ave., Decatur, GA 30030. David Thurman, RICHMOND-Clear Creek, Stout Memorial Meetinghouse, clerk, (404) 377-2474. Earlham College, unprogrammed, 9:15a.m. Clerks: Cathy Delaware AUGUSTA-Worship 10:30a.m. at meetinghouse, and Larry Habschmidt (317) 962.!J362. CAMDEN-Worship 11 a.m., (1 0 a.m. in June, July, Aug.), 340 112 Telfair St. (706) 738-8036 or (803) 278-5213. SOUTH BEND-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school First-day school 10 am., 2 mi. S. of Dover, 122 E. ST. SIMONS ISLAND-Weekly meeting for worship in 9:45a.m. (219) 277-7684, 232-5729. Camden-Wyo Ave. (Ale. 10). 284-4745,697-6910. homes, 10:30 a.m. Call (912) 638-1200 or 437-4708. VALPARAISO-Duneland Friends Meeting. Singing CENTRE-Meeting for worship 11 a.m. 1 mile east of V is~ors welcome. 9:45a.m., unprogrammed worship 10 am. Opportunity Centreville on the Centre Meeting Rd. at Adams Dam Rd. Enterprises, 2801 Evans; (219) 462-9997. HOCKESSIN-Worship 11 am. (1 0 am. in June, July, and Hawaii WEST LAFAYETTE-Unprogrammed worship at 10 a.m. at Aug.). First-day school10 am. Sept.-May. Childcare BIG ISLAND-1 0 a.m. Sunday. Unprogrammed worship, 176 E. Stadium Ave., West Lafayette. provided year round. N.W. from Hockessin-Yorklyn Rd. at potluck lunch follows. Location rotates. first crossroad, 1501 Old Wilmington Rd. (302) 239-2223. Call (808) 322-3116, 775-0972 . . Iowa NEWARK-First-day school9:30 a.m., worship 10:30 a.m. HONOLULU-Sundays, 9:45am. hymn singing; 10 a.m. AMEs-Worship 10 a.m. Sun.; summer 9 a.m., 427 Newark Center for Creative Learning, 401 Phillips Ave. worship and First-day school. 2426 Oahu Ave., 96822. Hawthorne Ave. (4 blks west of campus) Ames, lA 50014. (302) 45&{)398. Overnight inquiries welcomed. Phone: (808) 988-2714. (515) 232-2763.

FRIENDS JoURNAL December 1996 43 DES MOINE&-Meeting for worship 10 am., classes 11:30 BETHESDA-Glasses and worship 11 am. (year round) ANN ARBOR-Meeting 10 a.m., adun discussion 11:30 am. Meetinghouse, 4211 Grand Ave. Phone: 274-4717. Sidwell Friends Lo-School, Edgemoor Lane and am. Meetinghouse, 1420 Hill St.; guest room IOWA CITY-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10 am. Beverly Rd. 986-8681. reservations, (313) 761-7435. Co-clerks Pam and Phil 311 N. Unn St. Call351·2234 or Selma Conner, 338- CHESTERTOWN-Chester River Meeting, 124 Hoffer, (313) 662-3435. 2914. Philosophers Terrace. Worship 11 am. Clerk: Yasuo BIRMINGHAM-Meeting 10:30 am. Brookside School WEST BRANCH-Unprogrammed worship at 10 am., 2nd Takahashi, P.O. Box 1005, Chesteriown, MD 21620. (410) Ubrary. N.E. corner Lone Pine & Cranbrook, Bloomfield Sunday worship includes business: other weeks, ns.19n. Hills. Summer: Springdale Park, Strathmore Rd. dscussion follows. 317 N. 6th St. Call: (319) 643-5639. DARLINGTON-Deer Creek Meeting. Worship 10:30 a.m. (810) 3n-8811. Oerk: Margaret Kanost (810) 373-6608. Oerk, Anne Gregory, (410) 457-9188. DETROIT-First Day meeting 10:30 am. Call341-9404, or Kansas EASTON-Third Haven Meeting, 405 S. Washington Sl wme 4011 Norfolk, Detro ~. Ml 48221, for information. LAWRENCE-Oread Friends Meeting, 1146 Oregon. 10 am. Kenneth Carroll, clerk, (410) 820-8347,820-7952. EAST LANSING-Unprogrammed Worsh~ and First-day Unprogrammed worship 11 am. (913) 843-32n. FALLSTON-UtUe Falls Meeting, Old Fallston Rd. Worship school, 12:30 p.m. All Saints Episcopal Church Lounge, MANHATTAN-Unprogrammed meeting 10 am. Baptist 10:30 a.m. Clerk, Nancy Paaby, (410) 877-7245. 800 Abbott Road. Accessible. Cal1371-1754 or 351-3094. Campus Center, 1801 Anderson, Manhattan, KS 66502. FREDERICK-Meeting for worship 10 a.m. First-day school GRAND RAPID&-Worship and First-day school10:30 am. Jun&'July: members' homes, 9:30 am. (913) 537·2260, 10:15 a.m. Wednesday 5:30p.m. 723 N. Market St. (616) 942-4713 or 454-7701 . (913) 539-2636. (301) 631-1257. HOUGHTON-Hancock Keweenaw Friends Meeting: TOPEKA-Unprogrammed worship 9:45a.m. followed by SALISBURY-Unprogrammed worship 11 a.m. Carey Ave. worship and First-day school first and third Sundays. discussion. 603 S.W. 8th, Topeka. First-day school and at Glen. (410) 543-4343 or 957-3451. (906) 296-0560 or 482-6827. childcare provided. Phone: (913) 233-5210 or 273-6791 . SANDY SPRING4.1eetinghouse Road off Md. Rt. 108. KALAMAZoo-Meeting for worship and First-

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